skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not even about the bits/bytes/data to me.

My eyeballs are not being loaned to you; my senses/attention is not for sale.

I'm perfectly fine with paywalls - that's the 'correct' approach as far as I'm concerned. You can decide to conceal the information you know; if it's valuable and nonexcludable (usually isn't), then hey, you have a sale. But if you don't, don't expect your deals with third parties to hold up on some promise you made to them about how I browse.
I fly Delta. They've paid me over $1,000 in cash [1] to bump me off a $500 flight. I don't think United pays that much. Instead, they get aggressive.

[1] American Express gift card
You, sir, are the Ron Swanson of internet consumers and I salute you.
if that's your experience with youtube, I suggest doing something different.
Maybe you should reach out to him and ask him if he'd like to catch coffee or dinner. Have a civil conversation and try to lay out your case plain and simple. You'll never get over your problem if you can't face your fears.

Once you confront the object of your misery, you will be able to overcome it. And then on the way back to the car you can kill him in the parking lot
It's completely false.
The web at the beginning was a huge mess of static pages, hacked CGI scripts and no interactivity at all with the need to submit a form to trigger a full reload of the page.
Everything was absolutely synchronous and a lot of times the database was accessible directly from the public interface and some pages did actually have the connection string directly in the HTML for everyone to see.
I'm really not sure in which alternate reality you have seen web apps doing all that forever.
> Legality is common to all.

Coming soon to a congress/senate near you : adblockers are now illegal. Why ?

Because media appear to control a decent proportion of voters and can make or break political candidates.
> This was not a case of overbooking, the 4 people added to the flight were United Employees, not overbooked passengers.

If a plane has X seats, but the carrier has assigned X+4 bums for those seats, then it's a case of overbooking.
What if you just wget the html, just read the body of the page, and don't load any of the external ad scripts?
That's how SQL Server on Linux works...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-a...
That was The Deck, and they recently shut down: http://decknetwork.net/

In the near future, it will be total war between amoral lowlife hucksters, and cheapskate users.
news.ycombinator.com

instapundit.com - commentary on current affairs

news.google.com

inframationgroup.com/infraasia/ - Infrastructure Asia news
3. Battery life is excluded from "performance".
Hopefully, at a macro level, this is changing. Any good investor can ask the right questions to evaluate an idea or plan regardless of who is presenting.
I'm using HelloFresh as well too.

Overall, very happy with the service :).

As for the packaging gel thing. With HelloFresh you're supposed to keep them and wait a few weeks for it to fill up a box then let them know and they will come and pick it up.
Ads subsidize my ride to work(MTA ads in NYC). Am I breaking an unwritten agreement by not looking at those ads, and reading my book instead?
I'm right there with you, but dynamically-typed languages still have their advocates (though it seems they're losing out more recently).

(I think this is because a lot of the advantages associated with dynamic typing were in fact portable back to statically typed languages. If you're comparing C++98 to Python, the dynamically typed language seems pretty nice. If you're comparing Javascript to Golang or TypeScript, not so much.)
Editorial cartoon says it all
I've just started trialing Blendle, it looks very promising although the prices feel slightly higher than I'd be happy with and I'm not sure how I feel about the browsing/article discovery interface.

But in principle I'm a huge fan of micropayments for journalism, so I'm going to keep using it for a while and see how it goes!
After this incident what will likely happen is more legalese in the contract allowing for airline discretion when it comes to bumping people involuntarily. You'll have higher fares for guaranteed seats and lower fares (general cabin) will enjoy the prospect of being bumped with some pre-arranged compensation system.

It'd be nice if all airlines, other than not overbooking, chose Delta's approach. Deplane option right as you check in.
>There's nothing illegal about ripping out the ad pages before reading a magazine at home.

Nope but hanging around the printing press and cutting out the ads in all your friends' papers seems unethical.
It is distinctly different because the government can fine me or imprison me if I violate their legal proscriptions. I can't opt out of those restrictions.

If Google blocks my content or otherwise refuses to host my content I have lots of other options. Your assertion that Google is a monopoly is this regard is not accurate.
I totally agree that this is a problem for the mainframe, and I personally have tried to talk to IBM about this (and obviously haven't gotten anywhere). This is a huge missed opportunity for them. I regularly encounter folks that would like to learn the platform, even at a hobbyist level, but it's simply not accessible.

FWIW... I know it's not exactly what you're looking for, but IBM does host a Master the Mainframe contest each year. It provides free access to current z/OS systems for a while (few months, I think) and a project consisting of a series of challenges that guide you though learning the environment. IIRC... you must be an enrolled student to actually win the prizes, but anyone can sign up and perform the activities. One of the mods on /r/mainframe helps coordinate the contest if you're interested in learning more about it.
I get the same results as the OP. And to be honest there is very little that I dislike more these days than something trying to guess what I am thinking. Its like a new thing everywhere and everywhere I see it its a huge turn off.
In general I find Google's results to be very heavily ecommerce oriented these days but this is the first time I've considered the issue for specific keywords. I think it may be the result of an algorithm change to better infer meaning from search terms.

In incognito Chrome, I see similar results to what you describe for "women in cocktail dresses" and "Office Christmas party".

I would consider these to both be poor quality results but not terribly surprising.

For term 1 the "women" keyword and the fashion classification are probably leading to a more ecommerce-stilted result.

For term 2 there is probably some sort of "popular media" keyword list, and the search term is the exact name of a recent movie.

For "photo of a boy flying kite", I see mostly stock photo results. I believe this to be a fair quality result.

You should start collecting examples of these with screenshots.
Google sure is fast:

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
Ask HN: Can containerization prevent contact list harvesting by WhatsApp?
I used WhatsApp until it was acquired by Facebook. Since then WhatsApp has become even more dominant (in South America WhatsApp is so dominant that users do not know how to use native SMS).

Can android support containerized apps of chrooted apps such that OS calls are routed to the host system _unless_ that call is overloaded. Suppose contact-list calls are overloaded and direct the app to a subset of the contact list (only the set that the user wants to share with the app).
You're the first armchair philosopher to reply with a non-equivalent real world analogy looking to trip me up!

Congratulations.
So the NYT just has higher editorial standards, but the practice is the same.
Thanks.
Too bad it isn't real negative mass.
How about imaginary number mass?
> and is entitled to use them.

And we're entitled to roast them for doing so when we think they've done wrong.
From the blog post: "We hope that AutoDraw, our latest A.I. Experiment, will make drawing more accessible and fun for everyone."

The Autodraw website literally says "This is an A.I. Experiment" in big letters
> By visiting the site, you're entering into an agreement

No.

By replying to my browser, they're entering into an agreement to not waste my time, and give me lots of money. Oh, not that either? Hmm. Several sites detect that I'm using a malware blocker. I make no effort to obfuscate this. Some websites will ask me to turn it off, others will block me if I do not. That's fine - I've no obligation to them, they have no obligation to me. Neither of us entered into any kind of agreement.

Keep in mind - I'm even happy to unblock and click ads relevant to my interests and follow relevant affiliate links - to stuff I'm actually interested in. Webcomics in particular are my jam.

So I would likely not even bother with ad blockers if site owners were not routinely acting as a proxy for criminals in (attempting to) serve me malware, extortion-ware, pyramid schemes, and other scams - or peddling horrifically low quality untargeted advertizing that doesn't respect my time (think "same 30 second unskippable ad plays 5 times in a row" utter and other absolute garbage.)

> Legally I have no idea. But ethically/morally, I'd argue you don't

If you want to talk ethics and morals, just how ethical and moral is it to leave your computer open to joining a botnet - imposing so many externalities onto other parties not privy to your "agreement" in the form of DDoS attacks and proxying to obfuscate the origins of such criminals? I think these concerns far weightier than the ethical or moral concerns of depriving a website owner a few cents for selling my time, my attention, my browsing history, etc. (even if they've outsourced that messy work to an ad company who does so on their behalf.)
> By visiting the site, you're entering into an agreement

If that were true, it'd be built into the protocol. "HTTP GET" would require an acknowledgement of the agreement you purport exists.

Instead, it just serves the page to any requestee who comes by it, even if automated. Doesn't exactly sound like an agreement to me.

Hell, a javascript popup would be a valid test for agreement compared to that.
Yahoo sued after allegedly blowing $17M earmarked for humanitarian aid
Yeah, I know. That's what I'm referring to. Peak was shut down for copyright infringement, despite being authorized to use MAI software by owners of the copy of that software, their clients, who would have granted "authorization", and despite the statute's statement that owners of a copy can authorize the making of additional copies insofar as it's an essential step in the use of the program. Why would this authorization of the copy's owner not cover Peak's use of the software?
> Society has many unwritten agreements

Well that's convenient. Next time someone does something I don't like, I'll be sure to tell them about the unwritten agreement they're violating.
> Discussion is terribly confused when 'censorship' is interpreted in this general sense.

It's the original sense.

> Censorship enforced by the state is something distinctly different from editorial control exercised by private entities.

Yes, government censorship is different in important ways than censorship by a publishing or distributing entity, but both are censorship (and they are also similar in important ways.)

> When the single word can represent either concept (and other related concepts) ambiguity and confusion isn't far behind.

Heavy water is different from drinking water in some quite important ways, but its not at all a problem that both are identified with the word "water", because we can use more than one word when the differentiating features are important to the discussion.

> I used to argue that 'censorship' should be interpreted as something done by governments and enforced by the legal system but that battle has been lost.

That battle was lost centuries ago. What the censor librorum does in granting, or denying, the nihil obstat has always been censorship, even where the Catholic Church is not an established Church and so is in now way part of the government.

> Now the unqualified 'censorship' can mean just about any sort of content restrictions and as such is almost useless in its unqualified form.

It has pretty much always meant that, and just because the general sense of censorship is not something you are interested in talking about doesn't mean it's not useful.
I never have enough time to read so I've turned my anti-library into audio files. Whenever I hear of an interesting book, I look up the author's name on YouTube to find out if they've given an interview or a talk about the book. I then download the video and convert it to an MP3.
At the risk of prolonging a pointless line of discussion: what does github have to do with anything in this context?
I tried bing rewards, but the spamy emails of "hey get a few more points!" both were annoying and there really was no benefit to using their service. Never did redeem any points, so my mileage was varied.
> The most popular techs are the most practical and easy-to-use ones.

Funny how a high priesthood of people who get paid a lot of money would pour scorn on anything that lets the "mundanes" solve problems with computers.
Yes, you'll often hear things like "I think I have a virus" or "I think I need a new computer". They're computer is fine, they're just running slow apps.
Then why not Windows's Linux Subsystem?
It does if they bother to stop me.
20 years ago, my best friend's brother worked for a company trying this - it was called AllAdvantage. They paid you to watch ads, and paid you a bit for every person you referred who watched ads.

We of course botted immediately. I am shocked they went out of business.
The FCC’s plan to kill net neutrality will also kill internet privacy
And yet here is what is wrong with the tech world, people start speculating on acquisition price and how much other people made even though news are about an awesome product and community joining another awesome product to make even more amazing stuff.

Btw. the best growth hacking is building an amazing product which sells itself. Click-bait articles, well ok you need some eyeballs but interviewes always reflected my expectations unlike BuzzFeed stuff.

Big congrats!
It's not "deplane" if you're not on the plane yet.

Also, it's come out that United's so-called "random" method was a sort based on frequent flier status and then (potentially) price paid for ticket. If that's really the case, they targeted their least valuable one-time customers first.. aka people who "next time" was months or years down the road.

As someone with status, I get their reasoning but let's be honest and not call it "random."
Somehow, a failing test isn't quite as convenient as a reliable renaming operation.
Not anymore so than the C one - it's just as static.

The point is that building blocks that you get from C++ are higher-level even so - classes, operator overloading, template metaprogramming etc - which should make it possible to implement something like Cello with a lot less effort (and hacks).
>I can view a full article from $0.10 to about $0.50 without advertisements.

Thats at least an order of magnitude more expensive than its worth (to me), and 2 or 3 orders of magnitude more than they would make from ads. As an ad-blocking user who reads a lot of online content, I am in favor in the pay for content model, but it has to come at an appropriate price. A couple cents per reading minute is the high end of what most news/magazine/blog type writing is worth to me.
"yeah this is a bad idea in general. If you have critical stuff you need to SSH into from the public internet, keep it all in private IP space and have an openvpn gateway (or IPSEC VPN) with a public interface, and a private interface facing inwards towards the hosts."

That's a ton of complexity when you could just run knockd on public facing sshds and make them disappear that way.

It's extremely tight, simple code - consisting of a single binary - and it never crashes or hangs.

No, I am not suggesting that you get rid of all of your keys and passwords and rely only on the knock for your security. (I have to write that because response-comment-numero-uno will strawman that to death). Keep your keys and passphrases in place and add the knock.

Port knocking is just the best thing.
For real?

Good to know :)
Great analogy to surgery :)
This is a CSS sprite.

See https://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_image_sprites.asp
There's an option between whining and enjoying the ride, which seems to be missed by descriptivists: to be an active participant in language as a creative exercise. I see these etymological explorations as prime examples of participatory linguistics.
> That's like saying "Why not just use lisp?" to a python programmer. They're entirely separate languages

That's not really true now is it? Sure, C++ and C are separate languages but they have a common history and everyone knows that. One can write extensive programs that are valid for both C++ and C compilers. C isn't a true subset of C++ but for from many practical perspectives it is. In practice they have a common ancestor language that still can be (more or less) compiled with both compilers.

Lisp and Python however... they have no such common ancestor and the syntax are very different.
null checking can have some surprising results. The standard React pattern:

ReactDOM.render(
<Start />,
document.getElementById("content")
);

Will error because getElementById can return null. And it's 100% valid and imo 100% worth checking for - but I can't say I've ever heard of anyone doing it before Typescript suggested it.
It's actually kind of amazing how many wrong notes this 2-line comment hits

(A) The plugins do not actually have any particular philosophy. They act as facilitators for different lists which certainly have their own.

(B) The creators of the plugins' philosophies (which again, aren't actually in the plugin - usually you have to look into the creator) tend to be varied, and several of them (notably the best ones) do promote supporting content creators, either directly or via whitelist

(C) You can always control your adblocker, and many users (especially those who care about a site, are interested in related content, or so on) do disable it for their favorite sites. The extensions (that I've used, anyways) specifically account for this and remember whitelisted sites.

If your site is significantly suffering because of adblocking and you've mentioned your concerns to users, adblockers are not your problem, your users are. There's no fix for resource leeches.
BBA College in Nepal – BIT College in Kathmandu
OT: does blogspot look awful on iPhone for everyone else? I have to use the "request desktop site" feature in Safari. I see even official Google posts on blogspot so I would have thought they would make it work...
> for being politically too extreme

YouTube defines "politically too extreme" as anything that's slightly left of Fox News.

Google's News tab now promotes tmz, the onion, and buzzfeed as "news" over sites that actually break news and typically go against the "narrative". http://i.magaimg.net/img/co6.jpg

There's a reason I'm dropping all Google products and services from my life.
It's the organization. You can't change the rules of the organization. Everyone working there is human, and there are a lot of good people. But there's no room for common sense or human decencies in the policies and the legalities, and when you sign on the dotted line, as far as Amazon is concerned you have signed away your soul.

A court might disagree, but what's that to the individual who can't afford to keep a prestigious law firm on retainer?
And this isn't an unwritten agreement that this member of society is even aware of so... so much for that aspect of society. Or as my grandfather used to say, you can wish in one hand and crap in the other, one of them will fill up faster. That unwritten agreement is worth everything its written on.

What exactly am I taking by not viewing ads? I view it the opposite, ads take away my attention and time and worst of all are generally using psychology to influence my behavior. If your site is using them to monetize, I'll be blunt, tough shit. I dislike the advertising model of shoveling malware javascript from dodgy ad companies and if blocking ads is the way to get that changed, so be it. Consider this societal protest over a business model I disagree with on its very premise. All the way back to Edward Bernays I think advertising has a rotten core by encouraging things like women to smoke, and passing off one of the most common elements off as some sort of rare thing amongst numerous other ethically questionable tactics.

But what theft has occurred when ads are blocked? What have I taken from the ad companies? From the publisher? What alternative has been given? If anything the only thing I have taken away is encouraging them to pursue better ways of monetization that doesn't treat my attention as some fungible thing for their own benefit. This company made $200 a month, donations alone could easily recoup that cost with 40 people doing $5 a month.

Also, if I go to a website and read content without viewing ads due to having an ad blocker. Well oops, but not like there is a giant banner over each hyperlink that says I can't click it without hurting someones feelings or bottom line. Block me if you want, but ironically you'd be cutting of your own nose to spite your face. I'm willing to pay for no ads, but no site is wanting to engage in what that truly means.

Point me to the ethical problem with ad blocking and maybe I'll buy your argument. But if your fundamental premise is that you need ads to publish, you're not going to convince me with $200/month arguments.

My computer is controlled by me, ads come through a programmable rendering engine, nobody owes ads the right to render unconditionally.

All that being said, the irony is I pay more out via patreon than I'm probably worth in ad revenue to all the websites I've ever visited. I do this because I hate the current model. I'm supporting the content producers that have realized this fact and are embracing it. What are you doing to change things for the better?
An option is a contract that sets a price that you can either buy or sell a certain stock for at a subsequent time.

They have a certain value, and therefore prices, but are different from actually owning the underlying stock.
> Then you see all those shitty ads

Still somewhat better than creepy targeted advertising. I bought a new garbage can a few weeks ago now many sites are full of ads for garbage cans. Although this may be one example where the targeting is working. Most of the sites showing those ads are garbage.
Did you even bother reading past the first sentence before you recommended Qt?
I dunno about revolving. The pay in the private sector is very good. Tons of folks who worked in the IDF end up at tech companies for two reasons:

(1) almost everyone goes through the IDF thanks to mandatory service

(2) if you have aptitude you end up in the signal Corp, who are good at what they do.

I wouldn't call this a conspiracy, and the parents speculation is very thin. If the author got this from the IDF they almost certainly wouldn't be publishing; breaking that kind of confidentiality can end really badly
Sounds very much like what Brendan Eich's trying to do with Brave.