skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would be nice to have an implementation in pure ruby of this to play around with. In the meantime it's good the article is well illustrated.
you only have to install what you trust. Why go beyond LineageOS? Just stick to that, get Xposed and a good firewall. Have control over what your apps send back to HQ.
That will be the logical thing to do, but you know... money... the NFL doesn't seem to care about anything else.
I understand your points, people don't want to pay (enough) for content, so content provider have little choice. I'd say it's the content-provider responsibility to market its content in such a way that people are willing to pay for it. That's what all businesses do.

If they can't make it, then it's no excuse to resort to creepy stuff like tracking and profiling people without their consent, or with them ignoring the extent or implications of it. It's nothing short of abusing people, and it being the last card not to get out of business is hardly an excuse.

You made a free mall analogy in another comment: if businesses can't run free mall without abusing customers, then don't run free malls; it's not like people always expected free malls, it's just that some companies began to offer products/content cheaper and cheaper, and now they hit rock-bottom. Whose fault is it? The customer for asking, or the businesses to enter a race to the bottom, and then going full unethical?

Again, I get your points, but don't track me, my friends or my family.
I'm a millennial and I can't get my older colleagues to be vulnerable
The thing is that ad blockers don't often don't discriminate between acceptable ads and unacceptable ads and just block everything. Even if you put a lot of effort to make your ads better most people will just block them regardless.
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>If there is any other coin better as an value storage please let me know.

Literally any first world currency. Lower transaction fees, store value for decades with swings of less than 3% a year.
How many kids play tackle football in High School?

How many young people play tackle football in college?

How many parent allow this?
I'm in Singapore now. I'm not using any tax breaks---the taxes are generally low without need for exception.

(There are some tax breaks you (or your clients!) can get for investing in IT, though.)
That's interesting, because I've acquired an aversion to having the light off when I sleep. For some reason it doesn't inhibit me from falling asleep with it on any more and while I can sleep with it off, it doesn't feel quite right somehow. I also have developed irregular sleep patterns, spending anywhere from 5 to 22 hours awake, and 8-10 asleep.
> In a more wonderful world than what we live in today, the US government would have setup a simple, unreadable (even by them) secure channel for everyday citizens to be able to transfer sensitive data to verified businesses and other citizens.

We pretty much already have that with the PKI system that web browsers (and other programs) check when verifying certificates for various websites we connect to (including this one). It doesn't require government intervention. It does require configuring servers that doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, labs, insurance companies, etc use to authenticate themselves with each other and a number of authorities to verify their identities (like the CA bundle that your web browser uses to verify that the server you connect to is indeed Hackernews and not some rogue entity).

PKI is a powerful tool which certainly can be used in a healthcare setting. Unfortunately, because of organization inertia, it's probably not going to happen (despite the fact that the technology behind it has been around for decades).
One of these is not like the others. I'm as big a Ronnie fan as any body else, but Snooker is less physical/athletic than any of the other sports in that list. I am not discounting the skill by any means, however - Ronnie in full form is unlike any other snooker player, perhaps except jimmy white.
If anyone is curious, this is the doctor played by will smith in the movie concusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6hPdC41RM
I've just read https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid.... Since few years ago, the only thing that made me interested to these autonomous cars is the laws that regulate these cars. I think the government haven't fixed the laws, so it's still an interesting topic to be discussed next year.
Unless you go for the yellow gold or two-tone (gold/steel) models, 95% of the people won't no that you're wearing a Rolex. Regular Submariner or Datejust is pretty nondescript and doesn't scream Rolex at all. Only other watch nerds will notice.
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Yes, the technical site is complicated. That only underscores the need for proper financial technology to match.

A quick Google search for 'electricity futures' reveals quite a few hits. So this is already a thing.
re:sugar - true that!!! generations of fucked up neuroendocrinological functioning.. is very bad.. and yet many people will dismiss "low carb is just a fad"
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Those probably relied on friction?
Apple pays to boost their online reputation. This thread is filled with fake comments and downvotes for comments that are negative towards Apple. It's just common sense, so many companies are doing this right now. It's easy and it works. I wonder if they'll try to downvote me now.
So are you closing the page when AdBlock shows Blocking X ads? My point isn't that you shouldn't be told that the site wants to block access unless you agree to view ads, but I feel like people are nitpicking over an implementation detail of how the internet works.

Because they want to allow things like indexing they serve the content and the "paywall" (payment being you allowing ads) in one swoop. Yes it's on your computer and you control your computer so you can get rid of their paywall, but you can also do that to software that requires a license key to activate, yet we don't seem to defend cracked software the same way.

Maybe if we reimplemented the internet today we'd allow browsers to send an "Allows Ads" header and have an HTTP Status Code for "I only accept clients who accept ads".

I mean, even Google doesn't actually make you click on a term of service to search.

> - what they are doing is immoral
> - what we are doing is not illegal

Only one of these is a factual statement. Ad-blocking is not illegal, and of course it shouldn't be.

But what they're doing is extracting value out of their content. You can argue it's immoral, but it's not a factual statement in the sense your other statement is.

> But there is little incentive to be seek morality when playing with an immoral player. So there is not scenario here, where not using an adblock is a good strategy.

What you're saying to me is pretty much "if they won't play fair why should I". Which is fine logic, I just think if you're going to follow that line of thought, don't trumpet it from the rooftops like it's some sort of interesting proposal. To me they're desperate to generate value from content people won't pay upfront from and leaning on unfortunate tactics, and you're saying I won't pay at all. Neither side is right, yet only one side seems to be really proud about what it's doing

Again, my point isn't that Ad Blocking shouldn't be allowed, and I'm not here to convince anyone to uninstall their ad-blocker. My point is if you don't like ad-driven content, the "moral high ground" isn't to say "yeah well why'd their server return status code 200 and let me download the assets?". The moral high ground is to decline to use their services. Except that'd take actual inconvenience, curating the minority services that aren't ad-driven. So it's much easier to just say that ad blocking is "taking a stand" instead of admitting it's really just "having your cake and eating it to"
"Construction companies, which have given millions of dollars in campaign donations in recent years, have increased their projected costs by up to 50 percent when bidding for work from the M.T.A., contractors say."

That's because you've legalized bribery. Your political system rewards corruption. Every actor in the described mess is (re)acting rationally. Is this somehow a surprise?
Reflection paper
Creative drama is considered as a good avenue for young children where they can express and also improvise their ideas. Creative drama refers to an improvisational form of theatre where participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on the human experiences. Chapter 8 of this book examines several types of creative drama that include pantomime, puppets, socio-dramatic play, conflict resolution, and literature enactment.
Shouldn't be necessary after a proper upgrade. Maybe wipe the Dalvik partition yourself afterwards if your vendor is incompetent?
I wonder why the major websites are not going for the old way of "self-hosted" ads where the ad networks buy a space in the website and the website shows it at that space from their own domain and it is harmless.. That I'd consider allowing in my laptop.

It's not the ads themselves that make me run to the blockers. It's their creepiness and tracking. If they're just images shown same to everybody, then I'm okay.
Yeah. They already used operating system and browser to change price on ecommerce sites according to the wealth those project, imagine let them having a clear correlation with your credit score
I’ve never been a huge football fan but never avoided it either. Until, that is, when we started hearing about CTE and how the NFL tried (still tries) to cover it up and downplay it.

Today I find football unwatchable. Every time I see players slamming into each other at full speed I feel queasy. I’m also ethically against watching it because I don’t want to support the football industry. There are many other sports in the world I’d rather watch.
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I know I've told people not that long ago that I wished the day was a bit longer - 28 hours seems about right, so I could stay up a long time and sleep for more than 8 hours.

But I started logging my sleep times after an appointment with a sleep disorder clinic and found maybe I am not sleeping for as long as I assumed - it's just that when my sleep is interrupted, I don't complete my 8 hours until 12 or so has passed.
I used to whitelist all webcomics I read, then one served malicious flash and another started aggressive mobile redirects to advertisement pages

Now I just siphon the images into a rss feed. If they want my eyeball they better start putting up banners like they used to. Active content can fuck right off.
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wait till he plays against alphazero...
Is there a way to track which Arxiv papers get republished in peer-reviewed journals?
The addition of the NX bit to CPUs blurs the line between Von Neuman and Harvard architectures.

Giving an attacker a JIT makes it easier for them to lay out memory with the NX bit set to zero (executable memory) that they can later jump into.

Return-oriented programming can still be used to hijack a program that whose executable parts are locked down at runtime, having a JIT just makes things easier.
The rules of football make for a really interesting game, but the fact that the NFL/NCAA are such awful organizations + the growing concerns about its safety make it impossible for me to actually enjoy it. Hopefully we'll have robots playing it for us one day.
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A car motor reacts gracefully to a battery that doesn't put out as much current as expected. That's unlike a cpu, which crashes.
However, tolerant attitudes like those in Santa Cruz attract people from out of area that make it next to impossible to actually deal with the shear numbers.

There are no cities "tolerant of homelessness" though there may be cities less tolerant than others.

If you think that tolerance is a source of the problem, do you imagine an intolerance race as the solution? I mean, as far as I can tell, the intolerance race is already happening and it's only making America more awful all around. Constant police harassment is the norm as a means of dealing with homelessness nearly everywhere - given that it's essentially illegal to live without a home in the US.

And even with an intolerance race, cities with nice weather are going to be at a disadvantage. If no cities offer services, it's still nicer to be rousted from the side of the road at 3:00 am from a place with nice weather and pleasant views.

So, instead of viscous, mean-spirit carping, perhaps we could think about how to actually solve this problem.
The fix, the throttling, is the controversial part, NOT the sporadic shutdowns. It's absurd, because throttling is much better than brownouts, but that's what the lawsuits are about.
Well over 1 million American boys and young men play football every year. The game is a rite of passage. Further these studies have implications for head contact that occurs in other sports and in general.
They all suck. Period.

Block any outgoing connection you don't trust instead of simply taking some 3rd party list with URLs, unverified, no quality control etc, and only blacklist these KNOWN bad urls.

Ad parties don't sit still, they don't keep their ads on the same url when they found out they are blocked or maybe already preventive rotate through new urls etc.

In the end you'll end up with some bizar long list which has to be checked for every url you visit etc etc. This will be a performance hog, and if you cant imagine that, then your list isn't long enough yet.

Use proper egress filtering, allow what you know, and don't allow what you don't know, not just what some 3rd party put on a list.

My advice for you in 2018.

For
""Block by default" is a usability nightmare."

yes it is for a week or 2, but I prefer usability nightmare then a safety nightmare.
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Apple likes to set trends which means doing away with the past. The headphone jack is a 19th century invention and Apple feels that the time has come to make way for new tech as it has always done.

Add to the fact that they obsess over making their devices beautifully engineered by making them slimmer and lighter to increase portability. The more portable your hardware is, the more you are likely to use it and recommend it to others. Portability helps Apple sell more devices. This has been Apple's focus since Job's return.

A few examples:

1. They were one of the first laptop makers to do away with integrated CD/DVD drives because they saw that fewer and fewer people were using them. The tradeoff here is obvious: they figured that Internet speeds would improve to the point that it would eventually replace 4.7GB DVDs as the standard means of distributing software for most of their customers (read: people with high disposable income). This has happened.

2. Apple was the first to ship a mainstream device (iMac) that supported the USB standard (which they didn't invent). USB adoption helped obsolete older tech: serial, parallel and PS/2 ports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#History

3. The iPhone obsoleted keyboard-centric phone designs from BlackBerry, Nokia, Samsung etc which were widespread prior to 2007 to a more natural touch-centric interface. Apple had previously launched the failed Newton device but this time they made several complementary investments in the user experience that made them feel confident that touch interfaces had matured enough to become mainstream. Remember that the first iPhone didn't even have copy&paste, regardless, their bet against old tech paid off :).
I've been a Linux user since the day Linus posted it to the minix-list. I too remember Yggdrasil. ;)

We've come a long, long way.
Ukraine is at war with Russia, which attacked it. Get the story straight.
> NFL which I personally think culturally encapsulates an American approach to the world - this is the offence team, this is defence, let’s pad up and beat the shit out of the opposing side. Compared to the other three which display to my way of thinking a fluidity and flexibility that I believe to be more skilful and also a reflection of a deeper cultural flexibility.

Team sports emulate warfare, and determining who wins or loses is based on achieving goals. Thus the strategy and goals adopted by these sports end up reflecting how each society believes how war should be fought and how wars are won. Thus europeans favour sports and strategies which are focused on achieving the goals without any emphasis on unnecessary manhandling or violence (not because of any pseudo superority or morality, but mainly because it needlessly wastes energy, degrades our side's athletic capabilities and performance, and also lowers the value of what is expected to be conquered) while the US favours a scorched-earth approach where winning is confounded with decimating the enemy in a humiliating manner, without any care preserving any value on which is about to be conquered.

This US-centric view of warfare is very well represented in Ender's game.
Now, I understand how "design is perceptive". I just read the page thinking:

* Cool!, the web page design looks like a manual page.

* It loads fast, and is displayed in full on my phone.

* Nothing fancy about it, and is a good start for something about Operating Systems.

And then I saw comments here! I guess everyone has their thing.
What was the outcome of that startup? Did the product make it to market?

I'm currently working on commercialising a pharmaceutical manufacturing monitoring device[1], based on the work from someone's PhD.

[1] https://www.phyllon.at
They're going to have to suffer some way, before they'll change their attitude. And they've got a few billions of dollars worth of buffer between them, and suffering, so .. you may indeed be right. Lets see.
While there are solutions we could build in the future like the one you describe, today the answer is pretty simple if you’re really against the current ad-supported model...

You’re expected to find some number of sites X that let you pay to access ad-free content that total to an amount you find palatable and limit yourself to those.

It’s not trivial, and it’s inconvenient. The sites like that are relatively few and far between.

But it means you’re making a sacrifice to support sites that are trying to break out of the model that you don’t support.

If enough people do that, the incentive forms to make paying for content upfront and ad-free and suddenly the market will solve the problem of 50 sites wanting payment, be it through easier payment mechanisms or “share cropping”
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Agreed. The comments here apologising for Apple are so disheartening. Inform the user that the battery has degraded or failing that at least allow the batteries to be user or third-party serviceable.

I know car analogies are overused but … I would be classed as literally insane if I replaced my car because the battery had become degraded. When this happens you get a mechanic to replace the battery. (Or, if the owner is very competent they replace it themselves.) If we do it for cars, why not for phones?

I would absolutely love if this issue got regulated across the board the same way the charging cable connection (everything has to be usb-micro or usb-C) got regulated. Though somehow Apple didn't comply and didn't get penalised.
Charlie Lee didn't promise an immutable world computer that's Turing complete and scales onchain without compromising security of the chain itself and still having nodes that can be verified by users... sort of impossible thing to do
I've been programming professionally since 2000, working professionally on a range of operating systems: Windows, Linux, OSX and FreeBSD. I've dabbled with Solaris SPARC back in the day, and grew up with AmsDOS and MS DOS. I've never had the pleasure of using a Lisp Machine, but enjoy Common Lisp and have a (jealous / nostalgic)
feeling for what a LispM must have been like.

I mention all of this to give context to my post; I'm not writing from a position of OS ignorance.

Anyhow: I'm continually surprised by the support for proprietary operating systems and hardware amongst IT professionals in general, and programmers specifically.

I've been running a mix of Xubuntu devices (older ThinkPads for the children) and FreeBSD (for my personal laptop and the home NAS / Minecraft etc. server) and enjoying ease of deployment (simple shell scripts), low cost, high confugurability and especially high reliability in the case of FreeBSD.

Windows users used to tell me that NIX was fine, but to get a job, they needed to program for Windows. That's probably still the case in many fields, but not in the Web dev circles I frequent.

OSX users tell me that they want both performance, reliable hardware with out of the box support. These days a good XPS or X1 Carbon will eat most or all Mac systems alive, have (in my experience) better build quality, and work well with Linux out of the box.

At the company where I work there is a growing number of users who are eschewing the latest turn of the Apple upgrade merry go round and are switching to Dell and Lenovo systems w/ Linux (and FreeBSD, in my case). Everything we need to do for our client still works, and we get more control, cheaper prices and an escape from the frankly "consumer" attitude Apple has these days (imagine - a pocket computer that won't let you install software of your choice!)

So if you're in the market for something better and cheaper than Apple, I suggest you take a look at Linux (maybe Ubuntu to start with?), FreeBSD or one of the many alternatives. You might just like it :)

Edited to add: Oh yeah, and don't forget the advantage of being able to continue using devices well past the point their manufacturers wish you'd buy something new (or force you to, in the case of Apple). I recently installed FreeBSD on a 16 year old laptop as an experiment, and it works fine. Slow, sure, but fast enough to run Emacs, Firefox, and Ruby. In a (frustrating) pinch I could probably do around half of my daily work on it.
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You can run servers with plugins for the economy stuff. Not everything is in the client.
> I would like to see a company that charges me monthly to eliminate all adware by micro-paying the participating websites for my actual page visits.

I (and others) am working on this; I call it microsubscription. It's a common idea: I've seen maybe a dozen closely-related variations on it since hitting on it.

In typical techie fashion I became obsessed with the technical problem of preventing publishers from inflating their figures while also preserving user privacy. I solved it, was granted a relevant patent two days ago and I guess we'll see what happens in 2018.
I was accounting for that. NYC manages to provide shelter space for 10x the number of homeless persons as there are total in SF, while having 10x the population of SF.

I'd argue that it's easier for a smaller affluent city of 860k to solve a problem of roughly 3,000 +/- homeless people (their problem isn't the 6k overall figure, it's a smaller subset of that), than it is to deal with 10x that homeless figure at 10x the city size. Human problems like that get more difficult with scale rather than easier.

I'm not sure how SF weather plays in to providing shelter space for the homeless as a problem. It should be easier and cheaper for SF to do it, as SF requires both less air conditioning in the warm months and less heating in the cold months. Of course, this is also where SF's terrible zoning laws show up as usual.
Virtually nothing