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Crikey, guy shares an anecdote of how an ad helped him and all you can do is be really nasty about it, it's completely unnecessary.

I bought a piano course from Udemy because of advertising on FB (and then spent an additional £150 on a keyboard). I'm really enjoying it. Please tell me what a horrible human being I am.
How has it been hardened? It's not just about blocking ads, it's also about preventing malicious content. I'm not willing to risk a beta browser for ads.
Loss of privacy, for one. I don't want to be tracked at all. Tracking and user-tailored ads should be opt-in, not opt-out. Advertisers don't respect the user and their chosen settings.

They kill web performance. I use Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin, and it's blazing fast! Ads REALLY hurt mobile web.

Their purpose is to manipulate users in order to extract money. They never serve the user's interests. Ads will lie and manipulate you in any way they can, in order to milk you dry.

I have a very limited attention span, and I don't think advertisers deserve any access to it. I'm the one that gets to decide where I spend it.

At most, ads should be a static images or a snippet of text that gets sent along with the page. You can pick what ads to serve based on the page content.

The only time I might be fine with ads is when I'm actively searching for something which is directly related to the product or service. But even then I'd be weary. I want unbiased sources to compare and review different competing products or services, so I can pick the best one for my needs. That's at odds with the advertiser's desire to sell me something.
Guns and nuclear bombs are still "just" force multipliers, but they are multipliers of predominantly or even overwhelmingly negative forces.

The problem isn't that trivial conclusion in isolation, it's what happens in a multi-actor game, where the other players have significantly higher badness than yourself. Despicable as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was, had Hitler or Stalin gotten the bomb first, there's a substantial risk of a much, much worse outcome. Stalin did get the bomb, but MAD ensured that he never used it. That is also a force multiplier.

Same dilemma for guns: could you remove all guns from everyone at once (except cops and perhaps carefully trained, background-checked, mentally sound, and clean-criminal-record holding citizens, and without going door-to-door Iraqi-counter-insurgency-style), it would probably be quite simple to get a clear majority for doing it. But you can't, and so removing the guns means removing them from people for whom they represent the least of a negatively multiplied force. Hence the slogan, if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.
Yeah, pretty much. I used to be a libertarian and know a lot of people who are, and many regard it as a reasonable compromise and a strict upgrade over the nonsense we have now.
> I like x86 but it's not the cpu of the future unless it's open

SPARC has been open for years FYI.
I absolutely love it. I live in Shizuoka prefecture that has some of the best weather in the country (a bit hot this past week though...). It's beautiful. The food is amazing. It's quiet. In the winter I can walk out to the beach at night and see the milky way. The people are super friendly. There is very little not to like (unless you are a city person, in which case you will probably go stark raving mad with boredom ;-) ).

I highly recommend visiting rural Japan. It's a completely different place than Tokyo/Osaka/etc. It's an easy place to travel to. People are friendly. It's not so expensive. Transportation is good. It's insanely safe.

For living, though, you need to spend some time here and decide if you like Japanese culture. Some people really, really don't. It's quite different living here than visiting here. It suits me down to a T, but I know a lot of people who just can't deal with it.
In case anyone else is wondering, it looks like it made the release :)
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Don't C++ classes (and therefore structs) have a hidden vtable?
Don't get me started on ramen!!! I can't tell you the hours and hours and hours I've spent trying to make decent ramen. I've gotten up to about "acceptible" level now :-) When I go into a famous ramen shop, I'm always blown away with what they can do. Lots to learn!
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I'm not saying a NN doesn't reproduce analytical expressions, rather that "take everything and mix it together a bunch of times using this recipe" is not the form that the laws of nature has.

I'm not sure what you think explicit construction proves, it is clearly a case of taking preexisting knowledge and expressing it in what is doubthlessly a more akward form.
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In some ways it's easier for corporate, as the ca's have more incentive to make it useable.

I asked a ca about s/mime pricing - on its own they have a 50x3yr minimum purchase. They offered to waive the minimums if I combined with a regular server cert purchase.
>Both of those metrics are incredibly shit ways to measure productivity.

In theory yes. In practice, when you know your team and their average output and quality, no.

>I guess thats one explanation as to why the facebook app is 200mb+. They've been superproductive with all those lines of code

Or you know, most of it is assets, debugging symbols, stray frameworks and libs not stripped, etc. As is the case with almost any app beyond a few MB.
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I think it would be hard to find an argument anywhere that social or cultural progress was monotonic. It almost feels like sawtooth progression is a natural law of some kind…
> [Guns and nuclear bombs] are multipliers of predominantly or even overwhelmingly negative forces.

Whether this statement is true is not clear. The time since multiple countries have had nuclear weapons has been one of the most peaceful times in human history. You can't just look at all the times guns and bombs are used, you have to also include all the times they have been there and not used.
> They're not most lucrative if you consider 16 games for the NFL versus 82 for NBA.

NFL contracts aren't guaranteed and they're still lower on an annual basis than the NBA. The biggest star QB's in the NFL might be Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, but Brady makes less than the second highest earning player on the Celtics and Rodgers makes less than the highest earning player on the Bucks. NBA minimum contracts are also higher. If you can make it in either league and you want to maximize your earnings, you would be an idiot not to choose the NBA.

Added to this is the fact that there are 450 NBA players in the entire league compared to over 1600 NFL players. That makes it more exclusive almost by definition.

I'm not sure how not calling travels or carries reduces the risk of injury in basketball, but Westbrook did get called for the travel that you linked to.

> NFL defensive schemes make NBA defensive schemes look childish.

Because they only have to last for 2-7 seconds before you have a 40-second break where the coach can radio a new set of instructions. And in the NFL, both offensive and defensive plays are memorized and executed by rote, except for the 2-5 quarterbacks in the league who can adjust or call a different set play by themselves. Even the quarterback isn't redirecting his teammates on the fly the way a point guard does, and no player in football does that kind of work on the defensive end the way Draymond Green does.

I can't believe you're making a serious argument that the NFL requires more athleticism when half the players are morbidly obese and the other half never have to exert themselves for more than five seconds at a time. It's slightly more athletic than baseball, but if NFL players had the athletic ability to outperform NBA players, they would be in the NBA purely out of financial incentive.
Well, in the important case of finding something new and interesting you need proper MC to verify your understanding. In practice you are right that using the NN like it actually speaks about reality will be common and not too harmful, people do lots of dubious least squares fits and astronomy still survives!
I know ThinkPad laptops have this (mine is set to charge up to 90% and only start charging if it's below 80%), and I think I've seen it in some custom kernels for Android ROMs a few years ago, but I'm not aware of any popular devices supporting something like this.
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Thank you very much, I guess Conway wrote many articles about GoL. I am sorry I have no reference about them, maybe you can find some in the GoL wiki here http://conwaylife.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page
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The parent makes a point.

Across their whole product line (client apps, Hip Hop VMs, Flow, whatever), there might be millions of lines of code.

But what exactly seems to actually change year over year on FB itself (server/client of the actual social website) that warrants so many commits?
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Previous LWN article on the subject: "Reducing Python's startup time" (Aug 16, 2017)

https://lwn.net/Articles/730915/

Related HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15131981
When I was reverse engineering car ECUs, one of the interesting little projects was finding fuel consumption display calibration data and calculation algorithm, on 2008+ Subarus. And then I did some measurements trying to get accurate real world consumption, and "sync" the dashboard with it. And while there was ~3% error IIRC, I think it has more to do with getting the most accurate average consumption over the car's lifetime, than fooling the customer on purpose. The calculation is based on the effective injector pulsewidth (ECU can't count actual fuel flow))), and as injector performance deteriorates over time, you get less and less optimistic values with more miles.
In the paper there is also a way to build a Penrose tiling using functions, really interesting. Thank you again for sharing it!
Wow. I was already shocked to hear about the huge numbers of people that were looking into the sun... But to hear that some people genuinely believed that this would work. Speechless.
>What is that "extra effort"? Discipline, care, good work. coldtea does not call WebKit a twisted mess. In fact, they seem to be saying the opposite. That it is not a twisted mess despite using threads.

Exactly, thanks.
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So what are your hobbies? Or what would they be if you don't have one?

My take on the topic is that people who thrive as programmers have specific kind of mind. In a sense that they approach problems in certain way. Which also makes certain hobbies more appealing.

Like here we have orienteering instead of hiking. With orienteering you get to acquire and use a new set of skills to solve new problem(s) (i.e. where am I and how do I get to X?) where as hiking is pretty much just following a trail. I'm not saying that hiking every now and then can't be just relaxing and stuff, what I'm saying that orienteering has same benefits as hiking, but you get to also "do something".
It is until advertisers conspire to bubble their own content up.
A good link about metaclasses in Python:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/100003/what-is-a-metacla...
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Ability to pause iframes, which Transfer Size Policy depends on, is already on Chrome's radar: https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5141555102875648
Also, see things like the DeVISE paper that replace the 1-hot encoding output on the 1000 imagenet paper with word vectors so the model can generalize beyond 1000 classes:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.466...
I like it. I'd never even considered that the red "tube" was supposed to resemble a TV screen or TV set. Would that have been considered skeuomorphic design?
Doesn't ANY rewrite (regardless of whether there is a change in language) reduce bug-count, simply because all the requirements are more clear in advance and the engineers have had more time to think about a suitable architecture?
I wonder how much junk like this gets through Adsense.

I would have thought Google keeps the ads on their network under tight control. But I see tons of requests to other domains even on pages with just one Adsense ad and no other external content.

Example:

googlesyndication.com
google.com
voicefive.com
gwallet.com
doubleclick.net
doubleverify.com
mediaplex.com
scorecardresearch.com
t4ft.de
r1-cdn.net
afy11.net
dotomi.com

All contacted multiple times on a single pageview with a single adsense ad and no other external content.

What is all that?
The obvious answer is to specialise. The problem is how?

There seem to be two options:

1. Become an expert in a rare, rising tech stack (see elixir/phoenix)

2. Specialise in a market vertical

On hn and as a dev Option 1) is very appealing. And just a matter of time and keep doing it.

Many (smart) folks, however, tell you that 2) is the better bet long term and financially. Which makes sense because you shift from providing technical solutions to delivering business results. But it is much harder to get into (which long term turns into an advantage because you build barriers)

I would love to go route 2) but never actually went anywhere. But I didn't do 1) either because I'm stuck between those two. It's quite frustrating actually.

Is anyone else in a similar situation?
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Humor follows: Strange to say a plan would split California into 3 and solve the human linked tickets. Especially, when considering over 100 years of Americans alone splitting California into pieces (without github issues). I would prefer to see the surprises of a California United with the States, than any more division of human linked tickets. I hypothesize that humans in California are responsible for the majority of outstanding open issues in open source software, and as an Oregonian, I insist that California start closing TODOS before it starts forking itself.
I haven't been playing for years, but I'm assuming they haven't completely messed with the introduction stuff.

There are usually themed 40 card decks with every set. They usually have two colors that are combined to achieve something. They come with little booklet that teaches how the deck is meant to work and maybe some lore behind the idea. My first deck was mono red Goblin deck, which had a lot of small goblin guys and the idea was just to dish out goblins faster than your enemy can handle them, a death by thousand cuts.

As for themed decks power, they usually are not very powerful. Since they want to sell you more cards, but they are as good place as any to begin. Just don't expect to win tournaments with them.
My gut feeling is that for every advertisement induced purchase you actually want and enjoy, there are several orders of magnitude more marketing/advertisement (directly or indirectly) induced purchases that are unnecessary or harmful.
I don't think this feature is "utterly unusable". You can run your JS, wait for whatever events you want, and then pipe the resulting HTML to a --print-to-pdf command.
> selling goods and services in exchange for money still works better than giving things away and hoping somebody gives you a donation

The problem is, had he tried to sell GPG, I doubt many people would be using it now...
I never replied to this, but I think the big challenge for the Bernie wing is showing they're bigger than one man. Hate the Trump wing all you want, but when he goes, there will be a replacement waiting in the wings.
The most interesting part of the article for me was that it mentioned 5G wireless signals. I was under the impression that the standard(is that the right word?) was still being developed.
I would suspect that the engagement level of the site changes. They have the audience to be able to run massive amounts of experimentation to see how people use the site and respond to advertising. To the average user, not much changes except for a feed of news.
You can re-pose it as a regression problem to detect the coordinates of the 4 corners in the case of a single object in the image.
There has been a uBlock version for Edge for quite a while now; or am I missing something?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/ublock-origin/9nblgg...
Players go from baseball to football, sure. But, to name two examples, LeBron James and Allen Iverson, as high school prospects, could have made it to the NFL but chose basketball instead. (AI played high school football in the same part of Virginia that Michael Vick was from and was considered the better prospect.) I don't think there are any NFL players who could have made it to the NBA.
Yeah, I used to work for a company doing similar things. Was more expensive that way, but there were tons of sites you could only get the data being in a proper browser.
Only if they have virtual members.
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I don't know why it isn't in Google's interest, but you can bet it isn't.

My guess: they don't want to feed and speed up the cat-and-mouse game, so whenever ad-blockers become ubiquitous they still have a chance to outsmart them.

Anyway, I think at some point AI will bust all ads, and Google will have to come up with really smart ways to still make money while not annoying its users.
You can (and should) export the presentation to pdf or ppt before presenting.
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Sometimes I think of this as being trapped at a local optima, where striving to improve can't take you anywhere better. You have to make a jump to somewhere different and then start trying to optimise again in order to reach a more optimal optima.
>coldtea was unable to come up with a single example of where WebKit is a twisted mess

That's because coldtea (me) never said it IS a twisted mess.

What I said is that with threads, WebKit (and any program for that matter) needs extra effort to not be a twisted mess. Exactly what the parent explained again, and you don't seem to have got even this second time.

Why that is the case (in other words, why parallel programming with threads is harder and requires more effort than without), is CS 101.

Some reasons?

Synchronization and scheduling access to resources. Race conditions -- data Races, deadlocks, etc. Starvation. Balancing the number of threads (diminishing returns). Locking subtleties. VM/state/etc overhead of threading.

In fact you'd be hard pressed to find seasoned programmers that would disagree that threads are problematic and require extra caution.

Heck:

"Although threads seem to be a small step from sequential computation, in fact, they
represent a huge step. They discard the most essential and appealing properties of
sequential computation: understandability, predictability, and determinism. Threads, as a
model of computation, are wildly nondeterministic, and the job of the programmer becomes one
of pruning that nondeterminism" -- https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf
is that anything close to like polynomial fitting? What with PTIME and NP-Completion?
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How are they able to achieve slicing their userbase into thousands of pieces to do this gradual release?
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No, because those direct voting means that all people can make an educated decision on a topic. But a politicians job is exactly to free us from this work. Nobody wants to constantly mingle with politics when they can rather watch a movie or read a book.
How? I can't install plugins into my Chrome on iPhone 6s.

And you can't switch the default browser so it only helps in 30 % of the cases (when you are not inside Facebook/Twitter/etc and when you are not clicking a link that opens the default browser)
I'll try this one on all my phones. Thanks.
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Amusingly, I had this same problem back in ~1999 when trying to automatically screen capture webpages with Netscape on X.

Except then it was just a case of "wait 30 seconds and pray" because there was none of this fanciness.

(bloody kids, get off my lawn, banging two rocks together, etc.)
This is what we decided to do as well at my work. We've been using LaunchDarkly to handle the feature flagging, and we slowly migrate features from 0% to 100%, or first roll out features to less important customers, etc.

Works like a charm, our product owner and engineering team are happier than ever, since it takes away a big part of the risks and makes rollbacks a lot faster.
That shows his own personal altruism. I'm afraid that in tech, like in any other domain, altruism in gifted people is something rare (just because altruism is rare plus being gifted is rare).

Now, everybody is doing his share, most of us are a bit altruist and a bit gifted in a way or in another. It's a question of scale.
>It seems like the python maintainers always try to complicate things for themselves to cater for some obscure use case that nobody use. I mean really, when was the last time you ever accessed a namedtuple by index??

Notice how when someone asks something like that, some bizarro practitioners of such methods would always appear and say how they are invaluable for them...
vtable is always "hidden". It's only there when there is at least one virtual member defined. Sole difference between class and struct in C++ is default visibility.

class A {
int a; // private
}

struct A {
int a; // public
}
I recently tried to browse Groupon to see whether they had any interesting deals. After opening a couple of deals in new tabs, the site became completely unresponsive and every page that I opened to ages to load. I noticed that uBlock was blocking hundreds of things and only after the counter stopped increasing, the page would become responsive.

Solution was to open a browser that doesn't have an ad blocker and the site became pretty responsive.

I understand that it's probably a bunch of tracking to predict what I want to see. But why would they need to much stuff if I'm probably there to buy stuff anyway?
> one should track _results_

One should, but companies often care more about effort than results. They can manage based on effort, they can't manage based on results.

If you spend 2 days getting the same results as somebody else does in 5 days, guess what, they don't want you milling around those extra 3 days and bringing morale down. Gotta give you more work!
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