skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's quite difficult.

There are some ads that there only for brand building. Not sure if we want to see them. Let's count them out because they are not for things we want to buy right now ("buy" a product could be "vote" for a candidate, etc.)

We're left with ads for items we didn't know and we discover we want to buy. Or for items we know and the ad remembers we want to buy them. We follow the link and buy them. The problem is: how many things of that kind are we buying every day right now? One, maybe not even one. So this leaves us with a handful or ads to be served to us per week or per month, with the assumption of an omniscient ad server that knows what we will buy. We're still not there. Luckily, I'd say.

Then there is the malware thing: they don't care to send us ads we want to consume, they just send as many ads as they can to maximize the infection rate.
LCV = Lifetime Customer Value?

CAC = Customer Acquisition Cost?
I think any media provider out there would prefer a subscription model - it's just so much simpler. Unfortunately people just aren't paying for it as much as they need to.
Not updating is what most apps currently do in this case.

The author's concern is that they (and many other developers) ship apps in zips, have many users download them, and run them from ~/Downloads/ or wherever their browser downloaded the app to. Only in 10.12, this practice will prevent most 3rd party apps from being able to update themselves.

The author wants an info.plist key (plus perhaps app signing) to opt-out of translocation and say that they are competent enough. Before thinking that this "defeats" the point, people may miss that Apple is fine with opting out provided you code sign and package a dmg.

The author and many others also don't like dmgs, however, and find that they confuse many users. What the author is concerned about does indeed affect a lot of apps.
Even as late as the Amiga you got stuff like that. To this day you can probably find a PPC based accelerator for all models.

I guess the close to the metal, with little to no memory protection barriers, made these kinds of things easy to implement.

That said, some early GPUs were somewhat similar.

The 3DFX cards used pass through VGA cabling. And i personally owned a PowerVR card that wrote rendered frames back to the graphics card over the PCI buss.
Typically the speed of light in copper/fibre is about 2/3rds of lights speed in a vacuum

Does light travel through copper?
I agree it's a very good idea. This would also promote more local ads than big commercial ads.

At the end, I know they need to get money but ads don't serve any purpose. I mean I never buy product from ad, I have only things that suite what I have search 10 minute ago. Why putting ads for that? I already know the product and this will never push me to buy something.
Peter Thiel is a cofounder of Palantir. He is also on the board of directors of Facebook.
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Ah, so the play in Braavos depicting recent events in Kings Landing is a Mise en abyme homage to Shakespeares Hamlet.

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Based on the paucity of information I gather was collected in the purchase process, I doubt Tlön itself could produce such a record.
Programming language development: the past 5 years (2011)
Indian media sites lost 100M page views already due to change in FB's news feed
This library uses two-way data binding like angular, vue.js and many others. Two-way data binding libraries/frameworks are easier to use on small websites, but don't scale well to large single page applications.
People with no necessary loyalty to a currency are dangerous.
Could Musk et al's satellite Internet plans [1] ever compete with terrestrial Internet?

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/elon-musk-admits-satellite-...
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This^100.

It's interesting that facebook got it initially right, and NEVER implemented 'who's viewed your profile/picture' - as they know that this (possibility of others seeing our actions) would greatly reduce our actions/viewing (us fearing it being visible).

WHILE now, they're not getting it right and publish our actions (likes/comments) like a mad spammer.

It looks like they crossed the border while playing with our curiosity what-others-do, but forgotten that this means, that our actions need to be revealed to others also which will make us reluctant the moment we understand implications.

Snow ball effect to come?
Both light (air, fiber) and electricity (copper) lead to a propagating electromagnetic field.
Just ran a speed test on my phone and received 25.2 Mbps down. That is nearly 4x the maximum 3G is normally sold at. There is a good comparison of providers here: http://www.rootmetrics.com/uk/blog/special-reports/4g-in-the...
3000 miles is still a relevant clue if the target users continental location isn't already known. Additionally even in this very weak form it provides useful data for anti-fraud metrics. For example by payment processors like Paypal that may use [total latency minus ping latency] to feed a metric indicating possible proxy use.

But I also assumed an investigative organization that took the idea further would use the latency information with a map of latencies between major internet exchanges. This would increase accuracy and usefulness, though still the entire idea only works to provide indefinite clues
Two-way data binding.
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now alias [my id] [my domain].com ⏎
> [my domain].com is a custom domain.
> Verifying the DNS settings for [my domain].com (see https://zeit.world for help)
> Detected zeit.world nameservers! Configuring records.
> Error! Custom domains are only enabled for premium accounts. Please upgrade at https://zeit.co/account.
If you want to try tackling Ulysses again, I have two recommendations:

First, Frank Delaney is doing a wonderful podcast, "Re: Joyce"[1], unpacking the novel in short segments. The original episodes cover just a few sentences each; lately the format has expanded to a whole page, in the hope that he'll finish before 2040! Currently, he's just started in on "Scylla and Charybdis", the ninth chapter. His enthusiasm for Joyce and Ulysses is deep and delightful.

Second, in 1982, the Irish radio station RTE produced an essentially unabridged dramatic reading of the novel. Besides being a terrific way to experience the book, it nicely counters one of the major difficulties for newcomers to Ulysses: Distinguishing dialog and internal monologue from narration, and deciding who, exactly, is saying what! It's available for free on archive.org[2].

[1] http://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/

[2] https://archive.org/details/Ulysses-Audiobook
They said they merged hashcat and oclhashcat.

Sorry for the noob question, but is there any reason why they didn't also merge it with cudahashcat?
Your computer is insecure. Mine too. Even if we applied every single patch from your OS vendor and application vendors we're left with the undisclosed vulnerabilities sold by black hats to malware writers. The ad blocker is a prevention system to limit the exposure of out computers to attacks.

There isn't a list of sites serving ads that carry malware so we have to block everybody, sorry for them all. If there were a blacklist of notorious malware carriers, much like the one for spammers, we could use it to mount a blockade. Maybe it's really the right thing to do. I'm afraid it will include most of the news sites.
Hmm I think you've missed my point (or perhaps my point was poorly stated).

The point is that serving up sidebar/header/pop-up ads is no longer effective because these forms of advertising are intrusive and subject to blocking.

What seems to be effective is the "sponsored content" or "native advertising" model whereby ads are served in a form that mimics desirable content. The crucial point here is that the advertisement is useful and relevant to the consumer, and so is not interpreted as an interruption or distraction. Moreover, these ads don't tend to carry malware because they're media produced by the media company in question, often hosted on the same domain.

This is a model that presently works. My point is that ad-blockers block obsolete ads, whose monetization is increasingly malware-driven, precisely because the content is no longer relevant to consumers.
The only value I see in Twitter is identity. I don't use Google Plus because it's not my identity. If they buy Twitter, import all my tweets as Google Plus posts, keep my identity and not the useless Google Plus username, make my tweet URLs redirect to Google Plus, then I will gladly start using Google Plus at last! Right now, I'm not using either, because Twitter is useless in 2016, and Google Plus is not my identity. If they merge, then I'll gladly start using Google Plus with my @identity as +identity has lost.
I thought they were planning on making it universal.
I don't want to pay for everything.

I already shell out over $50 a month for various subscriptions. For my less common websites, I'd rather "pay" by viewing ads. (And I refuse to just steal the content. If the ads are too much, then don't use the site. IMO you don't get to choose if you pay for something based on how much you like it...)

And the people on HN and reddit that announce to the world that ads shouldn't exist and anything that uses ads is a terrible thing seem crazy to me.

I'm a happy ad viewer. It keeps the content free and the creators paid. If you asked people whether they want to pay for something or view ads, the answer will be ads in the vast majority of cases.

And dispite all the talk of malware in ads, I've never seen it. I'm sure it exists, but until I begin to see it in my own experience or hear from friends and family about it, I'm going to keep enjoying ads as a monetization method.
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Once a company is big enough it's easy to destroy or buy out all competition.

Can you provide one single example of this having happened? I'm willing to believe it, I just haven't found one. Typical examples provided fall short of that claim.
But then tracking and targeting is not possible.
No, deleting system files was only disabled on the user interface. You could still do it with a bat script or the windows api.

They also got rid of deltree, which is the Windows equivalent of rm -rf, and was abused in a similar way.
Unfortunately, quoting the relevant parts of a study (namely, methods and results) for the purpose of disseminating evidence is a weak fair use case at best.

That's why generally in a work you'll see "reproduced with permission" underneath figures and tables taken from other works.

The case for fair use is stronger if the work is criticism of the source material. It's a huge gray area, and some journals pursue claims relentlessly.
> The latter can be betrayed or degraded even while the former is preserved.

Yes, just like a constitution. System architecture (political or otherwise) can not save mankind from the failings (of a subset) of itself.
Is this the best summary of the time value of money? How can we improve it?
For a French person, it is very difficult to see the value of the link here.
Reading commit messages from Chrome's support[1][2][3] for win32k system call disable mitigation (aka win32k lockdown) on Windows (specifically for PPAPI plugins) I think Flash, at least in Chrome, loads fonts from the browser. Which would mean it gets passed through OTS. I think all processes now share a common font cache on Chrome or at the very least they share code related to handling fonts.

Just looking at the fact that Flash still works with win32k lockdown enabled (meaning it can't use any GDI system calls) is probably enough evidence on its own (maybe). I don't know how other browsers handle font handling with Flash.

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=523278

[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=523278...

[3] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=523278...
And the digital output microphones :)
> It's just impossible to "bid" on traffic via Facebook and win out over companies that have far bigger budgets

Not my experience at all. Also, have you seen their hyper-local ad-targeting options? As in, draw circles around neighborhoods, then choose "parents" who are interested in "children's clothing"?

You can easily reach thousands of people with a $5/day budget. They'll even provide the stock photography for free.
> threatened to go nuclear and change the proof-of-work protocol,

No miner with any significant amount of hash power would install such a release.
So maybe there could be 3rd party company to check such things. Also ads could be sold at auction. I.e. auction for 24h display of ad in header from $1 on some news site.
That, and the ability to conceal my birthday from everyone, would go some way towards persuading me to use it.
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Some of the 5.25' floppy drives for the 8-bit Atari [1] had the Z80 CPU and it was possible to run the CP/M on it. The Atari was serving as a terminal for its own disk drive.

[1] http://www.retrobits.net/atari/indus.shtml
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GreyOrange (http://www.greyorange.com) is a well funded startup solving the exact problem.
Apple Patents Tech That Could Prevent You from Filming/Photographing at Concerts
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If you're in typical corporate IT, driving a Ferrari in LA traffic is an understatement. I'm baffled by the mass incompetence I see on a daily basis. Changes that should take 15 minutes to implement take two or three weeks of dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying. Fiddle-fucking around abounds. You treasure those occasions that you get to deal with a marginally competent US/UK/EU IT person, rather than a person from elsewhere who has 0 authority, independent thinking, and more often than not is an outsourced contractor with no official status and less real knowledge.
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A dollar more (vs. a dollar less) or Lyft vs. Uber
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More accurate title: why you shouldn't share any private links on Facebook.
The 10% weaker GBP helped.
The link between language and cognition is a red herring
This is probably the scariest patent I have seen in a while. Anyone with the right equipment can prevent someone else from recording them.

That includes concerts. But also police overstepping boundaries, mafiosi, riot controllers, etc...

My suggestion is to never buy a phone that has this 'feature'.
Awesome. If I'd have the money, I'd fund every project of yours for the rest of your life.
Does it work against Deep Packet Inspection? I live in China, most popular VPN protocols can't pass through the great firewall.

Sorry for my English.
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Spotless is weird, so I don't know if I should trust my eyes, but I too have doubts about these images being shot in the same way.
Ok, I got it now. Sponsored content has been done on the web, explicitly or not. I agree that it is less annoying than ads. It probably doesn't scale as well because it must be customized for every site. Current ads are the same for everybody.
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Festicket raises $6.3M to further grow its marketplace for music festivals
Sorry, but no. Creative destruction is the end state of capitalism as has been proven time and time again. There are no examples of monopolies lasting more than a few years unless they have overt support from the state.

Large governments cause monopolies to happen. You said the same thing. Business co-opting a government to creat a monopoly is only possible when the large government exists. You could argue that water and dirt don't cause trees to grow, but without either there is no tree. The language definition is immaterial.

Increases in government size can only occur by taking over parts of the economy into state monopolies. The ultimate large government is a totalitarian communist government, which has a monopoly on everything.

The ultimate cure for monopoly behaviour is a smaller government and more competition by avoiding regulations that favour larger operations over smaller ones.
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> This person is Vitalik Buterin, right?

That address is Gavin Wood, who is not even part of the foundation.

> I get the impression that Etherium is really Vitalik Buterin, and the other names are window dressing. Is that correct?

No. There are a lot of other people involved in the branch, but Vitalik is the most known by far outside the community.
That is 10 years overdue and the main reason I closed my account years ago. It was like looking at a sponsored gawker newsfeed.

Today people do not even mention it anymore. Wether i meet new people or when i connect with old friends. Facebook disappeared from my life as quickly as it came in.

Do HN people still use Facebook?
If Urbit fails to become as easy to run as an iPhone, Urbit fails. That's an explicit design goal. It seems improbable, but who knows?

I don't have a Facebook account, but my understanding is that it supports app integrations, and that connected apps have access to the account information you choose to share with them. Why wouldn't this work for Urbit? And why, in theory, wouldn't Urbit be able to support a distributed Facebook in the same way that GNU social supports a distributed Twitter?

The concerning part would seem to me to be how you cope with a situation where you have some people hosting their stuff on their urbits, and others still on Facebook; I don't see a solution here that does not require technical cooperation from Facebook, which as you rightly note will not likely be forthcoming.

As I know to my cost, people stick to Facebook because Facebook owns their social lives, so people aren't going to risk trying to emancipate themselves from Facebook unless they can do so without maybe losing all their friends. No one at Tlön has articulated anything like a clear solution to this problem, and I think it would be a very good idea if they did, because it will kill them if they don't watch out.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but what makes you different from someone that walks out of cabs without paying because "cab drivers are dangerous and it's inconvenient to have to pay after i'm at my location"?
Quite interesting, I ended up just staring at the timer and moving the mouse to the other side of the screen for the first version. And side to side for the 3rd
I've had good results with LZJB[1] (designed by Jeff Bonwick for ZFS) in embedded scenarios, perhaps at least worth testing for you?

I even have some public code for it, there's Python module [2] that will adequately address your wish for mediocre offline-friendly performance (heh) and a streaming C decompression library [3].

The runtime memory usage for the decompressor are tiny (which is good, since from my perspective your system sounds huge!) so that should be fine at least.

Very interested in any feedback you might have, of course.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZJB
[2] https://github.com/unwind/python-lzjb
[3] https://github.com/unwind/lzjb-stream
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> Brotli's fastest compression is slightly faster than zstd's.

Come on, this is not serious.

Brotli's fastest compression algorithm is still significantly slower than zstd. And more importantly, it compresses _much worse_.

For a 3rd party evaluation, one can try [TurboBench](https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench) or even [lzbench](https://github.com/inikep/lzbench) which are open-sourced. Squash introduces a wrapper layer with distortions which makes it less reliable, and more complex to use and install, quite a pity given the graphical presentation is very good.
I'm interested in speed, and in this area, all benchmarks point in the same direction : for a given speed budget, Zstandard offers better ratio (and decompresses much faster).
> But he, and every other core developer, should have explicitly disclosed this before any discussion of a soft/hard fork.

Isn't it a bit ironic to ask for disclosure, when one of the main reasons for cryptocurrencies to exist is their pseudonymity?

Kind of like a libertarian asking the police to investigate one of her bodyguard mercenaries.
I used to develop applications in COBOL for CP/M microcomputers, then Dataflex and then, for a short time, Turbo Pascal. Some customers ran inventory and accounts receivable applications off floppy disks. Lots of manual data entry too.
The tech stars folks think team is most important: https://www.codementor.io/startups/tutorial/investors-look-s...
Random site idea.

Could there be a version of Patreon, where not the author themself but instead the fans start the pledges. The author could choose to take the money or not, and could prove their identity by putting their bitcoin address in a <meta> tag on their website.

So we could create a project on the site say "support sound camera posts from ribbonfarm.com" and money would be gathered for it, then when a new qualifying post would be made the site owner would be contacted "hey, you have $500 waiting for you, put this meta tag in your <head> to accept it".

This way modest authors wouldn't need to think "am I good enough for Patreon?" and people could support them. People could provide wallet addresses to which the money would be returned if not accepted.
Still missing: any kind of technical protocol spec for 5G. It is still just a mad scramble to claim the name.
The problem is that you prioritize your work over others' work. Being blocked is not an excuse to treat people poorly, so whenever it happens, just focus on another task until you can continue. Use that blocked time to learn something new, make progress on something else or review your work.
If you were 16, it was an apprenticeship, not internship, right?
Alternatively, if you buy one, also buy a IR filter. This seems easy to defeat, as there's no way the software will require some IR signal to be present to operate.
I don't buy this hype about so much demand and applications. Why ?

1. It won't really reduce costs. Why? Because 3-5ghz 5G offer similar spectrum efficiency to current methods while on the other hand mmWave(20+ghz), which do offer tons of spectrum, don't penetrate building, and attenuate rapidly in air, so you'll need more base stations.

2. Users have shown they aren't willing to pay more wireless. And for most things consumers do like VR and 360 video etc, wifi is fine and cheaper.

3.There are other good methods for the internet of things, and 5G is too late for that anyway.

So that leaves the realistic use cases as cars(but isn't it too early? ). and maybe VR(although we're very far from appealing VR services which users will pay $60+/month for, and we probably need for wifi confined AR to be a thing first ).

And on top of that the question remains - could we improve 4G enough, without needing to deploy all new hardware?
The Mt Louis Solar oven has been used for quite a few interesting projects, one of the most interesting that I recall was the disposal of certain extremely toxic chemicals at very high temperatures.

I built a 10' parabolic concentrator out of an old K-band satellite dish by laminating it with mylar and that - even though quite small - was the scariest thing I ever built.

It's only a few square meters but in full sun and with the focal point about 2-2.5 square centimeters you had to be extremely careful.
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