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You're right that the wording is similar for the chrome extension policy. The section about interfering with ads is still under "Ads in Chrome Apps & Extensions" and the wording for the description is "Ads associated with your app or extension may not interfere with any ads on a third-party website or application.".

It's still clearly referring only to ads that are part of an extension, and AdNauseam obviously doesn't have any so it can't be the reason.

I ctrl+f'd ads to see what else they say, it's almost all in that section that doesn't apply but one thing that came up was "Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior" under Content Policies which contains the wording " Products or the ads they contain also must not mimic functionality or warnings from a user's operating system or browser". I wonder if that could be argued to apply - mimicking click functionality?
Not related to the article much -

The 10X developer concept is a bit flawed. If only because computer scientists and students understand that a linear co-efficient is borderline meaningless in measuring algorithmic performance, it seems to pander to the less-technically-literate side of the engineering pool.

Another problem - the developer who accomplishes tenfold productivity of his peers in one environment might be absolutely uncompetitive in another. For example, what's the difference between tuning performance in a critical backend path and building a fully functioning UI? A developer who is ten-times better at one might be incapable of completing the other.

Instead, especially with the whole full-stack movement, wouldn't it be better to look at qualifications, ability to learn, motivation, interest and attitude? Even looking for a "ninja developer" might be better if it means someone with an attitude to hack things together at any request. And looking for a seasoned developer might be better for maintaining and rebuilding one of those hacked-together platforms.

What's the difference between a 10X and X^2/10 developer? It's time for hirers and SE bloggers to see X, log X, X log X, and X^2 developers, who are all out there.
I just went to that wikipedia page and I like it a lot. I like the idea of getting a current event, no context, just the facts, and then maybe moving on to read about it later from a publication of my choosing. It's kinda like the Yahoo! News digest without the editorializing (and it has a refreshing lack of Trump tweets).
Thanks, Google. I'd never heard of this extension before now and had often wondered in the past why no one had thought of this strategy to screw with online tracking and data collection. The free PR is great, and now AdNauseam has another new user. :)
So, you think Google simply does not want to "diversify there revenue stream", and haven't tried to do so?

What about Android, DeepMind, self-driving cars, etc.?
GP should have asked "Who uses Chrome AND is privacy conscious enough to be interested in this?" Those demographics shouldn't really overlap much. It's like making a product for people who like hanging around in a casino but don't like gambling.
Oh, I read that as performance on the page for some reason. File size is exactly the same regardless of how many images/PLEENQs.
Google too uses plenty of formal logic in their autonomous OS, it's a frankenstein of various machine learning techniques. Narrow pattern recognition alone, while powerful, is unlikely to ever be suitable for things like negotiating busy four way stops.

There is the presumption that all you gotta do is gather enough training data and shazam!, you got a self driving car, but that's bollocks. There is a tremendous amount of elbow grease that foes into developing and validating an AV to six sigma reliability. Six sigma might not even be good enough for something as safety-critical as a driverless car.
If you think you need to be famous to get sponsorship working you really should consider how hard it is to advertising working.

You are mostly making money if you have an insane number of visitors.

You don't need to be famous to get sponsorship, plenty of companies are willing to pay at a minimum your cost with a mailing list around 5K people.

I actually think that a sponsorship model works much better even if you aren't famous or have many users as you can most probably offset that by giving access to a much better audience.
That is awesome! I cant wait to see one of those in a coffee shop.
That's capitalism for you.
The state of the US military makes a lot more sense when you consider that it's the only jobs program that Republicans will enthusiastically support. A large part of its de facto mission is to be an (unusually wasteful) welfare program that can actually secure serious amounts of funding from Congress. That 7% of the population of veterans receives some serious benefits, including retirement if they served (IIRC) 20 years, plus they were employed for some period of time when they might otherwise not have been (or have displaced someone else from a job).

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>The answer you received is, in my view, usually the answer given when "we don't think they did well enough to hire them, but think that they may get there with practice".

If you don't want to hire a tenured stats professor with 10+ years research experience to work in data science, I think that's your problem. Maybe OP's wife had some horrifying deal-breaker personality trait, but really it just sounds like Google's committee was too snobby about Industry Versus Academia to hire an experienced statistics expert to do statistics.
This barely counts, but I started a small premium handmade custom leather goods brand about 6 months ago: http://vulcancrafting.com. cash/card wallets, notebook/journal wallets, belts, etc... I didn't want to spend all my time after work sitting at a computer.

I'm not in the positive yet; there's an equipment investment cost, I intentionally don't keep a huge order backlog, and I don't charge as much as I could for some stuff. But, it more than pays for the hobby at this point, and I should recoup costs and start turning a profit in a couple months.
> I need to render planets, which are very very big objects, typically seen from very very close up

> I wonder if Taichi does Rayleigh scattering? I need it to do atmospheres...

I like the cut of your jib.
The story changed its title from being about Gecko and Servo to this literally in between me viewing the frontpage and clicking on the comments link.

This story here is IMO should be extempt from the "original title" rule - the original title is annoyingly misleading.
The age-group was created as a result of his attempt. He is the only one. It's preetty fuckin' baller of him. I bet this record is gonna stand for a while.
What, in your judgement, makes it not a UBI?

If basic income is X, some of the individuals receiving it will have a tax liability >= X. All legitimate UBI proposals I've ever heard share this property. It's either that, or the government finances the entire UBI with a budget deficit. And no one is seriously proposing that.

There's also minimum guaranteed income... which guarantees that Earned Income + Basic Income - Tax Liability >= Minimum Guaranteed Income, for all individuals. That's a stronger proposal. We should really aim for this.

But I don't think implementing UBI means that everyone is better off the next day. Some people's post-tax income will stay the same or go down.

Another question: do UBI and income tax go together? It would be interesting to see proposals that provide UBI but eliminate income tax, replacing it with some other kind of tax.
It is because it didn't included the !

Link :

http://softwarebythomas.com/blog/post/Why-I-left-wordpress-f...!
That and you're a Django/Python legend! I love that your combined passions in life have brought such an incredible tool to the world while also bringing you a profit.
Sorry for the sales pitch at the end.

Hopefully it doesn't detract from the point that it is a massive gulf between a Netflix and a traditional enterprise, which runs deep into their DNA.

The big boys simply have to overcome this over the next few years.
It is an attack on Google, but if they want people to perceive Chrome as benevolent, they must leave this extension alone.

By blocking the extension (and, no less, actively removing it from places it was already installed!) they just reveal that the Chrome store exists primarily to serve their own interests and is not for the benefit of the user.
The Steve Jobs legacy
I think the lead exposure = more violence connection is pretty well established. Leaded gasoline, while being the most studied connections out there, isn't even the only study in this regard.

For instance, there's this rather extensive study that shows higher homicide rates (among other things) in cities that used lead pipes for their water systems in the early 20th century.

http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfeigenbaum/files/feigenbau...

I do not see anything at the moment connecting lead exposure to dementia though.
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http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/include/usgs_chart2p32.p...

so "defense" spending was higher during wars, not really surprising and its peak was during Obama's term. Really doesnt fit the whole republican vs democrat theory.
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I browse with showdead on and had read the thread prior to my comment. If the reasons are listed upthread, there's even less reason for the unsubstantive addition. Constructive discussions require adding something substantial. If the comment was intended to support the author in some way, it needs to justify that as well, or even make the case that that's the intent.
For years I thought "bingo card" meant something else that I just wasn't familiar with. Until I actually read about it and it was as simple as cards to play bingo. I believe he sold that business now.
Absolutely!
I saw it on the news last night, and I must say I would not have guessed his age if it was not mentioned.

His cardio is probably better than mine.. :D
I wonder if that's permanent hearing loss or temporary desensitization. It's not hard to imagine that the brain eventually starts to tune out a constant 60db server hum without any mechanical or permanent hearing loss.
The key points derived from some kind of text summarizer aren't there in reddit.
I use Chromium because Firefox's performance is too terrible, but I consider myself privacy-conscious.
Gold divisibility is bad. Same for any other metal. This is one of the advantages of crypto currencies.
I disagree. If they are able to deliver a browser that's much faster and consumes less battery, I believe that would be enough to make a lot of users change their browser.

Maybe I'm wrong and I'm not a good example, but I the only add-ons that I have installed that I really care about is 1password (which is easy to live without, as I can use the stand-alone application) and HTTPS everywhere (which just means that I have to be extra careful when browsing).

I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of internet users that do not even have add-ons in their browsers, but I doubt that there's any user who would not care about browser speed/battery life.
Anyone who has been around enterprise IT would probably say that this is at least the right order of magnitude. A Spotify, Netflix, Google, Facebook can fly compared to a traditional enterprise
I'm growing old too and I find it hard to motivate myself to take up new things that are very long term -- somedays I wonder what is the point in learning a new programming language or framework and I am nowhere as old as him. Which is why I liked his attitude. It's refreshing and inspiring.
I've been using it for a few months and more recently took to installing it on public computers and telling anyone who would listen to use it. Just put it on my Mom's computer a day ago. I alone had it on a dozen machines or so.
Because Google is not "the man" in this scenario that you're sticking it to - it's the website owner whose content you're consuming. Google gets paid either way, and AdNauseam is pennies on their dollar. Webmaster however, depend on advertising revenue to keep publishing.
There are a few good ways, but it really helps if you know the products well. For me, my site sells guitar parts and DIY kits. And I've been playing guitar since I was about 10 years old, so that helps a ton.

I had a few other stores before this that didn't sell well at all, and I have to say that's because I just didn't know the products, or what the end users really wanted/needed/cared about.

Great ways to pick products:
- Terapeak (http://www.terapeak.com/), but this is paid
- eBay completed listings
- Or most simple (and what I use) -- once you know your products, search AliExpress and sort by "best-selling". That's my go-to.

Feel free to check my store for ideas (or if you want to buy something!). URL is: http://modshop.guitars/
Building one right now. Will be doing a meta MVP in two weeks.
Keep an eye on crowdraising.co. it won't return anything yet but should be up in a couple of weeks
As far as I know, there are laws against smashing up a bunch of merchandise you haven't paid for, and the department store would probably press charges rather than taking advantage of the fact that they're part of a conglomerate providing medical insurance to refuse coverage to the protestors on shaky grounds.
Are you trying to relate clicking ads to smashing up merchandise?
Yes, "inbound marketing" (a blog) is probably the biggest accelerator to growth I can (and should) do. I'm holding off for now though, as I need to make the product more friendly to business users first. Right now PhantomJsCloud is focused on developers, so I need to make some non-dev friendly tooling first. That's my excuse at least.

Regarding StackOverflow, yes, that's actually how I validated the free MVP (answering SO questions and if my product might be beneficial, providing a link to my product) but generally those traffic sources don't seem to scale very well past MVP validation. I haven't tried Quora though, I will add that to my todo list :)
What I like about it is actually being able to read content in the tiles. For me, reducing their size would just turn it into a gimmick - cute thumbnails but why bother?
I don't need to define it though. India has non-zero tax revenue. It can raise that revenue somehow (to claim otherwise would be bold and would require evidence). And some individuals will have a tax liability greater than the level of basic income.
Just don’t have ads on your website. Easy as pie.
They obviously didn't cover every possible cause nor should they be expected to. With that logic no one could ever do an empirical study.
If you act like you're running your house for the benefit of the public, don't be surprised if people get upset when you start throwing out people you don't like.
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Click fraud is a standard industry term for robot initiated clicks, which this is a case of. What this extension generates are certainly not legitimate clicks form interested users, or even unintentional clicks that happen due to various reasons (some HN readers like to blame them on dark patterns, but they're really just of a consequence of the fact that ad tech is just not that great in general).
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Sure.

It is nowhere near stable: https://twitter.com/sama/status/791754651506909186
I prefer classic advertisement labelled as such over subliminal manipulation like product placements or fake reviews / fake "fans" on social platforms.

And frankly, I even discovered products through ads I might have never found otherwise, even though that's not how it should be in a perfect world.
more like "I'm allowed to defend myself from the attacking dog by using the stick." I'm not surprised they want to take my stick away, but that doesn't make Google's actions any less shady.
Nevermind, all you need is type(). Metaclass unnecessary.
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Insanely fast json parser in java
Ask HN: Discussing Side Project with Current Employer’s Lawyer
I have been working on a side project in my spare time to fulfill a need within my team (non-engineering). All of my code was written on my personal computer either during off work hours or on the weekend for the better part of the year. Once my minimal viable product was built I presented it to my boss and leader of our team and they thought it was great, but added that I should get clearance from our in-house lawyer before we use it. In their words, I should “have it written in print something along the lines of I own the code, but our company owns the data”. Based on their suggestion, I am planning on meeting with our lawyer about the prospect of using my application, but allowing me to keep ownership of the application with the potential to roll it out to a wider audience in the future. I will also note that my application has zero relationship to what my company offers or what we would eventually offer so I don’t believe there is a conflict of interest.

Any advice on how I should phrase the conversation? Specific questions that I should ask? Legal documents that should be involved? Do you think there will be red flags that will come up during the conversation? Should I mention a potential future scenario where an additional contributor is involved from outside of the company?
The number of iterations, if I recall correctly, is implementation-specific.
FB's culture is ... immature. That's the best way I can put it.
Disagree. If they want to stop click fraud, they can try to do it from other than the browser end.
I am maybe 5 or 6X when using Django as I know it inside out. Probably about 0.5 - 1X using JavaScript, and 0.1X using Rust.
Mind blown.

His diet that consists mainly of fruits and vegetables along with his lean body are likely major factors that contribute to his youth like health at 105.
> By clicking on the ads automatically, it seems like Adnauseum actually supports the underlying website (which earns $$) while also performing the function of muBlock

That theory works until someone notices that the extra clicks aren't leading to anything else, complains about click fraud, and then the website is penalized with fines, account suspension, etc. That small site likely won't even have the resources to defense themselves effectively.

There's also an interesting security question: do you really want to automatically click on the next zero-day deployed through an ad network?
Yes, here's my URL, feel free to share =)
http://modshop.guitars/

For customer issues, you just need to be responsive and as helpful as you can be.

I've also had issues shipping outside the US, but Shopify (the platform that I use) lets you disable shipping outside of certain countries.

I've had some issues shipping to Canada, (never had an EU customer), so I only ship within the USA now. And changing that was only a few clicks.
enterprises also suffer from organisational and process legacy

Indeed. It's possible to waste huge amounts of time simply trying to decide what to do and communicating with all the 'stakeholders'. If you want to change the way your organisation builds software products you have to change the organisation.
All I have the quote from the recruiter. As a referer from a different job category, I was not privy to the committee meeting. I actually had a face to face talk with the recruiter a few days later because it sounded so nuts to me. FWIW, he also quoted somebody from the committee, who said (paraphrasing, it has been several years) "So, we're telling somebody who passed the interview to go work someplace else, this is just insane" We tried to go through some appeals process for women/minorities, but the entire thing seemed to be designed to degrade the candidate & waste their time. Eg, trying to wear them down.

This was MTV, and it was several years ago, so perhaps things have changed.

I admittedly know very little about the hiring process. The whole hiring, interview process at Google just pissed me off in general so much that I refused to participate when I was there -- never even took the interview training.

When we interviewed for our jobs, we were lied to and told we were not doing technical interviews (which it turns out is Google company policy for handling acquisitions, according to a friend of mine from school who was a CTO at a different acquired company). So there I was, at 40ish, totally cold, being asked tech interview questions drawing on uni stuff I hadn't seen in 20ish years. I flubbed the interview, and came in one level below my peers. (though I was promoted after 2 years to the level I was working at). I almost refused to go for the promo, but just treated the entire thing as a joke and wound up getting it easily.
Yeah, I wasn't even able to finish the article because of so many unsupported assertions and "facts".
There are several companies that are doing some interesting work in this are. Check out www.cuebiopharma.com. They essentially take a sample of the cancer, then generate antibodies from the patient to attach it. It is a simple injection, no chemo, no surgery. They have been showing very impressive results with this treatment. It will not work on all cancers though, I believe liver.
That is a neat idea, and a neat site. Can I offer just a tiny bit of design advice though? You really ought to have more vertical whitespace going on there. It feels very, very crowded, especially with your h1 rubbing up against your logo at the top there. Basically, anywhere there's a large block of stuff, you should double or more the whitespace around it.

Though it may not be a winning strategy, good luck anyway! It never hurts to have it.
I can't tell you how many hours I spent teaching myself ML (not assembler) during the early 80's on a PET4032.

Ya. I'm old AF.

But, it laid the groundwork for me so that I have a fundamental understanding of whats really going on with any language, and, processor. Once you learn ML (or assembler), learning new languages becomes an order of magnitude easier because of this understanding.
How (and how fast) do new species form?
> Somewhere at Microsoft there is a whiteboard with 'Valve' crossed out and 'Microsoft' written instead.

This is exactly the kind of visual that we need in order to coherently think about the past and future of software.

It's a great short-story writing prompt.
Computer glasses work great for me. I'm mildly myopic, but at 58 found I could no longer focus on desktop screens ~2 feet away. So I got computer eyeglasses (my normal prescription divided in half). They've made a huge difference. Everything's clear again. However my more myopic sister could never make hers work, so YMMV.

I'm generally OK with spec swapping, but I'm tempted to replace my primary glasses with bifocal/trifocal/progressives which in theory should end the swapping. I'm just not so sure I'd like tilting my head in order to change focus. :-/
Man that brings back the memories: I had a Vic-20 and had learned how (through magazines) to program in BASIC. I had the Vic-20 manual, and for some reason could not conceptualize the link between assembly language and the op-codes. I remember the day I saw a BASIC program that poked the assembly op codes into RAM for a simple keyboard - WOW! suddenly the light went on in my head. Good times.
Apparently his VO2 max is similar to that of a sedentary 50-year-old.

http://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/news/105-year-old-cyclist...
Go into the reddit comments and you'll see how the article itself is a bit misleading as well
Ahh, yeah. So they only specifically care about interfering from an extension if the extension's ads are interfering.

I guess they just invented this "single purpose" policy to be able to ban things without coming right out and saying "you're hurting our revenue stream" :)

There must be someone from legal that's advising them not to ever say anything specific about extensions that mess with ads.
Some piston-engined aicraft had crawlways in the wing to permit inflight engine servicing ( Ju-90, XB-15 and B-36 come to mind ) but sadly I'm unaware of any jet aircraft with such a clever feature. Potentially the YB-49 flying-wing but I haven't located a cutaway to confirm.