skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is completely false.

99% of adblockers use rules that block anything that looks like an ad, regardless of where it comes from.

Also publishers running their own ads is an immense amount of work that requires a sales and adops team and does not guarantee any improvements in quality. The reason ad networks exist is because of the scale of the web and the challenge of trying to do direct deals between every website and advertiser.
Despite having such quirks as: no Null support =|
I'm working on building all of my own IoT (outlets, lights, sensors) using ESP8266's, Amazon Alexa, and a Raspberry Pi as the "hub". If Alexa gets deprecated, or I want to use some other voice control, I can (hopefully) easily swap her out with whatever is cool then.

Of course, this is cheaper in $$ but way more expensive in my own time. Fortunately I think of it as a hobby and not work.
Most of online advertising is paid on an impression/view basis, not clicks.
Mr. Musk wins the first quarter of 2016, no doubt
This should have happened years ago. Maybe this time Silicon Valley will be pissed off enough to marshal the resources necessary to kick her out of her seat. Her views on encryption are dangerous enough, but when they're held by someone with her seniority and committee power, it's much worse.

But she's incredibly popular in California. Beating her is an uphill battle. And most people aren't willing to make encryption a primary issue in how they vote.
Conferences where academics present original research tend to charge speakers admittance. "Programming conferences," where speakers are essentially teaching 1-hour classes, tend to cover the ticket, hotel, and transportation for presenters.

Source: I presented research at a few humanities conferences in my previous career and have presented talks at several PHP conferences in my present career.
It's probably a cultural thing. From my vantage point outside of America, chanting support for your country like a sports team feels awkward and myopic. It's not something most other civilised countries do — I associate it more readily with failed/fascist/dictatorial regimes.
How is an Apple iPhone not equivalent to a Walmart Basics pack of toilet paper? Apple makes the iPhone, Walmart makes the toilet paper. Or atleast companies build these products for their associated brands.

I also ask you to provide an example of where Walmart sells competitor branded products (Target etc). Walmart's brand products, Basics (I believe) are not sold in any other store. Targets brand products (Archer Farms) are not available in any other store.
Cache link is useless, pulled this from the HTML there:

http://evt.dispeak.com/ubm/gdc/sf16/playerv.html?xml=839327_...

google cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com
/search?q=cache:uu_7ClnTZGwJ:www.gdcvault.com/play/1023652/Building-3-Dimensional-UI-for+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
I think this is death for small developers. How many "easy monthly payments" do people want to deal with?

Microsoft and Google can add little features that do just enough to wipe out niche products and make their suites stickier. Example: Google Docs voice dictation
They're required by Congress to fund 75 years in advance. That means they're paying for costs _before_ they're accrued, for employees that are likely not even born yet. Bizarre is a perfectly reasonable way to describe it.
Current discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11457263
Has Amazon ever sold new iPhones? Have they ever sold a Nexus phone?
Wow, that seems really small scale to me. First of all, just like HN, it's possible for a young/karma-less account to hit the front page, in that there are no inherent barriers. The main difference -- besides interestingness of the content, of course -- is whether or not that post gets enough valid upvotes to get noticed on the subreddit's top links...after which it continues to snowball up the karma points.

So why would marketers need to buy accounts that looked real? I know that Reddit has some ability to detect karma-rings and suspiciously upvoting patterns...but I can't recall many past instances where Reddit itself uses heuristics and an automated system to tell if a given upvote came from a geniune users, based on the user's quality of past posting.

While the history of a user who posts something will be visible to all other users...it's rare that people take the time to comb through someone's history...it happens occasionally in partisan forums (i.e. if you post in r/sandersforpresident in a concern-trolling way)...but so many Reddit users are pretty casual that most reddit posting histories consist of quick quips and comments...just generate 50 of those posts, not all in one day or in one subreddit, and that would throw off most scrutinizers.

But that's besides the point. Users who upvote can't be seen by the public, and neither can their histories. So why bother paying a premium price for a single, established account, when it's easy enough to create new accounts and divvy up the upvoting?

In contrast, such a system wouldn't work on Twitter, where the identity of the account and the followers it has is critical to making something stick...i.e. paying for 10 minutes of write access to Ashton Kutcher's account is going to be a better ROI than having 10,000 twitter bots to retweet your astroturf.
This book on SOCIAL INTERACTIONS is selling out on Amazon
Everyone has the right to make their own business choices, but I have never before heard anyone try to argue that recurring revenue is a bad thing.
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft enters emergency mode 75M miles from Earth
Yes, takes less fuel to land on the drone than to fly back to the launch pad. For larger payloads, it's either land on the drone or throw away the rocket.
Garbage Truck
Isn't that what JetBrains switched to?
The Bay Area, Seattle, or New York.
It's all fun and games until this DNA storage downloads a virus!
Once they start reusing them, it's really just a rental.
Thanks for the confirm. Maybe someone at google listened to people complaining (or their algos learned) that when people search many specific words they are looking for a specific thing and not to randomly drop it.

Also, as a side note (not directly to you but so I don't clutter the feed). The CIA does not have a "venture capital arm". The company in question is a private company, who's purpose is to develop intel tech and sell it to the CIA. They are not associated with the CIA in any official capacity, but they do seem to have a cozy relationship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Edit: Also, on duckduckgo the first two results I get are specific to both this story about skincential and the cia.
Are retroviruses rare? From what I can tell we don't know much about viruses that don't clearly cause disease.
The bill begins:

It is the sense of Congress that--

no person or entity is above the law;
economic growth, prosperity, security, stability, and liberty require
adherence to the rule of law;

Confused here, I thought that the process between Apple and the FBI was taking place in the courts and not on some kind of aquatic platform in international waters.
Debian do not like like such things as it puts pressure on the mirrors: https://lists.debian.org/deity/2015/08/msg00379.html

The message mentions "httpredir.debian.org" as a "good and nice quasi-replacement". I use it myself - it also results in pleasingly speedy apt downloads, and has the additional advantages of official support and requiring no setup beyond a line in sources.lst.

I'm not going to try this, but it seems to me that apt-fast and http-redir could be combined. I wonder how fast that would go...
That is a valid and excellent point. Shame on me for taking a narrow perspective. But how can I as an individual support more than a few new publications?
Persian, not Arabic.
Seems like something has changed. Landing is at about 27:15
Could someone help decode this?

"covered entities must provide responsive, intelligible information or data, or appropriate technical assistance to a goverment pursuant to a court order."

I assume that this includes secret FISA orders, but what's with the language about "a government"? Could this be construed to include non-American governments? (i.e. Five Eyes?) Or is that a term of art?
I wonder what access times are like.
> any time you're admonishing someone and telling them how they should behave

I tried very hard specifically to not do this. The only case where I put a specific label on someone else's behavior was in an example in which one party is not acting in good faith. Specifically, much of the comment was about the dichotomy of views, and whether you think that example even applies to the situation we are discussing. To be clear, I don't think someone who uses an ad-blocker is immoral unless they themselves believe what they are doing is wrong, because I don't believe it's possible to be be accidentally immoral (and if you believe what you are doing is fully justifiable, it's moral, regardless of whether it's seen as social acceptable or not).

> It's fine if you have your morals, but your morals are not my morals. And it's a more effective argument to talk about yourself anyway: "I view ads because I believe it's a fair exchange for the publisher's content."

That is exactly what I did. The portion of the comment where I actually examine a stance is prefixed with "For me", and is about my relation to that specific viewpoint, which itself isn't meant to be inclusive of the entire other side of the argument.

I suspect you formed an initial impression of what I was trying to convey, and that colored your interpretation of my words. I urge you to go back and read my comment again, but keep in mind that my goal was firstly to provide what I thought was an accurate, non-accusatory assessment of the sides of the argument, and present them in a way where rational people could see the merits of each (and I may have fully failed in this), and then provide my own personal reasoning why one interpretation does not work for me. I guess that's why I was honestly confused when you started talking about a guilt trip, because that wasn't my intention at all (so I may have failed horribly in that respect).
Can you remember any places or networks where you connected to open WiFi for calling? I'm in the Bay Area and have had Fi for about 6 months, but I can't remember ever seeing this (despite advertised claims).

Edit: To be clear I'm not questioning your statement. Just curious to hear where Fi takes advantage of this.
You are completely off the mark there, buddy. Ad blockers don't use AI image recognition - and besides, that technology doesn't exist yet.
You should try not being sarcastic, it just makes it look like you have a weak argument and are overcompensating.

Factually, they're being required to overfund it, to the tune of 75 years in advance, which is money that they can't reinvest. No business should accept being run that way.
Phoenix's presence using CRDTs (sneak peek)
I think they're on Discord now on the Reactiflux server.
Probably need a birth certificate to prove your kid is only age 13, not 14.
Is there any way to register as a non-american? I'm moving to Seattle in a couple weeks for an Internship and it would be great to be able to get this all setup before I head out.
I've started a hobby to make similar "Soundscape" recordings in recent months, for example the wharf in Santa Cruz, https://soundcloud.com/user-74007570/soundscape-santa-cruz-w...

I am using a Shure MV88 stereo microphone attached to an iPod, relatively cheap compared to the expense Mr. Teibel probably went through.

It's a great way to relax, just sit quiet with headphones and monitor your audio levels. Then, edit around noise pollution, such as loud motorcycles and airplanes using Audacity.

A relaxing hobby!
Ah, I was looking at the other paper so haven't inspected the one you linked to. The two papers used the same method though:

"The HIV-1 LAI stock was produced by transfection of 293T cells with the pLAI molecular clone."

"HIV-1 was first produced by transfecting HEK293T cells with HIV-1 DNA"

Sounds like they produced a bunch of virus in 293T cells, during which time it could mutate.
I get why companies with huge infrastructure use containers, the efficient spread of resources. I absolutely do not get why an average web app running on a few servers would use them.
Moral obligation is the reason to not take/copy other things.

This is the same as music/movie piracy. Basically you're doing it because you dont have the legal/physical repercussions of taking other things in life.
From what I can tell Angular 2 lost more users than it gained. I know it made me switch to React.
Thank you for getting my point. Clearly the traditional ad broker is going come back to have a role - built-in ad blockers will see to that. CPM is out no matter what.
As someone in a different thread put it "It's not so much about the cost of the device as much as it's about the time invested in setting things up".

It's very poor form to sunset a product without offering users (your early adopters none the less) a easy migration path to another product. Had there actually been data standards for setup and captured data, I'd expect the ability to export my setup and data so that I can use it to configure an alternative product.
Terrifyingly Convenient
What about the team(s) that manage the underlying PaaS/SaaS Services?

Does DevOps or SRE's not exist in this realm?
Pretty nice product. What is it built on?
10 Sneaky Ways Retailers Fool You into Spending More
Instaparser:  Instapaper's parsing tools
Hail the maintainers
This is amazing. You should do similar engagement with Google search also!
Parody O'Reilly book covers
You slightly misquoted (b) - it says that nothing in this act may be construed to authorize any government officer to require or prohibit any specific design or operating system. I think it's meant to avoid a situation where regulators would have lists of specific software that is required or prohibited, as opposed to the government suing companies on a case by case basis if their software didn't comply with (c).

It appears to be based on a clause from CALEA, which refers to "any law enforcement agency or officer" - see (b) (1) in:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/1002
The solution for all wifi clients is to do what iOS and Mac OS X has been doing for years, which is validate internet connectivity when connecting via wifi. If there's a captive portal standing in the way, it pops up a simple webkit view automatically. You don't even have to open a web browser.

It would be nice to have a more formal standard (e.g. supplying an authentication URL along with the DHCP response) but to be honest, this emerging de-facto standard is perfectly serviceable.
Only if the site wants short-attention-span users. If they want such users to move on, their presentation is win-win!
100 data nodes

basically if you want fast ingress, keep shards small, once they get past ~5-10gb , ingress significantly slows down. Also this was on ES 1.5 , have not tested latest 2.0+ builds
Sure it matters. They say that "all mutations cluster around the Cas9 cleavage site at position −3, suggesting that the escape mutations were generated in the process of HIV-1 inhibition."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26796669

Perhaps instead the virus that infected some cells that was already mutated, so it was resistant to the cleavage (due to lacking the recognition site).

These are totally different mechanisms.
Wikipedia claims "Over 8% of the human genome is made up of (mostly decayed) endogenous retrovirus sequences"[1]. So, it appears they are at least common enough that we're all passing along endogenous viral elements[2] to our children (and we got them from our parents).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncoding_DNA#Repeat_sequences...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_viral_element
I will point out that the run time problems of guice are trying to be solved with dagger: http://google.github.io/dagger/
If I am not mistaken, last time Elon Musk mentioned if you fly with used booster, the price go down 30%.

And that's just the beginning.
I think it is a cultural thing, but thinking about it now it would sound really similar to how you describe if they were chanting "America" instead of "USA".

I don't know, but the point is that I can see where you are coming from. I think that the "USA" thing has become "normalized" to me because of other things in the media (sports, wartime, etc...) that it doesn't phase me, but changing the wording makes it pretty clear.
Not exactly health related, but an example of a large company not updating a smart refrigerator, breaking features it was sold with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732423

It's still not fixed.
> If you have any examples of breakage, let us know.

I believe it's breaking podcast feeds being served with WordPress.com, because iTunes doesn't support Let's Encrypt certificates.

https://www.dominicrodger.com/2016/02/29/lets-encrypt-itunes...

This may not affect a lot of customers (since WordPress.com doesn't support PowerPress for feed generation), but I know some podcasters create feeds by hand or with other apps.

This issue will cause at least some podcasts to disappear from iTunes without warning unless you can coordinate with Apple to fix it.
Finding a deal on taxes is a completely different realm than surreptitiously dumping toxic waste, or whatever else "harm those around them" and "just following orders" tends to imply. The reductio ad absurdum doesn't really mesh here. I agree with the sociopathic judgment of people using such excuses to be predators against society. But we're simply talking about Place A offering a better financial package than Place B.

Tax codes are insanely complex, and there's a bajillion ways to look at them and apply them. Tax breaks are typically done for the government to incentivize people & businesses to engage in behavior, and tax hikes are typically done to dissuade behavior, without specifically outlawing things. The sum total of these is a big mess in which if a few percent matters to you, you can research and optimize. Given how the tax code comes into being, that is exactly the spirit of the law.

> the rich and corporations will simply find another way to be avoid contributing to society

This is a moot and frankly prejudiced point. People & organizations with more wealth & power have greater flexibility and mobility, regardless of the system they're in.
Exactly, this article is bizarre...basically saying "yeah that whole SaaS model that everybody realized was a good thing over the past few years? It's actually for scrubs, because I'm still doing fine with the old model in my one-man niche software shop."

And that's the whole argument for why anyone doing subscriptions is obviously doomed to fail. Weird.
>>AI advances considerably
>blazingly fast, literal, moron

I think I have discovered the source of your disagreement.
Charging for software on a one-time basis without paid upgrades is inherently unsustainable. The only way to make it work is to, as the author points out, continually find new people who are willing to purchase your software. If you can find an infinite stream of new people to purchase your software, then you may be able to make it work, but in practice, there aren't infinite streams of people.

This post seems to have been written two years ago. I would like to see an update from the author on how his "free updates to people who only paid once" strategy is working out in 30 years.

(Of course, if you don't care about building a sustainable business, and just want to make some money now and possibly abandon everything in a few years, then this doesn't matter. I personally am interested in building sustainable businesses, though.)
The FBI Director Puts Tape Over His Webcam
Yep i have 6 weeks booked off in July. Will see my parents in UK. Flipside is i get paid less than a yank.
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Go has panic()/recover(), which is better than setjmp/longjmp (thanks to GC you won't leak memory like you would in C with setjmp/longjmp).

I'm not saying using panic()/recover() is a good idea but if your issue with Go is lack of non-local dynamic control transfer then good news: you're mis-informed and Go will be great for you!
The medium (print) did support it. Why do screens not? One word - pornography. Porn invented the banner ad and introduced the paradigm of ads that link to other sites. Clearly that is a failed paradigm. Traditional advertising will make a comeback. Digital media will look like traditional media. We will look back on the current mess as an aberration instigated by pornographers.
"First-party" ads are back to the future. Explain how they could possibly be worse for privacy?
> you don't even have to open a web browser.

It would be nice if that worked consistently, but having just spent 2 weeks in airports and ho[s]tels in the UK & Ireland, it doesn't yet.
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Apply HN: Natural advertising for small businesses and personal websites
Problem: Advertising is hard and is getting harder as more money is spent on internet advertising. At the same time, ad blockers are quickly spreading and maybe will soon kill all the sources of advertising, bad for personal websites, bad for small companies using Adwords.

Solution: Think affiliate marketing. Now think manual advertising contracts. This service would combine these two to get some level of automation in the process.

How would it work?

(Imagine this service is hosted at natural.com, which is obviously not true). A blogger writes about the topic of fishing for beginner fishers. He talks about things the wannabe fishers must buy and places they must go. Every time he talks about a product, he puts a link to natural.com/<product-name>, or when he talks about a place, he can use something like natural.com/<place>, maybe he can also create more complex link patterns, but let's stick to these for now. These links are going to redirect the clicker.

Advertisers would bid for these pre-placed links. Read the rest of the example at https://gist.github.com/fiatjaf/10e61297e060373fabf4ee1cc2f1ad16, because HN has a character limit. Only two paragraphs more, but doesn't matter. They key ideas are here.

Other markets where this could clearly work: food blogs; programming blogs; travel blogs; hack-your-life sites; personal development blogs; clothing and fashion blogs; any blog or site about hobbies or practices like yoga, painting, martial arts, hunting etc.

Progress: No progress at all. I realize the network-effect of this thing is damn hard to beat, but at the same time it is something that I see working in small scale, so it is probably doable.

Market: Bloggers; small business; local, non-tech small businesses. Later, big companies that sell a lot of different things, big content websites (newspapers, magazines etc.).

Team: One developer with many ideas, this one being the only one hard enough to be worth posting here.
You could make a new product and sell it to the save people, too.
Church encoding
How IoT Connects the Digital to the Physical World
Have the Haskell gurus considered doing a Python 3-style update/fork hybrid the explicit purpose of code-breaking changes? Haskell 2?
Sure, here you go: this font is really awesome IMHO. The project could turn up as the go-to webfont for logos in the immediate future. Something like font-awesome. This will increase awareness about the author.

How the author will choose to capitalise on that awareness, it's up to him, but he needs to gets there first and getting there is not easy.

That said, I understand where you're coming from. Some people have not been able to capitalise their open source contributions. Even companies struggle (e.g. twitter). Others were able to capitalise though. At this stage, I wouldn't worry about that, we can't even see all possibilities here.

Success can be defined in multiple ways. Getting some visibility to the ever-growing web-dev community is a great first step towards success IMHO and here's a very good chance of doing just that.