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> I don't see why it's my responsibility to see Youtube makes money.

It's not your responsibility to make YouTube profitable but if you enjoy the content, it's in your best interest to contribute to it, whether it be through watching ads or subscribing. The service needs some amount of money just to cover bandwidth and maintenance but more importantly, most of the money from those ads/subscriptions goes to the people who make the content you watch, many of whom can't do so without that money. Those people also can't choose to block adblockers.

> If they didn't want me to consume the content, they would have a model in which you can't view the content without subscribing for a fee.

They do. It's called ads. You can't watch the video until you watch the ads.

> And yet Google knows about adblockers and continues this model, suggesting that they are fine with people skipping the ads.

Or they don't want to get into an arms race just yet.

> I assume you do not download things you do not want, so I am merely doing the same thing.

The download of the thing you don't want here is the payment, not the product. Most of us do pay for things we want.

> I believe it's fine for me to access whatever information that people release.

What's your profession? I believe it's okay for me to promise you payment in exchange for your work then take it without payment.
Right to repair should only apply to hardware. Anything software related is fair game for hacking/reversing. Otherwise it is like asking Apple to provide the special screwdriver that opens the special screws they designed to keep the world out of their walled garden. Apple should not be compelled to provide that special screwdriver and at the same time no other vendor, who has reversed the design, be prevented from selling it to interested users. You buy that tool, but the moment you apply it to an iPhone, all warranty from Apple is null and void.

User info should be locked away by the entity to whom the information was entrusted in the first place. In this case Apple. Yes, if you buy an iPhone and use it access/generate information then it is by definition already entrusted to Apple. Don't like it? Don't buy an iPhone. Better yet, go use a self-built Linux PC. Forgo smart phones altogether.
I have no problem with that result as evidence of limited sentience. There are plenty of natural mirrors that an insect might encounter - a drop of water would be the size of a small car to an ant, so being able to recognize reflections as such would be adaptive.

It would be extremely interesting to see if this result obtained for a wide variety of other insects or only for eusocial species. This is a nice paper, thanks for sharing.
Good luck. Most of these efforts get swamped with non-technical fanboys and nothing gets done / everything gets leaked. Will be interesting to see if you make progress.
Zuckerberg’s world
I'm not talking about showing off extension support, just ad blocking. I hate extensions myself, I wish content blocking with white listing was just built right into the browser which is that last real feature any browser needs. Once people get a few weeks with a good ad blocker they won't ever go back. After that, if they use a browser without it, they'll think they have a virus.
To me, all those well-regarded films feel like they are full of cliches. Tvtropes lists dozens and dozens of examples.[1][2]

But I'm not arguing with you. I had a different standard of "cliche" in my head so I misunderstood how you categorized originality before you listed your examples. That's fine. I tend to think that everything is cliche and derivative[3][4] and therefore, those attributes don't bother as much. However, I realize that others weigh it differently.

[1] Miyazaki: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/SpiritedAway

[2] Tim Burton: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/TheNi...

[3] 7 basic plots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots#Receptio...

[4] Hero's Journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
""may" is much different than "are""

Which is why I corrected the poster who made it sound like credit cards "always" protect you, when it's not true. "Often" and "mostly", but not "always".

"Guess how much you lose if someone steals $50,000 of bitcoins"

Hardware wallets solve the theft problem. To date there have been no verifiable incidents of Bitcoins stolen from hardware wallets.

Credit cards as they are implemented will NEVER solve the theft problem without constant anti-fraud efforts. Bitcoin uses cryptography to authorize a specific transaction. Credit cards rely blindly on the merchant's good will and security to charge for the right amount and to prevent the CC info from being stolen. The more you transact the more merchants the CC info circulate through, and the higher the risk of fraud. Which is why CC fraud has been rising and rising for many years.

"Almost nobody gives two shits about how long it takes"

Listen, I was just pointing out people who say "CCs transactions are quicker than Bitcoin transactions" are wrong. Accepting a zero-conf Bitcoin transaction is similar ("as risky as") accepting a CC transaction after swiping/chip-and-pin. Therefore that's what should be compared, and both Bitcoin and CC transactions are just as fast as each other (seconds).

I actually agree that the immutability of a Bitcoin transaction is a negative for the consumer. (But I don't think it is a cons big enough to seriously hamper Bitcoin's adoption.)
First time I saw the headline, I read "megaphones".
I understand your point, but I think you might be underestimating the importance Firefox has to some people. It was never just a replaceable Web browser for me. It was one of the few pieces of software that seemed to be "made right", built by people who care, and built for people who know what they want.

I always thought of Firefox as a paragon of power-user design, and I loved it for that. In terms of hours of usage, I'm sure I've logged more with Firefox than with any other program in my life. It might not be an exaggeration to say it's the most important piece of software I have ever(!) use.

So this change, in combination with the overall direction Firefox seems to be headed, does evoke fairly strong feelings, and I really don't think they are "actually about something else".

Having said that, I do want to say that I am not angry, and I don't want to vilify anyone. I'm just concerned, and a bit sad, because the browsing experience I've grown up with seems like it won't be around much longer.
I'm a younger Al-fan but I've always loved the Angry White Boy Polka.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY-oili63QQ
The ability to organize email into folders is one of the main reasons I prefer Outlook over GMail. But as the paper mentions, "Folders can obscure as well as organize", which is where tags come in handy. What I would really like - for both email and files - is the ability to create both folders and tags quickly.
I assume you're being sarcastic; they do point out in the intro and at the end that a deep RL agent could be trained to do the topology selections, but that would be more work to get going than some simple evolutionary operators, and is left to future work. Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be A3C all the way down eventually...
That's partly happened for at least some of the artists Al has parodied. Don McLean has occasionally accidentally sang some "The Saga Begins" lyrics when performing "American Pie" in concert. He says this is because his kids constantly played "The Saga Begins" at home so he's heard it a billion times.
>I really do hope one day to return to the ease of smalltalk without the oddity of the software images it presents.

I've sort of noticed the opposite sentiment -- the things that software images can do (sharable consistent environment, dependencies and tools corralled into one place instead of polluting the host) are considered to be upsides of using docker containers for development; but people seem to prefer using languages and tools they already know inside docker, instead of learning Smalltalk.
For a Python version of Scratch you can actually try out https://www.codesters.com. It's python with drag and drop blocks similar to Scratch, but you actually write real python code. It's a great transition.

Thanks for the reminder! I forgot that another neat thing about Scratch is that it connects with different modules such as littlebits, arduino, etc. This allows them to integrate hardware with the games they build and paves the way to circuits, etc.

Edit. Adding info about Scratch extensions.
Can someone describe the significance/insignificance/context of this?
Thank you. This forum is definitely a good place to start.
Yep that's a known issue - I'd like to eventually implement voice gender to match missing word gender, but it's still a bit down the road.
The Bank for International Settlements Actually Financed Hitler’s War Machine
Weird Al is really brilliant. One of the things I think he does so well is capture the _spirit_ of the artist when he writes an original "in the style of" song. If I didn't know better I'd swear that Dare To Be Stupid was a song by Devo. He matches their musical style so well!
I did a project on John Deere and how they are handling the repair of their tractors. In summary, the software that drives the tractor is a giant black box that the farmers don't own. And they have no way to get around that black box even if something was not wrong.

One example that stood out to me was that a sensor that told the machine something was broken was broken. Due to this, the farmer could not use a perfectly operational tractor for two weeks because there was no way to override the sensor. And the John Deere tech would take two weeks to get out there.

This line sounds like it is directly targeting John Deere and how they handle the manufacture and repair of their tractors. Farmers are actually paying more for ~10-20 year old equipment that can be repaired.

I know WIRED isn't the greatest, but these articles fascinated me. I think after looking at them, that line will make a lot more sense to you.

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/new-high-tech-farm-equipment-n...

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
JS is a pretty bad first language to learn—too many quirks and random syntax in the last few years.

Python is dead simple—I recently had to take on a project written in it having never programmed in Python before and I essentially did not have to learn it to get the feature done.
So it's better to auth to all sites via Google, than creating a separate login for each site?
Sure. Ask in the spirit of good conversation, not cross-examination, e.g. "how did you come to that conclusion" or "why do you think that"—the way people put things in a friendly in-person conversation. Make it clear that you're just curious, and find some way to indicate that you assume good faith on the part of the other.

In face-to-face conversation, most good-faith signals are sent with tone of voice and physical expression. We don't have those channels in text so it's necessary to encode them some other way.
I'm using lists with declined nouns and conjugated verbs, so you should see the more common declensions/conjugations earlier.
“Anything you want, everything you wish does not occur. So what the brain learns is that intention has no sense anymore,”

That sounds like incredible hogwash. Why not admit you are doing the equivalent of connecting an oscilloscope to some random signal on a extremely complex high-speed board, and well, it's not that easy.
Can this be related to explosion in French nuclear power plant a week or so ago?
I can create 100 accounts for Reddit and they'll be used 100x/month, or I can create 100 accounts for HN and they'll be used twice/month. Both take the same amount of time to create. Which should be more expensive?
Poland has the highest reading - something going awry at Chernobyl or somebody testing low yield nukes?

I am also really disappointed this wasn't anywhere in the news, at least people could have taken some iodine. I understand the level is low but there is still non-zero probability of somebody going ill from it.
Also if you want to get to the root of the problem, when you install Firefox 51.0.1 in the URL bar type "about:support"

It will list HW acceleration info. You want to make sure electrolysis is running, in the line "Multiprocess Windows: 1/1 (Enabled by user)" should be enabled by default, if it says 0/1 it not active and you will have to manually turn it on.

You can also see if the WebGL renderer is loading properly. On my Debian box it says WebGL2 creation failed (drivers), which would explain my poor performance on that box.

It's worth a shot since Firefox's WebGL rendering is 4x faster then other browsers, it's worth your time taking a quick check.
I also have to mention UHF. If you haven't seen this film, run and go watch it now. It's hilarious.
I'd +1 this as default behavior. I want to see the source code!
Nice straw man there, but no one said that.

A key everybody has a copy of is not much of a key.
I've been meaning to learn how to automate websites using Python, this seems like a quick way to get started!
That reminds me about this video: https://youtu.be/TfgDFRyAYVA
I didn't appreciate the versatility of this phrase until a Muslim friend said it when he found out the Falcons were headed to the Superbowl.
Organizing your music: Tagging as you rip
Articles like this are why people view the tech industry as predatory and out of touch. No, we should not try to emulate an industry that operates by making a product so addictive that it becomes self-destructive. Reading comments that buy into this crap makes me ashamed to be a part of this industry.
The Nebraska legislature website blocks non-US IP's, so here's a link if you're outside the US: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/257484/LB67.pdf
Wow this is the most fucked up click-bait headline I've seen in a long time.
> We can't get an Ape to speak

Sign language counts in my opinion.

Edit:

> Basically neural networks are a universal computational design that have been functionlly reproduced at least twice in nature

or is that because the concept can be used to describe everything (via Universal approximation theorem)? Gene regulatory networks still sounds very interesting.
Being quizzed on specific language syntax during in person interviews when they knew I didn't have much experience in that language was annoying.

Also, any mention of a cover letter was frustrating. I think hiring managers have enough info to decide if a phone interview makes sense with just a resume/Github, especially for a technical role.

Also, having to spend 20+ minutes creating an account with all my personal info just to submit an application stopped me from applying to multiple positions. That time adds up during a job search and makes it extra stressful, not to mention you end up feeling like you just dropped your resume into a black hole where it will never be seen.
Luminati is brilliant and evil idea at the same time, also is one of the reasons why I believe that at some point the voting manipulation will go a bit too far and the norm would become to connect all of the accounts to a single real person because otherwise it would be impossible to collect meaningful data about the user behaviour and the quality will nosedive.

If bots become very intelligent and do create quality content, the money would be in manipulating social media not in running a social media service because nobody will be happy showing ads to bots - no matter how insightful comments they post. Reddit/Facebook/Twitter etc. will want their algorithm to cure the content even if the content itself is create by machines.

As fraud becomes ubiquitous, the harder the tech giants will fight.
The releases of January 2017 are 10,000 times lower than those observed (in France) following the Fukushima incident[0]

CRIIRAD[1] believes that the meteorological conditions (and air pollution actually in Europe) and (legal) authorizations of iodine-131 releases by the industry are the cause of this event which could have passed unnoticed[0]

It is an unimportant event.

[0] http://www.criirad.org/balises/CRIIRAD_170214%20_I131_Europe...

[1] http://www.criirad.org/english/presentation.html
Poland has the highest reading

I wondered so as well, but the second-highest was from Spain, and I struggle to form a consistent picture from that.
The ISRN appears to be a French government agency. They are claiming to have detected non-natural levels of radioactive iodine across Europe.

The implication is that someone, somewhere had a nuclear accident and did not report it.
The most dreaded question for founders while fundraising
I had something similar happen on a financial site years ago. The logon page silently truncated passwords to N characters, while the password reset page silently truncated to N+1 characters. My default randomly generated password length was, of course greater than N+1.
Thanks. That swamping effect is why we have the private channel for people actively working on things. Once things get rolling, I'm likely just going to disable notifications for the general channel and focus entirely on the private one(s). My goal is to keep the SNR as high as possible in there.
Hi register, I'm sorry for the trouble of false-positive. I have closed the issue raised with the following remark. Thanks to tinodotim, downandout, swznd and all for helping to isolate the cause!

https://github.com/tebelorg/TA.Gui/issues/8

Issue and cause found by Hacker News users - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674669

Resurrectio_LICENSE.GPL is cloned from Resurrectio project. I will temporarily remove this file and contact Eric Brehault. I would still like to use the original copy of his license instead of adding a new general GPLv2.
One thing the study didn't mention (or that I missed) was the familiarity of those animals with actual mirrors? I know that nearly all the cats and dogs I have known in my life have freaked out majorly when they first see themselves in a mirror, but it doesn't take them very long to figure out that the reflection is OK and become comfortable with it.

Perhaps they 'learn' that (a) it is themselves, rather than another animal, or (b) they just figure because their reflection hasn't attacked them, it is harmless, or (c) The reflection is not responding as another cat/dog would to aggressive and friendly behaviours and should be ignored? Intriguing.
Then you need a way to get physically around the item (while it is still mounted, broken) to accurately measure it. Then you need a means to re-install it, repaired, after removing the old one. The fundamental truth is that it's significantly cheaper (and lighter, and uses less material) to design throw-away products at this level than to engineer removable elements to make them possible to repair.
Most Asian parents focus on math mechanics but forget that math is essentially problem solving. As a child I had the concepts down solid, which helped me when I went back to University to do math classes but doing applied math had been a hard mountain to climb. Learn to build DE models etc. has been v challenging.
Iodine has a short half-life (8 days) which is the time for half of the material to decay. This means that somewhere in europe, recently, someone is creating / releasing radioactive iodine. However, the levels are extremely low, so it isn't dangerous.
I only know spec, which is the framework that Pharo uses.
You can find the book here: http://files.pharo.org/books/spec-tutorial/
I guess something happened in the eastern part of Europe, possibly Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland etc. The event was small, yet it was certainly nuclear due to a sudden increase of iodine, even if within range considered still healthy. Obviously nobody reported anything before it was picked up by detectors.
"Apple has the absolute right to protect it in order to protect your data"

Well, no, they don't have an absolute right, do they? Apple's rights are tempered by law.
> What the hell is there to complain about, would you rather work in 50+ year old cobol?

I'd rather work on modern AND stable language (I actually do, its not Swift, buy that's not my point). Broken code samples is a good reason to complain. Swift is a moving target, it will be for a while, and this is real pain... but its not a secret. If it bothers someone, why would they choose to use it?
Regarding Chernobyl, they've just put in place a new sarcophagus in late 2016 after years of work. One would rather expect the radiation to get lower (but I am not an expert). Interesting anyway.
I agree with you on documents, which tend to be small in number so you can index them manually using folders. But what about the case where you get hundreds of messages a day? If you get 300 messages a day you'll accumulate over 100K messages annually. Manual indexing seems like madness. I don't even try rule based tagging at that point.

In this latter case the gmail model is great. I leave everything in the inbox and depend on gmail (a) never to lose it and (b) to find it easily through search. In fact you can use gmail as a doc store--if there's something I really value I make it an email attachment and depend on gmail to dig it up if necessary.
Does anyone know why there is no data for some countries like Sweden?
The behaviour you describe here is how Keychain works on macOS.
I don't understand... if those are the problems, write code in objc - it will be good for many years to come. Have some respect. You're looking at open source project, you can get involved yourself if you wish, you can follow design process - you have been given free access to "look into the future" in this area, the future that's being crystallised in front of your eyes - complaining from that position doesn't make sense.
2nd week of January, so unlikely.
If you think about it, folders are really like limited tags where the only relationship you are allowed is "and then".

It would be nice to see a system that would present a tag set in the appearance of folders for all "and then" relationships but then let you mix in things like "and also", "or", and "but not".
"Iodine-131 is a radionuclide with a short half-life (T1/2 = 8.04 day)."

Short half life, a nuclear event of some sort happened recently and nothing has been reported. I-131 is an isotope of Iodine and the source could be natural gas related, medical diagnostic OR a product of uranium and plutonium used in nuclear fission. [0]

Which countries have access to plutonium?

"only particulate iodine was reported."

What is the source of the particles?

"first found during week 2 of January 2017 in northern Norway."

What countries have access to plutonium that are active near Norway?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-131
French version of the news mentions that it has no health impact: http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Actualites_presse/Actualites/Pages/201...

"Ces niveaux sont sans aucune conséquence sanitaire"

I suppose the interest is in understanding the source of it.
I have a business degree and took accounting in school, but I didn't feel comfortable doing my own books until I did 2 one-hour sessions with my accountant, who refreshed my accounting knowledge and taught me some of the wiles of Quickbooks. I'd recommend this approach to anyone who wants to do their own books.

I also like the strategy of classify your own transactions, but pay your accountant to reconcile your accounts quarterly, and to do your corporate taxes. This lets you stay close to the money and keep your books up-to-date on a weekly basis, which helps you forecast and manage cash flow. At the same time, it ensures your books are correct, and that your year-end tax filing are simple and quick.
You don't carefully choose your words. If you did you wouldn't have spelled "its" wrong for "its words."
I was really hoping this store was selling stickers.
I think we can rule out low-yield nukes, those test would still create a noticeable signal.

If I had to place a bet, then I'd put it on some low to medium accident at a nuclear power station in Russia that led to an emergency release of contaminated steam.
Great explanation, by the way.