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> Why can't these kids just think about the debt they're getting into?

Some other people in this thread have mentioned that it's because parents have beaten into kids heads how important college is. That may be in part true, but I think a bigger truth is that people are simply bad with money. College is not the only debt many people have. Look at things like credit card debt[1], and car loans. The populace as a whole makes poor financial decisions every single day, so why would college be any different? At least college can be looked at as a type of investment, unlike that new car or PS4.

[1] https://www.valuepenguin.com/average-credit-card-debt
Will work on the UI soon, thanks :)
Classic example of collateral damage.

No one would have objected to his sponsorship message by itself, but in a world where advertisers and blockers are involved in no-holds-barred arms race this kind of thing is inevitable.
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Great work. Can't help but notice most of the contributors in this issue are Samsung Electronics employees. Interesting to see Samsung in the .net world!
> The customer is always right.

In what sense of the word are you a "customer" of Troy Hunt?
That sounds a bit like the Next Actions and the Someday/Maybe lists of Getting Things Done by Dave Allen. You might want to look into that. I love it!
I had a similar problem. There's literally NO solution other than opening up a new account.

It was a wake up call. I've since moved most of my digital life onto other services.
> "I totally agree with our President-Elect about getting rid of the DoE, along with Common core. Let things be up to the states."

Okay, I'll bite. What? As is, with the DoE and Common Core, we struggle to get the poorer states to educate its students adequately compared to the wealthier states. Take a look at any metric you want about education in New Mexico, Louisiana, West Virginia and compare it to Massachusetts, New Jersey, or Virginia.

One of the things that makes the federal government so valuable is its ability to provide as even footing as possible for citizens of all states. Gutting the federal ability for that is going to ensure that those state which already struggle will struggle more and is going to lead to a larger set of divides within our country.
Please refer to GoTorO's comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13004502. There are few bugs hence the app is in beta, I'll be releasing a set of fixes by tonight, rest will be integrated soon :)
Exactly :)! For the Arduino you are potentially referring to the Netduino, which allows you to write applications targeting the .NET Micro Framework.
Surely someone will open a business to be your pretend friends and family?
He's tried. Nothing's happened.
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And how much time does it take to manage the required infrastructure?
If someone is wrong here, it's neither adblock nor troyhunt, it's the person who decided to manually block the sponsor banner.

I'm an happy adblock user, but this makes me wonder how blocking lists are built. Did I just give power to some people to filter out any content they don't like from my browser?
https://github.com/i-break-codes/scrum-board#more-to-come :) thanks btw..
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I had to green light Walmart.com because the ad blocker broke their shopping cart. The blocked list was 6 files including an iframe.

It's a sad day when you can't site-to-store a case of Cheez-wiz without being tracked.
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This is precisely the problem with attempting to categorize "fake" news - individuals each have their own nuanced definition of both "fake" and "news" that may be entirely contradictory to someone else's definitions. All these efforts (Facebook's solution and third party ones) will do is create even deeper echo chambers.
> One issue I've noticed on occasion is that Ad blockers can silently break websites

Unfortunately the same can be said about the ads and their javascript, and with much higher frequency. I got sick of pages that randomly scroll back to the top after you've started to scroll down, or when you go back a page to follow a different link part way down the page. Using an ad blocker on iOS fixed the problem.

Recently I did wonder whether the passage of time might have caused the ad networks to fix their code. I lasted about 10 minutes before I could confirm that nothing had changed and the blocker was reinstated.
My devices are all ES 2.0, ES 3.x and DX mobile capable.

Native apps don't have any issue taking advantage of those GPUs.

WebGL demos usually posted here or on Reddit tend to be single digit FPS, if they run at all.
For more information about "ethics and algorithms", read: "Weapons of Math Destruction" [1] or at least listen to the EconTalk podcast between the author and host Russ Roberts [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Math-Destruction-Increases-In...

[2] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.ht...
Very nice. Sounds quite good and works very well. I tested it with Firefox 50 on Linux. No audio issues of any kind.

Is there a way to use the keyboard to control the synth and the knobs? I grew up with trackers (and later Jeskola Buzz) and I always enjoyed playing with synths using a "keyboard piano" input.
>Often they're absolutely wrong.

You misunderstand the expression, I think. The expression means "do you really want to get into a moral argument over trivial matters with your clientelle... really? Because that's not good for you."

>The sponsorhip message on Troy's site is unobtrusive

Indeed. However, it's still an ad. It still decreases the signal-to-noise ratio on his site, and that's why I use an ad-blocker. Ranting against this behavior is not in Troy Hunt's interest because guess what: the web is big. He's replaceable.

Again: the missing bit here is that the adverts do not add value to the site. They degrade it (if only a little). This is why his ads are being blocked. Full stop. The market has spoken.
Magic numbers: can maths equations be beautiful?
is it also ahead of the Nexus / Pixel (and if so, how ? ) ?

Also, does it get the security patches in a timely manner ? I kinda remember them refusing to commit to that
The problem is that it's too much hassle for people with ad blockers to white list the good guys...and there's very little incentive to do so (you feel better by supporting someone for their work which isn't really actionable).

Additionally it's sensible to run an ad blocker by default because of all the crap that's out there so the "good guys" suffer from the bad practices of all the "bad guys".
Some time ago I registered http://www.goolge.io/. Still haven't done anything with it, I guess at some point I'll just redirect it to duckduckgo. [EDIT: now it's redirected to duckduckgo.]

This can of course be used in a malicious way. I thought about rebuilding the homepage of the bank Credit Suisse on www.credit-siusse.ch, but that's probably illegal.
In the article, I linked to: http://techbeacon.com/how-learning-smalltalk-can-make-you-be.... This is where you'll see an example of Smalltalk code.

Many programmers obsess over performance, but the fact is, in today's computing world, performance is a non-issue in most situations. That's why Python, PHP, Ruby, and Perl are so useful and popular. That's why Erlang/Elixir absolutely rock for concurrent systems. That's why Smalltalk is used commercially around the world. Performance is not the be-all, end-all of computing.
Does the mind use fibre optics?
wonder if one way is to get your CMS to insert a big bolded line "this blog post was made possible by So-And-So Company" into the beginning of each post content? just add a db hook or stored procedure or something.

If you're going to go full minimalist message anyway... just make it part of the content. adblock can't block part of the content without blocking all the content, can they?
Sure there are.

I have written a couple in C++.
>Now only the rich can send their kids to art school.

I'm not sure that's a bad thing?
As an aside, your lotto comment made me think of expected value (EV) and poker. At some point the pot of a lotto can become large enough where the EV demands you buy a ticket. Taxes I think make this number almost impossible to reach though.
There is some repercussion: if you have any sense at all, when someone on your feed consistently keeps sharing this garbage, you stop paying any attention to what they share.
It worked for me, until I got a smartphone ;)
Kudos move for Zuck to try to appease investors but i think he knows himself this thing is not working, and i m glad he does.
I tend to agree with you. I'm looking at the NYT archives right now and finding examples both of uncritical quoting of official sources and straight up assertions about WMDs in Iraq.

This is a famous quote from Judith Miller and Michael Gordon, from an article that includes many hawkish quotes from anonymous sources.

"Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-ir...

Here's a quote from an opinion piece by William Safire:

"Two terrorist-sponsoring nations are racing to acquire nuclear weapons. One is Iraq, whose scientists already have the know-how..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/opinion/arafat-s-implausib...

Is this fake news? I'd say so. But, I have an even lesser criterion for fake news -- I think the most insidious type of fake news doesn't necessarily tell a single lie, but rather selectively reports the truth.

I am also 100% certain that it's impossible to filter out "fake news", whatever your definition is, without suppressing some true but fringe information.
> Deliberately modifying sites like mine which are making a conscious effort to get us away from the very things about ads that led to ad blockers in the first place makes them part of the problem

This is entirely disingenuous. Add-blockers aren't modifying sites like yours, they are allowing users to control what content their machines access and display.

While it's silly for your single-line sponsored banner to be blocked, your complaint should be about easy-list, furthermore users are free to modify their lists to block the content that they want to block.

If you will, uMatrix without configuration breaks plenty of reasonable sites and it takes some work to get everything working. And I'm definitely not going to stop using it while bloggers like you feel the need to serve me third-party Javascript assets which send my IP / usage information to a tracker.

Edit: Would one of the at least three people that down-voted care to offer a comment?
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>ilovevitaly.com

This Vitaly guy…

I got tons of referral header spam (that shows up in e.g. Google Analytics) for all sorts of social media buttons and EU cookie law scare tactic sites. And then there was Vitaly who just spammed me with ilovevitaly.com, which if I recall correctly actually was a site about himself at the time.
Calm your virtue signaling.
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whoops, usually read the comments first and then the article. my bad.
"Clearly, this is a mistake so I went ahead and filled out an acceptable ads application. That was now a couple of weeks ago and as of today, their false positive remains."
> > The customer is always right.
> No they're not. Often they're absolutely wrong.

Customer support 101: The customer is always right.
Right they (we) are!
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>Going by your argument, a one-line black-on-beige text message saying "Sponsored by: $COMPANY_NAMES" is "crap".

Yes. At best it's tolerable crap.

>To me, saying who's paying for work is as much a matter of giving proper credit and fully disclosing where the money is coming from.

There's a difference between disclosure and advertisement. The latter has the notion that the information should literally be advertised, that is, thrust upon the viewer. I don't care that a paper cites collaborators or donors, I just don't want it to be done in such a way that pollutes my experience of the content. That's a crucial distinction.

>Personally, as an EasyList user, I'm a bit surprised that EasyList has a site-specific rule to block this particular "Sponsored by" message.

As an EasyList user, I'm considering making a donation precisely because they do this. Again: ad-blockers are about improving the signal-to-noise ratio on a site and preserving my attentional resources. Ad-blockers aren't about blocking ads, per se.
I'm not sure we can use "number of shares" as a reliable metrics for how many people believe each piece of news. It's perfectly concievable that many people share it as "look at this obviously fake lie". I mean, how many shares do Onion articles get?
Slides with bullets are an anti-pattern. Markdown encourages that. Thus, Powerpoint > Markdown.
Not necessarily; remember that someone renting a place out might have bought at a much lower price than the house would sell for now.

Some people don't want to fully "mark to market" and are happy as long as the mortgage on their investment gets paid.
Good point. I should have said "end-user".
Yet ABP seeks to not block 'acceptable ads' so your categorical line of thought here isn't one they claim to follow
It's from over 3 years ago. Long time.
I read Newton's Wake by Macleod last year and didn't like it much. Put me off reading anything else by him.

I would recommend Charlie Stross to fill the void.
If he gets a payment for an action you take, of course.
This actually looks like one of the buildings in Gilliam's Brazil, wasn't that Ministry of Information!?
So how should he fund his work? Can you offer him some sort of alternative method that's acceptable to you? Donation buttons are a sort of ad. Paywalls rarely work, especially in niche content like his. How else should he fund it?

> Ranting against this behavior is not in Troy Hunt's interest because guess what: the web is big. He's replaceable.

So he should just suck it up? Why?

> This is why his ads are being blocked. Full stop. The market has spoken.

If this is the market speaking, it's going to eat itself. On that trajectory, it's only a matter of time before everything of value is behind a paywall of some description.
Troy tell us that "it doesn't directly impact me", so let's close this issue as not a problem.
> The money has to come from somewhere.

It can't be that important, I don't see it in the troyhunt.com rss feed.
In response to this signal, it would be smart for bloggers to change their advertising model to just support paid blog posts. Then the advertising can be injected directly into the content instead of living somewhere that "decreases the signal-to-noise ratio" in an obvious and easily-blocked fashion.

I'm not sure that's what people actually want though.
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They should already only show punycode for characters inside your locale.

'ɢ' is obviously an exception since (I imagine) it's considered to be in your locale, but maybe it shouldn't be.
There is no such thing as 'ad blocking'. The web is a pull medium, not a push medium. I merely decline to request ads. - Anonymous
Then we'll just go to using hosts-based ad-blockers to block it at the source, or CSS overrides to hide the crap client-side.
It's really hard to work through the framing you've created here, where it's supposed that going to college is a requirement to find a good job, the rich are "screwed" by college debt, and the poor are... what? Screwed from multiple directions simultaneously?

Further: if college is a necessity for a good job, and that's why students are going to college, and they're leaving college with a mountain of debt and no means to pay it off, then college is not achieving the promise of securing better jobs, and the answer isn't to plow even more money into the system but instead to stop sending kids to expensive colleges that have no positive impact on their financial futures.

It would be nice if college in the US was free. If one could wave a magic wand and reach that outcome, one certainly would.

But since we don't have magic wands, we have to prioritize, and we're generally not keen to prioritize the financial well-being of the wealthy before that of the less well-off. In matters other than finance, sure, we don't discriminate that way; we don't, for instance, send the rich off to wars first (we do rather the opposite).
You can build Tizen apps in .Net now I imagine they're working to improve compatibility across all Tizen devices. Samsung is also now a member of the .Net foundation

https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dh0922/2016/tizen-.net-developer...
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This took me a minute to figure out so writing it down in case it helps someone else. The sequencer button allows you to string your patterns together into a song. To actually play them in that sequence though, you need to click the "Pattern Mode" grey button at the top of the screen and toggle it to "Song Mode". Then, the play button (or spacebar) will play your song in that pattern.
Can't agree or we're not going to progress back to an acceptable median.

Locally hosted, tracking free, messages of sponsorship or static images of some relevant tool or service should be reserved for an Easylist "hard line" optional file that I opt into. The default lists should be removing, with extreme prejudice, items that carry cross site tracking and attention grabbing overlays, sound and animations. There'll always be some who go into options and tick everything.

I don't much like adblock's approach to taking money for letting acceptable ads through either.

We might be able to achieve some level of sanity if sites like stackoverflow, troyhunt or the ad network that was trying to do it right got some benefit for trying to be ethical about it.
So that means you're kind of saying you do not want to consume any kind of ad. That's fine, but it kind of conflicts with your claim that you would consume different kind of ads.
You definitely did, yes, unless you're hand-vetting the >50k ruleset.

I personally tell people who deliver bug reports to me "First turn off your ad blocker then try again." It's a losing battle as a web developer or website administrator to keep up with the myriad ways these tools can manipulate the DOM in a non-standards-compliant fashion.
And the end-user is demonstrably not always right.
Compare that to Etherum which is probably the second place competitor to BTC right now. The founders of that project took 12.5% for themselves and assigned another amount to the project organization. They didn't even go through the pre-tense of mining they just said we get 12.5% and wrote it into the code. In Bitcoin on the other hand anyone who wanted to could have started mining on day one with Satoshi. 5% isn't a huge sum for inventing the most revolutionary thing in currency and economics since physical money replaced barter. He didn't just give it to himself either he worked for it the same as anyone else had to.
I have full sympathy for the person. Recently there was a news on HN about Google cloud being cheaper by 50% [1].

We must be very much worried about Google's record of ill treatment of its users, both paid/free. You cannot and should not rely on Google for anything critical to your business unless you are close friends with someone working at Google and that too at a higher up position to be able to get out of such bad situation relatively easily. I had commented there something that I will not repeat here. [2]

I hope (I may be a fool to hope so still) this type of frequent bad-light may make Google amend its ways.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12993021

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994769
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It is not that hard. You just have to refrain from some dangerous features like colors and different fonts.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/slide_design_programmers.html
To take a more recent example, when Chris Cuomo stated recently on CNN that it's illegal to view the Wikileaks Podesta emails, should something like that be censored if it's posted to Facebook? It's plainly false, and given that Cuomo has a law degree and a family full of politicians, he was almost certainly deliberately lying.
Also, make sure that this "expectation" to respond to pings immediately isn't in your head.
I work at Automattic and I usually respond within 15 minutes, but sometimes up to an hour or 5 hours.
For remote to make sense, you have to embrace the asynchronous communication as well.
You should take a look at Andre Michelle's work. https://www.audiotool.com/
Other companies should be paying attention to Microsoft's PR department here. They've done really well at timing these kinds of announcements over the past several months, repeatedly getting their name on the front pages of places like Reddit and HN a few days after the last announcement fades away.
Its actually not ridiculous at all.

There is a lot of study on the idea that the main value of education is not what you actually learn but much more signal that you are dedicated, motivated and have the ability to learn.

There is a huge argument going on right now about how much of the value is signal vs actual knowledge you need for the job. There is a lot of evidence that suggest that signal is a huge part of the value.

Network does not really apply as a expiation because the effect appears even when transition to a place that you have no relationship with it.

If you are interested consider listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpk_u_VmPD4

(Be aware, this is a strong version of the argument, deliberately picked to break with the tradition view that many people have)
You're over-generalizing. This is very much a matter of personal taste/inclination. Do ALL Lispers love the Lisp style of syntax? Of course not.

Moreover, for many programmers, it's asking too much of them to wrap their heads around a syntax where you need to give it time for the parens to "fade" away. This cognitive hurdle is real and it's why Lisp isn't more popular.

Let's not bury our heads in the sand.
> For me, personally, I use Octave at home when prototyping algorithms because I'm cheap and haven't paid the ~$1k for a Matlab license.

FWIW, you can get a home copy of MATLAB for $149:
https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab-home/

> In my experience for real-time implementation, neither Matlab nor Python are considered efficient enough, even after using something like the Matlab compiler or Python's psyco or equivalent. Again, in my experience, C is by far the most popular choice.

MATLAB Compiler won't make code any faster - it's still just running MATLAB engine underneath the hood. MATLAB Coder converts to C code optimized for real-time systems
1. ABP does this as an option, and does this for financial gain [0].

2. This is why I don't use ABP anymore.

3. This is about EasyList, which ABP uses, but the two should not be confused. EasyList seeks to block adverts.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/13/adblock-plu...
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I read the article and it seems to mostly reporting the neo nazi types enthusiasm for Trump and Bannon. Do you think that shouldn't be reported? Are any facts incorrect?

I'll give you there have been a lot of headlines in the MSM implying Bannon is anti-semitic while when you look into it appears he is not.