skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's honestly what they would prefer if you're not going to make them any money. It's fair to both sides.
If I'm really interested, I might open the inspector and delete the offending div, but often scroll is still hijacked or I'll delete div after div up the stack only to accidentally delete the content too.

It's a pain and it's often easier to use the cached version from a search engine or some archiving service.
But the content has already been delivered by the time this "access control" replaces the original page content with itself. There is no middle step/layer actually guarding the content on Admiral's system. Disabling JavaScript would have the same effect. There is no guarantee that clients must process all network requests or execute all script actions specified by a webpage. If you need access control for a website, your job is to implement it on the server, in a way that is not dependent on client actions, like a login system.
absolutely this! IMO the energy conservation and carbon cost of electricity philosophy focuses attention on the wrong problem. The right problem to solve is how to generate more energy cheaper and with less harm to climate.

When I was growing up, we had neither heating, nor cooling. Summer temperatures would hit 40 deg Celcius. Winter temperatures would hit 1 deg celcius. It was supremely uncomfortable for much of the year and an active distraction against achievement.

Now I am well off and lead a comfortable life with climate control at my fingertips should I desire it. I would not willingly go back and definitely not have my child grow up that way.
MLib

The Watson of machine learning libraries.

As someone who has used MLib and raised a number of bugs and feature requests: Use Spark for feature engineering and then Scikit for ML.
+100000

Someone needs to teach the next generation about ABI compatibility...
Github should have protected easylist from this bullshit DMCA request, here it is on github : https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/ff44d37f62d772bfec5fd432...

Github is the culprit here.
By all means, lock your machine when you walk away from it. Just don't pretend that would provide any protection against strangers walking through your office for even a few seconds.

Here's a USB dongle that's actually a key-logger with 2GB of storage and WiFi offloading for about $150 bucks available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Wi-Fi-Premium-Hardware-Keylogger-comp...

Options as cheap as $50 are available if you're willing to accept less storage and risk a second physical contact to recover your device (no WiFi).
I hope the mods change it
It would also be great if a list of their customers could be found/generated/etc. That is, if they have any yet.

Seems like one to add to the hosts file forever.
How does it compare with xubuntu (xfce) or lubuntu (lxde)?
It's not quite like that, because HN readers are probably more technologically savvy and educated on nascent technologies than the average person.
Admiral's domain serves software that enforces access restrictions to copyrighted content. Including their domain in an ad-blocking list is a way to circumvent the restrictions.

Whether distributing a list of domain names counts as distributing "tools" or whatever the exact language of the act is, I don't know. This other subthread contains a better discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14991624
Still seems to be live ... 2 hours and counting.
I guess that depends on how things are being blacklisted.
I've never understood the love for Mint. All it is is Ubuntu with a Gnome 2 style desktop and things already configured for Linux newbies. I installed it long ago and it was way buggier than Ubuntu.

Right now on openSUSE Tumbleweed with Gnome Shell, couldn't be happier. And if I were to give a vote for most 'desktop ready' system, I'd go with Fedora (the only thing I dislike about openSUSE is how PackageKit and YAST are always fighting over updates and stuff, they need to just get rid of one, but then again the thing I love about openSUSE is YAST).
One thing I've never quite understood - if you are teaching yourself to become more equanimous how do you avoid becoming less concerned about the things that really matter also?!
I suppose you can say his argument was implied then in my eyes since he spent the first large part of the memo reviewing the biology of women and then stopped short there.

No time was spent exploring inherent biases in history or how they may affecting things today. This is why those policies were put into place so why not make it the meat of the discussion.

Though the implication may be that his approach will create a setup in which there will be more diversity that is highly debatable... again the reason why these policies are there in the first place. I don't feel the argument was so strong.

Does he have other examples in history when a minority group allowed the free market to dictate things after a long period of bias and things quickly adjusted overnight?
Is this a complaint? I find this perfectly reasonable if you're browsing their content which they would like to be paid for.
I think Robotics will be big.
There is a PR to add it back in: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/pull/500
It's kinda like the channels a-la-carte they've fought against for two decades.
Sadly this is all too true. By their nature, surprises are unexpected. That said, I would be surprised if we had an operating fusion power plant, a workable age reversing treatment, or a recreational space station.

10 years ago in 2007 I would have been surprised if we had a car that could drive itself, or a way to edit fairly specific genes.
AI. Nobody knows what will happen, or if/what roadblocks await. If it continues to scale in the best case, we are in for strange times ahead.
Ah I see, Thanks for the info!
I've said this before, but it bears repeating. "Unblock or Subscribe" misses the point. The the point is this: I don't trust you.

I don't trust you not to show me scammy ads, load 2MB of tracking JS, maliciously redirect me, or generally ruin my overall user experience with your content you claim is so valuable. So I run an ad-blocker. I'm blocking your infrastructure because I don't trust it and blocking your ads because I question your judgement.

And the only other option you offer me is for me to give you my credit card number!? To infrastructure I don't trust and to a company whose judgement is in question.

Nope.
>Anyone who is willing to bet their job on a controversial posting

That's part of the problem.

Lots of people associate Google with research and discourse akin to a college campus without realizing that, unlike a college campus, they and their free discourse are not protected in any meaningful way.

"Let's be open and transparent and have an open and transparent culture... but don't say things that might hurt our shareholders."

Google is beginning to remind me a bit too much of the 'Bright & Shinys" from the movie 'Bubble Boy'[0]. Happy go lucky do-gooder cult that holds that image until you cross them. Things get darker after that point. That initial positive image is all that matters.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYRfNjHSzA
Can't SoundCloud be the recording studio that signs on popular and promising indie artists (such as SoundCloud rappers like Lil Yachty or XXXTentacion who have to promote on their own) and provide marketing, music production connections and management for them and in turn earn a royalty/cut.

This way it doesnt alienate its users but in turn empowers and supports those that people like?

Just my two cents, I could be totally wrong or that they do this already, happy to hear any feedback on this.
But seriously, what are they going to do with that much money? How many developers do they actually need to scale up and what milestones are they trying to hit?
In rural areas, school buses drive on gravel. Where I grew up, the buses were speed limited by law, so the speed on gravel is often the same as on the highway. Road surface might not matter as much as you think.
Well, saying things that are clearly wrong and offensive to large numbers of people is typically looked down upon amongst educated people and highly discouraged at the workplace.

For example, think of other stereotypes about other groups (blacks, hispanics, jews) and think about what the response would be if an employee was publishing 10 page manifestos with loosely connected scientific arguments in support of these views.
Reading this article I thought the same thing. The reasons they decided to switch sounds like just a lack of understanding the the Braintree offerings. The title should be titled "We switched because Stripe's documentation was better and we didn't want to learn Braintree's"
Are we back in 1998?

I'm always surprised when I meet a developer (or anyone really) that still shutdowns his/her computer each day. What about hibernate or sleep?

Funny thing about Windows, they promise since XP that "this time updates will no longer require a reboot". And they never deliver.
Unless you turn your screen off. Then it's just silence. Lots of it.
https://tukaani.org/difmplay/

a shell script to ease playing music from Digitally Imported (DI.FM), SKY.FM, and JAZZRADIO.com Internet radio stations
> He was not saying that women who work at Google are at a biological disadvantage, in any way, and that is a perverse misreading. He was saying that on the whole there's a biological reason when you roll the dice enough that more males are suitable for that work.

I don't understand what you said there, can you elaborate? What is the difference between males being more biologically suitable and females being at a disadvantage? From my perspective, you just contradicted yourself, can you help me understand why it's not a contradiction?

What the memo proposed is that it's "possible" there are fewer women in tech right now because of the biological differences. He may not have claimed it as fact, but he implied it. The problem I have with the implication is that it's obvious that evolutionary forces are not the primary causes of the current distribution, because the distribution of women in tech has changed drastically in the last 50 years faster than evolution's say in the matter. It's not possible that the current distribution is primarily caused by biological differences, and it's exceedingly likely that it is caused by social issues. But he suggested it is possible, and followed that by suggesting we should stop treating it like a social issue because it's possible.

And all of this so far is ignoring that the memo unironically takes the opposite stance on the minority group of conservatives.

So what is the root part that I'm missing?
So "conservative" is the same as "unfair and/or unbalanced"? The New York Times (not exactly conservative) has considered him worth printing for quite some time now.

Isn't this attitude more or less what Damore was concerned about in his memo?
Let's resurrect WAP
I really don't like this. This looks like a death omen to me.

They will probably fire more employees, do 2 or 3 pivots to different business models and when that doesn't work out the company will die.
This. I don't think people even get a hint of what is possible nowadays with DL in CV, NLP etc. I am actually depressed when I talk to some friends and they are so pitifully outdated, and then even after showing them how to do some magic in 100 lines, observing they are still not getting it and continuing in their old ways :(
libgit2 depends on libssh2 actually.
Sorry, I missed your comment. If you've seen Office Space, comically it's kind of like that. I had four different direct bosses, each who were supposed to manage different aspects of what I did. What ended up happening most of the time was I had a "real" boss who would direct myself and a few other developers, and then we'd have random drop-ins of managers who had no clue what was going on and trying to change things to meet some ridiculous quota they had.

Really the whole thing is set up to limit manager accountability (since managers can just point the finger at each other when something goes wrong) and increase worker frustration...it's not uncommon for two managers to tell you to do two different things.
It finally appeared: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2017/2017-08-02-L... , received 01/August/2017.
If cryptocurrencies get very "wild" as an "asset class", then the US SEC, etc. will make regulations and/or Congress will pass laws to calm it down.

The powerful governments in the world won't let crypto be means for money laundering, tax evasion, moving lots of money across country boundaries secretly, undisclosed assets, inheritance and gifts without taxes, etc.

It may be that the important, remaining, applications will be for cases of contracts, secure communications, etc.
Agreed. They decided to chase more users, instead of trying to foster relationships with artists and smaller labels.
They were.

Without this lifeline deal they had only enough cash to see them through the end of summer if you believe media sources, or until sometime in Q4 if you believe SoundCloud.
Becoming an internet-capable OS doesn't require Unix, though
Women get 18% of computer science degrees, so it seems doubtful that Google would get a 40/60 split in applicants.

But the specific numbers are not the point of my comment. The issue is that if there is a lot of pressure to get a 50/50 workforce, but the pipeline is not 50/50, then favoring less qualified men over more qualified women becomes a possibility or even very likely, since how else are you going to achieve this?

I think that it is up to those who desperately want a 50/50 workforce (just for tech, not for most of the other gender-imbalanced jobs) to make the case how they can do this without sexist discrimination in hiring or if they do favor sexism in hiring to make that explicit.
"Far-left"? What Overton window are you looking through? The Guardian is center-left.
The author of the memo didn't argue that the male-female ratio is where it should be. It is almost certainly skewed due to gender biases. However, eliminating gender biases from recruitment is not necessarily the same as forced diversity (forced due to ideology that dictates that anything different than 50-50 is immoral).

If Google were to announce that they will hire 50% women wouldn't that be illegal under Title VII? That would amount to affirmative action which is only allowed in certain limited situations (race can be taken into consideration for university admissions).
There is a difference between local government and state or federal government here: local governments are more likely to be perennially underfunded, rather than competing with other agencies for federal money.
Yeah they introduced ads in the past few months. Already looking for alternatives that have some resemblance of my existing SC library because of it.

I will mourn the loss of SC as it has been a superior product to Spotify, but it's all about two things:

1. Does it have the music I listen to?
2. Is it obnoxiously in my face trying to make money while I'm trying to concentrate with background music?

Right now, they're starting to ruin criteria 2 and there isn't much reason to be loyal to the brand. The only problem for me now is, that whatever alternative I find is. Inevitably it will befall the same fate.
I had no idea who Admiral was before, and I can't say I have a great opinion of them now. I'm sorry, but you don't get to control what I can and cannot ad block.

This is mind blowing since Dan was the COO of GROOVESHARK which basically didn't care about copyright, at all.
Does amazon still hold the patent for one-click purchases?
Well, I just blocked functionalclam.com in my OS hosts file, try to DMCA that
> Perhaps is James had not hamfistedly "cited" population research (as Brooks suggests) but then given very specific personal-level fixes (e.g., pair programming , suggestions of "pipeline" fixes, etc) he would not have cast quite so much doubt over his intent.

I haven't heard this point before and I'd like to understand it. What's the problem here?
> Please ask nicely,

Asking nicely doesn't work.
Dwarf Fortress seems to do a really good job at creating plausible fantasy maps. Mountains are created as blobs near the edges of a continent, without 90° directional changes. Rivers flow from mountain ranges to basins. Vegetation is dependent on the overall climate of a region. Settlements are created according to race-specific traits (dwarfs in the mountains, humans at rivers, elves in forests). Volcanoes are an exception, as the seem to be randomly dotted all over the map.

All in all, Zach, the Dwarf Fortress creator seems to have put some thought into the (game-wise) mundane task of world-creation.
> The best parallel I can draw is to the Napster era when pirating music cut off the head of the chicken in the industry.

I don't think this comparison holds up. Napster was a peer to peer network where publishers of the works being downloaded had no control over who was able to download what. By contrast, web publishers have extraordinarily fine grained control over distribution of their works.

For example, when I connect to nytimes.com to read some news, I politely ask the nytimes.com servers for access by saying:

GET /some/article HTTP/1.1

The NYTimes, or literally ANY publisher on the web, have the option to say no right there for any reason. They are under zero obligation to give me access to content I'm requesting.

If publishers are upset about people reading their content without displaying ads, maybe they should stop giving it all away for free.
6 months from now, "What an incredible journey..."
Yes it is safer now. (I’m also an expat btw.)
> EasyList told Admiral that they would only do it if GitHub agreed

I don't understand. Why would GitHub have to "agree" that EasyList removes a domain from their own list (for whatever reason)?
did it use some kind of appletalk networking over TCP/IP though? That's different IMHO. I also don't know if stacks were multiuser ever (could be opened and edited by multiple people)
Or patreon too
When people say "its early days" I mentally replace it with "I don't know"

https://www.google.com/search?q="its+still+early+days"
DAng... it seems like a nice service but it says "Flash Unavailable".

I thought everyone was moving to Flash alternatives nowadays?
>"However, further research showed that this domain hosts the code of an anti-adblocking startup Admiral"

Who goes to work for an anti ad blocking startup? What is their mission statement "to make the web a more intrusive place"?

I am OK with Ads and understand their purpose in the business model. The reason I use and ad blocker is because of how intrusive they are to consuming actual content. You can subscribe yes but you will still get intrusive ads:

http://www.kirkville.com/i-pay-for-news-why-do-i-still-see-a...
I understand your frustration, but the difference between freetype and freetype-freeworld is exactly one define:

FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING

I'm sure you know why Fedora didn't enable that. It's not because they wouldn't want it.
I also love tachyons, it's unfortunate that I didn't "get it" until I had gone through quite a few long !important stylesheets in various web apps, most of them using bootstrap too :(
Does SC have ads? Would ads completely destroy the appeal? Could they not do the same free tier things as Spotify where you're largely paying to remove ads? Obviously not at $10/month, but maybe a few bucks.

That's what they tried (and failed with), yes. They added it pretty late, but the retargeting towards this model IMHO did a lot of damage.
Generate Enums for Go from Doc Comments
Cognitive Disability and Moral Status
Paraphrasing Douglas Adams, I'd go with a volume knob for children, simply because it would be quite surprising if someone was able to get that working...
The firing has only been a pr disaster in small groups. Even for me personally even though I think that he probably shouldn't have been fired I'm not super mad at Google because having him there was a liability to the company. I think it's mainly more libertarian circles that are mad but those people already generally don't like Google
FTA: "I’m excited to hand the CEO reins over to Kerry to allow me to fully focus on the role of the Chairman and the long-term."
I will echo this person:
"This was found in an application where data-target was based on user input and only passed through standard HTML entities encoding. There is no reason why data-target should interpret HTML so while not impacting many applications it should be fixed in my opinion."

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/20184#issuecomment-...
I'm not sure why more people aren't pointing this out but I couldn't take his arguments seriously when he weaseled in racial diversity after the evidenc about gender differences were presented. It is pretty clear from that alone that the intent was not to have a scientific discourse, it was to dress up bias as science.
You can see it in the Rust community. So much of the focus has been on http servers instead of codecs, operating systems, daemons, file systems, etc.
> Also subscription model is better in Stripe. You can create plans dynamically. With Braintree the API doesn't allow you to create new plans on the fly

I believe you may be incorrect about this[0]

[0]: https://developers.braintreepayments.com/reference/request/s...
Others within this thread are claiming, without evidence, that this is an incorrect application of the DMCA. I'm simply quoting the portion of the law which is in accordance with Admiral's claim. I care nothing about the mechanism they've created or the philosophical implications or discrepancies of protecting content after it was already made available, etc. I'm simply restating their argument here so others may view it in regard to the letter of the law, and stating that on its face it seems to be a valid claim.
I agree. my collection of liked mixes on soundcloud is the perfect soundtrack for getting work done. I prefer to listen a song I like, specially electronic, in a dj mix than in a playlist.
I'm not convinced people that do this wouldn't be making an arse out of themselves. No lawyers have appeared in here to say that anything fraudulent has happened. The DMCA does prohibit dissemination of any software whose purpose is to circumvent technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. If the domain we're talking about is key to such technical measures, then distributing software that blocks it may in fact be illegal under the DMCA, and sending a DMCA notice to take it down ordinary and allowed. "New World Angels" have no power to overturn the law of the land, especially one which is implementation of a broad international treaty.
You could have a monthly fee and decide what percentage of it you want to go to specific artists. If you listen a lot to an artist the app could ask you if you want to transfer some percents from one artist to this one. That is a feature that I would personally love to use.
Away to where?

You mean the year of the Linux Desktop Workstation?
There is nothing that is clearly wrong about the memo in itself and lots of Googlers actually voiced support for it and agreed. So your comment would be equally offensive to them because you call them uneducated and their opinion invalid.

Creating a strawman argument around racial stereotypes is just an added layer of misdirection and tastelessness.
I wouldn’t say it’s tough but yeah it’s not for everyone.
Ads are far more influential than you think, clicking on them is not the only they care about nor the only way they are paid.

Also the ad business is not going anywhere, the tech will evolve and you'll start seeing more native advertising and sponsored content.
After decades in favor of single-use buildings, the pendulum has swung back
This is what Goldman is telling its clients -

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/here-s-wh...