skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spam goes back to the 70s.

On the web side I remember back to at least 95 pretty well and there were banner ads everywhere. I had a homepage with like 3-4 web ring banners on it + the ads from Geocities themselves.

A quick look says the first banner ads appeared in 1994 and the first paid ads in 1993.

I think you're probably looking back with rose tinted glasses.
Any halfway experienced storage engineer is fluent in ECC. You don't need secret sauce from Facebook. That said, because of the first statement, a lot of today's storage solutions will use ECC on the backend if they present you with a logical FS. So you may not (should not?) need to reinvent this wheel. At Facebook's scale this absolutely makes sense, but they're not particularly breaking new ground here. Look at RAID 6 if you need more evidence.
I would agree, but some news affect your life deeply. Personally, I'm reading news daily to answer the question "should I complete that Canada residency application today, or can I wait a few weeks?"
I figure it's simply the availability of datacenter level switches (and other components).
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Hacker news is incredibly useful to daily life if you're in tech. I've learned many things here that are critical to products I've built over the last few years. This community has worked very hard to avoid wasting my time with exactly the sort of headline news this post is about. Thanks.
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Both, I have it set so lights go on and off when someone enters/exits the room, it logs temperature in rooms just because, and I have a task on my phone (using Tasker) with an NFC tag on my nightstand that turns everything off when I go to bed.

It's nice to not have to touch any light switches ever, you walk into a room and the lamp just slowly fades into light.

I know how crazy this sounds (because I roll my eyes at people who say "I have a task on my phone" too), but it's not really very hard to do. I control everything through an HTTP message queue I wrote (https://github.com/skorokithakis/gweet/) and a simple Android app I... also wrote... and... I should get fewer hobbies.
We're talking about 5% of the 20th century because for most people the internet was only available for around 5% of the 20th century. Doubleclick wasn't the first ad network.

There was acceptable advertising on usenet too in the form of signatures.
There was a period of time, starting upon the day of, and then continuing for some years after the 9/11 attacks, where "The News" was something you couldn't help but be engrossed by.

Growing up during an era of Johnny Carson, in a house with no cable, and attending high school in the 90's, "The News" was something very different prior to 9/11.

24 hour cable news started providing information on fast moving events, and that was relevent, in the lead up to the Iraq war, when everyone was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

It was obvious something bad would come out of 9/11, but what? There were hushed whispers of an Iraq invasion exfiltrating into grapevines by word of mouth (but not in the news, and not on TV) as early as January 2002, but would it become a reality? And if so, my god, why?

By summer, word of mouth was firm. Iraq was going to be a thing, according to people with family members in the military. And so, you waited for that to show up in the news.

By 2005, George W. Bush had been re-elected, and there was no longer any relevant information to be had.

The ruse was over. It was clear that cable news was a sham. Popcorn, for the mob attending yet another gladiator tournament at the colosseum.
People with expertise in the area, ideally.
damn this is impressive, regardless of age! I'm 31 and I sure as shit couldn't do this!
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$2,550 in rental home income on a house that will be paid off in 3 months.
I like having ideas in my head that come from sources I respect whose opinions I valued enough to seek out.
Love to see uBlock Origin for Microsoft Edge on Windows Mobile.
That is pretty awesome. Should the SSD's for the fast storage be on the OSD nodes that also have the HDD's or should it be separate OSD nodes?
>Additionally I use umatrix which covers and options abp does not,which helps abps speed to almost not matter anymore.

you realize running abp on top of umatrix is completely redundant, right?
>They stated that they expect other models would come about, and that in any case, ads aren't an acceptable price to pay

Totally reasonable. But the fact that they don't seem capable of even beginning to suggest alternatives makes what they are saying completely useless. It would be like saying "we need to solve global warming, so we need to end all coal mining and oil drilling". Ok... but you can't just do that. You have to have alternatives and a plan to transition a society utterly dependent on fossil fuels onto something else. We do have some answers to those questions, and any useful attempt to address climate change will go over that.

This is just saying "turn off the pumps, and it will work itself out" without even attempting to explain what is supposed to come next. It is pure whining, not anything more.
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I haven't bought a copy for a long time now, but I used to find that the Guardian's weekly international edition was good for that kind of round up. Lots of in depth articles. I have no idea if it is still like that. Given what has happened to the online Guardian in recent years I suspect it might have similarly gone downhill.
I assure you - it's not snark, it's not sarcasm and it's not dismissive. There exists "the victim mentality". Don't do that.
The whole FUD campaign regarding "Fake News" is comically hypocritical in my opinion. Glenn Greenwald has an excellent article calling them out for it:

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/09/a-clinton-fan-manufactur...

Edit:
Ironically, that post was doing great until it got flagged.

Edit 2: It has been unflagged

Edit 3: Flagged again.
Do you really want to put a Xeon Phi in every server in your cloud when you're already paying $$$$ for CPUs?
I don't understand the joke, and the joke seems to hint at a disadvantage since it's being explicitly spotlighted in such a way.
> Because it seems to me that your model is "I get free stuff, fuck everyone else".

No, that's putting the cart in front of the horse. The World Wide Web was built for users by users, not for publishers by publishers. It's nice that publishers, who are themselves users, can make use of it. Good for them. If they can support themselves, even better.

However, any user has the moral right to filter any content delivered to them, as he or she sees fit. If publishers don't like that, they can build their own Internet instead of using ours, the users', Internet.

In fact, I would say it is a moral obligation for any Internet user to oppose any content-provider that attempts to put undue technical restraints on their content under threat of not publishing that content at all.
Advertising is regular part of site content owner decided to show you. What comes next? Blockin unwanted article content on someone's blog? It's not criticism it's fascism. Do you like ads on the street? Are you destroying them? Not? Why? Aha you can't you don't have balls to do it :)
But I seek out communication with people whose ideas I care about. That's very different from having someone shove their self-serving ideas in front of me.
After spend 10 mins reading, I still dont understand why do people have to put political hats on to a search engine.

Search engine dont (or at least shouldn't) have an opinion of presenting information.

Having said that, questions like "Holocaust or not" should be dependent on the source of opinionated information provider. Futhermore, if you think the other party provide misleading information, counter it with your views. After all, all the information should be gathered/filtered/valued under same rules.
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If Google does what you suggest, the far-right's claims about censorship and the mainstream media being out to get them will become true.
"That is to say, humanity is ordinary, cosmically speaking, just one of countless examples of extraterrestrial intelligence spread across the universe."

Isn't humanity terrestrial by definition? At least ASFAWK we originated on this planet. We may be ordinary and just one of countless examples of intelligence spread across the universe but we're not extraterrestrial.
I thought wipr was a brand of toilet paper...?
If we let society keep a list of facts that may not be questioned, it will inevitably have crap like "the sun orbits the earth" and "a god named zeus created the universe" that need to be questioned.
Is there a reason you don't just put out an RFP and purchase a complete supported solution from a VAR or OEM vendor?

I'm not sure you have the in-house expertise to maintain a production service of this kind. That's not an attack; this has not been your focus in the past, so it might be wise to have a third party provide some assistance and support as an intermediate step toward doing everything in-house.
Storefront is an interesting case because Southern Poverty Law Center has counted 100 murders committed by their users (or registered members, I forget which). I don't know stormfront's usage numbers, by I bet that's a pretty high ratio for a web site.
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And I was using this as a dismissal because the only part of the statement that they actually addressed was the unimportant semantic part. Not the core issue that was being raised. The quote would be just as valid without the parenthetical "(non-invasive)" and if it wasn't there, how would they respond?

What they did is sort of like correcting a grammar mistake that their interlocutor made, but ignoring the actual argument. It is a sham deflection, not a response. Their argument holds no water until the issue is addressed.
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Doom had cover; if you aren't using cover in Doom, you're playing it wrong. Use a door as a chokepoint, equip super shotty. Jump out, get a shot off, kill a couple dudes, jump back into cover as you reload, repeat. Or how about the Cyberdemon fight? It's not just "shoot it until it dies" because you do not want to be wide open in that battle unless you're an expert circlestrafer; you want to use the columns in the level to your advantage.

What Doom and Quake lacked was "press B to kneel behind this waist-height wall". But I don't think that's really an improvement. Getting into and out of cover was janky in every game I played that had that mechanic (Mass Effect, Uncharted, Final Fantasy XV?!). And you were vulnerable unless the game recognized you as being behind cover (until the enemies flanked you that is). Plus there's the effect of "oh boy! Waist height walls! Gee, I wonder if a battle is coming up?"

The point is, the core gameplay of Doom and Quake was nuts, and was never quite replicated in any of the modern shooters (sorry Doom 2016, you were fun though). The game would drop you in a level full of things wanting to murder you and let you figure out how to survive. Many of the things you mentioned are bolt-on extensions to the gameplay that make it seem deeper, but may make it actually shallower because they constrain how you interact with the world; note also how Doom and Quake lack linear, corridor-like levels and "Return to the Combat Area"...
That's incredibly clever.
This is precisely how I would recommend doing this if I were to be asked. Because git is content-addressable, it lends itself very well to being stored in an object storage system (as long as it has the right consistency guarantees). Instead of using CephFS, they could use Ceph's rados gateway which would allow them to abstract the storage engine away to working with any object storage system.

Latency and consistency would be my concerns - S3 does not quite have the right semantics for some of this, so you'd have to build a small shim on top to work around this. Ceph's rados doesn't even have these problems, so it is quite a good contender.
Two uncles ( my grandfathers were both too old) fought in WWII. One was an aircraft mechanic. I don't know what the other uncle did in the war.

Fighting doesn't make one a barbarian. The belief that suffering and sacrifice are the path to glory are.
Academia doesn't pay that much attention to the real world. Most of the papers out there are rubbish and would be considered junior level work, except with way too much detail.

There are pretty much no econ papers that would describe what happens inside the high end systematic firms. (Source: I work in the industry)

Bringing up the outliers is a perfect counterexample when wild sweeping statements are made. These are not even real outliers, they are valid samples.

>The market cannot be beat by 99.9% of professional investors spending all their time day and night trying and with a team of people helping them.

Professional investors pretty consistently beat the market. But not the ones that you see. The louder someone markets their fund, the more likely it is to be a scam. Your sample is of guys who heavily promote their fund and make money from management fees not performance.

The best managers aren't even made visible to you. Why would you attract attention to what you're doing if you have a good thing going?
> I've never used Vue's component system

Once components click, everything becomes a component.

That's not a two-bit attempt at Javascript zen, what I mean is that components are basically reusable building blocks of functionality. Mastering them provides an excellent way to reason about your app's structure.
I use React all the time for individual components on server-rendered pages. It feels like a natural extension to formerly monolithic Rails/Node/etc apps.

That said, when an SPA is called for I'd far rather use Ember and get routing, state and a hundred other things for free, without needing to bolt together an entire front-end framework from parts each time.
You should think through the consequences of what you suggest. Do you really want to live in a society in which corporations have the power to determine what counts as truth?

I find it odd that so many people who believe the government should not do such things are fine with corporations doing it.
> we need a professional association (union) of the kind that lawyers, doctors, and dentists have

A nit-pick: those professions have guilds, not unions.
You assume that people who are questioning already have the answer they want. You mistakenly think everyone knows everything they will ever know
Thanks! But I don't see the 2630v4 in that sheet, only older versions.
Most content cannot live out of affiliate links, unless you want your website splattered with bullshit product placement everywhere so content creators can earn a dime.

Affiliate marketing is a niche and bigger joke than traditional ads when content depends on it. Wirecutter just happens to be really good at what they do, but their business model can't be used by most of the web, not to mention ad blockers often block affiliate links too.
Consult a lawyer. Someone versed in it.

Obligatory: Fuck You, Pay Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8
Now the corresponding Linux Kernel Newbies page takes ages to be updated and reflect the changes ;-(
i use adblock[0], which while generically named, works phenomenally well. it's a pay app, which is a turnoff for some people, but well worth two dollars to me and is under active development. it uses a local vpn with host based filtering to adblock domains on all apps. the same developer also has a safari plugin adblocker, ADmosphere[1], which is free. alternately, or concurrently, if you prefer safari plugin adblockers, mozilla has one called focus[2], which they've recently expanded into an ephemeral browser that you can easily clear all local data on to avoid tracking. it's handy for one-off searches you don't necessarily want added to tracking network profiles of yourself.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/adblock/id691121579?mt=8

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/admosphere-free-ad-blocker/i...

[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firefox-focus-privacy-browse...
The mystery is why wikipedia hasn't been hijacked by rogue editors yet. What is the defense mechanism? Do the original founders still have ultima control? Have they carefully chosen deputies?
D2: Ceph has built in support for cache tiering.

http://docs.ceph.com/docs/jewel/rados/operations/cache-tieri...
> if found

Herein lies the problem
> I hate this shit. Between adblocking and piracy, people are just going to push publishers into a new form of advertising where they don't even know they are being advertised to. This is going to mean more "sponsored posts" on sites you love and less authentic content. Its going to mean your favorite movies crammed with product placement ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4 ). Its going to mean a distrust of anything you see on the web much greater than exists today. Its going to mean every product review you read about will be 90% about the affiliate payment they get and 10% because of the product itself.

If this'd happen en masse this allows competition in the market of reviewers, news sites, and social network sites. It also allows for fact checking (which perhaps even gets automated). The model which works is akin to seed fund, or open source development by contract. There'd be say a review in the make of a product X. In order for it to be made, Y USD is required. This is then gathered via crowd funding. Then those who paid get early access, week later its in the public domain. The model isn't even new. LWN uses it, to name an example.
They don't know. They just don't want ads to exist on whatever the Internet looks like in the future.

I believe that if you eliminated ads the Internet would be better for it. Advertising is just so backwards and nonsensical. It is analogous to screaming for attention in an overcrowded market. To think that our future Internet is stuck with this is a depressing thought.

Personally I'm okay with the following forms of advertising and would like to see them more widely adopted:

Podcast-style ads: getting the narrators and writers of a podcast to promote your product in an amusing way consistent with the theme of their show and in a way the user can skip if desired. (Same applies to YouTube video creators advertising within their show.)

Affiliate links: sites like The Wirecutter doing all the research and leg-work on a product category to find the best. Then making money through affiliate links to those products.

Small ads that have been vetted by the writer of the article / website are okay too. If I enjoy reading an author's content, and that author has personally approved a product ad on their site because they like it or think it would be good for their readers, then I'm okay with that.

Basically, any advertising that is explicitly acknowledged and approved of by the content creators is okay with me. It means they know what their readers will see, they know whether the products are good, and if they start recommending shitty products then they are putting their own reputation on the line.
Cool, they've updated that page so that it no longer requires Silverlight.
I don't see much of a conflict. Windows doesn't abnormally restrict users' ability to do many things.
Yes I am a socialist and as such I employ materialistic and systemic analysis. Just calling it "anti capitalist BS" is a pretty shitty attempt at critique.

> but the author's point was Stallman is right expect for one thing: profit.

Did you even read the article?
I did not and will not agree to see ads, nor am I obligated to clutter my mind with crap just because I viewed a webpage. You can't just claim that people agree to things because it's convenient to your business model.
I'm still figuring all of this out, thanks for the headsup. I realize Facebook don't have anything particularly interesting, but now I understand just how standard this is, huh.

Thanks again.
What is meant by the "entire national economy"? Does the state prop up grocery stores in small towns when the cost of imported foods rise naturally, or does it only protect companies that it contracts to (or deems politically convenient)?

Protectionism doesn't generally involve the former, and I suspect that the author of the original post wouldn't appreciate the bureaucracy necessitated by such a large...safety net. It's a form of nonviolent warfare, with the state propping up those industries (and the strongest companies within those industries) in order to remain internationally competitive. In that sense, as far as I can tell, there is no meaningful difference between the current state of affairs and that proposed by the author, beyond perhaps which corporations get protected.
I love the idea of killing the server instead of the circuit, thanks!
This editorial's grand conclusion is not backed up by its supporting examples.

Theil is one guy, and most of Silicon Valley disagrees with him. Of course there are tons of Trump supporters across any industry you can think of. Tech probably has disproportionately less, considering local election returns.

Fake news is a problem, and Facebook is working on it.

Pinning the actions of the Comet Ping Pong shooter on Facebook, and the moral bankruptcy of Silicon Valley, is absurd. The Pizzagate conspiracy theory community was on Reddit.

Seems like the author just threw together some vaguely related events.
If the owners want to realize those future cash flows they can sell. Leverage unlike sale forces otherwise healthy companies into bankruptcy. The advantage is you can leverage more than the value of a company and then extract it without selling.

PS: Remember you can profit from preforming a useful economic function, or fraud making profit a poor yardstick for anything else.
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If you're going to spend top dollar on Arista/Cisco/EMC/NetApp, you might as well stay in the cloud.

None of the clouds use any of that super-expensive gear, so if you're going for cost savings, you'll need to use the same sort of commodity gear they use.

Gitlab is obviously Linux-savvy and comfortable writing automation, so things like Cumulus Linux and minimal-handholding hardware vendors shouldn't cause them any indigestion.

<disclaimer: co-founder of Cumulus Networks, so slightly biased>
That shows that Google is good at distinguishing between pronouns.
That is AWESOME. What an incredible feat of engineering.
>>Not sure how you're in the industry without knowing who this guy is.

I caution against such assumptions that every one on HN is privy to SV mythology.
Thanks for the suggestion. Any idea if they can offer 40 Gbps networking?
A trade occurs at a price both parties believe is beneficial to them. Otherwise there's no trade.
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I'm pretty sure advertising has been doing, expanding and seeking the "they don't know they're being advertised to" for quite a while. IIRC it was developed after people being exposed to ads over time learned to recognize them and put up mental filters to filter ads out as a very efficient workaround that block, more recent developments include neuromarketing in the early 2000's. Point is this trend exists because it is the path of evolution of advertising, and I personally doubt adblocking has enough impact yet to push the established course of advertising in a different direction.

Publishers are encouraged to find new ways to get revenue preferably outside of advertising so their revenue would not be at risk. You can only put so much sponsored content on your website before you start losing traffic , i.e. ad revenue and need to resort to shadier practices and this cycle continues until the website dies.b