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Please explain how advertising "harm"s society?

In my experience, well targeted advertising is highly beneficial in connecting you with products you may want. I have bought a handful of things I never would have known about from Facebook ads. Good advertising isn't intrusive and isn't harmful, it's genuinely wonderful.
Very surprised to see Manjul at one of the tables
Actually, in the case of the DDoS that is primarily the focus of this post, the site being attacked used the free version of our service. Volumetric attacks have become automated enough to deal with that we find the benefits of stopping them, even for free customers, and recording the resources used by the attackers, is well worth it. Plus we generally believe you shouldn't have to pay in order to be safe from bullies online. Our free level of DDoS mitigation today is better than what you could have paid for, at any cost, from any provider 18 months ago.
And if I told that I have live edited mission critical production code on the server, and I mean it - there are two readings - 1) I am crazy 2) My company is so broken that it was inevitable.

After all - he was TEACHING them immigration law. With patience. I have no experience with USA legal system but teaching law does not seem like a item on a judge's jobs description list.

The shameful part was that said kids were brought before him.
> An early bus, well, you have no idea it was even early.

Well, you can look at the display [1] showing the ETA for the next 10 busses at the station, and notice your bus isn’t on it.

Otherwise the app from your MTA should show that info, too.

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[1] http://www.kvg-kiel.de/bilder/service/DFI-Beispiel.jpg
Arguably most conflicts are caused by people with much lower level concerns. Two opposing governments launching a drone war between them, due to some civilians being disgruntled at some other civilians, while these angry people watch from the sidelines, sounds very theatrical compared with governments lacking the political will or interest to stop some rebels from grabbing pointy sticks and fighting each other. Sort of how we have lots of countries with airforces, but current wars don't involve air vs air combat. People smart enough to use the technology don't seem to have that much taste for fighting other smart people.
He is saying there are none.
I believe that's 220ms. Which isn't too bad. But Clojure can usually match that if you AOT everything.

It's still too slow for serious command-line utils, though, so you're back to Haskell.
Anything called "science" is automatically granted a huge amount of respect from the masses. Science is the most successful religion we know.
MMM uses 35mpg in his calculation.

However, 25mpg isn't that crazy. That's about what my wife's 2005 CR-V gets in around-town, short-trip usage. I'm sure the newer ones are better than that, but paying $20K less for the car leaves enough money to invest that the gas is effectively free. (5000 miles/yr at 25 mpg is 200 gallons. At even ~$3/gal, that's $600. $600 is 3% of $20K and it's not hard at all to clear 3% on investments.)
Tufte's argument is a classic example of an expert placing too much importance on his specialty. In this case, the presentation of the data was, at worst, a second-order issue: the data themselves were enough for anyone prepared to listen.
The NICE results are interesting:

"Do not use acupuncture to treat hyperbilirubinaemia", "Do not offer acupuncture for treating lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in men.", "Acupuncture is not recommended for the management of otitis media with effusion (OME)."

But it is an option for low back pain https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/cg88/chapter/1-guidance
There was an elaborate flat earth society parody in Canada for a few decades. I saw an exhibit at the art gallery in my hometown. Maybe this is a continuation/something similar?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies#Ca...
There was some pretty big pushback when it was first announced and i think they went into "let's fix this before trying again" mode.

Originally your contribution wasn't refunded, so if you "pledged" $5 a month and only visited a few sites, google kept the rest. They have fixed that, but i don't think they've made any "relaunch" posts or anything. Maybe they are planning something else before that?

Also it doesn't solve the issue of tracking scripts, so many people won't even consider it, and they are very vocal about it.

Oh, and it only works for google ads. So sites that don't use doubleclick or adsense aren't included.
It seems that the archivers ask "does test exist" and when answered "yes" perform "delete test" which by cygwin >=1.7 actually deletes test.exe? Or even worse, the "open test" with some flag results in deleting test.exe and creating test.

But it also seems that touch asks "does test exist" and when answered yes it doesn't create it, just changes the datetime. Which probably changes the datetime of test.exe?

Anyway it would be good to investigate which actual calls by the user applications are being made in each case, to know what the actual sequence in each case is.
Bitcoin also has fees. Also delays. Also wildly fluctuating price. Something like flattr seems like a much better idea.
> The problem is that, at the moment, the interests of Java's owner are not aligned with the interests of such community, and not enough people seem to care.

There's two ways to not care:

1. I don't care if it goes away, since who uses that stuff anyway?
2. I don't want to invest anything to further the project, but I really like using it and it's crucial for my business!

At this point I think the latter is the problem.
Targets are typically clients. Sometimes we can reasonable speculate as to motive, other times we're perplexed. One example: we saw a huge uptick in attacks targeting adoption agencies. Couldn't figure it out until we learned that adoption of Russian children by US/EU parents was a major hot button political issue in Russia. In other words, there's always a motive, it's just not always clear to us what it is.
Seems to me that "narcissism fit" definitely applies to a lot of schools and companies. (Though to be fair, it's particular subgroups inside those organizations that this really applies to.)
We've written about BCP 38 repeatedly:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/understanding-and-mitigating-ntp...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gb...

https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-knocked-spamhaus-o...
I think that while entering the country illegally is a criminal misdemeanor, overstaying your valid entry is not a criminal offense (it's civil).
I thought passphrase was supposed to be a series of random words. If you use natural sentences you limit the choice of words.
Asked if there's a list, but yeah, that sounds probable.
Missed that, thanks. Seems if they truly were websites of little note that the target was likely Cloudflair; my opinion, though guessing if they went down, the real attack would happen.
and what if you weren't so mobile?
The article skips the impact of HOPE VI on the stock of public housing. It replaced high density public housing projects with much lower density and vouchers for private housing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI
Personal mines are autonomous weapons. Their target selection heuristic is very simple: "anyone walking over me must be an enemy combatant", but they are still a weapon automation.
The BBC has police to enforce its subscriptions - a model not easily reproduced by private companies.
I thought you were missing an apostrophe in the last sentence and read it differently:

Trump is your "flat earth society" by several hundred levels of magnitude
I work in the email space; thanks to this guy's invention, I can feed my family and have a solid financial life. It is amazing, the web of events, that shape our lives and the lives of others. RIP.
Aren't you checking the Frege compiler, there?

The complaint about Clojure is that Clojure apps start slow. Frege compiles to Java and from there to bytecode, so you'd need to compare a hello world in both languages to answer the original question, I think.
Rent is pushed up by other renters (competing demand), not by landlords (providing supply).

It's noble of you to wish you could also tie up a large amount of capital and use it to provide housing to tenants. I looked into it pretty hard, and the returns weren't nearly worth the hassles.
Yeah, that's obvious to me that the adoption sites like that are targets, but see how it be bit puzzling off the cuff, or something of the sort. Not sure in fact what for sure would be a target that clearly lacks anything of note.
There is literally no way for you to know that, because the facilities you would have needed to know it only grew in later. Your memory is not at all definitive here, because we make up memories to make things make sense, at this level.
It may also be a matter of getting used to it.

Oddly enough, after so many years, I don't like the taste of sugar any more, it seems 'off'. Aspartame is fine.
An alternative to CVE numbers
I have a hard time understanding that as anything other than a religious view. And a relatively new one, despite your claim that people are shifting away.

Read, for example, The Economist, which for 150 years has been advocating for free markets and against excess regulation. They've been doing it so long they prefer the phrase "classical liberal"; to them, "libertarian" is a johnny-come-lately term. Every time they advocate this stuff they do it not based on a tautological "markets are good because markets" argument. For them, markets are the best way to accomplish human ends: people that are better off, freer, more independent. But when markets work against that, they say so. For example, they're strong supporters of a carbon tax, because they see that as the least intrusive way to prevent further degradation on the atmosphere.

Markets are tools, just like computers are. They can be used well or used poorly, for good or for bad. In my view you have mistaken a mechanism for the purpose. When we decide how to structure society, it cannot be to serve the individual aesthetic or ideological views of a narrow group. It has to be to best serve its members. Nothing else is sustainable.
I feel there are some concepts washed together, e.g micropayments need not be direct in any way, and meaning a 3rd party subsidizing might just regarded as direct is false imho.

>Figuring out whether you want to purchase every single page view will quickly cause mental friction far beyond the attention that ads take.

Depends what you sell by the piece. Publishers do this with research papers, no problem. Or if you sell a stream for an event, go ahead. If you want to split your latest top10 diets to 10 pages, sure, you will have problems. Subscriptions might work for that. Again, there are many ways depending on your business, lets not paint it all the same color.

>I dont understand how content blocking changes the value of the content.

It does not. It presents a more accurate valuation by giving direct control to your users. It works both ways, imagine you have a paywall and no ads and your revenues start to skyrocket. But somehow very few sites are bold enough to take that bet.

Presenting the invasive nature of ads as an implementation problem feels a bit dishonest to me, as we have all the tools necessary to make them less obtrusive. See popups/modals. They are made to be that way and to me is clearly a design decision.

Still we just have to wait how things unfold, it is up to the content providers to react to blockers gaining popularity.
> The article is about desktop gaming. The reason epic is upset is that Microsoft is making new APIs UWP-exclusive, although I had to read more things to learn that,

Citation, please. Sweeney's tweets implied this was the hypothetical. So either Tim is under NDA and being coy, or something else.

But the simply fact is: I do not disagree with Apple & Microsoft & Google doing this to their platforms, so long as a reasonably accessible side-loading option exists and there's always the opportunity for a third party store and appropriate facilities for developers.

We're at a point where there are no more options to protect people's computers other than code signing. We've tried a lot of things, and we've reached a point where we must concede that education and simple restrictions on binary execution cannot overcome the basic difficulties users have. All the app sandboxing in the world won't help us if users are fooled by sub-optimal UX into running malware.

And Malware exists on every major platform. Even OSX. Even iOS.

> The reason they are not upset about anything Apple is doing is that Apple does not restrict APIs to its Mac OS X App Store.

This is absolutely false. Apple not only labels several APIs as "private" and non-accessible, but it also creates rules for entire types of software. They even stop arbtirary updating mechanisms because of their review path, which then impacts users! What's more, there is no untrusted general distribution path for iOS. I don't know why you said this, as I can't find any way to interpret it.

And don't even get me started on how Apple mandates how you transact with users. I'm amazed its legal, but in the US vendors have always had ice water dumped on them by every new technology. It's about our contempt for creatives, a cultural norm Apple has expressed for a long time.

And don't say the desktop OS is a dodge. The situation with Apple's store and Microsoft's store is absolutely identical, except that on OSX, so many developers are unhappy with the store they've decided to take the risk and ask users to disable that protection.

So, Apple locks its entire API set to its store on iOS. Unless you're going to ask customers to jailbreak their phone, you have no options other than setting up a developer environment.

I was going to go through your second two paragraphs of value judgements and fisk them a bit, but honestly I don't see the point. You're dismissing a lot of accomplishments of a lot of people out of what looks to me like pure preference and not an informed assessment of the situation. It doesn't take much research to find out that Apple's iOS is generally considered the worst of the 3 mobile platforms for modern mobile UX, with its only saving grave being a slightly superior accessibility story over Android.

Which is natural and fine, but maybe couching your argument in terms of technical reasoning is not the best way to express your point.
Disclaimer: I wrote those guidelines.

The "Paypal" loophole is specifically because the first version of the guidelines had people constantly emailing us asking if this Paypal code snippet was okay. All the Paypal code snippet does (or used to do) is to include the relevant form data for "who to pay" in a base64 encoded mechanism instead of including the email address directly in the HTML code snippet. People didn't know what the code was, or if it was okay, and I wanted them to stop asking.

We still look for suspect code, and obfuscation that makes no sense is right out. We even reject minified JS, unless the minified JS is distributed from upstream code and can be verified to be unmodified from the original upstream source.
16-year-old who distributed his teacher’s nude pics faces felony charges
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Or even mixed use, like in European cities!
I can't help thinking education could be the best possible public investment we could make in this ultra low interest rate environment...
Clojure is slow at startup because of the long list of classes have to be loaded at init I think.
Oh why did I read the comments section on that article.

Why is everyone so afraid of immigration? I don't see the downside. We need to grow our tax base to support all of our borrowing against future tax revenue. There are two ways to do that: have kids, or allow immigration.

I always hear the argument "they're taking our jobs", but that's not true, is it? As the economy gets larger because of the influx of people, more jobs become available.

Watching this year's Presidential election makes me think I'm really out of touch with reality, living in a large city. But maybe everyone else is wrong and I'm right...

And even if you're afraid of immigration, why is allowing everyone to have fair representation in court so unappealing? I thought the whole point of America is that everyone is equal and everyone has a chance. That includes non-citizens; our laws apply, so our guarantee of a right to a fair trial should also apply. That's what separates us from North Korea, right?
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Title: It’s Discounted, but Is It a Deal? How List Prices Lost Their Meaning
Has anything like this happened to an actual superpower?
Appears that you don't understand how auto companies make money; hint, it's not by selling cars.
Last I checked it was not possible to use a Frege program on Android. Has that changed any?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17222383/how-to-run-frege...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5151858/running-a-haskell...
Finally, after hours of search, I would have never foud it if not for hnapp.
http://hnapp.com/?q=score%3E50%20css%20javascript

https://descartes.io/
Understand, fair enough.
If a friendly reminder of the obvious causes you to go nuts and start an argument with a stranger, that's a problem with you, not me.
I agree with the position set forth by the link. I don't want to be advertised to at all. I cut the cord, I no longer watch TV, I've stopped following sports, I run uBlock Origin... Any site that decides to block ad blockers will simply no longer get a visit from me.

I think advertising is one of the lowest, most pernicious forms of psychological manipulation out there. It simply cannot be done in good faith, by definition.

Some content creators even try to level with their audience about it and say "I'm just putting up this ad to get paid, just ignore it (or click it but don't buy anything) if you want." That's not dealing with the advertising company in good faith.

To me, the only good faith relationship between content creator and audience is the patronage model. This model has endured for centuries and some of our culture's very best artists have relied on it.
Personally, I think the proposed second example is too many commas, and does not improve the text. It adds a halting and pedantic feeling style to put 'and' in a clause by itself, for example, and arguably bad to separate 'self-inflicted' from 'largely'. It's not wrong, can be useful on occasion, is used frequently by some literary writers, but best avoided for general writing. You are making a purely stylistic suggestion, so this is completely subjective, but in my subjective opinion, the proposed fix is a net negative.

The writing in the article is very good, and generally speaking, the usage of commas is spot on throughout, in my opinion. But FWIW I did actually have to stop to parse one sentence that needed a comma to signal the intended meaning of the sentence. I wouldn't have even considered posting on the topic of commas were this thread not here, so, apologies.

I read the whole thing again twice, and couldn't find the sentence I tripped on, but I found a couple of examples to make my point, which is that the main reasons to care about commas are the non-stylistic scenarios where adding a comma changes the meaning of the sentence.

> Even so, no matter who advises you and no matter how insistent they are in the end the decisions are yours and yours alone and if there is a conflict between the direction that you think the company should go in or if there is second guessing of your decisions in the end your word is the one that matters.

This could easily be read:

> no matter how insistent they are in the end, the decisions are yours

But you probably were thinking:

> no matter how insistent they are, in the end the decisions are yours

Another one:

> If you are both a shareholder and a CEO note that these are two different roles

Since there's a condition followed by a suggestion, I would expect a separator between the clauses.

> If you are both a shareholder and a CEO, note that these are two different roles
Also, if you are using OS X, there's a spectral processing program called SoundHack that let's you convolve (along with several other processes) any two sound files. I am not sure where to grab the latest version, I believe development has been abandoned but it was a stand-alone freeware that one of my '" Intro to DSP" courses used to introduce certain functions.
One station and a short section of tunnel are opening in 2017 as part of the Postal Museum. I forget all the detail, but the main limitation as to how far access is allowed is all down to the fact that evacuation was scarcely considered for the tunnels, given it wasn't really designed to carry passengers.
>Another former employee said that he decided to leave IS&T when he realized “the organization would never truly be able to adopt agile practices such as Scrum.”

I am curious if anyone in software/IT has successfully lobbied management for a "rollback" of agile development methodology?

Anecdote: Last year, I was put on as a tech lead for a project; my boss asked me to use Agile to track and manage the project. I tracked the project's tasks as JIRA tickets, but I did not do morning standup's because I did not think I was going to get buy-in from the rest of my team (my workplace has a 2 day work-from-home policy, common hatred on team for meetings, so it's impossible to have everyone meet in person every weekday consistently due to flex-time).

I did not do Sprint planning meeting and ticket estimation (Agile poker cards) because people on my team loved to argue over minutiae's and I strongly suspected half of the team didn't know the details of what the other half is working on; So instead, we had a weekly "flowchart" meeting on a large whiteboard where we brainstormed and added more details to our software project (a big data pipeline lends itself to a flowchart); I found it to be a better visualization of the project than a post-it covered poster.

Fortunately for me, I had a much senior technical person in my org also lobby also against Agile. The crux of the argument was Agile wasn't well suited for our team; the sprint model of Agile easily lends itself to arbitrary deadlines and building for the "demo" of the story/epic of that sprint and build-up of tech-debt (e.g., build a demo for one sprint, spent next 3 sprints fixing bugs for the features of the first sprint).

In the end, management relented and we ended our Agile experiment. Project tracking is done in Google Doc's with milestones instead. I am curious to hear if there are pushbacks in other places against Agile since it is now the de-facto "industry best-practice" (which means consulting should soon come up with newer set of workshops/manifesto's for a "new best-practice).
Well put. That's a great smell test.
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I'm interested in how you knew you were getting a shoe not made in a sweatshop, instead of another sweatshop shoe plus a higher markup.
I certainly agree it is becoming that.

The reason I think it used to be different and could be again is that venture funding is in theory about creating very long term value. You don't get a company like Amazon or Google or Apple by focusing on the next week or the next quarter, as is typical in the zero-sum-oriented financial industry. You get it by focusing on the next decade, the next century. You get it by finding ways to create massive long-term value for everybody, and then taking a modest slice.

The trouble I see is that the MBA religion of "up and to the right" leads people to make a lot of short term decisions. In the short term, short-termism does wonderfully well. I'm hoping that the current dose of unicorn fever is temporary. But in my case it's pure hope; I don't yet have a reason to believe it.