skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cynic in me: Oh, no, my daughter will have less 2h videos of people unwrapping Kinder surprise eggs to watch; a cultural loss.
So would you support (ie not block) an advertising company that followed some set of ethics? What would they be?
So the conclusion is: Have an existing list to join? Use str.join(list); Otherwise, operator+ might be your friend, but f-strings are probably cleaner to handle (but you only get those in Py3.6+). As to str.format(): Nah, not good.

Didn't expect str.format() to turn out to be "so" poor, though.

But this conclusion is taken w/o looking into the "old" formatting approach, `"%s%s%s%s" % (a, b, c, d)`, though.
How does this compare to carbon-intensive resource extraction operations like gold mining?

(Gold is industrially and medically useful, IIUC)

See also:

"So, clean energy incentives" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15070430
As I see it, most engineers, developers etc (myself included) will instantly label anyone using these "tricks" as the most stupid person in the room.
Off peak pricing was ling already available with two meters ans quite common. Now with smart meters you can have hourly pricing.
> type system, static analysis, first-class IDE support

Agree, but we have TypeScript, also static analysis is done for ES6 module dependency

> multi-threading

This is wrong. JS has service workers, and sharred array buffers.
I imagine a single state-owned database where merchants enter detailed product information. The consumers may then query the database at their leisure.
I have no idea actually. The kit they had was amazing though. My favourite was the machine for testing their radio link. It was a long room full of baffles and at one end they put the receiver. At the other end was a large machine that spent all day shaking the life out of the transmitter.

In the electrical testing room they had a few car simulators that effectively had the whole car in (they were about 5 ft tall from memory, large boxes). The could start them up and run the entire system physically.
> As someone whoms business largely relies on ad-revenue

It does not, it relies on selling user data to ad agencies that resell them via data brokers to .. well, not even you know, do you?

> please don't go out of your way to ruin advertising

I will go out of my way to ruin any business model that relies on tracking users.

Even if it is the "best system we have" it is still abyssal. Not so much the content of the ads themselves, but the data collected by ad agencies.

> very few users actually want to open their wallet for their "free" content

Then either the content is not worth enough (and would not be consumed anyway if it was paid) or payment options are unacceptable.

I regularly read between 2 (weekdays) and 5 newspapers (sunday) but I don't have any subscription. I buy them with cash in a shop, go to a cafe and have breakfast. None of the newspaper vendors ever followed me into the cafe for some up-selling, not one tried to trick me into a subscription, not one mailed me about "special offers". None of them ever tracked how much time I spent on which article.
The majority of our companies income comes from Amazon affiliate sales. We have our own widget, backend pulls the information from Amazon via their API, front end shows the products (we have a lot of structured data, so we know which products are actually relevant to show and don't have to rely on Amazon). No adblocker blocks this and it pulls no external resources besides the product image from amazon.
I wonder what happens if/when the cost of mining becomes prohibitive

This is a crash waiting to happen
Ubitricity is an example of such a scheme:

http://youtu.be/rKaEhBjt1ls
Your hazy definition closely matches my definition of mindfulness. As I've aged, I've realized that trying to be happy is a struggle. So, instead, I try to be content - which, curiously, makes me happy. That takes being mindful, for me at least.
Exactly, and that's sort of the issue with the system right now. People like to argue that they are whitelisting the sites that they use regularly; e.g. Reddit and newssites. But in practice it seems like that's a minority going through with it. I've always likened it to how pirates used there being no good services around to justify their actions; yet after Steam and Netflix became popular the majority just found some new justification.
If sites warned that they will load trackers beforehand, your accusation would make sense: people could just not enter the site.

But as it stands, even if you're willing to forgo using such sites, you have to load trackers to know that the site uses them. So an adblocker/anti-tracker is a necessary protection.
I'm sure SFDC was costing my boss a pretty penny, and many of my coworkers using it had no idea how to manipulate things on their own.

The UI is about as modern as AOL 2.0...

... but it also isn't a major hindrance.

Honestly, streak is right that I live in my Gmail inbox. I'd at least rather give them my money rather than Benioff.
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>>> The end result is usually a docker image smaller than 10MB.

You forgot to install the JVM to run the .jar, didn't you?
If the current generation of ad technologies ever get completely blocked, alternate technologies will emerge for companies to recreate a dark version of ad networks, sharing web server logs, etc.
You should be investing in the IOTA Crypto.  how
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You got me. Gaining moral superiority is what I was after.
Call me idealistic, but I would rather pay for content whenever I decide to, rather than being spied in order to pay for my “free” content.
> "But we now have reactors types that (a) can't physically blow up , their temperature is limited, and (b) contain very little to no radioactive gasses , so even in the worst case scenario, we'll be just left with an enclosed pool of radioactive material, which is safe."

Interested in learning more about these reactor types. I hear different reactor names discussed, but I'm not sure what's right on the cutting edge.
Despite what your opinion might be on the ethics and justifications of the people involved, I find it quite concerning that they're being painted as "ad fraudsters". This sounds like the same Orwellian re-definition of words as "piracy". There is no implicit or explicit, social or legal contract that says if I click an ad that I must then purchase the product. Nor is there any agreement that if I click an ad that I have to be interested in the product. So you couldn't really argue it's deception. And most importantly, I have no financial gain from doing it (EDIT: assuming that I'm not the person who is making money from the ads). The term "fraud" is an intentional misuse of the word to frame the conversation in a way that is quite deceptive.

Is exploiting a flaw in the existing CPC advertising system "fraud"? No. Is it unethical? Possibly, depending on what your view is on the justification. You could argue that devaluing the worth of tracking-based advertising is trying to do a net good, and that it might counteract Google's attempts to become a monopoly in online advertising. But you could also argue it's going to ruin small businesses that rely on advertising as a significant part of their income.
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Killer feature! Does Adnauseum work on iPad? :)
Their site their rules. Right?

I'm sure they ban bots and other undesirable folks too.
When I heard them talk about "wetware" on west world i thought they were just making it up.
Most sites offer some form of subscription service. Ours is currently 3$ a month and less than 5% seems to be using it. Most of our users seems to view it as a donation service though, might be something for any psych-major to do a study on.
I wonder, they don't seem to put protection / monitoring circuitry in on the per-cell level (which would be prohibitively expensive). How do you know when a cell or a block of cells go bad? Or does it not matter?

I think it could be bad if the resistance of one increases and you have a bunch of them in series...
> Each sect has a different Quran, different Sharia, different precepts

Uhhhh no. The koran is the koran is the koran. Written in Arabic, not a single letter to be changed because it is 'perfect' according to itself [1]:

And the word of your Lord has been fulfilled in truth and in justice.
None can alter His words, and He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

The Hadith are another story, not so much their contents but which ones are followed.

[1] http://corpus.quran.com/translation.jsp?chapter=6&verse=115
Not with the GPU / CPU offering they have.
People are not prepared to pay for your content, so you bemoan that when you give it to them for free (but in so doing destroy their privacy), they attempt to block that revenue stream.

I'd like to suggest advertising has become a crutch, preventing you from innovating: why not try and find a way to produce product content that people wish to pay for?

If you can't do that, you have two choices: continue as you are, but see it as a voluntary hobbyist project in which the content is given to the public domain and you do not monetise it; or, give up and let others decide.

The best thing that could happen to the Internet today is the destruction of the advertising industry.

Yes, it will change how Google and Facebook will need to make money. Some of these unicorns might struggle to survive and will die. It will cause a revolution down through the millions of smaller publishers as they have to think about how to make money without advertising: many will not be able to survive and will become nothing but memories on archive.org.

So be it. This, in the opinion of many people including myself, will be for the betterment of us all as a society.

So, respectively, I'm going to have to decline your request.

I'm installing AdNauseum and I sincerely hope that advertising industry is destroyed to the point that you have to find a new - better - revenue model.

Good luck.
When cartels can't sell drugs, they sell organs, arms, and women. We have lawlessness in countries hosting organized crime and a troubled, self-destructive underclass
driving demand for their product to blame, not drug laws themselves. Those laws are almost the only good thing about the situation.
> Electric cars do not remove pollution - they are not trees. They merely pollute at a greatly reduced rate.

You seem to be oblivious to the fact that electric cars are replacing cars powered by an internal combustion engine.

If you replace an IC engine with an electric motor then that source of pollution is removed, don't you agree?

Furthermore, electric cars typically get their power from the national power grid, which generates power in a much more efficient way than your typical IC engine.

On top of that, nowadays any power grid is being supplied by sources other fossil fuels. This shift away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources is being spearheaded by the European Union and reflected by their national action plans. This already resulted in some EU member-states breaking green energy records such as:

* covering around 35% of their national power generation from renewable sources

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-green...

* running the entire country over 4 days straight on renewable energy alone

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/18/portugal...

This is the energy production that is powering electric vehicles.
Yeah right? Imagine the last one: "Sorry guys i didn't hear anything for the last hour" and then "LOL".

But i laught a ton with the reading.
For many of us that is an advantage.
YouTube already ruined the CPM of creators several months ago, through a bunch of hair-brained schemes to try to appeal to advertisers that were scared by flat-out lies by WSJ.

AdNauseum was created long after the "adpocalypse". I would not be surprised if some people are using it in protest of YouTube's attempts to ruin the ability for independent media to fund themselves.
It can't: regularly (every 2 weeks IIRC) the hash difficulty is ajusted, so that with the average hashing power available during the last period, a new block would be found every 10 minutes on average.

So if it becomes less profitable, some miners give up, the mining rate falls, and the difficulty is adjusted so that it becomes cheaper, hence more profitable, to mine.
Montizing your social influence using marketting via sharing facebook posts.
Is it stated in their site rules that they publicly anounce your ban?
Wow thanks a lot for the details this is not my field haha regarding the tech you mentioned in the beginning.

Curious what your family thinks having to run Linux. It's my primary os myself with i3-wm. People usually complain "install apps command line" ui, etc .. whatever Ubuntu being as supported as it is that UI is so slow/bloated IMO.

I have Windows as well but use Virtual box and Linux to access the web if it's not just YouTube/Gmail/regular pages with adblock/uorigin running.

I don't even know how many ports there are on computers, I mean in my experience I've seen up to port 10000, I think you have to enable them? I usually use 21/22/80/443 though I've seen 3000 (websocket), 4200 (angular), 246 or 286 (windows RDP) I don't know...

It's a lot to keep track of web security. OSWAP

Anyway thanks for your time rambled on my end.
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I think the intent is to screw Google over. The advertisers are an unfortunate casualty
If ads were the only type of information, we were already doomed.

For example, why do you think reviews are so important?

Also, you are reading articles through HN, not by watching ads for them first.

Then there is the age-old word-of-mouth.

Or seeing products in action with friends.

I could go on and on.
One thing I wanted to do was to allow ads everywhere and only block ones with obtrusive ads. That is instead of whitelisting good ones, I would have to only blacklist bad ones. But could find out how to do that with uBlock. Maybe somebody here can help.
Even at the risk of coming off as an arsehole: I'm sorry, but you are collateral damage.

Adblockers have become the norm because large enough a fraction of ad pushers have no morals. And because the ad industry tends to be concentrated, the blockers (rightly) target the observed ways used to push the ads.

So if you use any of the blacklisted firehoses or their observed methods, you can expect to be blocked.

> Seriously, we have a single unobtrusive banner yet 85% of our users are adblocking; it's not an issue of 'bad ads' as so many like to argue.

If 85% of your users have decided to use adblockers, I would take that a clear signal that the resources you use for serving ads have been deemed obnoxious in the extreme.

YOU may not be shoveling unripened-manure-quality-ads to your users, but other parties in the business who use the same services obviously do. And before we go to the concept of whitelisting certain sites, please realise that there are still two major factors working against you.

1: An ad served will mean successful tracking. Sophisticated users refuse to give in here.

2: The moment some whitelisting method becomes easy, useful and accepted, the ad networks will do everything they can to abuse that to bypass blockers. This follows from human nature and ruthless business practises.

And finally, I'm going to throw something I wrote nearly two years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521930 - that's my list of things that would qualify an ad as non-intrusive.
Yes, but STARGING in backend is easier. I don't try to say that FE is harder, just that this wall between beginner and modern standards is higher here. After this wall it's probably harder in BE that in FE, but I think this wall is higher for FE devs.
Also, they're backed by Cloudflare. Who have also dumped the alt-right because they implicated CF as being aligned with them.
This could be OKC aligning themselves with CF's position
Crazy, people's lives being ripped out by strong winds and I just see some swirls on a screen.
I think there are two major point why people hate ads: no privacy and a potential source of malware and what not.

Yesterday I was looking for a nice Android game and stumbled upon Mekorama. Not only is it a great game but the developer is asking very politely for some money without the use of ads. In the reviews you can see this is an absolute bonus. And because of this the game doesn't need ads for exposure. See, I just promoted the game on HN.

People just hate ads.
See my other reply :)
I am yet to own a computer with 16 GB, let alone 32 GB.

Given that Visual Studio, Netbeans/Eclipse, Android Studio work with about 4GB, what would I use all that memory for?!
> I live in England

Then you should be used to British humor.. err humour ;) - and don't forget, don't mention the war![1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Germans
Flew Aegean Business Class earlier this summer. As you get off the plane, there is a bus waiting outside only for BC passengers. Economy is let off the plane once the bus has departed. Felt a bit strange yes, especially if you are alone in that bus. I don't mind being treated well, but preferrably not on expense of others :)
Thank you for bringing that to my attention.
Just don't do it. I totally regret I went for Javascript.

I started with systems programming with C++ etc.. At some point some 5 years ago I made the unfortunate decision to go for Javascript. After 5 years I can now confidently say that programming in Javascript is not about what you are creating, it is about what ESxxx version you use, what framework you use, whether you're using Promises or whatever idea people come up with tomorrow, and all this in an ever accellerating and continuing hype. I am sick of it already. Almost everything I learn is already, or will be soon, deprecated.

I would recommend people to go for C++/Qt or any language/framework where what you learn will not be wasted soon so you can use your valuable time to create things rather than learn the next framework or language idea all the time.
I think it's because people are attempting to somehow "improve" the current educational methods using techno magic assuming that "if we do the stand-in-front-of-a-blackboard thing except with tablets" is going to lead to any sort of an improvement.
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Have you ever done desktop UI?

It does your checklist for 2 decades.
I thought that was fairly obvious.

As per the author's aritcle it is definitely not a direct connection. FB relies heavily on first-degree connection analysis. If you and I end up in the same phonebook (which the author mentions) or the same photograph and FB connects us, we'll never know why. The not knowing why part makes it uncanny.

Facebook is to people what Google is to websites. It is in the business of enriching its social graph in every way possible and then running profiling algorithms on that graph. Google by contrast crawls and pageranks the crawled graph.

FB has literally hundreds of data sources to enrich their social graph and profile data.

A good start is their list of acquisitions [1] in the space of offline applications, social networking aggregators, contact importers, photo management, private conversations, travel recommendations, check-ins/status updates, etc.

Then consider the FB partnerships with ride hailing services, retail apps, music apps, etc.

Then consider it's own apps and features around events, calendering, photos and instant messaging.

Also consider the state of technology in NLP, AI and image recognition.

Also consider the FB integrations with tens of thousands of apps for social auth, share buttons and advertising.

Writing this post, I have surprised even myself as to how much data they have access to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
How does that compare with the sanitizers in Clang (Memory, Address .. ) ?
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There's a website to find the antipode to whereever, thanks for making me curious enough.
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I believe michaelmrose is suggesting that while microwaves are indeed a form of (electromagnetic) radiation, "low-level radiation" usually refers to low-levels of ionizing radiation, not low-power EM sources. While fwdslash might indeed be talking about low-level microwaves, there are many in my experience who think that "radiation" only means "ionizing radiation" or "atomic radiation". (Hence, "nuke it in the microwave".)

Again, in my experience, people who are aware of the distinction tend to write "More low-power microwaves" than "More low-level radiation".

For a semblance of hard numbers, "low-level radiation" gives 735 hits in PubMed Central (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22low-level+radiatio... ) and 338 in PubMed (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22low-level+radia... ).

'"low-level radiation" microwave" gives 32 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22low-level+radiatio... ) and 2 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22low-level+radia... ), respectively.

One of the latter is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17886009 where you can see "low-level radiation" is used to describe microwaves: "On the radar station area, blue tits nested in high exposed nest-boxes (67,0%) and great tit occupied mainly these boxes, which were exposed to low-level radiation", where that radiation is "pulse-modulated microwave radiation of 1,200-3,000 MHz."

It's just not common.

The topic, by the way, concerns sperm counts. You write "there can be many effects". Is a change in sperm count one of them? Many people have done experiments on the effect of microwaves from mobile phones on organisms. I was at a biology conference about 25 years ago where one of the speakers talked about their research, so surely this has been tested already.

Also, radio and TV techs have been working with high-power EM for decades. There's so much power in the air around some towers that florescent tubes can glow. If low-power microwaves have an effect on fertility then we should have seen an effect on those workers long ago, yes?
this is the real shame. people don't block ads because they can't stand the site of them. it's because the whole ad infrastructure is so janky that it makes the browsing experience glitchy and unstable. nobody wants cookie stuffing popunder free download now buttons on their site but ad providers don't really give much in the way of being able to selectively filter those out.
And recession velocities have units of distance per time and exceed c at the Hubble sphere.

Such coordinate velocities are largely meaningless, though: The more interesting quantity is the relative velocity as evaluated via parallel transport along the trajectory of the photon you use to observe the receeding object, which goes to c at the cosmic event horizon.
As a Londoner who can't afford to buy here despite being on a senior engineer salary, I like this.

The concentration of super-money in W1 is what pushed prices up as the ripple moved out, at least more so than immigration. The fact the market is slowing at that end means there might be a ripple back, which coupled with a falling residency rate (July was the first month more people moved out of London than moved in for 10 years), means we might see a collapse and we can start to afford homes again.
... wondering when someone will notice that this is from a comedian.