skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't like ads, but I like my free content, and ads are an acceptable way of financing it

When looking at that tradeoff most people seem to agree with you (or don't care to think about it), and some people disagree with you.

A note: So if you just feel like you don't care to make this same choice, I'm not talking to you and am just using your comment as a jumping off point. But you seem to be defending the advertising status quo on HN, and if you are then I am talking to you.

I've never found "But if people start making these choices my business model stops working!" be a particularly defensible argument to make. This is maybe the single place online where it is least needed for me to make this point, right?

But apparently not, especially when it's the so-called disruptors who are making it. This is a potentially popular service to provide people at the moment, the ability to protect themselves from their online habits being used to build profiles of them, and it would destroy the incumbent business model (advertising supported content using click tracking). This sounds like classic disruption to me, doing something good for the consumer [1] while opening up a huge gap for a new and inventive business model to fill the gap.

As everyone is no doubt aware at this moment, there is no ethical argument to be made to save this "content" as a whole. The fact we call it "content" at all means no one really needs to say this do they? It is not saving journalism, that is still dying. I'd put better odds on the next business model that emerges saving investigative journalism, because corporate sponsorship was the stupidest idea for saving it possible anyway.

[1] If you think that using personal information built on surveillance in order to influence purchasing decisions is pro-consumer you are lying to yourself. It is effective and profitable. As is combining it with fake reviews and lifestyle marketing using shame and FOMO.
So what happened? Was there a massive disaster that created an overwhelming flood of patients, that everybody needs to work overtime?

Because under normal circumstances, a competently run hospital should be able to function with normal 8-hour shifts. If that's not possible, then management fucked up. Accepting these kind of hours as standard is completely unreasonable and dangerous, especially in hospital, where lives depend people being awake enough to do their job safely. People responsible for that should not merely be fired, but locked up.
This does not actually seem to describe the state of the internet generally. I gravitate more and more towards little pocket-universe parts of the network that are essentially invisible, but (apropos of the article) things like comment sections are quite often the functional equivalent of a giant neon ASSHOLES WELCOME sign above the door.
I use a SteelSeries Apex keyboard. It's pretty fantastic, but it has dome keys instead of mechanical switches.

I grew up on mechanical keyboards but after testing a bunch in a computer store, I realized I no longer care what kind of keys I use. It could be that I just got used to the Apple chiclet keyboards, but who knows.

My keyboard has four switchable profiles and 22 programmable keys, which means I can have 88 combinations. I mostly use the keys for launching apps and Sublime Text shortcuts though.

Not bad for around $100.
It's fair to point out the distinction between the elected representatives (and the unelected appointed civil servants, bureaucrats, etc.) and the citizens who elected them. My original statement was to remind minarchists that ultimately, though, the state is still made up of the people it rules. The libertarian inclination to view the state as an alien, nefarious entity, doesn't lead to much room to improve it. Certainly your distinction is correct.
I'm a customer. Of course I matter. They're losing sales because they're not giving me any reason to stay, and multiple reasons to go. That matters.

Suppose I bite the bullet and switch to Windows? Apple's lost me then. They're not going to win me back. And that's not just the Mac. That's maybe my next phone. My next pad. My next router (oh wait, they're getting out of the wireless router game too).

Losing customers who have been with them for decades, who have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on their products and will stop? That fucking well matters.
Well I can't say for sure about post-residency, but during the programs the shift scheduling was consistent all four years (some months you work the day 12-hour shift, other months you work the night 12-hour shift). The only thing that changed was during 3rd and 4th year, the call schedule was a bit more relaxed (after all they have to prep for another round of board exams).

As for burnout, alcoholism is relatively high among many medical specialties: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160314111353.h...
Thank you for writing these. These blog posts are my go-to resources when my client companies want to learn more about what they can do to improve their security posture long term. It's a really great series.
Is this from the original author on min.css ?
Gping.io server software open sourced
Hi everybody, happy December!

Tl;dr:

1. We have a project roadmap

2. The server is open source

3. You can be a contributor

WHAT IS GPING.IO? It provides realtime tracking of your cars location, engine diagnostic codes, OBD integration, and more. It provides a TinyURL like URL for your car on gping.io.

2016 is wrapping up and the GPing[1] team has a couple major announcements to close out the year.

We’ve brought a second engineer on board to help. Our first task was to figure out what kind of project GPing was going to be and how to get there. We established a roadmap of new features and the top three are:

* Account authentication, provisioning, and settings support;

* A documented API allowing data access;

* User defined actions that can be triggered by various location related events.

The second task we undertook was to clean up the existing codebase (a little) and get it ready for you to deploy your own instance. That means…

We’re happy to announce that the GPing server code is being released on GitHub[2]. It’s set up to make deploying your own instance as trivial as possible whether the environment is a LAMP box in the living room or AWS ECS. There are a few early adopter codes[3] (unlocks the Android app until at least 2018) for the Android app available free if you’d like to take a custom server for a spin.

Even with additional eng support GPing is just two people, with primarily back end experience, working in their spare time. If you’d like to get involved we have (or will soon) particular need for:

* UX/Design for Android and web;

* Front end web developers;

* iOS devs;

* Folks with authentication/oauth experience;

* Marketing and copy editing support!

Your contributions are appreciated and you can find out how to get involved by responding here, dropping into IRC (#gping.io on Freenode), or checking our listed issues[4].

Happy Holidays,

<3 GPing Team

[1] http://gping.io

[2] https://github.com/dustball/gping.io

[3] http://bit.ly/gping-promo

[4] https://github.com/dustball/gping.io/issues
Why would corporations not just move consumption offshore too? What happens when Ireland has 0% sales tax on software?
It would, yes, I'd imagine. I looked up what it's called and it's the Financial transaction tax[1]. What some propose is to make it 0.3% on all transfers of money. Right now it costs $21.80 to send $1,000,000. The same payment under the new scheme would be $3,000. I have no idea what can of worms it would open up but it's an interesting thought experiment.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_transaction_tax#Unit...
Only if I haven't programmed in any other language before.
>> Mostly because the Pro market now encompasses everyone wanting to upgrade their lower-end MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs. Because there's no upgrade path for these users at the moment

That's exactly the boat I was in myself, my 2012 MacBook Air just wasn't cutting it anymore for my light Xcode use, but none of the MacBooks would have been much of an improvement in terms of computing power. Because I'm really not prepared to give up OS X yet I was basically forced to stick with the MBA, or buy a MBP at an even higher premium than before.

That said, I decided to close my eyes and plunk down the cash for a tbMBP anyway, and from a hardware perspective I love the machine, as I'm not affected by any of the (IMO for most people mostly artificial/overblown) 'problems' people are complaining about. None, except the price, which still leaves me with a bad taste. Something I haven't experienced with any of my numerous previous Apple purchases...
What can the Surface do that your Mac cant?
Use a pen?

The build quality of the Surface have gotten better
with each iteration but they are still far below the
Macbooks. I have had 3 of them, and I have a lot of friends that use the Surface due to work. I believe one guy is on his 4 Surface 3 now, due to repeated quality problems in hardware.

I am on my 2 Surface 3 now.

The list of hardware issues for Surface 2 and Surface 3 is long and painful.

I dont have insight into 4 yet, but I am told it is better.
I feel the same. I am as happy with my Apple products as I've ever been. That does not mean they are perfect of course. It merely means I like them.
Surely there must be a few suitable candidates at Apple waiting for Tim to screw up enough? I think Apple will need its own Nadella soon.
> "Mad in America" is obviously not willing to make a fuss of things like bipolar where people will take their lithium for decades and bear the side-effects [...]

The creation and promotion of "Bipolar" as a DSM disorder is covered in Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker's followup to Mad in America.

> [...] because the alternative is to go actually mad-crazy.

The whole point of Whitaker's Mad in America foundation is to change the paradigm of our approach to mental health. nstead of trying to find the right drug to make a symptom go away, it would be much more effective to figure out non-psychotropic-drug ways to help people function better.
Tweet from the CTO: https://twitter.com/adam_messinger/status/811326653339025408
Venture Reality Fund releases AR industry landscape
Then how do the masses get educated on something that has a hipster mentality of, "you won't understand" ?

Generally curious. The only solution I see is some empathy machine that allows you empirically experience someone else's experiences (VR perhaps?) along with understanding their feelings while going through those experiences.

I guess I'm asking for the ability to read minds...
With all the discussions of ageism and sexism in tech, classifing a significant contribution to the industry as the result of "old man rage" is inappropriate IMHO
A reason nobody has might be that the actual outcome was more unlikely and unexpected than the alternative histories one might come up with. They'd be short and conclude with both companies being sold for scrap and absorbed uselessly into some behemoth or another.
>What was the key? BSD? Objective-C? I don't see those being that important.

Err, Steve Jobs and having an actual vision?

>They could have bought Palm, QNX, did something based on Linux...

Well, Palm was worth more than Apple at the time, so no. And if Palm wasn't, BlackBerry, Nokia etc surely were, and they didn't make the iPhone.

And Microsoft was putting one half-assed PC/tablet hybrid after another for a decade before the iPad, and only had crap to show for it.
If that ever becomes a direct result of regulating doctors in that way, then I don't see why we can't solve that problem the same way we solved the shortage of nurses decades ago. In this case instead of importing filipino nurses, we'll just import doctors from wherever.

Who know, India or China might have a surplus of doctors too.

Or maybe that's the kind of problem that telemedicine will solve.
You sound like a bit of an edge case.
I keep wondering how much success it would have had if the design team was still at AT&T.
BeBoxes were beautiful although maybe in a way only a mother could love.
> Kill advertising and you'll take the content with it, because many of the content producers and curators won't waste their time for no return.

Great! I'd personally love it if they went away. If it's good content, people have definitely shown to be willing to pay for it.

"essentially all of the ad supported sites I visit are diversions" - https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/AdSupportedWebD...
[video] All Things D – A Conversation with Andrei Alexandrescu
Got it. So preventing domain spoofing would solve this problem. Who's job is that?
From a privacy perspective, is there a difference between never clicking an ad and clicking all the ads?
macOS (and older OSX releases) are UNIX (see http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3627.htm for certifications). Linux is not UNIX (its not certified - not many are - see http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/index.html) and could best be described as POSIX like.
well I know you have great idea's but sadly a lot of the focus of gitlab at the moment is either monetizing with EE (which I can understand, I need to develop for my income aswell..) and the other with adding features to CE (which of course leads to the first).

Sadly this does not fix bugs. And the issue tracker of gitlab-ce grows and grows and the CI is not really stable.
The new permission model was great, but break stuff.

Unfortunatly at the moment me and my team is discussing to use gitlab + jenkins instead of gitlab + gitlab for vcs/ci.
just because webhooks + jenkins is way more stable than the gitlab way (and actually webhooks are push based, while gitlab ci polls.)

This is sad since gitlab ci was quick and easy, while even the new dsl for jenkins is way harder to get right. but we actually can't retry half of our builds.

Another way would be using the shell executor where we actually loose some functionality. (we use the docker executor).

I know your vision (and I think some ideas are great), but sadly I think too much centralization is harmful after going with gitlab since v8, somethings does not need to be reinvented by gitlab (they might just need a improvement).
"It's like whatever computer they are using as the NTP server doesn't have a real-time clock."

It sounds like their domain controller holding the PDCE FSMO role is a virtual machine. This advice might be outdated but last time I checked it was better to host it on a physical machine. If they're restoring DBs from backups without notifications and managing their Active Directory environment like this I can only imagine how fragile your infrastructure really is. Good luck, you're going to need it.
This is not some proposed idea from an Ivory Tower, this is common practice and common sense, practiced by pretty much every tax agency in the world.

Like many laws, there are subjective components and that is what precedents and courts are for.

Tax agencies understand that businesses exist to make a profit and try to come up with systems that are compatible with that.
Then people need secrets to access the secret store and you're back at square one ;)
You don't think that's kind of questionable?
Probably not as the UKs tax treatment Is much much more employee friendly.

If an approved share save scheme hits big as BT.A did 18 months ago you can make £150k Tax free as one of my friends did.
I like to fight against invasive ads by using Google Contributor, which prevents Google-based ad networks from even serving me the content. That way, the sites I use are still supported and I am seemingly protected.

Only costs me a couple bucks a month too.
None of the tech really mattered, not much anyway. What Apple really got with NeXT was Steve Jobs' vision, along with a more seasoned CEO better capable of realizing that vision. Whether Apple had gotten BeOS or NeXT didn't really matter all that much in comparison.
borrowing money from the public and never repaying it is theft
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218550
So you want to bring up the problem that over medication causes...
1) If other people want to write contracts with each other that obligate them to do things for each other in response to bit patterns generated by my computer, that's none of my business.

Legally, you might get Tortious Interference pass the laugh test, but who is interfering? The author (if they're cautious) isn't running it, so you're likely looking at RIAA-style fishing for IP addresses for random people who installed the plugin and contributed a tiny amount, and we've seen that show already[1].

2) It could. Things have hard-to-predict effects. I see no reason why I should weight small startups as more important than the set of everyone disgusted by the invasion of every metaphorical orifice with surveillance tentacles.

3) Good on ya.

I don't know if I'm going to run this plugin or not. But this is exactly the sort of thing needed to level the playing field between the commercial surveillance shops (Facebook, Google, the other ad shops, on down the spectrum to phishers and other outright criminals) and actual humans.

We know that any form of legal or illegal online surveillance that has a chance of being commercially self-sustaining will be at least trialed. This has been demonstrated repeatedly. Legally, this is difficult to address sensibly because of the mismatch between the legal system speed and the tech-landscape speed (not to mention the inevitable unintended-consequence shakeouts, and the slowness of general wisdom in times of change). And that's even if assuming the Powers that Be want to address them, which is unlikely in the U.S. while a con-artist setting the agenda.

So that leaves making as much of the surveillance business model untenable as possible. I don't know what the right approach is, but it will likely be one that involves feeding the watchers lies.

I really don't like pissing on other people's work. But if that work is dedicated to things that make my life worse, I retain a right to, among other things, lie to their creation out of self-defense. It is that simple.

Random, related aside: I'm unlikely to have time to make this happen, but one thing I've thought would be fun is to see about how tricky it would be to repurpose some test equipment to be, say, a whole herd of Bluetooth phones[2] taking a walk by those iBeacons. Being more subtle would likely be a lot more fun, depending on the target, and would serve as a useful reminder of what 'unlicensed spectrum' means.

[1] Spoiler, here's the ending: https://popehat.com/2016/12/16/the-prenda-saga-goes-criminal...

[2] What's the collective noun for phones?
Maybe mini-payments would be better than micro-payments, so long as there's a good it-just-works technology for doing them that minimizes user interaction.

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>Crystal balls that see the future are certainly in short supply.

Yes, but Apple, from 1999 until Jobs died at least, and for some time more, gave people opportunity after opportunity to buy a constantly sky-rocketing stock. If someone didn't see it with the first iMac (1999 IIRC), they should have seen it with the iPod. If not, then with the iPhone. They had many chances to buy that stock.
The bottom salaries might sound low in this forum, maybe because no one who is getting paid this kinds of salaries hangs around Hacker news.. ;) (I've known plenty of warm bodies dev's that make that kind of money)
Apple needs to license the operating system again. Since they don't care about desktops anymore, why not license macOS just for those form factors?

Essentially the licensees could build any kind of Mac clone as long as it doesn't have a battery. This could be attractive even to startups: desktops are easier to design than laptops, and there's so many Mac user niches that could be served by specialist Mac clones.

Some pro users need Mini-style compact boxes with an abundance of ports; others would really like a Surface Studio -style pen-driven design for drawing tasks; some would need a thin blade server with a fat GPU; yet others just want the good old hulking tower with all the PCIe slots you can fit. Apple won't make any of these, so why not reap the goodwill and licensing fees of letting a handful of partners do it?

The 2013 Mac Pro is a disappointing example of Apple trying to build a pro machine that would cut across those niches with the magic of design and Thunderbolt ports, but ending up not really answering anyone's needs. (I deployed a bunch of Mac Pros for a video job and found out the design suffers from overheating. Over the years Apple has been quietly replacing machines that start exhibiting certain crashes. That really put me off from the Mac Pro, and unfortunately it meant that the project is exploring Windows-based options next because there's nothing else from Apple.)
Okay, fair enough.

"ultimately, though, the state is still made up of the people it rules."

Well, that's one reason why it can be so dangerous. It's made of humans! :)
It's dishonest to accuse me of cherry picking statistics - particularly when I never claimed my short post was a rigorous statistical analysis - then reply to me with your own cherry picked statistics. Nevertheless...

There's over twice as many doctors per 1,000 people in Cuba than the US, however those facts are dismissed.

And how does this effect the quality of life in Cuba? Life expectancy is the same [0]. Are working class Americans creating makeshift boats to sail to Cuba in order to benefit from the superior conditions?

When people talk about how decrease in things like open sewage, food-borne disease and other civic advancements lead to increase in longevity, those facts are dismissed.

Those are good things. Low tax, high income places tend to have these features as well, strangely enough. I recommend visiting Hong Kong or Singapore.

When people talk about how there's more affordability and more equitable medical care under democratically administered health systems, those facts are dismissed.

Those aren't facts. Those are vague hand waves.

When people talk about what Nestle has done to privatized water, what the diamond industry has done to Africa, how the market-based oil system has kept the middle east in 21st century monarchies, those facts are dismissed.

I never claimed markets were always benevolent. Simply that they tend towards more prosperity than collectivism. Also none of what you pointed to is particularly free of state involvement - states are all complicit.

You can "cherry pick" the worst examples of what corporations have done all you like, they pale into comparison to the cherry pickings of the worst thing public institutions like states have done (famines, genocides, world wars).

Such claims as miraculous progress due to privatization are absurdist fantasies and easily refuted.

And yet you have failed to do so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
This is only going to happen in the professional audio world if you can build wireless protocols with sufficient reliability in terms of latency - bandwidth isn't the problem, latency is. Neither Bluetooth nor 802.11 are designed for guaranteed latency. Firewire was designed explicitly for it. USB not so much, but it can be adequately faked. But wireless? I don't see that happening anytime soon. Right now, I can't get my computer to reliably do Bluetooth from ten feet away to handle a single one-way stereo stream. That's crap.

So this wireless dream future? It's just a dream, for those who have more demanding needs than surfing the web.
It would take a lot more than $1B to make mass transit viable for a significant percentage of those who currently drive on the 405. Just putting in a light rail line here or there wouldn't do shit because few people's destinations would be within walking distance of the stations. You'd also need to massively increase bus service to even have a chance at making a significant dent in car traffic. For better or worse, LA's low density means vast swaths of the metro area would be cost prohibitive to connect with mass transit.