skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to make the case that using ad blockers is akin to theft, you have to explain what the advertiser is deprived of when a person chooses not to view their ad. Sure, the advertiser is paying a website to put an ad on their page, but just because they paid to put it there doesn't entitle the advertiser to a certain amount of your attention. It may or may not be profitable to put it there, but the advertiser has no moral claim on anybody's time or attention as a result of their business model.

The only reason this argument ever came about is because it's easy to measure who sees an ad on the internet, which is not the case for billboards, TV commercials, newspaper ads, and so on. Since the measurement was cheap and intuitively it made sense for advertisers to charge based on the number of people that see or click on an ad, they chose to pay website owners based on the fine grained statistics of the webpage rather than by assessing a priori the market value of an ad on a particular webpage for a particular length of time.

The "theft" here is imaginary and entirely self-imposed by the business model of the advertiser. Especially when you consider that the demographic that uses adblockers probably wouldn't click on very many ads if they didn't use the adblockers. And whatever impression the mere presence of an advertisement would create might very well be a negative one to this demographic.

The conceptual leap from "our business model requires ads to make money" and "some people don't want to view these ads" to "those people are stealing from us" is a syllogistic fallacy.
I have no unlock code, tbh. But my GF does, and I know her key. She told the key like 2000 times, but I forget it :D
Plus they're (relatively) cheap, it may not be a long time before wealthy individuals have the capability (if they wished) equivalent to that of the military power of a small country.

What if Exon mobile could fight its own wars?
Leaked slides on NSA's SSL/TLS Spying "Flying Pig"
Do you have any source about such experiment? I've always wondered about the cash flows analytics!
PagerDuty - RoR apps for the most technically demanding customers on the planet
>If you were a open source user you would not visit the web sites at all.

A FOSS-evangelist (like RMS) is not the same as an "open source user". "would not visit" is a bit of an heavy implication for the latter.
I'm glad I kept reading past the product plug.
Why would you believe that the radios are actually off when in airplane mode?
One application I can see is teaching people how to model objects in 3d. You could use this as the 3-dimensional analog to tracing and have tutorials where you first get good at tracing the model and then try to recreate it from scratch.

For example, I have only tried my hand at 3d modelling once or twice (and sucked at it enough to give up), but just watching this I feel like I could model vases and lamp posts with a bit of practice.
If you are serious about feeding astronauts in space, then you need to classify what gives the highest percentage edible matter in the whole plant and needs the least mass of things like water. Leafy plants with minimal root systems seem like a good start.

Grains have loads of stalk and root that you don't eat, tend to need a lot of water and need extra equipment in preparation and are often used as powders, which easily form combustible suspensions in low gravity.
I'm afraid that the reason the best programming font in the world - Terminus - isn't in the top 5 is because of the terrible screenshot. :(
This is not completely accurate. At the very least, Canadians entering at land crossings are not scanned.
In the 16th picture, zoomed in, you can see the server target is 94.100.184.14, which apparently belongs to e.mail.ru
Well, I agree if you s/validation/co-opting/

No, it doesn't necessarily mean they won't move on to something else later, but they're now living in a universe where it will always be Autodesk's job to make that harder or less obvious to them. By any means available.
I knew this would immediately devolve into a shit show.
Blue for Google Glass: Here comes a changeup
This is the key - a company this size is going to probably be able to review every applicant. A company like HireArt, which is focused on the hiring process (and asking questions of applicants by design, it seems), will probably eat their own dog food at least in terms of the hiring process.

This guy mentions his background, but does not mention what the requirements were for the job. Customer service experience? I'd say retail and waiting tables give you the customer service side of things in most cases, and you just need to learn about the company's product and how users use the product.

This seems like an ad for a method of hiring without focusing on resumes, which I also do support 100% as a practice.
The key though is that faster and cheaper tools for trying allows someone to fail faster, thus mitigating the impact of their failed potential career and allowing them to try or evolve faster.

A lot of these tools are built on open source frameworks, but rely on the network effect for their staying power and financial momentum. You could do the distribution yourself, but you'll have to do it on the open internet, not on a "Internet of Things" that is supported by the walled garden purveyors. This isn't too difficult to do, but is obviously out of the scope of something a musician might attempt.

What I'm getting at is that if they do charge too much, they'll end up undercut by some other media, unless they gain a "standard for enterprise" market saturation, then they can charge what they want since they own all the customers capable of buying your product. Since as soon as someone becomes "standard for anything", the NSA soon comes knocking at your door for a piece of your data pie, thus fueling the creation of yet more "gardens" until what end, I don't know.
That was one of the goals of Parrot, but that P6 mess eventually chased off almost all of Parrot's developers:

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2013/02/goodnight-parrot.h...
NSA Surveillance Documents Released Show Misuse Of Domestic Spying Program
He didn't literally use those words, and my intent wasn't to trick anyone into thinking he was literally using those words.
To echo r00fus, Apple's visions are more tangible to the everyday consumer - or at least better elucidated. Apple is the master of "segmentation" - i.e.: identifying a pain point or desired experience, and building it. TouchID, for instance, solves a problem - passwords suck. "Here's a simple, frictionless way around it, that incidentally will be powering all of your apple-conduit payments inside of a year." That's a vision that relatable, easy to understand, etc., compared to something like glass which is much more "out there."

To put it another way, each apple feature is clearly tied to a consumer-relatable use case. Collections of features form pieces of apples vision, rolling up use cases into the "experiences" that they mentioned today.
Shortage doesn't mean the market doesn't clear. Of course the market will clear. Absent price controls it will always clear. But sometimes the price ends up higher than we think is good for everyone.

We think that things would be better for everyone if we could train more people to be effective programmers.
Haha I assume you're joking; that would give the user zero benefit and immense pain.
I was working for a bank and an ad slipped through our list of advertisers to be featured on a porn site. A journalist picked up on this and there was 'outrage' within and outside the bank. It was amazing seeing how upset people were.

We had to do a massive audit and white list all future ad sites we used. Personally I felt if you choose to be at a porn site why are you offended at a credit card being there? I'd be more embarrassed being caught watching a Sandra Bullock movie...which of course I've never done. I wished the bank put a tongue in cheek press release saying to the journalist 'what were you doing there'. But in the real world we apologise and pretend these sites don't exist.
> If you give them something worth responding to, they will respond!

The problem here is that not everybody is objective when it comes to determine what is worth responding to. So this will be applied as a winning recipe because it worked once for someone and that someone blogged about it.

I can see a whole pile of heavy hitters waking up to people trying this scheme out wondering what is the cause of this inbox deluge :)
>It would be great for startups to focus less on social and ads and more on how technology can be leveraged to raise the living standards for everyone.

I agree. When we automated away agricultural work, we found new things for workers to do. Now we're automating away the service economy, but nothing has sprung up to take it's place.

Do you have any ideas in this direction? all the sites I know of that are focused on finding shit work for the lower classes (taskrabbit, etc..) usually end up being criticized for replacing full-time work with part-time work without benefits that pays poorly and isn't stable.

Can you give an example of such a business? even a hypothetical one?

I mean, if the standard is "technology that can be leveraged to raise the living standards for everyone" that's a little easier. there's lots of opportunities for organization on the internet. But actually creating jobs without destroying more jobs? that's... difficult.
Because if people can't afford to go (as in, can't get the money at all), demand goes down, universities lower tuition to attract more people? It's not perfect or necessarily what would happen, but it could happen.
What a devastating criticism. You opened my eyes.
Reason #73 why C++ is a terrible intro language
I can't believe it took this long and it was left to Apple to "innovate" on this. Adding a fingerprint scanner to every keyboard and mouse has been a no-brainer for at least a decade. The scanners cost $10! And adding them to smartphone and tablets should have happened from the get go. We're talking orders of magnitude in simplification of security. And its dead obvious. So what the hell took so long? And why does it take Apple to finally do it?
Is this how Elon Musk leads?
The part you didn't address: if those things are such a pain for you (and I have no idea what sites you're reading regularly because I get a popup like that very, very rarely) then close the tab and don't read the site.
Turns out the founder of AngelList is a good person to have advocating for you.
Carnegie Mellon - Computer Architecture 2013 - Onur Mutlu
NSA violated privacy rules, declassified court documents show
That is great, I could immediately think of a few possible uses for this. Client side searching can be quite heavy on the machine if there's a lot of data.
Okay now we need a code debugger with breakpoints. Then, real hardware in the loop!
> Remind me never to sign up for anything you create.

My site is completely free, no ads, no promotions, and no signups (http://arachnoid.com/). And believe me when I tell you, many people find my site useful. People regularly send me unsolicited checks, which I tear up. You were saying?

> It seems you have a hard time getting your head around the fact that many "site operators" try to solve real problems by building services to do so.

The topic under discussion is sites that require you to sign up before showing you what they have to offer. For those sites, my doubts are fully justified.

> ... but something valuable or useful to make your life/work easier or more efficient.

If they believed that, they would show you what they have to offer before encouraging a signup. But that's not the topic of this thread.
Changes in the political tide happen at the grass roots level (one reason why having all the data helps to stop change).

I'd say HN is one of the most important grass roots forums for this today.

Technology - aka OUR industry - is going to rapidly change in response. I think it's critical that there is discussion.

I'm actually really interested in your view. Do you think everyone questioning NSA surveillance of iPhones is wearing tinfoil hats?
I responded to the claim you made. If you wanted to talk about something else in the first place, maybe you should have done that instead.

Deterministic builds protect against compromised binaries of any kind, so we need to use it.

Unless I'm a spook (or group of spooks) any my binary includes a backdoor by design from the outset. Or unless I have backdoors built into the chips (a far more likely possibility than magic compiler demons). ISTM you're yo-yoing between treating the NSA as omniscient/omnipotent one moment and then holding up things like this as silver bullets the next.
Yep the missing part of the description is 'server-to-server', or 'client-with-a-listen-port (i.e. not a browser) to server'.

Unfortunately a lot of us developers see the term REST API and think a-ha, this is something I can consume in my browser. This isn't that, so confusion ensues.
FWIW - in my previous company I/we tried to hire the best people for the job, regardless of credentials and I think we did a good job of it. I take that experience now and apply it to hiring for our newly minted YC company. Same leadership, better pedigree.
You are saying that "not understanding a question" means "being under pressure" How so?

)!@#$%^&*( <- Do you understand what that means?

"how can you be expected to do real work with bosses and clients giving you vague specs and yelling at you?" Asking questions, communicating with your boss and clients.

I would love to learn what an A player would do in that situation.
Yes, clearly it is the applicants who are fault here. What a nuisance they are. They just shouldn't apply to jobs so much. Maybe instead of trying to work they could try doing something else, like just dying.

I propose that candidates should purchase a big engagement ring for the company to prove their commitment. This will filter out the losers who don't really want the job. If the rock is big enough, they pass to the next phase, which is to fake an earth-shattering enthusiasm about how awesome the company and job are. If we are convinced that we are the best they ever had, then they can be allowed to solve our problems for us.
> For most operators with a genuine product ...

Those sites can prove their sincerity by telling you what they offer before asking for a signup. But that's not the topic under discussion.
> Since then I’ve had a chance to see how HireArt helps its clients follow the same type of process... {{HireArt elevator pitch}}

Not only was the customer service email extremely well-written ---the entire blog post is nicely crafted to deliver this payload paragraph.

IOW I am both cynical and impressed. I see what you did there... and reluctantly congratulate you.
Isn't that the same as ls -1?
This definitely would be helpful. Here's my typical process:

1. Take screen shot

2. Paste into MS Paint

3. Crop, maybe add some text or arrows to explain to recipient what they're looking at.

4. Email to someone.

Is it possible to make this a platform-independent browser plugin somehow?
I doubt that will happen because PIN/card number is more secure, if somebody stole your PIN or card you can just get a new one, but once somebody stole your fingerprint data - you pretty much are a target for fraud to the rest of your life.
Sounds like you need a new job more than you need a new phone...
>you need to classify what gives the highest percentage edible matter in the whole plant and needs the least mass of things like water

Maybe if you don't care about total area. Stalks and all, grains and tubers are the most efficient at transforming square footage of sunlight into edible calories; water would get completely recycled in any case.
A lot of the Docker commuity use DO, myself not excluded, but I'm sure jpetazzo had his reasons. Too many eggs in one basket perhaps.
Is the idea behind deterministic builds that you build the software on your own trusted system and then compare a hash of the binary with the hash the original builders got for their build? Thus you know that the binary you have must not contain any backdoors (or both binaries do)?

I'm just trying to understand how it would work.

How are deterministic builds better than distributing binaries with hashes for verification? Just because I don't have to trust the original author's compiler?
Because NFC is being implemented in payment terminals today, and seems to be the upcoming default payment system. With encrypted card details on the SIM card. This will also allow you to pay without battery power on the phone.
this is one of the most impressive things i've seen in a while.
> There are plenty of services which exist to sell you things that still make you sign up.

My point is that sites with something useful to offer wouldn't take the risk of creating the bad impression the original poster complained about.
Is this similar to Upverter?
This is interesting, but requires you to transfer essentially your entire data-set to the client, increasing your overall transfer.
xxd: it was "made you look\n"
11 Things Young Entrepreneurs Do That Annoy VCs
List includes Y-Combinators Paul Graham :)
No to fewer acronyms.
I apreciate Glassdoor trying to force people to answer questions about their companies. That's how we can all find out about industry patterns.
It looks so simple, yet my limited understanding of image processing tells me this requires a ton of research and technology. The pace of innovation is staggering!
Racist Apple Ad
The number of students attending private and public universities are actually pretty close (for 4-year schools): "Nearly 7.5 million students will attend public 2-year institutions (source), and 0.5 million will attend private 2-year colleges (source). Some 8.2 million students are expected to attend public 4-year institutions (source), and about 5.6 million will attend private 4-year institutions (source)."

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=372
Why You Shouldn’t Use Ergonomic Keyboards
It's too bad the newer Macbook Pros don't come with ExpressCard slots anymore. I used to boot off a fast SSD expresscard. No disadvantages at all, other than the card ran hot. Remove the internal drive and when you pop out the Expresscard, much lower attack surface.
What I was thinking all along: "Oh come on! It can't be this perfect, show me where it fails."
And they did!

This is indeed magic. I'm so happy to live in this age, and be part of the "Sorcerers' Guild".
Show HN: Render deal points into first-class legal documents
Fingerprints are commonly used to place you at the scene of a crime.
> woot, getting threats on the public HN!

Excuse me? I didn't threaten you in the least.

> reducing latency doesn't make aim easier, it makes prediction easier. aiming is pointing at the right pixel at a given moment. since i figure there can be confusion, i put quotes on "aim", too.

> if you were playing FPS at a high level you'd also probably make the difference between prediction and aim itself, because they're 2 different skills that you train differently.

I have repeatedly heard/read high-level TF2 players describe 120Hz as improving their 'aim' - their choice of words. This applies to hitscan as well as projectile aim, and most certainly includes flick hitscan aim, where any kind of prediction is at a minimum. While we're at it, here's a Q3 professional http://www.stermy.com/shoutbox.php :

> Yes, 120hz LCD are WAY better than 75hz LCDs and will improve your aim/accuracy quite alot.

On the other side, I think I've yet to see an FPS pro refer to 120Hz as improving 'prediction' as such (though no doubt it does).
I guess.

Most of my friends including myself who are Canadian or Mexican and working in the U.S. got TN visas and never have a problem at the border. Personally I prefer the TN because its been a ridiculously easy visa to acquire in terms of money and time.
Farewell to All That
You wouldn't use this on that case.

This will be used when the data is already sent to the client side.
I want this + i❤sketch now, but unfortunately I suspect that jumping up and down and shouting isn't likely to help.

http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~shbae/ilovesketch.htm
That's not necessarily the point though. While they did initially come up with the idea because pornstars are some of their brand advocates, they realized that it's much cheaper and cost-effective to advertise there as opposed to a NYT or WaPo that has just as many readers, but is also noisier.
This is a great idea!, I live in Seattle with my Seattle and I want to get her into programming hopefully she can be part of this. I really like this program and I will support this.
Differential Debugging
Let's not forget the iAPX 432, which failed far more spectacularly than Itanium. (Itanium even failed at failing, it seems).
To defend the author's position, I would be wary of providing a single ranking because the metrics are going to be different for different needs. Say you're ranking different lodging options at a holiday destination. You can come up with a single ranking for all the options, whether they are hotels, hostels, bed & breakfast inns. But it would be meaningless except to weed out the really bad options unless you knew what the preferences would be in terms of price, location, atmosphere, decor, etc. Such an index could still be useful, perhaps, but I see where the author is coming from.
I wish I had the time to sit down and understand all the math and algorithms behind this. It's awesome.
I don't agree that it has in the past.
Why would I do this if I have the option to read the site without the annoying parts? You are implying I owe website owners my screen estate to display the ads they run which simply is not the case.
If higher wages drive higher labor supply, why haven't all the laid off factory workers gotten jobs as software developers or nurses[1]? Even the mean salaries in those industries are much higher than unemployment payments. And yet, there are labor shortages in both, and a large number of unemployed factory workers.

The answer is that it is very difficult for people to change industries. It would be like if you needed gold for a product you're manufacturing, but only iron was available. No matter how much you're willing to pay for it, iron won't do what gold does. Only mining, or transmutation, can give you what you need.

We're mining new developers and nurses by educating youth. The question is, can we transmute factory workers?

[1] Just using these industries as examples.
socks is overly complex for the problem, especially if you have several sites you do this for. Port forwarding is simple, and you can port forward to many different sites and the routing is obvious.

ssh -L1234:localhost:80 adminhost.yourdomain.com

then hit http://localhost:1234/ in your browser to reach port 80 on adminhost.yourdomain.com.

Simple and clear. The user isn't accidentally going to do their personal browsing over the admin network.

Make sure that the server on adminhost is only listening on localhost (and/or that port 80 is firewalled off to the outside world)

This is what I do everywhere I need to trust a http interface.

I even make customers do it some places (e.g. if they have access to VNC for KVM guests) but it does require a certain caliber of user.
Seriously you need to ask yourself if this paranoid borderline delusional state is really worth it.

If the government wanted to "get you" then they could do quite fine with all the existing technologies. If they wanted to frame a crime scene they could put your DNA everywhere. If they wanted to steal your bank accounts they could get your internet banking details. They have already been harbouring fingerprints for decades now.

Nothing Apple has announced will change that one iota.