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Some small areas of Wikipedia are so toxic that no-one would want to have anything to do with them.

Some areas are probably not suitable for advertising. Would an ad on "Holocaust" or "Lynchings" really be acceptable?

And so the problem then would be the megabytes of meta "discussion" about why some page should or shouldn't have ads.
I've run into the Washington Post link a few times on something shared by a friend that I thought I wanted to read. Once I hit the social reader page, I've bailed ... every time.
They already have that covered.

http://support.balsamiq.com/customer/portal/articles/135659#...
I've been hearing that a lot since the OWS movement started. It's worth pointing out that the Citizens United ruling stated that in certain freedom of speech issues, corporations have the same rights as people, not that they are people.
Telling is the use of words such as "unlikely", "not clear", "probably". This bill is vague enough that we won't actually know its effects until 10 years of litigation have established precedent. Not a great environment for doing business.
> Facebook has far more intrusive ads than myspace did..

MySpace had surprise obnoxious audio ads, MySpace had "punch the monkey and win" flash ads, MySpace had header banners inserted above all of the content you wanted to see.

Facebook doesn't do any of that. Their redesigns have all allocated slightly more screen real estate to ads, but it's nowhere close to facebook levels of insanity. Facebook ads conform standards and are specifically unobtrusive, except for newsfeed spam, and plenty of tools are provided to manage that.

> What is it... less than 1% use adblock? hmm

1%-2% of people using adblock does not mean 1%-2% of people hate ads. It means that's how many of the people who hate ads have the knowledge, means, and will to do something about it. Given that, 2% is a lot.
It seems that there should be a correlation between scores and what people consider as smart. People identify smart easily, just as they identify dumb. Someone must have done the statistics.
No, that is exactly what punishment is for. Punishment is made to influence us humans, because we are the ones who do bad stuff. It is a fundamental principle of the universe that nothing changes unless pressure is applied, so we try to apply larger punishment than the damage done, hoping that it will prevent further wrongdoings from the same person.
guys this is basically a useless comment but I really admire Woz. In the hope that he might stop by this thread (don't know if he reads hacker news or not), I just wanted to say "thanks for everything!", I really like the guy!

Now, it would be really cool if he wrote a review of Android ICS from his point of view...
yEd is a beautiful simple diagram-drawing tool but it's essentially "just" a slimmer cousin of e.g. Visio: Click to draw blocks, join them with arrows, drag things around with your mouse until everything looks nice.

I'm one of those obsessive-compulsives who can be completely infinite-looped by any product that lets you manually tweak the appearance of your diagram by hand and mouse. "Another 1/8 inch to the left, now a bit more spaced out, oops, now this part isn't centered, so pull this..."

blockdiag is different insofar as you specify the diagram by text only. It doesn't offer enough degrees of freedom to engage in the "creativity" that is so lethal to me. You tell it the names of your boxes and how you want them connected, and the software does the layout in a simple and unambiguous way.

I also highly appreciate that this allows me to source-control the diagram in text form and at what is probably the most abstract level possible.
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I'm not suggesting you're falling for this mistake but working from home does not equal being a stay-at-home parent.

If you're concentrating on a startup or freelance work then you're not giving your kids your attention. It's not enough to be there, it's better than not being there but don't fool yourself that you're bringing them up just because you're in the same building more often.
Startups are a better way to work
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Remember that it opens, at one point, into the subway. Its just a supposition, but I could imagine this thing being built during the construction of the subway tunnel. It would be relatively easy to disguise all the equipment going in and dirt coming out in the process.

Looking at the history of the Metro construction, the bunker construction dates to roughly the time of the 4th stage of the Metro construction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro

Again, its a supposition and the address of the bunker would be needed to compare to the location of the Metro built during the 4th stage.
Bias isn't bit-field. It's perfectly possible for all news to be biased and for Fox to be in a terrible, egregious class of its own.
Some of the pictures (http://media.englishrussia.com/112011/coldwar/coldwar003-51....) point to subway entrances. Perhaps it was built via the subway? Or at the same time?
> MySpace failed because a better competitor came along. It had a history of predators, spammers, and viruses, and was hard to use well. (Did you see the pages people made?).

A big reason facebook was better is that it wasn't crudded up with horrible advertising. And yes, I saw the pages people made. That alone is not why MySpace failed. People just like to bash gaudy, haphazard pages because it makes them feel superior. But yes, it could have been easier to use.

Modern facebook advertising is a great example of how to manage ads well. It's possible wikipedia could try and follow facebook's advertising principles but I'm not sure how well it would work for them. Facebook has been developing it slowly for years. Wikis that include advertising tend not to be nearly as slick as facebook.

> AdBlock has minimal market share [1], so the prevalence of AdBlock isn't an argument in your favour.

Number of people using adblock does not mean that many people hate ads. It means that's how many of the people who hate ads have the knowledge, means, and will to do something about it.

> Radio stations certainly have ads, and those that claim "x songs without commercials!" usually put self-advertisements in instead, which they count separately. It's still advertising, just a different sort. Overall the whole process is pretty duplicitous (imho).

In my experience, that's just a technicality. Yeah, there's maybe one or two ads in the ad-free hour-- compared to 15 minutes or so of ads normally. So I wouldn't call it duplicitous at all. And regardless, even if it was that wouldn't change the point, since they are appealing to people's desire for ad-free programming. Whether they actually deliver on the promise is incidental.
Every time I read an article like this I wonder if there is enough demand in the real world for a new social network ...
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Syndication of Netflix-produced shows will probably become one of their big money makers if this works out.
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I find the comments within stories, that have nothing more to add than "This is Offtopic" way more distracting than the stories themselves, even if they are offtopic.

So I see this story, it seems offtopic but intriguing nonetheless. I see there are comments, I click on comments. And what do I get? A gang of self righteous internet citizens informing me that I am not interested in this story and/or debate.

Thank you very much, may I be in charge for a while?

If you have a problem with story, go and flag it. Preferably just ignore it - it will go away on its own. But don't go around pointing it out. Else you might be caught off guard by the shitstorm of down votes that is going to hit you.

Attitudes like this also belong on /r/whatever.
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If that's really how you feel about it, then why spend your time not only reading, but repeatedly commenting on the thread?
You know you can hit the cancel button and it'll take you to the actual article, instead, right?
Email me an informational url about your business and contact info I can pass along to a few people in those industries. If I think you'd be a good fit, I'll certainly share service with them.

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> I hate this sort of comment. It's naive.

You're just using different semantics for "advertisement." When people talk about advertising they mean something more direct; where an advertiser pays a content-provider to insert arbitrary content. In terms of a user experience, that kind of advertising is more adverse than what you're talking about. The point isn't "shock horror I might get tricked into visiting some site where someone is sellign something", the point is that advertising is distracting, disruptive and negatively impacts the value of the core product.

Dozens of blogs exist primarily for marketing reasons, to get linked from reddit and hacker news and such. That doesn't make them "advertising" in the same sense that a picture of a hot teenage girl hawking a dating site in the corner of my facebook profile is "advertising."
That wasn't the case for AMC before "Mad Men". Now, in addition to "Mad Men", they have "The Walking Dead", "Breaking Bad" and "Hell on Wheels". Even more than that, they have my guarantee that I will at least try a few episodes of any AMC original show that comes out.

You're right that Netflix would have to build an audience, but if they are able to create exceptional quality shows, as HBO and AMC have done, then they can very print that certificate very quickly (within a couple of years).
This is stupid. Get on a plane.
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What issues did you have?

Unfortunately, writing plc code is like writing in assembly with global access to variables. Unless you test things thoroughly it's really tough to have a system run bug free. Thankfully, most of the processes are pretty simple so its not exceedingly hard to test it.
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I love this line: "Now a museum of cold war is organized in the bunker where one can try on respirators, protective gear, hold different guns, etc."

You know, the usual sort of museum experience.

As interesting as this is, it's also tragic if you think about the vast resources humankind has spent on building terrible weapons and defenses against those weapons. Imagine how much farther we would be ahead as a society if what was spent on the cold war was spent on solving the world's real problems instead - climate change, poverty, hunger, and so on.

Even more tragic is that this expenditure continues, particularly by the United States, even though the cold war is over. Those of us who thought the end of the cold war meant we could move on from spending trillions on weapons were obviously rather naive.
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I like movie previews, and even some commercials. What I hate is anything that interrupts the show or movie that I'm watching.

I would more than happily sit through a long block of all the commercials before the show if it meant that I could watch the show, in its entirety and without interruption.

I can't find it, but I recall a conversation with Joss Whedon who proclaims the commercial interruption to be the hardest thing in TV-writing to accomodate, and are the most jarring obstacle to an otherwise well-told story.
I had absolutely no idea!

...which is a problem.
And the cynic is an knee-jerk idiot. The App Store is not Apple's money maker by a large margin, selling iPhones is.

Also Apple HAS added WebGL support to iOS, only hasn't enabled it yet. Tons of reasons exist: battery issues, the implementation not being ironed out yet, and the security risk of WebGL.

Apple cares about the experience of using an iPhone, and if WebGL games on mobile safari suck the batter dry, stall or even crash, they aint gonna enable it just for to add one for mark on the iPhone spec sheet.
The C library does have an impact on the binary size. Compiling Hello World with Glibc results in a 3 KB binary on my system, while compiling with Musl results in a 1.9 KB binary. Compiling statically (no shared library dependencies) with Glibc results in a 498 KB binary, while with Musl it is only 4.6 KB.
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The designer thinks to use the tools he or she is most familiar with, just like the developer.
Quite a few that store data and operate servers in old Swiss Bunkers did.

See e.g. http://www.swissfortknox.com/
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Arguably the nuclear weapons have prevented continuation of WW2, where USSR and US would duke it out in the 50's and 60's.

Just wanted to point out that world of geopolitics and strategy is way more nuanced than an average person believes.
That's a great strategy. Asia is desperate for technology solutions in education and it's a completely untapped market. Good luck!
I wonder how his would work with people on the Autism Spectrum? One issue they have is with not handling abstract thinking yet they are quite prone to depression.
I'd have to disagree with your interpretation of the guidelines.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I would say that this is interesting and gratifies one's intellectual curiosity - especially for the questions it raises regarding pepper spray usage and police enforcement, along with the wider questions from the various Occupy movements.
Who is "they" here? The subject of the pronoun seems to shift with each sentence.
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Any inside info on Python support? It seems a curious omission when they run node, ruby, and java.

Edit: Just saw that AppFog offers a wider range of technologies than the CloudFoundry page mentions.
The amount of hyperbole and ranting on the NSFW angle to me on this thread over the last day is rather disappointing.

One should not think of the NSFW tag as a comment on morality, puritanism or anything else. It is simply a common part of netiquette which developed as a courtesy.

"Hey, there is some stuff in this link such as nudity, questionable content, etc which may be an issue for you if you are at work, sitting in public or somewhere else potentially sensitive. Just a heads up!"

All it is meant to do is let you know. Some people work in schools, libraries or other places where this isn't OK. Not to mention that while many of us don't have any issues with nudity, myself included, we might not want to browse it at work.

Get over the whole "Oh my god $XYZ is so full of prudes, in my country this is totally OK" and appreciate the fact that it's considered polite.
There's a closer connection. HN's population certainly overlaps with the population of US students, and i'd argue that the University of California system is particularly interesting/relevant within the student bodies in the US.

When you have faculty members calling for the resignation of one of the UC chancellors, especially in what i'd argue is fairly legitimate grounds (physical harm to unarmed, peaceful students), that is actually a subject of interest.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3203340
You might not find a dominant manufacturer but you would find dominant standards where compatibility is concerned.

The iPod is an interesting example I agree, but it is still generally towards the high end of the MP3 player market and it still supports the standard MP3 format making is compatible with all the music you already own.

So switching from another brand of MP3 player to iPod (or vice versa) is pretty easy, there's no real case of having to choose.

If Apple had chosen a different audio format for the iPod for example , that meant you would have to buy your music in a format that was only compatible with it then I doubt it would have enjoyed the success.

The only reason the iPod is cheap anyway is market pressure from competing manufacturers. If Apple had per my previous example gone with a different audio format and been the only player in town they would have kept their prices high and it would have become inevitable that a competitor would have entered at some point with a lower cost product.

The only thing that would keep people from buying the competing product at that point would be that all their music would be stuck with apple , making them a defacto monopoly but over time the lower prices of the competitor would either force their prices down or drive them out.
The overuse of chemical agents is really pretty strange. I can maybe see using them in extreme situations; if people are in the process of burning down a building by throwing molotov cocktails through the windows, dispersing them with tear gas might be the only real option. But using chemical agents on people sitting on a lawn seems like a pretty poor balancing of force versus danger/urgency.

One question is whether this is primarily a matter of bad policy, or of bad training. Are police officers using pepper spray, for example, in situations that policy does not call for, due to some hotheads being angry at protestors? Or are they acting properly according to the policy, so it's the policy/superiors who are at fault?
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Am I missing something, or can't you simply not give these apps permission?
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This might be just regional - none of the larger cinemas in my area do this (yet).
NPD Group conducted a study that suggested subscription streaming music services like Rdio and Spotify are discouraging other forms of music buying.

I'm a long time Spotify subscriber exactly for this reason. I used to buy several albums a month and now I buy nothing except very infrequent special editions or things that aren't on Spotify. $16 a month beats $50+ a month ;-)

I'd always wondered how this could continue long term. I guess we might find out soon..
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Which is compltely idiotic business model for Netflix. They can sell their original content directly to me. Unlike traditional TV content producers, they don't have to rely on (and split profits with) third party distributors.

I suspect you are right, but I sure as hell hope you are not.
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so it should be possible to do the musical equivalent of nonsense texts, where you start with some pattern and piece together fragments using n-grams to find common following phrases. has anyone done this yet?

text equivalent described here - http://www.decontextualize.com/teaching/dwwp/topics-n-grams-... (or http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/02/sarah_palin_intervie...)

[searching around i found various interesting, related reports of work (http://peabody.sapp.org/class/dmp2/lab/markov1/; https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jacobliu/254report/), but nothing using this corpus.]
> If you have pre-allocated seating, the cinema may have to employ people to ensure people are sitting in the right place (at least, people will want someone to complain to if someone else stole their seat).

Is this really a problem? All cinemas in Norway (that I know of) have pre-allocated seating, but there is never anybody who ensures that people sit in the right place. If you find that someone is sitting in your seat, you simply tell them to move. I've never heard of anyone refusing to move.
The via page gives the exact address - 5й Котельнический переулок, дом 11 - and the first hit in Google is http://bunker42.com/
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Was this supposed to link to the tag algorithms or to a particular question?
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What timezone is this?
You have to hurry, the H1B visas will be over in two weeks. The next batch opens up in April.
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In a good way, I hope. He opposes a Big Brother government.

He has principles. Off-topic but to the people who so often say, "I agree with him but I'm not going to support him because he can't win," I say, "Where are -your- princples?"
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Thank goodness association is causation, otherwise where would be?
If you look at the next post on the blog, there is a video of, what looks to be the first, pepper spray usage.

I hope that this usage wasn't condoned.
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I didn't know that. Thanks for the tip. In terms of usability, it's a deceptive way to handle opting out of installing their app. A news agency resorting to deception to promote their content ... just what I hope for from someone claiming to be an authority in something.
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It was link to the 'algorithm' tag.
The next step is reading people's minds to know what they fantasize about.

[The study, titled “The impact of brain privacy on police investigation,” illustrates the difficulty that CSI teams have in obtaining enough data to build a solid case against criminals.]

It's funny because we'll come to this one day.
Following up, I asked my wife last night and she had heard nothing about it.
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IBM had a demo of something like this about 10 years ago IIRC, where you dropped your PDA into a dock and your session/files were instantly available.

Steve jobs also talked about this in a round table at an WWDC where he talked about having access to "home" anywhere you went. this became iCloud. probably for apple the step holding up the process is that it cuts out the beloved Mac in the middle. a thunderbolt display powered by iphone or iPad could be insanely great
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To my knowledge, Iron Mountain is still going very strong, there are a lot of fortune 500's that use them. http://www.ironmountain.com
A lot of us are guilty of a quick data-munging hack at the command line from time to time, but the idea of altering the schema from a REPL makes me want to cry.
What I can't understand is how the hell Ballmer, who comes off like a clueless psycho, managed to get and retain such high position at Microsoft?
That was a mistake on my part. I didn't realize that "mosaic" would introduce unnecessary shades of grey in the mix.

This comment explains the problem:

http://www.attackofdesign.com/how-to-build-a-portrait-with-d...

And you can also check out Marc Edwards' take on this:

http://dribbble.com/shots/324185-Dice-Portrait-Tutorial#comm...
Or if the default was that things were private, and that only specific things become public.

But then you have the same problem of "If nobody sets things to be public, there's nothing to read, so no incentive to be a user".
There’s always git.io: https://github.com/blog/985-git-io-github-url-shortener