skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, there's good history of this to back his assertion. Ad networks have frequently had exploit kits dropped on them.

Not only that but the ad networks also get all your details which makes Internet advertising quite unlike other advertising.

If the ad networks have no "ethics" I see no reason to feel an ethical obligation back. Sucks for content providers, yeah, but if they have to die to get rid of the sketchy ad networks so be it.

I'd be willing to whitelist ad networks which were sandboxed and could only show me straight up images proxied through the first party site. Anything more than that and I'll show some control of my own hardware and block it. Ultimately, it's my hardware, if it does anything I don't like, I have a right to fix it.
I know how much I am paid, how much some of my coworkers are paid, how much my company pays new grads, and what the average salary on Glassdoor is for my company. The average is lower than what new grads got in 2016.

On top of the incorrect base salary, the information on bonuses/equity is extremely limited. The average that is listed is also incorrect.
Ok, so it seems nobody else is mentioning one of the big things that shocked me from the article: the claim that shipping, for the company that runs Saks Fifth Avenue, is more expensive than retail.

What? How on earth is a ridiculously high end Fifth Avenue retail location staffed with models and lots of hired security cheaper than shipping? Their Fifth Avenue location in particular is literally stuffed with expensive glass chandeliers. It's an ENORMOUS property on Fifth Avenue in NYC, the most expensive street in the world; one of their stores alone is worth four billion dollars. If you think "enormous" doesn't merit all caps, its shoe department has its own zip code. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-retail-usa-shoes-idUSN2435...
Ask HN: Just how advanced is military tech?
I can't imagine I would ever in hell get the chance to see first hand the type of stuff that gets done behind the scenes (which is probably kind of cool, I think) which is why I am here asking the type of people who probably are around it.

or even a better question. What type of tech would we see without politics involved?
The number of fanboys who buy on day one just to get the new shiny is not that interesting. It's how many people weigh up the value for money compared to similar machines on the market that really tell you what's going on.

Maybe people will continue to shell out and all other laptop prices will also go up. Maybe they won't. Time will tell.
I can say the same thing about you. All founders have this absurd sense of entitlement, that they alone deserve the bulk of reward, despite the fact that most of the work is done by other people.
that is a lazy false equivalence that shows that you probably didnt read the article. the central thesis seems to be that given the wider array of news sources, our biases towards reinforcing what we already believed are further enabled. maybe you could address that instead of saying that "corporate owned newspapers" are distorting. of course every news source has a bias. the point is that there are more now, so its easier to build a more complete echo chamber.
Yup. When you have a revolving door of people who want to work for you (often, despite your interview process), you're probably gonna be fine no matter what.

That said, folks at Google are putting a ton of effort and resources into diversity initiatives. But not at the expense of revamping the current process.
A couple months ago I put together a Docker image for just this. It's based on dnsmasq and Steven Black's hosts list, and it automatically updates the list daily: https://github.com/schmich/purify

I run it on a cheap Digital Ocean machine, and my home router is setup to forward all DNS traffic to it. Any connected clients, phones included, automatically get the blocking capability.
overcast is correct. "Special Forces", in the context of US military units, refers specifically to the Army's Green Berets.

"Special Operations" is an umbrella term describing the high-trained, unconventional soldiers who serve in all branches of our military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Forces_(United_States_...
So would it then be okay by your logic to load the ad in the background and just hide it from the page like muting a radio ad? Old school Adblock used to do this in the early days.
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It seems as though the authors are confusing Boltzmann's H-theorem and its cousins expressed in more complicated formalisms with the Second law of thermodynamics. That's a very common misconception, often resulting in announces of apparently great discoveries, while the sober account would be more akin to "we derived a theorem where this special expression, similar to Boltzmann's H-function, does not behave as one would expect based on the H-theorem, which in turn is proven to be valid only for a simplified model of ideal gas in special condition." Not so interesting. Second law is an experimental law that concerns macroscopic systems. So far, this law was not shown to be violated based on any broadly accepted theory.
NIST Publishes New Guide: “DNS-Based Email Security” about DANE and DNSSEC
That they create a blog post for that rather than easily discovered UI elements (hover?!), says a lot about LinkedIn as a company.
It is amazing that a review in Ars recommends—even for a subset of users—getting a refurb last-gen model. But I give them credit for making this honest assessment.

Just yesterday I was thinking that when I upgrade from my current laptop (the recently-discontinued 11" MBA), it will likely be to a used 13" MBP. If money and dongles were no object, I'd take the plunge on a new one. (But cost is a consideration for me, and dongles is a consideration for everyone!)
yeah prop 13 was a fucking trainwreck
Hm - I think Karaoke is a chance to express yourself with the help of a ready-made backing track. Together with the reverb of the mic and an audience of friendlies, karaoke is your best singing self, not a self-compromise.
4K footage of being inside the international space station
"Lower Screen" in "Lower screen resolution" refers to the main display's lower resolution vs the Surface's "Higher screen resolution" noted in the left column.
"They are willingly serving up a page to my computer for free."

No they are not. They are willing to serve you pages with ads. Not pages without ads.

The logic that you guys use is pretty twisted.

These companies exist because of ads.

No ads = they don't exist = no content.

In the long run:

A) They will find a way around it in which case you will see ads.

or B) They will all be about of business, in which case you get no content.

Nothing is free, everything takes time and energy from someone else.

"is also none of their damn business" obviously it's 'their business'. It is literally their business :)

My bet is that companies just find a way around ad-blocking.

It'll be interesting to see just how.
They offer the content for free, I choose not to show the ads that come with it on my machine. It's not up to me to make sure their business model works.
It's surprising how many websites (mis)handle internationalized phone numbers, or insist on an area code when there is none.
One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that I see recruiters getting resumes from places like LinkedIn and cold-calling those people, based on experience and keywords in their resumes. And if those people don't need to bother with cover letters, maybe no one really cares.

People might also think that since companies are still crying about the shortage of programmers it's still a "renter's market" and that enough employers are desperate enough to not squabble over missing cover letters.

But I still have no great theory about why people wouldn't have at least a single paragraph about themselves that they paste into emails to make them seem slightly more personal.
Hacker Discovers Vulnerability in Gmail That Allowed Hijacking of Any Email ID
People will never stop complaining about look and feel. It's such a crap, it doesn't matter. How much clothes do you own? Computers are tools to do work and consume information, they don't exist for you to make a statement about your aesthetics opinions.
I really wish they wouldn't.

A good portion of what KIO and GVFS do should be done at a lower level. Instead we get this weird situation where I can "see" a file in KWrite, but I can't see it the shell or in a non-KIO-enabled program.
> they killed it before the technology really had a chance to catch up to the vision

Nah! Google wave would be a massive failure even today. Google simply does not understand other people. Why on earth was Google Wave "invites based" ? Imagine Slack being invite based do you think it would have worked ?

If Google Wave was an enterprise produce Google should have marketed it that way. They did not. I did not even understand WTF it was in first place.

I dont want my boss to see the reply I am drafting for heavens sake. It was like they built id to show how good engieers they were.
2 cont.) and because ads are noisy, invasive, garish, and distracting.

Let's not solve this by figuring out how to circumvent ad blockers.

One idea I've been toying with is a system where I can pay the content creator directly. Good article? Have a nickel. Funny YT video? Here is a dime. Skip the middle man. Patreon does something like this, but we need a system that is anonymous, scalable to the whole internet, and above all, easy to use.
Did you hear the part about the Windows subsystem for Linux? Microsoft heard you. So now you get a really solid desktop experience plus your UNIX command line.
"Controlling what my own mechanical device does with the information it receives from other people's machines.
Even if the internet had no ads and no tracking code and no malware anywhere whatsoever, there would still be a need for the technology to block and change the way in which my computer handles the things sent to it by other computers before showing them to me. "

This is not true at all.

You see ads all the time in apps you have on your mobile device (i.e. non browser) - and there is nothing you can do about it. Is the world freaking out over the consumers ability to 'control which ads come up in a specific app'? Not really.
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"underspecification has lead to a proliferation of interoperability problems and ambiguities."

So TJSON has a perfect spec and everyone, now and forever, will interpret it perfectly?
This does have mobile apps: https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads

That would have been a huge omission.
Please don't shoot drive-by political comments into threads like this, that's not what this site is for.
How RimWorld's Code Defines Strict Gender Roles
The Slack desktop app works pretty much the same way - native wrapper around an HTML UI that is almost identical to their web UI. (I think they may use the platform's native webview though, not Electron).

It has its pros & cons... one nice thing is that if you use the desktop app most of the time, using the web UI on the go doesn't feel like much of an adjustment. It has basically the full power of the desktop app because it's the same UI code.
So your house price went from EUR10000 (optimistic) to EUR 500000 (actual price 8 years ago , nowadays ~40% cheaper). You're still property-rich. why are you complaining?
Would you feel better if the example were a "hot guy"? Or do you think the nerds should have been happy to do homework without compensation?
Sure it can. How do you prove that you didn't say something?
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> I don’t see the value you could get from an Air in 2012 or 2013 anywhere on that list.

This sums it up for me. Apple simply doesn't have any product in their Macbook line that I consider to deliver even remotely acceptable value for money right now. It's unfortunate.
The problem with your argument is criminals get caught on "routine" violations all the time.

http://listverse.com/2013/07/15/10-criminals-caught-thanks-t...

The other problem is someone dressed and equipped like a fully armed infantryman showing up in a mall...gets noticed. You can't stealthily carry a ton of cartridges AND have them easily accessible. You'll have to put them in a backpack or the like, changing the equation.

Yes, if they play things perfectly, you will lose every time. The reality is, most of these guys are pretty average and make numerous mistakes. The guys who play it out perfectly never get caught regardless of the law. That isn't an argument we should make murder legal.

I'm not going to respond further.
I agree that as a matter of policy, perhaps media organizations and Wikileaks shouldn't be held to the same standards as governments.

But that's not a distinction that Assange makes in his rhetoric, and I'm doubtful it's one he will make in practice either. Would Wikileaks really hold off on publishing if it came across a damaging leak about a news organization?

I feel Assange and his supporters do a great disservice to the public debate by oversimplifying things. Sometimes secrets are necessary for the proper functioning of our governments.
Whoa very cool! Happy to see a new, free phone OS. I'm currently switching to Replicant and moving away from the Apple/Google controlled phone world.
I mean... there's definitely a market for the x220, and it's parts. Take a look on Amazon.
Subsidiarity.

Subdsidiarity is the principle that decisions should be made locally as much as possible. In government it's what we call "federalism": most decisions are made by individuals; those that cannot are made by local government answerable to the people; those that cannot be made locally may be made by the county or state; only those very few decisions that cannot be made by states are the purview of the federal government. The US was supposed to operate this way. It hasn't since before World War I.

Why is subsidiarity connected to rational decision making? Simply, because the world is too complex for any one person or group to understand, model, predict, and control it. Most decisions can be made best by the individuals concerned, who have the relevant knowledge. This also reduces the cognitive burden on everyone else. Since higher authorities have few powers, their impacts are minimal. Citizens who do not have the time or information to follow those high level decisions may rationally ignore and trust the system, because it has little impact on them. Those who do have the inclination to pay attention to politics can make a fair evaluation of their leaders because the leaders are only involved in a few things.

One of the reasons you see people acting in such an emotional and heuristic way, nowadays, is that the central governments and even transnational organizations are at the same time manifestly incompetent and incredibly impactful. All citizens must be concerned with who wins the federal offices, because the federal government seizes half of every dollar they earn, and imposes itself into every intimate choice they make. So no one can afford to ignore it. At the same time, government is so complex and makes so many decisions that no citizen has the time or information to study it thoroughly. So what can a rational person do? They must seek shortcuts, such as finding trusted personalities to follow, or making judgments based on rules of thumb, slogans, and so forth.

In sum, because rational choice is only possible when we have the time and the information needed to make choices, neither the citizen nor the central authority can make rational choices in a centralized superstate. Decentralizing decision making spreads the work out to more minds, and places less burden on each individual.
I know there will be a lot of heat on me fro HN users about ads but here goes anyway:

Ads are pretty bad right now but the reality is that the internet without ads would not be a useful internet. Half of the tools and the things you use all of the time could not exist without ad revenue.

The reverse of this is that Ad Blockers are much worse than the ads. They have become the Mafia of the internet!

Did you know that as a company looking to bypass adblockers you can pay ad blockers to whitelist you? That is extortion money! Google and Facebook pay. The little guys looking to aquire customers now have to pay for the ads by impression and when their ads are blocked have zero chance of showing.

I know you may not care but we are heading down to an internet where the ads are now becoming content and we are basically reading nothing but junk. The junk went from one section of the page to now being the page. Advertising has existed as long as media has and as such will never go away. There is advertising on pay to view channels like cable, companies want to sell to you and they wont just disappear.

Lets stop this, lets get rid of the ad blockers and lets force the advertising companies to be responsible with their technology, not drain our batteries, not sell our personal info and we will have a much better internet.
> When analysed as an interactive application Oberon makes me think the most Acme, then Emacs.

Rob Pike borrowed the UI/UX of Acme from Oberon: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme/acme.html

IMO the Oberon/Acme text-based command approach suffers all of the problems of Unix shells, which are caused by lack of type information. Symbolics Genera's Dynamic Windows used the mouse in a similar way to Oberon but with actions guided by type information, concepts which can be found today in the Common Lisp Interface Manager (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Interface_Manager). There are Emacs modes like SLIME that do similar things and are widely used.
Is there a good terminal application with TABS for Win 10?
> However, these rituals have almost always been spiritual in nature, with the goal seemingly transcendence

Do not generalize your Judeo-Christian experience to the totality of human religion. There are plenty of cultures/traditions that take a very bodily approach to spiritual development.
> Unless you had the actual, initial idea, no future team (doesnt matter time) is going to be considered a cofounder. Meaningful equity and terms wont be given out after that standing.

I see your angle with this, but I've personally seen Co-Founder thrown about as a perk in exchange for lowered compensation when the company is still fresh enough. A person who could add value might be offered to come in as a VP with substantial comp and equity but trades a good chunk of that comp away to be called a Co-Founder instead.

It kindasorta betrays the idea of what a founder is, but somewhat like how time is meaningless by your example, so too can be titles.

> Incoming employees need to realize that -- equity++ means nothing; most should request a reasonable salary.

Yup. Unless you've worked for Palantir. Then your shares are worth their weight in magical fairy dust.
There's a nice (pretty inclusive to beginners I might add) community for mac VMs on other OSes, but I've tried using such VMs for the past 4 years and each year I've had worse results.

* Is it usable for dev work -> yes
* Is it like using a mac -> no

Usually When I'm on windows, I generally just run a Ubuntu VM and live inside it.

That is not something you can generally do on an OSX VM.

(just to add, my opinions based on my experience - your milage may wary)
Shipped with Dell but wifi not working? I don't buy it.
"Audio logos" - that's a fascinating concept I've never really thought about. Any recommended reading about that field?
Your store scenario isn't true at all! It does not cost about twice as much to get two boxes of cereal into a store as one box. The same shipping economies are in play here. It actually costs less per box to get it into a store because they will bring in a pallet at a time. The real cost is the fact that you have a building and all of its costs with employees and all of their costs, etc. Shipping anything to Alaska is more expensive that to New York whether it is one box of cereal or a pallet. The difference is that the price for a box of cereal in Alaska will have that priced in vs the box in New York. The same can be done for online retail...except people won't understand it and get pissed and try to change their location reporting to try and get a lower price based on where they are located. You see, people don't view online shopping the same way as they view physical shopping. People will need to be reconditioned about online shopping now that we have the technology to do location based pricing thanks to geolocation reporting and other factors (like getting a zip code up front) that were not available when online shopping first came about.
A question for those who have been around this field longer than I. Programming is very much a use-it-or-lose-it skill, how would following advice like this article affect one's proficiency in this industry?
It is also noted the most online orders they've received for a pro laptop launch. It seems for previously launches you could buy it in the store, getting the machine faster. With this release, there isn't a reason to buy anywhere but online.

If it was really more pro laptops sold, adding online would be an odd choice of words.
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They meant not profitable long term implicitly as it is easily replicatable
Thank goodness for the open web and that publishers can't force me to download things I don't want to.
Yes! Came here to write this too. I've been spending the last few years thinking, inquiring and talking about this, and I think there definitely is a field emerging here. There are already some companies trying to think about this stuff, and classes give it lip service but I don't think we've even seen the tip of the iceberg.

It's interesting to talk to different people about data quality and what they think it means, or how they choose to deal with it, and it's all over the place. Some people just mean open and consistent formats, some people have stylistic preferences for data shape, some people talk about accuracy of values, etc etc.

In some ways it's an extension of the thought that the world is inherently noisy, and we've been thinking about that one already, it's just that it turns out you don't need sensor data a la robotics to get noisy data - it's already in the datasets we know and love, and you accumulate more of it, the more sources you pull into your analysis.
I can see how that's annoying for sure.

Some people like me see the discrete accounts as a definite positive though!
> I think a better way to handle this is to show people how to use the command line. That does have a cohesive look and feel and is generally very well behaved compared to nearly anything else.

Not really. CLIs can be terribly inconsistent look and feel, even within the same tool (see git), which makes their lack of discoverability even more painful.
Some people I know only go to the porn sites to steal their code.

And if I send the former prince of Nigeria $5,000 he will unlock billions and send me half, lol.
I'm hoping my 2012 MBP lasts another 6 months so I can pick up one of these machines from Apple’s refurbished store. $300 cheaper the new models look a lot more compelling.