skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This response will be lengthy, it's a complicated subject.

I disagree. Most banner ads are through some sort of service like AdSense. They don't fit the theme of the page they're on most of the time which harms the immersive experience for the end user.

People care about these details. AdBlockers are increasing in popularity every year and there are reasons for that, you can't simply disregard this fact.

There are rare sites where ads are less hated, a good example might be Penny Arcade where the ads are hand-picked by the site owners for their specific appeal to their targeted audience. Those kinds of ads are probably the least hated.

I've had this conversation dozens of times, and people are constantly insisting that advertising is going to live forever! But that's nonsense. People hate ads. Even the least intrusive ads, they hate them on principal because their lives have been ruled by ads for decades. And films like Minority Report have painted horrifying visions of the future where advertising has taken over everything. The savvy among us can see that "big data" trends are heading in that direction, and that isn't a future anyone wants. Except people who work in advertising.

What I am curious about is why people cling so desperately to this revenue model. Obviously those who rely on it for their bread and butter are going to wish it would live forever, but the other 90% of the population would realize a much better quality of life if advertisements were to die forever. Just imagine it.

The internet and digital technology is changing the world. Advertising is going to die. It's an exciting thing to bear witness to.
I did like the pun. However I'm going to argue with you.

You can pick up a good mechanical Seiko watch with a tried and tested automatic movement for $100. When properly adjusted these can keep good time and do not need batteries. They stay wound simply by wearing them.

They have a sweep second hand (not a "tick-tick" 1hz hand like quartz watches). There is no need to change a battery.
There is a lot of practical utility in that. In addition watches can be beautiful objects and a pleasure to wear.
I own a Submariner and most people won't recognize it as there are so many other watches that look like it and those that see that it is a Rolex think it is a fake anyway, at least when I'm wearing my usual t-shirt/jeans combination.
Unless you have a password or secret token in there.
Did you try to park in San Francisco? Besides you can park smart perpendicular to the curb and it still fits!
I've found these apps to be fantastic if you care about security on a mac: https://objective-see.com
On the repo owner's Pixelmator line:
> probably the best image editor out there on Mac, is packed with very powerful features and is very simple in its UI

I feel like that's quickly being overtaken by Affinity Photo[0]. One time fee, though you have to pay twice if you want a license on Windows and MacOS, but it's a closer approximation of Photoshop so you won't have to change too much muscle memory. It has better non-destructive layer editing as well. I found it crazy hard to do a layer style like desaturating a layer without "baking" it in.

[0] - https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/
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OVPs and CDNs like Cloudflare, Amazon Cloudfront and most others are already detected by WR.
Nobody "gives" set amounts of memory to their processes at all, so this thinking is backwards to begin with. The vulnerability is legitimate.
They are selling it for AR as the "mixed reality" in the name of the product explains.
The difference with the hololens is that it is getting the world images from a front camera rather than using a transparent display.
Ergo, as I was pointing out from the beginning, MS is investing massively only on AR, could not care less for VR.
How the Middle East became an electronic battleground
YMMV — anecdote territory

For me, it was probably for the same reasons that some (many? Most?) do drugs, for the moment of mental escape when your entire attention is truly needed in the moment.

While I thoroughly enjoyed adrenaline sports and got off lightly (one clavicle, boxers fracture, one ankle, and a couple of separated shoulders) what actually helped me was years of therapy and mindfulness

I still enjoy the sports, but not at the edge, just being on the mountain/wave/rapids is enough these days

My father was an abusive alcoholic FWIW
Duty calls... https://xkcd.com/386/
Google's wage-fixing practices do remind me of "planned economy". [1]

[1] https://pando.com/2014/03/22/revealed-apple-and-googles-wage...
The annoyance of twelve hour clocks
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>In researching 2016’s dramatic rise in BASE jumping deaths, I was almost unable to keep up with the pace with which people were dying.

Perhaps something to do with the increased popularity of social media and action cameras -- thus attracting a large body of non-seriously committed, in it for the views, darwin award nominees?
Daimler (the Mercedes parent) is quite active in the space of hybrids, plug-in hybrids, fuel cells and fully electric cars:

Here are three electric models that company currently produces:

- Denza ( in cooperation with BYD): http://www.denza.com/?s=eng&r=single/overall

- smart: https://www.smart.com/en/en/index/smart-fortwo-electric-driv...

- fuso eCanter: https://www.ecanter.com/en.html

electric bus coming in 2018: https://cleantechnica.com/2017/05/19/mercedes-benz-confirms-...

A 26-ton electric truck is in the making: https://www.daimler.com/products/trucks/mercedes-benz/merced...

Together with Ford and the German automakers, Daimler is building an electric charging network:
https://www.daimler.com/innovation/efficiency/ultra-fast-cha... , they are also the lead investor in ChargePoint
bit OT: How about the other way around, a 8/16 bit computer that can connect to the internet, not to run a browser, but some sort of BBS like system, to interact with other owners. Throw in a SD card as storage medium to make it a bit more practical.
Awesome! Glad you like it.
The C64 did not have a built in modem, but a number of them were available as an add-on. There was a trick where you could "overclock" a certain 300 baud modem to 450 baud, cutting download times significantly.

I never had a IP stack for it, but I did use my Commodore machines to dial into a shell account and use the internet available at the time (telent and ftp), and to MUD. I believe the terminal program I used had full ANSI support.
There is also Briefcase,
https://pybee.org/project/projects/tools/briefcase/

But last time I looked at it it was very much a work in progress.
I've wondered why this isn't a market niche. Some news stories are easily anticipated. People die, so papers write obits ahead of time. Water mains break, and TV news... starts from scratch, showing boring pictures of water while making inane comments. Why isn't it a thing, that say film students, go out and interview water main people, and create fun graphics, and then when a main inevitably breaks, offer media outlets "you can be inane and boring and wrong, or pay us $$ for this content package"?
Are Psychedelics the New Prozac?
I have never tried their blue cheese. I found some blue cheese sold at Aeon that are decent.

As for the camembert, I have no idea why they call it that way. Unless I did get particularly bad ones at my supermarket, this is really different. Very little taste, closer to a brie actually.
> Plus, given Uber's issues, being a woman had to be a big plus for Whitman.

Seems to me that if she had been offered the job, she'd be set up for failure. I'm glad they went with the other one.
BASE wingsuit fliers tend to skim just above the surface of a slope rather than flying at higher altitude. You'll see it a lot if you watch GoPro videos. This is phenomenally dangerous in a powered aircraft, but it's near-suicidal if you're flying a wingsuit.
Same here.

Oh the days trying out every WM under the Sun.

Nowadays on Windows I do a few customization, like showing file extensions, enabling a separate process for each explorer Window and a few other things and that's about it.

On GNU/Linux, I have long settled on whatever is the default WM for the respective distribution.
The idea that you can group everyone into 2k+ cohorts of differing tastes sounds like a good way of attacking the problem (though it feels a bit like spaghetti sauce taken to the extreme https://ed.ted.com/lessons/malcolm-gladwell-on-spaghetti-sau...). Personally, though, I think IMDb score is way more predictive of my enjoyment than their recommendation engine has ever been. Nine times out of ten watching a show that is below an 8.0 is a complete waste of time for me - I'll hate it even if it comes up as a 99% match for me. Conversely, I'll watch a show totally out of my wheelhouse that I know nothing about (cf. The Grand Tour) if it's good television. I figured there would be a cohort of people who watch good things of any type but maybe not - maybe there is, I just haven't been placed in it for whatever reason.
Why isn't climbing mount everest (an activity of similar lethal consequences) banned?
Ok I see your point, good for you. I never can sleep neither in coach or business - when I fly I'm super anxious though I dont have aerofobia anymore.
The general theme that inequality has risen is not in question, his solutions definitely are.

His data is not irrefutable, it is pieced together from many different scrappy time series and has put some parts of his analysis in question.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/31/upshot/everything-you-nee...

I also have to wonder where you get the idea that anything in economics is 'hard data', the world is a complex system, it's very rare for a simple answer to work.

But a simple answer will sell books and be easy to promote by the media and politicians. That's why we always hear simple answers, not because they work.
What, are you saving up your upvotes to buy a pony or something?
Thanks! I have to try it.
Seems odd to bring up necrophilia, but in general, except for hygenic and crime investigation reasons, "abuse of a corpse" seems like a strange kind of law as well.

I certainly couldn't care less what people might do with my body once I'm dead. Burn it, bury it, ignore it, worship it -- whatever floats their boat.
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Who says that the future of gaming is VR?
For me the future of computing including gaming is AR.
VR is just an halfway technology that can't do any of the things that AR can.
And I don't think that an halfway tech can ever be the future.
Haha, we're truly sorry!
I feel like most people here are missing the point.

The question is not whether it is proper to use AdNauseam or not, the question is whether it should be a personal choice or one imposed upon by the browser.

In this case, PaleMoon was championed as the "freedom browser" as opposed to the "designed by a committee" Firefox. If this passes, does it actually mean it will simply be a fork of Firefox that keeps XPCOM support but with the same overall attitude?
Seems like a very complicated business to get into compared to chauffeurs, no? In Paris, Uber doesn't seem to handle cars at all. The drivers buy/rent cars from wherever and drive. And drivers are in charge of their car's maintenance, repairs, etc. Uber provides the smartphone apps and underlying platform. That's a challenge in and of itself, but not at the same challenge as maintaining thousands of vehicles I would bet.
The compiled or interpreted nature of a language (or its runtime) is a fuzzy concept at best (Java is interpreted on the JVM in the sense that it emits bytecode that is interpreted by the JVM; the main implementation of Clojure JVM compiles Clojure to Java bytecode that eventually gets interpreted). The notion you're looking for is probably that of incremental compilation / running.
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The Rob Pike approach https://usesthis.com/interviews/rob.pike/

I'm coming round to it (at a considerably less exalted level).
Personally, rabidly opposed. But I think views on the matter are very split.
Margarine is a horrible Frankenstein of bad fats and chemicals. Don't use it. If you can't use butter, use olive oil.
Legendary German engineering is a myth especially in this day and age . Sure they have an edge on few things as they were the first / had the most experience and the budget to improve on but just look at how they are loosing against the fierce competition from the US and Asia.
I am not saying they are bad I am saying they are not that good as people think. They milk the brand but fail to deliver exceptional products.
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Also, Affinity Designer is a great Illustrator stand-in, even though it doesn't nearly have feature parity.
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I think he's going to go on an acquisition spree to enhance their market share outside of the US.

Watch the international space closely, uber had to retrench itself from a few international markets and it seems like those decisions may get revisited.
Been using Photoshop and Pixelmator, Affinity Photo definitely is the in my books the best image editor currently. Love that most of the things in Affinity a real time, so you see changes immediately for all the effects etc.

It's still under work of course, and hasn't reached the kind of UI maturity that Photoshop has, but it's getting there, and you can't beat their price either.
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I have a Vive, and have surprised myself with how little I play it.

The game Fantastic Contraption was illuminating for me. I had played many tens of hours of the original. In VR I was amazed at how it looked and felt. Solving the first couple challenges was a lot of fun - just watching the machines run was great.

I started to realize a flaw though. A machine I could build in seconds by stretching my fingers a few inches across a keyboard and mouse took ten or twenty times as long in VR, and involved squatting, walking, grabbing, holding, etc.

There's a Perry Bible Fellowship comic of a child in a VR suit, clutching his simulated wounds while saying "Cool!" That comic is similar to my experience. Do we really want to experience things like this? (Tedium or pain)
Yes the 6510 had an on-chip cassette interface. State-of-the-art. Ran at 1Mhz tho', the Beeb ran at 2Mhz making it the beast in the 8-bit stable.
Thanks, haven't seen this one. There is no explanation per se, but this confirms that it's doable. Knowing the answer exists is half of the solution :)

PS. And it's only 6.5 mm thick!
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Yes, 1080x1200 per eye is nowhere close to high enough. I mean, sit back, look in the direction of your monitor, and estimate how large(small) part of your total view area is taken by it (for me it seems less than 1/9 for a quite large screen and 1/25 for a laptop). You'd need 1080x1200 for that central area alone.
> In American medical slang, a zebra is a rare and exotic condition that can be conflated with more common ailments

"It's never lupus."

I'm surprised I can't remember that term coming up in House MD. It's an interesting analogy, and this sounds like an extremely interesting talk, but one has to be aware (as the author obviously is) that these conditions are rare and should only be taken into account once the more common potential causes have been ruled out.
I use this at work and it's great if you don't have root access but still want to install packages. (Why do you need to be root to install packages locally on all distros anyway??) The Windows equivalent is MSYS2, where you have a POSIX shell, pacman, and many packages thanks to the active maintainers.
I hadn't thought of that aspect as being AR, but I suppose that's true. It's just very limited.

The recent Sword Art Online movie spends quite a bit of time imagining what a world with ubiquitous, sophisticated AR could be like. While obviously unrealistic, that movie felt inspiring.
Not sure which is worse: clickbaity titles or mostly nondescriptive titles
On the topic of macOS power usage: I made a free open source app that lets you use the side buttons on your third-party mice for system-wide navigation[1], just like in Windows. Other apps can do this too, but practically all of them bind the buttons to annoying keyboard shortcuts and frequently exhibit unexpected behavior. Mine is (sort of) event based and works a lot better, including in Xcode!

Not to toot my own horn (I mean the app is pretty simple) but it's a splinter that's been bothering me about macOS for years and years.

[1]: http://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net
Look into KeePass, it's better than an encrypted DMG :). There's a Mac implementation called MacPass which is really well-designed and easy to use.
I thought it's more of a dirty word over in the USA, and in Western + Northern Europe we're generally fine with it. The UK's head of the opposition (Jeremy Corbyn) is a self-described socialist and massively ate into the majority the Conservative party had in the last election. Germany, France and the nordic countries are pretty ok with the word and I know Portugal is the same too. These are just the ones I can speak of, the remainder I'd presume to be not too different.

It's more of an issue in former warsaw pact countries who overthrew a "socialist" government in the late 80s however. I know among my group of friends I'd get eye-rolls and chuckles if I described myself as a socialist
Some people makes it look like a walk in the park.

Twice in one week without supplemental oxygen:

http://www.kilianjornet.cat/en/blog/kilian-jornet-summits-ev...

Anyway, it's a good economic resource for those countries.
Those are not VR headset, they are AR headset with a front camera as the "mixed reality" in the product name implies.
MS would never invest in VR given all the heavy investments in AR.
And I think that it is indeed the correct choice.
It depends on how it is used, but I would have no qualms about going after the egregiously annoying and inherently dishonest ads. Those are the ones where even the advertiser knows that a click indicates absolutely no intent to explore or to buy, the reader was just tricked into triggering a booby trap. Some pages are so bad that it feels like navigating a veritable minefield, you dont know where to position your mouse to read the damn article. To all who wants to go after these guys, godspeed. I dont use adblock, but I do use flashblock and nuke javascript on all except a few whitelisted sites that I keep expanding as needed.

But seriously, I am genuinely tickled that my sarcastic comments on this post was mistaken for genuine lack of knowledge regarding paid reviews and submarine articles.

My goal was to point out that if one kills one specific form-factor it will reappear in some other form-factor and it already has; to point out that the notion that reviews, articles, word of mouth can be a substitute for ads is a silly idea [0]. Paid reviews and submarine articles being some of the other form factors. Those reviews and articles are just as dishonest if not more so and ignoring them to target others rather indiscriminately is not going to result in a better web. Thats closer to a baby throwing a tantrum than anything else.

An indiscriminate war against all ads is just childish and silly. Silly is the sweeping notion that _all_ ads are essentially motivated by malice [1] and only does harm to the reader.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15109873

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110059
That's an interesting dichotomy to establish. At first, it appears to mirror the theoretical/applied division we see in a lot of fields. But in addition to an applied mindset, you seem to be demanding something stronger out of logic: applicability to philosophical discourse. To me, this seems like a very lofty goal: I would be very surprised if someone treated religion (to use your example) productively with formal logic.

However, just because it's not immediately applicable in one domain does not make logic useless. A great example of this is Prolog, a logical programming language which uses declarative statements reminiscent of first order logic. It can solve real world problems, though it has not yet seen wide adoption as a programming language. People do use automatic theorem provers, which have their roots in logic. The are used not only to further the "game" of mathematics, but to find also bugs in real hardware and software systems. These application have very little to do with philosophy, and nothing to do with translating between English language and logical sentences. However, I think they are quite interesting.

(I'm not sure what to tell you about logic "sounding stupid". In the end, things like definitions of connectives are just conventions. Although it's good to understand their motivations, I'm not sure how much good objecting to them does. It kind of reminds me of half serious attempts to adopt tau := 2 pi as mathematical notation; maybe using a different constant makes more sense to you, but finally, it won't make a big difference, and you should probably just continue to use pi for interoperability with the rest of the world.)
But you didn't ask about how we keep checks on anything, mate. You just asked how it was possible to be two queen of two independent countries.

I can't design analogies to answer questions that you haven't asked, mate, and you can't stretch an analogy from one question to answer any other.
That's something I would hope that Matrix would be capable of, but if you specifically need that feature, you might contact them and ask about it.
> apparently my phone strongly prefers "it's" over "its".

Wanna swap phones? Mine always writes "its" which I almost never want -.-
Again, that is going to solve itself with no action needed from the VR industry - yesterday's high-end gaming PC is today's budget machine, so within a few years the basic PCs and consoles that everyone has will have the power to run decent VR headsets.
If you don't allow that kind of restrictions, many modern bridges should be consider art by that logic because "while looking good and distinct" was one of their design goals.
I like Quiver but I wish it would store regular Markdown files instead of JSON. Equally important an Android app that can add notes or alternatively Simplenote syncing would make me consider switching from nvAlt.
Author here. I could be wrong of course, but this stems from my experience in using a REPL from JavaScript. I hit 2 sorts of hurdle with mutability there: 1- I wasn't sure what I was viewing in the REPL was what the code of interest was perceiving, could have been changed afterwards and 2- immutable values were more suited for exploratory work due to their speculative nature, e.g I could try a function calls with variants of a data structure without 'committing' to them. Maybe I had a bad REPL experience in JS and blamed it on immutability; OTOH, maybe other people had a great REPL experience in Common Lips for other reasons, and attribute it to mutability. This certainly makes me want to give a new try to Common Lisp :)
That comment is interesting, because about a century ago it could be said about literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)
According to a comment left by the channel owner a few days ago, the videos are still all available - just unlisted. He was fed up moderating all the comments and wants to "make room for upcoming productions".

Time to start searching your browser history I guess :p