skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I see an ad, I click it. In fact, I right-click it and click the button for my shitty addon "thousand-click".

Then my raspberry pi loads that ad in a headless firefox and clicks it thousands of times.

You won't believe how soon you stop getting ads, and instead just empty iframes, or warnings from Google that you're abusing their ads. Well, their problem.

Luckily, there's now an addon that does this fully automatically: AdNauseam.

Fully automated ad abuse, and ensures that if enough people use it, online advertising will die within of weeks.
Also weren't there big stone giants living in Misty Mountains (even in the Hobbit movie there was a scene with them I think)? So that could explain a lot of inconsistent geology as stone giants could do a lot of "terraforming" during their battles. Over thousands of years they could have reshaped the original landscape.
The mechanism in place here is that the domain provides code that sites use to will block content if the visitor is using an ad blocker. The argument being made is that by preventing this code from running by blocking the domain, the site thinks you should have access when in reality, they don't want to serve the content up to you.

As for your TV comparison, the better comparison is probably with satellite TVs, where you are just decoding signals being sent to you anyways, and if they don't want you watching those signals, they shouldn't send them to you. It's not the same, but it's far closer than your comparison.

Note, I'm not backing either side with this post. Only explaining the argument so you have a clear understanding of the issue at hand. Whether you agree with it or not is immaterial, but understanding the rational is important.
That might apply to the FCC, but in the EPA the scientific advisers at the table putting themselves forward for representation have mostly all been shown the door.
Yeah, but then you have to use Paypal.
My main take-away reading it was that he argued for diversity in thought instead of mandated diversity that looks good in a picture or in statistics.
It may not be a bad idea to report this user via GitHub's "block or report" feature when viewing that account: https://github.com/dmcahelper

That type of behavior can only be bad for open source software. Threats like "to minimize file and repository impacts" are going to push more folks toward private repositories if they don't understand that it's not an actual authority pressing them into making changes on a given platform.
Growth and progress: a venture investor's perspective
More to the point, a speculative fiction (i.e. sf/fantasy/horror) should not needlessly multiply entities. If your story is about geology, or needs a particular geological arrangement to explain things, then by all means mention it. But if your story can use known plate tectonics, or takes place in an Earth-analog environment where the geography you want already exists, you don't need to explain it and you shouldn't bother doing so.

(There are probably exceptions. Douglas Adams could make a lengthy digression on geology interesting, amusing, and then call back to it half a book later in order to be side-splittingly funny.)
That doesn't counter it, they believe it is in their economic interest to give the rich large tax cuts because they believe it will result in more jobs, it's the same reason that they oppose net neutrality, environmental regulations and banking regulations: they believe it is in their economic interest.
I thought they allowed that? Though, pay only via Red

edit: Why the down vote? I was serious - I thought with Youtube Red you could listen with the screen off, am I wrong? Perhaps I misunderstood your screen on statement.

edit2: Well, as others confirmed, it is indeed allowed via Youtube Red like I said. So my post being down voted makes no sense, the OP was wrong. Get your shit together HNer.

edit3: Well, the down vote has been reverted (or upvoted out of it) - regardless, I probably overreacted. To be clear, I don't care about the "Karma" (I try to recreate accounts somewhat often for privacy), I just get irrationally angry when it feels like people try to silence you for an unexplained reason. It's why I hate Reddit.
Unless you are a paid subscriber, then it keeps playing!
Why Exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF?
I don't consider a url to be IP.

So the encoding isn't skirting anything.

It is just removing an easy, incorrect loophole. They are getting away with the DMCA complaint filing because most providers will allow them if you can find the "matching infringing text" on the page, without further justification.

Encoding it forces the DMCA filer to more comprehensively explain what is being violated. Basically it just raises the bar to a point where frivilous complaints can't clear it.
I think the transition to self-driving electric cars as a service will be in full force by then, and it will only be slowed down by the sheer number of interlocked changes and requirements to finish that process. The sheer scale of the numbers will ensure significant palpable changes, and for once, it's a change occurring in the physical world of atoms.
I've always wondered why they never built features to allow fans to pay artists directly on the platform.

It seems like it could have been viable, even if they had to implement a manual review / whitelisting process to make sure an artist has appropriate rights to sell a song while preventing people from selling bootlegs and unlicensed DJ mixes. Even taking a 10-15% cut, compared to Apple's 30%, would probably have generated significant revenue. The 'Buy' buttons on songs and playlists that can be linked to any URL have been a part of the product for as long as I can remember, and for the majority of artists those buttons have been the only way to earn money from being on SoundCloud (aside from less directly related things like parlaying SoundCloud popularity into touring revenue). Instead of SoundCloud collecting payments when this button is clicked by a user, they've instead sent all of this traffic off to iTunes, Bandcamp, and any number of other retail and streaming outlets artists choose to link to.

Quick ways to spend money on SoundCloud with a saved payment method could've opened up all kinds of other businesses for SC to tap into such as ticket sales, merch, etc.

I'm not a huge fan of speculating on what could of been with companies, especially when they're in trying times like SC is now, but I can't help but wonder how the last few years could've played out differently if SC had stayed focused on an artist + fan platform instead of moving into more traditional major label catalog streaming.
How can any one person be sure that a completely paper based voting system is working fraud-free in a country with hundreds of millions of people?

How can you be sure the financial system you use is working?

>nobody will ever be able to contest it.

See blockchain. If everyone has a copy of the vote registry, then they can contest it if things don't match up.
PopUnder ads are annoying, so I reversed a script for Chrome 60 to get it fixed
> Collapse... Collapse... Collapse...

Nowhere in my comment did I say that word. Why such a bleak outlook?

> To assume that the world is as isolated as it was when the Spanish peseta collapsed as it is right now is absurd.

I'm not sure which history book you're reading, but your statement has no historical basis. Isolation didn't cause the peseta to "collapse", economic cooperation caused it to MERGE into the Euro. That would seemingly display the exact opposite of "isolation", wouldn't it? I'm pretty sure Europe didn't collapse into an apocalyptic wasteland in 1999 when the Euro started as a currency. The Euro would have sounded preposterous in 1990, the year in which the reunification of Germany took place. 9 Years later the Euro started, 2 years after that Germany was the first to eliminate their own national currency as legal tender. What stops the USD from merging with the CAD and/or MXN other than a lack of imagination, or a recency bias?
> "They aren't doing that and it's creating a perception of unfairness."

They have already been doing this...after the election a lot of my conservative co-workers at Google admitted to feeling "harassed" and "targeted." The memes posted on Memegen, the discussions on eng-misc, as well as the terrible TGIF (where the message VPs sent was basically that "Google" supported Hillary and "We" lost and it was going to be "Okay"). The unfairness is already there, this just highlights it even more.

TLDR:

1. Guy has conservative opinion against the current norms = Fired.

2. Numerous posts on Memegen/eng-misc/internal message boards hostile towards conservatives (including posts made by managers) = no action
Bioweapons.
Advertising has crossed that line much earlier: at the beginning of the 20th when advertising stopped being based on facts and started being about emotions.

Current advertising is immoral because it is trying to shut down our rational thinking to drive us into consumerism that is destroying the world. This goes even against the basics of the free market idea.
Kiss of death is probably the wrong term. It's not like these companies are healthy and decide to cash out to some rapacious VC. More like like CPR: lifesaving but usually comes with a lot of injurious complications. Yes, grandpa was never the same after his heart attack, but the nursing home seems like a better option than the funeral home.
Do you have a source for that? Or something I can read further?
First, it depends on the age of the physician. At some point in the late 90s or early 00s most (if not all) of the medical boards require that doctors continue to take continuing education credits to keep up on changes in medicine. In addition they have to re-certify every 10 years. That was not the case in the past, and older doctors are grandfathered. But if you doctor is younger than 40, they will likely need to re-certify and keep up to date.

Second, the prevailing wisdom on low fat diets are still up in the air. AFAIK, the American Academy of Physicians and the American Heart Association have not changed their positions on low fat diets.
I like your style- maybe hard initially but if we could just stop using pages with intrusive ads, firms may finally listen and stop using those ads
I agree it's fair game. But I think that message needs to recognize why I blocked those ads in the first place. It's not because "I don't like ads" or "I don't want to support you". It because the ads you were showing sucked: they bogged down my computer and they were malicious.

I would very likely unblock a site if they spoke to that. "We've taken numerous steps in the last 3 months to increase your privacy and eliminate bad, bloated, malicious, and frankly user-unfriendly advertising. We value and will not abuse your trust in allowing us to share advertising with you."
> We still have people buying Blackberries on their own. There are plenty of people who want a phone that's good for work.

This article[1] seems to run counter to your intuition:

> In the fourth quarter of 2016, more than 432 million smartphones were sold, according to a report published on Wednesday by the research firm Gartner. Of those, just 207,900 were BlackBerry devices running its own operating system.

> That gives the Canadian smartphone company a share of the overall phone market of less than a single percentage point. To be precise, it's 0.0481%.

> Even when you include BlackBerry's devices running Android, its numbers are still incredibly low. Last year, CEO John Chen said the company sold only about 400,000 devices in the second quarter.

Blackberry's market share is much nearer my own (i.e. 0 phones manufactured or sold) than it is Apple's or Google's.

[1]: http://www.businessinsider.com/blackberry-smartphone-markets...
The "planId" in the request must be manually created in the dashboard. There is no API way to dynamically create a plan which you haven't hardcoded manually in the console in advance.

This makes automated deployment a bit more annoying with Braintree as it involves more manual fiddling with the console. With Stripe this can be part of the code so your business logic creates a plan if it doesn't exist, similar to upserts in SQL.
How would one configure Adblock Plus to ensure Admiral's domains are blocked irrespective of whether EasyList capitulates?

(Asking as a hypothetical, of course.)
Suppose you have one million red cars and one million blue cars.

Red cars get better gas mileage on average.

Suppose you select the 100 red cars with the best gas mileage among the red cars and the 100 blue cars with the best gas mileage among the blue cars.

Which group of 100 cars has better average gas mileage?
Ok, but then I'm going to suggest that it is effectively impossible to compare anyone to a Nazi on the Internet, even if they are actual neo-Nazis.

I think that's a weird outcome but I believe that's where we're at.
You can't quit being influenced entirely, but it is still mostly up to you.
Funding may give you the energy to take-off your entrepreneurial journey.. But it is your vision and business model that will help you stay up float and soar high. Rounds and Rounds of fund will not only make you dependent on more rounds but will divert your focus to money-making rather on solving problems.
Right, but anyone familiar with this larger discussion read James's memo and knew, immediately, that he simply failed to do any research or contribute anything meaningful.

I certainly did my best to ignore it. It was poorly informed, poorly considered. His firing was inevitable and possibly even what he wanted. Certainly I can't imagine a more effective way to get fired at Google.

Since James didn't do the courtesy of being informed, it seems odd to demand that everyone offer him the courtesy of finishing his argument for him
If you're going into uBlock's settings, don't forget to add the domain this whole this is referring to (functionalclam.com) to your custom block filters.
Fair enough. I don't believe that absence of direct/quick action in this case is a neutral stance.

Your analogy about murdering someone vs. not murdering them doesn't seem to apply. Google's CEO reportedly debated about the decision with his direct reports [0]. By Monday, they had apparently decided that the memo indefensible and a clear violation of the code of conduct.

If the CEO has reached the conclusion that Damore is guilty of a fireable offense, what is the purpose of waiting? Unless he had doubts about the merits of the case, or he thinks Damore should be given one more chance to make a pubic apology, or he thinks Damore should be given a week to clean things out and make peace. All of these things would require waiting, which means that waiting is not a neutral opinion about the case or its perceived urgency.

If I see someone and immediately shoot them, I'd be in trouble because I don't have a good explanation for why I acted immediately.

If I see someone from 100 yards charge at me brandishing what could be a weapon, waiting some time before shooting is reasonable, but waiting for too long is foolish.

If someone walks towards me carrying what looks like a bomb, and then tells me that he is in fact carrying bomb and reveals to me its bomb-like features, and then tells me he's going to detonate the bomb at a playground 100 yards away as he starts walking to that playground, my decision to wait becomes an even more of an opinionated, non-neutral decision.

Again, just because I think that acting immediately was not irrational doesn't mean that I think Google handled things remotely well. They may have handled things in what logically seemed like the least fucked up way possible, given all the other fuckups that were all allowed to accumulate.

Since this is apparently grounds for termination, what would be the point for waiting between deciding the verdict and carrying out the sentence? Unless the Google CEO had doubts, or that he thought Damore could apologize and save face given the opportunity, or that

[0] https://www.recode.net/2017/8/10/16125452/google-sundar-pich...
The only advantage Braintree has is Paypal support.

I haven't checked on Braintree lately, but the few times I've had to talk to the Braintree support or sales team, they've been very unhelpful.

If your business is not the size of AirBnb they make it clear they don't really care about having you as a customer. And that's even if you process a few millions a year.

If you're outside the US, have fun signing up and jumping through hoops. If you're building a marketplace, your users will have to jump through the same hoops just to start accepting payments.

While Stripe isn't perfect either, they are a lot friendlier and helpful when you speak with them. They also have Stripe Connect and self-signup which makes it much easier to build a marketplace.

I'd rather use Stripe for credit card processing, even if that means dealing with Paypal's bottom of the barrel APIs directly to add Paypal payments. That's how bad Braintree support is.

Maybe they've gotten better and this is out of date, but based on past experience, I don't really care to find out.
The end of the billion-user Password:Impossible – cost of bad password rules
Its simply not scientific consensus that the kind of differences he was positing actually exist. A handful of studies with tiny sample sizes and questionable statistical techniques does not a consensus make.
at the moment I'm luckily doing React-Native stuff. Feels like doing web/phone-gap stuff but without the need of (old) safari webviews, he he.
> a PhD is literally dedicated to carry out original research

*for ~$30k/yr for five years

> Conducting original research is a natural requirement to be on the cutting edge of any scientific or technical field.

I'm not saying that a PhD won't prepare you. Just that it's inefficient in terms of stress/time/money.
Think of the budget as a multi-year allocation. If Budget A from 2 years ago was "$500 this year, $600 next year, $700 the year after that" and now you reduce the allocation to $610, that is a budget cut from the original Budget A.
Well I do read NYT's political pieces and haven't ever noticed any biases against conservatives.
I think the article is over the top, but in terms of thoughtless lowest common denominator user experience I don't think there's a better choice. I use it on several machines accordingly.
Next thing you'll be telling us is that you can play a European DVD in an American DVD player…
I found interesting the architecture of Google material design components, I still didn't try but I wonder if could solve those kind of problems that you mention.

>"bootstrap control that breaks stuff"

I like the idea of adapter more than having a separated framework like react-material design or
react-bootrap.

https://material.io/components/web/docs/architecture-overvie...
Can a Divided America Heal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War
Business model: Unlimited free streaming with ads. Every artist has a "become a patron" button on their profile. Once you pledge over $10/month in aggregate, ads are removed. Soundcloud takes a 30% cut, like Apple does in the App Store. VIP patrons ($$$) get special perks as outlined by artists.
One of the political cries of evangelicals is that if we let in muslims, they will outbreed whites.

It's a continuation of the European wars of religion, and they're pretending that they never agreed to the Peace of Westphalia which is one of the earliest documented agreements to live in peace with freedom of religion.

I'd argue that they want to go to war again, but then someone will just tell me that it was Hillary who wanted to start WW III.
The wavelength at these frequencies is very long, meaning antennas must be very large. In addition, the bandwidth is very small -- you can't exactly encode data on these frequencies for any practical purpose (some digital modes are popular on ham radio bands; e.g. PSK31, RTTY, etc.)
Sure but what does that actually mean, in practical terms? What does a "chairman" do? I can't recall any start up that had a full time "chairman."

I believe the CEO and COO's job description's very much include looking after the "long-term" goals of the company.
That being said, if they weren't trying to eke every microsecond of performance out of the system, then that's pretty poor design, maintainability wise.

She wasn't trying to eke every microsecond. There were some smart guys on our team, and we were all afraid of that code! The programmer who wrote it would fire back about her Mathematics PhD if you ever tried to bring up Object Oriented design. When I was there, she would sit in the cafe downstairs eating a sandwich, until something broke. She wrote herself fantastic job security!
I think the teacher's point was that meditation should make you more aware of bad influences and create a desire to fix them.

Let's say you constantly do harmful things to other people or yourself. You can meditate and maybe get some benefit but the ultimate realization should be that you need to change your ways. That will be the only path to real happiness.

Same with the modern lifestyle. This lifestyle is ultimately unhealthy. You can build up some resilience with meditation but if you don't change the lifestyle you can't make real progress.

I would compare it people who eat too much junk food. They can switch to organic and gluten free junk food and will do a little better. But in the end real progress can be only made by removing the junk food.

Does this make sense? I don't want to pretend having deep insight. This is just my (limited) understanding.
http://somafm.com/ is another option
Where are all of these companies paying crazy salaries simply because their title contains the word data?
More of a case of writing FORTRAN in another language.
Yes. I wasn't disagreeing with you, but with Admiral's argument. Your distinction is helpful for those thinking that the domain name itself is somehow copyrighted, and the target of this DMCA request.
>I think this whole claiming that being a victim as a self-fulfilling prophecy is flawed. It's hard to say a trans woman who's been murdered or raped had it coming.

wow, looks like things have escalated fast.

We've gone from Google employees who earn 100k+ salaries as software engineers to rape...
This is so damn cool. Can I get on a list to hear more when you're interested in opening it up to the public?
> The mongol empire was one of the most inclusive and peaceful empires in human history.

It lasted less than 90 years and spent that time expanding via the sword. The population of China dropped drastically in only 50 years of Mongol rule, down to 50% by some accounts. Iranians were plagued with famine due to the Mongols, and millions died. They killed half a million people invading Rus - this argument that they left the rural people alone, therefore 'peaceful' is nonsense.

If anything is a myth about the Mongols, it's this "noble/misunderstood savages" view of them. Saying "oh, they only destroyed cities" is hardly a testament to them being peacable. They pressed captured men into service as soldiers, on pain of death. Hardly 'inclusive' and 'peaceful'.

> They accepted all races, all religions and all ideologies - as long as you accepted mongol rule and paid tribute

How is this different to most other empires? The British Empire happily accepted all races, religions, and ideologies, as long as they bent the knee and paid tribute. It's not like the British put India to the sword in order to force-convert it to Christianity. The Ottoman Empire accepted many different religions, as long as you paid your tribute. And just like the Mongols, both of these empires allowed (or forced) people of conquered nations to fight for them.
Let's say you are an american. 60% of americans are overweight. Does that mean you are overweight?
Oh man, I hadn't thought of this before but yeah I'd funnel a few quid to the right guys.

Like Koan Sound are late on releasing their first full album, I'd pay to even just get an inside sample of the unfinished product right now.