skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, but like the "War on Drugs" is doomed to fail, so is the "war on Ads" - or any other market in which there is significant demand.

Companies need to advertise. If they don't sell their products, they go to die.

Here's some real world impact of Adblockers: Advertorials, Fake Reviews, increasily covert forum spam and Influencer Marketing. Not to mention increasing hard work of PR agencies chiseling away at reputable sources like Wikipedia. I basically can't trust anyone on the internet anymore - and this trend will only accelerate if companies can't reach interested prospects via clearly marked ad slots anymore.

All this advertising need and money isn't going away over night if banner ads are finally gotten rid of: it will simply go somewhere else.
Warning: Don't use that plugin if you have web sites and use any of google adsense/adword/analytics. Your account would get banned for fake clicks.
There's still pollution from the tire particulates due to friction.

Although I guess it's negligible to gas exhaust.
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This is a very genuine question. To those what despise ads and want to see everyone who uses them destroyed and the ad industry destroyed.

How do you currently make a living? Is it all through donation?

If you work for an employer. Do they sell products or services? So, they must advertise right?

If you work for google? Well, that's how they make their profits each year.

If you work for a non-profit. How do the people who donate, earn their living? Can you be sure they also live from donations only?

Bottom line is, if advertising goes away. How do you expect to make a living, if no one knows about products and is not buying?

Advertising has been around far longer than a large portion of the audience of this website. The thinking that advertising can be changed to a tipping system is naive at best.

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I'd love to hear what the stone throwers think. How do we replace this industry that must be destroyed at all costs. How will someone from the future, market their product without advertising of any kind. Must new products sit on the shelf or be used by a very few because any form of communication about a product IS ITSELF AN ADVERTISEMENT and must be STOPPED!

Honestly, I'd like to know!
I think you should really revisit the abilities of those two services they do far more than simply bookmark, they allow for content extraction, including images (which are then available across all your devices, offline.)

It also allows for in depth searching of that content, including performing OCR scanning of images, tagging, in the case of oneNote it allows you to create outlook task associated with them, export them to several formats.

Also in oneNote, you can also embed from repl.it, (think jsfiddle) which is how I handle any complex mapping needs.

Not to mention the countless other sites, that offer this sort of mapping functionality that you can then either embed, or screen clip the results of.

I'm not saying your product doesn't have value, but I think you underestimating what functionality is already out there.
> After that, if anything is left, the profits are split
> between sponsors and investors depending on the agreement.

This is a complicated topic, probably with no perfect answer. But it's worth considering this: Is the equity granted to employees as a way to incentivise maximising shareholder value, or is it a substitute for regular (cash) compensation? I'd argue that, except for very senior or very early employees, it's the latter.

> the employees would still net X - Y per every option they have

Thanks! Your calculation is precisely the justification that I said companies may try to use to get you to accept an offer. And it often doesn't make sense.

To build on your example:

- 1,000,000 preferred shares at $X per share, with 2x liquidation preferences
- 3,000,000 common shares (including employee option pool, and all employees get accelerated vesting on a liquidity event)
- Employee options have a strike price of $Y, where Y=0.7X (a 30% discount to the last round).

If the company is sold tomorrow, at a valuation of $X per share, then that's $4X MM. The preferred shareholders get $2X MM (due to their 2x liquidation preference). The 3 MM common shares split the remaining $2X MM. So each common share gets $0.67X. This is less than the strike price. So the options are underwater.

I used a 2X liquidation preference to make the math easy. But there can be other provisision (e.g. an IRR ratchet) or situations (e.g. a flat- or down-round) which can cause a similar outcome.

Moreover, the naive X-Y valuation of each option doesn't account for (i) the riskiness of the eventual outcome, (ii) how far away that outcome is (time value of money), (iii) lack of liquidity (can't sell the options, for any price).

So you can't just take a discount of salary, and eplace the dollar amount with a number of options vesting this year, using that X-Y value per option.
Which government would you trust to do that?
I would argue that kids are more proto-human being than fully fledged human being, which is why they need education to start with.

Also, why, if they are human being, are they subjected to lesser criminal penalties than "adults" ?
> This, in the opinion of many people including myself, will be for the betterment of us all as a society.

If you achieve this, the result will be that the only people who can publish on the net are those with deep pockets and other interests. They may be companies (who write content as marketing), plutocrats (who will publish pro-business propaganda) or the state.

This is where we are heading: where the average citizen learns about their country from a Facebook feed, written by the Koch brothers.

This is going to have incredibly harmful effects on our society, and - I will not mince words - it seems to me the blame will rest with _people like you_.

That means YOU will be responsible for fake news and newspapers competing with the worst of the internet. That YOU will be responsible for advertisement disguised as news. All because you were too outraged to accept ads and too apathetic to pay a few dollars for paper news.
> Even at the risk of coming off as an arsehole: I'm sorry, but you are collateral damage.

If the small site owners are only collateral damage for you then you also welcome a internet which is dominated by big companies and people with enough money to push their agenda.
Do I read that correctly as implying sweet expressions are bijective with s-expressions? Hoe many Lisp dialects have support for them?
For type systems you have Flow and TypeScript, coming with their IDEs. The Chrome devtools and various plugins helps having a good IDE too. Multi threading is possible but rarely used because the concurrency model of JavaScript is event based.

Overall, I think JavaScript has a very rich ecosystem because, if you do Web programming, you do not really have alternatives to JavaScript. So the community made the language support various programming styles, tools and libraries.

I do not believe WASM will help bringing more language to the Web than today because it is already possible to compile to JavaScript with good enough performances for most use cases.
It is my hope that the power of our words will sort things out. I'm here to argue in the original sense of the word, and while I am ultimately interested in the broad consequences of drug laws in the US, I consider it healthy and productive to first focus on an indisputably negative consequence, physical harm -- especially when it has been proposed that these laws have resulted in more of this than any war in recent history. If we can't talk through this point, a fair treatment of broader and less easily chracterized consequences is hopeless.
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Its common knowledge. Even has a wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
Ruin advertising? The companies are doing that by ignoring the do-not-track thing-of-a-bob-which-caches-that-pidgeon-or-they-loose-their-jobs
I think you have the cart and horse the wrong way around. SemVer doesn't say that it's okay to break compatibility in major version updates, it defines "major version update" to mean "any update which breaks compatibility".

If a piece of software hasn't broken compatibility but still wants to tell people they've passed a big feature milestone, it's perfectly reasonable (and I think explicitly encouraged) to have separate user-facing and semantic versions - so you tell people it's "Foo 2.0" but publish it to npm as foo@1.37.0. This is right and proper because the semver number exists solely to describe whether an update adds features and breaks compatibility or not; anyone using it otherwise is misusing semver.
I'd argue, at foremost, from their parents. [and yes, I was very aware of this fact to the extent that my first real-world application of programming was to automate obfuscate my browsing history as a teenager.]
> See, that right there is where the analogy falls apart.

You're missing the point. That's the _goal_. If they hadn't mentioned that was the goal, would it still be illegal?

> Writing software to translate between two independently-developed programs is not, last I checked.

It is illegal if the license doesn't permit you to do that. Copyright owners can place restrictions on usage of their works.
Is this the one that clicks on random stuff to trick trackers from knowing your true interests? I heard about that
Could you please point to or paste here the Heinlein quote you're referring to?

I've tried to google-guess it but failed.
The downvote might be related to the current pedestal our society currently place "kids" on, as harmless pure creatures adults shall bow to.
I don't think I've ever met someone who enjoys being advertised to. Instead of being butthurt about your bad business model (selling stuff nobody wants) how about selling things people actually want to buy?
Lets see if Basic-Attention-Token works
Amway?

Can you "empower" your most loyal and socially wealthy followers by signing them up to the platform?
Companies need to advertise. If they don't sell their products, they go to die.

Nonsense. If I or anyone NEEDS a product or service, we'll happily go out and buy it. Ads exist purely to drive unnecessary consumption-for-the-sake-of-consumption. It's telling that even a generally capitalist, free-market demographic like HN's thinks they are a sleazy way to make money. It's not a "war on drugs" its more like a war on some disease - and those are very winnable.
I would keep ads. But I would prefer if advertisers are not allowed to lie or make unverified claims on ads. I would perefer to be able to take an advertiser to court for the claims made. That still leaves a lot of room for word play and weaseling ..."upto 80% improvement in blah", but better than nothing.
... Speaking of environmental externalities,

In the US, "Class C" fire extinguishers work on electrical fires:

From Fire_class#Electrical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_class#Electrical

> Carbon dioxide CO2, NOVEC 1230, FM-200 and dry chemical powder extinguishers such as PKP and even baking soda are especially suited to extinguishing this sort of fire. PKP should be a last resort solution to extinguishing the fire due to its corrosive tendencies. Once electricity is shut off to the equipment involved, it will generally become an ordinary combustible fire.

> In Europe, "electrical fires" are no longer recognized as a separate class of fire as electricity itself cannot burn. The items around the electrical sources may burn. By turning the electrical source off, the fire can be fought by one of the other class of fire extinguishers [citation needed].
>please allow the user to search for ads that have been displayed to them

This is a good point, and the fact that advertisers don't allow it is evidence that they're doing something immoral. If adverts were really about informing people to help them make their own reasoned choices, advert search would be very useful. But if adverts are an attempt to emotionally manipulate people, then allowing search would be counterproductive. It would give the audience time to think, which makes psychological trickery less effective. Advertisers choosing to make adverts appear and disappear unpredictably is telling.
JS and C++ basically mirror each other in being old languages hindered by backwards compatibility.

C++ is the exact same way with a regular release schedule. You using old C++, C++ 11, C++14, C++ 17, you ready for 20? But if you know what you are doing that modern subset of the language is super nice....like JS.
«enhance», the article won't say how much though.
In Germany you can request an off-peak meter in addition to your normal power meter. Alternatively, you can get a power meter that is able to count two tariffs in one device.

There is no "talk of introducing this for decades" since it exists since decades.

Here's all you need to know: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedertarifstrom
Looks like Putin's winning strategy was an American export. How ironic indeed.
"When we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies." This is from the OKC privacy policy Cantwell would have agreed to when registering. Seems to allow them to release his name.
Rather than meaning “superb conductivity”, superconductivity is a specific electronic state of matter in which the conductivity drops to zero at a certain critical temperature, and magnetic fields are “expelled” from the material. In conventional (low-temperature) superconductors, this is caused by formation of electron pairs (Cooper pairs) that behave as bosons. There is no established mechanism for unconventional (high-temperature) superconductivity.

In any case, the present study does not mean that graphene is a superconductor.
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I see that you have a very practical and scalable solution out there.

We will gush about a movie/product/service launch on television and call it news. One might even consider incentivising people to write positive reviews, we will just not call them ads. Why havent we seen any of these yet ? I have my review-blocker, post-blocker, word-of-mouth blocker startups still in waiting.
"It's about anti-terrorist investigations and checks. It's a bit like you searching how to make bombs and then buying explosive chemicals in bulk will put you in a list. No discrimination has occurred."

Except that we know that people get put on the list by accident and out of spite. (https://www.wired.com/2014/02/no-fly-coverup/ and https://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/24/muslim_americans_accu... ).

You write "checks" but checks need balances. Where is the balance here, and is it effective? Was he denied his due process rights? I think so.

"No discrimination has occurred."

How would you know if discrimination has or hasn't occurred? None of this information is public and there's very little oversight.

The State of Texas said that its voter ID laws were not discriminatory. A judge, after receiving far more information than we know about the various US watch lists, disagreed, and granted a permanent injunction against it.
I'd trust the UK civil service to do that. The hardest but would probably be verification -- does that lasagne really only have beef in, was the cocoa for that chocolate actually grown in a Fairtrade farm, in Ivory Coast, etc..
Ah I see, I was not aware the difficulty could go down as well
Unikernels are a better simpler tech than containers but somehow we're stuck with containers.
In principle , they could offer a share of the revenue to the users.
You can try uMatrix. Same author. Adjust the defaults. There is a learning curve.
I do, actually. If you're privacy-conscious but still need to use certain high-risk programs every once in a while (such as closed-source Chrome extensions), keeping a VM instance around for that purpose isn't the most complicated thing you could do.
If you add any privacy related list to any blocker, GA is blocked, thankfully.
Should have included open space offices.
I just saw the movie Hidden Figures which is based on the incredible achievements of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. I was happily surprised to see this on HN. If you haven’t seen it, please do.

It was an eye opener for me as an non-American to see how normalized racism was in the 1960’s even at places like NASA where one might assume science trumps ignorance.
How about rather than consuming content that is so bad that it's not worth 2Kb of extra bandwidth; maybe don't?
Cheapness.

Companies have limited money and budget, especially the small and medium ones.

When choosing between candidates, the ones who is cheaper is much more likely to be given the advantage.
it requires two meters

Why?! Two-rate meters have been around for decades, long before they went digital.
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No the problem with primecoin is the mathematical "problem" it is solving isn't scientifically interesting.
Arguments against ads:

- They provide unsollicited information, which distracts and irritates users.

- They use screen real estate.

- They use bandwidth.

- They use energy.

- They make websites slower.

- They introduce security problems.

- They track users, collect their data.

- They incentivize companies to disrespect our privacy.

- They put users in an information bubble.

- Market failure: not the "best" product wins, but the one with the biggest advertisement budget behind it.

- They make people feel inconfident (see photoshopped fashion ads)

- They play with our minds.

- They are often targeted at children.
I'm puzzled that your efforts to pursue expertise in the JavaScript field have not met your expectations.

I set out on the same quest and expected great pain but instead have found enormous satisfaction and success in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Along with massive pain associated with build tools.
This might be quite dangerous if used without a solution to anonymize your IP and block all third party cookies, as it will expose your browsing habits and could even let advertisers de-anonymize you. Knowing that you regularly visit e.g. 5-10 specific domains can be enough to uniquely identify you in a dataset containing millions of people depending on the relative popularity rank of these domains. I would therefore be very cautious with this as it might do serious harm to your privacy. Not interacting with ads and not sending any data about you to the ad provider is still the best option for that. Also, most fake clicks can be easily detected (because you e.g. do not interact with the ad content after clicking on the ad), so it might not even do much harm to the ad providers (if that's the reason why you use the system, which I do not endorse personally).
more likely only rich kids would get an education - long ago we decided that as a society we are all better off if everyone is educated
Without commenting on the figures of this article, generally EV CO2e footprint is manufacturing-heavy -> total lifecycle per-km footprint is still substantial without any emissions from charging energy.
The only thing you'll achieve with that attitude is convincing people that there's no point in slowing down or talking things over.
I guess with phantomjs, the page is rendered on CGN node? Is the computation cost too large to support many users on a single node? And is there any privacy concerns?
You should definetly take a looke at vue - it's awesome!
This isn't shadenfreude; it's a type of direct action against advertising and indirectly the type of hyper-capitalism that allowed advertising to become malignant.

When profit is the only metric that counts, the only way to send a message is to disrupt the flow of revenue.

> seems nothing but despicable

I'd suggest viewing it from the other side, but I suspect Upton Sinclair's caution may apply: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
> You think Google can't detect this?

If they randomize it, no.
Isn't it a pain in the ass to find/test all those cells. I think I saw either an article or a instructables page that had like 100 cells or something. Maybe it was a thousand. Looked tedious.
As someone who now has a banner advert embedded in the menu of my TV, good. The advertising industry is awful and intrusive. Yes, businesses will have to adjust or rethink, and that's a good thing.

It's a Samsung SUHD, by the way

http://i.imgur.com/m3ePBkr.jpg
This is exactly the setup I'm using too. Works well, though the whole setup is a little less polished than 1Password which I was using before.

On the desktop I'm using Browsers [1] and QTPass [2].

[1] https://github.com/dannyvankooten/browserpass

[2] https://qtpass.org/
>I'm hearing this moralistic (and naive IMHO) argument a lot lately. Do you rather want to read targetted (advertisement-in-disguise and mass-scale political campaigning aka fake news) content instead?

We already have that buddy. One problem at a time.
LOL.

What you really mean is that his car couldn’t account for his massive balls.

It’s racing ffs, if you can take it flat, you take it flat.
Not like Amway.
The platform would be different for different people. It is like one get to select from a set of posts to share on his timeline. Signing up to the platform ]would totally depend on the post provider.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CRC.aspx

> Article 16

> 1. No child shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his or her honour and reputation.

> 2. The child has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
It won't. Most people don't want their attention monetized.
I genuinely think that ship has sailed past practicality.
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the article won't say how much though.

Did you read TFA? "However, the average improvement was three times larger after pink-noise stimulation."
Yes, and the problem has become a lot worse since the introduction of diesel pump injectors. Previously, diesel particulates were mostly caught in the lungs and could be coughed up, but now they hit the bloodstream.
A language without a proper stdlib and with programmers who have no idea what the O notation is about has no place in any serious programmer's "to learn" list.
My point is more that the approach (this isn't a good example, but i think it shows the problem) of having a single generic name is insufficient. Perhaps someone coming from another OS types "explorer" when looking for a browser, "zip" when looking for an archiver.
The French, bring back Le Minitel!
Not ludicrous, but ridiculous.
I sure as hell don't like it, but I believe that's been the case for a number of years already.

Just like the offline world.
It's not clear that this is the right way to judge "good idea". Specifically it's possible that oil saved from replacing ICEs will still be burned, in which case EVs strictly increase CO2 emissions due to their manufacturing being very CO2 intensive.

In the wider picture, EVs still have such big lifecycle CO2e footprints that we'll still have to drastically reduce private car use. Focusing on EV technology is a major distraction from recognizing this as a society.