skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think most ad networks are intentionally serving ads like that. Occam's razor, etc.

Doesn't make them less culpable for the damage they cause, I'm just saying I don't think it's something they make additional money on, I think it's something that gets slipped under the radar by a few bad actors.

They obviously aren't incentivized enough to stop it though so why not implement a more direct compensation? If a user gets a malware program on their machine and it can be traced back to a given provider, that provider should be billed accordingly for the cost of the removal (including if the user can do it themselves, they should get paid for that anyway) as well as lost productivity time.

Currently any ad network serving malware just gets to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and keep on making money, and considering how damaging some of this shit can be I'd say that's the first point that needs addressing.
The other day I went to buy some canned refried beans. When I read the label, I noticed that it contained refined sugar. WTF?!? There should be no need for sugar in refried beans! After recovering from the shock, I went to another grocery store, where I found refried beans without sugar.

Why does this happen? Obviously, sugar tastes good. That has to be why companies add it to all sorts of things. However, if most people were like me, they would read the label and refuse to buy anything that unnecessarily contained sugar. The companies doing this would lose money, and soon stop doing it. But the opposite has happened. Why?

There can only be one explanation: most consumers are dumb. However, when you read about stuff like this in the mainstream media, it's always framed as if "big evil corporations" is the whole problem. That "average Joe" has a low intelligence is never mentioned. Of course, the media wants as many consumers as possible, too, so calling most of their potential readers/viewers stupid is probably a bad strategy, even though it's the truth.
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Wow! Thank you for the reply. Good luck with your adventures!!
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These are exactly the things that make it more "real" of a game, to me. It encourages guessing, yes, but it also encourages snap-shot pattern recognition, quick decision making, bluffing, calmness under pressure, and as you say, is great fun when the heart gets pumping in a close game as time runs out... In other words, it's less theoretical, and more like life.

>Good blitz players are good chess players who happen to put their skills to a use by playing blitz, but they haven't developed these skills just by playing blitz

I'm a class A player, and I've probably played < 20 slow chess games over the past 15 years.
When the IP for a shared hosting server is flagged, the result in search for all sites residing under that IP are saddled with an alt URL titled "This site may be hacked". Their solution to fix it for the dozens/hundreds of benign sites co-hosted on said server? Sign up for more Google services(Google Search Console).

In that way, they are behving like a typical corporation.
I should think flair would be enough. The community would naturally downvote those links when they thought the content wasn't worth it.
There is a deep difference of power and control between the average consumer and a multinational food processing corporation. The argument of the burden being on individual responsibility you are trying to make can only be made if the consumer is not being aggressively misinformed about the limited choices of products available to them for the prices they can afford. The company in question has the resources to make their relationship with the target consumer a very asymmetrical one, and they are always positioned with more information and more leverage.

Surely if you're taking the dry, deterministic outlook on this discussion you'd take this into consideration.
Atwood's Law makes it inevitable that someone will if no one has already.
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Nothing appears on iOS with content blockers on, but the menu is still clickable. Another brilliant example of modern web-design.
Since non-users would have to create an account anyway in order to vote, I'm not sure that this is an issue.
This ignores the fact that the expensive, risky research is often funded by public money instead of by the pharmaceutical companies. So, the taxpayers pay for the research until it shows progress. Then it gets patented and sold to a large company which sells it back to the public for $1000/pill.

It's a pretty gross abuse of the original idea of patents.
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Hyperbole seems to be getting worse on HN.

First off, no, marketing is not where most of the money is spent. Second, marketing spend has a positive ROI, so they get more money back than they spent.

Lastly, this entire discussion is about a wonder drug that cures a terrible disease and you claim most new drugs are minor tweaks.
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Hear hear! 19 years in NYC. Wife 'forced' me to move to the burbs, but having tasted what life can be like you'd need to drag me back kicking and screaming to ever live there again. I laugh at those we left behind, who sincerely inquire "but don't you miss NYC?". Nope. Not one bit. Meet up in the park (because no back yard)? Join you for dinner at restaurant X (because no dining room)? Ha!

Quality of life has improved tremendously. Family life: more activities together, fewer dinners outside because we had to escape the small confines of our 900 sqft 2Bd apartment. Social life: we actually have enough room to have friends over… and they come. BBQs in the back yard. Potluck dinners with the neighbors and their 3 kids. Friends who stick around, not friends who leave because they can't keep up with the rent increase/job loss. Kids all go to the same school, no need for private schools, no competition for "magnet schools". No tiger parents.

Whenever we feel the need, less and less, we get a hotel room in NYC, go out to dinner in those "hot little joints" (mostly overrated, cronuts anyone?). Pure heaven, a 45min drive from the 'hustle and bustle'. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go mow my lawn and stare at the piliated woodpecker.
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Solo developer of a productivity app for the Mac for quite a number of years now. Yes, desktop apps are still very relevant and at least on the Mac, plenty of people willing to pay good money (unlike, say, the mobile market).

Whether to go desktop or web really depends on the application itself. Don't try and shoehorn it into one or the other. Ultimately, you'll need to find the right niche. Like in most industries, most people will fail (you usually don't hear their stories) and success will most likely not be immediate.

Doing things solo is tough so some general advice:

- You are going to be wearing many different hats but if you can afford it, contract out what you don't do well (like design, for many programmers).
- You have fewer resources but also a lower bottom line. Don't expand without taking that into account, not just for the moment, but for the long term. It will affect how desperate you get with your revenue model.
- Don't undercharge (especially if you go desktop). As mentioned, people still appreciate the value of desktop software.

Probably a lot more but those are the main ones plus I have support emails to deal with.
Is QtQuick commercial? No GPL version?
The water is the USA is highly regulated and safe to drink. Flint was a dramatic outlier which resulted in criminal charges for those involved.

Municipal water supply has stricter standards than bottled water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Drinking_Water_Act
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Yes I got that part, but it still turns out I'm the idiot here - I had set the view mode to 'individual plates' instead of 'plate groups' (I didn't understand what it was for so I was poking around) and then it shows you the separate images of each car, instead of grouping by car and taking the most likely from several attempts, which was was I complained they didn't do in the GP. When I look at the right data, they get all but one of the two dozen or so I checked right. Impressive (and a bit scary).
Its a proof of concept. Common .jars can be cached.
That's fascinating. I've been boycotting Nestlé for many years based on documentaries and articles in German-language media. I've just tried to dig up some English articles for the first time, but they are much harder to find.

Compare the German-language version of Nestlé criticism on water:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé#Trinkwasser

...to the English one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé#Bottled_water

There was even a documentary on German public TV recently, pretty cheesy stuff, but starting at 32:49 the journalists are interviewing local politicians in Mexico about a Nestlé selling water from local reserves:

http://www.daserste.de/information/ratgeber-service/montagsc...

So while I can't translate all this content right now, the tl;dr is that in practise, Nestlé does not seem to believe in water as a human right. Otherwise, why sell water from areas where it is already scarce?
While Nestlé's each subsidiaries and brands might have their own business motives to sell / market their own products (a lot of them have long been well-known consumer brands with a long history), the title does sound more troubling than it appears.
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Agreed, considering many advanced societies don't take nearly as many drugs as we in the US do.
Yes, making an educated guess about how tech will impact a culture and the individuals within it is important; no, reading fiction is not a good way to do this.

Studying fields like ethnography and anthropology would likely to give you the tools to model the future than cherry picking fictional narratives of the future.

Dynamics of mass social engineering would also be of use:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(politica...
A bit harsh to make a blanket statement about intelligence; people just need information which isn't being readily provided or is being drowned out with too much information. The collective actions seem counterintuitive to people paying attention, but paying attention requires time - which doesn't come easily if a swath of the population is busy with two part-time jobs and recovering with reality TV in the meantime.
These kinds of risk calculations are perhaps useful for insurance companies, but for individuals doing a "dangerous" sports there is more to the risk than merely probability.

In particular, with something like cave diving and mountain climbing the "bad" outcome is going to be death of the individual or their friends and it will likely be the result of a series of bad decisions under stress (each of which makes the situation more dire) rather than an exceedingly rare multiple systems failure.
Capitalism uses a low value of human life for workers compensation and a high value when selling drugs. Perhaps we should force the maximum charge to be their lowest paid worker's income for the period of treatment ...

Capitalism allocates resources efficiently without external forces like patents. Patents are a fix to force capitalism to be more socially responsible with sharing of knowledge.
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Ask HN: Feedback on my SaaS venture (webdeveloper oriented)
I've been quite busy building my SaaS app, and now I'd would love to get your feedback on both the design and idea.

The site: http://codeoversight.com/
I dislike the idea of solving this via more regulation. Children don't decide what they eat, their parents do. So either the parents don't care about the health of their children (hard to believe), or they're not properly educated about healthy nutrition.
An even more impressive, and tragic, story at over 270 meters depth, in one of the worlds deepest sinkholes:

http://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead
I don't think you understand what censorship is.
Perhaps writers should put this trend into the Netflix hit show "Orange is the New Black" to get to wider audiences.
This, in a nutshell, was why I was so ecstatic about the $20/month membership at Powerhouse Gym (with a $150 sign up fee) downtown Redwood City, CA. Perfect location, not one, but two squat racks that were rarely used. Shoulder press rack. They didn't get on your case if you dropped your deadlift and smack chalk all over the place, and had towel service and really decent showers.

I didn't realize, until I visited many, many other cities - that finding a gym that you can do your squats/deadlift/shoulder press three times a week for $20, is pretty much unheard of.

I sometimes even see it advertised for $17 (presumably with a slightly higher sign up fee) - This is really clever - if you've already invested, say, $200, and you have this pretty cool downtown gym, and it's only $17/month - why on earth would you ever cancel...
You could do the same in Ruby!
I read your blog and it seems that you have something similar to my case, at least as technologies are concerned. I also have my business logic in Python and one of my ideas is PyQt (or Qml through pyotherside).

How are you shipping the application to users without Qt or Python installed? Are you using something like cx_freeze?
I kind of hate articles like this. They feed into the myth that single event cause revolutionary changes in the way the world works, when it reality its thousands of evolutionary events that cause change.

I'm not trying to belittle recent advances in genomics, on the contrary I believe that cheap sequencing and technologies like CRISPR are going to change the world. However, its the insinuation that the last 20+ years of hard work were a fraud that upsets me. We wouldn't be were we are now without the last 20 years of genomics research. /rant
That video cuts off right before Brabeck states his own view. Thanks for proving my point that his quote is often taken out of context. Here's a longer one

https://youtu.be/7iGj4GpAbTM?t=192

He states that he thinks it would be better to give water a price so that we are aware of its value, and take specific measures to provide access to water to people who can't afford it. Not the worst idea ever to fight water waste.
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But a corporation can be smarter than any individual can possibly be.

They have far more information and far more time than any individual to put into manipulating the transaction.

Of course consumers are going to be stupid, it's not their fault they don't have a team of people running around with them performing in depth analysis of every purchase decision they make.

This isn't about evil corporations (although I suspect the world is actually evil (circumcision)), this is about an imbalance of power.
It is the same as drugs and over eating.

Stimulus creates dopamine and serotonin.

The difference is on my phone I can be stimulated by sounds, lights, and emotions. Drugs may modify emotions, but they dont plant them like media does.

Like TV I can VERY RAPIDLY switch topics or inputs, like video games it is always interactive and responding to my command, and like human conversation it can be social and participatory. It is a trifecta of control, conversation, and variety, that I can't get elsewhere. Bored? Instead of resorting to antidepressents to make boredom copable, I can stimulate myself out of the drudgery of modern life. Is this a new form of the same unhealthy behaviors I mentioned at the beginning?

I dont think social media should be singled out, unless we agree it is a bunk term. Flipping through imgur mindlessly is the same as flipping through instagram. Facebook isnt all that different than google news/feedly.

You say you are purging your social media accounts, but you here on hacker news, indulging in social conversation. Potato tomato. Gotta get your fix somewhere.
> before he started daycare was pink

Pink used to be considered a masculine color in England (a boy color) in the 1800's.
Machines as simple as thermostats can be said to have beliefs, and having beliefs seems to be a characteristic of most machines capable of problem solving performance.

John McCarthy : Ascribing Mental Qualities to Machines, 1979

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ascribing/ascribing.html
$1000 is a drop in the bucket of a normal hospital bill or lifelong drug prescription for advanced/debilitating/catastrophic diseases.

Edit: I realize it's a small part, but it's the first step, and it's already relatively inexpensive, which is a good sign.
> If you want to look at a userspace CSPRNG done right (or what I believe to be one done right) just take a look at BoringSSL's[1].

BoringSSL just uses /dev/urandom directly. It's not a userspace CSPRNG. And as you pointed out, for GNU/Linux systems, it's slow. This is why userspace designs, such as CTR_DRBG, HMAC_DRBG, and Hash_DRBG exist- so you can have a fast userspace CSPRNG with backtracking resistance.

Case in point. On my laptop:

$ pv < /dev/urandom > /dev/null

1.02GB 0:01:20 [13.3MB/s] [ < => ]

$ openssl enc -aes-128-ctr -pass pass:"sHgEOKTB8bo/52eDszkHow==" -nosalt < /dev/zero | pv > /dev/null

2.13GiB 0:00:11 [ 198MiB/s] [ <=> ]

And on a server with AES-NI:

$ pv < /dev/urandom > /dev/null

2.19GiB 0:01:06 [ 20MiB/s] [ <=> ]

$ openssl enc -aes-128-ctr -pass pass:"sHgEOKTB8bo/52eDszkHow==" -nosalt < /dev/zero | pv > /dev/null

31.9GB 0:00:34 [ 953MB/s] [ < => ]

I've seen other hardware with AES-NI that can go north of 2 GiBps, as I already mentioned. Although not backtracking resistant, those are fast userspace CSPRNGs, that are clean in design.

I've designed userspace CSPRNGs that adhere to the NIST SP 800-90A standards. They're seeded from /dev/urandom on every call, and perform much better than relying on /dev/urandom directly. I won't say they're bug free, but if you read and follow the standard (http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90A/SP800-90A...), it's not too terribly difficult to get correct, and PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and other interpreted languages can outperform the kernelspace CSPRNG.
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This sounds a lot like why horse mares will eat the placenta from their foals after giving birth. Foals are born able to run, but they're nowhere near as strong as a mature horse.
Our desktop app Pinegrow Web Editor (http://pinegrow.com) is build with HTML / JS / Node.js packaged with NWJS/Electron. Three years ago I started by myself, now we're three working on the app full time and making a comfortable living (mid six figures in yearly sales).

Choosing this tech stack lets you postpone web vs desktop app decision and keep both options open. While recurring web app revenue sounds appealing it requires servers and responsibility to secure user data. With desktop app you'll never receive a 3am call that your service is down.

Btw. Subscriptions and desktop apps are not mutually exclusive. We give both options (one-time license purchase or monthly subscription) to our customers and the split is about even.
> One more thing if you insist: look at the OSX desktop market too because the dynamics of the end user consumption are different from Windows.

Definitely, even more as I develop primarily on a Mac.. Thanks!
Let's say we stopped exclusive licensing for government funded research. Then, when commercialized, drugs would be available from multiple competing sources. Or the IP could be set free, for generics manufacturers to pick up.

Maximizing rent-seeking doesn't seem like the wisest course of action.
This happened to me in the U.S. (Virginia), not long ago. Google maps tried to have me drive straight through a river. It may technically be true that the road crosses the river, but the crossing is impossible for most vehicles unless the river is VERY low. Reported this issue to the Google Maps team months ago, but it's still there...
https://www.google.com/maps/place/37%C2%B029'34.7%22N+79%C2%...
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The foods that Nestle sells are unprecedented in history, they are engineered to be much more palatable than normal whole foods. It's not surprising that people have a hard time eating them moderately.
I've played this and recommend it.

I've also found another recently created game [1], Secret Hitler, which seems to be heavily based on Mafia, except in this case the informed minority / bad guys are Hitler and the Nazi party. It looks really good. Designer Max Temkin (whose Kickstarter account owns the linked page) apparently worked on Cards Against Humanity. I haven't personally tried Secret Hitler.

[1] Warning: Possibly NSFW link due to Hitler / Nazi references. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/secret-hitler...
Guess you missed the part where I generalized it to "Society". But sure.
Stellaris releases on May 9th at 18:00 GMT
Probably the most anticipated space strategy game since the second Master of Orion back in 1996.

"If conquering space is your thing, you might want to check out Stellaris from the same team that brought you the Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings series. Players start on their home world with the discovery of faster-than-light travel.

With this newfound technology, you can explore the procedurally generated galaxy to find new planets to inhabit, more resources and more importantly, new races. It’s up to you whether you keep the peace with your new friends or wage war to increase your slice of the galaxy pie, but you also have to manage your domestic affairs to ensure your empire is prosperous for as long as possible."
No, not usually.
It seems everybody is. It's hard to deny the trend away from national identity and closer to a cultural identity, at least in europe.

Global citizen means person without (a national) culture (other than consumer culture maybe). But culture is a human need. Ideally, we should live in a world where free movement allows us to choose the culture that fits us best, and stick with it. In this world, only a few strong cultures would survive.
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Perl 5.24 changelog
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10820445
129 days ago with 1122 upvotes
Maybe I'm thinking about this incorrectly but Google's use of the Java APIs seem to me to be the quintessential case of fair-use for interoperability. It's not like Android is shipped with a JDK and is constantly exercising the Java API internally on Android; they are only used so that I can write a Java algorithm on my desktop and use the source code to generate Dalvik bytecode that does something roughly similar to what the Java bytecode would do. The Java APIs are just a means to an end. The surface area of the copyright infringement is limited to the desktop Android build tools which convert Java sourcecode and some bytecode into Dalvik, i.e., interoperability. Now, that is only one-way interoperability so maybe that is enough to sway the matter away from fair-use.
There's something rather unsettling about the realization that Jehova's Witnesses had a point about something once..
If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN".

Show HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
...extra tax for high-sugar products?
Or they are exhausted from working all hours because the banks create credit from thin air to maximize rent extraction and lack the willpower to argue with their children every shopping trip.

I have kids, it's a constant battle even though we have no TV and I'm fortunate enough to have enough time to educate them. I'm constantly fighting with a whole room of people who are disgusting scumbags with access to millions of advertising spend.
Should "Social Media" be considered part of the OSI model?

Seems like it's another layer to _feed_ people's brains with information.

802.3 | IP | TCP | Social-Media | Screen | Brain

This model could explain the popularity of feed-based apps, and these are primarily for entertainment.