skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't mind ads; I just don't want clickbait crap about shocking celebrity photos and "deep searches" for local singles.

<plug>

So I created a minimal blocklist for the worst clickbait (mostly Outbrain and Taboola): https://github.com/cpeterso/clickbait-blocklist/

The list is compatible with uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus. If you know of any other bad clickbait ad networks, please let me know! As the article describes, I now see clickbait ads from Google that are almost as bad, but I'm not quite ready to block all Google ads in what was supposed to be a minimal blocklist.

</plug>
The first decade of augmented reality
> To be honest, we would have never built this app without Electron. It allowed us to have a small team (2 devs) ship the first version of the app without learning an entire new dev toolchain on multiple platforms.

There are a number of email apps around, why would I want to use one from developers that put their convenience above mine (and my batter life)?

> But I predict it will be like Java-- everyone "hates" the JVM for years and calls it slow and then one day it's running nearly every mobile device and being used across Google.

Notice how the jvm is dead on the desktop? Notice how android apps are incredibly slow compared to a native one? Also, android has never run on the JVM, they created their own VM because the JVM was too slow.
Couldn't agree more. A law requiring the airline to keep doubling the offer for volunteers every x minutes until y number take it will solve this problem 100% of the time.
Like C, C++ doesn't force you in any way to have extra useless abstractions over the hardware.
The rest of your team do (and C make this way harder).
A Crash Course on Security for Startups Short on Time and Money
Artificial Intelligence will help you draw
int* p = malloc(256);
Vinegar is an acid. You said if it's safe to drink it's safe to rinse your lenses with. I'm pretty sure your cornea will be damaged if you rinse your lense with vinegar and stick it in your eye. So your point that if it's safe to drink it's safe to rinse a contact lense with is patently false.

More to the point, your stomach has acid that can kill microorganisms in tap water. Your eye has no such defense.
Port knocking, what is this, 2002? Security through obscurity is not any form of security at all. Properly implemented public / private key crypto is not rocket science anymore.
I'm more annoyed at how certain popular kind of robots get removed from the class "robots" and given their own names. For example, people think of autonomous cars as their own thing even though all the technology behind autonomous driving came from robotics. Same for aerial robots -> "drones", etc.
Medium Tower ATX case. Ouch.
Granted, but a renaming option is just that. A test will not only provide confidence, but also tell you if the code contains a logical bug.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A17raUVX%2B...

That appears not to be the case.
2.0 added an exclamation mark (!) postfix operator that asserts a type as being non-null/non-undefined. So these checks are easy to explicitly ignore.
"First they came for..." etc
Dan, I'm sorry that you've taken my attempts at diplomacy as a declaration of ignorance. However diverse a billion people may be, that diversity is limited when a requirement of the claimed identity is to recite the shahada with conviction. If you can explain how that can be done, "I declare that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah; and I declare that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah...." without belief in god and a divine prophet of that god, you're going to have to walk me through it.

As to the view on apostasy: https://islamqa.info/en/20327
Alternatively, from the site:

http://www.bausch.com/ecp/our-products/contact-lens-care/gas...

It does say to rinse them with tap water, but also to rinse & soak with solution afterwards...presumably negating the dangers of the tap water.
>I hate it when companies don't post list prices on their site.

Same here. If SpaceX can openly advertise their prices, then so can you.

[0] http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities
To be fair, porn is pretty benign, and the freedom to consume the porn of your choice is something we probably take for granted too much in the United States.
RGP lenses can be rinsed with tap water.
I am reminded of the chapter "How To Hunt A Submarine" by Phillip M. Morse and George E Kimball in James R. Newman's World of Mathematics. It's a classic in Operations Research and documents very effective analysis and hunting techniques from WW2.
You forgot to list step 4 which is to put the lense in the disinfecting solution. We're talking about rinsing the lens with tap water before placing into the eye.

They also specifically state NOT to use tap water:

"Never rinse your lenses in water from the tap.

Tap water contains many impurities that can contaminate or damage your lenses and may lead to eye infection or injury."

http://www.bausch.com/your-eye-concerns/wearing-contact-lens...
Here's a digital analogy for you. Suppose I:

1) Disable my ad blocker.

2) "Open Link in New Tab"

3) Wait for my browser to finish requesting that data from the server

4) Close the tab without ever looking at it.

Is that unethical? Is it unethical for me to decide I don't want to read a webpage after requesting it? Should the "open in new tab" feature always force a tab switch against my wishes, so ensure I'm not ripping off some website by requesting their data but not looking at their ads?
"Along with the features available in your browser, the app loads your conversations more quickly, gives you more control over notifications, and has better support for multiple teams."[1]

Also, the app gets its own entry in the task switcher.

[1] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/207677868-Slack-for...
Problem with ads is that we don't want to buy from them, we want to search and evaluate products instead. I never buy anything online unless I test both the seller and the product for bad reviews. Ads are just too risky to buy from. I need to trust before I buy, and it's silly to keep watching ads when I know I am not going to buy anything from them.
> Out of the countless shrill blog posts and news articles on this, did anybody investigate if this is really a systemic problem at Uber?

And whose job to investigate that would it be? I don't think you understand how public opinion works.

It's not exactly reliant on (nor has it any designated 'investigators' for) that sort of thing. It just does what it will
You really need different monetization for different kinds of sites.

1) Low quality, high volume, low overhead: google ads.

2) High quality/high value, low volume, niche: subscription/services

3) Medium quality, low volume, niche: donation

The only form of advertising I'd ever want on my site, unless it is a very low quality, is direct sold by my own staff (i.e. me). I'd probably optimize for effort and just do a single "sponsor" for each month, or maybe ongoing. The low-touch way is probably to pick a relevant CPA program (say, Audible) and pitch that to your own audience.
What infuriates me is that I've paid for subscriptions to online editions of newspapers like the New York Times and still--even though I am a paid subscriber--they show me ads. It's obscene. How much do I have to pay not to get pestered? I have no idea because that's not even an option.

I won't pay a cent for any site that shows me ads on a paid subscription. In fact, I'll go out of my way to cancel the subscription and block the ads and do everything I can to subvert their paywalls and read the content for free.
if my business is forfeit, because it operates on the platform that the government allows to be a monopoly which youtube absolutely is then it serves the same function as a fine, frankly it doesn't matter what my leverage is, as long as it works.

More importantly this doesn't address the concept, which is that it's dumb to attach motive to the definition of a problem. It's important when assessing criminal liability, but if you're just using it as an excuse to ignore the detrimental effects of censorship, which haven't changed, just because the mechanisms have, then you're just being profoundly counterproductive.
Seems like Microsoft are up to their usual tricks.

* Forcing their default apps onto you regardless of your specified defaults; Edge is now the default browser ... again!

* Cortana is back on, even if you turned it off.

* Full telemetry is the default upon a clean install.

An interesting tidbit about the video's YouTube "captions" is that Internet Explorer is captioned as 'Internet Exploder'.
>it'd be wrong to hire a dude to clip out all the ads

>hire

Well I'm not paying for my adblocker. What if this dude volunteers? What if I'm doing it for my family members? This isn't a hypothetical.
VIDEO: Prisoners Build and Hide Computers in Jail
As long as the contract is the same, the price I pay for the ticket should have no bearing on what happens in an overbooking situation.
Crew has been acquired by Dribbble
following on from that:

3 RINSE OFF THOROUGHLY WITH FRESH TAP WATER.

4 Place lenses in empty lens case and fill with fresh Boston ADVANCE Comfort Formula Conditioning Solution. Soak lenses for at least four (4) hours (or overnight) before wearing. Always use fresh solution for soaking and storing lenses.

So it's not stick tap water in your eyes so much as rinse them with tap water then soak in disinfectant for four hours.
Google Chrome update addresses random page jumps with new scrolling feature
From the sound of things, the contact lens creates an artificial protective cap, providing an environment for single-celled animals, via capillary action, and they acquire a stable environment, and either feed off the cornea, or produce harmful waste, or both, resulting in scars.

Even worse, it sounds like after a foothold is established, they become entrenched, and eventually no longer need the supportive bootstrap environment the contact lens initially provided. Based on the multiple relapses described in the article, it sounds as though her original infection never completely went away. So the infection can happen without contact lenses, but normal healthy eyes seem capable of fending off these attackers.

Normally, the eye is constantly flushing fluid across its surface, and I suppose the socket and inner eyelids must assist in fighting off invasive organisms, even if simply by friction and moisturization. Somehow, the artificial cap of the contact lens is different, holding the organisms in place, and offering stability and traction.
Pre-internet you could buy the Sunday edition of your city's newspaper for 50 cents. This included dozens of in-depth articles. So yea, probably on the order of a penny per article. Though it was heavily subsidized by car dealer advertisements and the classifieds.
In my experience with blue apron, the meat was high quality. Did you just throw it away because the chicken smelled bad?
Androiddev:MVP without Dagger and RxJava. Good code indeed
#Vastu Is Important in #Life – #VastuExpert Vastu Tips by Dr. Puneet Chawla
Government/FBI hacked my MacBook Pro
The FBI hacked my MacBook with a firmware loader that I couldn't use chipsec to remove it because the firmware wasn't available to download to make a whitelist they used hacked exploited versions of dmproxy and windowserver. Use 4 shadow to detect intrusion.
Did you post this from a browser or using CURL?

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.
"More than 2000 years of European philosophy dealt with
the distinction between body and soul. The Great Programmer does not care.
...
From the view of the Great Programmer, though, such bitstring subpatterns may be entirely irrelevant. There is no need for Him to load them with “meaning”."

Interesting points, especially to follow up the recent 'is matter conscious?' article on HN.

Schmidhuber often seems to be more of a philosopher who happens to have made significant practical contributions to machine learning. The 'Great Programmer' is intentionally tongue-and-cheek, but for the agnostics out there, it's worth considering that regardless of what creator/process/fundamental mathematical requirement (if any) is responsible for the existence of our universe, it is unlikely that life on Earth (or perhaps in general) is relevant to It.
>Consider the following: If you pick up a newspaper or magazine, is it wrong to skip the ads? What about changing the TV channel or radio station while commercials play?

Apparently when I take a piss during a commercial break, I'm not just voiding my bladdder... I'm breaking the social contract.

Sorry, but if you put up a website, I can render it with whatever browser I please.

Or alternatively, content providers can embrace a holistic view of their site - ads and all... just don't cry when someone tries to make a case that your malvertising is a CFAA violation :)
I think companies tend to value their more profitable customers over their least profitable ones. If they could only book cheapskates like me, there would be no profitable airlines in the world.

Not that I would mind the equivalence. On the other hand imagine the furore we'd see when a full-price customer got bumped.
> editorial control exercised by private entities.

I would agree with you, but Youtube isn't a place where 'editorial' happens. Youtube isn't a TV channel or a blog with a set of editors. It's a free-for-all place for hosting videos. While I have no problem with Youtube removing content they don't like (it's their website, they're free to do what they like), it does go further than exercising 'editorial control'
Potential solutions: Urbit, Maidsafe
the emulators got faster about a year ago

https://infinum.co/the-capsized-eight/say-hello-to-a-faster-...
I got $500 from United for being bumped on a SFO -> BOS flight. My resulting flight was only 1.5 hours later and I got moved to #1 on the upgrade standby list. From what it sounded like, it was a computer system that decided the amount, not a human.
We've just been Schmidhubered! There's also this paper from 2009 :

> "Ultimate Cognition a la Godel" http://www.brainmaster.com/software/pubs/math/Godel%20machin...
I doubt i'll ever book with United again. I had a flight with United the exact same day as this incident for business but I assure you they've already lost at least $800 from me in future flights as a result of this... bullshit.
It was pretty much completely paid by advertising; the purpose of charging readers is because paid circulation numbers is an important metric used by advertisers.
I know it might not persuade you, but I just recently learned of a good friend that has some scaring from an infection from contact lenses. When I sent him this link he said a coworker of his just got an eye infection also. That being said this is all anecdotal. I would love to see a more definitive study though on this.
I'm not the OP, but you should know that for security-conscience people the idea of earning trust does not exist. I should never have to trust you, your web dev, your software engineer, your CTO, your devops guy, your cloud provider, your cleaning staff, and your interns. Rather, provide to me a service that is secure even assuming that the aforementioned entities are compromised, then you'll earn my business and my money.
> if my business is forfeit

Forfeit is not the right word. Nobody is taking your business away from you, it's just not a profitable business.

> monopoly which youtube absolutely is

That is begging the question. There are plenty of sites that let you share video like youtube[0]

[0] http://www.freemake.com/blog/top-7-free-video-sharing-sites/
Choosing what you publish on your platform based on your own content preferences is exactly editorial control.
Launching a URL Shortener in Rust Using Rocket
> “Anthony Levandowski is not a defendant in this case. Nor is this an employment dispute between Waymo and Mr. Levandowski,” reads the opposition. “Uber is the defendant in this case, and Uber is responsible for its own misconduct.”

Wait, so... They're implying that Levandowski didn't violate his agreement, but that Uber is liable for using trade secrets...?

Unless those files were marked as theirs (which you'd think Levandowski would have scrubbed if he made them part of Otto's docs), I can't see how that'd be a winning strategy for them. hmm

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about the case and am not a lawyer
Title should read "Which US Airline Kicks Off The Most Passengers?"
I enjoy that you take an unsubstantiated statement to conclude something is patently false. What's your evidence that a weak and dilute acid like vinegar is going to cause corneal damage?
> The term 'exotic matter' means... exotic forms of matter.

In General Relativity, it has a specific meaning: a substance that violates one of the energy conditions (usually the weak energy condition). That's how I was using the term, since that's what's required to make an Alcubierre Drive.

> Negative-mass matter

Meaning what? If you mean the Bose-Einstein condensate referred to in the article, no, it is not "exotic matter" by the GR definition.
>This is one professor doing his best to help, and I appreciate that. But there is better information out there.

It's also worth remembering that not all students have study skills, and so having an article that lists both reasonably useful advice (even if it isn't perfect) AND (even more importantly) gets the student thinking / reflecting about how to improve their performance can be valuable.

I'm gonna guess (since you're here on Hacker News) that you've got a paying job in the tech sector, which in turn requires a whole lot of self-management skills (like managing your time). There exist perfectly good people who are, say, 18 and terribly naive about what they'll need to do in order to get ahead. Maybe their high school wasn't terribly demanding, maybe they just didn't push themselves that hard. Sometimes they arrive at college, realize that they actually want to do better, and having something like this can sometimes help a light go on.

But yeah - if you're holding down a tech job then this probably all seems super-basic.
Well, not emailing me a password in the clear once a month would be a start. Needing yet another username and password for a site they already has its own some sort user login system is another wart that is easy enough to solve, but for some reason or another, hasn't been fixed on any sites in recent memory.

My email address was already validated with main site sign up, I shouldn't need to repeat that for every mailing list I want to subscribe to on top of that.

If you're reading this from the future, please let me know if any open federated systems managed to come into being, or if spammers finally managed to kill off email so important business is conducted via Snapchat.
We don't use ads for the D programming language. What we do, and I've done in the past, is write articles about programming that are interesting in their own right, and that happen to use D:

http://digitalmars.com/articles/

Pretty much all programming products, even free ones, operate this way. Much of the content you see on Hacker News, and on reddit/r/programming, is of this form.

There are TV shows that do the same thing, such as "Detroit Muscle". Each show is about how to do a repair/customization job on a car, and various tools and products are used to do it (and the makers of those tools and products pay for the show).

Tupperware parties are another example of this sort of thing.

It's like having a free cooking class where you show people how to cook with butter, and you're in the butter business.

The hit TV show "This Old House" was all paid for by the products and tools used in the show. It didn't look like advertising, but that's exactly what it was. And it works, and people love the show (I loved it, too).

I.e. organic marketing.
Android+O+breaks+applications+that+customize+the+status+bar
Not sure if this is relevant, but my new Intel iPhone 7+ really struggles (1 bar) in areas where the same SIM in my wife's Qualcomm iPhone 6 gets 3-4 bars.

Seems worse with older standards like 3G.
Hi walrus01,

If exposing Teleport (or OpenSSH or any piece of software to be honest) to the internet is a significant concern, the solution I recommend is to put it behind spiped. Spiped has a very small and well written code base and well suited for this problem.

Because Teleport is fully interoperable with OpenSSH you just follow the instructions in the README to get it working: https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html
I used to work on that project. I'm sad that this happened, but mostly I'm annoyed at the public -- the problem turns out to be, people don't want to pay, not even that tiny amount.

It's definitely coming back, though. Just not in quite the same form.
"I selectively quote from my cleaning solution bottle and leave off the MOST IMPORTANT STEP." Way to science it up in here. We've been schooled, for sure.
This touches on the age old of problem of if you have police (moderators), who polices the police?

Ultimately this is solved by having elected representatives and putting the power back in the peoples' hands. And how do we elect globally? Does this come under the UN? I doubt few people would be happy with that scenario.

I always find it such a dichotomy that the Internet was established for knowledge sharing and education. Unfortunately today, there is a proliferation of mis-information and eroding the critical thinking that underpins a successful education.
I'm more frustrated they're wasting my bandwidth, slowing down load times. If their ads were text-only and not running trackers to follow me on the internet I wouldn't bother with ad-blockers/tracker-blockers.
How to Delete Your LiveJournal Account Without Agreeing to their New TOS
Most hated woman in Toronto is a click bait title.TLDR She made a creative profile which lead to her getting like 2000 matches. If you're smart you could possibly use this as marketing. Don't know why people would hate her since for all those men, it's just another match that went nowhere. And people using tinder for marketing is nothing new.
Unless your friend asks you to cut ads out of their newspaper. Ad blockers operate with explicit permission, so it's not as if anyone who wants to view ads is being deprived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFiI3nvcwTA#t=2m18s
As predicted.

The idea is, in addition to the normal security measures you use with sshd you also hide the service with port knocking.

Nobody anywhere, at any time, has ever suggested using port knocking as the sole means of securing your sshd.
Sucks when you actually buy the content (DVD) and then still have to sit through ads (previews).
The basic premise for this entire blog post is that people who use electron don't know that lower level technologies exist.

FTA: It turns out modern operating systems already have nice, fast UI libraries. So use them you clod!

FTA: Also all you web devs: Go learn C or Rust or something.

So yes, this is in-fact an ad-hominem attack. There's a certain type of person who rehashes this old stupid argument. A few years ago they'd berate you for using a LAMP stack to set up your clients wordpress blog. A couple years ago they'd give you shit for using Node on the server and not being a "real" developer.

Point being, if the author of this blog post resonates with you - I can guarantee you with a high degree of certainty that I can fit your world view in a tiny little box.
> (Foo | undefined)[]

This says "either an array of Foo or an array of undefined", right? Not "either an array of Foo or just undefined"?
Really wanted to test it out but asks to signup using slack, could not join(Currently, I do not have a team to join or login). You should alahways a demo or something; or at least some really simple login/signup!
Wow. The article says that she was wearing daily disposables, which are supposed to be much safer. Did AK really settle within <24hrs time?
Yep, the way I read that is to rinse the lenses in water after cleaning them.

Horrid.

Glad I ditched using my own lenses now in favour of glasses. I still have a good supply of them .. just never liked the poking around in the eye business.