skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This does not make sense. Why would a cow make milk only while pregnant? So as soon as the calf is born no more milk? I'd expect lactation to occur after birth. A cursory internet search suggests the cycle is pregnancy (9 months), birth, milk production of various duration, 2 months of "drying off" and then on to the next pregnancy. How different is that from what occurs in nature? Don't most animals get pregnant every year during the fertile period of their life? Only unnatural part of this is separation of calf and mother as well as other details like diet. If you're concerned with that you can source your milk from responsible dairy farms, the problem there being that most people value cost savings over humanitarian concerns.

Also note that 20% (according to some random source) of beef production comes from former dairy cows. If you consider meat a byproduct of cow milk then cow milk is saving us from some of the environmental impact of beef production.

(FWIW I don't drink animal milk.)
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There was an accident recently here in Turkey when the bus driver fell asleep. Several people died including the driver. This happens too frequently in the cut-throat industry of transportation. How would you design a system to trigger an alarm when the driver shows signs of falling asleep? What would you try to catch? His closing eyes? His nodding? Or something else?
> The most successful trait I've seen in survivors it's to know when to stay put and when to move.

@andrewkemendo, can you say more about this? Is there a framework for making that decision based on situation on the ground, etc?
I see your point and agree with it wholeheartedly, however I think you're responding to something that Scarbutt (what a name) didn't actually say. Namely, that being a developer guarantees you business success.

It certainly doesn't. But it's still tremendously advantageous.

And just as programming can be learned, so too can those business skills. It just requires some combination of reading, mentorship, time, practice, and experience. And that's really the whole point behind the interviews on Indie Hackers, and the community forum as well. To help people learn those skills.
I presumed that's why the question was asked; someone is looking for opportunities.
This is especially frustrating because we don't use an ad network. We have an ad sales department that sells ad space directly to local businesses. They're not hurting google, just us.
How is "modify about:config" not having it "your way"?
Definitely that.

The most unhappy period of my working career was a period where I was micro-managed under the guise of "agile". We had detailed sprints planned months in advance, with very tight deadlines, and with endless meetings where nothing of much importance got done. I especially loved the demo's where all feedback was ignored because the coming sprints were already fully planned and there was no room for extra work.

Luckily the people responsible for that situation are no longer working for my employer, or I wouldn't be. It was a genuine me-or-them situation.
Honestly, it takes all of 5 minutes:) Saves me from throwing time and money away.
Well, there went my evening...

This kind of digital crack should be labelled properly.
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Greece certainly has a history of political instability ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_military_junta_of_1967%E... ) but Iceland was a straightforward economic crisis - Kaupthing discovered how profitable leverage was and just kept going because there was nobody to tell them to stop, until the whole thing blew up. I don't remember hearing this translate into political instability, I think Iceland is too small a country for that.
I think Pale Moon in particular was at least in part marketing itself, whether deliberately or inadvertently, to people who take objection with browser authors presuming to make this sort of moral decision on behalf of the user, independently of whether it is right. More generally, hardware and software being neutral tools in the hand of the user rather than forward-deployed submarines for the vendor's agenda (a morally righteous agenda is still an agenda, no matter how negative a sound that word has acquired, just to be sure) has been a sticking point for the Free Software movement pretty much since its conception.
How is who you know relevant?

I don't know any Hungarian speakers; can we conclude that Hungarian is a dead language?
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Yes. But the whole point of having a free (as in freedom) browser in the first place is so that the user controls it, and not google, apple, microsoft, 'Moonlight', etc.
I've used it for talking to third-party clients that hire us and I don't see why should I revise my statement. It just works, it does the job just fine. The only complaint is that the desktop client melts my battery but given that I run it in the browser it isn't that big of a deal.

Also, I forgot to mention - we did have an Slack clone called Mattermost running and the overall response from the dev team has been positive. The only reason it was shut down is because of some open-source fanatics who thought Mattermost wasn't open-source enough (apparently the fact that it's backed by a big company providing support is a sin) so we've switched to this XMPP abomination.
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Actually Nevada's law is a lot of smoke and mirrors. They can practice nutrition, but they cannot call themselves a Dietitian. That's fair. They can practice as a dietitian, nutritionist, whatever they want. The law was completed neutralized a few years ago.[0]

Medical Nutrition Therapy is a scam. It's the dietitians trying to practice medicine in the diagnosing and treatment of diseases. There is no medical necessity to licensure for nutrition, and the last thing we want is dietitians trying to pretend they're doctors.

Show me one example of actual harm from bad nutrition advice. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics has been running a contest for years trying to come up with one good example and they've failed. Ohio just passed a law that moved the board of dietetics under the state medical board, dissolving that whole board. States have finally caught on that there is, never has been, and has yet to be found, any actual harm or threat to public health from the practice of nutrition. It's just market exclusivity. They don't want the competition.

If you want to be sure the person you're receiving care from is qualified enough, ask them. Make your own judgement. Don't depend on the government to create a monopoly for one profession/modality in the name of public health.

[0]. Nevada Revised Statutes section 640E.090(a), (d), and (2) is the exemptions which totally guts the law.
Yeah the 3000 I just recalled that with a tutorial on socket.io I did a couple years back.

Yeah my bad in the RDP, you know I messed up on that. Was trying to get around firewall rules, I edited the registry and changed the port for it... Could not get back in. This was one of Amazon's windows servers, and I mounted it as a volume to another one and could not access the registry to change it back so yeah... Locked myself out haha.
Great questions, and not to be unnecessarily pedantic, but IPFS is not a method of storage. IPFS is a replacement for HTTP and has a lot of attractive qualities and works in production today.

Filecoin is a method of incentivizing decentralized storage on IPFS and many of the questions you've asked are either totally or partially unsolved.

Those questions will ostensibly be solved by groups (possibly Protocol Labs, the creators of IPFS and Filecoin, possibly others) over time. That's kind of the bet you have to make if you buy Filecoin, but it's not a bet you have to make to use IPFS today or build a solution on IPFS that works at least for your ends but not all ends.

Hope that makes sense - it's worth digging in more on the forums themselves as to which of those problems are more or less solved and what the possible solutions are.
If true, WTF Google...
That's one of the ideas of Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT / NERT).

During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, citizens banded together and helped each other other because emergency services were overwhelmed. Afterwards, they reached out to the fire department to ask for formal training and thus NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) was born.

When the next big earthquake hits California, we still won't be ready. However if neighbors pitch in and can put out small fires and shut off gas leaks before they turn into anything more serious, then that's one less neighborhood the fire department has on their to-do list.

I highly recommend anyone in earthquake country to take a NERT/CERT class to help out their neighborhood.

NERT: http://sf-fire.org/neighborhood-emergency-response-team-nert

CERT: https://www.ready.gov/community-emergency-response-team
Interesting info, thanks.
I've written a sql to elasticsearch mapping tool I feel I should of released. Eleasticsearch is in desperate need of many tools we take for granted in sql land, like a command line client you can easily punch in queries on the fly because trying to write multi line json into the commandline curl is death so I'm forced to install kibana.
People installing AdNauseam probably want to hurt you and your colleagues, so it's working as intended.

That is, there are people who believe ad-supported publications on the web should die. If their choice causes your ad-supported publication to die, mission accomplished.
Um, the first part of your comment is a common misunderstanding. Female cows produce milk only after they've had a calf. Not during. And they continue producing milk generally for as long as you milk them. Their production does go down over time, but they can be milked for a year after one calf, sometimes two years. Production does go down when they are pregnant, though. :)
Source: 20 years on a dairy
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On the one hand, I agree with your sentiment in general. However, it's a double edged sword here. LOTS of people are so sick of advertising networks, tracking, privacy invasion and malware from compromised ad networks that the underlying issue, the idea that click and impression based advertising is fundamentally flawed, is something that people are going to continue to protest. If the system is so broken that it's susceptible to this kind of click-jacking, then it was never a really good system to begin with.

Do I think this is the right way to go about it? Probably not. But I do think the long term solution needs to be for publishers to move away from the third-party advertising banner model. While forcing your hand isn't the right way to do things (and will, you're right, cause more harm than good) if nothing else AdNauseum has sparked a much needed conversation about ad-based revenue, one that we as a publishing and content consuming internet community desperately NEED to have. Because content isn't free, and publishers SHOULD be compensated for their work. We need to develop a better system to take the place of the obviously flawed model we've come to rely on, so that everyone comes out on top, publishers included.
Slightly off topic, but I find the implication made in the image you linked that Google, a company which profits via wage labour, which owns property, is a "Communist" organisation to be absolutely hilarious if it wasn't a sincerely held view by some poor souls.
> why put the French and Spanish wines on the same shelf

Are you sure they actually do that? I've been to a few supermarkets in France and wine was predominantly organised by French region. I can't imagine they'd slip these bottles in to one of those sections.

EDIT: Found photos of sections like "wine between 3 and 4 EUR". Either times have changed or I hadn't seen a representative sample when I visited :)

Also, I don't find a perfectly legible "Vin de la Communeauté Européenne" label particularly deceptive. It's also a 1L bottle - hardly the sign of a good wine.
Coding requires quite a bit of physical effort as well. Have you noticed your age getting in the way of it? I'm in my late twenties and have been coding since I was 15. I've developed quite a few chronic issues - both skeletal and gastrointestinal.
But thats just it. The extension, by trying to provide a "unbiased browsing experience" to the user but sending false clicks to the networks, is punishing the author/publisher in the middle.

This is a bad analogy but the closest I can find: Its like saying I don't like big book publishers so I'm not going to pay for the book at the independent book store.

Again, that analogy quickly falls apart but the initial point is similar.

The the larger thread on the page they talk about Google etc issues refunds for false clicks etc. Thats not quite true, that was more for brands that had their ads run on fake news sites.
If they hire her, the company's crash and burn date might come before they even have a chance to dump the stock on the public! Oh what a shame that would be to see....

Fun fact about Meg unrelated to her abysmal corporate leadership - the legalization of marijuana is "the worst idea she's ever seen."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman
Think about running your own Superset instance. Could be the solution and IMO it's much better than Tableau.
It isn't "disallowed". You make a change in about:config.
I can only speak for the newspaper in my country. I never had a newspaper which had ads that

- track my reading habits
- were blinking trying to catch my attention
- started played videos I didn't want to see

If a news website wants to make money off advertising, just host simple images on your own sever. No need to load stuff from shady companies which try to grab as much information as possible.
5 years. Documented the story + transition from freelancer ==> digital nomad blogger ==> Travel Channel host ==> Wearable Tech CEO on my older site http://hackthesystem.com (no longer updated).
Even worse: https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
Might as well use Firefox then, you can always modify the source.
Whatever the reason, I am glad he allowed his mind to be changed about such an important issue. Exiting Afghanistan now would throw away whatever little progress the previous two administrations made in the region. It would be a repeat of Iraq, hell it would be a repeat of post Cold War Afghanistan.

I long for the day I can return to the land of my father and help rebuild it.
You are punishing me and only me. We don't use an ad network, we sell our ad space directly to local businesses. Fake ad clicks have been actively hurting our ability to sell ads for about a year now. Our ads are pictures. Pictures are not malware.

Also what ads cause damage? Like sure the ads on porn or piratebay are cancerous but no reputable newspaper will have anything harmful, just potentially annoying.
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I think it is always good to know which application is doing what on the network - especially when there is no source code to check. Little snitch was first application that I installed on Macbook and I'd do it again - I feel bit more in control of my own device this way.
That google trends matters for this.
I don't think you can multiply costs like that. The expenses of maintaining the logistics for that many planes would be exorbitant, and I believe the unit costs of modern aircraft would be far lower if we made more of them.
Most almond milk I see is just almonds and water. I've seen mystery "high protein nut milk" products that match what you describe but they're in the minority.
Newspaper ads are a great model for how internet ads should work: Not overly distracting, properly screened and targeted at the general readership of the newspaper. Almost every internet ad fails in at least one of those three categories.
Fossil fuels are cheaper than nuclear only if you treat the (huge) environmental effects as costing nothing.
My understanding--and I pretty much hang out in the virtual duck blind studying vile people as a hobby, this isn't second-hand--is that this is largely being pushed by the 4chan/alt-right/white-supremacist crowd that's mostly mad at Google for not partying down with them. (People in the comments are referring to 4chan's /g/ board in that thread.)

You are right that we need to figure out how to evolve advertising--which is never going away--to a better place, but reactionary destruction does not seem like fertile ground for "y'know, ads kind of suck, how do we make this work better for everyone?".
In all the towns I've lived in, it's illegal to put fluorescent bulbs and lithium batteries in the trash. They're supposed to be disposed of as hazardous waste.
I can't speak to the general case here, but after reading Chuck's other comment, I think you may be mistaken about his website specifically:

> We don't even use an ad network a la google, we sell our own ads to local businesses and such.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112764
I'm guessing you weren't pushing for Salesforce, but out of interest, did your company evaluate any other CRM platforms? If so, do you know why they chose Salesforce?
One might argue that you do agree, when you make use of their services.
(addendum: most also have sugar and sometimes flavoring but it's not hard to find unsweetened)
> Surely some country has tried this out.

Most first-world countries are not obsessed with self-elevation and interest resulting from their own infrastructure breaking down

Third-world countries might be more the incubator you're hoping for but they generally don't care what happens to the non wealthy (and the wealthy's FO plans there as with everywhere don't involve looting cars on interstates)

So if I were to guess, I'd go with no, no "other countries have tried this out".
See my comment for a few more details, such as how long lactation can last. :)
I'm allergic to oats. :(
>Have you built any software you're proud of?

Yes, quite a few systems. For all of them, the process was essentially, "here's our problem, go solve it."
I don't think I'd join a tech company (unless I was the first engineer) that didn't have a vcs.
Yeah but it affects a lot of other features (ie hearth defect). I don't really see distinctive features amongst bipolar or schizophrenic people... That seems like a rather generous extrapolation from one specific example
4chan is not known for intellectual prowess.
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In this case, I really doubt this extension would hurt him - how the extension works is just like uBlock uses lists to hide things, AdNauseam uses the same lists to explicitly click on those items. His own ads wouldn't match any of the rules in those lists and unless they are extremely obnoxious nobody would bother adding his ads in there.

If he does get on one of those lists it's quite easy to change the markup of the page (class names, etc) to stop the rules from matching. If you're doing the right thing by hosting your own ads you fully control the markup and layout and it becomes extremely easy to protect yourself from this.
True

Depending if one is good with other languages and some patterns like MVC, I really like to give someone that has 'figured out' the DOM and jquery etc pa.k. frontend in general, a push to Backbone as a JS learning framework. It's very clean and has a relative hard line between data -> View compared to Angular 4 etc. Also I think Backbone is so simple, It makes learning build flows with Gulp, Webpack etc easier. Thats not something to forget in modern JS world..

If all coding is new to a person, use Jquery only to show 'how simple it can be' and than make very clear most code written in Jquery should be considered a 'quick cheat' and does not hold any true JS revelation. Just to let them keep there eyes open and keep setting targets for themself like faster,scalable etc coding skills in Vanilla JS
I think PaleMoon is largely silly, but we aren't talking about having to modify the source to use the silly clickjacker. We're talking about typing a URL and changing a number. Which is why the angst being demonstrated is bonkers (and largely ideologically motivated, not to put too fine a point on it).
Sounds to me like a business model failing to adapt.

The same phenomenon is occurring with car dealerships facing Tesla.
I don't think you can count that in the "many things he says" category, with how consistent and insistent he is with those statements over quite some time now.

That being said, I'm personally not sure if one should put too much weight on his opinions regarding that matter.
I might agree with you if we were in a world in which there is little cost to provide lots of high quality information, or maintain a digital library etc.

I think it's needlessly dismissive to say that a website deserves to die just because it can't survive without ads. Many very niche but high quality websites can't make enough money to support curation and hosting fees, and as such turn to advertisements.
There's a discussion already on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15111937
What's worrying is that apparently NZ secret service just spied on Kim Dotcom, even though NZ national security was not at stake.
They do. Part of $X is paid by advertisers.
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See my other response above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15112864 ) about why this extension wouldn't change anything for you.

> no reputable newspaper will have anything harmful, just potentially annoying.

Please look up "malvertising", install an ad blocker if you haven't already then come back and feel free to revise your statement. ;)
Unsweetened almond milk isn't bad at all. I have a sweet tooth, so I prefer sweetened, but it isn't bad.
Man that's cool and you save yourself buying windows licenses.

I'll have to check that out no-ip, so you install openssh server to SSH int their computers? Yeah I like that feature myself too lazy to get up and use the dev desktop.

That's my hope regarding Linux that it's safe, using virtual box and Linux.

Haven't heard of Sugar notebooks.

Yeah I used to run Linux Mint, then Debian, then Ubuntu mostly because of their good driver support, a few times I've had laptops with Debian installed and they couldn't connect to WiFi right off the bat. Then i3-wm because my computers are generally garbage. At least now both my desktop/laptop have 8gb ram. Could go higher maxing out chrome tabs.

Anyway thanks and for the info on the ports, I have used netstat before it's intimidating haha, so many at least when I checked on my windows laptop if I recall right.
I'm not trying to punish you for writing content I want to read, I'm punishing a horrible and unethical industry that you've chosen to profit from.

The current state of online advertisement is an absolute blight on the internet.

Online ads are the primary source of malware among anyone I've spoken to, and online advertising standards are atrocious.

Just because someone uses the profits of a Ponzi scheme to support the creation of free content doesn't give you the right to complain when that Ponzi scheme gets busted.

I wish you all the best in finding a way to support the creation of your content.
I think it's less of a design flaw and more a conceptual issue. Since a Promise is just a value, it can be stored in an arbitrary data structure on the heap with no listeners. But the then() method can be called any time later. So, a promise being potentially "listened to" is really just being reachable by the garbage collector.

There's no reason the source of the promise can't implement a cancel() method, though.
As far as the middleman, at least cows don't typically charge money for their services.
I mean it's not like all of those people died
it may surprise you to read but there are a non-zero percentage of people out there (inclusive me) who believe exactly the statement you just phrased as a question.

these are companies which actively take advantage of the worst in all of us to deliver products that monopolize our time at the cost of calm, concentration, and patience.