skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like Perl's approach to OOP. Almost 100% of it is a single function, bless(). Everything else is just namespaces, which isn't specifically an OO thing. There's no magic "this" or "self", so the OO is very easy to understand.
Only goes up to 2011 but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google
You can subscribe to password protected podcasts in many players just by including the username and password in the url.
> Maybe a new <ad /> tag which points to a resource which can only serve an image, video or text. Absolutely no scripting. Pass along only the advertiser ID and the bare minimum.

How would fraud detection work in this model? How do advertisers know the requests are coming from real users and not bots? Without assurance there, advertisers would pay much less, and publishers would earn much less.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself.)
I went through an annoyance with my vision. I ended up having two separate conditions (well a total of 5 things were wrong with my eyes, but two acive major ones and two that will eventually cause more surgery later but aren't a big deal yet and one that was minor), but because the first one seemed like it was causing the problems, it took me almost a year to find and get real treatment for my issues so I could be able to see properly again. It was really depressing as my vision just kept getting worse and eye doctors were not helping. Right before my surgery my eyes got to the point I couldn't legally drive (bear in mind that I was under 40 at this point) even with glasses.

I just kept trying different doctors until an intern assistant to one of them saw the actual issue and got me referred to an awesome specialist who confirmed the diagnosis (and found the other problems I had not known about yet) and got me to a surgeon who did surgery to fix it. As a result of this, I strongly distrust doctors and I think they can sense that when I see them.

For those more curious, I had Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension as I am rather large. Due to being large and doctors being able to see that problem, they just assumed it was the issue and they never looked at anything else. They put me on NASTY drugs to fix the issue, but my eye sight just kept getting worse. I have no idea why it took an intern to see the problem, but in the end I had ABMD (also known as Map-Dot-Fingerprint Dystrophy). I believe a total of 6 eye doctors and two neurologists completely missed it. I really should have gotten the intern's name and properly thanked him, as who knows how much longer I would have had to go without a diagnosis. IIH can cause blindness, as it will slowly destroy your vision (or in some cases quickly), so I kinda understand why they may not have seen it, but from what I have read, it sounds like ABMD is pretty easy to see if you look for it, and none of the real doctors did.

So I hope no one out there ever has multiple problems causing similar symptoms, because doctors can't be bothered to think about that possibility, at least eye doctors.
Why would you call it either ignorant or baffling? Do you expect Iranian users to have a deep understanding of American export laws and the political intricacies that might follow from Microsoft's acquisition?

This is an completely understandable reaction regarding Github's block against Iranian accounts. Github as been around for over 10 years, and this never happened before.
What are they supposed to? Management buyout and relocation to Switzerland?
Patreon gives you a private RSS feed so paid podcasts are indeed a possibility. It is similar to getting your private activity ATOM feed from Github for example.
It may be related to how many containers I run. Usually at least ten, sometimes 30. Usually the problem isn't daemon itself, but all the garbage integration attached to it
Love to hear anyone more people who invented a cure for their own illness
I believe we need to move away from fines and force corporations to give up voting shares. A special class of shares with little to no financial benefit held by public trusts.
What in the draft is unclear?
> As to how appropriate the request is, that’s up for debate, but it’s not theft.

Yea I guess by definition if the state takes it's not theft. If the state kills it's not murder.
I mean... effectively, they are http://money.com/money/4506297/how-retailers-track-you/
Good point. I guess it’d kill PPC. I’m not sure how advertisers detect fraud but maybe you can check the limited info sent along with the request and do whatever heuristics you do as usual.
I’m more than happy to let the rich buy the best genes first, if that means that everyone else will get to buy them later.

Is the implied attitude that if the rich get something first it shouldn’t exist at all? If gene therapy follows a progression like mobile phones, that would good for humanity. First it’s super expensive and only a few get them, but it becomes much cheaper within a few decades and eventually almost everyone can have one.
Intervenes? Where? In white house?
"Watch the video to find out how it could be a creative (if claustrophobic) housing solution for many young workers."

This isn't really a "solution." It is more like enabling the system to continue the way it is.
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
I agree with your point that there's blame to go around. I believe that Bobby from King Of The Hill said it best "This city should not exist. It is a monument to man's arrogance."
That would be a usability nightmare.
> The world would be a safer, cleaner place. And a small fraction of people would be happy with it.

You might be missing how expectations change after the introduction of a technology. I wouldn’t guess that people would be unhappy about not having cars before the car was even invented.
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nat...
You don't ? And you get paid less by click but you also have more clicks ? (also cf NYT)

This way you also avoid the arms race between ad networks, ad blockers and clickbot farms.
How to Train Your Quadcopter
You can make the same argument about podcasts, television, radio, magazines, billboards, etc. At some point you rely on statistics that someone is giving you in all of those mediums but they still made money.

I've personally made much more money producing content (YouTube and podcasts) by directly working with brands than I ever have from Adsense anyway so I'm not convinced that the advertisers "paying more" is helping content creators much to begin with. Patreon seems to be a symptom of that.

Edit: Also, on the subject of advertisers paying less. Isn't part of the problem the fact that adtech giants like Google are saying "look, we have this awesome tracking and targeting tech so you can pay less for ads to reach your target audience". Thus reducing the potential ad money that those people would pay into potential revenue for content creators to reach their audience?
The problem is that it's fungible in the other direction. Everyone buying generic electricity can end up with less wind, so your net impact is less or zero.
The "no 0 value" part begs for type classes/traits, which for these Go contracts means not restricting contract functions to be methods.

contract Zero(T) {
Zero() T
}

> We feel that more experience with this design is needed before deciding what, if anything, to do here.

Hopefully the more experience leads the Go designers to solutions some production-quality languages already have to solve this :)
The phishing mail spoofed support@protonmail.ch, which should have been caught by SPF and DMARC.

And protonmail-to-protonmail should be E2E encrypted and authenticated.

Many unanswered questions here about how this got past ProtonMail to users.
What's the point of money if you can't spend it on the things you want?
Unfortunately they didn’t need to use JavaScript to track you because they already had access to a wealth of information about you from your email…
Citation? The CDC and NIH disagree with you.

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postlds/index.html
I actually think if he was more transparent the piece would have been significantly better. For example, "At BoingBoing we rely on these systems as well. Why? The simple fact is we have virtually no alternatives to the adtech status-quo and our choice is either to participate in the system as it is or go out of business. This is why I'm calling on likeminded publishers to...". Instead he passes himself off in a disingenuous way, and people reading his words could reasonably assume that his own site was perhaps better, when in reality it far exceeds the mean for the amount of tracking on a website.
Its cheaper, prettier and more effective to plant trees, climbers and hardy shrubs.

I get that algae is all fun and that, but it needs a boat water, glass, filtering and pumping. The other part is its a massive monoculture. which means that its very prone to fungal and other algae types.

The hard part through all of this is not getting the plant to grow, thats simple. Its keeping it watered and maintained.

To keep pollution down in london, growing a wide variety of trees is an answer. But they require maintenance.

If you could create self contained boxes for something like dwarf cheery trees, which can be connected to the grey water system by capillary, it would have a far bigger impact on pm2.5, temperature and no2.

having vast vats of water on roofs, with pumping filtering and airating systems isn't co2 efficient. I suspect the amount of c02 sequestered is significantly less than the glass/running energy requirements.
custom glass, unknown aeration systems, pumping and filtering. Its not going to be cheap.
Thanks for the tip - i’ll definitely try and find that show
Github owned by Github. But this is something different. It is Github owned by Microsoft. Acquisitions, in general, do not end well for the established user-base.

Suggestion: move you repositories! Host your own repositories! Use something different, like Gerrit, to spice up your development! Take matters in your own hand! Own your data, own your compute!
Negotiating with a non-US entity for as smooth a mirror as possible? Not sure, but resistance to stupidity isn't futile.
I am going to be using at the very least¿
http://www.circuitbasics.com/programming-with-your-android-s...
In conjunction with a code someone writes,Law enforcement agencies, will be all set thanks to you and me¿
Because it's the right thing to do and MS has the power to do it.
I don't think it has anything to do with the Microsoft acquisition... GitHub was always a US owned and operated company. The reason this hasn't happened in the last 10 years and is happening now is that the laws regarding US companies doing business with Iranians has changed during that period of time. It's not GitHub's or Microsoft's fault, it's the fault of governments, the people running them, and the people empowering then.
I completely agree. I don't see why some developers need to solely depend on GitHub for private use when you can self-host GitLab/cgit with a cheap computer to host your projects. Open-source development has already thrived without the likes of GitHub even before it was founded.

Perhaps the time to self-host your projects just like how Mastodon allows self-hosting an instance is more important than ever, which will probably be better for open-source instead of centralizing and increasing our dependency on GitHub.
Wow... it really is easy and takes only about 60 seconds to do, and doesn't require signing up for any new services or anything. I'm kind of amazed. Just go to:

https://equifaxbreachsettlement.com

You put in your last name and the last 6 digits of your SSN (not full SSN), it tells you if you were impacted, you give your full contact info, select the option for $125, it gives you an option for check or gift card, and done.

Legally it requires that you already have some form of credit monitoring, which from other comments here seems that many credit cards already include (mine do, e.g. Capital One).

But... I'm kind of amazed it's so easy. This really ought to be done by everyone who already has a credit card that provides free credit monitoring. I never thought I'd get to have a little feeling of personally holding Equifax accountable in a small way, but here we are. :)
The Banana Trick and Other Acts of Self-Checkout Thievery (2018)
There's also an ad library, which is fun to see because you might not be targeted for an ad in the first place: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/

Looks like Trump is now selling plastic straws, and has spent 15 million in the quarter so far.
> The only reason bedridden people are in beds is to make it easy to roll them

Not sure if you have ever fallen ill and had fever. That thing will make you want to lie on the bed.
In what way do they have that power? Do you just mean in the way that anyone has the power to break laws and face the consequences, or something else?
no they dont
Waiting for a day to be able to mod SSD into SDR /s
I don't use any of the methods they mention there (although I know that they can use my credit card info to track me as well).

But, yeah, I'm still offended by that. It doesn't justify the widespread behavior on the internet to me, they're both bad.
Iran is under US sanctions, I wouldn't expect Iranians to have access to services from any US company.

It sucks, but that's the whole point of sanctions.
And you'd be wrong... The init system will always be a daemon, for obvious reasons ;-)
What does “relevant” mean for search engines?
Early Time‐Restricted Feeding Reduces Appetite, Not Energy Expenditure
Making the algorithm public won’t make them lose their competitive edge. Its the data and their experts that allow them to use their algorithms in any meaningful way.
Maybe if they were able to put superior genes in their offspring they'd be able to move that metric.
Is there something about this that I've missed that has something to do with the Microsoft acquisition? The same laws would have governed GitHub if they hadn't been acquired.
It could be a good feature for Mozilla to be the best privacy protector.
Firefox used to be the fastest, if they can be fast and the most private, they might be able to regain some mindshare and maybe market share.
There’s just the problem of most of the funding coming from Google.
> Self-driving is too big — and too important — an endeavor for any one team to solve alone. Transportation serves all of us, and we should all be invested in the next step of its evolution.

Imagine how much better things could be if everyone working on maps felt the same.
GitHub has no choice but to comply with U.S. laws and regulations, yet I'm not seeing anyone here claim that GitHub is a "direct arm" of the U.S. government?

Oh right, common sense and basic logic only apply when the involved entities are American. For everyone else it's all about hypocrisy and double standards in the purpose of nationalist chest-thumping.
Posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495597
Definitely Brave Browser (brave.com). In-built ad-blocking (via Brave's shield) with a bunch of useful features I often had to wrangle a few extensions for (ublock origin, ghostery, and more) when I was using Chrome.

It's still using webkit (based off of Chromium; and Chrome apps work) but the Brave Shield is a great plus. Block ads, trackers, force HTTPS upgrades, block javascript, block cookies 1st or 3rd party.

There are some quirks, Netflix refuses to play nicely in Brave but that's the only exception I've found and supposedly over the past ~1 year I've had it installed I've blocked some ~70,000 trackers, ~800,000 ads, forced ~10,000 HTTPS upgrades, saving me ~11.1 hours of time (open a new tab to see statistics).

I have Javascript set to be blocked by default, forcing HTTPS upgrades, and blocking all trackers. If I need a website to use Javascript I can whitelist it and 3rd party cookies are always blocked. So the first few days are a bit annoying as you whitelist all the websites but from that point onwards you're in a good state of only allowing what you want to run instead of at the mercy of whatever bundle a website decides to give you.

It has BAT integration as well but I've personally never used it. I recommend it to anyone and everyone who uses Chrome to just make the change.
I worked briefly in a marketing department as programmer. Learned the following there.
The benefit of advertising is to inform the consumer of products they may not be aware of.
"Messa thinks Messa might have Mesothelioma!"
Most of the time advertising is a waste of time, and there certainly are better ways of learning about products. However, the function of informing consumers of products they may not be aware of is of mild benefit.

A better question than what benefit is advertising might be, "How can advertising be made more beneficial to the viewers"
Previous posts within the last couple of weeks:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20405480

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20469965

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20495834

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20504851

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20511540

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20533951 (this one from a day ago)
Absolutely. If the content creator and the advertiser dont trust each other enough to have the ad be delivered from the same server as the content, then why would I trust them to run whatever code they want.
It seems to me that the problem is entirely of the web advertiser’s making, though. When the web was new and novel, tracking was used to prove or validate specific ad spend. You can still do that sort of comparative analysis but now detection might have to live on and be limited to what can be detected from the advertiser’s own site. And if by the nature of the product or sale, it proves impossible to tell if I’m a human, well, that will be a shared cost or concern that all advertisers would have. If sites were forced to or mandated this new form of anti-tracking ad, advertisers would eventually go along with it because the alternative is not advertising on the large percentage of sites which have adopted it. This would probably make non-web ads and validated human email addresses more valuable unless they too are subject to the same anti-tracking provisions. An email service (or search service) by it’s nature offers more opportunities to tell if you’re human though, and such services would be inherently more profitable to advertise on... (see Facebook profits)

I don’t really see problems here outside of encouraging an entire industry to move on from tracking and/or DRM the way an entire nascent industry moved on from the popup and pop-under ad, or invasive screen takeover and annoying animated ads.
China’s Banks Are Running Out of Dollars
AZ doesn’t produce 90% of leafy greens. That would be California and especially Salinas valley.

Yuma in AZ is just insurance for Salinas greens Ag companies re weather and water.
So where is GitLab hosted? Would they be under the same restriction?
In my opinion we are at the planning stage for a battle of a war we have already lost.
> onto either side of a hard drive

It seems in the experimental setup there was one speaker and it was physically isolated from the hdd.
i mean, the rich already gets the best education, the best healthcare, etc...
Looks like it's time to migrate the rest of my stuff off US-based hosts.

Today Iran, tomorrow who knows?

Far easier to take a couple days to move my stuff now than having to do it under duress in a year or two.
You would only do business with companies you trust to not cheat. Or just charge flat rates.
What if you need some degree of client-side interactivity? Then you need JavaScript logic in the browser. That is in addition to the tools that perform server-side rendering. Isn’t this added complexity prone to over-engineering, more so than having a single JavaScript framework that renders the site and handles interactivity, all in one place?

I get that client-side rendering can be a problem if JavaScript is disabled or fails to load and execute, but that by itself does not mean that singe-page apps are over-engineered. On the contrary, I’d argue that a single-page app is the simplest (least complex) approach to creating a blog site with some interactivity.
I don't really care if ads stop being profitable. If ads stopped being a good source of revenue, the tech industry would adapt, and my guess is that the end result would be much more favorable to society. I'm working on an early-stage startup right now, and I'm certainly not going to use ads as part of my revenue model.

Google might not be too happy about an outcome like that, but I'm not overly concerned about Google's wellbeing. :)

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this since you work on ads: are ads actually essential in the software industry, or could we do just fine without them?
These devs are stuck in a tough situation and your first reaction is to sneer and insult them?

The complete lack of basic empathy is just baffling.
What does that have to do with the critique of the raid? Or ABC's editorial independence?

> The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national broadcaster founded in 1929. It is currently principally funded by the direct grants from the Australian government, but is expressly independent of government and partisan politics. The ABC plays a leading role in journalistic independence and is fundamental in the history of broadcasting in Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Broadcasting_Corpor...
Well, if it was cheaper, I'd run my "containers" on a z series cluster.

Automatic failover during hardware failure, no need to program anything special. HA without the need for having to do any work.
> The manufacturer keeps working to improve the quality, and people keep paying them for this. "Buy a software license once for all time" is not analogous to this.

I agree, why I feel ye olde numbered software releases worked fine. I even think subscription based software is fine if the yearly subscription price is at or below what the old numbered version costs.

What happens these days is software converts to a subscription model and the developer decides to jack up the yearly subscription price to 2-3x the old yearly price.
Because you then need longer and heavier landing gear, which you need to fit somewhere in the plane as they retract. This is a ripple effect where you probably need to redesign the complete airframe, from fuselage to the wings.

They actually cleverly modified the landing gear to gain a bit of heigth, but it was not enough: https://youtu.be/F4IGl4OizM4
Wouldn't it make more sense to compare the likely progression with standard drug development rather than mobile phones?

Last I checked, drug development is in a terrible state. I mean we're killing 70k+ people a year from opiate overdoses that were primarily driven by our capitalist drug development system (and a lack of even an ounce of morality at some of these companies). And that's just one problem among many. Not everything is the tech industry.