skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's related discussion on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13325507

Not only is it apparently banned from the store, but also it's being removed from existing user's machines, on top of not allowing new installs.

Edit: Going to quote my thread from that discussion as this announcement confirms they were banned over the single use policy...

> Other ad blockers "block ads" and "block annoying eu cookie notices". Should they be removed?

> I just visited the Chrome store and chose the first extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/office-online/ndjp.... It makes word documents AND spreadsheets?!

> Hopefully you can see where I'm going... whatever's written in the policy is difficult to enforce literally. Someone has to make the distinction based upon the intent of that policy. A person has to draw the line. If Google have made the decision based on that policy, well that's their decision.

> Reading https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/single_purpose (part 4) makes me thinking "disrupting ad networks" could be that single purpose. Then it'd cover blocking & clicking. Just like "Office Online"'s "edit office documents" covering both "word processing" and "spreadsheets".
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Azaras, thank you for your comment! You need only one device per home to detect all major appliances, this is the main feature of our system. Will you be at the CES? It would be great to have a chat there :) Our booth at the CES is 51841 Sands.
I've seen this before:

>> At some point in mid-2017, all new CSS will be built with Quantum plane parts, not Gecko. Going forward, it will be much easier and more enjoyable to implement new CSS properties. Which makes it easier for folks in the open source community to contribute.

If you're not careful this can drag on for years with half the stuff done one way and half the new way - especially once you reach the point where "all new stuff is built the new way". There can come a point where you need to just purge the old stuff. We've seen this in places like GIMP moving to GEGL, and several project moving to GTK3 (GIMP, Inkscape, and others), the purge of java from LibreOffice, and now there's this mushy migration to Wayland. Firefox is not the only project migrating to rust either.

In all these cases I'm actually in favor of the migrations, and many of those have been completed over years. It's just that once a path has been defined I feel like there needs to be a more concerted effort to actually complete the transition sooner rather than later. Let new features take a back seat and get your internals switched over. I know it's a balance but working on a project that's straddling the fence is almost always slower in the long run.

Having said that, firefox is huge so subsystems will need to switch to rust one at a time. I'm just saying that once CSS can be done the new way they need to require it to all be done that way, not just new stuff. Perhaps that is the case and it wasn't spelled out clearly in TFA.
Is it any worse than some lumbering giant laying people off who've been around for twenty years, because the business model of 20 years ago doesn't work anymore?
Blogger was just another LiveJournal, BlogSpot, or WordPress (StudlyCaps IntEntional). Twitter (i.e. "public SMS") has very little to do with blogging.
The point is, change your pitch. Your wording leads to thoughts like the two commenters had above. Shouldn't be too hard if you have real substance to sell.
I'm interested in this kind of projects I have a lot of experience working with scrapers. How do you earn money from them? via affiliate sales?
I'm working on a deal with a local private school and that was the first question I got. "How can you offer faster speeds and better pricing than Frontier, Verizon, etc?".

They were previously paying $2,000/m for 100 Mbps. It's not that hard to compete with that. haha
I don't know anything about drop-shipping - do you have any good resources that serve as a guide?

In particular, I'm wondering about how to handle problems - when orders don't arrive, when customers want to return defective items etc.
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In case anyone is interested there is some discussion of this over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13308092

The same story has been submitted from other sources as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315995

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13315751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13313220

There may be others, if you're interested in the different reports from different sources you can easily search for them.
Assuming they aren't detected as fraudulent, it's messing with more than metrics. The advertisers, in many cases, are paying per click.

Edit: Not making a judgement here, just clarifying that the extension is doing more than messing with metrics.
His sponsorship banners are blocked by ad blockers, to the point of being manually added by someone to EasyList. [0]

[0] https://www.troyhunt.com/ad-blockers-are-part-of-the-problem...
Thank you for taking a moment to respond; if I can get another question in, can you tell me a bit about how this scales with, say 10 or 40 images on a page as far as filesize goes? 150k in the context of modern web pages is not too far off from being realistic as an ad solution, depending on how many pictures it takes to reach the tipping point of page load time.
Because acquihires are at much, much lower valuations than that. You'd be relying on the investors agreeing to basically write off their investment.
"It’s not that I know better than they do, just that it’s clear they are wrong and actively glossing over huge bodies of ignorance to focus on the subjects they think they understand.", this is very common feeling one gets across many domains from contact with textbooks.
It's possible to install Chrome extensions outside of the store: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/Install-AdNauseam-on...
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Very good idea and execution. It is nice to be able to compare the power image-based design versus the simplicity of the text-based design
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I was under the impression that for this reason, surgical resectioning was a necessary component of any viable approach for larger tumors.
Thanks!

> How do you host your site?

TL;DR: entry level Virtual Private Server (VPS) per country.

Based on some SEO articles, I decided to go for Top Level Domains depending on target market (.es for Spain, .de for Germany, etc.) so I needed properly geolocated IP addresses for each country. Each server is around 10 USD/month making this approach affordable. I do all operations.

> How do you compare the similar products and aggregate them within your database? Unique identifies etc.

Each product is manually added (using self made web based template) into database basically because of custom description, picture and specifications. Similar products are linked based first on category and then using properties like weight and drop.
I find it interesting that this particular Adblocker is being removed, while countless others remain. I suspect that other adblockers like, say, ABP or UBO, are less damaging to the agent fingerprint than an adblocker that clicks everything.
It is certainly interesting if it truly materializes. But it looks like the plan is to mostly backport stuff from py3- so py3 is still the future, with Placeholder getting some of those features eventually. And that is great from a legacy codebase perspective.
Thank you for pointing this out. While I dug, I clearly didn't dig deep enough.
I remember hearing this as a kid. But it was mostly speculation, it would be insane to believe it to the extent that one even starts to plan for it.

We are in a completely different situation today.
> When you serve a page to a user, you are responsible (morally and legally) for what happens on the user's computer. Ad network serves up malicious code? Your fault.

Morally, absolutely, but has it been tested legally? I can see sites weaselling out by saying that they trusted their ad networks to do good, etc, etc, and nobody learning from it.
What sort of investment did it take to get started? Have you written anything about starting off, and your transition from a WISP to fiber?
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Instagram was sold for $1 billion with just 13 employees. That's certainly not an acquihire.
Easy to disable as well (same with the comment engine provided.
Which one is your most profitable? On average how long did it take to become profitable? Were you able to live off the first sites profits or did it take all 3 to do it? Do you have a family? I ask this because I do and if you do whats your method for time management and is it enough to support one. Great businesses by the way!!
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I feel like this is a common fear in many disciplines. Clinical psychology PhD's thinking PsyD's reduce the quality/wages of their profession (this was a huge contention among psych professors during undergrad), MD's thinking expanded practice privileges for NP's or PA's reduce quality/wages of their profession (and related, anesthesiologists worrying that CRNA's and AA's reduce their wages), PhD-educated machine learning/CS experts worrying that 2-year online data science masters reduce the quality/wages of their profession, etc. I mean, I have the same fear in many ways. Just pointing it out because I find it interesting. I guess the question is - is it reality or not?
What kind of "unpredictable"?

Game theory says that in certain circumstances the best option is to pick randomly with calculable probability from known options. But, anyone using the same model of the situation will come up with the same options and probabilities for that choice. So does that really count as "unpredictable"?

(I also have doubts about how often things like that will actually show up in business in the real world, but even assuming that they do...)
"Company which makes its money from advertising bans automated click fraud extension from being used in its browser."
Hello Firefox and Opera. I'm suddenly in the market for a new browser.
AdNauseam silently clicks the ads as you mention, so they're actively messing with Google's ad statistics. If I was Google, I would consider it an attack too.
This work was heralded all over the internet when it came out. Here's some great HN discussions: [1] on a blog post by Jeremy Kun, and [2] on a Quanta Magazine article. Kun has already updated his post to reflect the retracted claim.

A little disappointing that it's not quasipolynomial, but subexponential is still a great achievement! It means, as Babai says, the asymptotic complexity is better than e^(n^epsilon)) for any epsilon > 0. Have a look at the graph of e^(n^0.01) for huge n to get an idea of what this is like.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553879

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10731022
Perhaps it really is an ad, but if it is real, I am impressed that the person thinks at 56, he has enough runway in life to make a serious contribution by coding :-)...I like that attitude.
Periodic meetings mean the end to remote work. Avoid them whenever possible.

I try to be proactive about cancelling the periodic meetings that we do have, whenever there's nothing to talk about.

Traditional meeting strategies also work well: never start a meeting without an agenda, set a short and fixed time slot for it and always end when the time is over.
There are 45 in total, my biggest communities are Dutch. Hope it's not against HN guidelines to post these links:

https://www.tractorfan.nl/ (mechanisation)

https://www.prikkebord.nl/ (dairy farming)

https://www.truckfan.nl/ (transportation)

https://www.vastgereden.nl/ (bloopers! good for the views)

https://www.boeren.nu (combination of the above)

http://quotum.nu/fosfaatrechten/ (niche market, covers the trade in phosphor quota licenses)
This is MY user agent, not google's. I should be able to install whatever the fuck add on I want on it. Removing the add on from computer where it was already installed is incredibly user hostile.

So I installed Firefox and adNauseam on it. I was not a user before.
Indeed. I think you could make the argument that it was a better investment than something like the F-35 though - at least the interstate system provides continuous economic benefit etc.
The backlash is what worries me, this could easily trigger a huge retaliation.
The same backlash that led to donald trump, and the new right.
Even if you're obese you still need calories from the base of your diet. Put another way, you aren't going to live on lettuce and kale alone.
I'd rather die of an abscessed tooth than visit a doctor out of whatever the equivalent of bootcamps would be. I'm grateful to society I don't have to.
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Eh, I've tried that many many times for many different things, and I've never been able to get an exact price quote beforehand. The response is always "you need to talk with so-and-so" who is always someone or something else. It's a maze of runarounds, with no one willing to commit to anything in particular.

It's one of the many things broken about the US healthcare system. In no other market would a seller be able to get away with not providing a contractual quote before the service is provided.
Go promotes the pattern of dealing with errors ,which to be fair I think is an improvement on exception based handling. But rust compiler forces the user of a function to handle error .it's impossible to 'val ,_ = getValOrErr()' in Rust. You just can't ignore an error.
Do you do data science?
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why wouldn't he? plenty of folks much younger than me have made 'serious contributions' in far less time than I have.
Yes, affiliate marketing is the main source of income.

I am slightly introducing kind of business inteligence in order to sell reporting to merchants willing to know more.
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Sure - at this time wages are high and it's a fear. 5, at most 10, years from now it will be reality. I'm willing to set a reminder on my calendar and revisit this thread.
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> Where is your $150/month coming from?

The unfortunate thing is we're already paying that money, since the money spent by companies on ads comes out of the revenue we give them for goods and services.

Hence we can afford to support things through Patreon, Flattr, etc. instead of through ads, if the existing money were shuffled around.

We probably can't do it as well as through ads, but to free up that money the sellers of goods and services would have to stop charging us for their ads, and there's no incentive for them to do that :(
if you ate lettuce and kale as much as an obese person eats chips, you'd be very healthy.
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After many years of trying, I finally convinced my wife to learn Ruby and Javascript a couple of years ago (we're both almost 50). She complained about many of the same negatives that the author mentions in his article (which is why it took so long to convince her to try), so I think he's on point with his internal criticisms. I think he's also on point with his rebuttals.

In my wife's case, a large tech company hired her as a junior developer, and she's been doing great. In an industry where it is fairly common for employees to leave after two or three years (if not sooner), I don't think any employer is overly concerned that they'll only get a handful of years out of an employee. They'll most likely get less than that out of a 20-year-old.
Yes, thank you. The pdfs are hard to screenshot. They can consume a lot of memory on load. It's planned to have an icon or something. Right now they are ignored.
Thank you for the suggestion
I think programming is comparatively easy to learn. I sometimes wish I had become a physician, but I don't think trying to learn that by myself (or in 21 days or whatever) would be a good idea.

With coding, a single good programming book for about 30$ can get you a long way...
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"Valve being deeply involved with Linux also gives the company a "worse case scenario" hedge vs. Microsoft. It's like a club held over MS's heads. They just need to keep spending the resources to keep their in-house Linux expertise in a healthy state."

This is absolutely the point of Valve's Linux involvement, Steam Machine, and so on. It doesn't have to be perfect. It barely has to even work. It's a "fleet in being", ready for a fight with Microsoft that may never come.

Apple take 30% from all game transactions on Apple's iOS.

Google take 30% of all game transactions on Google's Android. (Amazon presumably take 30% from all Fire devices, but hardly anyone uses their store).

Valve take 30% of (many) game transactions on Microsoft's Windows. Somewhere at Microsoft there is a whiteboard with 'Valve' crossed out and 'Microsoft' written instead. They've a long way to go there without getting shot down by anti-monopoly authorities, but don't think they'll never try.
The title wasn't misleading, because Google just removed their extension from the store on 1/1. It's unfortunate that the title was changed, because the fact that google blocks non-store extensions is not news, leading people to misunderstand the relevance of the submission.

FTA:

"Earlier this week, on Jan 1st 2017, we were informed by our users that Google had banned AdNauseam from its Chrome Web Store."
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doctor bootcamps - the best way of driving both wages and healthcare quality down. As someone that values quality healthcare that sounds pretty scary...
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Meal roulette, I love it. Bookmarked!
How would you use hashtags in your own application or what would you create?
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Actually, I think they are a better introduction to assembly as they are simpler and easier to understand
Good for you but i don't think this will work for small publishers
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imo, the only time your business should, from the outside, look unpredictable is when others simply don't see the course you have charted. Even then-- markets are pretty easily segmented and so while your implementation may seem surprising - if those around you in business are good and are also totally confused by your moves you are likely running against a core competency. Systems design for predictability should be the most important principle of any operator. </ pontification>
Hopefully, it encourages reflection. The privilege narrative seems to be accepted as truth rather than one of many ways of looking at things. Why don't we examine it? Isn't it notable that it originated with the thoughts of two very educated people Du Boise and Peggy McIntosh, and that there isn't an evidentiary basis? How do we know that it is better than other narratives? We seem to just accept it to be true.
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I know, but I'm replying from a Presto-powered desktop browser :) .

People have been asking for open-sourcing of it ever since the switch happened, but I guess we'll never see that happen.
To support your argument, p-code is closer to what a portable, assembly language looks like. It's an abstract machine that can be trivially targeted to about any CISC or RISC machine. Let amateurs without compiler knowledge port Pascal/P to around 70 architectures in 2 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-code_machine

Linoleum was another:

http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/frameset.html

The closest in C land was C-- by Jones et al which still looks heavy compared to p-code:

http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/c--/index.html
Have you tried plain old reading glasses? They made a world of difference for me. Your vision can be 20/20 and you still can't see things well close enough to read (that's my own case).
I think that's an area that would benefit less from investigating and more from acting. But for some reason people think a room that's 20cm wider is "better" than one with sound-proofed walls.
I know the author, and he is a "real mathematician". I'm not quite sure what you are suggestion, or how many research pure mathematicians you know, but as a PhD in pure math myself I'm struggling to understand exactly the points you are making, and what you would suggest they are missing.

Could you point us at some articles to explain your points?

Thanks.
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The jumping around will be addressed. See one of the suggestions in the comments.
Regarding infinite scrolling, I have a personal preference for this type of navigation. I consume those on my tablet, and feels natural just to scroll.
Thank you for the feedback.
Yep, Ecoisme isn't a robot which turns off lights in your home ;) Ecoisme provides you with statistics of energy usage for every major home appliance and specify you clear steps how you can reduce your energy consumption. Also Ecoisme can be integrated with IoT devices in your home and then it will be possible to control them remotely.
Curious, how do you acquire customers? I've been thinking about doing something similar.
I'm not sure how I'd feel if something like this became widespread and I was paying Google for clicks.

Well. I guess that's the point. But then surely it's fairly understandable for Google to try and stop them - at least on their own turf?

Google doesn't fund Chrome out of a sense of altruism - they want to have control over those aspects of the web-browsing ecosystem that potentially threaten their bottom line.

And here is that strategy behaving exactly as it should. You want the stuff Google has paid to build? You probably have to accept that "I want to automatically hide and click ads" falls under the banner of "maybe you should use a different browser then".
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> Artificial lighting is a very expensive way to drive photosynthesis compared to natural sunlight

No, that's not necessarily true.

Sunlight is actually fairly wasteful when landing on a leaf. It goes across a wide band of frequencies, most of which aren't used by the plant. And lots of it scatters on the earth near the plant, also unused. Finally, the solar irradiation is almost always larger than the total energy a plant could absorb, even if it were the perfect frequencies.

Solar panels turn a much higher percentage of that falling energy into electricity. By re-emitting only the frequencies best absorbed by the plants, and having a much denser planting than would be possible outdoors, and, most importantly, only providing each plant with the light it needs, you can take that huge volume of "wasted" solar energy and use it to grow many more plants.

So if you take all the sunlight that is falling on the roof of the farm, even after you account for all the conversion losses you can still come out ahead because you're using the remaining energy in a much more efficient manner for plant growth.

Plants only need in the order of 10-100 W/m^2 in order to grow. A solar panel, however, easily generates 200 W/m^2 and more. Therefore, a 1m^2 solar panel can support the needs of > 1m^2 of plants, even before taking into account the spectrum efficiencies.
In high school, I used a similar setup from Heathkit with a 6800 processor.

http://www.vintage-computer.com/heathkit3400.shtml
Yes, NULL is another exception that I forgot. I'm not sure this is ever explicitly stated as a distinct rule in the standard, but it seems to be implied by various arithmetic and conversion operations on pointers being UB if the result doesn't point to a valid object.
hah - that's news to me. It could have been more interesting where they charge half of the delivery to the mother, and half (where the baby is out in the world) to the baby :)

Make that baby pay for it, America... oh wait!