skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bothers me in the ad blocker debate is that publishers want me to turn it off so I can see the ads.

Not click on them, just see them. Even though I never click on any ads, they still consider it valuable to subliminally influence me into wanting stuff I don't want.

To me, this is even shittier than forcing me to click on an ad before giving me the content. But to also serve me malware... is beyond shitty, it's dangerous.

Content is cheap these days. There's too much of it out there, high quality and free. In fact, I wouldn't mind if there were less content produced on the Internet.

I know that the content that is really valuable will still stay and all the bullshit that needs ads to stay afloat will disappear.

Forbes with malware? No, thanks.

For me the rule of thumb is this - if you need me to turn off my ad blocker, then I don't need your content.
Here's a great PBS series to watch if you want to learn more about cancer.

http://www.pbs.org/show/story-cancer-emperor-all-maladies/

It's based on this book, which I have not read: http://www.amazon.com/The-Emperor-All-Maladies-Biography/dp/...
Yeah I got that from Wikipedia, I just don't know what you mean by describing it as "big vehicle". Like it's bloated, or too broad or something?
The FCC Is Pushing a 'Nutrition Label' for Broadband Connections
This seems really similar to Jürgen Habermas's Public Sphere idea (in a good way). One thing I would suggest is to make sure to stand on the shoulder of giants. There is a lot of academic work written on what worked and what didn't work in communities like Slashdot, kuro5hin, various bbForums, 4chan, Usenet, etc.
Any english alternative ?
* Running commands is fine -- infact bash is a programming language we support. As long as you cannot get out of the sandbox.

* Threads are allowed by the environment.
I threw this together for the less savvy

#!/bin/bash
clear
youtube-dl -U
echo " "
echo "YouTube Downloader Script"
echo "A video file will be created in the folder where this script is located"
echo " "
echo "Please paste a URL and hit [ENTER]:"
read URL
youtube-dl $URL

Edit: youtube-dl -U only works if it was manually installed, so leave that out if you installed from apt or whatever
Well the issue specifically is Childhood Cancer Research funding.

This link will state a good pissed off parents stance on ACS. They raised funds for their daughter and asked people to donate to ACS instead of flowers. Then they realized where their money was going after ACS pulled funding of summer camps across the nation with out any warning.

http://curechildhoodcancer.ning.com/profiles/blogs/my-though...
It's too easy. I got 100% on "Bonjour," but I definitely do not sound native to French people. I know this because last year I took a hike in a french gorge and greeted people with "Bonjour" but they often answered me back in English.

But I'll take the flattery. :)
I'd assume that a large majority of container deployments by parties other than Google already run in the cloud, so I wonder that this is even a question. I do think the whole topic of the distinction between containers and VMs is a useful one, if only because VMs are a natural mental model for people to land on when they first encounter containers, but the question of "whether they can coexist" seems a little silly, honestly.
No away message support? Is Slack allergic to this for some reason? I cannot fathom why this basic functionality hasn't been added yet without requiring awkward contortions of adding custom fields to your profile.
I agree, but I toughed it out and I felt that it was worth it.

It's very depressing and while I (who've lived in NYC for 14 years) have heard mention many times of East New York, and how it's a really shitty neighborhood, I had no idea that it really is the worst neighborhood in NYC.

It's really quite depressing, though the author does mention some initiatives that perhaps are a sign of a light at the end of a tunnel that's more than a hundred years long.
Hadoop: What It Is and How It Works
They absolutely do have an incentive to improve. Every time someone is deceived by an ad, or encounters malware via their ad network, that person is more motivated to install an adblocker and to tell their friends to install adblockers.
the keys here are these xeon cpus are "used" and their power consumption is also monstrous, compared to new-gen cpus (along with mb or other components)

also i'm always suspicious about the life span of these used cpus as cpu gets busted much more often than any other components (next to hd, my experience).

at the end i guess the total cost for such xeon monster pc might be much higher (including replacement, power consumption....) compared to new systems.
Games benchmark is on page 7, does pretty okay.
As someone else who uses Yahoogroups for a few things, I've been wondering how it's holding on (and when I might need to jump ship). It's got a massive userbase, but I'm not sure of active usage, and I also wonder if it would have been canned were it not for things like Freecycle making exclusive use of it. It certainly has an abandonware (more likely understaffedware) feel to it.
Interesting point. About that...

"As for me downvoting you: I try not to downvote people I'm debating with directly at all, but you have the misfortune of arguing with me exclusively on a topic that I have profesionally strong opinions about. :)"

...I was going to say something along those lines to the first commenter. No worries or anything. Just two people that can be more aggressive on their favorite topics, esp involving their livelihoods. ;) The reason I used our debates as an example was just because I knew there was data to mine in them on voting surges. It was first time I saw it happen here.

"it's just that arguing with me, or 'patio11, or 'edw519, or 4-5 other accounts is likely to get your comment seen more quickly than arguing with someone else."

Makes sense.

"I try not to downvote people I'm debating with directly at all,"

I only downvote spam or occasionally flames/slander w/out substance. I upvote opponents' arguments, including yours, if they make good points or bring up misinformation worth countering specifically for others' benefit. I think it improves quality of discussion if both sides points are more visible.
I think they need to let yahoo.com burn and put their money into some new brands instead. Yahoo was never a clearly defined site and any changes they make will alienate whoever it is who actually visits.

They should take their capital and diversify, creating entirely new products and brands, and/or become a VC company. I.e. milk the current company and plan to abandon ship.
Even cryptography relies on unproven assumptions; we just consider them trustworthy enough to rely on.
In addition the US Navy isn't just the biggest navy in the world, it's the biggest by a landslide. Any way you measure it whether by supercarriers[1] or water displacement it's larger than the worlds other navies combined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercarrier
I ended up reading that sentence four or five times before I finally interpreted every word and was able to parse it. I kept accidentally skipping words that changed how it parsed.
Publishers want to make more money than Stack Overflow. That's basically why.
From interviewing and having friends that currently and have worked in facebook, google, apple and amazon, it's not like that at all.
What Makes a Person Creepy?
Thanks for your encouraging advice. Your last point really hits home. I have too limited knowledge of the Chinese business world to know whether this behavior is standard operating procedure, or if it is very, very large red flag to not sign any written deals with such business men.

As you said, the huge bonus is that they are dedicated to eSports as well and have put substantial effort into capturing our (potential) Chinese user base. Thank you as well for the pointer to phone interpreting services, I would've tried to leverage some friends in China, but this seems like a good alternative.
Are you reading that wrong? That site says 59.6% of the ACS's expenses go to "Program Expenses", which is what Charity Navigator calls the charity's core mission programs.
Fingerprints to be tested as ‘currency’ for foreign tourists in Japan
I wonder if it would be possible to successfully sue a site that asks you to disable your ad blocker, which you do, and then serves up malware ads that infect your computer? I'm sure they'll try to say their ToS protects them but that doesn't mean it's so.
It's my understanding that most (all?) public key cryptographic algorithms aren't provably secure, but are conjectured to be. They are reliant on some problem being hard to solve (factoring of large integers, discrete log, etc.).

Something like a one time pad is provably secure, however.
Which is okay if you just use Google’s Cloud as container host.

But if you have to rebuild your whole company, because everything you use runs on GAE, 1 year is almost guaranteed death for your company.
I disagree. The argument is about things like AWS Beanstalk. Once all of your deploys are going out with Beanstalk, most of the AWS management disappears. It's basically Puppet and Chef taken to the extreme if you use all of it's features. Once your one DevOps guy gets your scripts set up to easily deploy, what else is there?
I might still change the title.

The reasoning behind the current choice was that I personally find the specificity to be a bit more compelling even if it is intended only as a go-to-market strategy. When I used to pitch this to folks as "rebuild the public data infrastructure for the legal system" they would mostly roll their eyes at me.

Point is well taken though. Thanks.
How would you compete with things like http://www.amazon.com/Asbestos-Test-Includes-Postage-Fees/dp...
and
http://www.homedepot.com/p/LABTECH-H2O-OK-Plus-Complete-Wate...
Dynamo - An online web app to make physics animations
The mill I'm talking about actually burns straight wood products - mostly whole tree chips. Aside from a small amount of diesel used to get the fire in the boiler going when they startup, and a few additives like urea to tweak the emissions, it's all wood.

Black Liquor is interesting. Just down the road from my old plant, there is an International Paper mill that has been relying on that loophole for years to keep themselves afloat. All the mill's internal machinery is either steam-driven or runs on the electricity produced by their on-site plant. Lately they've been over-producing power and selling it back on the grid due to these credits, to the point that they have kept paper machines running at paper prices that would otherwise be unsustainable, just to keep a steady supply of black liquor for their power plant.
I did and the last sentence in that article states:

> Responsive websites may help shift that opinion, though that won’t likely happen anytime soon.

Since most of these articles are 3+ years old, I personally believe that responsive webpages are the way to go, especially for Reddit which is 99% text &images, or hyperlinks to external sites.
Sort of a meta note: it's interesting how some of the really technical articles get a ton of votes, but not many comments.

Very interesting in any case, and I certainly voted for it - I'd love to see more articles like this.
I'm a Canadian too, but my understanding matched the British usage. Newspapers are full of stuff like this quote from The Globe and Mail: "Mr. McCallum told reporters Tuesday that the government will table its annual immigration report before March 9."
Depends. For me, probably you, sure, but for the average person a decent job and apartment can be hard to come by.

For a few months last year I was apartment hunting while unemployed, and you'd think I was radioactive. I offered to pay the year's rent up front at one point and that spooked the landlord even more; apparently they thought my income was illicit.
Another way to look at it is only risking harming one of them, so I'm not so sure it is horrible to consider starting out only treating one of them.

(In this case the drug doesn't seem to be a big risk though)
Facebook buys MAGIC?
Hello World, Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams
What exactly are you proposing high-school students in my district do?

Perhaps I should have clarified, there are no buses/trams/subways or any type of public transportation in my school district for high-school students to take, because there is no public transportation period in my city. The only options for going to school are walk, ride a bike, or drive, and the first two aren't practical during winter - that's besides the fact that I lived three miles away from the school.
As do the institutions of Oxford and Cambridge

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/table

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/table

Interestingly it seems that the example usages provided in all the dictionaries would serve both meanings of the word.
Is there a way to build and deploy whatsapp from source?
Good solutions. I've used the webhooks and it worked!
Thanks
We plan on using Tradier brokerage with the Tradier api.

In terms of envisioning, it would be more Jim Cramer type that would be more interested in this over Hedge Fund Managers, in an honest opinion.
Heh, kinda cool! Definitely in its beginning stages, but I had to try it out as I'm probably a target market; studied French for ~10 years (middle school, high school, some university), and have spent a total of perhaps 6 months in France -- But I've not lived there permanently, and haven't really used the language in perhaps 10 years.

I'm at the point where I'd have a hard time following dialogue in a TV show (although, to be fair, that's always hard for foreigners), but am rarely identified as american by native french-speakers; they usually guess German or something similar (more plausible to know French well, but still with the harder-edged anglo accent; I'm clearly not an Italian or Spaniard... well, okay, I AM Italian, but do not speak Italian).

Anyway, what I mean to say is my background with the language is complicated, and my french is far from perfect. Typically I managed in the 80-100% range depending on words.

Anybody know the goal of the project?
I didn't know Westeros had trains.
"They'll be downvoted first, and get a massive corrective upvote stream."

That's actually exactly what I saw. I wasn't sure if it was a trend or tied to specific people/topics. So, a trend then.

" But I've found that politeness and care have always received upvotes, no matter what position stood behind them."

Oh I agree. That's been a good chunk of my karma. There are battle's of the minds on occasion, though, when people have strong opinions or attachment to topics. I actually get many upvotes on those but only when I stick to solid arguments with no personal attacks. I usually include references. Outside that, what you said about courtesy and facts is the majority of it.

"PS: take note that you can't downvote a comment that is in reply to you. :)"

Never even noticed that! Helps clarify some prior events. Thanks for the tip.
Yeah, I basically think about the site as being a magazine with enhanced features. Unfortunately news sites like CNN don't have a narrow audience and therefore use technology to slice and dice the visitors into narrow groups.

Is that scroll bug on all pages with the ad sidebar? Do you run any script blockers?
the same issue is coming up on friend's browser but working fine on mine (Safari, chrome and firefox).

The synchronous issue is my bad, was trying something out and forgot to change it back. Will do now. Thanks for letting me know.
Gig work doesn't go away with BI.

> One of the problems with basic income is that decouples work from income entirely

It does, but not entirely. You can still work for extra income. It only breaks the dependency in the other direction. And that's its strength.

The gig economy, while incredible and empowering, is also unstable and largely out of your control. You can have an influx of work at one moment, and near zero another. BI smooths this over by allowing you to survive during the dips. It also reduces the toxic stress contractors can experience even during a wave of work. When the gigs run out (and therefore, the income is less under BI--but not zero!), it gives you time to seek out new work without panicking.
In a narrative-focused discussion like this, yes.

Conversations with a different focus might lead to Yahoo's problems with marketing, HR, technology, products, etc.
I'd like to mention Celluloid here as well. Generally I prefer Erlang/Elixir, but in Ruby centered apps, Celluloid (especially run under the JVM with JRuby) solves a lot of concurrency problems easily.

> All other major implementations (including Akka) have cooperative scheduling, i.e. forbidding blocking code in actors. Erlang allows it.

Curious as to what people's thoughts on Celluloid:IO are with respect to solving the problem of blocking code in actors. Celluloid:IO provides an event driven reactor that works in parallel with the actors. I haven't used it myself, but it seems an interesting approach.
It seems incredulous to me to suppose that lobbyists would reject it on that basis. US banking is a powerful force in the world of international banking, it seems naturally prudent to retain lobbyists to make sure you aren't shut out of the world economy.

I'm sure there are some very large banks in the US that have lobbyist equivalents in other countries that would look at our banks the same way. I'm sure major US banking institutions provide cover for US officers abroad as well.
You could probably find enough dirt in any Fortune 500 company, style it up, and put out an article similar to the Amazon one.
Interesting that it's still considered such a popular brand. Although I know the brand I haven't typed 'yahoo' in the address bar or a search engine for years. I actually think this was the first time I wrote it anywhere for years, except in peoples' email. I don't think anyone I know have either. Never hear any mentioning of it except in tech circles like here. Do people really go there?
Thanks for your assessment. I haven't thought about it from that angle. That's a bit upsetting as I am sure they have access to much larger resources than we do.

The thing is that I don't know who the investor behind this business is. If I knew it is a smallish business angel then there would be no reason to worry. On the other hand if they are in Chinese YC we have a problem :|
Yeah, but does he get to dock it perfectly every time himself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qHdPhkSSNQ
Why isn't this producing litigation? Users can sue Forbes. Forbes can sue their ad supplier. There's a strong argument for negligence here.
Digg has actually transformed into a decent content curator. I believe they use a combination of human and computer generated content recommendations. Even the ads are pretty high quality.
I think they mean: Why do you want to consume content from companies like that?
I'll just take this opportunity to plug the Forbes™ Splash Screen Bypass Chrome extension.

It's not my extension, and I don't know the nitty gritty details of how it works, but I do know it stops that horrible Forbes splash screen from popping up.
> anti-anti-ad-blocker measures just as they came up with anti-ad-blocker measures in the first place.

To be fair, the current anti-anti-adblockers like anti-adblock killer could defeat such a measure as is. Short of rendering their page to an image with ads builtin, there's not much you can do if someone's willing to replace JS.

What do you have against a good old fashioned cat and mouse game?
I absolutely agree. If you want to stay in the AWS world, look at Elastic Beanstalk or Lambda. I've been doing DevOps for years and most apps (internal or external) that I deploy anymore are just one Jenkins job that packages and deploys a Beanstalk version. Give Devs permission to Jenkins or have it auto-poll git and I never need to do anything else.
You don't want me as a reader and I don't want to read your ads, including the ad about turning off my ad blocker. But the search engine I use sent me to your site and it doesn't let me filter out sites with ads. I wish it did. Obviously Google is never going to do it since they're the ones selling ads. I had hopes for duckduckgo but they're showing more and more ads. What I'm saying is, we need a search engine that excludes sites with ads.
there's definitely nothing we can do.

This is very much not true. Understanding what any executable does is possible without the source code. In fact, if you are looking at the binary, you know exactly what you are dealing with, and don't have the doubt about what the build chain actually does with the source.

potential vulnerabilities were stopped by it being open source.

This presumably comes from "many eyes make all bugs shallow". But operationally this is not true, because there isn't really, except for rare circumstances, any useful review.
The quality of their publishing practice doesn't necessarily reflect the quality of the content.
> fill a vile

Did you mean: fill a vial?
Gravitational Tug on Saturn May Help Find Planet Nine
They translated everything into Chinese language, there is no way for us to check if that is in fact our text. Furthermore most of our content is user-generated (except the UI controls).

I am sure they use Chinese payment processors which are not directly integrated into the flow right now.
More to the point, they could go to the trouble of hosting and serving their own curated advertising, like newspapers used to do.

They could forbid JavaScript, require simple URLs, and flow their content around well-defined and crafted ad locations. Their site would load quickly, the ads would still attend to the image they intend to project to the reader. Metrics on such ads wouldn't require third party JavaScript to monitor.

None of their readers would be subject to malware. Reader and provider would not be an antagonistic relationship.

They could do all of these things. They seem to have chosen another path, and made the choice for their readers--those they've kept--at the same time.
Why use a blocker by a company that sells user statistics?[1] Seriously wondering, since uBlock provides virtually the same and more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Business_model
I'm not a Facebook user. I like to think I'm still well-informed as a professional in the industry - i.e., I understand this major platform - because I know what social networking is about and how Facebook works on a technical level. Am I wrong? What don't I understsand by not being a user?
They are both trying to monetize the content. I thought that was obvious.
Just wait until you hear what the cia gets up to. Or the state dept.

I think your surprise all over this thread is due to people not being stunned that water is wet, politicians need money, and associated hangers-on are venal.

Hell, look at the ties between Bush and the Saudi theocrats, whose greatest hits include 9/11 and are currently doing their best to drag us into their Iran proxy war.
I see your point. And I don't think it's quite as horrible, and might actually be somewhat more responsible to only give the drug to one kid to start with.

Assuming, of course, the kids aren't at risk of death any time soon (they seem fairly healthy in that picture), and the results could be measured fairly readily.
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+vial
You're free to believe your hunches.
The reality is different. We've manufactured and exported brand-name products from China for over 30 years.

In our experience, when a trademark is registered, Chinese customs is very proactive in seizing / destroying infringing property.

The domestic market is definitely another story, but there are controls in place for the export market.

The onus is on the brand owner to register their trademark - no different to registering a mark in any other jurisdiction.

Legitimate business has been conducted with China for centuries, and China has every reason to defend foreign brands in order to protect its manufacturing industry.