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You have to realize how Trump thinks. Everything is about him. If a deal doesn't make him personally look good, it's a bad deal. The Paris climate accord might be an objectively good thing, but signing it would make Trump look bad because he made an election promise not to sign it. Hence, it's not "fair" to the U.S.. However, if Trump can somehow make it look like he personally renegotiated the accord to get the U.S. a better "deal", then he can sign it because it'll make him look good.

The problem with the Paris climate accord is that it's vague and lacks any kind of enforcement. Everybody's signing it because there really is no concrete obligation attached. While some signatories may have signed it in earnest, others likely signed it just to look good. They'll announce a plan to meet the goals of the accord and then leave implementing that plan up to their successors, or just forget about it if they happen to remain in office. Look good now, don't pay later.

Given the nature of the Paris accord, there really is no better deal for Trump to negotiate. There are no binding terms to haggle over. I suppose they could change something in the deal just so Trump can say he did it and sign a "good deal". That's probably the best outcome.
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There's no way that turning off a single power supply should have caused this, unless the infrastructure had previously been hollowed out by poor decisions. Where was the redundancy?
> The commercialized web of today is vastly different from the early beginnings and 99% of the content and services you use online are funded through advertising.

Not sure about this value. For instance, Wikipedia, the 5th website in Alexa rank, does not use advertising. Besides, there is an argument to be said that if advertising really became unsustainable, then the services who would disappear would not necessarily be the ones that we miss most.

The idea that "creating content costs money so the reader must pay for it" is simplistic. Many people put quality content on the Web because they enjoy doing so, and don't ask for payment, they even pay for hosting out of their own pockets. That's how it started, and it hasn't disappeared, just became less visible when for-profit content arrived.

> If you have a job today, it is with almost absolute certainty that the company you work for [...]

This statement is far too general to be accurate. I have a job, but I don't work for a company; I doubt that my university significantly relies on ads to be successful.
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Just one simple advise: sell software as if it were hardware.

If you have it in store, you sell it, as it is. If you don't have it in store, you don't sell it. You can inform potential customers about next foreseen delivery, but do not act as if you _knew_ next delivery date.

Just realise how absurd it is to plan a fixed time for tests: either it works, and the tests will run smoothly the first time, or it doesn't work, and you can't know when it will work. If you knew when it will work, than you'd have understood which defects it has, which means that you'd have had it right on the first time.
But you weren't guaranteed to win the auction, were you?
Did we evolve from pigs?
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> websites are free to block your use of the site

Well, they're free to try. It's not completely trivial. (The resulting cat-and-mouse game would probably be won by publishers in principle, but an unbeatable solution would require significant changes in ad distribution.)
I wanted something like this.
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It has nothing to do with whether it was a bad deal or not.

The targets set in the Paris accord were all completely voluntary. The US could've stayed in, done absolutely nothing and there would have been no impact to the US economy since there is no enforcement mechanism.

So clearly this is purely political. It was about (a) fulfilling a campaign promise and (b) shoring up his base i.e. the 30% who wanted to withdraw.
> Advertising is a critical component of the web, keeping content open and free for everyone.

This is repeated often. I'm sure it is true to a degree, but to what degree?

Many of the pages that I read have:

- no advertising at all (HN for instance, MDN, etc.),

- advertising that is very easy to ignore (e.g. BoingBoing), or

- content that I can live without
With modern data warehouses like BigQuery & Snowflake, this is no longer true. We at Fivetran get people setup with a BI tool, warehouse and data pipelines in a day. From there, its all SQL with little to no management of the underlying system.

Note: I'm specifically excluding Redshift which requires active management
CPM (cost per mille) is highly variable per site, but $1-$10 captures most of them. So one of your views is worth 0.1 to 1 dollar cents.
Yeah that's the problem with unconstrained things:
http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25

(Ok-ok, I know it is just a fun comment, but just to be serious anyway for the sake of truth:

you can think of how likely that this is a GoL pattern: take the set of all imaginable GoL patterns, at all timestep, and check how frequent is this subpattern then, compared to some combination of some common/well-know patterns, like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life#Exampl...
)
> Maybe if Google went with "Pay us $10 per month for us not to show you any AdSense anywhere on the web", this would be successful

And more importantly, with the guarantee of "no tracking whatsoever" (rather than just not 'showing' ads). Then, some of my friends would start trusting Google again (and are already willing to pay for something like that).
This feels like newer version of "Elements Of Applied Mathematics" by YA. B. Zeldovich, A. D. Myskis [1]. That book title is somewhat misleading as it is not about Applied Mathematics in modern sense, but is rather about how to apply math to solve various problems in physics.

And this is exactly what Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart did in their book as well, albeit their book is more dense/stricter and cover more advanced topics like differential geometry.

[1] -
https://archive.org/details/ZeldovichMyskisElementsOfApplied...
YouTube already offers a different ad-free plan. I have YouTube Red through Google Play and you don't get ads.
Also, CGI actors don't age, and they don't need contracts. And they can be copyrighted.
For SAML at least if the identity provider is compromised, meaning I can now issue tokens using it's certificate, each service will need to be provided with a new certificate. That requires 'reach out' to each service,
This article should be flagged; it's alt-right, hate-mongering propaganda.
If this is true, who approved removing enough redundancy from the system to allow this to happen?
To my mind, for any government agency to have implemented a rule from the Paris accord, without it being an actual ratified treaty, would be illegal.
How are they going to show you no ads if they don't know it's you? They have to track you for it to work.
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Sorry to break it to you, but Trump is a nutty conspiracy theorist. Look at who he believes in: Alex Jones for one.
Depends on how you define two factor. To me it is using a different device than the device you authenticate with and unless you compromise that device you cannot authenticate any other way.

The way it deals with compromised private keys is that you can store the list of websites you authenticated to on a central location and run a reset of all your authentications on all websites in one go from there. But then it relies on a third party.

I don't pretend that this is the ultimate solution (nor am I aware that there is an ultimate solution) but it does seem more secure and practical than anything else I have seen so far. I am sure you can make more secure but less practical and of course less secure and more practical.
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Shouldn't you multiply by your specific click through rate? For many people, this is 0.
That gets my goat is a problem that gets in a way of solving problem I was tasked to solve.

An example would be the test suite segfaulting on my machine while I'm responsible for hunting down a nasty bug. Often I'll take a stab at the distracting problem, e.g. reinstall Ruby and gems with native extensions. If that doesn't help

I'm faced with following choices (and due to time zone difference I need to decide before my manager gets online):

- give up investigating and suffer the segfaults (time already spend is a sunk-cost with nothing to show)
- disappear into segfault rabbit hole, all the time stressing that I should be doing something else

In isolation I'd be happy to focus on solving either problem.
Donald Trump is right that China and India shouldn't be allowed to increase their pollution. Everyone should be cutting, and targeting the same level of per-capita pollution.

But that implies that the US (and Australia and some others) would have to invest trillions of dollars in order to reach the per-capita pollution levels of other countries. But that's not on the table, because for some americans, who currently holds power, it's not acceptable to temporarily sacrifice even a little bit of economy or convenience for the planet.

One reason why it's not reasonable for China or India to cut more, is because the US and others isn't willing to match them on per-capita pollution. (Well, they are cutting, and will probably match China over time, but not at a reasonable pace).

Imagine you're some dude in a district in India, and there's some coal, and you want to start burning it to get some energy. Then the US comes over and says "no, fuck you, you can't burn that, because not only have I been shitting all over the planet for the last several decades, I want to continue shitting over it and not make too much effort of reducing it. You can't burn that in part because we have this cheap power plant over here that we don't want to spend any money replacing". Does that feel fair?

If the US actually had to sacrifice something significant, it would perhaps feel fair for people from developing countries to have to halt their economic development by a decade or so in order to skip coal and go directly to solar etc.
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Around here they started offering unlimited uncapped traffic (up to 1 TB) - BUT - after you go over 5GB daily your connection is disabled and you have to send an SMS to enable extra 2GB - you can do this unlimited ammount of time (up to theoretically 1TB).

So this makes streaming, torrenting and stuff awkward but for daily internet use it's a decent option (it's a relatively inexpensive plan) - for eg. I could work remotely on this plan.
I would not care too much about performance in the context of linking and evaulating css for modern browsers. It has small if any impact. If it is better for maintainability - than it is good way to go.
Sapote makes people drowsy and sleepy. I'm not sure this is the right place for that kind of fruit.
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We offer a seamless way of logging in: both on smartphones (Android) and Websites.

App developers integrate AuthMe and instead of passwords, ask for setting a 4 X 4 pattern on which we profile user behaviour.

Every time a user has to log in, they have to enter the same pattern and AuthMe offers a behavioural score of the user. (Download our Android app and see the trust scores if you can.)

On the website, users enter their primary key and get a push notification prompt to log in with the 4 X 4 pattern lock.

Just a pattern lock? Of course not! We profile users on a set of 12 behavioural characters which are difficult to copy.

Developers have a choice to disable to behavioural auth part - in which case we are free too. We charge only when you enable behavioural auth.

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That's a false dichotomy followed by a false equivalency. Escaping certain death in Honduras to work as a bus-boy or entrepreneur creating 20 jobs isn't anything like robbing a bank. There is no process for waiting for bureacratic paperwork and understaffed consulates as one escapes a dangerous situation because American agribusiness encourages undocumented migration. In Mexico, the American meat-packing industry advertises wages in local newspapers to encourage people to migrate. Furthermore, only token raids happen near the five major meat-processing facilities because the corporations have a strong lobby.

Guest worker programs need to be readily-accessible.

If ICE/CBP really wanted to do their jobs, the State Dept would have sufficient capacity and outreach to process many more people however they come and reward people for becoming documented.

Criminalizing otherwise honest people escaping certain death or looking for seasonal work isn't either humane nor reflects well upon the country, it only benefits the corporate, for-profit prisons like NWDC run by companies like GEO Group.
Many machine learning people use Python, and they need all the CPU power they can get.

The compute code for ML is emphatically not written in Python – Python is essentially a lightweight API wrapper around it.
I agree. I wish more of the Reddit-type people would stray from HN and take their hysterics elsewhere.
The biggest problem is that, as per the law of rent, rents will rise by the amount of the dividend once the market has time to react to it.

There would be constant compulsion to raise the basic incomes at the cost of greater and greater public debts or taxes on production... and all the corresponding deadweight loss.

However, if it were funded by taxing land by value, then the rising rents would produce a sustainable public surplus.
So it says SQRL is "stateless", but I'm still confused. You'd still use cookies or JWTs to implement sessions, right? How do I actually identify the client that I just authenticated? In other words, when the user clicks 'login,' what is actually sent to me, the nonce? Is the url in (this graphic)[https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sign-algo.png] the login page URL? If so, do I have to use an intermediary cookie to remember which client I sent a given URL to?
> They don't allow their people free access to information, why would they allow freedom in monetary matters?

The US and other major "democracies" out there are already working on restricting access to information. I believe it's called "Fake News" ...
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I'm sure there will be people taking this seriously because it is Google, but they are getting a bit desperate.
> The only reason that this is even coming up is because climate change proponents, deep inside, believe that there will be no serious adverse consequences from climate change.

That's not the case at all. The world isn't really a black/white place. In an ideal world, we'd all stop right now and focus -- concertedly -- our efforts on reverting climate change. Unfortunately, life just doesn't work like that.

You go ahead and tell two large, thriving and growing, economies that "oops, we screwed up the planet, but at least we made a ton of money and our citizens live a nice quality of life! Wait, what? You want to improve your country, too? Well, you see, we sort of screwed up the planet and now you need to bear the responsibility on our behalf. Yes, that means stifling your economy and keeping your citizens in poverty. Yes, this also means the world will continue to view you as poor, undeveloped countries. What's that? For how long? Well, we don't really know, I mean, it could be a while..."
I do have a business model, but not for this version of the app
I am a student and I think I can answer how I use Facebook and it provides "some" value to me.

I also have the same three tiered social circle. The first circle I have regular contacts with on the phone, WhatsApp or in person. The second circle tells me when something happens in their life like them getting placed, winning a competition or getting into a relationship.

Facebook helps me immensely with the third group. I can get to know when people are placed in jobs and can then call them up to rekindle the acquaintance (so that I can later get them to introduce me to other people to expand my professional network). If I call regularly (like maybe once each two months) then it quickly turns into silence because we don't know what the other person is doing at the moment, where they are or even what has lately happened in their lives. I can't also talk about common acquaintances due to the same lack of information.

Personally for me Facebook events serve no purpose because if any of us want to plan a meeting we can do so by phone, email or WhatsApp. It does help to plan school reunions though. Facebook's utility to me exists because the people on Facebook keep posting parts of their life on it and I can keep interacting with them without too much effort of having the pain of keeping track of over a 100 acquaintances.
no xenophobia here, I don't know where you got this from. I was genuinely interested in knowing. This stuff is not obvious and what you provided is not evidence but your opinion. Please provide some articles/research/concrete numbers. I am genuinely interested in knowing the impact.
The code was written on paper.
Without the usual compile/debug cycles during development.

The amazing part is how little cleanup work is required to make the code work. It's an entire programming language after all!
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Haha, precisely. On HN, a common idea is that if companies offered ad-free versions for a price, people would pay. But why would you? You can get the ad-free versions for free.
So polling, popular vote and establishment sentiment (in DC and in journalism) be damned?

Can you offer one piece of evidence to support your claim?

That is not an anecdote.
I think this is great, but its time has come and mostly passed in my opinion. The future belongs to FIDO UAF and U2F.

They are building a hole ecosystem with all kinds of capability and additional security that SQRL simply can not provide. Most important being anti-phishing protection. They are working on mechanism that would allow you to use the phone as a authenticator even when working on your desktop, this is part of the upcoming version of the standard.

They are already very popular and in a lot of hardware, they are working with w3c to standardize, part of the Web Authentication group.

Some people wrongly assume that UAF is only about but it could also be somebody entering a password or pin. The main attraction is that it allows for independent evolution of authenticaters without the server having to know or care (he can care if he likes). This will be a game changer.
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I think it's Facebook trying to cover that actual interest in the site and keeping it alive by the users themselves is actually dwindling. I recently unliked a lot of old pages I didn't want to see anymore and it was amazing how much it tried to figure out what I liked, rather than just show me what my friends posted. Why? Because my friends didn't post nearly as often enough to keep my timeline full of news. I have ~80 friends/acquaintances there, everyone from adults to kids, various jobs and interests, personalities.

Facebook is doing well as an ad platform to keep the revenue up but I'm not sure Facebook is honestly... doing well, you know?

I've seen them recently try to be Snapchat with the stories. I haven't seen one person use them yet despite being active on Snapchat. Also stickers, the new attention grabbing personal status posts with huge text, etc. It's as if they are lately trying to make people post more personal status updates on the site?

Is it possible there's a social network ad bubble that, once it pops when the realization of how much attention people actually pay on that site rather than just mindlessly scroll through like a heroin addict sinks in, will cause their stock to crash? I honestly don't think Facebook is one a nice trajectory either for us or for them.
This is ridiculously scary proposition - that's all I can really say without getting too political/philosophical.
It's not exactly like torrenting music, but a bit (requires some tech skills, ambiguous morality) And at least in my circle of friends, Spotify pretty much killed that.
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You say "do jobs lazy Americans scoff at", I say "drive down labor costs by accepting below minimum wage, thereby pricing citizens out of the market".

Plenty of citizens would be laborers and fruit pickers, just not at $5-$8 an hour that is the going rate.
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I got it to compile but what is it even supposed to do?
> non-profit is a clearly defined term [1] which doesnt apply to google, nor any of its products

Mozilla is a non-profit, they make a browser.

> by your definition, any website which utilizes ad revenue is a non profit, because the end user doesn't have to pay money for its use

That's nonsense and you are well aware of it.

The customers there are the advertisers, not the users of the product but that does not mean there is no payment.

And if you put a value on data then you could argue that there is a payment of sort from those end users as well.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve with all this flak you're throwing up, it is pretty clear that no large browser manufacturer is selling browsers, that a large chunk of the web is at present ad supported and that it would be possible for Google to move Chrome into a non-profit.
A "simple search" in the days of TOR and anonymous accounts isn't so simple.

Ergo, the second part of my comment about how well those "hidden" accounts can be uncovered.
I totally agree. A startup founder has to spend so much time and energy understanding these preferential downside protections. Raising money is so time consuming solely for this reason. If everyone were to just stick to the fundamentals of simple accounting, the startup world would be a far better place. I really appreciate what these professors have done.
Chrome isn't open source. I'd say that if you decide to use Chrome you're accepting fact that you're using closed source program with Google's proprietary telemetry baked in.
"I don't trust you! If you let me pay for promise of not tracking me, I will trust you again!"

I don't think trust depends on how much you pay somebody who you do not trust. But I may be wrong.