skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is the Coalition for Better Ads? Their About page gives no names. Is Google a member? How influential is Google? Whose interests does the Coalition serve?

https://www.betterads.org/about/

"Leading international trade associations and companies involved in online media ..."
This would be fantastic. I finally installed Adblock Plus and I feel bad about it, but I had had enough. I couldn't even see content on legitimate webpages anymore through all the pop up ads and auto start videos. I don't mind normal ads but it was getting ridiculous. The arms race had tipped too far to the ad providers. I just want to block the ridiculous, which is what this sounds like it would do.
Two big reasons are:

1. Your devs can always go to where the work is - if you divide FE/BE and suddenly you have a feature that needs a lot of BE dev, you can move people from the now-mostly idle FE team rather than try to hire them

2. You can share business logic between FE/BE for client-side functionality. I've seen a surprising amount of bugs that boiled down to "oh we updated code on the back end but forgot it surfaced somewhere in FE code as well and didn't update there"

Of course, YMMV and this probably highly depends on your project, architecture, quality sensitivity, etc etc. But to say sharing FE/BE languages has "no real upside" is a bit... optimistic IMO.
So… a telegraph?
There's really no way to disable all ad-blocking in a browser, even if the browser-vendor wanted desperately to do so, because—whether ad-stripping browser extensions exist or not—ad-stripping HTTP proxies (e.g. Privoxy) will always exist.

And if you think users couldn't handle using one of those, there's nothing stopping someone from making an e.g. "Privoxy configurator + blocklist updater" browser extension that just serves as a client GUI to your ad-stripping proxy's control channel. (Or giving the daemon a system-tray icon that launches an Electron GUI or something.)

The development of ad-blockers outside of the browser kind of stalled ~5 years ago, but only because everyone has been pretty satisfied with the browser extension solution to the problem. Take it away, and other solutions will just come back into play, with all the modern lessons learned from building the browser-extensions brought in.
If you go to a restaurant and order a salad, you're not obligated to eat the olives, and you have the right to take them off your plate.

Likewise, you have the right to bring an intermediary who looks at your salad and hides all the olives for you.

If your intermediary happens to work for Green Olive Co. and he hides the black olives but not the green ones, you have the right to switch to another intermediary. Or get another intermediary who checks the plate and hides the rest of the olives. Or do whatever you want, because you're not obligated to consume any part of the salad that you don't want to.
It may differ by region, but in the SF Bay Area I've been getting a /60 from Comcast residential for a few years now using a MikroTik router. See here: http://i.imgur.com/2mrRk01.png
Thats just mutually assured destruction - all IE/edge browsers would start blocking all google ads, firefox would block everyone, chrome would black all not google ads, and half the internet economy collapses
>In the long run, Britain will always tend to ally against the dominant continental power.

Without that, the modern era would probably never have happened. That is because one state would have probably converted Europe into an empire, dominated by a single culture and religion, instead of the great competition of ideas and technologies that happened because there were so many independent states.
I'm skeptical.
You could mostly do this with a pencil and paper. Would it still seem shallow if someone tracked contact with people in their journal under a 'Important Relationships' heading?
Some good “Statistics for programmers” resources
It may be laudable to try and lead an "industry-wide" effort to clean up ads but it stinks of hypocrisy when Google repeatedly allows all shades of garbage to permeate its' own Adsense network.

We talked about this only a week ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14094083
They have a system to allow easy payment for web content: Google ads.
It has too much buttons for an apple device though.
>Does Thiel not realize

Of course he does. While not stated directly, the implied message from Thiel seems to be: monopolies are fantastic, for founders and early investors. Given his own history, is it that surprising he is a proponent? Perhaps in this case, being contrarian might be less about intellectual enlightenment and more of a rationalization for self-serving decisions.
Who are their investors, or if you can't name names, are they seed or angle or self funded or what?
"And he download the Bose Connect app, which the company said would make the headphones more useful by adding functions such as the ability to customise the level of noise cancellation in the headphones."

I was thinking ^how^ Bose could collect info. A ^connect app^. Is software really required for a piece of hardware like headphones. This is why the head jack rules. No need for interaction with software.
Google has to know this is going to invite a wave of antitrust investigations. I guess they think they can win?
I'm really quite astounded that there haven't been more huge cloud hacks. I guess hypervisor authors and cloud providers have taken security seriously enough.
LOL, indeed. I ran an ISP in the 94-99 era, and we used to distribute Pegasus for the first couple of years.

But it was buggy and not very friendly, so we migrated to Eudora, and indeed users never looked back.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. In Thailand the girls you see in the go-go bars in Nana and Cowboy or down in Pattaya have not been forced into anything. You know nothing about what you're talking about.

None of them started when they were children. Yes, every so often you hear about some 16 or 17 year old girl getting caught with a fake ID or something but the people most shocked in these incidents are the customers who had no clue since they were supposed to be 18+ to be working in the bar in the first place.

The vast, vast, vast, majority of child prostitution that happens in SEA is Asian on Asian. Period. That's not even open for discussion if you've spent any amount of time living in the region.

I read one article by some expat in Cambodia who questioned the Cambodian police chief about underage sex. The police chief told him flat out that westerners were only like 10% - 15% of the arrests they make. Most are locals or other Asians.

So why do the NGOs make such a big deal about it? Because nobody will send them money if Cambodians are molesting children. Make it a white westerner from a rich country and donations flood in to stop the horror.

Let's put things into perspective. It's estimated that 2,000,000 Thai women are involved in the prostitution industry in Thailand. Yet, those same estimates say that only 200,000 work in foreigner market. Do the math.

I forget where I saw it but I remember reading several years ago about a survey they did in Thailand and something like 67% of Thai men said they'd had sex with a prostitute in the last six months. Some equally high number was attributed to the number of military conscripts who had lost their virginity to a prostitute.

There's a lot of prostitution going on in Thailand that has absolutely nothing to do with foreigners.

And where to they always make those busts of girls (usually Burmese) forced into sex slavery? Thai brothels.

You need to quit watching the documentaries made by activists or people plagued with white guilt and actually spend some time learning what you're talking about.
That's practically one way to speed up browsing performance without changing the underlying technology itself.
Seems like you haven't read the better ad coalition standard, because it doesn't say anything about creative content – it's just about formats.

And, honestly, that site is basically a south african blog; as much as I love picking a fight when it's due, I don't think Google is to blame here, but the advertisers targeting their core demographics.
I've heard that too, but how did the draft, Lend-Lease, and the build-up get passed through Congress before Pearl Harbor if there wasn't sufficient support?

Maybe the first and third were seen as necessary to protect a neutral country? Or being short of declaring war, they were less objectionable? But I'm just guessing ...
Serious question: I see that they are (sort of) adhering to (some) standard of "ad acceptability."

Why are ads that consume a few too many CPU cycles more morally repugnant than ads that nearly invisibly manipulate a consumer's search results with undermining, misdirecting, or hortatory messaging?
When I hear this I think of the main plot of the fantasy book "The Magic of Recluse" [1] where the increase of Order (good) came with the resultant increase in Chaos (evil).

The analogy is that the Allied powers could probably have avoided the post-tranquility strife by not asking for The German Empire could not give.

By creating this imbalance, they fed the very outcome they dreaded (another Great War).

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185253.The_Magic_of_Recl...
Is this an anti-union strategy?
Table Stakes for Web User Interfaces
It's a good recommended that you don't use them.

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/PRE00...
Sorry, I thought that one was widely-known so did't include the details -- it was covered on the late-night comedy shows at the time I seem to remember.

Another one I remembered since posting the list above was the tourists who broke several toilets in the park due to standing on the seats. There are now signs, some in Chinese, in the park's public toilets advising not to stand on them..

Source: http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environmental/when-east-m...
File under:

"When I poke myself in the eye, it hurts."

I don't think in 40 years of programming in C and C++ I have ever seen an example of someone doing something with sizeof() quite that weird, and I've seen plenty of weird things.

Plus one for the happy ending that they won't be doing that again.
I am saddened by this news. I met Carlos a few years back in Palo Alto In the early days of corona. I am sad to learn about this. I was just thinking about him yesterday and wondering what he was up to as I had lost touch with him. RIP. Condolences to his family.
Exactly. I don't mind ads that are just ads. They have taken them way too far. Requiring clicks, music, or popups. BLEH.
Juno offers a free address too!
At that same flexibility in monkey patching makes the codebase rubbish in a year when it's time to upgrade dependencies.
Use firefox?
The sky is falling because of monopoly? What does that have to do with the juicer? People invested in bad ideas before this age of monopolies that the author is worried about, so I'm not buying the "nothing but scraps" argument.

I'm not saying I disagree that tech companies should be brought up on anti trust charges, and in some cases broken up. But the author's arguments don't make any sense to me.
Offending ads = non-google ads.
https://www.betterads.org/members/
Sorry for your loss.

This is great tribute, I hope it brings you happiness for many years to come when you think about your friend.
Apparently Google does not allow Chrome extensions that let you download YouTube videos, seems like a nice precedence.

Looking at popularvideo downloaders gets you things like Video Downloader professional: "Caution:
The download of YouTube videos to hard drive is locked because of restrictions of the Chrome Store."
Of course there is. They can make it so annoying that the ads doesn't look that bad. They own the browser. They can make it so bad that even flash ads will look like a good alternative to all the work required.
> The move only is pro-consumer where it benefits Google's bottom line: Blocking competitors ads, using a standard that Google easily meets. It's similar to when countries block agricultural imports that don't meet a standard that is unique to their domestic industry, in the name of "safety".

I never thought of this implementation but I imagine this is one of the few ways Google can bundle in ad blocking in Chrome. As long as third party blockers (specifically uBlock Origin https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode for me) I don't mind. I go back and forth to using Mozilla Firefox mostly because I use it on Android but I appreciate all that Google has done to move the web forward.
Americans spend $10+ billion per year on homeopathy. I don't think this product is targeted to people who value substance over style.
Mercury and aluminum. Source unknown. His hair samples revealed no Mercury whatsoever which means his body was doing nothing to metabolize and excrete it. A normal person will show some level of Mercury in their hair as we all have some exposure from environmental sources. This is thought by his doctor to be due to his poor ability to produce glutathione, which comes as a result of a genetic mutation, which was confirmed via genome sequencing.

I don't care about the source of either, just that the tests ordered by the MD revealed their presence and employed chelation to remove them to normal levels.
The only issue with that is HTTPS, which Privoxy currently can't handle ( https://www.privoxy.org/faq/misc.html ) and will become even more of a problem with the current "encrypt everything" trend. Certificate pinning and all the other stuff aimed at making TLS harder to MITM also gets in the way of effective adblocking proxies. The only one I know of which can MITM SSL on Windows is Proxomitron, and you still have to patch the browser(s).
In your metaphor the salad is filled on your plate by you running back and forth to a salad bar to grab the ingredients one by one. Those of us with ad blockers don't bother fetching the olives at all.
> They exited Tibet last year and sold the subsidiary to a Malaysian company.

I believe they exited Nepal, not Tibet.
Silicon Valley typically but also the East Coast, and also the mom and pop individuals we used to provide internet service to locally weren't always great at paying. Note that I don't necessarily mean customers won't pay ever (although that's happened many times to us), but rather they will pay randomly, not according to the agreed payment terms, treating you as a free bank to fund their working capital needs; a way to improve their cash flow position when they're being acquired; and on and on.
What about it is outdated?
That's not Node.js. That's Express or a similar abstraction.

You can execute everything inside a promise like with Koa, which amounts to something like:

http.createServer((req, res) => {
handle(req)
.then((response) => res.send(response))
.catch(() => res.send(500))
})

Where `handle` is an async function and thus all your application logic is in async/await space.
best read, new product written while maintaining ability to read old message formats.
These are great for home listening but open back headphones are terrible for any commuting situation because you get flooded with noise.
Sennheiser Momentum Wireless 2 headphones have better audio quality, and no need for an app.

The downside is that ANC is on all the time, with no way to disable it. But they're actually better headphones.
Ah, it looks like BGP caught up. Yesterday AS3 was still announcing 18.0.0.0/8.
What law does this violate?
Red Storm Rising’s Game Plots (2012)
Make better use of x64dbg
Thanks; I don't know how I missed that.

Google is a member, FWIW, among very many.
How The Economist covers the world
Very slick, though brings this to mind for me: http://gunshowcomic.com/comics/20120227-robotthatscreams.png
Well, I think some of the intervals are still actively used by building networks!
Why would anyone want to refactor anything?

There's room for growth & perceived value in said growth.
Blogspam of

http://news.wfu.edu/2017/04/19/beetroot-juice-exercise-aging...

with author credit (Alicia Roberts) stripped out.
This reminds me of the time when a mass effect toothbrush helped save my ship from being stolen by my clone...
Conventional processors will eventually run into physical limits of heat dissipation that will impede moore's law. Reversible computers are a way of circumventing this physical limitation because they dissipate less energy as heat.
This is a really thoughtful response and I'm really glad you brought up this point.

At Kip, we truly believe that therapy is for everyone. Therapy is a scientifically proven process that improves how your mind works. There are many ways to change how you think, feel, and act but therapy is usually the quickest, most effective, safest route to do it. It's really helpful for people who are dealing with moderate or episodic anxiety or depression. But it’s also a critical tool for someone who is dealing with a severe or chronic conditions like treatment resistant depression. We see both kinds of clients at Kip.

One of our goals at Kip is to erode stigma around mental health issues big and small. According to the NIMH, it takes the average person suffering a mental illness over 10 years to seek help. Our hope is that by making therapy more approachable, more people will seek treatment sooner. And more people getting treatment and more awareness means we can develop better treatments in the future.
If they choose unwisely they will have to live with the consequences of their choices. That's the whole point.
It should be telling that generally most advertising is paid per impression, not per click (even when the advertiser pays per click, their cost per click is generally calculated from CTR and thus really a cost per impression)

You might not click on the ads, but (if you're not blocking them) you're probably seeing them, and remembering some of them, and they influence you.
Sure, but in your example, you've paid for the salad. The whole reason (presumably) that advertising has gotten in the state it's in is that nobody wants to pay for things, but it costs money to keep the lights on.

Full disclaimer: I use things for free day in and day out. I try to pay for things that I find value in as my budget allows. I find many ads annoying.
the second they do this, I switch back to Firefox and never look back.
True, but not remotely on the scale of a world war. And it is not as if those other regions were peaceful until the cold war came along. I mean, regular warfare has been the way of the world for thousands of years. The old war is sometimes referred to by historians as the long peace.
Comcast will give out up to a /60 for residential if you hint for it in DHCPv6-PD.
10+ years ago I visited Yellowstone in the winter, and thought it would be cool to rent a snowmobile.

I've never felt like such a jerk as when I blazed into a national park alongside dozens of other yahoos atop our loud, polluting machines spewing exhaust everywhere. Our group, from one rental company, would periodically cross paths with groups from other companies, so who knows how many of us there actually were.

At one point en elk or moose or such was near the road, and it was immediately surrounded by ten or so snowmobiles, each trying to see how close they could get before taking a photo.

I looked it up at the time and I think the Clinton administration tried to curtail the snowmobile invasion, only to face such opposition from operators that they gave up.

This is why we can't have nice things, I guess.
There's no free salad. The restaurant owner is not obligated to give you a salad, with or without olives.
And here it starts.

Those scumbags will pull the world backwards (in order to get themselves some easy money) causing over-defensive self-driving systems and millions of warnings, as the ones we see on some GPS software and that we have to acknowledge every time we turn on our car (they don't have a "Don't show again" feature).
T-Mobile stopped handing out IPv4 addresses to handsets on iOS 10 -- IPv6 Only.
It'd be a neat middle option: display safe ads in Chrome with Google providing assurances that impressions/clicks aren't bots without the crazy messes of JavaScript currently used for that, and put a “Pay this site directly and never see ads” button next to it so people who really don't like ads can opt-out.
Есть небольшая разница между удалением рекламы и фильтрацией всей рекламы кроме своей. Теперь нужно будет ставить дополнительный ублок, поверх штатного. Как всё это будет работать - медленно и ломать вёрстку.
Really? When did the Scots start to develop a notion of having a unique national character that made them non-English?
One key difference nuclear weapons make is that it is much easier to see beforehand how catastrophic a war would be.
They're going to fly between the planet and it's rings - but how? I was watching a show on Voyager 1 where they had originally thought about doing the same, but were glad they didn't. When Voyager got close enough to image the rings, there was quite a bit of debris between the planet and the rings. Apparently, it was enough to ensure the destruction of the spacecraft. Do they now know enough about that debris field, and now have accurate enough "control" (calculated by astrodynamics), to avoid a collision?
Building an insurance tech product? Lockstep may be a good fit
Who knows, maybe one day it will in order to fight Google's monopoly?
It was an all inclusive deal:
420 TB at 0.06 per GB = $25,804
Show HN: What Are You Syncing About by Ninjadev (WebGL Demo)
OK. How about "enjoyed and was amused by in a reflective, sad, and melancholy way all the while pondering why we were put on this earth with a functioning brain only to waste it by doing stupid things after having been repeatedly warned not to"?

Better?
A few links from recent years:

http://www.autodidacts.io/neurotech-hardware-roundup-eeg-bci...

http://gizmodo.com/the-best-brain-reader-your-money-cant-buy...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

http://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-and-xerox-predict-brain-con...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01338

https://sccn.ucsd.edu/wiki/Introduction_To_Modern_Brain-Comp...
That is debatable. If you are going from 0 to 1, a lot of times new technology is created. It may not be something revolutionary and ubiquitous like the internet or the wheel, but it may be some form of vertical integration, such as Tesla Cars or the iPhone.
Facebook runs the tightest ship when it comes to ad formats. They don't allow rich media ads at all either, so malvertising is almost non-existent on Facebook.

They wouldn't be impacted by this at all, in my opinion who this hurts most is publishers.
I'm sorry you have that experience.

Typically I'm talking on a relatively big scale and I should have mentioned that in that poor excuse of a blog post.

We're a pretty big company, we have our own datacenters our own hardware. And usually when you work with a half-decent server provider you talk directly with a person who has physical access to the machine and the ability to change things like that.

Still- that doesn't discount your experience and if you're at VPS/Startup/Small infra level then cloud is a fine solution to be sure.

My experience of the cloud (amazons in particular) is that instances just "go away" for 8 hours and you cannot contact support, the little service alert says the availaibilty zone is green but you have a little dialog saying "you may experience some issues with your instance".

Which happened to be 8 times in one month.. And I'm sure that no client is big enough for amazon to start giving a solidary fuck about customer service in that regard.