skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sites that do not work when using AdBlock+ are fighting back their money extorsion scheme (Adblock+ has this commericla program where if you pay them money they will whitelist your ads).
Geeks ahve long moved to ublock origins or umatrix.

Anyways 95% of the time you just have to disable scripts from the websites to unbreak them.

do not track was never a good idea as respecting it was on a voluntary basis, meaning it was mostly an additional metrics to use to track and profile people who do not want to be tracked. It's a no brainer really that if you did not want to be tracked you should not enable it. Remember ghostery ? same thing all over again.
I"m surprised at how few trains there are in Africa.
This could work, but only if they treat the people affected as customers and potential customers rather than as criminals.

- make it easy for the legitimate customers to actually watch their streams. Instead of "too many streams in use", try "click on this link in your email to start watching"

- make it easy for free-loaders to watch. Instead of "too many streams", say "click here for an instant 3 month free trial!"

Or something like that. You have people who want to watch your stuff. That's a very valuable lead, don't throw it away by offending them.
At time of writing the above comment is getting down votes. Why? Is it the “just” bit people are having issues with?
So should I sell the BCH in my wallet right now, before 9AM PST?
Stanford HPC Conference Returns to Palo Alto in February – InsideHPC
Chrome begins first phase of Symantec distrust
What's worse, Uber's interests and and "independent contractors" interests are not fully aligned. When Uber wins, there's plenty of drivers on the street and no surge pricing. When drivers win, it's surge pricing all day long. This adversarial relationship is inevitably going to produce bad results for the drivers, who are undoubtedly the weaker party.
The greatest ruse ever perpetrated on the American people was that we stand divided from one another and our own self interests based on ideological lines; articulated by ego-driven flesh puppets, vote for your favorite color like a 4 year old posed with the same inquiry. "What's your favorite color?" Bleh, we need real representation, real discussion of building the real utilitarian future. I think a good start would be choice between real representatives acting on behalf of more than one side of the same bloody coin. In short, liberal lovey-dovey pussies like me and knuckle-dragging conservatards agree, this mother fucker needs to burn.
And then have a significantly less capable machine. The performance gap between an iMac and an iMac Pro will be large. The performance gap between this iHac and the iMac Pro will be nonexistent, even without the Xeon processor.
ICO generator
>>what do we loose if Uber vanishes tomorrow?

VC(s) will have to write off several billion dollars worth of investment. Its will be lost permanently to never return back.
Virgin Hyperloop One Sets a New Speed Record [video]
Agreed. And I can’t use iOS reader mode to make it more readable.
Not having a permanent mailing address, utility bills, or a bank account would do it.
Kinda off-topic but

4,500 species are critically endangered right now

Based on the fact that more than 99.9% of all the species are now extinct, how is this an alarming sign? It seems like a part of the natural evolutionary process.
Interesting; I'd seen that speech before, but hadn't spotted the deliberate echo of Rupert Brooke in the last line [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soldier_(poem)
Sure, life-extension is a nuanced question, but the topic under question is whether we should ever criticize the person presenting an "outside-the-box, maybe un-PC" idea, rather than criticize the idea itself.

My mining company example was much closer to the kinds of ideas that are actually pushed by people in the real world, quite frequently, more so than the article's anecdote about life-extension being criticized.

I'm saying that some people seem to pursue profits in such a way that they clearly have a moral framework that doesn't match mine, and arguing over the ethics of the idea with them is fruitless.

Did whoever it was at Volkswagen who had the bright idea to make cars have a system to detect when they were being tested, and change their emissions accordingly, really need someone to debate with about the ethics of the idea? I don't think that was a case of someone with a simple lack of knowledge of the ethical arguments.

These are the kinds of "innovations" people are coming up with in the real world, more-so than life-extension. People are going to create new apps that allow microloans with Bitcoin, with usurious rates, and market them to poor people. People are going to create dolls that listen to your kids and use the info to market toys to them. People are going to create devices to allow you to monitor your health, and sell the info to drug companies, or even to employers. There are going to be plenty of Bad Ideas where the people peddling them know the ethical arguments against them. At some point, we get to criticize the people coming up with these ideas as well.
Your examples comes down to centralized decision & regulation, isn't money printing also "regulation" that's how they call it, wile bitcoin is the most decentralized currency, no Emperor can replace it, no changes can be done without widespread conses.

The incredible energy for digging out gold just to keep it in locked boxes, same for all precious metals, diamonds.
I’m curious at what point civility breaks down in a failing state, at what level does his course of action make sense? I like to establish these limits before emotion can cloud judgement. He may be brash but he’s not wrong yet.
I watch any live sporting event I fancy, for free.

Once you know where to look, the cost is about a minute of your time to pick which particular feed, among many, to watch.

Do you want the home-team's broadcaster, the visiting team broadcaster, and do you want that in another language, maybe? It's à-la-carte.

A cable company password is never involved.

In the future, the old-fashioned companies we know today who don't "get" it will not exist. This Bloomberg article illustrates why, albeit indirectly.
Maybe we'll end up with a new political subculture that derives pride and some sense of personal identity from fighting this stuff; just like gun people almost enjoy supporting the NRA. (In some way I think computer rights would be a lot more fun to support if a large fraction of the public was against it, then we would have the satisfaction of arguing.)
AdBlock is fine except for not blocking google top links and amazon recommendation. It's still blocking everything else, which is a HUGE LOT.
How would you rate it? I have one of these as well and am planning on using it.
Well thanks to the generosity of the OTO basically all of Crowley's public works have been available for 20 years now. They basically allow people to share his works because sharing has encouraged more sales of his physical books which they earn income from producing.
Educationism: The subtle bias we often ignore
Hoping that Canada sticks with 50.
Patrick McKenzie had a great twitter thread on the topic recently:

"The single biggest piece of advice I have for you: if you have someone’s email address (+ permission) you have an earned relationship. If you have to beg a platform to contact them, the platform owns the relationship. Get the email.

Youtube subscribers, Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and all analogous relationships are not defensible assets in the way that someone expecting mail from you is. They’re dependent on the week-to-week policies and quarter-to-quarter strategic imperatives of the platform.

The platforms offer incredible reach! Incredible! Reach! And the bargain they offer is Faustian. Platforms need their creators to bake the cake; they then propose allocating 60~80%+ to them as an opening bid, do not contractualize that (for smaller creators), and smile.

“What do you mean they do not contractualize that?”

I mean that you have neither a contract nor even an understanding among equals that the terms you currently enjoy are the ones you will have in the future. Businesses sign contracts with vendors important to them.

Do you remember the contract negotiation? No, because doesn’t work at scale but also because You Are Not One Of Their Important Accounts.

Any term you think you’re entitled to is going to be renegotiated by Darth Vader: “I have altered the deal; pray I do not alter it further.”

So back to the question of building your own platform:

You want your own place on the Internet; I think that is, for most people, a website.

You need, need, need an email list. Software for them is cheap to get started with.

Above all things:
“As an independent creator, I will comport all my conduct on other people’s platforms with the intentional, strategic goal of enticing some portion of the audience to join me on my platform, where the lion’s share of value I produce is, and where I make meaningful money.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/i/status/939907045985107968
This sounds to me like providing the ability to run iOS apps in a window in Mac OS
Employees are paid quite handsomely. Their equity may go to trash though. Given that, that was always a gamble- It should've been factored all along.
Simple Explanation of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ELI5): The Incredible Machine
As someone (apparently the only one in this thread) that writes macOS and iOS apps, I can't wait for NSView and it's stupid lower-left cartesian coordinate system to die.

UIKit is so much better in so many ways, it's time NSView and its friends are all put out to pasture.
It seems that "fancy CPS" is exactly what he is talking about. A simple regex matcher makes for a good example IMHO.
And every single one of those had drivers you could buy in a pack with 50 other at Amazon for $10. They could have used any of them.

And yet, they didn't. The world didn't need yet another security screw.
As I have a minimal programming knowledge I dont use windows as my dev machine. I am just stating some problems that you can face if you use your real name. For example, I was working for a contractor once and they all had windows machines with pregenerated users. Mine had an accent in the username.
Interesting point. I am mainly biased toward caring about desktops and laptops, I don't use any of those devices.
This is the one that's usually recommended here. It's a great book! https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-Cu...
Still clinging on to the Klingons
There are 2 parts of the apps. There's model layer and view layer. The model layer is a pain to bring over because certain model objects (UIColor) are only on one platform. So if they make changes to ease that then making a mac app will become way easier.

The other problem is that AppKit is not as nice or as easy to use as UIKit in my experience. If they can bring these two frameworks together under shared functionality that would be great. For example, template Master-Detail from iPhone to iPad is great (and you can always customize). So having that extend to macOS would make mac development easier. I imagine this is what they are planning.

The third idea is they are thinking of something greater yet separate that is not meant for existing apps. Like a new UI Framework that works on both. This seems hard to believe as they have the iOS app base and the goal is to bring that over to mac not start a new app base altogether.
> QoS being a quantity of service is a very well known term, pioneered and popularized by Dave Rand/Avi Freedman to describe that QOS establishes which packets are to be dropped on the floor first.

So you're still trying to re-define the literal text of what the "QoS" initialism expands to, and now you're also trying to narrow the scope of QoS as defined by everybody else.

There's more to QoS than just deciding which packet to drop. You also have to decide when to drop a packet. This second aspect is what makes QoS not a zero-sum game when faced with real-world traffic.

> QOS might work OK on networks with microspikes but it completely breaks on networks that are > 20% oversubscribed.

What exactly do you mean by "microspikes"?

20% oversubscription is laughably small compared to the disparity between my 1GbE LAN and my 50Mbps WAN connection. QoS makes a world of difference for the users on my LAN. Oversubscription just means you'll actually get the opportunity to notice the difference between having QoS and having a dumb FIFO. Nobody's actually asking for a circuit-switched Internet, or anything that would require a circuit-switched Internet.
Only if ad-blocker are set up by a third party such as your ISP. Anything run by the end user for her own use is not net neutrality.
More details on program alarms and other problems (eg. overcompensated throttle control, not fixed until Apollo 14): https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
I was going to say "Ironically, Uber has a non-trivial office in Aarhus", which is true, but turns out they have many offices all over the world which is for some reason surprising. Might be one of the larger ones though.
Ask HN: Migrating from static generator to wordpress
My personal site is not much active but when I have something interesting I tend to post.

https://www.minvolai.com/blog I used to blog using wordpress in 2007. Then I migrated to static generator mynt and have been on this from atleast 5 years. Mynt is not so well maintained now and I plan to move to nikola, another static blog generator (written in python).

On the other hand, most of the web uses wordpress. So if I move back to wordpress, I believe I will have a better understanding of other people's workflows and issues. I do not mind keeping the installation up-to-date etc.

One thing that used to bug me when I was using wordpress, was embedding code snippets as a part of blog content. Wordpress would often replace embedded code symbols with html encodings , like ">" by "&gt;". It got really annoying to open every post where it happens and set it right manually.

So my questions are:

* Has anyone moved a programming blog from static blog generator to wordpress? How is the experience?

* Has anyone faced the code replacement situation recently and if so, how do you handle it?
Can you give three examples of different meanings?
It seems like Aluminum smelting in Iceland is booming as far as I can tell, and according to this Times article, in other regions with plenty of renewable energy as well. It also seems like Iceland is pushing it's cheap electricity to gain in other industries as well. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/us/politics/american-comp...
I'd hardly call a language with a fully-functioning compiler, a fairly complete standard library, which is being used in production in multiple (albeit small) companies as vaporware.
5% for the first few seconds: http://www.euronuclear.org/info/encyclopedia/r/residual-heat... but your point of course still stands. It's certainly not trivial to build passive-safe reactors, but it's also not impossible.
Those "crypto currency enthusiasts" are reliving the 19th and 20th in record time. They are trying everything that has already been tried in the last 200 years and will eventually find out why today's rules are in place.
How do you reconcile this with the extreme cost increases since the mid 2000s in education, healthcare, and housing (rent, at least).
If universal healthcare had not worked in other countries, US wouldn't even have received Obamacare. The fact that other OECD countries have good healthcare systems means you have a significant chunk of population who clamors for a better system here and who stops politicians from gutting what we already have. I say wait for 10-15 more years and we will get universal healthcare in the US.
> The concept was tried with Windows 8; they had to go back to offering both desktop and touchscreen options.

Still using the same platform. The idea is to use responsive design rather than different UI frameworks.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
> What this all tells us is that we can watch the relationship between Bitcoin’s price and difficulty to see situations where Bitcoin is overvalued. These situations would be times where the difficulty rate stayed the same while the price continued to go up.

That seems backwards. Miners will adjust their costs until marginal cost equals marginal revenue. In other words, if the Bitcoin price goes up and the hash power does not follow suit, that doesn't mean Bitcoin is overvalued, it means that there's an opportunity to profit from running more miners.
Immigrants driving cars 12 hours a day werent the ones making money off medallions. Rich investors bought medallions as very lucrative investments, until Uber came along.
>> Companies are not obligated to do better than enforced laws

They really are.

You seem to be effectively saying "well, if they can get away with it there's nothing wrong with that"

>> they are not charities or social organizations here to make the world a better place, they are here to make money for their shareholders.

There's a lot more to it than that, we are not a pure, unfettered capitalistic society in Europe.
That's a wonderful collection of images. Specially interesting are the ones showing Unix on Acorn and Atari TT computers.
I am super excited about this. It would have the capability to throw some pretty useful chunks of hardware into orbit and beyond.

And of course Blue Origin has a lot riding on this as well :-) If SpaceX can get the heavy operational before BO gets the New Glenn operational, its going to be that much harder for Bezos to find any customers left for his rocket.
I recently discovered that Ghostery was purchased by Cliqz [0], which is a company partially owned by Mozilla. They offer a free privacy-oriented browser "Cliqz" which is described on Wikipedia as:

"Cliqz plans to eventually monetize the software through a program known as Cliqz Offers, which will deliver sponsored offers to users based on their interests and browsing history. However, these recommendations will be processed locally based on a remote repository of offers, with no personally identifiable data sent to remote servers." [1]

I haven't looked further into it, but it makes me feel like I should contribute to a browser project...

[0] https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquire...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliqz
There have been bitcoin forks before, i don't see why bcash is so special that coinbase felt the need to add it.
Took about 10 seconds for the dude with the goggles on to come into focus on Chrome OSX, and scroll didn't work for a good 1-2 seconds after load.
Ugh. Not looking forward to this at all. Instead of making things perfectly fit each device they will try one-fits-all approach which will most likely be sub-optimal at best and horrible at worst (Windows8).
They are endlessly repeating their ideology for everything else. I would have had more respect for them if they had said that it's up to the states whether they want net neutrality or not. The same way they are advocating with health care, environmental rules and everything else.
What is the advantage over SQLite?
I've built my own compatibility layer once that could hide the differences across Cocoa and UIKit. It was easier than I thought actually, though I made it only for the things that I needed and not more than that. It came down to mapping UIKit symbols on the Mac and also implementing the missing methods. You build and debug the app on iOS and then it compiles and runs on the Mac, that's all.
Sure, the principle doesn't always blindly work. If everyone uses one technology, that can be a single point of failure (one backdoor and we're all doomed). But think about https for example. It's just plain good for security and anonymity and everyone should use it as much as possible.
The device is supposed to be in the hands of actual paying customers within a year and they don't even have pictures or video of it _doing something_. Sure it might not be perfect, but there's exactly zero evidence that this product isn't just a hollow chassis. If a demo at this point comes off as half baked, isn't that a gigantic red flag that this product isn't able to cash the checks that Magic Leap is writing?

Nintendo announced the Switch about six months before it shipped. Before that they announced titles, showed game demos, and talked about titles in development. Magic Leap has shown us what could be a 3D printed mockup for all we know, and has announced (to my knowledge) exactly one thing for the console (mixed reality comics).

Magic Leap should be marketing the hell out of this. It's a multi-billion dollar product, and yet they have exactly zero actual footage of the actual hardware even working. Their sizzle reels have been nothing but concept art. Something is very wrong with this.
Reminds me of when ZRX was added to Poloniex out of the blue. I very much doubt people with such knowledge wouldn't trade based on it. It's practically impossible to catch anybody short of getting the SEC involved. It's not like Coinbase is keeping track of everyone's wallets or has any ability to get info from other exchanges.

I also think it's funny that people are complaining about this. Isn't this part of the appeal of crypto trading? That the government doesn't 'level' the playing field?
The MS operating systems are weirdly underrepresented in this collection.
There is, I think most will agree, a difference between being an ideologue and being consistent.

Inconsistency in the application of one's proclaimed first principles should be criticized unless and until the inconsistency is justified with reason and evidence.
How has inflation been "dead" since the early 2000s?

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0L1E?output_view=p...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/244983/projected-inflati...

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-in...
They've always opposed including an adblocker and tracking blocker claiming it's not their choice to make, but it folled no one, we all know it is because their business model and funding relies on tracking and ads.
Yep. Normally they prefer the side route. I'm sure if traffic is bad on the side route they will adapt and take the sensible route instead.
Can you clarify what exactly you think is a "scam"? People are free to drop in or out of the 'gig economy' at their discretion. For things like Uber there are services available to rent cars with time frames as low as by the hour, to help drivers determine if the wages and work are what they're really looking for. At worst, they could simply chat with another driver for the service.
They didn't seek out the regulations, but they're definitely lobbying against the competition now. As early as 2014 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/31/the-t...) and specifically in Europe they merged taxi unions to form a united lobbying front a few days ago (https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpqne/european-t...).

And who can blame them, really. When it costs thousands of dollars to get a medallion, you want to protect your investment and do whatever you can to maximize your profits.
I read this thread much deeper than I normally would because of the interesting comments that user made, thanks indeed!
A) Iceland's financial issues had nothing to do with Aluminum. B) Countries that are free from external debts denominated in a currency they don't control can't go bankrupt.
Considering how widespread accepting cash only is, you'll end up paying more for ATM withdrawals than you save on the lower merchant fees (that is, if the merchant even passes those onto you). Unless you want to carry hundreds in cash on you.

I've also noticed that not many people pay contactless, even when the terminals support it... and the cashiers tend to assume that the card is not contactless for some reason.