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If you are going to complain about the article, please read it at least.
> It was about being literally unable to use some sites, I don't care about still images at the bottom of a page.

For me it's about privacy and security too, but most of all, I just don't want to see any ads whatsoever. I don't watch ad-supported TV, no ad-supported radio, no ads to my mailbox, won't use apps that show ads, and no ads are allowed in my web browser either.
I agree.
The thing with salaries is that you have a minority that is extremely well paid at FANG companies, and love to brag about it, given a false feeling that everybody is in that range.

A good reminder that nobody brags about being paid 100k in tech,
Community is much more than the former express versions, it is the Pro version with another license.
Am I the only one that's only reading the comments after seeing the first two words of the title?
> blockchain was not defined in Nakamoto's work

However the whitepaper does use the phrase "chain of blocks". https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf, page 7.

So probably the word "blockchain" came about because someone read or heard someone else say "chain of blocks" in the paper and they said "oh, so a blockchain", and thus the word was born.
That, plus car manufacturing is a 10% margin business, Apple is closer to 30%. There's not a ton of money to be made, particularly because the growth in the car industry that will exist will mostly be in getting e.g. Indians to drive, that'll have even lower margins and isn't Apple's target group.
I doubt that top-paying jobs like CEO are undesirable to those people who have them as well as those who would like to have them. On the other hand all really shitty jobs pay nothing - that's true for hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of people worldwide. A >100k$ programmer office job in the US does not belong in the "shitty job" category, no matter how much someone complains online because they are bored while comfortably sitting in their chair waiting for the next big paycheck to arrive reliably.

That rule must have been made by one of those super-rich people grumbling about how unfair life treats them and how the government attempts to steal "their" money.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/02/po...
Only depression and anxiety? That sucks, and I wouldn’t wish those on anyone... but try also having ADD, mild Asperger’s, home drama, stuttering (silent block, way more awkward than repeating)... oh and being not a celebrity, unemployable, unpersonable, broke and homeless. It’s all my fault, I know, I’m lazy for going to interviews and people not liking me for reasons/feedback they’ll never mention.

Depression isn’t good or victim-hierarchy laudible, get rid of it with CBT, group, exercise, diet, work, socializing, meds... whatever.

Anxiety is shit too but I down about 12 hydroxyzine a day.
I'm genuinely interested in order to improve - what was lacking polish in your opinion?
It's still a little surprising here. Not having an adblocker at all is the default setting, users had to go out of their way to install it in the first place. Given that, you'd think that people would manage to turn off the 'allow acceptable ads' option too. (Perhaps it is well hidden?)
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Not sure why NYT is taking some "former governor's" opinion on this. Let's take a look at what the Fed itself (themselves?) think. Quite recently (2018-04-16): "The Case for Central Bank Electronic Money and the Non-case for Central Bank Cryptocurrencies" at https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/2018/02/...

In a nutshell, the St. Louis Fed thinks there's no good case for central banks to get involved in creating cryptocurrencies (though there is a case for fiat electronic money). ISTR that the Swiss National Bank expressed pretty-much the same opinion, too, not more than a few weeks ago.
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The U.S. Marines (and to a lesser extent other US infantry forces) are well-known for this sort of thing; for heavy mental preparation and priming to kill. It's standard in many other US forces, and non-US forces, to not experience this in training. As such, it's very possible to be in the US military without being trained to chant about killing people and so forth.

What's more interesting is that this is not always known to people inside the group; that they believe it to be the standard (people from other military occupations are likewise often surprised when they witness a group of people team-chanting about killing people, having believed their own approach to be standard, and in my experience some European military find it a little disturbing, as they tend to be even further removed from this approach). Everyone takes their own experience and generalises it across the board; the US marines are an extremum in the field of mentally preparing (or indoctrinating) people to kill.

Horses for courses; it only becomes a problem in the field when you put people heavily indoctrinated in killing into a deployment where not shooting people is really what's needed, and vice-versa. Unfortunately, that's where it has fallen down over the last decade or so.
I'm fairly sure you can just use uBlock Origin and just disable all the filters.
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I tried the import recently.
There are quite a few in London. Here's an article about them http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7335315.stm. I think they are mostly to stop people doing coke in the cubicles.
As to the dots, I enjoyed this variation from xkcd, where I first encountered it: https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html

It massively improved our play at Hanabi:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi

Probably would be a useful puzzle for improving your Spades or Bridge game, or any game you play with a partner with limited information.

Also, it gets much worse than The Random Native. George Boolos has a variation called "the hardest logic puzzle ever." It goes like this:

“Three gods A, B, and C are called, in some order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter. Your task is to determine the identities of A, B, and C by asking three yes-no questions; each question must be put to exactly one god. The gods understand English, but will answer all questions in their own language in which the words for ‘yes’ and ‘no’ are ‘da’ and ‘ja’, in some order. You do not know which word means which.”

There's an ongoing effort out there to make this variation even harder:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1926
Wow ... if you scroll down (on mobile) and keep reading the articles there, it’s just an endless list of “really bad stuff happening in China.” To the extent that I had to look up whether SCMP is some kind of American propaganda outfit. And ... from what I can tell it seems to be heavily influenced by the Chinese govt. Can someone with more insight offer a quick rundown of how SCMP fits into Chinese media?
"Never use absolutes." is absolute in itself
Reports of institutional crypto desks have been greatly exaggerated
Are there any scientific papers by the Graal team?
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Pinkers theory about how we have become more peaceful are apparently not backed by sufficient statistical evidence. I always take NNT’s statements with a grain of salt, but the pure stats/math stuff seems solid.
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Really? People are still saying Apple is in need of being 'saved'? Wow. I wish I was in as much trouble as them.

If it's not better than the most successful consumer product in human history, it's not worth bothering with? Apple is now the most profitable watch company in the world, they sell twice as many iPads as laptops, and sell more of them than even the biggest selling laptop company sells laptops, and their ASP is still going up.

Sure. Failed products. What's the point of even trying.

> expected downturn in smartphone sales.

Which may be a problem some day, but while sals are flat-ish, even their Phone ASPs are still going up. So while growth may not be as rapid as in the past, they'll just have to console themselves by showering in firehoses of cash flow instead.
It absolutely is, and it's at the core of everything else we do -- even if it doesn't seem that way on the surface -- because violence is a core component of what it means to be human. Not only human, but an animal from mother nature. Violence is just nature asserting itself. Anyone that thinks they can beat mother nature is fooling themselves.
> Is there a grant I'm not aware of that's given to straight white men?

Yes.
VHDL or Verilog? (2017)
Goons are only pointless, if you look at them from a idealistic all-humanity-together approach.

And even though they tell us often they are there because of the other goons... they are usually there to dominate(or exploite) the others. Which gives the own side a massive advantage. Even though it mostly happens today in a much more subtle way than the open conquering, stealing and blundering, of the past, it is mostly the same principle. There are nice exceptions, though, like the swiss etc. but big armys today are still there to enforce various interests, for a long time mostly only as a potential threat, but more and more in active engagement. And even though I appreciate honesty, I am a bit concerned, that they more and more drop the facade.

(Still, the german president had to resign a few years ago because he said that the german military is also there to protect german economic interests outside of germany, and he did not mean fighting pirates.
But it is still highly illegal here (in theory), to make war for any other reasons than to defend, so he had to go, even though the public outcry was completley hypocrite)
I am happy to pay directly for content that is interesting and useful to me. For a long time, I subscribed to computer magazines like Byte, even when I had Internet access and supposedly had all the information at my fingertips.

These days, I can't remember the last time I've read a good article on technology someplace other than on a blog, a website of a group of enthusiasts. If I ever ended up on websites like Wired or The Verge in the last five years or so, it was definitely by mistake.

Many publishers make money through ads because most people wouldn't pay a dime for that stuff. Catchy is good enough to make people waste time, but not money.

Edit: oh -- it's not all black and white, either. I use an ad blocker, but I whitelist the pages where I think it's worthwile. It's not an all-or-nothing thing. Publishers who put out quality content and whose ads don't try to serve me malware (eh, Forbes?) get whitelisted. Everyone else, to quote the famous nihilistic philosopher B. B. Rodriguez, can bite my shiny metal ass.
Hmm, judging by that list we’re all Rocket Scientists.

(or at least we have the same problems)
He’s better off than almost everyone in Somalia but worse off than Baron von Trump. Identity politics is divisive no matter what, and it looks really weak to appologize for being included in the most hated group of someone else’s victim-hierarchy.

I think the goal of feminism is to indirectly give white men a complex about themselves, life or women, similar to the chip-on-the-shoulder a large fraction of African-American people unfortunately have... creating an endless cycle of punishment, self-doubt, self-sabotage, bitterness and othering just because “we” can.
The average programmer salary in the US is $90-$100k.

In Canada it's closer to $50k.

To put that salary into perspective, the median Web developer salary in the US is nearly $70,000 according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can go live in a small'ish third tier US city in states like Iowa or Wisconsin and earn $75,000 per year as an ok Web developer, where houses cost $150-$200k. Or remote from those locations and do even better.

The top 10% of programmers in the US earn over $135k. The median is around $83-$85k. It's likely that the US median programmer pay is at least 2x that of Canada's median.
How are they doing it today? Ads from lower income countries pay less as well.
Palo Alto has permanent 24/7 suicide-by-train watch at all major crossings. Those folks sit out all night, even in heavy downpours, under a flimsy vinyl personal shelter and what amounts to a beach chair.
Hmm I'm not exactly good with maths (or puzzles for that matter) but here is a blind stab:

By break even, I think you mean that the game is played multiple times, as long as necessary. If you are not following a martingale like strategy (edit: you can't anyways, the bets are fixed) and respond randomly (or with full faith that this is your lucky day, doesn't matter really), you are expected to break even with 50% chance.

How can we improve and make better than 50%?

'A' chooses two distinct integers each time. They can choose among infinite number of integers. For the first guess, I can't do better than 50% chance but if I start to keep history of the numbers that were picked it feels to me like I can do better than chance if I assume A chooses their distinct integers uniformly random by expecting a uniform distribution. I don't have much ideas about how to judge uniformness in an unbounded set of integers though but maybe something like: if first hand is less than the average of all previous numbers, I'd say "other number is higher", otherwise I'd say "other number is lower". I feel like this would improve my chances to more than 50% in the very long term (at infinite plays perhaps?) but am not able to prove it.

If A is not choosing their numbers randomly with a true RNG then I'd play many games at 50% chance then run their choices through a neural network to extract patterns then I'd do better than random for sure.
> Machiavelli's dislike of mercenaries was poorly placed, as after all they were simply following the economic incentives.

That is part of the reason he did not like them, their loyalty was bought and the "prince" who used them did not have any other leverage. It is difficult to win and then govern with mercenaries as the protectors of the kingdom. A long standing mercenary army does not convey legitimacy, and when disbanded there are issues of proper resettlement and worry about a rival acquiring their service.
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Add to that things like cryptocurrency mining by ads and other scripts on websites.
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Out of curiosity, what fraction of the Bitcoin network’s computing power would solve this computation wall?
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> it’s just an endless list of “really bad stuff happening in China.”

It's not necessarily inaccurate. I lived in China for a few years and still try to keep up with news about China, and it really seems to me like one worrisome thing after another.
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Ah yes, possibly; looked at them about a year ago when their product was still incomplete, will have to check them again.

But in any case it would be good to have some competition in that space.
There are hundreds of articles for any topic on the internet. Even if 10% of them could survive without ads it would more than enough. The problem is right now there is no way to distinguish between them without visiting them all. And I am not going to open and close 5 websites before I could finally find the one without ads.

Website owners could easily fix that problem by declaring some standard mandatory component of URL for every ad-supported page. I would happily write and use an extension that would erase all links that have e.g. string "/ads/" in them. That way I would never visit there part of the internet and wouldn't harm them in any way. However since they don't want to make this small step towards my needs they are welcome to go to hell.
It got better in Android 6.0 but it was as described long before that.
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Which is exactly what the comment was talking about.
Why even tell them? I bet in many cases it's easier to hide working on a side-project than to hide reading & posting comments to HN.
The lambda calculus is a very simple set of rules which is Turing complete— whichever kind of programming language you prefer can be broken down to lambda calculus.
I don't know which point you mean, but that would mean that any writer would be blocked indefinitely by any other reader. That amounts to a read lock. You don't get a read lock just by opening a file for reading. You can test that with a simple shell script

{
echo line1
echo line2
} > test.txt
{
read line
echo got "$line"
sleep 2
read line
echo got "$line"
} < test.txt &
# concurrent write
sleep 1;
{
echo line2
echo line1
} > test.txt
wait

This script does a concurrent write while the reader is in the "sleep 2" phase. The output should be

got line1
got line1

(given that the sleeps do the expected thing).

POSIX might contain something that requires aligned blocks of 512 bytes or so to be read or written atomically. But only if you do that in a single system call, of course.
If your needs are not complicated than S3 and RDS, then the following questions come into play..

1. Can I afford to run my own DB and Object storage with acceptable service levels? Do I have the necessary skills in house?
2. Is this cost relatively long-term or very short time? If long, renting space for your own servers at co lo datacenter might be well worth it. If you're not sure about your business, it might be wise to stay put with AWS.

I think it is a conscious decision based on your future plans and business goals. There is no direct answer to such infrastructure planning.
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> Look at the cellular phone networks in Canada. Nothing changes unless the CRTC OKs it. Those companies would be eaten for lunch without the gov't backing them.

Not to defend the cellular oligopoly in Canada (because it's one of the worst in the world) but things aren't perfect in the US either.

T-Mobile and Sprint just agreed to merge, which means the US will have only 3 major wireless providers: AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile.

> My own experience in the US is that things change much quicker when it comes to innovation. Are their stupid regulations? Sure, but they seem to change pretty quickly down here when people get pissed.

The US government just defacto banned (or outright, I can't recall) using ZTE/Huawei equipment in their mobile networks.

Say what you want about the Chinese, and I have no doubt they have ambitions of an NSA-like agency, but the rest of the world is fine to use their equipment and it smacks of protectionism for America to block their use.

I totally agree though that the Canadian government doesn't do nearly enough to encourage competition, and is usually quite content to let an oligopoly remain if it means avoiding foreign ownership.
Ask HN: Should working exploits be released with full disclosure of a 0day?
The vulnerabilities aren't patched and can be exploited in a couple of minutes by anyone with curl or similar installed. The full disclosure already includes curl commands, only a few lines of glue code is needed for a working exploit.

Should I include the exploits with the disclosure or leave them off so it is slightly harder to attack?

PS: The full disclosure comes after months of trying to get even a support ticket in. Data protection bodies seem to be busy with GDPR and have given an extremely unreasonable timeline for even deciding whether to investigate the issue. The vulns are also easy to find as they are simple HTTP requests with malformed data, although they expose one PII data record each time (up to millions).
I think he just didn't get the right words dang. No one is snickering at him for $65k. Probably the opposite. I, a relatively selfish person, get upset when I see a person being taken advantage of.
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I was pretty happy to ditch Xenix for 386BSD when it came out.
Or you hire a manager/staff to run it?
I would say the goal of AdNauseam is obfuscating ad profiles. It not necessarily clicks all ads, the rate can be set in the preferences.

Personally, I would welcome similar extensions for social media, automated follows/likes/post/retweets, let facebook backup GBs of generated pictures per users for facial recognition or Gmail mine random emails. A more noble use case for lifefaker if you will.
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At this point in React's lifecycle, there are one or two top choices for each category you mention (ie MobX vs Redux, Jest vs Jasmine, etc) for folks worried about making "bad choices" well I would ask, what makes a choice bad? Is it that a particular state management library is a bad fit for your application? In that case, where it's possible that a library is a bad fit, then how can it be that a one-size-fits-all framework is going to not equally have potential to be a "bad" choice, except with a lot more buy in and difficulty to change down the road?
It's because zombie shows are a fantasy about the state of nature. In capitalist societies, it's always assumed that the state of nature is essentially lawless and atomized, and all bonds of community are products of culture.
Bitcoin / Lightning / browser integration / one click article buy may solve the problem in the future.
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I think this is attributing too much agency to "government". Voters wanted slavery, and so public officials supported it. Voters wanted wars and a surveillance state after 9/11. Etc.
(Same goes for the good things that the public sector does, of course)

Yes there is inertia and self-perpetuation, like in any organisations, but not overwhelmingly much.
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Fairly standard stuff, definitely interesting to see all the IoT credentials attempred.

I'd recommend SSHGuard over fail2ban though, I seem to remember the version of fail2ban in the Debian repos completely choking on IPv6 and failing open which is obviously undesirable.
what would performance look like?
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To be fair sites could use cnames and some JS trickery to deliver ads to Adblock users.

I am not entirely sure why this is not done on a scale yet, but i think publishers have to accept the choice to some degree.
Consider, you are posting on HN that does not have 3rd party advertisements the website is simply cheap enough to keep running that it does not matter. Personally, I would not mind if all the advertising supported publishers went away. There are enough people willing to make absolutely free content that as a consumer I really don't need more than that to be entertained.

Still, there are a range of funding available that doesn't depend on advertising such as donations, subscribers, and or merchandising. What's at risk is really the lowest form of content that can't be supported with it's own merits and I really see the problem if it simply goes away.
Don’t they move the wrist that moves the hand/fingers which then move the mouse?
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"In war he said things become binary, friend or ennemy, inaction = death, decision = life. "

Well ... not in every war. Also mentioned in the article, when you face guerilla and not a clearly marked enemy, things get messy.
Btw. the most effective war tactics are to create confusion in the enemy, that they don't know anymore where they are and where their friends are and how many enemys etc.

Also people struggled a lot when they fough in a war they don't believe in. But even then, you are right, things are simple when you are with your comrades and under fire.
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For whatever reason, Smashing Magazine decided the first full page of content would be featured stuff from the last couple of months/years rather than the new content people come to a blog/magazine for. It's certainly confusing, especially when the red colour scheme is disabled and the featured content blendes into the new stuff.
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(4) new tech is sexy, old tech is all cranky old guys, like 30+, yuk.
Containers and license compliance
If you throw and catch an exception in the same compilation unit it just turns into a jump instruction, so fine.