skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm generally not inclined to fully whitelist anyplace because even if everything it loads today is safe, who's to say what's going to be loaded after the site gets hacked. That said, I tried to go through and do some allowing of requests and scripts for places I recognized, including whitelisting the site in Ghostery to keep it from interfering.

After adding 19 separate exceptions in uMatrix for both whole domains and for types of requests/actions on domains, I still don't see any ads but I do see an ever-increasing list of third-party sites Wired is pulling requests from. Given a choice between throwing up my hands and saying "Fine, f*ckit, do whatever the hell you want" and whitelisting Wired's requests to all of (disqus, optimizely, amazon-adsystem, condenastdigital, demdex, typekit, adobetm, chartbeat, cloudfront, doubleclick, googleadservices, googlesyndication, googletagservices, mediavoice, mookie1, omtrdc, outbrain, parsely, scorecardresearch, yldbt and zqtk) plus whatever others would be pulled in were I actually to whitelist, I guess I'll have to do without Wired.

So far without ever actually loosening things up far enough to see ads that's AT LEAST 21 different top-level domains Wired is pulling from, not counting its own (and yes, I realize it's part of Conde Nast). Most of those top-level domains have at least 2 subdomains being pulled from, sometimes more. My basic reaction to this is that even if I trust Wired and Conde Nast, I don't know that I trust all those other sites like "mookie1," "yldbt," "zqtk" and whatever other obscurely-named domains.

Frankly, were I to see "yldbt" or "zqtk" as a running process or folder name on a system I was working on, I'd immediately rename them and start virus and malware scans.

So I guess my reading of Wired online will suffer much the same fate as my reading of Wired on paper, because while I like seeing occasional items from Wired it's not a daily destination for me, and I'm certainly not coughing up $50+/year for it.
people with morals

Nice.

You might take a moment to consider that some of us who block ads are more concerned about the morality (read: more or less utter lack thereof) of the a̶d̶v̶e̶r̶t̶i̶s̶e̶r̶s̶ trackers than we are the revenue some arbitrary site may or may not lose from missing our impressions before you start casting stones wildly about like that.

I'd probably be very willing to consider whitelisting sites who worked with advertisers that didn't run tracking programs most of the Three Letter Agencies in the West would kill to access — if they didn't already have behind-the-scenes arrangements with them. But that question is probably pretty moot at this point, isn't it?
What adblocker are you using? I've tried a couple and have had no issues viewing Forbes. Just have to click past the "quote of the day"
> But Rust requires a closure there. You can't pass a pointer to a function.

Actually, you can.

fn perr(e: &str) {
println!("There was an error :(, {}", e)
}

fn main() {
Err("ERROR").unwrap_or_else(perr);
}

The above code works, and can be run here: http://is.gd/2RCmG9
I'm glad you enjoyed it, and that it had that effect on you! Thanks for the kind words! :)
My quibble is not really with the author, who knows what he's talking about. But I've seen lots of people using "closure" as if it were something in the source code.
I call them free closures.
"Chur" is another way to say "Thanks" or "Cheers", the usage of which is popular in New Zealand.

So, I read this as:

"Tea? Chur."
I see these around NYC relatively frequently. Sometimes I generally also see gas canisters apparently slightly open in subways and street corners at the same time I see the gas detectors.

I have always assumed that whoever is responsible for placing the devices is releasing a benign (but distinct) gas and measuring it in several places downwind.

By doing so, the DHS could use the data they gather to triangulate the source of a chemical weapon, or to predict its most likely path of destruction for quick aid and response.
There's been some good work in Merkle Signatures in recent times. I posted a bunch on Schneier's blog here:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/friday_squid_...
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It's interesting to realize that seemingly commonplace objects had a sole inventor. I've used dozens of drywall anchors in my house that look identical to the one in the picture (albeit a little smaller).

And a survivor from the losing side of the Battle of Stalingrad. With respect to both sides, that's a rare membership.

> Adolf Hitler paid a surprise Christmas visit in 1939. “I had made a model airplane to give my mother as a Christmas present,” Mr. Fischer told Der Spiegel. “Then my commanding officer said that I was the best mechanic and I should give the plane to Hitler. It was a horrible time.”
Trinet.
I am not familiar with either, but I am curious why does "anti-capitalist message" matter so much? I thought the purpose is to build a messaging network that everybody can use. And even GNU founder can be considered anti-capitalist.

I am asking because to me, to decide to join some (not political) community based on your own political opinion, is a good way to live in your own bubble. The real strength of the Internet is that we are exposed to contrarian positions, even at the expense of our comfort.
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"Put ourselves first" (the opposite of #2) is kind of similar to "Make this a great place to work for employees" (#3).
> What I really hate is that Googling for problems brings you to Apple Forum discussions from 2014, 2013 and sometimes even earlier.

This is really the kick in the nuts while your down. You find those useless forums where the suggestion for every problem is "Reset your PRAM" and there 100 pages in the thread going back for years and you realize "Yep, I'm never going to fix this terrible problem".
It's not a conspiracy, but it's so annoying that nobody speaks about the ultimate purpose of ads. Their ultimate purpose is not Wired. Keeping Wired in business is just one more incidental. If our purpose is to keep Wired in business, there are other ways besides ads.

So, let's talk about the ultimate purpose of ads. Do we endorse that purpose or not? That's the conversation I really want to be having.
Groupon ($GRPN) is valued at 1.3 Billion, roughly its all time low. So I'm not sure that's the metaphor you wanted?
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<< It wasn't possible to get from point A to point N (where Parker took the company) without breaking these "rules" but he didn't actually break any rules because this is all new territory.>>

This is complete nonsense. It's not hard to become a licensed commercial insurance agent, and the rules around selling commercial insurance are very clear - you have to be licensed. This is neither new territory, nor disruptive, it's simply sloppy and not something that would be tolerated by the CEO of a 20 person startup, let alone a billion dollar unicorn.
PayPal is being really obnoxious lately (like banning payments to VPN services and such). Or were they always that way?
Brzezinski was right. Statesmanship is about tradeoffs and prioritiztion. This was a great bargain.
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Most people will deny a bubble exists until it's incontrovertible, while they keep saying their "twitter for pets" is really worth 1bi USD.
Reality is a lagging indicator. All this schadenfreude on HN, so much eager anticipation for bad things, why do you people read this site? There is real malicious intent among a lot of commentators. A lot of posts recently have been FUD and cheap and low quality posts to business insider and other vapid blogs.
>Never had any of the issues others described having with Atom such as slowness, etc.

aka ""I've never opened a file larger than 1KB"".

Okay cool, so we can disregard the rest of your testimony; cool, good to know.
> explicit scoping like let and flet?

I'm not sure how this is different than introducing a block in C.
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I wonder if Morton salt company was subsidized to add iodine in the national salt supply as a prophylactic measure.
What's wrong with 2016? Too many resigns.
Are you referring to gas canisters other than the liquid nitrogen tanks that litter the sidewalks to cool underground infrastructure?
Depends on how high you set your standards. Ie Python mostly has higher order functions that work, even though for mostly syntax reasons they interact badly with mutating variables---a bit of sugar would help a lot.

In any case, your point stands and complements mine.

(Apropos ADTs, did Scala always have them? From what I can tell their syntax is pretty awkward, though.

Google's Protobuf, which in some sense denotes a type system, even if not a programming language, did get something like ADTs: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#o...

I am pretty lenient, and would go for anything that resembles a compiler-enforced tagged union. (Think C-style union.))
I don't use an ad blocker, but I'm thinking of installing one just for wired, if only to see how they implement this. And because I don't support hiding content from people who don't want to pay with their eyeballs and privacy, or maybe can't pay with money.
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I posted a link to the release notes over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11063019

I think that page has better content than the main site that you've linked here, personally.
I geniunely do feel bad for magazines that are trying to figure out how to survive in a world of ad-blockers. I suspect that many hard-working journalists will lose their jobs as magazines like Wired go out of business. I personally subscribe to several newspapers, and I worry about them, too, and what's going to happen to journalism in this country (USA, sorry for my chauvinism).

BUT!

I want to KILL the free internet--that is, the internet that is paid for with slices of my attention and life. I do believe that advertisers are very good at extracting my attention and money, and I genuinely do want to destroy that internet model. What will emerge? I can only cross my fingers.
Yes, Haskell makes for a great compiler and language manipulator. Not too surprising, given its ML ancestry.
Prime properties such as wired make really good money on their visitors. The 'average website' makes rather a lot less than that (hence the existence of supply side optimizers).

The online version of the media kit for the wired property:

http://www.condenast.com/brands/wired/media-kit/web

No rates quoted but:

http://adage.com/article/media/digital-cracks-50-ad-revenue-...

Lists the ad revenues at 50% of the total (online + print), that was 2013.

Last year:

http://digiday.com/publishers/two-thirds-wireds-revenue-digi...

So you can see why they're panicking, adblockers are taking a significant bite out of their revenues.

And then there is the print side: (~115K for a full page ad in the print magazine).

http://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015_WIRED_M...

Is a good primer into how a print/online property such as wired profiles itself to advertisers.

Still trying to find an actual CPM / CPC rate for wired but no luck so far, but

http://monetizepros.com/display-advertising/average-cpm-rate...

Has premium display sitting at about $10 CPM and that's not a bad number compared to what I know about this field, the actual rate for a property such as wired would be a little higher than that (-15% agency fees), but not by much so that's a good starting point.
Division by zero..
Just use a browser that sets a desktop user agent like Opera or Dolphin.
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We ended up going with Trinet as well after looking at them. If you look what Zenefits is really doing, they appear to be just another rent seeker - their entire goal seemed to be to get you to use their software, and in exchange become the insurance agent of record vs. cutting the actual cost of the insurance.
thats lot of edges cases. Ubuntu has been main desktop OS for last 5 years. No issues till now. I even play Steam games.
But my MacBook Pro has been regressing. It used to be that evey install of Ubuntu i would need to tweak it. Now i do that on every install on Mac OSX. Ubuntu even runs faster on the laptop then El Captiano. If not for the touch pad issues Ubuntu would have been my default laptop OS.
I just unflagged this comment. While it's actually somewhat wrong, it makes an important point.

Statistics can be used to discover a causal relationship. It can't give you an absolute answer, but it can give you a statistical likelihood of the causality. That's a pretty important step forward.

That's what this is about.
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Before everybody jumps the gun, this article is a piece of satire. It's meant to be funny. It's meant to entertain you, as well as inform you. Please take it in the spirit in which it was written. Enjoy.
What do you mean by "value proposition"? It is free software, not a business opportunity. Not everything is about selling and money.

I read about the project just to answer your question, which you could have answered for yourself by reading.

You can run your own instance. The source is open, which means it is publicly auditable, you can contribute to it, you can fork it. It is federated. There is not one single global point of failure, which has other implications regarding things like censorship. You are not beholden to a proprietary, profit-motivated service which can do whatever it wants with your data or with the service. It is an attempt to move away from walled gardens.

If you distrust US-based services, you can use an instance which is based in Europe or wherever.

If you don't get it, you don't get it.
Possibly. It's not actually running two apps.

There's an IL interpreter in the mix - it's simulating an app and what it would do based on the opcodes emitted by the compiler for the code you write.

This is indeed in line with existing scripting languages (Lua, Python, etc) which are in the App Store.

But the presentation of it might be too close for comfort for Apple. He's not presenting it as ".NET scripting" but specifically mentioned porting the .NET Roslyn compiler.

It all boils down to the same thing, but I wouldn't be surprised to see an App Store submission reviewer deny it, misunderstanding what's they've read/seen.
XP is still a big problem. About 14% of Firefox users are running XP, about the same share as running Windows 10. Google says they will drop support for Chrome on XP and Vista in April 2016. They already extended their XP EOL twice before (from December 2015 and April 2015), so there's a good chance they will need to do it again.
It is crazy what kinds of BS you find when you run something like Little Snitch for OSX. On a fresh install of Firefox before I've had a chance to download adblock, there are two dozen popups requesting outbound connections... most of the time, I have NO idea who is behind the request or what these request really want. This is just the start page... news pages are even worse.

Run some apps with Little Snitch turned on and you see the same thing. Tons of outbound requests to domains that I have never heard of and have no idea what they want on my machine.

I just block everything with reckless abandon. I don't give a shit if my "experience" is degraded.

Frankly, with small kids in the house who I would like to protect to the extent I am able... I am considering installing Pi Hole and whatever else I can find in addition to the spartan whitelist I've set up for them to use via parental controls.
"Wired doesn't care about you." isn't true at all. Just because a person who is blocking ads may not generate any revenue directly, they may share the article with someone who doesn't block ads.

Losing 20% of their audience may have really painful effects on their reader network.
Indeed. You can subscribe to digital-only Wired for $19.99 anywhere in the world, and in the US it includes a print copy too.

I'd consider a $1/week if it covered all Conde Nast publications, or a significant portion of the internet. By that logic, though, I'd prefer if a subscription to Texture (Next Issue) or other content services included free access to the affiliated websites without ads. It adds up quick, but even the weekly version works out to $3.46/week for basically every magazine I'd care to read...

Of course ... I'm just saying this. I actually don't read magazines. But I'd pay for a subscription, especially if I could share it with family.
> Fixing this is desperately needed, but so far nobody has come up with a solution that would actually fix this.

Wouldn't rewarding people for `cites' of their dataset be a way to fix this?

Ie if someone uses your data, they have to cite you, and that's just as good as someone citing an analysis paper.
> It probably also helps that extending Atom is much more approachable given that it's all Javascript...

I've heard this said before, I've had the opposite experience. ST offers a small api and it was easy for me to make something work with a single .py file.
I gave up trying the same thing in Atom; the api is larger and lower-level. Admission: I don't know coffeescript.

ST of course isn't nearly as flexible, there are many things you just can't do.
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It's completely unlike Google Contributor. Google Contributor keeps Google in the loop and only removes _Google_ ads if you win an auction. All other ads keep shitting all over your page. This would let you disable _all_ ads, yet still pay the publisher.
We have to be open to the modest return, small business dot coms. A company of say, 20 people, each making about 150k or so and being completely satisfied with the state of things.

I think there's a culture of expecting reasonable businesses to seek unreasonable goals.

Until the valley can move from "always dream big" to "well sometimes, just plan sensibly", it will be perpetually unstable.

I remember a strip mall across from a corporate office park. Every couple months, a new .com would go in and another would go out of business, but in the strip mall the same places had been there for 20 years. The web isn't going anywhere, there's nothing wrong with providing for the long term.
Diaspora* is also an interesting option.

* https://diasporafoundation.org

* https://the-federation.info
LOL you first download chrome, Dude In my experience of Mozilla and Chrome. Chrome is a memory hogger even if you have 1 tab open it eats the memory and drains the battery read about it its all over the internet. While mozilla can't handle lot of multiple windows and tabs. The only browser i have seen which is rock solid and power efficient is Safari. Also the mail app won't be having much advanced features like other mail apps but it certainly does the Job for people who don't want advanced apps. And i use Fantastical over the calendar app but only because of the UI and AI but also the calendar app on apple is decent and it used to do the job for me before i moved to third party app. Also if you use Pages it is way too much better than Google Docs and Microsoft Word. I don't understand what you like in Google Docs any ways i feel Microsoft Word is much better than Google docs. I used to be a Windows Power user from past 20 years and from last 2 years i have been using Mac and it is amazing. Try to use the Mac apps again i don't know what they used to make in 2009 but certainly they have improved the quality of apps in mac in 2014
That's funny. Can you use chur in a sentence the way it is used?
I prefer the term "online surveillance industry"
That concerns street view.

But Google has bought access to the government map data (GeoBasis-DE for Germany, I posted a screenshot of what GeoBasis-DE shows for the area above).

Google has bought the mapdata, can use it, but doesn't.
Of course you can copy the product as such, that's fine by me and I think even necessary.

They've gone far beyond that here though, copying not just the product but significant parts of the design. The Quitter thing looks almost exactly like Twitter. If they'd copied the website of a bank like this, it would be considered phishing.

This is well beyond copying an idea or a few design concepts.
I hope you did not think that the advertisers aren't capable of running a little estimation program on all those clicks going 'in' to wired that did not result in the displaying of an ad tag?

If there is any party that is aware of how many people on wired's web property are running an ad blocker it is the advertising networks.

Wired is not telling them that they get 'XXX'k traffic per time unit, they're being told what their traffic is and what percentage of them has an ad blocker installed.
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It is a federated messaging network. I don't see that it is any more subject to filter bubbles than Twitter is. Everyone chooses who they follow anyway. If you want to subscribe to feeds from people with politics opposite yours, you can do that.
He says watch the film, you'll see it.
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So true.

It is shortsighted to value your readers only for their capacity to view and click advertisements.

Readers also act as distribution nodes, sharing content that they find compelling with others who may or may not use ad blockers.

Building walls will result in fewer readers, and as you've noted, less traffic will be bad in the long term...
They got busted for high speed internet thing. Currently, all 3 major providers -- Airtel, BSNL, Reliance adhere to rules. All the new ones like Tikona do too. Can you show me a live example of a lower speed internet available anywhere?

The rules regarding minimum speed for 3G/2G/LTE are in spectrum bid documents.
Not all values are monetary.
It would be nice if these would interoperate, so that it was not really an either/or choice. Don't they have essentially the same goals?
"The type-checker doesn't know you should have added instead of multiplied"

Dimensional analysis is a type system that knows exactly that.
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If i want to get out of the way of the Eternal September, i just stick to IRC and domain-specific forums.
I'm beginning to think social media is toxic for society as a whole, do we even really want an source alternative to twitter, should twitter cease to exist?
It is my understanding that in order to get those lower price Trinet becomes the employer to your employees, therefore they can get a huge discount on group rates. However, your employees technically now work for Trinet, not your company. While perhaps ok at a small scale, as you grow, that's not exactly a great position to be in.
There is more value in tracking, web bugs, etc. then actually showing you the ad.
>Well no, about 10% of our traffic is from people sitting on those two browsers at work. Some of those people are even still running Windows XP, forcing us to use SAN instead of SNI certs.

This depends on many things. If your 90% brings enough profit, then this 10% perhaps could be dismissed, as it might not be worth the developers costs and time to keep support them (that needs an "opportunity cost" calculation).

There's also the fact that that 10% is only gonna go down, never up again.
Oh well, there goes another outlet. They can all do this, I don't care. Just won't read their content. Eventually there won't be any good non-paywalled content left, and I'll just figure something else out.

They want my money, they're going to have to either pay off the mob (Adblock Plus) or get together with all the other news outlets and give me a one stop shop option.

No way am I going to manage dozens of $1 a week subscriptions, logins, and such just to read articles linked to by Hacker News. Your content just isn't that important to me, sorry.