skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a war torn country, getting a regular paycheck every month is a privilege. They probably get multiple times the average salary in the area.

Another tidbit I heard is that in Afghanistan, many were defecting from the Taleban to Isis because the pay was higher. It seems that in some poor/rural areas, being a fighter is more a career than anything.
I'm doubtful of this taking off. People stick with the default apps and settings. The average person just really doesn't care that much about this kind of thing.

Maybe enterprise or businesses will like it - so they can avoid their employees visit whitelisted sites that mistakenly have malicious code in the ads. Eg. Flash
This article makes me glad I purchased a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 a year or so ago :)
In biology, there is a concept of metabolic rate and its relation to life span. What if this applies to nations as well? Wartime economy means high metabolic rate, which means that the nation will be only short-lived... Was Orwell wrong when he predicted perpetual war as a way to manage dictatorship indefinitely?
Don't tell me what to make, tell me how to make it: a creation story in Java
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I can't really think why a user would prefer this, but I can imagine that companies would have an incentive to pre-install it: A browser with unblockable ads (and an integrated micropayment system, if I understand correctly) is the kind of browser I imagine bundled in OEM systems, along with the typical bloatware.

Whether that's their main focus or not, I can't tell.
Please describe some of these cruel regulations.
It could be. Whether it is is very suspect, though
I like the simplicity of the simulation. My take-away is that each station needs to plan for average throughput, not for capacity.

The problem is that you don't know what average throughput is until you run the system in production. So you might have either too much, or too little capacity.
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Developers would drive adoption. I think adoption of new browsers has usually been driven by developers.
Have you tried Elm? I always found the default mutability of JavaScript to be somewhat hostile to immutable data structures. Elm is very different - but feels very integrated and the functional nature of the language really makes a lot of things simple and easy to debug/test, while being able to still do react-style dom diffing.
It's not without irony to me that Obama appears to be the best gun salesman the industry every had.
Where do you read news? I'm looking to find a source other than the BBC
If you don't have a SIM - or some other way to get a number - you can't use Signal.

If you buy a temporary SIM, and that number is recycled, a new user can register it with Signal.
I don't think "Stop needing the USB ports" is a solution to no USB ports.
I found web adverts got a lot more annoying after Firefox started including a pop-up blocker by default. That was when we started seeing pop-unders, animated Flash ads and all that.
Btw the desktop version of Brave seems to be written in JavaScript: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop
In the American system, there are many biases for guilt that counteract the explicit "beyond a reasonable doubt" bias.

For example:

- prosecution presents first. (Google Anchoring, Confirmation Bias)

- police are allowed to lie to witnesses to extract confessions, along with many other psychological tricks

- prosecutorial immunity

- election of prosecutors based on conviction rate

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Diversity, I think, is really important. Diversity of thought as well as all the other kinds of diversity. It's important to be able to work with people who come from different backgrounds, who have different beliefs. I see this on both sides (I see it more often on the left, but that's just because my filter bubble is a somewhat leftish one.. when I step out of that bubble, I see plenty examples of people on the right doing the same thing.) and it's... pretty terrible, I think, and especially on the left extremely hypocritical.
This essay is interesting for two reasons.

0. I was surprised that I submitted this link because I typically submit a link not to submit a link but to find the link already submitted. My intent was search not submission.

1. I ruminated recently on a slightly tangential cud here. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-determine-what-important-...
If there was a really compelling reason to use the new app model over the old win32 desktop apps, I might care about this. For x32/x64 desktops and laptops, I don't see the point at all.

Maybe if I had a Windows tablet, apps might be reasonable, but alas, I only have the now-discontinued and never-really-supported Surface RT.
I'm biased as the co-teacher, but I've been hugely impressed by progress our students have made in just three weeks. Meteor really does fit in well to the beginner curriculum.
Requiring an in-state drivers license prevents one of the many loopholes touted by gun control advocates whereby strong gun control in one state is easily gotten around by driving to the next state over.

But I assume your reply was meant more as a "GOTCHA" snark comment than a real conversation starter.
That's not hip enough. Why use a solid technology that's been around for almost 40 years? Instead, you can use a flavor-of-the-month tool written in a language originally designed for doing form validation and pre-loading rollover images of dancing kittens?
I would definitely agree with that as well.
I'm doubtful of this taking off. People stick with the default apps and settings.

Firefox overcame that disadvantage about 10 years ago. You could say Chrome did too (though nowadays Chrome is bundled so much it no longer applies).
So either I upgrade my whole pipeline, or live with a slower pipeline?

I currently run Samsung's Smartthings hub at home(and I love it), I would like the video feed and other notifications be available to me at real time speeds (don't ask why), you're suggesting that I upgrade my whole line for that?

Wouldn't it be preferable that when I use Netflix, the video goes on a deprioritized network, and when I use Skype, it goes on priority network without me having to upgrade the whole service.

The point is, from the consumer's point of view, the services he uses are a mixed bag of priority vs non-priority data. On the other hand, from the content provider's POV, the services they use are either priority, or non-priority (or a mixture, for instance paid subscribers are run through a faster network, etc etc).

Net Neutrality prevents that, not because the conversations I am having in this thread with people is what happens in every NN debate.
The problem with full, immediate disclosure is its pretty easy to build an exploit for a known CVE.

Switching Nginx out in your infrastructure (for instance) isn't a simple trick at scale when you have a heavily customized install. (e.g. OpenResty with routing code)
Ah yes, the classic canard. Throwing people onto the ocean and then selling them floater rings is mich better than not selling them floater rings, right?

Arguing theory, divorced from the reality of how exploitation happens in practice, is intellectually bankrupt.
I decided to turn my adblocker off wherein I received the message:

"Thank you for turning off your ad blocker! Enjoy Forbes' ad-light experience for 30 days."

So what's "ad-light"?

Two auto-playing (but volume muted) videos wasting my bandwidth showing some celebrities I've never seen and don't care about, an ad for CCTV cameras (which I've just been searching for), several other banner ads which were not tailored to anything I've previously been looking at, followed by those God-awful clickbait-masquerading-as-news blocks at the bottom of the article.

Oh, and the article is artificially split onto 4 pages to keep you clicking and reloading more ads.

I'll keep my adblock on next time.
> Not really, at least in the US it's tipped in the innocent person's favor (i.e. innocent until proven guilty).

That is only in the criminal system. And, that truism has nothing to do with what we are discussing. Even in the criminal system, if you yell, "I'm going to kill you" and run at me with a knife, you may feel that you are joking. But, if I feel fear for my physical safety, my feeling of fear overwhelms your feeling that it was a joke.

You're also not thinking through the entire system. You seem to be under the belief that criminal/tort law requires an actual physical injury. That is simply not the case.

> So, if I'm hurt by how stupid what you wrote is, should you be lose your job or be jailed?

> Basing laws on feelings is the most stupid and abuse-prone idea I've ever heard.

And, that is why we have lawyers and judges.

Consider laws about assault. Assault does not require actual physical harm in order to be a criminal or tortious act. It only requires two elements:

- the assaulter needs to demonstrate intent. This requires more than words.

- the victim needs to feel fear for his/her safety.

Or, let's consider laws about sexual harassment. In the United States, simple teasing is not illegal, but it can become illegal if it creates an offensive or hostile work environment. The feeling has to be justified (hence the role of judges and lawyers), but it is still all about feelings and reactions.

You should read the US civil rights act. It's well written and quite interesting.

I think it's obvious but I'm neither American not a lawyer.
There is an effective ban on selling any new pistol designs in CA due to a dubious microstamping requirement. Manufacturers are unable to change their current designs that are on the roster (even color!) without triggering a recertification process that cannot be passed. This also means that new, safer designs cannot be sold in CA as things stand now.
Do you have Windows Update turned off or set to not automatically update, by chance? Windows Defender automatic updates come across Windows Update.
I loathe Eich as a human being, and was very glad to see him ousted from a leadership position at Mozilla. However, this conversation is about a new company he created, where employees are free to make decisions about whether to join it fully cognizant of any personal issues Eich has with them, unlike the Mozilla position where a homophobe was placed in a position of power above existing employees. While it's fair to bring up Eich's homophobia and discuss how it might impact this project or its future employment prospects, I don't think it's in good taste to claim the product is crap because he's a homophobe or especially because he's older than you are.
Yes, it's interesting that Oil exports are mentioned as part of this Iran deal - that has to be an alternative to the Saudis, who very likely are funding IS.
My understanding is that foreign fighters are regrouped in units sharing the same language, with probably a few of them in each groups acting as interface with the hierarchy.
I've mused over the same thing. A conclusion I have is that the only real difference is their perceived legitimacy. If we call one a state and another gang, we are really attaching legitimacy values to them.
From a quick glance:

1) Desktop browser is an electron app with ad tracking injected into your app via http://cdn.brave.com/ (via https://sonobi.com/welcome/index.php which promises "EFFECTIVELY PLAN AND SOURCE MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES WITH QUALITY AND VIEWABILITY FROM PREMIUM PUBLISHERS"

2) iOS browser is a fork of Firefox iOS - https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-ios

3) Android browser is a fork of https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linkbubble...
JavaScript engines have to run untrusted code from the web 24/7. They're some of the most secured software in existance.
Only 1000 from their 15000 foreign fighters are from Turkey, according to the list in Wikipedia. They have more Russian-speaking recruits. I seriously doubt all of them are able to speak Arabic. Some foreigners there speaking English among each other is a very, very likely scenario.
You could buy a simple USB-to-Ethernet adapter like this one: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00M77HMU0/
All the laws regulating taxi-like services were enacted because of abuses before they existed. It's a classic case of "be careful what you ask for."
Is the app you are talking about the one in your profile? If so I personally think it's great. I am sure you will find few more users now that you posted here.

If I were you I would personally go to small-mid-big biz in your area and pitch them this tool. I know that Internet is the thing but real money and connections are offline....just a hint....
In the last three years, I've bought five guns from a FFL dealer who has no store, while sitting at his kitchen table in his house. (In Maryland, no less!)
The biggest challenge of micropayments is how to minimize the cognitive load of making many tiny payments.

How should the user agent decide when to alert the user?
I always thought that having OSX sorta was the selling point. If I'm only comparing computers just based on the parts inside them and their capability then there's little to no reason for me to buy an Apple computer because other than some sorta neat things like the hybrid drives or some of the Thunderbolt integration, they're generally much more expensive than building or buying another computer.

But for people who value specific software that is OSX-only or some of the features only found in OSX (like CoreAudio for music stuff) or the general interface polish and perceived stability, it doesn't matter if the Apple option costs $2000 and the other brand/build with similar core components costs $1000. If it doesn't run the platform you want/need then it doesn't matter that it's more bang for the buck.

Basically I default to Windows because for the things I do on a computer, it's got the most flexibility and options for hardware and software. Linux is missing too many applications I need/want and OSX only runs on machines that cost a good deal more while offering nothing I really need enough to justify the cost. But when I've needed or wanted to run an OSX application in the past (Final Cut Pro in my case several years ago) it just wasn't a question. The stuff I wanted to run and the hardware I needed to hook up required OSX so that's the only reason I shelled out for an Apple computer. If I could have done it without OSX I'd have saved the dough and put it into something else.
And yet California has the most gun related deaths annually [1], even though it has one of the lowest percentages of gun ownership [1].

It just goes to show (in part) that legal gun ownership isn't really the main issue we have.

We forget to include the 2/3 of national gun related deaths that are suicides [2]. These people need help; surely many of those victims would still have committed suicide had they not obtained a firearm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
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End users have (mostly) never paid for operating systems. I use Windows mostly because that's what the applications I use require. There's nothing about Windows itself that is compelling and frankly, Windows has been good enough for a long, long time.

I really wish Microsoft had stayed the course and maintained separate desktop and mobile operating systems. Windows CE had problems, but they could have fixed that without messing with Windows.
He wrote it. 100% guaranteed.
I believe they're using a javascript plugin that mimics the native smooth scrolling on OS X. And if you're on OS X, the native smooth scrolling conflicts with the plugin and you get that awful janky scrolling.
I wonder if this simply correlates to more chains store(s) that have hunting departments now. WalMart, Scheels etc.
Neat and quite good to know.
However, this conversation is about a new company he created, where employees are free to make decisions about whether to join it fully cognizant of any personal issues Eich has with them, unlike the Mozilla position where a homophobe was placed in a position of power above existing employees.

Eich was a co-founder of Mozilla, as mentioned in most articles about Brave. So he had a leadership position all along and didn't get the CEO position out of nowhere, and was CTO for the longest time. This whole argument doesn't fly at all.
In general, Internet in Europe is much more censored than in the US.
What browser/device are you using? It works fine for me on Chrome (both keyed and scroll wheel) and iOS (Safari).
I've been using various versions of Visual Studio since 1999. I can count on one hand the number of times it has crashed, usually coincident with me doing something unwise.
Alien worlds: What is that dark sand dune doing on Mars?
There's also the concierge-style who do things primarily by appointment and primarily handle transfers/consignments and sell accessories. Kind of splits the difference between a store proper and the "kitchen table" folk.
the two points being Westminster and the City...
I really wonder who thought adding lag to a primary browser interaction would make your pages better.
What a disgusting personal attack. I hope you are happy of having written this.

"I don't like the political views of this guy so his project must be bad."
Putin’s top Internet adviser seems to own a piracy torrent site
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/how-much-would-donald-trump...

(Warning: big masthead photo of Donald)

> Doing some back-of-the-envelope math, Wiens said that consumers could pay around $50 more for an iPhone that was assembled in the US versus one that was assembled in China.
Not beyond having written a reasonable amount of Mathematica code and having a passable understanding of the basic 4 color theorm proof.
huh. See, I thought the reason it failed last time,besides fraud[1], was a broader reason - it's the same reason paid surveys aren't worth very much. the idea is that the people you want to advertise to are precisely the people who are willing to trade money for their time; the opposite of the people you get when you pay folks to watch advertising.

[1], in 1998, I seem to remember that one of my co-workers had installed a thing on his work computer that would move the mouse and "browse" the internet when he wasn't there, getting paid for seeing ads.
I've been saying for years that blockers just remove the good guys.

What's the point in trying to make a safe, non-tracking, curated ad network when you will just be blocked by everyone anyway?

All adblockers do its turn the game into a race to the bottom. Whoever can get the most invasive ads past the most blockers is the winner. Any company that isn't willing to play dirty will be left behind.

Content creators won't push for the good guys because they need money, ad networks are between a rock and a hard-place, and users will say they want "nice" ad networks while simultaneously blocking all ads regardless of where they come from (and will fight against things like the "allow acceptable ads" checkbox in adblock)
I am not a smoker, but I watch smokers and smoking closely, just because nicotine has neuroprotective effect.

Typical story of quitting smoker tells that there is a stack of various negative symptoms for three days. These three days have to be completely distraction-free. Then worseness of symptoms drops and by the end of second week the life goes back to normal, more or less so.

In the worst case one should be ready to fight himself just like heroin junkie, because withdrawal symptoms are quite similar in both cases, it is the magnitude that differs (and no joint pain, of course). For example, there can be problems with sleep and just like with heroin quitting it restores only after half of year.
This makes so much sense that I am afraid it will happen. It's not like the US hasn't gotten in bed with unpopular countries before, and what the government really wants is for the major geopolitical power in the Middle East to be allied with us so we can secure cheap energy.
Can they block scroll-jacking too?
That pragmatic decision was made 7 years ago. A lot has changed since then and I don't think the arguments hold up. What developer machine doesn't have at least 16 GB of RAM these days?
By the way, Mondo are doing a hack weekend this weekend and i'll be attending, if anyone else on HN is, please shoot me a mail (see profile).
A lot of consultants work with existing teams. As someone who has worked on such projects from the existing-team side, it would be very off-putting for the consultants to come in and demand to change this sort of trivia before they've contributed any value. Having said that, if they come in and contribute a ton, and then point out that they believe they and the rest of the team could be more productive by switching to such-and-such tool, then they will probably be listened to. Consultants don't come in with credibility, they earn it.
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The banks using the system pay money into their BoE accounts if their transactions add up to a net outflow.
I've done the same in NY. I have a really great deal going on with him -- I would email him before I would make any online purchase and ask if he could beat it. If so, I'd pick it up from him. If not, he'd tell me to order it and have it delivered to him. $25 transfer later and everything was square. I must have used him at least a dozen times. All out of his house.
Lets say I am a personal user, and share some boards with family and friends. Now you want to add me to a team for work. You won't be able to find me using my work email address - instead you'll have to map in whatever random service I use for personal email. Let's hope my personal identity doesn't conflict with work.

Now I am team member and can also access boards. That also means that team boards are exposed whenever and wherever I login, even if I only want to login for personal information. Some family members and friends may know my personal login, so now team information is also accessible to them.

I'll now get notifications for personal and work related activity going to the same browsers and email accounts. Are you sure work's admin really wants work information going to my personal email account? Do I want to get distracted by personal notifications during a work day and vice versa?

Now that my personal and work are intermingled, I am also more likely to make a mistake such as creating new boards/lists/cards in the "wrong" place, and it will be harder to notice. Work can't be sure that they have everything backed up.

Then a year later I leave. Somehow the work admin is going to have to figure out which user I am (remember not related to work conventions and standards), and disentangle me. Providing I have been perfect and never intermingled anything, it will be fine. The odds of that are low.

Essentially the single account has just made everything worse, to the benefit of no-one.