skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The criteria is not discretionary. They'll block ads that don't follow the guidelines defined by the Coalition for Better Ads [0] (Google is a member, but there is a lot of other members, like Facebook, ...). So yes, they'll block a site which has non-conforming Google ads.

[0] : https://www.betterads.org/
I moved from Illinois years ago because of taxes and bad job climate. My parents paid about 20% more in property taxes than their mortgage, and we had just an average sized lot. It's not uncommon at all in Illinois.

Most of my family and friends are also there, but it was a lot better for my financial future and retirement to move away, enough that it was worth leaving friends and family behind.

Illinois has the highest move out rate of any state. And the average income of people moving in is almost 20k lower than the average for people moving out. The government is also in tatters and the college system is languishing from lack of funding. It has one of the highest rates of students going to school out of state and college costs are astronomical because the state doesn't even give their public universities much.

Corruption in the Illinois government is unbelievably bad and the state is basically run by Madigan and a network of powerful unions with historic mob ties.

IMO you're probably much better off in Indiana financially if you're looking at your and potentially children's financial futures. I would really do the COL math before you buy a house there.

My disposable income increased from essentially zero to about 35k a year from a strategic move to a state with higher software engineer demand and much lower tax burden.
Exactly. I, by no means, agree to a foreign company stepping over local taxi companies which spent huge amounts of money on licensing and operating rights. But the service plainly sucks for end-users.
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US dollar in the 20th century was the future of money and it steadily decreased in value.
The Inflection Point for BI Tools
I understand this, and believe it's true, but: gmail mobile has a full page ad asking you to download the app. I'll be surprised if Google block it.
IMO Edge is a fine browser - snappy, stable, up-to-date with web standards.

My big beef with it is that it tries to force feed me Bing wherever it can (even after switching the default search engine). That's a big no-no.
In addition to the other replies, this is important for input by keyboards that are not languages with that accent. Us “dumb” Americans don’t know how to type that off the top of our heads.

Or on mobile. It’s a pain on many devices.
I always had a simple way to think about philosophy.

There is a world of difference between knowing about philosophy (the history of it and what various philosophers "actually" meant) and then to be a philosopher (a thinker).

The person who knows a lot about philosophy is often academic. They can tell you the difference between Frege and Wittgenstein and have a million ways to interpret Nietcshe.

In my experience though, the best philosophers come from all parts of life and are what I would call careful thinkers. They can be well read or not it's the way they deal with the subject they discuss that makes them great.

So sure give philosophy a new definition in academia to fight over and debate if you'd like, it won't change much for those who know how to think.
Yeah, it's time to start calling proper ad-blockers, "tracking blockers". It sounds more like something you need, like anti-virus, and also sounds like something that's "fair" to use if you have moral concerns about ad blocking.
Rstudio would presumably present similar issues today?
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I recently made a transaction in bitcoin basically cashing out some change that had dramatically increased in value. I made a $150-ish purchase and paid a $15 transaction fee. It took about 90 seconds for my transaction to be broadcast to the network and confirmed by multiple nodes. Yes, a 10% transaction fee is incredibly high, but I was spending essentially free money, and the utility provided to my by the vendor I chose is high.

It would seem that getting your transactions confirmed is an auction of sorts at this point. While this is certainly not optimal for a currency, it seems like a problem with a solution somewhere.
That's what crypto is about right? Libertarianism, crypto-anarchy, no governments or control because FREEDOM! You get what you ask for.
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It's insane to think that Python 2 is going to go away because of the existence of Python 3. That is simply not how computer languages work. Python 2 has more than enough critical mass to continue pretty much forever in some form. It is even a reasonable target for new development because it is pretty much guaranteed to be stable. I would not be surprised if there was another initiative to fix Python 2's Unicode handling that would create a fork from Python 3 in the future as Python 3 took an approach that did not catch on.
While they started ahead of most, I think it's silly to dismiss their returns. They made significant money. Being early in Bitcoin with a significant investment even considering their wealth is very forward thinking.
Please don't conflate competition and diversity. Competition is not a condition to diversity. I'd say that competition enforce a trade off between diversity and concentration of power.
Firefox Focus is good too.
> So this isn't about "uber vs taxi" this is about monopoly taxi vs. non-monopoly taxi.

But that's not true. Uber doesn't fix these issues by being an "alternative", it fixes them by switching the incentives around. What this is about is "order a cab" vs. "hail a cab". By letting drivers opt into a ride, all of GP's issues disappear.

Of course you still do need competition once you're past that layer, yeah; taxi monopolies do sometimes offer cab-ordering services but those services still suck (Only available by phonecall with waiting time, no notifications, no prepayment etc). Simply removing the monopoly would not fix the issue entirely.
Cryptocurrency or Pokemon Quiz – Can you tell which one is which?
Isnt it the same for multisig?

You didnt say it is not yet in a tagged release, just mentioned no it isnt subadress but multisig, ehich tells me you had no idea

Either way, it doesnt matter.
Fun name choice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poynting_vector
We are likely at the point where if Google withheld its map app from iOS, they would quickly find themselves on the wrong end of a DOJ lawsuit.

I am basically counting down the days until Google is the recipient of a major FTC enforcement action. It's going to happen in the next decade, and it will make Microsoft look like peanuts.
I am a little surprised by how most of the comments I see here attempt to compare LTC with a stock of a company where Charlie is a "CEO". It has nothing to do with that.

Litecoin (and Bitcoin) are open source projects. They are driven by developers who are interested in solving an interesting problem in an innovative way. They do not do it for the value of the coin, and getting rich was never the intent, though it may have been an unintended consequence for the early adopters.
This made me briefly consider the real-world environmental impact of the automated mining operation on my Minecraft server. :)
Cryptocurrency FUD crowd will always find a reason.

If you've been following Bitcoin's history you will find Charlie has been very active in that department. His usage of "Bcash" is a nice example.
The map is now called Here WeGo, the company HERE Global, and it's owned by Audi AG, BMW AG, Daimler AG, and Intel.
So during the Obama era, rules were put in place to force colleges to deal with sexual assault accusations. The basic idea is sound: the university needs to do something when one student accuses someone else. Applying a criminal standard of proof is incredibly unfair. In the case of a false negative, that results in some student being forced to continue attending classes with her rapist, or to give up educational opportunities by leaving the school herself. Unlike in the criminal context, a false negative (incorrect acquittal) has a direct prejudicial impact on the victim. A rape victim whose rapist doesn’t get convicted may suffer a moral loss, but it’s not like conviction can undo the rape. Accordingly, many women don’t even press charges. But in a college context, the victim is seeking something that can actually help. Not punishment of the accused, but freedom to continue her education without the threat posed by the accused.

Once you realize that false negatives are as harmful as false positives, then it makes sense to use a civil standard instead of putting a thumb on the scale for the accused. Statistically, sexual assault is far more common than false accusations. Applying a criminal standard results in a lot of social harm through false negatives that isn’t outweighed by avoiding false positives.

Where I think Title IX goes off the rails is treating these cases as being about punishment. Civil standards aren’t for punishment, they’re for resolving disputes. In this context, it’s not about deciding whether the accused is guilty of rape, but about deciding: “which student should be the one to leave?” I think Title IX resolutions should be secret and the only remedy should be expulsion or some sort of internal restraining order.
Intel only made VT-d a standard feature in Skylake. Good luck getting a K-model Nehalem with VT-d.
now this would be a great use case for a blockchain based database.
This is excellent.

I love how they have clearly illustrated how the actual details of nodes themselves can differ greatly between "network types".

As a non-expert I have found this distinction is usually more buried in general descriptions, which tend to initially focus on topology and behaviour. I prefer to know those details upfront so I can then map the behaviour as an emergence as I learn about the behaviour, otherwise when reading about the behaviour it sounds more like magic.
They want to be the sole ad provider, is what that means
Have you tried Firefox? Ublock works fine for Firefox on Android.
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Block competitors ad networks/formats while leaving their own...
you were not impressed at the time, but now that you've done it (Crib Goch) you have only fond memories of the experience and look forward to having another go some day, i'm guessing? :-)

is Pete's still there? I haven't been to Llanberis in maybe 5 years; it would be depressing to find it closed (and eg, a mini-Marks & Spencers in its place) on my next trip
Ask HN: Are paid text links and sponsored posts a valid business?
I'm an indie hacker and love to build stuff people want. My sites get half a million pageviews a month. Wich makes me only about $500 via Adsense.

I often get requests from companies that want to pay for a text link or for a guest post.

So far I never replied to them because it seems to be a shady business.

On the other hand, letting advertisers spy on my users is shady too.

What do you guys think?
Where those terminals open to the general public, i.e. people with no affiliation to the university?
There's a difference between a site willfully destroying UX on mobile versus including a third party's paid content.

Reddit mobile also has a full page ad asking you to download the app. I also doubt Google would block that. Nothing to do with it being "Google".
European Court of Justice: Uber Is a Taxi Service
Ask HN: How do you keep track of your learnings/values/goals?
A missing point here:

If you have an accent in your username on windows, you are welcome to a kingdom of pain due to pip inability to process paths with non-ascii chars.
insider trading in magic internet money - lol
What's the difference between ESLint and Prettier?
How to DO AMAZON PRODUCT RESEARCH
So Coinbase should stop pretending that "three are rules"
> are frequently reevaluated on it through examinations to keep their license.

Not in the US. Keeping your license, whether for medicine or engineering, is just a matter completing continuing education units. There are nearly worthless activities that count towards CE units, and I have yet to see any that are actually graded (they are all just butt-in-seat things).

People here seem to have anloftier view of licensure than it deserves. Sure, it's better than nothing. However, licensed != competent and should never be used as a substitute for measuring competence.
Look, you're getting all worked up about a comment you invented about me (I never commented that NK did nothing wrong) ... and then you're trolling me assuming I did say it, and suggested I would've been upset about the trolling if I also satisfied another of your inventions (my nationality).

Dude, this is getting too weird for me I'm afraid. I'm out.
They competed in the 2008 Olympics. In my book, that is, without a doubt, “proof of work”. You don’t get to the Olympics without a fantastic amount of work.
Other areas of sciences tend to have some "customer" outside themselves, where the sciences are applied. This also tends to be emphasized in the criteria for grant proposals in many domains nowadays.

IMHO the appropriate position of philosophy in modern academia would be as "metascience", i.e., their writings should be clearly useful to scientists across other sciences, they should be informative and relevant for people doing their own science outside of pure philosophy. IMHO it currently mostly isn't.
No, the 22+$ transaction fees are the problem. People are saying that it's no longer a currency because of them, but that just makes it a security. IMO it's currency or scam not currency or security, because there is no inherent value beyond currency.
Show HN: Time, Track and Log CPR Events
Interesting, I was wondering why the Rhaetian Railway was completely missing. Turns out it's tagged as "narrow gauge" railway[1], which doesn't seem to get picked up by OpenRailwayMap.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:railway%3Dnarrow_gaug...
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Class action lawsuit?

How is it okay that this information is even available from Experian in the first place?

I don't think anyone opted in to this. And I don't think there is any obvious way to opt out.

And Experian is not just some data tracking company watching your behavior on a website; they're supposed to be protecting our credit system. Do they obtain some of this information through special privileges because they're a pseudo-official credit score agency? If so, is this grounds for a class action lawsuit?

(As others have argued, this data is legally available through Experian, it just normally isn't free. https://www.experian.com/assets/dataselect/brochures/consume...)
Code Runner Pro let's healthcare professionals time, track and log data during CPR. It also includes a metronome for chest compressions.
How will this work? Algorithm-based? Blacklist? Smells like useless cat and mouse to me
The way to develop technologies that will save the earth's environment is to go to space or other worlds where there are no NIMBYs or reactionary fanatics or existing corporate kleptocracies, develop them to maturity, and then redeploy on the mother planet. Commercial fusion power, for instance, will probably always remain 'thirty years from now' as long as the unholy alliance of fossil fuel incumbents and so-called 'Greens' continues.
I've been using http://blokada.org/ on NON-root Android with good results for all apps, not just the browser. It is just a proxy that blocks domains in the customizable blacklists. The only downsides I've seen are 1) I have to whitelist apps the need to detect if they are on mobile or wifi otherwise they cannot tell, and 2) you cannot chain/use another proxy too.
One nice thing I liked about Motif desktops back in the days was that different applications were easily "themable" to have a different base background, which made differentiating windows very easy.
I bet it won't block all the damn "download our shitty app instead of using the fully functional website we have" full screen popups...
So you might be able to figure out the last price paid for each Bitcoin.

That total is almost certainly less than the "market cap".

What does that number tell you? It doesn't tell you the minimum value of a Bitcoin.
Imagine a car with a gas tank that shrinks over time, and whose top speed drops accordingly.

Imagine that some cars allow the gas tank to be changed by the user. But this one doesn't.

Imagine the company that makes the car never mentions the shrinkage or the gradual reduction in top speed, and has no program or system that allows you to fix this - beyond buying a newer car.
The other option, Closes tab, is simply not gonna happen so why annoy the user.
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If French authorities have issued stringent guidelines about sharing of users data, that's a welcome step. If WhatsApp didn't have the legal basis to share data as claimed by CNIL, why were they doing it in the first place.
@codezero, my point was not about falling on a sword. Rather it was that NH has this extreme naivete related to statements coming from those that do not have any real say.

How many people here think that data is removed from BI data lakes when a user deletes the account ( or at +N months )?

[Edit: Downvotes on this one also?]

Ask what happens to customer's data used by business intelligence when customer deletes the account in your company. Do it in email so it is in writing. It would be extremely illuminating.

Ask if what when a customer or your app acting on a behalf of your customer executes a DELETE against your API your API deletes the record or:

1) sets a deleted_at to now which your ORM treats as "deleted"

2) send a message to a queue (Customer XYZ deleted record P) which has multiple subscribers, one of which executes a deletion while the other one dumps the new state into a BI lake/archive dataset/what-if-a-customer-comes-back-would-not-we-want-to-be-able-to-give-them-all-their-data-back database?
Your customers are many years behind the times then, which isn't unusual if you're doing consulting. Windows Server only does well in the consulting bubble and in backwards industries like finance, it's basically dead everywhere else.

Containers are hardly a buzzword, I would say more than half the fortune 500 run their systems exclusively in containers and that's only increasing. The last two companies I worked at were 100% containers for pretty huge fleets of machines. I don't know of a single large tech companies that isn't exclusively containers or at least KVM virtualized machines.

Mainframes are so past dead that they've resorted to haunting us. Mainframes (and SQL server and Oracle Db) are so behind that they make it illegal to benchmark their systems in license agreements. From the leaked benchmarks I've seen, a power mainframe CPU is maybe 10x slower than a single X86 core from Intel or AMD. Oracle Db is also about an order of magnitude slower than Postgres and MySQL which you can get for free.

I'm not trying to be a dick, just convince you that based on your beliefs it is you that is in a bubble :) . In fact the same bubble I used to be in (used to do consulting and shared a lot of the same opinions until I moved to different parts of the industry). That's fine if you still making $, but it's something to be aware of if you're looking around for other opportunities in different areas of the space
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15968034
Compared to whom? The other rich people, or all the poor who are the vast majority of this world who cannot even try this? If you compare it to other rich people you're going to need to provide some kind of in depth analysis.
Damn it. You owe me a new keyboard.
This is excellent. Have they got a tool to tell whether a place is in the sun or the shade depending on the time?
> "I trust X app store in addition to Google Play"

That's in Android 8.0: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/21/android-o-feature-sp...
> sold and donated [emphasis added]

Wild guess: nothing.
And if you read the studies they require short term peak fossil fuel standbys.

"The real challenge is to supply peaks in demand on calm winter evenings following overcast days. That’s when the peak-load power stations, that is, hydro and gas turbines, make vital contributions by filling gaps in wind and solar generation."

In the UK that translates to gas/diesel standbys which in the case of the latter is horrendously polluting

Now, if you look at all of those studies, they make the assumption that there there is gas/hydro to act as backup. that is a base load.

The NRDC link ~25-50% of the power comes from Gas, which puts out CO2. Then there is biomass, which is also environmentally problematic in its current form. (https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_content...) Granted that does not take into account grid scale efficient storage.

But there is a base load, you can see it in the graphs. They almost exclusively use gas to plug that gap. If you want to reduce carbon output, that has to go.

Now, if I was to be in charge of a country, my route to energy security with minimal environmental impact would be thus:

1) insulation at a massive discount/loan.

2) diverse renewables, but not at any cost, and not on farm land. (UK based, so tidal, solar, wind)

3) small scale nuclear. Molten salt or similar with a negative feedback loop

4) Domestic & industrial power storage/generation incentives. If you can adjust the demands at source it greatly reduces the highs and lows.

Why in the UK is something like nuclear needed? Because if we are to reduce carbon output, we need to heat our homes with electricity instead of gas, that triples the power demand at a stroke. insulation standards of 0.6U or less would reduce this significantly. However its still more power than can be feasibly harvested with rooftop solar/wind/tidal alone.
Ferrari cars charge a premium, much like Apple does but they are a hell of a lot faster than a Honda Civic. Baseball cards started as a thing outside of rarity, they had information and a picture which was more valuable pre Internet.

Now you can argue that Antiques should not gain value from age, but old junk is not valueable, old pristine stuff is. So your argument is people overvalue something they have a rational reason to value, which is different than placing clause on something without inherent value.

I am not saying Bitcoins shpuld be worth zero today, I am saying they will be worth zero in 100 years after the fad ends unless they fix the inherent problems with the protocol so it can be used as a medium of exchange.
Have you tried using DNS66 as adblocker?
It's implemented as local-running VPN and doesn't require root. I'm using it since a year or so and quite happy with it.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/
https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66
Really? People at Google say that they know what Google does with data?!
This is not a new year’s resolution
I hope it gets updated, but at the rate new ones are appearing it might be hard to keep up. I suppose at least only a subset are worth noting though.
He only needs an “r” at the end of his name, as the far field radiation pattern of an antenna is essentially the Fourier transform of its current distribution.

Spot on though about antennas, essentially bending metal the right way.
Interesting. I've used an EM and antenna simulation tool called FEKO that is also originally from South Africa. Is there a university there with a strong electromagnetics focus?
Coinbase has state licenses. It is regulated.
I still find it amusing that they consider auto-play video OK as long as it's muted. Sound is the problem, but so is auto-playing itself.
That's still just as rigid, it's just increasing scope of the deliverable so a smaller portion overall has to be dedicated to complying with your rigidity.