skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like to know the statistics of people using Adblock Plus versus the other adblockers like Ublock and Ghostery (not on troyhunt.com but on a more general level).

In any case, the argument Hunt makes here is valid; the ad that is being blocked on his site is pretty unobtrusive, is simple, and I would guess does not track the user like so many other ads/ad companies do. However, the title of the article, "Ad blockers are part of the problem," doesn't reflect reality. Yes, in this case, whoever is updating the block list is specifically targeting an okay ad, but in general ads are nasty, track users, and are generally terrible.

The reality is that the author really can't be mad at ad blockers without really, really being mad at the ad companies that cause people to use ad blockers in the first place. Sure, in this case, it sucks that the ad is being targeted and is due to a bad actor. And yes, Hunt has every right to be mad at this bad actor and Adblock Plus for, through inaction, being okay with it. But the issue is not with ad blockers, it's with most ad companies being horrible and consumers rejecting the horrible ad companies. I think if the ads were less obtrusive and didn't track you (I have heard on multiple occasions across various cities that people are either joking about or freaked out about looking up some product and now seeing all of their ads target some variation of that product) the amount of casual people using ad blockers would go down.
You misunderstand the point about limited "places" (or at least the point I believe is intended).

For sake of argument, assume 90% of jobs out there are "bad jobs"--no prospect of real wage growth, declining stability, decreasing benefits--and the remaining 10% of jobs are "good jobs" (with some wage growth, stability, and benefits).

Assume also that it is widely believed that in general, to have a chance at landing a "good job" you need at least an undergraduate degree (necessary, not sufficient!).

In such a situation, will you not see everyone throw as many resources as they can into getting their kids a better chance of making it into one of those good jobs?

There's a lot you can quibble with but that's the "limited places" of significance, with demand for university education a byproduct of that more fundamental demand (for better positioning vis-a-vis the "good jobs").

This is thus more of a race to establish relative position vis-a-vis other entrants, so IMHO looking at tournament theory (etc.) is helpful for understanding the overall dynamics.
I really wish Arq would make a unix app. If so I would buy licenses for all my machines.
Then demand for art would increase and art would be profitable again!

Seriously, you guys make way too much art right now. Supply is much greater then demand.
I've seen people from Kenya refer to their smartphones (of any manufacturer) as "my Nokia". So the brand seems to have some value still...
Sound is close enough to a 303 yes. FF 50 on Windows is all pops and cracks though, on a machine with otherwise decent hardware.
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> It still decreases the signal-to-noise ratio on his site

It decreases the signal-to-noise ratio a hell of a lot less than the picture at the top of the page does.
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Backblaze didn't include all files in my backup last time I used it (many moons ago).
You're right.

The secondary effect is that streams that need sponsorship dollars to exist will begin modifying the content of their stream itself. This seems worse to me, but it's clearly the direction the market is pushing ad-supported content: into the "bad old days" of advertisers getting editorial privilege.
I'd recommend Neal Asher as the closest substitute for Banks, though he can be quite variable. Hilldiggers in particular is the best Culture novel I've read, so to speak.
> Do I concentrate on pain or ignore it. Of course there isn't always pain and pain during a run can vary greatly, so I explained my answer is simply, yes. I have tried everything and nothing works

I always remember my first motorbike accident (vs Bus), my foot was p mangled. I remember the first burst of the pain, I screamed a bit, and I distinctly remember thinking "So this is why people scream. Not because it makes things better, but because there's nothing else to do".
> But even scientific papers often have lines saying "Sponsored by NSF grant #1234."

Yeah, this brings a whole new slant onto the argument. It may be that there is some text attached to a document that must legally accompany that document. For instance, would it ever be alright for an ad-blocker to remove something like "Copyright 2018 ACME corporation"?

In what way is "This work was supported by a grant from ACME corporation" different?
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1) NakedAuto is a startup to prevent cheats and fraund in automotive sphere. - Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYfDBSd05Po

2) CatInPhone is Android application based on speech recognition module to help to find your phone withing the room (entertainment application). - Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfCMNMwdY8

These two startups where made by unknown persons. But for now they are starting to grow fast.

What do you think about the general ideas? Is it possible to make a world better? Is it funny to have a virtual cat that helps you to find your phone if you lost it in your room?
Schema.org is a joint effort between Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Yandex (all search engines) so that is going to be the primary use-case. But their FAQ section says other non-search-engine organisations may join later.
When this comes up, I always feel obligated to share my favorite Markdown presentation tool, the command-line mdp: https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
>So how should he fund his work?

He should serve ads I want to consume. This is the norm: it's called native advertising.

Exactly how he goes about doing this is frankly his problem, but the bottom line is that the advertisment should also have value for me as a consumer. It should be informative, unintrusive, well-designed and enjoyable. This can take the form of sponsored posts, for instance (with the usual caveats surrounding such things).

What I'm propsing is not rare. Pocket does this extremely well. It does imply, however, that you can't lazily slap a link somewhere on a site.
Pandoc?

http://pandoc.org/
I don't block ads. I block zero day vectors through untrusted Javascript. If the ad networks would get their act together and stop sending executable payloads I would consider whitelisting them.
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Hi, thanks for replying. I think the idea of a distributedly mirrored wikipedia is great, so thanks for this project (even if some users seem to encounter high cpu load using it).

So, do I understand correctly that each page (that has been distributed through WP2P) includes the hashes for all the linked pages? But I assume these hashes are only for the content, not the metadata of the linked pages. So a malicious actor could still inject a bad page (that includes bad hashes for linked pages) if he wanted.

It is true that signed wikipedia pages would be a really neat idea, since it would enable this as well as other distributed projects to make sure they are displaying the "real" version of the site.
While I'm sympathetic to Troy, his solution does strike me as a bit backwards. I'd much rather pay for the site as a visitor and get no ads than as a sponsor who pollutes everyone else's experience on the site.
...did you know that in English, the names 'Ian' and 'Iain' are, in fact, unrelated? It's a little-known fact that the word 'Ian' is actually an abbreviation for the word 'Cyclopian' --- which, as everyone knows, means to have only one I.

(Stolen from Mr. Banks himself, when he came to my university to do a talk. Still miss him.)
In what sense?

I'm using "the customer is always right" in its idiomatic sense, not in a literal sense. The point is: arguing with your customer that what he wants is wrong is not a fruitful approach to ... well... anything.
Stross' early stuff is good, but he seems to have lost his way and got a lot more political. His last few novels felt very polemical.
I thought there were supposed to be registry rules preventing similar looking names to be registered as an idna. I guess not.
It was a pretty nice surprise that when sending this URL in Slack it was automatically converted to `xn--oogle-wmc.com`.
For an article that is about the precise time of 9.06am, why use an illustration of a wall-clock that is 18 seconds late? Is it a coded message?
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High-income high school graduates are 30% more likely to enroll in a 2- or 4-year college program than low-income high school graduates.

But of course, that statistic conceals a much bigger gap:

* It measures only those who complete high school. In most of the US, the completion rate for low-income students is between 65% and 80%. In nine states it's below 65%.

* It captures vocational and community colleges which cost as little as $1000 a year alongside Bowdoin, which costs $50,000 a year. Obviously, it's the low-income students going to community college.

* It measures only enrollment rate and not completion rate, where there is another giant structural gap (for instance: high-income students can afford to take more than 4 years to see a degree to completion).

Student debt financing assistance is a benefit that accrues mostly to the higher end of the income spectrum.
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"Discrimination" is the marxist way of saying "Choice".
> He should serve ads I want to consume. This is the norm: it's called native advertising.

You enjoy consuming glorified PR pieces, that aren't distinguished as such? To me, that seems much more underhanded and deceitful that a simple sponsorship message, or even something like AdSense. At least they're distinguished from content. In my opinion, there are too many ethical issues surrounding native advertising, not least of which is the distortion of content.
My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. I come to HN to escape the drivel that reddit's tech/programming subreddits have become due to comments like that outnumbering meaningful discussion.
I totally forgot about print style sheets
Slack doesn't, unless I'm not finding that feature after a year+ of using it.
Check out remarkjs: https://github.com/gnab/remark

I like to toggle to presenter mode in this presentation by pressing the 'p' key. This reveals the presenter's notes and a time counter. Other keyboard shortcuts are available from the README.

Also, you can use it as a hugo theme: https://github.com/sporto/hugo-remark
If any company could afford to staff 20,000 tech support people (who don't exactly command the highest salaries) it'd be Google. It's not a matter of cost. They choose not to.
But how can we find out if a company uses ML in a non-discriminating way? If we cannot see it, and check it, then there is no incentive for companies to use it.

My guess is that at most companies spending time on making an algorithm non-discriminating will be viewed as a waste of time and money.
>My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise.

We're in perfect agreement about this, hence "downvote the joke you don't like and move on with your life".

Multi-paragraph reprimands are adding to the noise. And more to the point: the parent comment wasn't complaining about noise but rather adopting a nauseatingly moralizing posture.
Do they have Reactions already in Mattermost?
One of the great things about adblock plus is that you can block non-ads with its custom rules very easily - right click the obtrusive element, block, done. I use it all the time for excessive headers/navigation/etc.
I believe they aren't preventative measures, but responsive. So if Google contacts ICANN, then they may do something about it
Well sure, it's easy to say that in hindsight, but that's not what these students were told growing up.

A generation was told that if they got into university and did well, they'd get much better jobs and be set for life. And it's easy to understand why, because this was true for their parents' generation. Educated employees were in much shorter supply, and thus in a much better position to capture the increased wealth of a booming economy.

Is it any wonder people feel entitled when they were told constantly that they would be rewarded for what they were doing?
It would probably be a pretty useful tool to be able to find which sites have published a specific story or fact even if false just to see which news sites are reporting it.
What about actual inventions that weren't inspired from Science Fiction?
Pardon the flame, but if you seriously think this, stop being an ass and get off your high horse. Ads aren't meant for you, they are meant to help the producer of the content. How do you define an ad you want to consume? Something specifically targeted for you, or by some other definition? If it's the former, are you okay with the fine grained tracking companies like Google do to give you that targeted ad?

Hunt is not blaming his users, he is blaming the specific ad blocker (and more specifically, a bad actor and the inaction of the ad blocker) for blocking a truly unobtrusive ad, and so in this case the title is warranted, maybe a little bit click bait.
And for the minority being discriminated against, it is "Less choice".
audiotool is made with Flash. And a good demonstration of the actual usefulness of Flash to develop complex applications that could be deployed online. Too bad Adobe was incapable of taking good care of that product and didn't listen the community. I'm sure WebAudio can get better, but the OP's demo still proves that it's brittle. Changing anything in the patterns stops all sounds and the sequencer has hard time keeping a consistent tempo. I'm sure it will get better but Flash was really in advance for its time as audiotool demonstrated. Well, at least now people have stopped complaining about Flash "killing their battery". They can now blame Javascript /s
That was a bit strained. I found the linked article on Asimov's 1964 predictions about 2014 much more interesting.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27069716
Thought that was buzzfeed for a minute
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I held off installing an adblocker for a long time. But now that I've gone to the trouble of installing one (because the web was simply unusable otherwise), I use it mercilessly. I don't have time to vet hundreds of sites because maybe one or two have acceptable ads. I just turn them off, all of them.
If you can find a copy, Ben Aaronovitch's _The Also People_ is a Doctor Who tie-in novel set in a Culture-with-the-serial-numbers-filed off. If you like both fandoms, it actually has interesting things to say about both.
I used to work as a print magazine editor.

"Advertorial", as native advertising in print was called, was loathed and rightly so. It was viewed as a way to hoodwink the reader, suggesting to them that this advertising copy ("buy this car, it's great!") came with the impartial seal of approval of the editorial staff. There would be a little "Sponsored Content" disclaimer at the top, but it was easily missed. Every editor I knew would strongly resist the sales staff's attempt to get us to run advertorials.

By contrast, display advertising - brash, colourful, couldn't be mistaken for editorial - was understood not to be in conflict. Occasionally an advertiser would threaten to pull their ads because we'd written something they didn't like (Casio once pulled all their advertising after I reviewed a terrible digital piano of theirs and pointed out how terrible it was). Our response was generally "ta-ra then".

There's some irony that we've now come 180°, and on the web, advertorials are considered good, display advertising bad.
Vernor Vinge's two Deep books (I haven't read the third) were right up there for me. Albeit simultaneously terrible from a "Jesus, this is %&#$ed up, but also plausible" perspective.
What if the schools were required to underwrite the loans on behalf of each student? Incentives would be more in line.
Ethical violations are an endemic problem. If everybody named and shamed companies for every ethical violation they encounter, every company would end up named and shamed. And the really bad stuff would get buried in an avalanche of comparatively trivial violations.
The next time developers cry about JavaScript's incompetence because of potential hacky type coercion stupidity I will shove this in their face.
I could not agree more.

Plus, is it really a good idea to suppress a meta-discussion about propaganda and false information? Those "fake news" articles and their corresponding beliefs will still exist, even if Facebook manages to filter them out, but proponents of those ideas will either never see critical discussion or they'll just move to other platforms. It seems like a great way to further fracture our already divided society.
Yes, it is a goal to eventually support syncing. I would like to create a plugin system for it so developers could add syncing support for whatever DBMS they desire. The priority is for MongoDB though.
Flame pardoned, but there is no high horse. Instead, there's an observation about the general trends in online marketing: go native or die by a thousand ad-blocks.

>Ads aren't meant for you, they are meant to help the producer of the content.

Sadly for the producer of the content, I (or others) have to consume the god-damn ads. Complaining that one's users are blocking one's ads amounts to complaining that one's marketing strategy is bad.

So yes, I do have trouble taking "boo hoo people are blocking my ads" seriously.
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This would be a great solution. Allowing unicode characters in domain names is just inviting trouble. I understand that people with non-Latin scripts want domain names in their own language and alphabet, but there are way too many unicode characters that will confuse people about legitimate-looking domain names.

Showing non-ascii in red would be an easy solution for everybody.
Having things be somewhat exclusive and require some amount of effort is not necessarily a bad thing.

Getting into your first choice program at your first choice university often requires a lot of effort, and the people who graduate from those programs are often part of a somewhat exclusive group. It's just that the effort required is entirely on your academic and intellectual qualifications rather than financial and persona connections.
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I have only worked for a single company, and it's a very international. Everyone speaks English. There is close to zero written or spoken Dutch.

This is in Amsterdam though, where a lot of people both within my company and outside speak English. If you go else where in the country, outside of North Holland, people defiantly speak less English and it's more advantageous to know Dutch.

I personally learned Dutch because I didn't feel like I could really assimilate without it.
I agree, this is the opposite of Getting Things Done. I've been using the GTD method (quite obsessively) for about a year now and I love it. I've got clean workspace where everything is waiting for me to do stuff. I have a system of lists categorized by Next Actions, Someday/Maybe, Projects and so on. Both digitally and with paper.

When I saw the title I was surprised. And my experiences are quite the opposite of what I'm reading in the article. My life improved a lot by using lists.

The problem of having to guess how long stuff takes and the cascading effect of constantly having to reschedule everything was very depressing for me.

Nowadays I'm doing the important stuff from the Next Actions list and do something from the Someday/Maybe list for fun. And my calendar and reminders make sure I do the time critical stuff at the time it needs to be done.

This article sounds insane to me.
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It's not at all compatible with the view that wealth reflects your contribution to society (expressed upthread). Or individualist meritocracy which HN is so fond of.
At least Elon has enough names for his satellite constellation now.
It's always good to review your basic wallet security.
Many of them can do as I did and go straight from high school to the work force. Others can go into apprenticeships in the skilled trades. Still more to community and vocational colleges to learn business management or accounting.

The fastest growing profession for 4-year college graduates is "HR professional". Come on. You don't need a college degree to be an HR rep, or to be a sales account manager, or to work in a purchasing department. That's something like 60% of the white collar jobs in a typical corporation, which we pretend that you need to spend $150,000 on a Russian Lit degree to competently execute.
how else student can show off new iphone 7 and hangout at cafes with LV?
I do when they are signaled and add value. The second bit it crucial. If it's just a simple plug, I'm likely to hate it. If it provides a service (e.g.: informs me about a topic I'm interested in), then it suddenly becomes acceptable.

So no, I don't enjoy consuming glorified PR pieces that aren't distinguished as such, but that's not what I'm advocating.
As in "emoji"? A critical feature that precludes effective professional communication in work environment?
What, in your opinion, would be the effect on the signal-to-noise ratio if $blogger_x were to write a lengthy article tearing down the customer service of $company_y, but your ad blocker silently removed the banner at the top saying "this article was sponsored by $company_z"?
I'm sorry but, insinuating that humanities and arts are "hobby educations" is pretty rude and smacks of superiority complex.

Look at the achievements that have stood the test of time and become valuable to us as a species. It's a pretty beautiful blending of scientific achievement and artistic achievement. If this system can't encourage both, let's not go to war with the arts, let's make the system that we invented, support the things that are important to us.

Beyond that, from my perspective, more of my tax dollars will go towards issues and causes that I am personally conflicted with than ones that I agree with. The college loan issue will never compete with the size and scope of something like the military. So it's beautiful that you would be personally affronted by this use of tax dollars but: welcome to the club, est. 1776
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Hard to say, few minutes per month, amortized?
I was hoping to read the breakthru was 100 day forecasting.
"Good" as in clever, not moral.
Newton's Wake is kind of variable. Some bits I like, some bits are meh.

If you feel like giving Macleod another try, I think his best books are The Cassini Division and The Stone Canal; they're part of a quartet, but these two books are the best and are very much a thematic pair, and if you read one you should read them both. (In part they show us the same setting from drastically opposed viewpoints, both done sympathetically.)

Giant spaceships, explosions, god-like beings, wormholes through space and time, sentient robots, non-sentient robots, maybe-sentient robots, full on ultralibertarian capitalism, full on ultraliberal socialism, nanotechnology, pre-, post- and intra-singularity technology, and some very big guns.
Go back and read the article. Hunt is not complaining about users blocking ads, he is complaining that a specific adblocker is blocking his ad even though it is unobtrusive and he sent in a specific form to allow the ad.