skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I installed AdBlock Plus because of the addition of the whitelist.

I want to encourage sites providing me with free content to show me adverts that don't annoy me.

And it was announced well enough that I, a non-user, heard of it, so I think 'sneak in' is frankly disingenuous.
http://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php

https://blog.crypto.cat/2013/07/new-critical-vulnerability-i...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5989707
It's not: will fall; America has fallen. It's a realization most are just starting to come to.

America collapsed in four waves. 1913, 1930, 1971, 2001.

By almost any metric you could measure, America has lost substantial ground over 40 years. The late 1990s or early 2000's was the peak of the visible projection of "superpower" status, but it was mostly a fraud. Even the temporary budget surplus was a fraud, made possible by an extreme economic bubble and stealing from social security inflows.

The real US standard of living has declined since the late 1960s. And that huge standard of living was only possible due to the rest of the world having been blown up in WW2; America was left with half the global manufacturing base by default, with little competition for two decades.

In the most straight-forward of terms: America got rich with manufacturing, and poor with consumption; one creates wealth, the other eats it. China is now the one getting rich off of manufacturing, along with a few other nations.

We've been floating on borrowed time for 30 years in the form of ever cheaper credit, sustained by the military reach of a superpower that convinced the likes of Japan and China to buy trillions of dollars of worthless paper. The dollar, as the global reserve currency, has been living on a reputation it hasn't deserved for many decades, namely that it's good as gold.

The end of cheap money has arrived. You can easily guess what happens next. US national debt has a mere 64 month turn over period to it. Countries like China have shifted most of their treasuries to short term holdings. 5% * $20 trillion = $1 trillion in interest alone. See Japan for an example of what happens, they currently pay half their tax revenue toward debt interest.
> Wait, so the entire training program, which is about how to shock and stun your opponents was not thought out or planned?

The reasoning behind that is to reduce the risk of death or serious injury. In spite of the fright, you will note that nobody got injured in this case, frightening as it may have been.

What is your solution, exactly?
It does seem to have a lot of google.

Google's a rather large advertiser, and put a good deal of work into ensuring their ads behave better than most.
If a user experience designer designed a club, there would be plenty of space, bright lighting, comfortable furniture, the bathrooms would be clean, plenty of bartenders and the menu would be in 18 point sans serif font. Meanwhile, everyone would be at club Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.
What attack on AdBlock? I've heard of issues with Adblock Plus, but not Adblock.
Not very familiar with US geography but looks like your are correct :

(A) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds#Health%20effect...

(B) http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/acd/diseases/Cocci.pdf - Check the comments section

(C) http://dust.ess.uci.edu/ppr/pst_ZeT04.pdf
Stuff in the US is worse than I thought then...

The point of a republic with several powers and so on, wasn't to not allow someone have so much power?

Noone doubt the already cliche phrase that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Rocket Fuel Labs... Launch
It's not a direct comparison, but consider the handling of Ebola, where due to simple epidemiological interventions spread has basically been localized and stopped and no outbreak has killed more than 1000 people. Or consider the regular emergence of new flu strains which are far more contagious and are quickly and effectively contained. Though that comparison isn't great because we have a lot of knowledge when it comes to dealing with the flu.

My impression is (and I have not studied this) the failure in the HIV epidemic (pandemic?) wasn't a failure to develop drugs, it was a failure to perform basic epidemiological interventions to learn about and slow the progress of the disease.
Of course, that won't actually stop people from claiming there is.
I think he was referring to the farming and selling of virtual goods.
It is pretty trivial to create an API/Repository in front of a non-sql based database that can use JSON-Schema for validation of data structures. In fact, it's probably better if you do this.

For that matter, if you use NodeJS, then said API and the backend structure are fairly trivial. I used NodeJS to create an API for queries against MongoDB, and it allowed for me to normalize and check data in said queries against the data. It also allowed me to do programmatic elimination of sensitive portions of data from the front end without much effort at all.

It seems what you really should be creating is an API that your application uses. I'm a proponent of the Data Storage Layer being as dumb as possible. If it weren't for the built in indexing, and common access structures, I'd be more inclined to roll my own. I do think that MongoDB does a nice job of striking a balance between say Couch and MySQL (I intentionally use MySQL here instead of PostgreSQL or MS-SQL). I also think that RethinkDB within a year or so will likely be a better option for many of those thinking about MongoDB.
It don't see any theological standpoint, just a critique of authority structures.
What's the reason to forbit automation? If they cannot be automated, then they won't be.
I fucking hate slow loading pages. It's why I browse from my desktop with NoScript.
Norch- a search engine for node.js
Link to project page: http://fergiemcdowall.github.io/norch/
Awesome analysis!

Questions applicable to every hard working startup:

+ Do we solve a real problem?

+ Do we have customers who find our solution useful?

+ Can we make enough money to make our solution a sustainable business?

Questions for the execution team:

+ Will we know when and how people hear about our solution?

+ Will we be able to understand if and how they use our solution?

+ Can we change things quickly enough to improve our solution (based on learning)?

+ Can we measure the quality (usage) of our changes?

+ Can we reduce amount of work and test for need earlier (think MVP)?
Sneak? I don't know was for upgrading, as I've been a user on and off, but I can tell you that as of a few days ago it asks you upon installing if you want to turn this option on. It does so in clear language, and on a page that is not full of confusing options.
You're assuming the executive branch actually controls the "intelligence branch". I would say that's a big assumption.

With the press having largely abandoned its role as Fourth Estate it seems like we need to find a replacement. Clearly, the intelligence establishment has more influence than the press does these days, so it gets my vote.
Come on, do you have any references or sources for any of these claims? That seems a very flimsy inference.
Which lead was the picture from? That biphasic morphology of the T wave is a little unusual. Do you have an older ECG to compare it to?
I understand the apprehension in this community about ads in general but when it comes to search engine ads, it does add value (and relevance improvement) to many "commerce" oriented queries.

Google also already knows categories that generally don't get high ad engagement and doesn't show them for those. An example would be "chuck norris biography" - the intent is clear that you're looking for information primarily and even though I'm sure Amazon or others buy tons of ads against "chuck norris movies", etc. Google is smart enough to know not show you those irrelevant ads.
I really enjoyed Dan's book Predictably Irrational. If you have any interest in human motivation and rationality, I'd recommend you pick up a copy:
http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Revised-Expande...
Yeah, money talks, bullshit (you, the product) walks.
You are free to chose a different topic in this thread to contribute to if you don't feel like discussing the big footer. You can talk about more than one topic per submission; that's why HN is a tree, not a linear board.

Also, to "shit on details big or small" is, in other words, to provide (somewhat constructive) feedback, which helps both the site author (if he/she reads it) and us here learn and grow. This is the whole point of HN.
I think you missed his point. He was referring to the fact that you don't mind the ABP policy, while you may find some images offending.
It is opt in. However they named it pretty inconspicuously ...
Why does somebody fork ABP, just to strip out a featere which can already be disabled in the options?
I wonder how much people can hear it...

I saw some people claiming you cannot hear it on the article comments and linking to youtube video, but I can...

But I can hear other things as well, so I am not surprised (for example I absolutely hate being left alone with certain models of ultrasound machines, I dunno what they do, but when they are idling, I can hear them... When someone is actually using the ultrasound, then the sound stops...)
The problem here is that the definition of annoyance is the amount of cash paid to AdBlock Plus, not the actual annoyance from user's perspective.
This is what I'd call sensationalist journalism. There are antifungal meds that deal with these type of infections, which are mentioned directly in the article.

A healthy immune system typically doesn't have an issue with this.
Link to project github page: https://github.com/fergiemcdowall
Think of it as a number of streams[1] running in parallel. The wider the stream, the more important the associated tag. Since the actual values are scaled to add up to 100%, comparing between relative importance is all they're good for.

There's also aa absolute version of this, which is a simple stacked area chart. It's not so useful here, because the relative popularity of tags is much more interesting than the absolute numbers, which are largely a function of StackOverflow getting more users in total. See for yourself: http://cl.ly/image/101e1y1q3i19

[1] There's also a thing called a "stream graph", which is related but not the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamgraph
Mozilla's main source of revenue is from Google, as well. Are many of these non-profit entities dependent upon Google funding?
Thank you. I really wish the #1 comment here were something debating the merits of the article rather than questioning the author's ability to implement his own advice.
As others noted, AdBlock and Adblock Plus are two different companies.

I donated to AdBlock a couple years ago. Should have earlier. And should do again. Not claiming to be a saint. But I gave them some actual money. I'd like to think that enough people doing this, makes it possible for AdBlock to avoid doing what AdBlock Plus did.

I think this is a variation on the theme, "If you're not the customer, you're the product." Usually we talk about this WRT free web services. In this case it applies to what, back in the day, some of us would refer to as "shareware".
Snowden has put in 6 new asylum applications
It really depends on the non-sql solution... Most of which do have indexed keys for retrieving data at the very least (key-value storage), and use Map-Reduce in order to perform basic queries, or you setup your own indexed records.

MongoDB specifically allows for additional indexes to be used as part of general queries, or the aggregation methods available. MongoDB even has some nice built in features for querying against geolocation data. They do have some limitations, but in general it works quite well.

Your analogy comparing non-sql to a trashcan is a bad comparison... a better comparison would be to a set of file cabinets.
Is the irony of this not lost on anyone else? In light of recent events it appears they'll be able to get the data anyway, whether or not it is sent over.
Nice clean UI, but:

You don't offer filtering by (or at least display in the table of) the speed and load rating - these are critical to legal tyres, and could invalidate insurance if found to be incorrect.

You don't filter / display EU tyre labelling - not sure what your legal obligation is, but it would be useful to be able to set a minimum economy / grip or maximum noise rating, or sort results by those.

You only display brand, not model - most premium brands have several models in each size, for example Continental EcoContact, PremiumContact, SportContact - I may only be interested in one of those.

Otherwise, good job!
Fine, get rid of the image ads that offend even 0.1% of people. The general idea is that some people want to block 'ads', and some people only want to block 'harassing ads'. An ad being a clean, non-blinking, PG etc. experience is mostly objective.

Personally I want to try an ad blocker that only blocks video ads, that works in tandem with click-to-play flash, but I haven't found one.
I can understand google trying to protect their revenue source, but actions like this undermine the openness of the platforms that they are trying to promote.

Open and free platforms need to allow people to say no.
I usually use an array with a few thousand entries. In C this gives me a 2.5x speedup over the exact function with no important decrease in accuracy.
Similar to early diagnoses of Cystic Fibrosis, where the focus was on symptoms and less on the underlying cause. With CF, it's an issue of NaCl passing through cells, resulting in thick mucus which damages lungs, pancreas, etc. The first cases observed cysts and fibrotic tissues on the pancreas, hence, "Cystic Fibrosis". As there weren't digestive enzymes supplements then to augment the damaged pancreas, patients died of malnutrition. It wasn't until those treatments developed that the lung conditions developed in older patients, which is what CF is known for now. By then, however, the name Cystic Fibrosis had stuck.
I did notice this recently and have been having to uncheck the box on all the new PCs I install it on. While the ads are "unintrusive" I have a media PC where I've turned the font up to huge to be able to read from the couch. Some search terms will cause maybe up to 4 different text ads to show up and that will effectively block out the actual search results when your font is large.

I'm glad I found out about this though. I always felt vaguely guilty unchecking it, because I thought it was maybe AdBlock trying to support the "Good Guys" of online advertising, but if Google themselves are paying for it, I no longer care.
This chart plots the "share" of each question on the site, so the total is always 100%. If you read the chart from left to right you will see that the languages whose share increases become wider while those whose share decreases become narrower. It can be a bit difficult to read with this many options.
Actually I don't mind the feature existing.
Small clearly labeled text ads don't add much to the page loading time and can be clearly seen as ads.

However I still normally disable the ads as I really enjoy the increased screen space gained by removing the ads.

Asking for money to whitelist ads it rather poor policy however. If an ad is small and clearly an ad then whitelist it. If it's not then blacklist it. Having to pay to have your non-intrusive ads whitelisted is shitty. I hope they didn't have to pay very much.
Estonia tells European Union to rely less on U.S.-based ‘cloud’ storage
Mental Activity In Childhood And Adulthood Slows Dementia
Great article! Sending to all the (conventional) architects I know. Best quote, IMHO:

Architectural critic Peter Buchanan, writing recently in the UK magazine, The Architectural Review, placed the blame for these failures squarely at the feet of the Modernist design model itself, and called for a “big rethink” about many of its unquestioned assumptions. Modernism is inherently unsustainable, he argued, because it evolved in the beginning of the era of abundant and cheap fossil fuels. This cheap energy powered the weekend commute to the early Modernist villas, and kept their large open spaces warm, in spite of large expanses of glass and thin wall sections. Petrochemicals created their complex sealants and fueled the production of their exotic extrusions. “Modern architecture is thus an energy-profligate, petrochemical architecture, only possible when fossil fuels are abundant and affordable”, he said. “Like the sprawling cities it spawned, it belongs to that waning era historians are already calling ‘the oil interval’.”

This is so damn right!
I followed this from the original HN post. I must say that when I read today's update I felt saddened. I don't think this was a publicity stunt of any kind, and that the author really was afflicted with a disease that ultimately took his life. Well worth reading through to see how looming death affects the human psyche.
You can use this for any project that requires color. This helps you pick colors that work well together for a specific purpose. For example, analogous / monochromatic colors work well together to set a mood, such as the overall theme of a website, or painting. Or you can use them to find colors for your house. Then you can find complementary colors that are good for accents. If you're building a website, use them for headers or captions. If you're painting a house, use them for colorful lamps or frames. Color theory is complex, and this app makes it easy to use without knowing all the intricacies.
Wow! I love Forrest Gump and I've seen it a few times at least, but I never realized the connection to AIDS. Thanks.
The article seems to imply(if my reading of the somewhat dodgy translation is right) that Google ads were allowed but Bing and Yahoo's weren't.

Last I checked, both Bing's and Yahoo's ads were as "unobstrusive" as Google's text ads so unblocking only Google's ads because Google pays them does not follow from what you said about distracting and resource hungry ads.

Perhaps Google's ads are less obtrusive because it has started disguising them from organic search results pretty well?

http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

FTC recently ruled against this and said that 62% of web surfers studied could not even tell that there ads on the search results page!

http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/06/130625searchenginegenerallette...
A tax isn't really central planning (except in a very blunt way, which governments aren't horrible at doing). It's when governments get into the nitty-gritty (put wind turbines on buildings, because it looks good, despite any turbine with blades smaller than a jumbo jet is inefficient due to the quadratic relationship between blade length and power) that they screw up.

Do you have a bigger problem with central planning, or with taxes? Because taxes aren't going away any time soon, and at least "sin taxes" can reduce bad behavior (while not discouraging hard work and investment). And industry standards are arguably a form of central planning.
Some honestly aren't much more... they all have at least a "key" or id field you can lookup a record by, and most have a map/reduce implementation. Some require you to do your own indexed records and others (like MongoDB and RethinkDB) have the ability to add additional indexes (similar to SQL).

I find that MongoDB tends to perform at least as well as an SQL based solution in general use. Some use cases are better suited to SQL (anything with multiple records in a single transaction as a hard requirement for example). It really depends on your needs.
Yes and no. In the common law systems (including both UK and US) where precedent is important and case law reigns supreme, what's actually written down may not mean what the words plainly say, if their interpretation has morphed through a series of incremental decisions. Hence the US's Fourth Amendment, among other things. Laws can be in place for years without being "tested in court" because nobody finds it worth the risk; and then it turns out that when they're tested they were invalid all along.

SO in some ways, having a written Constitution is worse, because you still are ultimately ruled by the centuries of caselaw and precedent, but you think the words actually mean something.
The advice is the gift
This is very common where I currently reside - Phoenix. It happens most often during dust storms, when soil is kicked up into the air. This is really terrifying though; I had no idea it was so serious.
that was an underpaid job ten years ago when it was called technical writing. barely above minimum in mturk is a sad direction.
I remember this too and will never forget it. So sad.
Many things people say are better are often worse. Proving something as complex as one large building design is better than another is hard to calculate as long as unpredictable people are using it.
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I was very impressed - I would have added no reversed-out type, or white type on a black background, if the text exceeds more than 12-words
Even if it could, is it a justification for it?

I think government is only possible when many believe it's good. It's not only raw violence. If people see violence they don't like it. That's why government tries hard hiding it under abstract concepts.
And don't forget to support the websites that you visit the most by whitelisting them.
If you think the world really needs help then why people like me should be doing what i can do if not as big but a small little deed that would change the life of some human beings. Don'd forget drop by drops forms a ocean so come together to save humanity save mankind a humble request
Alternatively, for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
Their demo video is painful to watch.