skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The news and other content we all enjoy on the open web is mostly underwritten by ads, as are the social networks activists use to coordinate.

And who underwrites the underwriters? We do! It's a lie that ads give people content and services for free (explained below). If Mozilla truly wants to fight for users, it needs to end its reliance on advertising revenue, and help invent honest ways for content and service creators to get paid by end users. We are a creative industry. We can find ways to do this while also keeping access open to the fraction of the population that can't afford to pay (which per below would only be people who don't buy advertised products).

I know this truth is hard to swallow for an industry that has grown so dependent on ads. As Upton Sinclair said, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." But if we are to do the right thing, we have to really think about the truth:

1. The advertisers who pay web providers get their money from us, added to the prices of other things we consume. There is no free lunch.

2. The overhead cost of advertising is huge and we pay for that too.

3. We pay the opportunity cost of a product that cannot put users first because ad-supported web providers live or die by giving advertisers what they want (and what we want indirectly and secondarily). This includes both the cost of lost privacy as well as business, editorial and design decisions that optimize for advertising revenue. As has been said, they are using us as products more than treating us as their paying customers. Let me restate to be extra clear: WE are the paying customer, but we don't look like that to their finance department.

4. We pay for all the collateral damage of advertising, such as the tremendous amount of link-bait and other garbage that advertising perversely incentivizes.

5. We pay the social costs. Whether or not you agree with the social costs laid out in the above article, I'm sure most can agree democracy and the free market assume people make voting and purchasing decisions based on facts and reason. Advertising undermines democracy[1] and the free market[2]. Advertising is predominantly about manipulation and deceit. I believe the social costs are the most expensive.

Added together, we end users are paying a lot more for "free" product than if we could just straight up pay for it. And even we non-users are paying the social costs and collateral damage.

Ads are simply a sneaky and dishonest way to get at end users' money without them realizing it.

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[This is a condensed version of a more detailed case with reference links that I made here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7485773]

[1] You don't need me to explain. We all know that money often overwhelmingly decides who gets to run in an election, plays a big part in who wins, and influences what legislation they introduce, support or fight.

[2] http://www.chaosisgood.com/2013/03/how-advertising-undermine...
Catchy, but inappropriate. If there were a free market way to reset the playing field, I'd certainly prefer that. But I've yet to hear one, and crony capitalists are a problem as much as statists.
It will be interesting to see if it actually works this time around; just having a new interface for deregistering from iMessage does not convince me that it will solve the issues.

The most frustrating, for me, is that in a one-on-one conversation, if your iPhone attempts and fails to send an iMessage to someone, it will tell you that it failed and allow you to send it as SMS instead.

However, in a group, if it attempts to send an iMessage to a member of the group that does not actually have a device supporting iMessage, it will silently fail; you will not know that the message was not sent to that person, nor will you be able to force it to send as SMS even if you know they did not receive it.
Perhaps. That just supports the OP's post, though. Material goods are cheap.
But how is that a victory? OEMs have been allowed to put whatever shovelware they want to on PCs and have them launch at boot for forever.
The title is misleading -- it was customer servers on OVH that were exploited en masse and then proceeded to flood the network with DDOS and bot traffic, not OVH itself (apparently).

This has likely happened to loads of VPS and dedicated server providers. One consequence of hosting such a service is that you typically end up with a lot of poorly administered crack houses on your network.
A sincere question from another part-time (hobbyist) roboticist: what problems do you have with loosening that nylock[1] nuts don't solve?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=nylock+nut&espv=2&source=lnm...
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How to pronounce all those programming term we argue about
Still, “it’s perfectly appropriate for us to do everything we can to embarrass and punish the Chinese if they’re in our systems, whether or not we’re in theirs,” said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker. “It’s the case that the U.S. and Russia and other countries are much more cautious about getting caught because they think there are going to be consequences. It’s only the Chinese that think there are no consequences to getting caught.”

Stewart Baker making himself look foolish again! Last time he popped up on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8559454

I really wonder how someone can come out with stuff like this. I doubt the PRC feels one iota of embarrassment for even one split second, and if senior US officials really bring up Chinese state sponsored hacking "every time they meet with their counterparts in Beijing" then the US Government is living up to its reputation as plumbing the depths of hypocrisy. They embarrass only themselves.
Usenet is a common carrier service. However, they do make content inaccessible if there's a takedown request for copyright. But they don't filter anything that gets uploaded or block your downloads.
Not part of standard SMS, but it is a standard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service
I don't think this is the right place for such a debate, but if you google "did the atomic bomb save lives", you'll find people that make the case that it was the right choice.

I suspect the response to your "why not?" would be that we haven't had any war since then where the threat was significant to warrant the horrific impact of their use (which nobody seems to deny). Plus, ever since shortly after WWII, there was always the possibility of nuclear weapons triggering a nuclear response.
The reason why you and Evernote have a perceived mismatch on value is because Evernote does not fully solve your need, but it does for some people. This is their problem, they have so many products which are so so and rely on the user to select and create their experience.

Most people won't take the time to explore all the different products and how to fit them together. This is why Evernote says its best when described by a friend but others might say that the best products are an opinionated system directed at a specific type of user and demographic. You could have an Evernote for designers or developers or accountants or bloggers or researchers or wallstreet analysts but these would have to look totally different to get the love from its users. Bottom line Evernote is too general for most.
Hmm, interesting!
As much as hyperbole security marketing is becoming over-used these days, I actually enjoyed the animation in the video. Very cyberpunk.
Are you saying you were only paid 80K over four years?
The main problem isn't the presence of surveillance cameras. The problem is who has privileged access to them.

Currently it tends toward the Platonic 'Polis' model with a distinct class of people (The "po-lice") given sole responsibility for enforcement and access to the omni-panopticon(while being themselves above the law.)

However if we apply Linus' Law (with many eyes, all bugs are shallow) it makes much more sense to give access to surveillance back to the people being surveilled.
Firefox needs a better security model for add-ons. The thing that bothers me in Firefox is the Private Mode (Incognito in Chrome), as it doesn't disable add-ons. And I use private mode quite often.

Mozilla has been relying on a more strict review process for whatever gets published on addons.mozilla.org (when compared to Google), with Firefox users experiencing less instances of add-ons turning to mallware/spyware, but I'd like both this review process and a better security model for these add-ons.
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Is that 0.5% total or 0.5%+interchange? 0.5% total sounds unbelievably low.
Netflix is paying Comcast because Comcast has something Netflix can't get anywhere else.
They must have learned from the previous experience by this time. Plus there are more players this time who actively want to make it right. It's surprising that it didn't happen before, but I guess there simply wasn't enough initiative.
Now if he can call for free and open travel to Cuba. Maybe we can have an open dialog about US influence on a country that might be more "open" if we shared our culture with them. Oh well ...
Very innovative and fun at the same time. You should showcase this to schools, as kids would definitely love it.
Tnx! The point of GIF is to not need plugins, or pause videos etc. GIF is not super efficiently used in this beta version though. Need to improve that.
I think their main setback was the controller if I'm not mistaken. The rest just followed.
All TVs are "HDTVs." That 68% will be near 100% (of TV users) once more TVs die in the next few years.

If I go onto Amazon right now, filter sellers by Amazon.com, sort by low to high, and look at the cheapest two TVs: Samsung UN24H4000 720p: $147.75 and LG 22LB4510 1080p: $159. Both "HD."

So, using HDTVs as a metric of poverty is dumb. They're the only game in town.
tnx! will absolutely do. Trying to get the concept right before really pushing it hard. I wish I had something like this for myself back in school. I might have not gotten kicked out after they bored me to death.
At a small liberal arts college, a long time ago, our senior year capstone class topic was "The Holocaust" where all 750 or so of us, took the same class from different liberal arts instructors as a synthesis across all branches of liberal arts. So we all had a little art and a little lit and a little philosophy and ... although my specific section was taught by a lit prof who thought my thesis about nazi era architecture was really boring but still worth a "B" (in those days before grade inflation that "B" wasn't even all that bad) Anyway Hitler's book was VERY creepy to read because virtually the entire book rhymed with what later happened in WWII but was slightly off key, making it really weird, like a hazy memory.

What I'm getting at is they telegraphed pretty much exactly what they actually did everywhere, its not unique to double crossing Russia. There were some differences. From memory more than a decade ago he had peculiar ideas about the Americans, for example.
not exactly correct. The Internet that we know today existed long before 1977. Around 1987, a freshman in college, I could ftp and gopher with other Universities. I was tickled pink when I found out I could query a time server in Japan from my dorm room of a Michigan University!
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A Search Box Is a Single Question Survey; “What Do You Want?”
Yes, actually.

I'd love to have my resume show that I have successfully automated work for other software developers, small business owners, photojournalists, hospital physicians and nurses, corporate attorneys, military pilots, and rocket scientists, and that all of it was done in a manner that is largely invisible to the beneficiaries. Throwing a bunch of keywords tailored to a specific job ad is completely pointless, from my perspective. I have successfully learned the work of several different skilled professionals and reduced large portions of that work to computer programs.

What you ask, and is mirrored at hundreds of other companies, is roughly analogous to someone in the construction trade building residential homes, commercial office space, retail buildings, and municipal buildings over the course of their career, and then having someone suggest that they ought to list "hammer" and "screwdriver" on their resume. Never mind if the person actually uses pneumatic nail guns and power drills for the nails and screws, the magic keywords are "hammer" and "screwdriver". Never mind if the person is actually smart enough to be a general contractor and halfway to being a civil engineer. If that resume doesn't say "hammer" on it, he doesn't get called back.

What you are asking is irrelevant, gratuitous, and counterproductive--thus, hoops to jump through. My skills are not Java and C#. My skill is making other skilled workers more productive, by any means necessary--though usually with the help of a computer. Part of that is recognizing that when thousands of people are each wasting their time on unnecessary steps every time they perform a task that may be repeated several times every day, the situation may be improved dramatically by eliminating that waste.

There are several potential solutions. One is to tell you, and everyone else in a similar position, that your expectations are ignorant and counterproductive, and show a cavalier lack of respect toward potential hires. You are asking that they invest five minutes of time specifically into your company, rather than into their own general job search, just so that you will not arbitrarily toss their application into the trash. This is in addition to the 20-60 minutes the typical HR gatekeeper already requires to re-type every single datum from that resume into a non-portable custom form in their candidate tracking system.

If I'm going to spend even more time on your company, I'd like the potential return to be worth the effort. Until you actually talk to me, I won't know that. And as long as we're talking, we can just skip the resume and spend that extra five minutes on the way to "yes", instead of just evading "no".
Ted Cruz is incredibly popular and a frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination. If he isn't representative of the modern Republican party, who is?
Absolutely. The mindsets of spy masters never changes, no matter the era or country.
Right. So things which were once luxuries are now common and cheap.

Which was the point.
Left nav menu and dropdowns don't work in FF Dev version.
Also -- the IRS debt comes from not paying taxes over those 4 years, because the only way you survive in the Bay Area making that kind of money is to not pay your taxes.
No, he's actually a harbinger of the more polarization trend evidenced by the Republican party. In short, I was a Republican, but then the party disassociated itself from the values and concepts that I enjoyed, so I no longer affiliate with them. Ted Cruz is a player...to deny that he raises a ton of money and motivation to vote for his causes / perspective is ignorant. Fortunately he's at least open about his distorted worldview, apple doesn't fall far from the tree, most psychological disorders are inheritable. Yes, I'd actually say Ted Cruz is mentally defective.
> Why shouldn't an engineer be paid?

shouldn't he? EDIT: fixed bad wording. sorry, English is not my native.

> Please explain to me how they could monetize this on par with the effort put into developing this and still have it be open source.

paid closed-source plugins supporting enterprisey protocols, paid support, custom functionality. these are from top of my head, so pretty sure wirefloss devs could think of something as well.
Can someone recommend a good web hosting site
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The advent of the consumer Internet occurred at the point where most major metro areas had a commercial ISP from which you could buy dial-in access. That was not the case in 1984.
Republicans have an abysmal approval rating. The recent election was the 2008 wave election self-correcting, with Democrats defending seats in red states that voted for Romney. 2016 will see the same correction but for the 2010 election, with Republicans defending their seats in blue states that voted for Obama, potentially flipping control of the Senate again. The American electoral system is, to put it bluntly, fucked up.

Why is the president doing this now? I have no idea. He put off executive action on immigration until after the elections, and perhaps he was doing the same on this issue. Maybe this is low-hanging fruit to keep the base fighting going into 2016 and tempt corporatist Republicans to make foolish statements (see Ted Cruz's tweet). Maybe he thought it would be pointless to act before in the face of Republican obstructionism, and now he's using it as a challenge.

More interesting is Hillary Clinton's position on net neutrality, since polls make her the most likely winner of the next elections at this point. She has publicly expressed support for it as recently as last month.
"Expara probably paints the most accurate picture since it’s been around longest. 13 out of 16 of its investments from 2007 to 2011 were written-off. That’s a failure rate of 81 percent."

Am I reading it wrong? In the chart it says 27 total, 13 dead. So around 50%.

"Douglas Abrams, CEO of Expara, explains that its two full exits made 2 x and 36 x the invested capital, while one partial exit earned the firm a cool 246 multiple. That’s a staggering average return of 95 x."

This seems like shaky math as well. What about the others that returned 0x?
Looks like a nice idea. Here's my two cents:

1. It's a bit hard for me to tell when the GIF starts or loops, specially when I try to read the text below it. Perhaps there could be some small delay at the end, or a progress indicator?

2. Could you possibly make the next/previous arrows regular links (with return false or whatever is used to prevent it from reloading the page)?
I'm in a setup where using the mouse is awkward, and I can't reach that arrow using only the keyboard.
+1 for Alice Miller
I think your taking this well outside of the 'spending disposable money to increase personal happiness’ discussion. Remember this is in reference to the idea people don't become happier as they spend money because their spending it poorly. As such is reasonable to talk about heuristics vs getting tied into specifics.
So I am like the school yard reject here. I own most of the games on the port report list, I run a 7870 on radeonSI, and I have a pretty good experience overall. Framerates are of course not there, but I buy the hardware hoping that AMD will get there eventually. Only way to do so if someone generating market pressure for it to happen.

The thing is, Valve is fucking up SteamOS royally. If they hadn't messed up, they would have had strict requirements on games entering the system, and spent real money paying developers to port in advance of the OS launch, and they would have actually been ready to launch it when they said they would. You know, around now.

All those small form factor PCs now shipping Windows that were meant to be Steamboxes are a testament to Valve screwing the pooch. And it is entirely their fault for not being ready, like they could just say "hey, were making a controller and porting our games to SDL2, everyone else you're on your own" and then drop the ball on the controller and still not have Portal 2 out of beta on Linux. Great leading by example there. That, and SteamOS proper is just a cobbled together mutant of Debian, rather than a proper OS - seriously, why the fuck is Gnome on it? That is pre alpha software for a console OS release, where all that should be on the image is a kernel, some drivers, a display server (preferrably Wayland), the Steam runtime, Steam itself, and fuck all else because its for consoles and console users are only going to run Steam on it, especially when it has a browser and all the other dodads like voice chat and music playing they have integrated.

So yeah, the article is mostly right - Valve used it as a ruse to get Microsoft to cooperate on promises about future releases easing off the Windows store. They probably got what they wanted, and SteamOS will become Episode 3 or HL 3 vaporware for years.
IBM wants startups on its cloud
Open sourcing it would allow the community to create a mac port if there was interest. :)
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The unpredictability of execution in Firefox makes exploits harder to reproduce.
VR demands 90+ FPS with minimum latency and no dropped frames. God I hope browsers can someday meet that level of performance.
Hell of a soundbite. It doesn’t even matter that it doesn’t make sense, it’s a death-by-association repeatable nugget for uninformed voters (which most people are).
> That is not what happened, that is a collection of misconceptions people gathered which are only loosely based on actual history.

The fact that the folk history many people think they know may be distant from our best substantiated histories doesn't really detract from the point that folk history of WWII may be kindof incredible.

Plus, there's certainly enough incredible but apparently accurate stuff in our best histories.

Also... "actual history?" By which we mean "what actually happened" or by which we mean "the best substantiated narratives we have"?

Because as far as I can tell, "what actually happened" is pretty elusive. Some histories are better substantiated from recorded observation and evidence than others, but all of them are interpolations of one degree or another from a set of evidence that's always more limited than the larger picture we try to paint.
Just downloaded it and gave it a try. I've been using chrome for development for a long time and I must say this looks really good and I'd really like to switch cause I like the firefox image/mission much more. However I'm experiencing some problems editing my .less files directly from the browser. They don't show up in the list of style sheet files, even though I have "show original sources" checked. Where do I submit an issue for this?
There's a lot of interesting, yet flawed statistical analysis in this post:

1) Distribution of Resume Scores for Each Group box plot: the distributions for both box plots seem to be equivalent at a glance; you can't assert a statistically significant difference between group scores at first glance.

2) Overall Accuracy histogram: You assert that 64% of the resumes are strong, so a person saying that all the resumes are strong would have 61% accuracy. The most popular groups are 3/6 correct and 4/6 correct, which fits this, and is why accuracy isn't always the best metric for a successful experiment, especially with relatively low amounts of data. (also, that distribution is definitely not normally distributed.)

3) None of the differences between participant groups were statistically significant (p < 0.05). In other words, all groups did equally poorly. That's not what a statistical significance test determines: it determines where the results between two statistics (in this case, the accuracy of two participant groups) can be attributed to chance (i.e. if p < 0.05, then the observed value only has a <5% chance of occurring, so it is unlikely to occur by random chance).
Some Google searches that will get you surveillance footage....

inurl:ViewerFrame?Mode=

inurl:axis-cgi/mjpg (motion-JPEG)

inurl:view/indexFrame.shtml

inurl:view/index.shtml

inurl:view/view.shtml

liveapplet

intitle:liveapplet

intitle:â€i-Catcher Console – Web Monitorâ€

There are many more. What's going to stop the police, or anyone for that matter, from using those?
The even more interesting part of this are the other noted effects of tDCS and other similar treatments - such as positive effects on memory and learning.

Not only could you possibly gain 50% of your life back, but your ability to absorb and remember knowledge could increase as well.