skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree, in this case. This website is from the creator of JavaScript, about a product that is meant to solve, in his words:

But the Web today faces a primal threat.

And that threat is the web's ad-driven monetization.

This site suffers from the same fundamental problem; the owners of it don't care too much about it. It has 114 requests , 3.8MB of content and takes 4 seconds to load.

I can't imagine Eich had anything to do with this site or even approved it. I'm guessing he is focused on the company's core product and let Marketing or someone else take care of the site. They then hired the cheapest design firm they could find on Elance, who then outsourced the work to an even cheaper freelancer who took the requirements and plugged together a dozen different jQuery plugins that he/she uses on every project and shipped it as quickly as possible. Because in that business you don't make any money if you spend any more than the absolute minimum amount of time on a project.

I mean, they didn't even concat any of their javascript or css. This is web development from the mid-2000s. It truly saddens me that a company with a noble vision couldn't afford to hire a single web developer who is up on modern practices and has good judgment on quality to put this together; would have taken then a week, tops.
That doesn't explain the employment of the word "wanton". I'm much more concerned here with the abuse of the language than with the rights of the people to buy guns.
FWIW, gmail\google+ is my preferred Oauth\OpenId provider. It's neutral between personal and professional and Google knows what I am doing on the web already...
Even if they all came from Arabic-speaking countries, they would still need to select a common language. Moroccan dialects are not mutually intelligible with Arabian peninsula dialects. So they would have to revert to the older common dialect to communicate.

And that doesn't even take into account people who might speak Albanian, Armenian, French, Farsi, Kurdish, English, Pashto, Balochi, Dari, Tajik, Bengali, Russian, Urdu, or one of the Turkic languages.

Given the public image and media strategy of the group, I guess that Arabic is their common tongue, even if English would be more effective.
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Bullshit. Allow an actual user of Windows 10 to correct your statement, since I bet you haven't used it at all: Some things are unfinished. Mostly the consumer facing stuff (think Metro apps).

Other than that, Windows 10 has been rock solid for the past 8 months or so that I've been using it on my main workstation and my main tablet.
> they can make an alliance with the US

It's hard to make an alliance with someone who already funded you.
I think you just described why Mozilla was pushing for Tracking Protection (blocking only "bad" ads) and didn't do Brave.
"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."
Well this is true for every other words synonymous to Rule.
It took me a long time to realize this and in some ways I'm still realizing it.

"Isomorphic" or "Universal" are fancy terms for dual execution. Your code is run on the client and server. It has technically been possible ever since Node came out, but the problem is that client-side and server-side code interact with different APIs and carry out different tasks with them. The inputs and outputs are different so the code ends up different, even if written in the same language and even with the same design patterns.

TL;DR: JS on Client + JS on server != JS everywhere.

It's hard to understand this.
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"haven't lost any work in weeks..."

Wow! I guess that's a win... but wow....
Thanks - I know that I may have poorly articulated my thought - I was not trying to sound racist or anything of that nature - so apologies if it came across that way... I am just genuinely interested in why it may seem, apparently only to me, that so many really smart people seem to come from a small area of the world.

Anyway - feel free to just delete the comment.
It's perfectly consistent. Enforcing one's religious views through threats of violence[1] is not the kind of diversity that the left wants.

[1] This is what it means to pass and enforce a law.
A litmus test for telling how corrupt a city/country is, is to look at how much additional regulation they try to use to block companies like Uber. Things like Las Vegas and Miami requiring pre-booking an hour early are prime examples (obviously no public good, only protectionism for taxis).
Well without OSX a macbook pro is just another Intel laptop. And I've seen them with Linux installed, and using bootcamp variations of Windows. But OSX is certainly part of the appeal.
and/or ad-proxies that run off the same domain, more integrated and less "blockable" ads (like sponsored stories and in-content ad reads), complicated and bloated JS ad-blocker-blockers (or ad-blocker-detectors), even more complicated ad-blocking code (which can already have a pretty significant performance impact on some sites), and more.

It's a race to the bottom now boys, and the most invasive ad companies are going to win!
This reads very much like an advertorial, but I don't see a note about it being sponsored content.
This takes nudging to a whole new level (pun intended)
Clear proof TOR is used by the evil one, and that cryptography should be banned: http://i.imgur.com/NXT0OOJ.png
Huh? I don't know if you've realized this, but California is the most populous state. If you want to make your analysis more relevant (and less totally idiotic) you need to look at the rate per capita.
> First, Rails is not my job. I don't want it to be my job. The best frameworks are in my opinion extracted, not envisioned. And the best way to extract is first to actually do.

You are slightly wrong in your history of Meteor. It was extract from an app they built. Unlike Basecamp or Facebook, the app died off and they focused on just building the framework. So while it was extracted, I think MDG has missed a lot of the learnings that something like Rails gets from core contributors that are building applications and the framework together.

MDG has actually talked about taking one week twice a year to build 'apps' with the framework, but that just hasn't been enough. I am glad they are finally working with Meteor itself to build Galaxy and supporting Galaxy customers as well, that really gets some skin back in the game.

Imo, this post is just a manifestation of the deeper issue around profitability and the fact that MDG will need to jettison some of it's development costs and pick up a much larger base of customers if they want to be profitable.

Which PaaS also builds it's own programming framework...
Some of that is possible, but some of that is not. Consider the use case of WeakMaps or Proxies that cannot truly be polyfilled, they need to be implemented at the language level.

Suppose you could transpile what is possible, then throw errors otherwise, however that would involve parsing each file in an NPM module which is probably an unreasonable task performance wise.
Most Android phones still use Linux 3.4, according to the article the bug was introduced in 3.8.
Actually, it sounds more like it'll do what adblock plus does.

https://adblockplus.org/about#monetization

Edit: It looks like I was wrong:

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/68983945486585...
Wait But Why on a similar theme: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-tail-end.html
Prosecution presents first so that defense can rebut. You want prosecution to go first so that when they are done, defense can dismantle the prosecution's case effectively. If you let defense present first, what are they even going to say? "My client didn't do it. He was at home with his wife, who can corroborate. Uh, I guess the defense rests."

There are lots of problems with our legal system. This isn't one of them.
Taunggyi is a lovely place and it's one of the cleanest (and large) city in the country. There are a small town near Taunggyi called 'Kalaw' and it's be great if she could spend sometime there too. It's such a nice weather right now, too.

The change is very quick as you mentioned. The SIM cards became so cheap and the speed became much faster than before. So, even to local people like us, it's amazing.
I will repeat this one more time, because Eich seems to be missing the point.[1]

I don't adblock for privacy, security, or speed. Those are just nice-side effects. I adblock because I do not want to be manipulated into buying things I do not need.

I wonder what would happen if, as a society, we said, "enough, no more ads". Would it really be the capitalist apocalypse that the ad industry is trying to make us believe it would be?

--

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244964
My understanding is that the replacing ads do not use trackers and do not breach your privacy. They could also be less invasive visually I guess, that would be acceptable. However I would prefer the acceptable ads to support the content creator, which is not the case here. So, no reasons to make the switch from a classical adblocker for me either.

There are project which lets you curate where you accept ads and where you really want to block trackers: see https://myrealonlinechoices.inrialpes.fr/ (I actually submitted it to HN a few days ago but it did not catch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10886400).
Mozilla is very protective of their trademark though. You're supposed to replace their branding with your own before distributing your modified code.
I tried the AMP versions mentioned in the article on an iPhone 6 connected to wifi and I am not impressed at all.

Something which loads really instantly is D's forum, it's incredibly how fast it is and it's written in D:

http://forum.dlang.org/

(I am not into D, just found this thing recently on reddit/programming)
>or pay sites directly.

Call me crazy, but if I wanted to "pay the site" I'm using I'd just allow their ads. This company is really sleezy. Its playing the "replace their ads with ours" game and trying to make it sound like some wonderful moral position against advertising. People aren't this stupid. This thing isn't going to catch on.
This article contains more logical fallacies than the movie Spaceballs
Rethinking College Admission
Open Source CI Drone 0.4 Is Out! New Stuff: Plugins, Matrix Builds, Compose
Glad to see another competitor in this space! Looks to be a great product.
Fair enough. There's a place here for technical accuracy all the way down.
Not that I disagree, but it seems you simplified things a bit much as compared to the subject at hand.

Plus, I've never heard of npm/node as being described as a task runner. I would appreciate an explanation as to what you mean by that.
the bets are on how long their serivice will last until google just doesn't care anymore. I bet 1 year.
Surely we are soon going to see server side ad-injection and the end of ad blocking
That would be great! I'm at work now, so I'll shoot you an email tonight (I'm assuming it's the one in your profile?).
Perhaps the homophobic donation stuff only gained focus because of the media attention around the CEO position, but then I think it's a case of "better late than never."
Yay! Another article on scrapy. I'm just getting started and my first goal is to scrape a tedious web-based management console that I can't get API access to, and automate some tasks.

Very glad to learn about this site Scraping Hub. Keep the war stories coming. It's technologies like these that brighten up our otherwise drab tech careers and help some of us make it through the day.
Looks like Eich is on the Advisory Board of sonobi. [1]

[1] https://sonobi.com/welcome/company.php

Edit: Removed comments about the diversity of sonobi, as they're not really relevant to the discussion.
Thanks! We have iterated on this for over 1.5 years, and worked out a lot of kinks associated with these types of integrations.
When submitting a story on the submit page, complete the title and link fields. Leave the big text box at the bottom empty.

Because if there is text in the big box at the bottom the headline will link to it. And the headline will not link to the external site.
There are a whole lot of issues I'm willing to accept "diversity of thought" on. But there's a line one crosses when they go from "I believe homosexuality is wrong, and therefore I will suppress any gay feelings I may have" to "I believe homosexuality is wrong, and thus I will attempt to make you into a second class citizen".

I don't have beef with Eich over his thoughts. But his actions were inhumane, and he hasn't acknowledged or apologized for that.
Scalable reducer management and data fetching for React-Router/Redux
I have no use for a dev stack that is tied firmly to a db that is incapable of handling relational data properly. Many, many devs agree.
Evidence grows for giant planet on fringes of Solar System
This CI server is so easy to get up and running, it's impressive! I'm more a fan of hosted solutions like Circle, Travis or Codeship but this is what I would use if I had the need to have my own CI installed.
It's 1/10 of the population of the country. It does more of almost everything than other states.

The gun murder rate is in the top half, but solidly middle of the pack.
While I sympathize with the author's rant, bad service is bad service, I don't know if not developing for Win10 is the conclusion, it sounded like the App store sucks but so does the OSX App store and it doesn't mean you don't develop of OSX, it just means you don't use the App store.

Sounds like side loading is a better choice on both OSes.
I am not sure I agree with the title. The institutions alluded to in the article are not "hiding" their data. They simply are declining to provide access to it to an aggregator which would allow potential students to more easily compare the costs across multiple institutions. They can still get that data by going directly to the institutions site.

Also the comparisons to airlines in the article, in my opinion, is flawed. I compare airline tickets based on cost, schedule, number of connections, and frequent flier affiliation. Plane tickets are reasonably interchangeable based upon any of the above factors. Yet going to a college is a far bigger decision and the decision points are not quite as easily parsed and quantified as purchasing an airline ticket. The consequences of the decisions are not of equal magnitude.
I see more poor people with the latest iPhones and Macbooks than wealthier individuals
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btw, I'm not sure this still works, but I wrote a blog post on how to get from zero to a fully working Drone CI in less than 10 minutes, pretty sure it still works as the basics didn't change much.

http://jipiboily.com/2014/from-zero-to-fully-working-ci-serv...

Cheers
But I want to block all advertising, not just harmful advertising.
I previously worked at Cryptify AB with Cryptify Call.

I think this article misses the point somewhat. This is not a backdoor, it is the entire point of the scheme. As I understood it CESG wants MIKEY-SAKKE primarily for use within the government or within companies working for the government.

For the network owner MIKEY-SAKKE is very convenient because it satisfies the criteria for Lawful interception[1] while also enabling end users to both authenticate and encrypt messages without actually talking to the network owner after the initial trust has been established. It works well as long as the user trust the network owner and you want to protect your users from external powers while maintaining the ability to decrypt any message in the network.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
even widespread Tracking Protection isn't the answer IMO.

I personally want to be tracked on some things. I want ads that are relevant to me instead of ads that cater to the lowest common denominator. I want websites to be able to view my usage and cater to my wants/needs without me having to spend time trying to fill out surveys on how i use their service (and probably remember things wrong), I want automated recommendations for things that i might like without me having to spend hours curating my own content.

I don't want invasive 3rd parties getting ahold of my information, "push" advertising like cold-calls, emails, push notifications, or physical mail, and i don't want sensitive information being collected and shared.

Sadly nobody ever tries to make that distinction, it's always "everything" or "nothing".
I made the original post and I agree with you. I want to mention that two of the GOATs started at 15 because I think that is insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Duncan#Early_life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon#Early_life
Interesting theory, I'd have assumed it's a combination of cheaper bandwidth, better peering arrangements and a population almost twice the size of the US.
Someone should make a browser that blocks "Ev­­­er­­­yb­­­od­­­y c­­­an e­­­ar­­­n xxx$+ da­­­il­­­y... Y­­­o­­­u c­­­an e­­­arn f­­­ro­­­m ..." spam comments. I think I've seen those mostly through the FB comments plugin.
Obviously FB can't / doesn't want to fix that.
Ivy league schools and their kindred also seem to be aware that they are inherently in the race to the bottom that "higher education" has become and feel threatened, if they didn't, they wouldn't feel the need to go to such lengths. I wouldn't consider obfuscation in the interest of propagating information for those schools that supposedly want to help students make educated decisions in a reasonable/technically possible manor, unless they need "higher education" before they can decide such things from such basis.

Also, ECMC Group keeping the lights on for College Abacus is like putting a band-aid over stab wound. Although, as long as young kids keep buying into the racket because they are told by their elders who paid an order of magnitude less for their "education" or for their “so much more than that” and reinforced by those around them that they need $x for $y (whether academia can only provide $x and if $x is the only way to do $y or not is irrelevant), the show will go on.
The article focuses too much on Avery's actual guilt or innocence, in my opinion. It's possible he murdered her. It's possible he didn't.

But what the documentary really showed me was how utterly corrupt, venal, incompetent and evil the entire system of justice can be, from the 'court appointed lawyers' all the way up to the sheriffs that clearly, unequivocally framed Avery.

And it's fundamental to the principles of the legal system that the police and the prosecution must not be permitted to do that; and that we, as a society, must find some way to make that impossible and to punish those who violate the trust. Even if one, or ten, or a hundred believed-murderers go free.
Anecdotally, the closest gun store to my current home started in a strip mall berth, and had its own freestanding building with firing range within one year.
> All the laws regulating taxi-like services were enacted because of abuses before they existed.

I'm not convinced. What does the hour pre-booking requirement in Miami do to prevent previous abuses? What does the business test that drivers have to pass in Germany do to prevent previous abuses? What does NYC's 30+ day process to get the correct license do to prevent previous abuses? These all seem like laws regulating taxi-like services only for the benefit of making taxis more competitive.

The taxi industry in NYC has given the mayor over $500,000. Presumably they're looking to get laws passed (like the proposed cap on uber) in order to protect themselves, not to prevent abuses that previously existed. Maybe it's helpful to talk about what the previous abuses were, and then look at what are the best solutions to that in a world where everyone has smartphones. I'm not convinced that all (or even most) of the regulations out there are to prevent previous abuses, but maybe I'm missing something here.
If this were attempted, I think we'd have a LOT of talk about what truly is an ad and what isn't.

I mean, the web banners and billboards we see every day don't do a lot to actually sell products. But your friend telling you they really love a particular product helps a lot.

But in a society where a movement such as you've described was in motion, would both be equally as bad? Are both not manipulative in their own way?
You're exactly right--if the defense and prosecution each get one chance to present their evidence, it makes the most sense, and is most defendant friendly, for the defense to go second.

But if we're thinking more broadly about how the system could be reformed, we should remember that there are more than two options here. For example, The defense could present first and then have an opportunity for rebuttal after the prosecution presents its case. I'm not sure this would be near the top of my list of proposed criminal justice reforms, though.
I think this pretty much cuts to the heart of what's usually wrong with the whole "agile" thing -- by micromanaging programmers to such a degree, instead of being able to use that downtime to do things that practically everyone knows needs to get done, you have people sitting on their hands because everything has to go through the "backlog."

IMO the solution is to stop treating programmers like cogs in a machine, and actually give them some amount of autonomy to make decisions.
The money in accounts at the Bank of England is created when the BoE buys assets and it is destroyed when they sell the assets again - traditionally, those assets are mostly bonds issued by the treasury (or repurchase agreements or other derived stuff).

The BoE does those buys/sells with an eye to ensuring that the inter-bank short term interest rate hits their target interest rate set by policy. The whole connection is pretty well explained by the modern monetary theory school of economics.
In a weird way it manages to fix many people's problems with advertising. Ads are sometimes horribly intrusive (to the point that ad-blockers are necessary to me) and it forces companies to adhere to some kind standards when none are technically required.

On the other hand; it's blackmail. It also falls apart if there are too many competing services or people generally catch on and switch to another ad-blocker. Then companies either pay N-vetting services or their investment is completely wasted. The end result is an (arguably) overly-strict vetting service because people will switch if they don't block enough ads.

As a consumer; I just wanted an ad-blocker sooo....
Segmentazione+marketing+da+Apple+a+Lidl
It's impossible to detect bias in systems that are intended to be meritocracies when "merit" is subjective or related to luck. In the case of acting, merit is highly subjective.

Furthermore, trying to turn this into a "data" experiment by looking at past results is also pointless because the Academy has changed over time and every movie is different. There are too many variables.

Trying to say that the Academy is "racist" or "not racist" based on the nominations is ludicrous.

The only possible solution is to make the Academy as representative of the United States as possible and then accept whatever nominations they put forth as "probably pretty unbiased".
>> Their primary problem that ISIL has is that they lack professionals (accountants, engineers, computer scientists).

This.

They're trying to set up an autonomous government and country under Sharia law. One of the main tenets of the Caliphate is the idea of holding sway over territory - without territory there is no Caliphate.

In order to hold territory, they need professionals to support the infrastructure of their Caliphate, otherwise, it falls apart. From all the media reports, it would seem this has been the Achilles heel of the organization from the start:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/the-islamic...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/islams-d...