skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know these anti-ad posts are a dime a dozen here, but this is one of the more self-entitled pieces of dreck in the genre. She spends the first part of her essay slagging on WIRED ("Wired has dabbled in and eventually succumbed to the technology it once skewered and analyzed. Its latest efforts inevitably include pandering to the Instagram crowd."), implying that she's too good for their lowbrow content, and then the rest of it is about how dare they have the temerity to make her resort to using cURL to read their content. Or is this post supposed to be a sly retelling of the joke in Annie Hall? [1]

What's so difficult about just opening an incognito window and suffering the couple of seconds it takes for a computer halfway across the world to deliver you content while you sit at your desk? The WIRED thing annoys me too but when they've got a good story, I'm willing to give them the adnetwork revenue. Forbes, on the other hand...that whole thing with their infected ad network, I've just stopped going to Forbes articles, period, even when they're posted here. It's been a long time since I can remember Forbes exclusively breaking a story...most of the time, it seems their articles are from their "contributor" network just blogspamming someone else's story.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/quotes?item=qt0373261
It's not just Germany by the way. I think this applies in most of Europe where patriotism is closely linked with nationalism because of our history. For example, in the UK showing an English flag is immediately associated with the BNP. In Holland displaying the flag outside of national holidays is associated with far-right wing parties as well. Of course none of this applies when it comes to international football matches.

At the same time I think most Europeans realize this doesn't apply in the US, yet many people's initial reaction would be one of (mild) discomfort. As a European living in the US (and loving the country and the people) I'm still often equal parts amazed and amused by the flag waving and USA chanting.
Sure, but let's be clear that a conditional basic income is very different to a universal basic income, not just some minor tweak on the idea.
AES was a belgian design, SHA-3 a belgian and italian design. Imagine their surprise when the next generation of algorithms has import restrictions against the US, to protect the integrity of the algorithm.
>Even with IRC there are cheap ways to simulate it.

IRC has it built-in: the AWAY message.

To set:

AWAY :I've gone to the dentist

To clear:

AWAY
Nobody said that they wanted this when I asked a couple days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441481) but I took 40 upvotes as a good sign so I went ahead and set up the scripts for this. I was originally planning on making this a weekly digest, but right now there seems to be enough volume to make a daily digest meaningful so I went with that instead.

I'm hoping that the title "Apply HN: [meta] ..." will get this onto the /applyhn page where I think it would find the most relevant audience; sorry for the tricky title.
It is sad that the article positions itself to once again attack "open source" as if it is an abandonment of the free software values. Yes, part of open source was making it an "easier sell", but another part was to remove the linguistic ambiguities that arise from "free software". The proponents of open source in the beginning, and still to day, actively reject non-free software just as much. GNU on Microsoft Windows can be just as revolting to open source advocates ("can be" -- people are different from other people, not everyone holds the same standards, and this is true in the free software camps too).

Beyond that trifle, I applaud the article for trying to dispell the confusion surrounding everything. Given that Microsoft is adding a subsystem that is binary-compatible with Linux system calls, so that ELF Linux binaries may run as-is, calling it a "Linux subsystem" is not that big of a stretch, but continuing to call the user space "Linux" is.

One final point: If anyone reimplements this on ReactOS, the issues about freedom disappear. You don't have to like the operating system, but it is free software in every sense of the word. :-)
Let's Encrypt is great, but Start SSL has also shaped up considerably. A while back their process and the GUI was a real stumbling point. Today however it is a breeze to get it going. (Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with Start SSL)
It got plenty of traction among key demographics. It's a good populist talking point and Trump brought it up a number of times. The kernel of truth in the messages is: whatever the right policy happens to be, it's not Apple's call to make. The elected government should decide the balance to strike between protecting communications and keeping us safe from terrorists.
They don't use Nvidia GPUs, nor is there an easy way to replace them.
A couple days ago I ran into Wired's ad-blocker blocker so I just clicked my Instapaper toolbar button. Worked like a charm. I wonder if or how often Wired makes an effort to block Instapaper.
Accurate. Technically the Microsoft compatibility later could have been entirely done at the library level by replicating POSIX and adding an ELF linker/loader. There would have been some edge cases around Linux specific source but the GNU core would have been well served by something like that.

The reason the language is all centered around Linux is because what they chose to do was do a Linux syscall compatibility layer. Really it could be called GNU/sLinux/kWindows but nobody is ever going to bother with that mouthful.

Edit: I should add that this doesn't mean I agree with the use of Linux here - I just understand why that's the case. I would much prefer if those involved went to the trouble of explaining what GNU is to those consumers who are interested. Pretty unlikely Microsoft would be leading that given GNU's position on Windows.
The spelling correction was fine, if minor; all this other stuff is badly off topic.
But it's still running binaries compiled for GNU/Linux?

The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port compiles for FreeBSD kernel system calls, not their linux emulation, as far as I know. So a "GNU/kWindows" system could compile against NT system calls, or perhaps something like Cygwin which could reasonably be called "GNU/(k)win32".

Also, it remains to be seen whether this can even be considered a full GNU operating system. I doubt you'll be able to run a pure "Linux Subsystem for Windows" GNU setup without the rest of wininit.exe, lsass.exe etc etc etc.
Awesome!

Not knowing much about how a CAS is implemented, I'm curious -- what is it that causes the integration demo to take so much longer than the other examples? Does it have to do some kind of search to find the correct sequence of manipulations?
If the ads were targeted to the content on the page (remember when that was top-of-the-line tech?) rather than 3rd-party ads relevant to my assumed demographic, that'd solve for (c) nicely.

I wonder if (d) could be a business idea - broker ads just like a regular ad network, but have the site itself host/deliver the ads. CPM is out due to needing to trust the site with accurate reporting, but you could definitely do CPC this way and have the click targets be centralized for the click tracking/redirect part.
Why can't paid family leave be provided by the government and funded through taxes?

It serves a public good and is too burdensome for small businesses so shouldn't it be something that's paid for collectively?
Why use a smartphone then just get a normal phone will last a wrek
They don't consider it "philosophically correct", but customary. When you go to Japan does people following differing customs (like bowing) feel alienating? That's how I see this. This is part of a culture with certain customs.

What you're saying probably makes people of this culture feel alienated and many of them already are.
I saw a talk by a product manager at the Guardian, and as I understand it, that transformation was a reaction to declining print sales, shaky ad revenue, the rise of Facebook & Google, the success of sites like Buzzfeed & Vox, etc. They've been losing money for a long time and have been slashing costs as much as they can, but that doesn't make a business sustainable.

Nowadays, most people will get to a news article from a friend sharing it on facebook, or from reddit or hacker news, etc, not the Guardian homepage, and that means clickbait pays the bills.
I used "cost of sales" when I meant "cost of revenue". However, I suspect the revenue from Prime counts as top-line and the shipping cost losses are absorbed as a cost on the COGS line, so the net effect is probably reflected as revenue and COGS. If I get some time, I'll poke through their last 10-Q/10-K to see if I can confirm that treatment.

The point I was trying to make is that Prime (and any associated losses) is part of Amazon's go-to-market strategy, just as opening retail stores is part of HD, WMT, and BBY's strategy. Saying that Amazon is "losing money on Prime" but that the others aren't "losing money on stores" seems a double-standard to me.
You know, if the GNU project wants to insist that their branding is plastered all over derivatives, they should choose a different license. Beyond that, I'm tired of GNU cultists insisting on the right to demand other people's projects get called by different names than the people releasing the projects choose.
A slow going Subaru in the left lane?
What's to stop someone you don't trust getting into government or banking after those institutions gain extensive access to your information? (Maybe the safeguards are stronger where you live than where I live, but are they strong enough and will they remain in place?)
I also avoid the crossword because I'm just terrible at it, but that's another story
I wonder how long Google is going to continue to matter. Adblockers can filter out Google search ads, and if Google decided to make their ads "stealthy" it would probably precipitate a fairly large user-base exodus.

Facebook on the other hand has fairly strong lock-in, though I expect their engagement numbers would take a big hit.
>To respond to your point about absence of Grok like facility, avoiding the need to unmarshal and remarshal the data while passing through LogZoom was an explicit design requirement. The blogpost refers to our pain with Logstash/Fluentd etc.

I think there are two different (CPU) performance problems conflated into one:

(1) The cost of parsing logs with something like Grok and Regexp

(2) The cost of marshaling and unmarshaling data

While both do cost CPU time, based on my experience having talked to literally hundreds of Fluentd users (I'm a maintainer and was a core support member for awhile), the cost of (1) dwarfs the cost of (2). (2) is pretty cheap if you use efficient serializers like MessagePack. As for (1), both Logstash and Fluentd support an option to perform zero parsing (In Fluentd, it's "format none"). By using these options, you can bring down CPU time significantly.

All of this being said, it looks like LogZoom isn't a true competitor to Fluentd or Logstash or Heka. It made different performance/functionality trade-offs and by doing less, it saves more CPU time: If you forgo the option of parsing logs at source (and in Logstash and Fluentd's defense, they do a whole lot more), you obviously can save resources. On the flip side, you need to post-process your logs to make them useful, and some other servers downstream will pay for CPU (You might not care about this because your logs have been thrown over the fense and now it's data engineers's job =p)
Adblock can (and does) block ads that are not a part of an ad network.

If you're thinking making publishers handle ads will bring them back to the "good ol' days" of static print ads, you're mistaken. The only reason we haven't had these types of ads in the past is because the medium (print) didn't support it.

1. Most times, bad ads aren't written by the publishers at all-they are written by the advertiser. The flashing/movie/360/ugly ads are shown because they convert at a higher rate than "nice" ads.

2. Forcing publishers to run the ads would be even WORSE for for privacy since they would be considered "first-party" and have access to much more information.

3. Print publications that currently run ads don't even control 100% of the ad content. The only ones they control are the ones that look like text. Everything else is supplied by the advertiser.
Looking forward to trying it but the app crashed hard, twice (got the iOS "charge your phone" screen when I tried to turn it off despite being at half battery), then just told me I needed to contact support. Will try again though, really want to try out the i3.

Any plans to add premium models like the M series?
> I often wonder why Microsoft doesn't just bite the bullet and adopt Linux as the kernel for Windows

What is to gain? It's not like the Windows kernel is bad or useless. You'd have to redo the Windows API on top of a kernel that works very differently. Any gains here are marginal and there's a lot of cost involved.
Implementing CSP and other mitigations for these types of same origin bypass attacks is relatively easy. I'm shocked that Apple didn't check this. I couldn't imagine Google ever making this mistake, their web security teams are solid.

Apple really needs to invest heavily in bug bounties and internal security audits. This is 101 type of stuff when implementing any user-controllable embedded web content.

The bar should never be this low for critical OS apps like iMessage.
The trick is to open the link in incognito mode.
I ran an i3 up to low 80s and it felt pretty quick the whole time. Even though I'm a BMW owner, I questioned why anyone would buy a premium electric car, because I pictured them as being economy first, everything else second.

Having driven and really enjoyed the i3, I realized -- why does a premium car make less sense in the electric segment as in the gas segment? Either way, they're unnecessary, but it doesn't matter there aren't tangible advantages over their econobox counterparts.
Long live content.
I didn't say that and I'm starting to not be sure that you're being objective.

The feature set listed above easily beats Postgres by any measure expect maturity. Your question asked how it competes on maturity -- how old is it? It's new. We're applying for the YC Fellowship which funds prototype stage companies.
You throw money at these sorts of companies to build knowledge and skill. You're investing in the future's economy and not the now's. It's selfish to think otherwise.

Why does making money have to be intrinsic to helping people? Ugh. Ugh, I say.
Panama Papers: Email Hackable via WordPress, Docs Hackable via Drupal
Posix mmap is generally working, because that's easily mapped to a core API in Unicorn. I exposed the qemu mem_map_ptr API for mapping files as well, but I haven't integrated it yet (I emulate file mmap for now by copying the file into guest memory).

Signals are a pretty high priority, but are currently unimplemented. Usercorn has a trampoline mode that allows stopping the CPU, executing a section of code, and returning to the previous location when it's done. I can use this for signal dispatch. sigaction/signal syscalls will just register the address to call.

fork/clone/threads in general are not yet implemented, but the groundwork is mostly there - I'm mainly worried about memory synchronization, and might need to add APIs to Unicorn for this. Unicorn supports running an arbitrary number of CPUs in parallel in the same process, so I'm actually planning on making both forked processes and threads run in the same host process, and do a sort of PID namespace/transparent layer.

This will make stuff like emulating IPC or a process ptracing another process much easier to control, and I won't need an external process like wineserver to negotiate stuff the native system doesn't know how to do.
> how bad and anti-productive the FSF's PR has been at times in the past 26 years

I'd apply that same sentiment to this article as well.

They haven't received the recognition they deserve, and because they're always at the ready to remind you of it, they remain alienated. Nobody wants to have to apologize for circumstances that are everyone's fault... or no-one's.

Don't get me wrong, I love most everything GNU stands for,
but their message has never been well received because of it's confused agenda. They absolutely deserve the truth to be known, and we should be listening to their opinions, but when an authoritative statement serves essentially as a complaint about the state of their authority, it's no wonder we tune out.

This was a great opportunity to elegantly explain the distinction, sans snark, sans agenda, but they failed so miserably even comments in this HN discussion are still using the wrong terminology.
Why not just open firebug and delete the ad overlay? The author is either trying to 'show off' or is just genuinely oblivious that there's a much easier way.

I'm not against ads per se, I have quite a few sites 'white listed' but when they beg for ads like Wired, then it's an automatic nope!
The story mentions Rosie Ruiz, here's some footage from the Boston Marathon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b81a39Q43PY

2012's 'Marathon Man' in the New Yorker covered similar issues:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/08/06/marathon-man?cu...

Interesting to see the endurance of cheating, given all the technical advancements in monitoring participants.
I believe they are not very effective, but that's just my opinion.
Ignorance is everywhere, especially concerning computer security and especially among the representatives and senators in the US Congress.

We must combat ignorance by educating the ignorant, and that includes elected officials. Many here at HN have knowledge and high level of awareness of the importance of privacy and security, and I'm sure there are more than a few genuine experts tuning in. In any case most of us probably have salient information and experience to share, and it certainly needs to be shared.

If you are a US citizen by all means write to your Representative and Senators. Voters' opinions do matter, particularly in an election year.

This afternoon, I sent messages to all 3 members of my congressional delegation exclaiming how bad an idea the Burr-Feinstein bill happens to be. I urge you do do the same.
As a user of the gem I can say it was effectively deprecated over a year ago. I ended up just writing my own requests to do what I needed to do.

But at least they now give you a notice. :)
Hmm that is also an interesting and truthful way of looking at that statement. I echo your sentiment for businesses to be more employee centered. We have to buck the trend for making profit margin the absolute bottom line.
No, it's not. It is Canonical's packaging of various components, some of which are GNU, some of which are from a disparate group of people, and those components may be used much much more than the gnu components. Given the intended use cases, such as server development, it would be a lot more accurate, but no less ridiculous, to call it Python/ImageMagick/GNU/Canonical/Nginx/kWindows. Canonical and Microsoft did the heavy lifting, the GNU project is just responsible for the bitching and moaning afterward.
You mean you haven't noticed the "you go first" wave battles that can last minutes on end? And the fact that, no matter how many lanes an Interstate has, they'll all be going exactly 59mph, making passing or trying to make your exit near-impossible?
beat me to it, I develop www.jasymchat.com which is based on Jasymca (http://webuser.hs-furtwangen.de/~dersch/)..I was thinking of porting Jasymca to a Javascript.
a crane operator doesn't need to be on site any more with this arrangement unless "keeping a pilot in the plane just in case" is a policy
ITAR allows greencard holders, so not everyone's an American citizen.
That would not work, would be a poor user experience, would be technically infeasible, and would be ineffective.

You can't publish content to the public and prevent copies being made. That's the lesson we need to take away from the DRM nonsense that we went through (and to some extent, are still going through).
You could look at insulation like it's made of whipped cream, but that doesn't make it a good pie topping.

In other words, government officials are not in fact bound by the rules of natural selection whatsoever, and they can live perfectly comfortable, happy lives without getting reelected.
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This might come in handy for you then. An anti-anti-adblocker.

https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer
And just like TSA locks, the bittings will leak, rendering the lock useless to all but the laziest adversaries.
You're objectively mistaken that an advertisement is not a transactional fee. As in, you're wrong epistemically, and if you were to get a doctoral in whatever field it belongs to you would be more correct and would no longer believe what you do today.

But out of curiosity, given your belief today, what if the TOS of the site states that you agree to look at ads in exchange for requesting content from the server (which entails reproducing it, requiring a license), or there is a click-through stating that you agree to look at ads?

In your current (wrong) opinion, do you think it's still not transactional, and people still have the right to click "Yes, I agree to look at ads in exchange for requesting the content on this site" while after doing so, blocking ads?

Curious what you think today.
Honestly that's the most amazing thing, besides watching my daughter be born, that I've ever witnessed.
>Let's be honest, why they shouldn't block adblock?

Because if the goal is to keep the doors open, that's a terrible strategy.

The phrase "the customer is always right" doesn't mean the customer is always literally correct, it means that if you try to tell the customer they are wrong, they'll go elsewhere.

Customers don't want ads. That's clear. Telling them they can't read your stuff without reading the ads means they won't read your stuff. Mindshare is hard to build and losing it is often a killing blow.
Even in San Francisco the tech folks are a small fraction of the population, even if they have an outsized proportion of the money. What would be "corrupt and illegitimate" would be if tech companies got their way because of their money, despite being in the minority in terms of political views.
Thanks, looks interesting
So, if you can give me an ill-designed analogy, you think you're making a valid point?

Images are not mathematics, they have nothing to do with mathematics. If you take a look at SVG, you may be shocked to find you can do just as much decomposition of principle components as you can do with any DOM, just the way MathML allows you to.

Please substantiate the "works pretty well" claim about your search engine with some data. Your sense of inconvenience comes far from an objective argument.

How many people write HTML by hand? Generating it from a wide range of tools, richtext editors, markdown inputs, etc etc is much more common. Your analogies are just inaccurate.
The FSF has rather bitter words about ReactOS that would keep them from admitting such, "ReactOS is meant as a free binary compatible replacement for Windows. Allowing people to continue using the proprietary software and drivers meant for Windows is one of the stated goals of the project."[1] Also note on the same page their disdain of more permissive licenses, like BSD and Apache, calling them "pushover".

[1] http://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.en.html