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There's a huge difference between being skeptical and being self-deprecating. By all means one should play devil's advocate to their own impulses, but without practicing self-awareness, it's exceptionally difficult to come up with useful criticism of one's own thoughts and to unravel the complex interplay between thoughts, behaviours, and emotions. Because of this, many people give themselves poor/irrelevant feedback and form habits of thought that cause the same kind of negative self-evaluation to recur.

In addition, it's common for people to feel a sense of threat from their own negative thoughts, and the sympathetic nervous system doesn't very effectively differentiate psychological threats from physical. Subsequently, attacking oneself can lead to fight-or-flight response, which can cause a cascade of changes throughout the body, including the brain, which can manifest as cognitive biases, for instance attentional bias towards negative stimuli or interpreting ambiguous stimuli to be negative.

Hopefully you can see how the combination of these effects could create a negative feedback loop, causing typically rational skeptic to veer off into unfounded, inconsistent thoughts blaming oneself and generating further negative emotion.

So ultimately, I'd agree with you 100%, there's a line to be drawn. The unfortunate thing is that it's very fuzzy from within one's own mind to discern where that line should be drawn, and negative feedback loops can set up instability that overshoots that line, even when meaning well. For individuals with this kind of pathological negative self-examination, framing things positively can have a huge impact on how they are actually perceived and acted upon. And for people struggling with depression/anxiety, it can make a world of difference in outcome to simply reframe a thought like: "I should have worked harder on that work deadline. Now everyone hates me because I missed it and I'm going to get fired." as "I'll feel better about my work and my relationships with colleagues if I give myself extra time and raise concerns early about deadlines."

At the same time, an excess of positive thinking can absolutely create it's own share of psychological effects and reactionary feedback loops. For example, in bipolar disorder we see a grandiosity of thought and excess of confidence that leads to underestimating risks and inflated expectations, which collide with reality (often disastrously) leading to a large down swing in emotion, and the resulting post-manic depression.
Requesting ads doesn't have to be on pageload.

Advertisers may want to track everything, but that doesn't mean you have to. If everyone is doing it, you can differentiate by saying NO.

As a marketer my problem never was "I don't have enough data", but it always was "I don't have enough traffic". Give me quality traffic and I'll hand you my money.

As a publisher THAT's what I want to offer. Quality traffic, without all the bullshit.

Maybe that gets me 10% of the revenue that all scummy 'best practices' get me, but I think it will work out great in the long run.

I only need an ad network to facilitate this, without having to set it up myself.
Thanks for sharing this. May I ask, did anyone tried to talk to the management about the long term effects of this?

Long term = people will eventually learn to avoid your site because BBC feels much more responsive.
When I first started programming UNIX I thought SIGIO made sense as a good mechanism for I/O multiplexing. I thought this because of much previous experience with interrupt handlers in the embedded world. However at the time, it just did not work (no sigsuspend) and even today it's a big mess. SIGIO should just be removed- it's the wrong way to handle I/O in UNIX.
Look up the situation in California with referendums. More direct democracy is not always wine and roses.
> No it's not. In case of device only a small bunch of things break. For gtk+ everything breaks without a fix.

That's because about every other year they have the equivalent of a major ABI break (and they you target explicitly the newer version or stay locked to the old version) and the platform ships both.

This is semantically what we will be providing.
Only because CA stupidly outlawed itself (via Prop 13) from paying for education the normal way (property taxes).
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Years ago, I used HFSX on my machine but I don't remember that iTunes broke because of that. A lot of other things broke though.
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People don't have to click on ads for them to be useful. You can't click on a billboard.
Same course, but this link goes to the course overview page:
https://www.edx.org/course/artificial-intelligence-uc-berkel...

Your link took me to an internal page.
That's why you encrypt sensitive stuff before saving it on dropbox.
You can store the user info in the JWT so you don't need to hit the database to get user info every time. I usually just store an id in each issued token and store/remove it from redis or memory as needed for invalidating it.
It seems silly to create a new exchange when all it does is require companies to agree to specific business practices.

The list of requirements could simply be a set of rules, and a company's auditors (and CEO) could sign off that the company is in compliance. I don't see what the LTSE offers that goes beyond that.
As long as you're learning, failure is good. Better off work than on. Are you really going to fire yourself? :-)

I appreciate your sharing the story.
As I understand it, there's a similar scheme in Oregon's vote-by-mail mechanism. You can buy someone's mail-in ballot, vote the way you want, and have them sign and submit it.
Agreed. It's infeasible to (legally) connect this type of system to the internet, at least in the US. FCC Part 97 also prohibits commercial transmissions, which would conceivably include advertisements, so you couldn't use this page to view any web page that contains ads. There goes most of the internet.

That said, I don't think this was ever intended to connect directly to the internet in this manner.
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"Supporting filesystems in persistent memory" (2014)

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Not currently. Lack of ideas/inspiration/perspiration.

It'd be nice to have a few on the side making enough to support hobbies though.
I'm pretty sure? I do know what I'm talking about here. Sorry. HttpOnly is a joke.
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I thought MS cloud is doing fine in comparison to Google -- MS is second while Google is third. However, I totally agree with you on others. Particularly, Apple with its closed culture. How many researchers Apple can hire AI researchers while the researchers are so high in demand. The researchers can go to other companies, whom are more open and let the researchers publish their work.
no one listens to the radio.
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99% of the money comes from the newsletter sponsorships. Newsletter sponsorships generally can earn wayyyy more than website ads. Incase you're interested in more details, the newsletter has ~10,000 subscribers (~50% daily, ~50% weekly) and the site gets about 30k uniques a month.
This is literally what HaloAds (HaloAds.com) aims to fix. We have been irritated with the state of online advertising for long enough now.

We are looking for people to try it out once it launches. Show your interest at https://HaloAds.com
Against a defenseless country looking to surrender that couldn't retaliate. Will be a bit different if it initiates nuclear war against Russia or China.
Interesting. Do you have any articles to point to explaining the strategy? If not, I can go digging myself now with direction.

Thanks!
Isn't a stock buyback more or less equivalent to paying a dividend? I.e. a way of returning a portion of company assets to the company's investors.
Thanks for your insight.

Maybe I'm naive but how are these ads of any value to the advertiser? - nobody wants them, everybody ignores them. How can ads that surely almost exclusively receive accidental clicks be so worthwhile for publishers like you?
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What? How would that work? Why would you log to a string? Log to a file, or a network, or a pipe.
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Regarding your first point, that exact sentiment was addressed in the article under the heading "The future is drones and submarines" (whose thesis is obvious). Selected quoting from there:

The supercarrier requires an exponential and compounding set of very expensive investments. The total acquisition cost of a carrier strike group exceeds $25 billion, an air wing another $10 billion and the annual operating costs of perhaps $1 billion.

...

"Yet, a cruise missile fired from a wide range of lower signature ships costs less than a third of each bomb delivered by a fighter from the deck of a carrier. Nor do these platforms require a carrier’s defensive shield — and they can launch from beyond the range of carrier-based aircraft.

...

A similar shift is occurring now and will displace the modern equivalent of the dashing cavalry officer — the fighter pilot. The knight class never passes willingly — as they take justifiable pride in their acumen and truly believe in their mission. However, the carrier and its air wing cannot be allowed to drive strategy or procurement.

As an outsider, it's hard for me to fully assess these arguments (including from the paragraphs I elided). But they sound rather convincing.
IG Index has bitcoin as an instrument. The spreads are terrible though so I wouldn't recommend it. If it was easier to short DAO tokens I'd think about it.
Thank you for this. For years, I've been going into Settings -> Sound to change output and input settings - this is so much easier!
How do you expect journalists to pay their rent in this utopia?
That is a useful distinction to make, but as in all programming tasks, profiling will get you further than intuition when tuning for performance.
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Also if anyone is wondering why the costs are so high, the main expenses are CloudFront (huge HUGE gifs) and Mailchimp. I'm sure I could reduce the costs to $50-100ish a month, but laziness.
One of the problems there, is Google has locked this down.

Chrome and Firefox warn users if they visit "deceptive websites", and disallow it. It's touted as part of their "safe browsing feature".

What it means in practice though, is that if you use another ad network, and that ad network has an advert that Google dislike, they will block your website on Chrome,Firefox and Safari also uses it now I believe. They won't just block the advert, they will block your whole website. Getting unblocked takes ages, and is a complete pain, because google will not tell you which advert it objects to.

So it's not a simple case of "Use other networks", because Google have thought about that, and locked it down. It's a big risk to use another ad network, because Google might just decide to block your website.

The fact that Google now controls what websites users are allowed to visit, should ring alarm bells with everyone. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be reported on.
Smart people think that being smart is the most important character trait (frankly it's not in the top 5) and coders think code is the most important thing. Meanwhile artists, musicians, photographers and writers continue to be marginalized and mined by technologists and tech/media companies for big ad dollars but little cultural benefit.

I always felt torn between the various open source sects, but Creative Commons always felt right, more inclusive and opt-in, and somehow more important. Perhaps that's my artistic bias. Or maybe I just saw the future while everyone was worried about open source PDF viewers and reverse-engineering the latest half-broken audio/video codec.

It's the music, the photos, the papers, the art that matters. I abhor the word "content" but by all means lump in "data" if that helps move things forward.

https://creativecommons.org/about/history/
Here's what most people that are not from the US don't understand:

When I go to vote on election day, I'm not voting for one person/party or even three people/parties. The typical ballot in my neck of the woods is double sided and has ~30 questions: National elections (President, HoR rep, maybe senator), state elections (Governor, SoS, local rep/senator, corporation commission, referendums/ballot initiatives), county elections (sheriff, judges), city elections (mayor, city council, dog catcher), and funding questions (bond overrides and the like). I'm probably forgetting an item or 10 on that list.
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While you wait for a response, maybe you can expand on why you think it would mean that.
> Guerrilla warfare lasts as long as the people involved want it to last, conventional wars are decided in time periods measured in hours.

How do you know that? The only conventional war I know of that was decided in hours was the Six-day war and that was because Israel inflicted a surprise attack on Egypt. Not saying you are wrong, just curious why you think so since the US hasn't been facing an equal adversary in war since WWII.
This is why we still use high yellow/green CFLs per so many red/blue LEDs. It's not all about getting those high peak spectrum binned LEDs for each type and concentration of chlorophyll.
You can pay them a small amount to promote your course, but they will do so for free if they find it a useful project, I think.
North American culture has a tendency to redefine all criticism, external or internal, as 'negativity' -- to the point that, from my observation, organizations will a) fail without realizing it b) fail unnecessarily due to inability to deal with criticism c) define unrealistic goals on the assumption that "I think I can" will get them there.

I think this is worse in California than other places, and infects Silicon Vally the worst.

I think it leads to a 'shotgun approach' where if enough people "try try try" then yes some do succeed spectacularly while everyone else around them crashes and burns. But for people who just want to get things done properly, being on the hurtling train of "YES WE CAN" is frustrating.

Growing up with an immigrant European (German) father, I have a hard time shutting off the critical voice, and it has led to lots of culture conflict for me within workplaces.

I think there is definitely a distinction to be made within oneself between needless and mean negativity and critique, but I think the crucial point is that when the latter is repeatedly ignored, it leads to the former.
I wander what's special about Sublime Text, compared to other fast (i.e. not electron/js based monsters) editors? There are many fast, native editors, sharewares or freewares. One feature that comes to mind - ST targeted TextMate userbase by out of the box supporting its add-ons. What else?
Yes, for instance, Prop 13. Though it sounds good to voters, the actual results are terrible.
for the second option there are limitless use cases :)
You're misremembering. The first iPods did mount as a disk for general file storage. They weren't locked into iTunes either... they supported MP3, AAC, and several other formats.
You've poked and prodded the parent commenter, but he has provided more discussion than you have. What is your issue with his suggestion? What are your qualifications to have issue with his suggestion?
They will have to solve it by next year, because Chrome will stop activating Flash by default.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/15/11679394/chrome-to-block-f...
Australia had open source voting machines in 2003

http://www.wired.com/2003/11/aussies-do-it-right-e-voting/

If we can bank online we can vote online, not that hard. Not perfect, but better than paper voting, that's full of bugs
I'm no expert but I believe the clickthroughs are measured in tiny fractions. It is quite possible you don't know anyone who clicks on them on purpose, but that doesn't mean few enough people do it to not make money.
Maybe representative democracy is broken (there are reams of good texts written about it).

OTOH direct democracy may be not as broken, since the effects of voting are much more immediate and local. See Switzerland that constantly keeps voting against populist measures like lowering the retirement age. It lasted ~850 years so far, longer than almost all European states and 100% of American states.

Switzerland is compact, but even then it's a pretty loose union, a confederation with important laws significantly varying between its many cantons. This system is more or less imaginable in the US with a more restricted federal government (despite the size that was the rationale for the current multi-step representation system), and hardly even imaginable in highly centralized states like France.
Oh yes, absolutely.

As a marketer my problem never was "I don't have enough data", but it always was "I don't have enough traffic". Just give me quality traffic and I'll hand you my money.

I don't need all bells and whistles as it makes it far too hard (and expensive) to set up a campaign for a small SMB.

As for the clients, they only want to know the results and maybe a list of sites where their ads were shown.
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I agree that advertising at the moment is an anti-feature, but it is at least theoretically possible that an advert could be of benefit to a user.

If advertising were to reach the quality and targettedness that they were telling you about things you genuinely wanted, it would be a useful service. Kind of like advertising as a recommendation engine. That would be quite people centric.

I don't think we will get there though.
Taking a photo of your ballot paper is a criminal offence (at least where I am) and one which can only be committed at a specific physical location and time. In other words, it's a crime with a very low payoff (an individual vote can't be worth very much money), and a relatively high risk of detection.

The risk of getting caught taking a screenie in the security of your own home with no pollwatchers and election officials around is much, much, lower.
Agreed. In 100 years people will look back at how basic our democracy had become. One choice from a selection of two, every 4 years. This dissociation with current issues is dangerous.

As democracy develops and citizens start to participate, we become more responsible for our decisions.
From what I can tell, commit 6125cf9 is the best version for you.

https://github.com/nanch/sublime-phpfmt/tree/6125cf9058c0666...
Nothing I've said is uncivil. Why does it feel like that to you? Do you often imagine things in other people's words that isn't implied by the words themselves?
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How can I provide you a good quality traffic without having those stats?

I am classifying publishers based on those stats and also requesting money from you again based on those stats.

You can not differentiate by saying not, because there is no such an option like NO!
Those ads (in the first link) are almost certainly a breach of the AdSense placement policies.
CPM does that (cost per 1000 views as opposed to pay-per-click).

The quality score is quality from Google's point of view. If I put in things that help me qualify my leads (and get fewer people clicking and discovering that they don't want it), my quality score goes down. (The best way to do that, by the way, is to put in a price. Then the people who are just doing research tend to not click it. But you get penalized for that.)

They are throwing no intelligence at it. I have an entire site set up around study skills. My quality score for "study skills?" 1/10.
I was surprised to hear this -- my understanding was that encryption was illegal in all cases (at least in the US). A quick googling found this, which sheds a good bit of light on the matter: http://www.amateurradio.com/encryption-is-already-legal-its-...
If you read my post history, I'm a constant dissident in the "let's ban all web ads" movement exactly because I think they act as a redistribution mechanism from wealthier societies to poorer ones.

That said, if you're running a hobby site that only targets people from a poor country, the money has to come from them anyway, be it from ads or from donations. In that particular situation, why would ads bring more money than donations compared to sites targeting people from richer countries?
IIRC it takes around a week to pre-compute the style model.
You're appealing to a need for safety, but where you draw the line is arbitrary. I am only demonstrating that, following the same logic you are using, I draw the line somewhere else which results in a completely different, though absurd, outcome. What is the principle which makes where you drew the line correct and where I drew the line incorrect?

You also suggest that because transporting these materials in an unsafe manner is illegal and punishable by a fine, that that is somehow a bigger deterrent to businesses than the threat of a lawsuit. How so, and why is the illegality of it supposed to be a bigger deterrent than a lawsuit?
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Thus, adblockers. Maybe we need something like Adblock Plus at the publisher level which lets through the "good" ads and blocks the abusive ones? Something tells me that publishers don't really care enough to go that far though.
Incidentally, your (The Guardian) android app is very slow to load, it's annoying enough that I uninstalled it.
Is this a direct rip off of Sentry Breadcrumbs??? http://blog.getsentry.com/2016/05/04/breadcrumbs.html
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Not OP either...

I am a fan of city games and tried to mod SC4 with official sanction of EA (more on that later).

Currently I like SC4 much more than C:S, for two reasons:

1. When properly fixed, SC4 is a much better simulator and challenging game than C:S

2. I like SC4 graphics more too, C:S graphics resemble cities that I never saw in my country, they are too bright, spacious, saturated and "happy" and "calm", it is nothing like São Paulo for example, so C:S to me is too uncanny-valleyish, too "Alien" to me.

Still, sometimes I wonder if I should go ahead and make the SC4 successor I want, I was trying to fix SC4 to make it run properly on new computers and finish some features, but it required stuff that go against the EULA, so I asked EA about it (the asking part took months... very hard to ask EA!), and when they finally replied it was along the lines: "Oh, yes, X, Y, and Z are broken, X is driver's fault, we will work with hardware makers, Y is serious, we will THINK about fixing it." then no mention of Z, or much less "W" that I told them about.

I understand their position, and think the open-sourcing of EASTL in a way was a great step, still I feel very disappointed they miss the mark about such stuff.
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That is a totally fair point and one I didn't consider.

The alternative for SMB's would be to have good SEO and recognition. But that is built over time, it's difficult to get the initial burst of people needed initially otherwise. There's still YC's mantra, doing something people want and letting those people spread the word, but that's just one more way (and probably shouldn't be the only one).
If you look at my listening history, Untitled is by far my favorite track. That's because every interlude on one album is untitled so I end up listening to it like 5 times every time I listen to the album. Never mind the track number, though, it doesn't look at it.