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> Whining about ad-blockers is simply being manipulative, it's trying to guilt-trip people into abandoning their self interest for free.

Your attestation usage of "manipulative" is attempting to manipulate in itself. Like I said everyone is technically free to do what they want, but it doesn't change the fact that starving content producers of micro ad revenue goes against their wishes which in most cases deprives them of their sole revenue source.

> The implicit social contract of the Web, the way HTTP protocol and Web browsers were designed, is precisely what allows for ad-blocking.

No the web is not a social contract, it's a combination of technologies. The social contract exists between Content Producers and Consumers and the Web is the platform to enable delivery of that content. The implicit social contract is for Content producers to create content consumers want which is consumed in the way they want their content served. A "blocker" by definition blocks supporting resources that producers wanted their content served with - which in most cases is their primary revenue source for producing that content.

> it's called a paywall. I pay, then I get content.

Great, then use it when that option is available, as a benefit you wont see ads and producers get compensated.

But I hope you're not naive enough to think that a paywall works for all content and all audiences? It's great when it does, content producers get a reliable and predictable source of revenue but there's a reason why ad-supported free content is used, it's not because it's easier, it's because it's viable.
Your argument is not making sense to me as someone who had offers from startups. I was asked to take roughly 40% pay cut now and expect 10X increase in valuation for equity over 4 years which would put me ahead by 2X to 3X in terms of total compensation over that time frame. I didn't took the offer taking to account risk of failure (~80%). If I treated options as "nice bonus" it would never make sense to take any startup offer over jobs at established companies.
Full top down proofs are rare but it’s more common at the module level.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/07/google_kills_www/
That's because as a good developer you know that ignoring those things will eventually bite you on the ass.
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Which service is best? The one you roll out on your own, in your rack, on your own servers in the basement. Unfortunately, configuring a complete end-to-end e-mail solution in 2018 is an incredibly complex affair. The hardest part is the SPAM filtering.

On the command line, I use pine with the maildir patch; in the browser, I recommend the open source version of "eGroupware", a complete replacement for Microsoft Outlook:

https://github.com/EGroupware/egroupware/blob/master/README....

https://www.egroupware.org/
I don’t know anyone who actively hates Google. Most people don’t even think about it, even though they’re constantly using it in one form or another.

People hated Microsoft. Remember blue screens of death? Clippy? Developing for IE?
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If you want to measure a persons rights, or lack thereof, by their interactions with regulations and bureaucracy, then it’s only fair to compare the US to other developed countries, where it would mostly compare quite favorably.

The US would compare somewhat poorly to Hong Kong in terms of regulatory overhead for example, but Hong Kong only allows certain political parties to exist, so they’re clearly not going to be winning any civil liberties competitions.

The US would potentially also compare quite poorly to many developing countries in this regard. But that’s because the mechanism that keeps regulation and bureaucracy in check in the developing world is rampant corruption and state sanctioned labor exploitation. Again, not something you’d want a respectable country to emulate.
Browser is such a security nightmare, how would one want to trust from a random vendor?

What is it's selling point?
Except McDonalds cashiers don't get six figure salaries to decide the entire fate of your livelihood every time you order a burger.
While it's not OSS in the common sense, the source code is available. https://vivaldi.com/source/
For sure. I'd love to have this script be able to run standalone as a local build process that would be portable across platforms and only run the AWS specific bits if you passed a flag for example. Anyways, happy to chat - you can shoot me an email dan@vittegleo.com
We're a small team building tools to make local government services more accessible (http://localgov.fyi/)

relevant disco here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17516721
Safari 12 can show favicons on tabs now :o)

This is how to enable it: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-enable-safari-favicons-on-mac-...
How does your boss' opinion of GDPR relate to her opinion of Google?
As far as I am aware, only Ruby Packer [1] does it better. And has been since day 1, not sure why it isn't getting any attention from the community.

An upcoming solution would be Truffle Ruby with SubstrateVM. But turns out Sulong; even with the help of LLVM compiling C to Graal is a little harder than I thought ( May be the fault of LLVM bitcode ). So it is taking a little more time than expected.

[1] https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer
I think regular FDM printers may have problems with the fine detail required for some pogo pins. I know mine can't quite reliably get holes <2mm in diameter, for instance. I guess you could use a smaller diameter nozzle.
If you're so afraid of Google just don't use Chromium at all. It's a bit like using tools developed by the NSA thinking you are safe because you manually applied patches for all the known backdoors.
Smart couch no one asked for
Serious question: Assuming most of the startup crowd is in SV - how does this make any sense at all? People do have to pay $5000 mortgages there, right?
At the end, he basically says it isn't done, nor a formal proof of RH over Q. Secondly, he thinks RH is undecidable in the Godel sense, and I completely agree.

I studied the RH for my Senior Thesis and Godel completeness makes tons of sense here.

In terms of the proof, Proof by contraction has always felt like it yields short proofs. The beauty is the in the assumption and the tools afterwards.

In fact, the more I read the proof, the more beautiful I find the construction to be. Everything falls out. Thats why its so short.

This Todd Function I've never heard of so I need to do some reading.

Seems pretty legit to me but, you need alot of understanding here.

Source: I have a masters in Math and have studied the RH in depth during those studies.
Probably because there are already a lot of alternative web browsers, such as Brave. Why reinvent the wheel?
People working at shelters can be rather obnoxious. They are willing to sacrifice a lot for improving an animals welfare, and can't understand if someone isn't willing to upend their lives for a totally miserable relationship to a new pet.

Rescueing animals should not be about making people miserable.
Yeah, it’s that each individual property owner is worried about their home’s value, not the city government worried about losing property tax revenue.
I hear plenty of non-tech people bringing up google as Big Brother. Much worse than UX annoyances.
No, that doesn't fix it. It has always been possible to build chromium, just not in a way that meets fdroid's requirements (i.e., build with a foss stack on their debian vm).

This is the most current fdroid issue from what I can tell:
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/issues/378
I’m afraid you may have trouble finding the definition of the Todd function; his citation (to himself) doesn’t define it as far as I can tell.

Otherwise, the “proof” here doesn’t really contain a lot. A couple undergrad analysis classes are enough to “understand” (and consequently call out nonsense of) this bit of writing.
I've always been fascinated by how some children's book authors are able to bring up story lines which tap into feelings that arise at various ages (i.e death, divorce, etc). I watched Mr Roger's growing up but really had no idea everything seen was a smartly curated way to make children more empathetic and analytical.
First I've heard of these guys but it looks like a great deal. It looks almost to good to be true for a family.
Is it decoupled from Google?
It's trite to imply everything is some secret racial motive. There's a extremely strong connection between low income and crime. That already is a major deterrent to low income housing. But it has effects aside from that. The crime and other consequences tend to make it less safe to simply live in areas, and also simultaneously destroy home values - which destroys the wealth that people in an area have paid for already. Nobody wants this.

There are also longterm effects. Low income families tend to be net negative on taxes. This means that a city has less money to fund the basic necessities. Pair a higher strain on those same necessities and a declining tax base and it's not hard to see what happens. And even within the US low income families tend to have a far greater fertility rate than higher income families. Those earning < $10,000 per year currently have about 50% more children than those earning $200k+ per year. [1] This again compounds all the other already existing effects.

I think focusing on race prevents people from actually having any sort of conversation since it's just a straw man. How do you deal with the above while also having the desire to enable more people to achieve a better life? It's not an easy question, but one that has to be answered. Good intentions mean nothing if the actions effected do more harm than good.

[1] - https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
ProtonMail does have an IMAP bridge you can setup locally.
I guess I don't see why everything has to pass the grandma test.

But I do see your point that they shouldn't be necessary.
Can definitely recommend FastMail - I migrated from Gmail around 4 years ago and haven't looked back

It has a clean, powerful UI with good shortcuts. DNS management and basic site hosting (with automatic Let's Encrypt support), great calendar and contacts support.

Had some problems with some senders getting rate limited a while back, but worked with support to get it fixed up.
Well, SVG, while actually just being XML, supports embedded pngs/jpegs and can be exported to most raster-graphics formats from the command line.
Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but personally I love the possibility of being able to scale stuff as I see fit.
Were a mid sized regional ISP and we try every day to literally make the internet not suck.
> I view it as a problem

What kind of problem? It makes web browsing stable as the internal engine is tested by Apple without third party bringing their own with updates at random moments and from web developer's perspective, they get a predictable result within iOS without effort and from those, I don't see a problem from users' perspective too.

Maybe you work for Mozilla.
I use Firefox on mobile and desktop because it is the only browser which lets you to run your own sync server: https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15
Yes there is nothing Google in it. And if you happen to use Naver services, you won't be automatically logged in like Chrome is doing.
google does the protecting against dns record attacks on gmail.com

"How?" is not the unanswerable question for them and for that domain, that it is for you & me and you&me.com
You are also failing in life against someone who won lottery last week. You should have lot of regret about not going to that same store and not choosing those same numbers that lottery winner chose.
We're actually the largest tech company in South Korea, not a completely random vendor. We also own LINE messenger which is probably more known.
3 of those 4, and pot exasperating the mental condition after the fact, mhmm.
You can disable this behavior in chrome://flags/#account-consistency.
Even those people tend to love their animals more often than not. I've seen farmers being affectionate to their cows or their pigs. I knew a poultry professor who kills chicken all the time but seems to cuddle them when people aren't looking.

My presumption has proven relatively useful in dealing with owners. Even loving an animal doesn't preclude abuse, though.
I'm just browsing their website and it seems a bit too good to be true... The only drawback I see are daily sending limits (which I'm very happy with).
There is a class of tools for this called Requirements Management. They tend to be expensive and clunky tools in my experience, but I haven't used one for quite a few years. Ones I have used are Rational Requisite Pro (IBM) and Doors, which is now apparently an IBM Rational product too. I've worked on a project that used Doors for requirements management but also requirements traceability, a somewhat tedious task that would let us look from a requirement and identify all development documentation that implemented that requirement and eventually to code if required.

From an logical point of view I think it makes a lot of sense to start from clearly documented requirements, then work forward to design, implementation, and testing with links back to each requirement. I don't know how testing (higher level than unit testing) can really be effective unless they have requirements documents to use as their starting point. Use Cases go some of the way to providing this information but tend to be a bit less formal. Agile methodologies tend to be less formal than older methodologies that emphasised this kind of process more. A lot of Agile is good, but it does also tend to forget lessons from the past.
Can't these issues be solved by using the "People" feature and using a different identity for gmail vs your browsing when you want not to be signed in?

I use the different identities extensively (work gmail, personal gmail, and other identities) and the quick switcher in the top right is for me the biggest reason why I've been unable to move to Firefox. (FF containers are not the answer, I know that much. I think FF identities are but they lack easy switching.)
Get your own domain at Gandi. Free Email included.

Or buy a domain and Email as a service here: http://infomaniak.com/

If you are disappointed about the search capabilities of Thunderbird, install recoll for search
Check out nix-bundle.
How does using gmail address compromised DNS? I mean if they compromise your DNS it doesn't matter who is hosting your email, they just point the MX at a different service.
Their "end-to-end" encryption claims as well as their schtick about being hosted in Switzerland make it abundantly clear that I will never trust their security. I would go so far as to use almost any other major email provider over ProtonMail.
That's amazing the Chromium is almost 3 times longer to build than AOSP.
I don't "know" as a viewer how ad-based business models work. In fact I generally assume that ads have to be clicked on to make money. Since I haven't clicked on an ad in years, does that make me a freeloader? I'll assume that once eye-tracking is commonplace then publishers will get paid only when viewers look at their ads. If I avert my eyes, am I stealing? On the other hand: why can't an ad-blocker plugin still trigger a payment for the ad view, while preventing me from seeing it?
For projects large like a browser, not sure how having everything open sourced helps users. No one can audit it well enough anyway. Only track record can tell its security and stability.
100%. I'm with you too, man. I didn't buy Star Wars Battlefront either, and I was very excited for it before it was released.

I can't believe people would buy a game where it's literally pay to win. Kids these days...
This is how hentai is created.
We (software agency) had the same problem, a simple app with just basic Google libraries was violating their own privacy rules.
> There’s a perception that rigorous background checks are foundatational if a corporation is to act responsibly.

Indeed. But there should be some level of common sense in the system. For example, while a sexual offender certainly is not supposed to work in childcare, he still can work flipping burgers or in a factory. A pot smoker may be unfit for driving trucks, but why not as a coder? Someone who got arrested protesting Nazis is someone I'd actually prefer to hire if I could. And so on.

And to make stuff worse we're only talking about arrests here, not actual convictions by a court. How are people supposed to rehabilitate and be productive members of society again when they're basically forced into an eternal life of poorness and criminality?!
Thanks for this, what do you use for password syncing?
In my case, the title was software engineer, at the time I had 6 years of experience and BS + MS in computer engineering. The offer at FB was for level E5, and I negotiated decently. I’m a very average engineer with average accomplishments, truly nothing special.
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You can turn it back on. Go to Preferences -> Extensions and check "uBlock Origin". I've been using Safari 12 since it came out and uBlock Origin works with it just fine.
This is the same issue with models like Black Scholes that came to be used in pricing options. Or the confounding issues with gravitons having energy such that they themselves generate gravitons - hence the loopback effect.

Self-modifying programs are still an enigma we haven't untied.
> By the way, if you're in the EU, bunq is a similar mobile challenger bank but based in the Netherlands and serving all of SEPA (if you're in the Eurozone you can use them as your main bank; I live in a non-Euro EU country so hold an account just for the hell of it).

is there a similar option for people who have citizenship of an EU country but are not physically present in EU?
Yeah but brave controls all these levers.
was 1996 really that different than today? because reliable is the last word i would use to describe software today.
Fine. BUT sites should be responsible for the ads running on their site and held financially or criminally responsible. Adtech is infested with intrusive tracking which is legally dubious in my jurisdiction. To say nothing of the security implications of allowing random unvetted transient 3rd parties to run code. At this point I see a good content blocker as a security measure more than an ad blocker.
This is fascinating. I grew up with a schizophrenic parent and relatives. My interpretation has been that the disease is a defect in the systems that weights between internal models and external evidence.

It’s interesting that to know that there might be a fairly straight forward mapping of the to brain chemistry/neural mechanisms.

Do you any references the AMPA signaling pathways and associated neurological structures that you can recommend as a starting point?
I really don't know. You certainly don't want to give "working cats" a daily diet they go nuts for.

On the other hand, I don't think food is their main motivation for hunting, anyway. They just enjoy it so much.

To me it seems the hunting drive in dogs and cats has no relation to their dietary needs. Another example is that escaped ferrets are able to bring down prey, but don't hunt enough to survive.
I'd like to see a serious investigation and discussion around the recommendation engines used to rank content added here.

Something is seriously wrong with youtube's algorithm, whether in the technical implementation or how it deals with spam/unintended consequences.

Kids watching cartoons get recommended messed up stuff (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/65rkxv/what_i... ), watch a single Jordan Peterson video and youtube will recommend you every fringe alt-right anti-feminism video it can find for months... It is toxic, causes real harm, normalizes extremist viewpoints and is shifting the Overton window in politics.

I'm not advocating censorship in any way, my concern is if algorithms/implementation bias what people see towards what will get the strongest reaction it is at least in a similar class of harm as censorship...

I have a hunch this is a natural consequence of using something like UCB (upper confidence bound) for contextual bandits to rank results when the feature vectors are using broad user / video clusters. Are explore vs exploit reinforcement learning algorithms used in production very susceptible to adversarial spam? Any evidence of fringe videos paying for viewbots etc...
I don't think those are analogous. People make suggestions about their own health, for their own perceived benefit. That, I get every single day, 24/7 - and so does every professional in every field.

If it was THEIR app, they would ask about different hosting providers - and I would explain why or why not because it's my job.
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This is very advanced topic and I think (almost) all “end-users” are absolutely not ready to embrace it. You cannot be completely sure that you and “end-user” are thinking about the same subject.
I was referring to "Katzenklo macht die Katze froh". I admit the joke was terrible.
Depends on what career stage you are and what you will be doing. If you have 5-10 years of experience and doing distributed computing/info retrieval/AI then $1M worth of RSUs over 4 years is VERY normal and totally expected by everyone I know.
What does email have to do with switching browsers? Last I heard Gmail also works on Firefox.
That is a pure assumption. I don't use Linux for desktop.
Without the checking for trains you could set this up with a reminder with time and location (“on arrival”), once you get the reminder its no big deal to trigger the shortcut (for checking trains etc) manually I guess?
Sorry, you're probably talking about using the @gmail.com domain where you wouldn't have to worry about DNS. I was thinking about custom domains in G-Suite.
Lafiel and Jinto also have a cat in Crest of the Stars.
>Any non-standard decision is risky.

I disagree, there are many potential non-bog-standard decisions that are not risky and certainly better than mocking you and doing literally nothing (while still getting paid).

Also: "we don't know why this happens" and a bit of two-sided discussion is satisfactory for most people.
(Only for Windows and Mac OS, though)

https://protonmail.com/bridge/install
I'm not sure about that. There's an immense amount of cheap housing throughout the city. The reason that people don't want to live there is because it's also riddled with crime, gangs, and other such things. In the city you end up with cheap high crime housing, or expensive low crime housing. You're just describing the relatively new third option - moderate priced low crime housing an hour outside the city.
MSFT doesn't read your email to target you with ads.
If you need strong privacy, then go to ProtonMail.

Otherwise, try https://yandex.com. For personal domains you can use https://connect.yandex.com, which is free (with ads) for unlimited users or $3 per user per month (available in several countries) without ads.

I've been using Yandex Connect for quite long time (free and paid). They are very good.

Yandex Connect goes with Email (fully unlimited), Cloud Storage, Wiki and Simple Messenger. There is also an option to control domain's DNS, but it's optional.
This is especially true today. I have seen a critique of Marvels infinity war where (spoilers) Thanos needs to "sacrifice that he loves the most" to gain a special stone.

So he throws his daughter off a cliff, and cries as he does. He "loved" her.

People have pointed out that for an abused child sitting watching with her abuser, this reinforces the idea that the person who is harming her actually loves her ... a repulsive idea and perhaps as damaging as jumping off a roof with a towel.

I guess "with great power comes great responsibility"

PS
not being American Mr Rogers is a mystery to me - can anyone recommend a documentary / example ?