skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 92% of my traffic was bots

Well, yes, with a monthly total of just 125 users the bot traffic is significant. For bigger sites it's more of a pesky nuisance than a major issue.

With that said, it's certainly useful to have a GA filter that prevents script hijacking by filtering out data from 3rd-party hostnames.
Recently joined Canonical through this exact process. After checking every once in a while for a year or so a position in Australia opened up and I jumped on it.
Not who you replied to, but still an avid fan of both games.

C:S feels a little shallow compared SC4 at times. It's not very challenging at all, but the draw to SC-like games has always been the creating, not the challenge. I usually use the unlimited money mod to just build my city how I please. In terms of mods and stuff, I actually think C:S is the clear winner. If not for the large variety of mods, maps, buildings, etc. then for the centralized location of them. While there are a few "one stop shops" for SC4 mods, they're not nearly as effortless to use as the Steam workshop is.

My biggest issue with C:S is how half-assed the DLC seems to be. A night mode is neat, but when it's next to impossible to build during it and the simulation effects of that night mode are non-existent, you're left wondering why the hell you paid money for it. The DLC opens a few new possibilities to modders, but I don't like that the burden for interesting things is put solely on the modding community.
Hiding things at plain sight (steganography)
Can you give any resources, which influenced your thinking in this context?
Because the user is forwarded to a website that can be changed.
Suppose you vote wrong for some national socialist who will destroy the economy and kill the muslims. How much will you, personally, lose? I.e., multiply your actual losses by the probability of your vote affecting the outcome.

Now compare that number to the 1 Euro worth of tribal satisfaction/self righteousness/other positive feels you get from voting for that national socialist.

In contrast, consider a true "wisdom of crowds" situation. When I hold irrational views about share prices, the stock market immediately takes my money and gives it to people with rational views. Bad decisions result in immediate losses in direct proportion to how bad the decisions are.
Both, in fact. Add to this we wanted the system to work reliably at very low volumes in noisy surrounds, and it was a very interesting challenge.

If you'd like to know more, we have trial SDKs you can goof around with. Feel free to give the technology a spin.
You only say that because Apple didn’t update the look of its skeumorphic icons. And because you are so used to the white backgrounds that shine in your face: Go here and tell me which screenshot looks better: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54bb4cfce4b045585ada36...

The answer is obvious.

Now go here and tell me which row looks better:
http://www.elischiff.com/blog/2015/4/7/fall-of-the-designer-...

Many would say the first row, with the darker stitched background. It doesn’t shine in your face. The icons are all beautiful and not clown-like, plus the background is darker and easier to look at, just like on Android.

But the worst part is the usability nightmare slowing down users and weighing them down with cognitive baggage in every app because of the removal of essential affordances. And I’m saying this according to Apple’s own guidelines for 30+ years based on actual human usability guidelines:
http://cheerfulsw.com/2015/destroying-apples-legacy/
Wow, if it is illegal then it won't happen.

They should make killing also illegal.
It reminds me a app called chirp which allowed data transfer via sound from phone to phone.
I think you mean to say that the three new Ford class carriers will cost in the neighborhood of $30 billion each. See [0], specifically page 19, 'Cost Summary - CVN 78'. In FY 2000 dollars, a total of $27.725 billion (thousand million) has been spent on the CVN 78. This includes, research, design, testing, evaluation, and salaries for contractors. This does not include the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS, the replacement for the steam catapults found on other US carriers) or the Advanced Arresting Gear (a replacement for the Mark 7 arresting gear).

CVN 78 (USS Gerald R. Ford) is on track to be about $40 billion. The SAR is optimistic in saying that cost savings will be seen on CVN 79 and CVN 80 due to knowledge gained during the construction of CVN 78.

Also it is not correct to say that there has been 1 trillion spent on the F-35 program because spent is past tense. There has not been 1 trillion spent. Rather, according to the latest Selected Acquisition Report, the costs to date (including funding allocations for some production lots still to be made) is about $81 billion (See page 29, 'PB 2017 Total - Prior' figures. Another ~$18 billion has been spent on the development and procurement of the F-135 engine. Another $6 billion or so was spent on the now-cancelled F-136 engine.

What will be in the neighborhood of $1 trillion is the estimated total lifetime cost of the F-35 at program completion (when the F-35 is retired and all aircraft have been decommissioned and disposed of in some way).

[0]: CVN 78 Selected Acquisition Report: http://www.dod.gov/pubs/foi/Reading_Room/Selected_Acquisitio...

[1]: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Selected Acquisition Report: https://fas.org/man/eprint/F35-sar-2016.pdf
Could be, but my passion lies elsewhere so if anyone would like to give it a go, be my guest.
Sweet Volvo 240.
Furthermore I don't believe that fraud is being stopped now. I have paid google for a lot of meaningless clicks on their search network (people come to a page for a second or two). Not just a few- but the bulk of the clicks are like that.

And don't get me started on mobile.

That's why I'm staying away from ppc and am advertising with CPM. My spidey-sense tells me it hasn't been as thoroughly gamed yet.
Yeah, democracy can suck when you disagree with the majority opinion...
There is a bit of antiquated rules, but yeah most of them have their reasons. The whole point behind it amateur radio is to promote technology and communications, as well as provide an emergency backbone and fallback that the government doesn't have to fund, or really upkeep (since most of ham radio relies on self regulation and reporting).

Allowing encrypted comms would essentially destroy one of the primary tenets of amateur radio, inter-operability without massive coordination.

Now this doesn't mean you can't have security over the air. Just not really privacy. Nothing states you can't use modern crypto to generate signing keys and sign your message (not exactly feasible for voice, but digital yes) using asymmetric keys and common message authentication techniques.

There's some modern digital modes and messaging systems developing, but the lack of privacy and sometimes the nature of the common demographic within ham radio (non-pc savvy users, oddly) prevent the growth on new tech.
The Great Python Cheese Shop
'i recieve a b+ and cried'

the author will break down in the real world.
This math is incorrect. Look at the wikipedia article percentages - each one is a percentage of the preceding one, not of the total light hitting (if you add up the percentages, they sum to way more than 100%). The 24% figure is 24% of 30% of 47%, or about 3% in actuality. 40% efficient solar panels also do not exist as far as I know (and are impossible) - I think the user is confusing other forms of solar energy collection with photovoltaics. See my other answer below for a better breakdown.
On my desktop the fan literally starts winding up for takeoff when I hit one of these pages. Taken across all the users how much electricity is just being wasted by these things?

Perhaps there should be a running "hall of shame" listing of the most egregious offending pages. Sure it's not their fault directly but these days few organizations want to be associated with the useless wasting of energy.
One thing that makes me happy about the Mosh approach is that they got lawyers (SFLC, specifically) to advise on exactly how to phrase it.
"In theory, theory and practice are the same..."
Oh great
Happiness Equation: How other People's fortunes affect our happiness
They really emphasized that this is done on the device, too! Definitely cognizant of the growing hesitation (amongst the crowd in attendance) towards what data corporations have on users.
Does it include telemetry calls?
it's not found now =/
Yeah, I'd imagine the founding fathers would see today's voting populace as quite educated, relative to theirs...
Exactly, so it is at least as secure against coercion as current methods.
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At the Guardian we needed our own video player, because we couldn't rely on a third party platform not to take down something that we published. Editorial independence was important.

We implemented our player on top of video.js, and most of the developers who were there at the time still have nightmares about it.

We finally got the thing working, looking good, embeddable, reasonably cross-browser. We shipped it. A few days later, we get a curious email from some ad provider. "It looks like your VPAID ads have stopped running!"

Oops. We'd naively believed we could live without Flash (I take full responsibility for this stupidity). The sales folks pointed to a big gap between our old projected revenue and our new projected revenue. So we went and did the work[0], hating every minute of it.

The underinvestment in ad-tech by publishers and the cancerous ecosystem of vendors that have grown up around it is one of biggest collective mistakes made by an industry.

I am optimistic that this problem can be solved, and we are actively looking at this at my current employer. We sell direct, usually without a ton of intermediaries. Talk to me if you want to know more.

Incidentally, if you want to know if a publisher is going to survive the next five years, a decent proxy is the number of intermediaries involved in their ad supply chain.

[0] https://github.com/guardian/video-js-vpaid
You missed the point alright. The article wants you to write down & analyze your negative thoughts, instead of just looping them in your head. It's not about "think positive instead" at all.
Can you explain the concern over this maybe not being maintained any more? My perspective (for reference) is that it meets your requirements for a project or it does not. Some of my favorite libraries haven't been updated in over a decade. They are in C, though, and I recognize that this removes a lot of worries about environmental churn someone might natively have if they come from (say) Javascript.
You mean like, the cops, FBI, or TSA take your iphone, put it close to your laptop, and then have access to everything, probably including your encrypted hard drive?

Yeah, I'd say that's a pretty bad idea.
Do you have a link where I can read more? I'm aware of light concentrators being more efficient, but that defeats the whole point since the surface area required is far more than size of the panel itself.
> IPFS, or InterPlanetary File System, is a distributed file storage system that aims to replace HTTP. Both the Internet Archive and Neocities serve web content with IPFS.

Can someone explain to someone less smart (i.e. me) why IPFS and HTTP are mutually exclusive, as the above description seems to suggest?
That was 'anything' as opposed to 'nothing', not 'anything' as in 'everything'.

Rereading it I see how it can be read the other way.
Diesels are used only when the ship recharges batteries. When the sub is underwater, they can run very silently and be completely silent when they stop.

Nuclear subs generate noise and vibration from the steam turbines, pipes etc. that can't be completely eliminated.
I can't find a search box to check if my company is listed. Do I really have to load more until I pull the entire database and then use browser search?
Maybe what we need isn't an ad network, but a service that makes it easy for sites to self-host ads. Like some sort of gateway- I'm thinking adapter pattern- so that advertisers build their ads to a certain spec, and the web site plugs them in. The ad isn't served by a third party, just spec'd by it. We'd also need a plug-and-play payment pattern.
Microsoft and Apple Double Down
I wonder how APFS compares to IPFS. https://ipfs.io/
The hard part, for me, is that if I have 20 tabs open, I don't know which ad is killing my bandwidth and performance. In fact, it might be all of them combined.
I like to think I'm at least partially genius ;) - I had no idea about CBT or any of the steps mentioned in the article but I had developed a very similar process process mostly on my own.

The first step is to keep awareness of your thoughts and feelings. Next is to remove partiality towards thoughts - you learn to take every thought as is and you learn to not have feelings towards the negative ones. That is you realize that you're partial to negativity - for some it's an excuse or explanation, for others it is deeply engrossed beliefs in certain ideas. Whatever it is you have to realize that you're more gullible to some type of thoughts than others.

Next is evaluating the impact of the thoughts on your real actual life in terms of steps you can take. Often times there isn't anything you can do about those thoughts and you drop'em like hot coal. Sometimes you find you can do things differently or avoid certain circumstances to not let those thoughts recur. Some other times it's a longer term thing. Point is to map thoughts to concrete actions and drop the ones that cause you negativity but have no action possible to counter. In yet another words drop the madness and keep the actions.

Rest is practice - you'll initially fail but so long as you notice it it'll get better the next time. You can also use distraction initially if your thoughts are too overwhelming.

It's a slow process especially for adults but it works!
Fair point, but that's not really helpful in this particular situation since plants can't use heat as an energy source. We're only concerned with the % of input power that is converted into the specific wavelengths we actually want (400-700nm).
LEARN TO FORGIVE
You can also open the HLS streams with VLC
It's snobbish that I do not think that women are a lesser species, and find the very idea repulsive?

I think your argument is nothing more than a quip, and not a very good one at that.
One aspect of their decision to run with Metal that surprises me, is that they decided the cost of developing and maintaining an API of that level of complexity was worth it. I'd like to know what they were thinking.
> Linux, FreeBSD, Docker, Mesos, Hadoop, Clang, LLVM, Java, Eclipse, and C++.

Sounds like some zealots should keep that list handy, so they can keep their pristine paws far from anything that Microsoft touches.
Carriers are great against Iraq and Libya. Against Russia or China they might well be useless.
Against an able opponent, there are only two kinds of ships.
Submarines and targets!
http://www.johntreed.net/sittingducks.html
Another company going to do what they don't have any clue how to do. Google+, Bing, ... Seems like we now have 4-5 companies copying each other in a silly way all the time. Apple/MS simply can't do cloud properly whereas Google barely keeps with Amazon, Amazon's AI is horrible comparing to Google, Apple is copying MS' surface and design (!), Google+ can't do Facebook at all, Facebook can't do ads properly, MS can't do search... Looks wonderful for Apple's AI.
Perhaps it is likely that the legal system takes assault, harassment and other criminal charges, more serious than litigation?
If you want to be truly disruptive, you could build an ad network that doesn't require you to pay for bounces. An improved version of Google's quality score (read: one that works) would also improve the quality of the network as a whole.
> Sure, $6 billion looks like a lot of money. But it's a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the Carrier Battle Group. You need a lot of ships to properly protect a carrier

That doesn't make the carrier less expensive, it makes it more expensive.

> If Russia or China decides to target our carriers, the response will have nuclear components.

Are you suggesting that the US will initiate nuclear war?
The black-and-white Mac version looks so good - I wish I could play that. I got as far as downloading an old ROM image but can't quite get it in a format that 'Mini vMac' will accept :-(
> Well, there isn't much use for a navy in a land war with Russia anyway.

Read Tom Clancy's 1980s novel Red Storm Rising, which seemed pretty realistic to me. (Former U.S. Navy carrier officer here.)
Unless the result is contested you have saved an amount of counting effort which could be a cost saving. Though I suspect it would take some time for the ROI of implementing such a system to work out positive.
US plans intervention in EU vs. Facebook case caused by NSA snooping
My Android has forced updates. I have to put my phone in airplane mode before each reboot and kill the process to prevent it. Chrome has forced updates. A lot of things have forced updates these days, and nobody bats an eye about it. Microsoft does it, everyone loses their minds.

And 'forced' is a stretch anyways, how to block it is well documented, and was months in advance. And you can revert, something Google and others will not let you do.
Nintype has a button like that.
If you feel bad about this, you should at least be able to report and to have access to a process that describe how your data are used.
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I don't have coeliac disease but I do feel unwell if I eat gluten, consider it a fad if you want but I am just happy that I can go back to doing competitive sport.
Did you evaluate ReactJS too? If so, what are your suggestions?
> Most people are social creatures (including most programmers I've met), if asked they will tell you they like to share a room with several others.

I think this is actually false, both anecdotally and when surveys have been collected.

No one actually thinks you're not a team player just for desiring minimally healthy conditions. They are fully aware that you are probably a great team player, especially if you care about your teammates getting healthy conditions too.

The "not a team player" buzzword is just a political tactic to find a plausible excuse to discredit or eliminate you, despite you having a justified point, before it ends up catching on with colleagues. It's an HR code word for "we need a blank check excuse to impose our will while thinly veiling our dictatorial approach with some democratic plausible deniability" -- nothing more, nothing less.

Coworkers also will rarely care -- they want privacy too! As for managers making you feel greedy, that's just more of these psychological manipulations and tricks. They know full well your request is healthy and reasonable, but need a way to both look like they are high status and reject it at the same time, so they must invent ways to make your request look low status.
Yes, they can at some point in the flow unambiguously tie a specific vote to a voter. Postponing the "separation" to after the paper ballots have been cast is then a simple trick. How it works is they encrypt the vote (using assymetric encryption), and then sign that datapackage with the private key on your ID card.

Once the votes need to be counted, the signature is removed, and all the resulting encrypted vote data is then sent (without identifying information) to a third server which has the private key to decrypt the votes. They are decrypted and then counted. This third server has no access to identifying information. The server stripping votes from identifying information has no access to the decrypted data.
5 things to check when your website traffic drops
Getting started with OpenGL in Elixir
Supercavitating torpedos won't be affected.
Study says presidential candidate media coverage was unbalanced early and often
How much have you spent in the past year on advertising?

If the answer is none or not much, you may see the problem with this analysis, as it has as much bearing on what the market will provide as my opinion on what I would like to see in woman's grooming products.
In this case, it's the BMD component of the Aegis system. SM-6 is specifically designed for this mission.
The Lighthill Report
Well I have not managed any big website so am really unsure :) . For individuals and small medium businesses removing bot traffic is important as they can be siginficant.
If you don't trust a publisher, there's no reason to whitelist it anyway. Dealing with any business entity always involves some amount of trust: a trust that your order will be fulfilled, your card details won't be misused, your news stories are real, milk from a local market is not spoiled etc. A business that abuses this trust doesn't stay long.
Yes each station would require a call sign. At least in the US, all call signs are publicly discoverable and the records include the physical address of the station.

There is, by law, no form of privacy about where the station is located, nor any of the communications by amateur radio.
Do you know for certain that they are MITM'ing +ALL+ traffic? Some firms have domain-based exceptions for certain sites (e.g. wellsfargo.com).
The single biggest moral problem with capitalism is that it relies too much on price to transmit information. If your decision to buy something comes down to evaluating its value to you, comparing that with the price, and purchasing it if it is both more valuable to you than the price and relatively better than the alternatives, then you're not acting morally.

Inputs to products, like slavery, child labour, undemocratic governments right through to irresponsible use of antibiotics, are all obscured under this basis. In order to get pricing to have an impact on how products are made and inputs are chosen, the consumer needs to be informed. But the need for the consumer to be informed is in direct opposition to the interests of the producer: the producer wants to remove reasons for the consumer to reject the product. And this runs right along the supply chain to raw materials.

If the consumer doesn't have information on how something is produced, and no alternatives are available with more information, how can they make their purchasing decision affect the whole supply chain?

And let's not forget how pleasant it is to be unknowingly complicit in illegal or immoral actions that benefit you by price; what you don't know doesn't make you feel guilty. You got the product cheaply, do you really want to know why it was so cheap? Consumer psychology is part of the problem too: relying solely on pricing for information lets people get away with murder, indirectly.

Thus I think mandatory labelling throughout the supply chain is absolutely vital for moral capitalism. People need to know to what extent their purchasing decisions are indirectly funding oppression and harm elsewhere.
> but I don't think that precludes migrating tools that have proved themselves into a language if the trade-off is clearly a good one, or at least a good one for a subset of problems

Sure.

> A good way to find pitfalls, develop best practices and idioms, and find the pain points of the language is to use it to reimplement a well known, mature, stable project and see how it turns out.

Sure. I said that if the goal is to experiment with Rust, then rewriting some old code is a good exercise. But if the goal is to improve the quality of ~50MLOC, there are cheaper, less risky approaches.
Can you use your smartphone for personal use? I don't use work computers for things I want private because I don't want my credit card #, passwords, etc. on them.

Browsing HN on my lunch break though? No problem.
This describes a network infrastructure of amateur radio stations linked by microwaves. The slides describes the equipment required and the procedures required to join this network.