skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And true to form, missing from Erdely's apology [1] was a specific apology to the people most directly harmed, the fraternity in question. While Rolling Stone's apology directly apologized to them, Erdely instead took the route of apologizing to them, if at all, under the collective banner of "the UVa community." As was made clear by her commentary after the original piece was published, this is a woman who blames fraternities for "rape culture" on college campuses and even after libeling this specific chapter, she can't bring herself to apologize to them.

[1] https://twitter.com/ravisomaiya/status/584862956195807232
You know it's all a matter of perspective really.
Personally coming from a similar background i've felt the same way at times.

If you are coming from a mindset of lack then that's all you're going to notice and all you'll see is everything that you don't have and how everyone that has more than you.

Seeing people people that you think don't have to struggle for anything and watching them take their life for granted can be terribly frustrating and depressing.

As others have said though, you really don't know what is going on behind the scenes of the people that you envy. All you see is a very controlled facade that they put on in public.

There are many struggles in life but there are also many things to be grateful for and you can be grateful for what you have without thinking about how life could be worse.

even if it "could be worse" your feeling are still valid, just don't let yourself get to in your head though.

can you find any good from your situation?, have you built any positve characteristics from a life of adversity?.

I find when dealing with any struggle in life be it big or small, all you need is to look at things from a different angle(much easier said than done) but once you change your mindset in how you will deal with life then maybe things don't seem as bad.
I'm more concerned with the anthropomorphism of an entire industry. This line of reasoning ignores the fact that The Ad Industry is not A Person With A Memory And Coherent History but rather just an almost-random sample of people with jobs. If the industry was immoral ten years ago, that doesn't mean it's immoral now, and it doesn't mean that most of the people that make it up are immoral - then or now.

But, your counter-argument is not really a valid counter-argument, either. If we act as though the present incarnation of the ad industry is to be held responsible for its past actions, that will encourage moral behavior going forward and discourage hypocrisy. Of course, I'm still anthropomorphizing the ad industry here, and assuming that it's even capable of "learning a lesson" might be assuming too much (for the record, I think it mostly is assuming too much). But I think that's supposed to be the point - sort of. By anthropomorphizing a thing, we might force that thing to behave somewhat anthropomorphically. Or, we might not.

I think we're all just trying to rationalize our behavior which is that we don't like looking at ads, and we have the technical means to block ads, so we block ads. Anything more than that feels awfully post-hoc.

By blocking ads, you're denying revenue to people whose content you wish to consume. There is no way around this fact. Maybe, by doing this, you will encourage forms of revenue generation that are less intrusive, or maybe you want to encourage a culture where revenue generation isn't necessary, or any of a thousand other 'reasons'. But, I think that if you tell yourself that this is the primary reason that you block ads, as opposed to 'I find ads irritating and don't wish to view them', you should take special care to look really hard for some cognitive bias in your thinking, because you'll almost certainly find some.
Waiting for Half Life 3 to be released...
Patreon's model desperately needs a "one-shot" mode.

Ideally there'd be two types: the one-off, and the time-limited subscription. Not only would this provide a bit more data to the content-creators, but for me the consumer it would play better with my budgeting. Having to remember I have N subscriptions going on at any time is far more tiring then knowing I have X disposable income and want to apportion it out, or that I've committed to a maximum of subscription period of X before I'll decide to renew it.
I don't think anyone will see this but here goes.

Try Meteor[1].

Over the past few years using things like Angular, mithril[2], React[3], Vue[4] Meteor, and Ember[5] for large production sites, I've found Meteor painstakingly easy to quickly build real-time "isomorphic" web applications. If you haven't tried it and you're thinking about creating an app with a FRP[6] app I recommend giving it a whirl.

[1] http://meteor.com

[2] https://lhorie.github.io/mithril

[3] http://reactjs.org

[4] http://vuejs.org

[5] http://emberjs.com

[6] https://gist.github.com/staltz/868e7e9bc2a7b8c1f754

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Adblockers do not block ads. They block BANNER ads.

If advertisers want to pitched their products, they should contract with websites for that website to display a relevant, clickable, ad hosted by the website. Such schemes are no different than buying space to paint a poster on a stadium wall. And as adblockers only target ads delivered by third parties, such displays will go untouched.

(Yes, i know adblock allows ad hoc image blocking, but the user will see the ad and must choose to block it every time it is updated.)

Advertisers than want to buy open-ended ad space on websites, that want to display different ads depending on who views the space, who want to track users to better target ads, who want to use "ads" as a Trojan horse for installing tracking cookies ... they can all rot alongside the good people from "windows technical service department" who called me at 4am this morning.
Show HN: Uber API SDK for iOS, “Aubergine”
But muni is slow and shitty; not actually exhibiting large torque.
Why do we have to insist that we are the best though? Why do we have to say we are number one?

Of course, Europe is obsessed with the US. I've got nothing to say to them. Why are we obsessed with calling ourselves the best?
The pale blue dot and other ‘selfies’ of Earth
There is a difference between promoting a cause, and having a prior belief. Yes, they mention that in the report. She definitely went into the story believing that rape is a serious problem on campus, and that universities do a poor job at preventing it and handling it, and she wanted to report on that.

Her prior belief certainly made her more likely to be misled by Jackie. However, that isn't the same as saying that Erdely's main motivation was the social cause of preventing rape, when the simpler explanation is that the story would garner massive pageviews.

Of course, it is very possible both were a factor. My point is that there is no need to jump to conclusions about her motivations. Her actions are bad enough - the report shows her in a horrible light - objectively speaking, regardless of what we can speculate about her inner thoughts.
Maybe ad blockers should emulate downloading and displaying ads, perhaps via proxy servers to minimize throughput. That would protect content creators, no?
No, rough civilization.
Feel free to let me know what name I called you.
Bandwidth, storage space, digitization, records management, salaries for the employees involved, and secure delivery infrastructure are very far from free. Crawling nearly 1 TB of data from a system absolutely makes it more expensive for everyone; what do you think, transit, bandwidth, and storage just appear from thin air? I could go on for a long time about how often records management systems keep some data cold and the dozens of infrastructure concerns that undermine your idealistic position. The cost of serving you a document under intense regulatory scrutiny (ever heard of the OMB?) is not "practically zero," and it is incredibly short-sighted to allege that it is so.

It's easy to sit as a startup employee and think "gosh, you could just throw all those documents in MongoDB and have some fun!" but the reality is that government and traditional corporate environments do not work that way. You didn't think about Sarbanes-Oxley when you were designing your billing and accounting system, did you? Do you even know what it is? For better or worse, systems outside of Silicon Valley are under intense regulatory pressure. Some of that is absolutely essential: Sarbox is one of them, and it was reactionary to mostly Enron. Document delivery and management can be expensive when you have a broader perspective, which is that government is incredibly complex and convoluted. Look how much they spend a year on PACER and tell me I'm wrong. If you want to reform something, reform that.

I won't address the rest of your comment because it is completely uncalled for.
Google has bothered me for a while with their lack of advertising ethics. I recently cleared and disabled my youtube history and they're still doing targeted advertising for videos I had searched for and watched weeks earlier. Clearly my history was not truly removed, which was my assumption anyway but the fact they so blatantly show it off is rather disrespectful from a user standpoint.

Honestly I think the best bet moving forward for sites is to have a small minimalistic form of advertising (the way HN does advertisement with job postings for example, even while its just for Ycombinators benefit, is a good example of non-intrusive advertising done correctly), and probably a small subscription fee ($1.99? $4.99? pay what you want? hard to set a price) for users to hide advertising and support the site/service they enjoy using.
I'll be approaching 60 in 30 years. At that point I would like to be out of the tech industry at least 20 years.

I love technology, I love creating things and working with others to create cool things, but I'm sick of everything surrounding the tech industry these days. The politics, the media, the "culture" critics, etc. I'm not even 30 but I've become extremely cynical about the industry we work in.

At 60ish I'd like:

- to have a large historical home and some land in the south of England or France, with a lot of animals / pets on site.

- decent passive income and pension to support my being able to do things I'd like to do in terms of hobbies and leisure.

- children and perhaps grandchildren to have great experiences with and maintain my sense of youth.

- reasonable physical fitness.

The above would make me very content.
Then why dont you lobby for the government to raise minimum wages for waiters.
In Malayalam we say "Vallabhanu Pullum Ayudham" - translates to "For a wiseman, even grass is a weapon". Loved the creativity and the technical perfection behind this!
Why? Aren't there animals in the post-animal (human) present?
If web apps are to be like native apps then this is something that has to be done.
I'd be interested to know what the Internet is like for folks in countries like Sweden where welfare systems are far more capable.

For example, do Swedish websites also rely heavily on advertising? How does the economy of Swedish content (in Swedish markets) compare to American content in America?

BTW: I should be clear that I am not advocating any particular type of welfare system. It does not even have to be government managed. The important thing is that a system exist to free people's minds from the mundane details of basic survival.
It's a combination of "the ads subsidize the production of the content somewhat i.e. you aren't paying the full price" and "everyone is desensitized to ads now anyway so we might at well show them in every place we can possibly get away with it".

FWIW I think it's mostly the latter (e: was thinking specifically of cinema when I wrote this - nl is right it depends on the medium).
When Do You Quit a Trade That Goes Nowhere?
I didn't miss anything. I've researched this extensively--see the lawsuit against the AO referenced in my other comment on this thread.

The Act specifies "only to the extent necessary" and "reasonable" fees. $0.10 per page is not supported as being "necessary" or "reasonable" by any legal scholar, economist, or other source. It's an arbitrary round number that is in no way based on the cost of bandwidth, which is zero at the margin. Therefore the present fees are not legally permitted. The only fees permitted are so small they don't even register; in other words, the fees are not permitted.

Nor am I "throwing around terms." There is a law; the judiciary is violating it willfully. They are taking money from citizens with no legal basis; that is typically referred to as conversion or theft, which is criminal.

If you want to get into semantics, check your definition of "federal agency." The courts don't qualify according to some precedent, which is part of why we have this mess. Otherwise the Administrative Procedure Act would apply and force some accountability.
> in the past

in the continuing present

Do you have a specific argument against the concept of "turnabout is fair play" here? That it's not okay to be "mean" to "mean" advertisers? I'm not convinced it's an invalid argument here.

Even if you do, I have another disagreement with your characterization of the argument here - on the one hand, "mean" is too mild a term for the sheer willful negligence on behalf of ad networks in preventing a flood of malware, fraud, and untold millions in economic damage at the hands of criminals in these and other fashions.

On the other hand, "mean" is too strong a term for committing basic self defense at the expense of a minor impact to a few revenue streams - when this is lauded as a good thing, to be achieved wherever possible, when it serves the consumer - to be encouraged through competition in a capitalistic society. It's an act which requires no malice whatsoever.
http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/31kbp6/no_firings_at_r...
First OSS I've ever published - and it's only just started :) First post I've made to HN too. Hope people can make some fun products which hook in to Uber's API
I thought I was pretty clever when I figured out I could "block" calls to my dumbphone by adding a contact prefixed with "zzz" and setting their ringtone to a silent audio clip I recorded.

I wonder if there's an Android app that will let me intercept calls and immediately reply to them with a custom recording - something like "Calls from this number are blocked, direct further contact to caller.014@example.com"
The Amazon of India is amazon.in
I don't think there is a problem to be honest. It's just the market playing itself out - if you can't provide content with ads that I'd like to see, then you should go bankrupt.

I am subscribed to some weekly email newsletters - they have a few ads, that make sense. I don't mind it, I like it when a product I may actually be interested in, is advertised to me.

Gruber has weekly sponsors - I don't mind, at all. I like it.

When google provides me with an amazon link when I search for a book, I am fine with that.

On and on. The only folks moaning at the ad-revenue being decimated are the ones who thought annoying their users with ads they don't want is ok. It's not ok.
The problem has always been that pure journalism has always taken a backseat to ideology (be it left right or mainstream) or money (circulation, pageviews)

I wish pure journalism were more viable. By that I mean, publish, within reasonable certainty) all the things they can delve into, whether or not they contradict causes, personalities or society. Sadly, it appears that just does not sell. The news have to "resonate"
That's how we've approached the apps I've been involved in. Your Flux or Relay stores and non component modules can be shared.

This isn't a hard and fast rule, just an acknowledgment that different platforms have different constraints and conventions. If you try and share all your code then you'll end up designing for the lowest common denominator, and your app will feel out of place.
That ignores the possibility that early forms of life combined to form fitter symbiotic life forms.

The parallel that comes to mind is the mitochondria within animal cells, they probably originated as independent bacteria.
I disagree with the verdict at the end of the article, it seems like json would be better if you were doing a lot of dumping? And also for the added maintenance guarantee of being an official package.
The article's headline does not even make sense:

"Flipkart signs up for Airtel’s Net Neutrality violating Airtel Zero platform"

How does one sign up for Airtel's net neutrality?
My experience of Africa (Mozambique) was that they have the phones but don't pay for anything because they have no money. Technically possible, sure, but most people only had credit for a limited amount of time (and would use it for sending messages to communicate). You had to be seen to have a phone (which were probably free).

Clean drinking water was available from wells.
That's not without cost, though. It could mean that poor become so inundated with ads that they waste their already limited budget on frivolous bullshit and junk food, and have to take out more payday loans to pay the water bill this month.
As a part of the rebellion fighting against Skynet(Google). We are taking in early volunteers if anyone is interested.
My personal opinion is if the site wants to make it a requirement to view the ads, they can write the front-end and back-end code to enforce that.

Not requesting a particular asset over the network is probably not circumvention or exceeding authorized access. Accessing the APIs to retrieve content through an entirely alternate program, unfortunately, has been deemed circumvention and the site would have a case against anyone who tried it. Not that the court of public opinion would come down on their side, but the law certainly would.

I think in a world where using curl can get you charged and convicted, adblockers certainly stray dangerously close to exceeding authorized access under the CFAA. I don't think this is right, but I do think it's the reality we currently live in.
As I understand it, there's a small amount of mechanical efficiency to be gained from ditching the derailleur, but the road cyclists need multiple gears in order to match their power output to the conditions: Terrain, wind, etc.

With all of this said, I'm planning to build a fixed gear wheel for one of my bikes this summer, just to try it out. But I am not a competitive cyclist by any wild stretch of the imagination, and this is just for curiosity and fun.
I don't think framing the issue as one of individual morals is very constructive. Here's how I tend to think about the future of web advertising:

1. The tracking data that the online advertising industry gathers is bad for users and will ultimately be bad for advertisers. It should go away. Doing so will require a combination of technical and political restrictions on the way that advertisers do business. Solely one or the other will not be sufficient.

2. Advertising is and will remain the lifeblood of the Internet. The past is littered with the calcified husks of arguments claiming that subscription plans or microtransactions are capable replacements for advertising revenue. If a majority of users install ad blockers, society as a whole will suffer as content creators are squeezed out of the market. Whether or not this is a moral behavior is not the point -- users with ad blockers are game-theoretic parasites that feed off this weakness in the system. Societies have traditionally addressed such weaknesses by classifying such behavior as undesirable, shameful, or immoral. The movement to classify ad blockers in this category has already begun: in the future, either ad blockers will attain a majority or plurality install base among users or this movement towards demonizing ad-blocking users will intensify.
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I'm trying to find a clean and fast way to deploy files to a remote windows server.

Recently AWS CodeDeploy started to support on-premises servers (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/codedeploy/latest/userguide/how-t...). Basically you register your Windows servers by installing a CodeDeploy agent, then you can manage your deployment in the AWS Console or by API/CLI. The files to be deployed are from github or S3.

It might be overkill. I haven't tried this on-premises support, but just to tell an option here.
>It was not a problem for nearly 45 years since epoch.

What I mean is, this sentense you wrote is content-free. What does it mean "it was not a problem"? That they managed to do and be productive without it?

In the same sense not having computers was not a problem for nearly 2 millenia since Christ. They've managed to get by without them.

Not having something is not a problem in general, when you don't know what you're missing. You only see the problem when you compare the faster and more productive workflow and the possibilities you'd get if you had something compared to coping without it.

Which is how inventions are made, compared to "well, what we got works for us".

>Shell is not intended for high level data processing.

That's a limitation of the shell, that could very well be bypassed, not some physical law.

One could imagine shells very well intended for high level data processing (and in fact people have built some of those -- heck, even the Lisp Machines qualify).
I hope to still be a beginner at something.
remove iCloud activation iOS 8.3, iOS 8.2 and iOS 8.1.3 -
the way things are currently going for me. To be practical i still see myself struggling for living and housing. Hope that changes.
> keep in mind that ultrajson only works with well defined collections and will not work for un-serializable collections. But if you are dealing with texts, this should not be a problem.

Well-defined collections? As in, serializable? Well sure, that's requisite for the native json package as well as simplejson (as far as I can recall -- haven't used simplejson in some time.)

But does "texts" refer to strings? As in, only one data type? The source code certainly supports other types, so I wonder what this statement refers to.
Not all ads are click based. You're thinking primarily of AdSense and a lot of retargeting ads but most ads are still bought on a CPM basis based on views. Yes, if a publisher consistently shows ads that have a low CTR (clickthrough rate), then the ad network should optimize out of displaying that ad on that site.
> I've researched this extensively--see the lawsuit against the AO referenced in my other comment on this thread.

I read your lawsuit before replying and am aware. It's like you think people don't know who you are.

Honestly, I almost didn't reply out of fear you'd sue. How many are you up to now, mid-20s? 30?
When websites look like this[1] without an adblocker I am amazing that everyone doesn't have them installed.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/T6tji3g.png
Wow, that's quite the misrepresentation. I can imagine it left a bad taste in the mouth.

Did you get the impression this was a deliberate strategy, or just an oversight?
> Are you being serious?

Just countering your argument with an equally absurd one.

I probably wouldn't even bother if you hadn't dragged out the tired old "embrace, extend, extinguish" meme/mantra that was popular 10-15 years ago (and then wiki linking to it like no one is aware of it). I respect the differences in our opinions, but having to convey your point by adding that line in 2015 make one's argument a bit hallow.
As "AdblockingAndMorality" notes, ads are also potentially dangerous content. Let's say that you're a small business, and CryptoLocker nukes everything, including your backups. Would the content provider be liable? How about the ad distributor? Why shouldn't they, if you've been given no opportunity to opt out?
Which constantly failing climate models? How do you define failing?