skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually yeah I do blame the post office for sending me spam. Who wouldn't?

And as you have just demonstrated this is a problem even with the top tier ad networks. Mind you I would have blocked ads anyway because with the exception of Twitter the ads aren't worth reading (Twitters ads are split about 75%/25% ads I need/want to read and junk which is astonishingly high).

Instead of whining about implicit deals (no such thing among strangers) and the difficulty of doing your job, make the ads worth actually seeing and your problems will tend to go away.
Yes, I completely understand that. I think the best compromise if you're using AdBlock is to at least disable it on the higher-end sites you enjoy the most.

Also, because Adblock plugins can just stop network requests from ever happening, it's actually hard to accurately measure everything. Lots of publishers also arent that technical or have large dev teams so it might seem simple to the Hacker News readers but reality is more difficult for these sites operators. Wordpress actually runs more of the big famous sites then you may be aware of, just because it's easy and doesn't take a big ops team.
I'd be willing to bet it's more ease of access than price.

Both of my last jobs provided me with some subscriptions for free (i.e. Financial Times and some industry publications). Yet whenever I encountered their paywalls while browsing, I would always close the tab, since I didn't want to have to type in the password. It's embarrassing but true.
I pay for NYT and The Spectator, used to pay for The Economist. Pretty sure the speccie was the only one that didn't continue to blast me with ads anyway
Yes, it's valid HTML. It's not at all like saying that writing gibberish is valid HTML.

Why would you say these things without looking it up in the w3 reference (http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/documents.html#case-insensi...) or just trying it out (http://5ccf7f9c97075d1b.paste.se)
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It's hard to do. Adblock plugins work at the network layer and block requests completely based on matching the urls. This makes to engineer around, especially because lots of sites don't have lots of developer talent or resources.

Example: PageFair was a company that measured adblock usage and also showed messages like this, until their javascript tag got on the adblock list and suddenly their entire platform because useless.
The govt doesn't (just) give you independent news via the Beeb - all TV news is required to be editorially neutral. Sky News is (amazingly) a pretty good news source
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Looks quite good: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/

I'm not really sure how to benchmark it myself, those are from 2012 and I'm sure things have improved since then.
Ah, but

println "Hi there"

doesn't return nil, it returns a value of the type

IO nil

which can be transparently substituted for the call.
DiabloD3 said: lactose (a sugar that some people are allergic to

maxerickson said: Lactose intolerance is not an allergy.

You replied: I can't speak for the OP, but I can say that I've found it's sometimes easier to explain sensitivities as allergies to people who don't understand the differences.

Then I suggested the idea that lactose intolerance was not even a chemical sensitivity. I definitely meant to reply to you.

But it looks like the term "sensitivity" has been defined that way, no matter if it's misleading. A sensitivity defined by total lack of interaction, ugh. I guess I'm sensitive to breathing a bunch of argon, too.
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Tracking is necessary to show you better ads and is also anonymized. Most networks don't track anything about you but rather general things you might be interested in. Visiting a travel site might put you in the "interested in travel" bucket for about 30 days but that's it.

The social networks and Google know far more about you then the other ad companies.
I do try to disable adblock on sites I like.

Which brings up a technical challenge- there's a vendor I like who implements targeted ads that follow you around the web. The ads are extremely benign and I would want to permit them- but they are hosted on a platform. How do I permit only certain vendors on an ad platform, without allowing the entire platform...
So what's a good solution? Ad platforms and publishers are trying... but then maintaining your logged in status and showing you better ads requires tracking. And then people complain about being tracked.
If it was less "take the whole of what I typed, rephrase it into something, and silently execute that", and more "fuzzy-autocomplete each token as I type it, and interactively lint the syntax to balance parens et al., so that by the end every token is almost certainly valid—and I can still then proofread what's there before executing it" then it's not nearly as scary.
> non-unique coupon code

That is really stupid on Wink's part.
And if #Do stuf in temp dir happens to be one of those mosters which change working dir you could be anywhere. Having the directory shown in your prompt solves most of that though
If you spend a few moments on LiveLeak looking for IS videos, I suspect you'll come to agree that "IS" (or "ISIS") is a thing distinct from "terrorism". As not an apparent, imminent threat to the US, I'm not sure whether they deserve more or less attention [from our population's eyeballs and thereby our military's bombs] than does "terrorism", but it's hard to agree with the cynical interpretation that "IS" is merely a rebranding of the terrorism bogeyman.

...and I would advise you against spending those few moments on LiveLeak looking for IS videos...
> They also use AdBlock to basically steal content
> without letting publishers recoup the production costs
> and other investments.

Pretty easy to block people wih AdBlock installed from viewing your content, but then they stop sharing it, too, and they're often the more tech savvy readers who would be willing to share.

I bet the WSJ would see a net profit from making HN a non-paywall referrer.
> Is there something about this particular field that attracts charlatans and incompetents?

Yes, a strong preexisting demand and no way to fulfill it honestly. (Really, the first is doing most of the work.)

Same reason you get charlatans and incompetents in love spells, medicine, and longevity.
I didn't deride his statements because they didn't fit my worldview, I derided them for making no sense. He was the one that kept coming up with new explanations. His latest (which I quote in the post) is other-wise known as the Osborne effect.
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If you're actively admitting to blaming the wrong party... I'm not sure what anyone can do for you.

The ad companies aren't whining, the users are. We do try to show you better ads and its not to be nice but because they would naturally perform better. Showing you stuff you want is good for you, for the ad companies and the advertisers. However people also complain about being tracked and tracking is required to know about your interests and show you the right stuff. You can't have one without the other.

Using adblock means denying publishers any revenue for their content that you're reading for free and stops ad networks from learning more about your interests to give you better ads.

So, which would you rather have? Or do you have a better solution?
But there are certainly plenty of non-Google places and means to advertise. Google could raise prices on AdWords across the board and advertisers would have plenty of alternative means through which to hawk their wares.
Re: "HTMs are biologically accurate": It depends on what you mean by accurate.

Hawkins argues that HTMs capture the systems-level effect of a brain, even if software models of neurons are not the same as biological neurons.

I can't personally comment on what others say about the accuracy, even at the systems-level.

Re: "The most exciting aspect of Numenta's research is that they are building algorithms which think the way we do (albeit in early stages right now)." It is a stretch to use the word "think" in this way, since thinking suggests consciousness. One wouldn't say we "think" when we simply observe. You might argue that HTMs pass signals in an analogous way -- that might be a fair statement, from Hawkins' point of view.

Yes, I realize that Hawkins says some interesting things about 'forward' and 'backward' processing even for 'low-level' processing such as edge detection.
The problem is you're still thinking only about search. Again, antitrust regulations are about using a monopoly position in one market to affe4ct a different market.

A hypothetical situation would Google using their monopoly position in the search market to manipulate the results of anybody searching about domain names so Googles registry service is show instead of the various other registries. By abusing their position in the search market, Google would be able to raise their price for a domain name registration. Their search services would remain untouched, or possibly subsidized with the new DNS-registry profits.
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I work in the online advertising space.

They also use AdBlock to basically steal content

The whole problem with your industry is that you are still operating under the mistaken belief that "impressions" drive purchasing behavior. As if having some image forcibly burnt into my brain will influence my subconscious desires enough to cause me to make a purchase sometime later. This idea is and has always been pure snake oil. I don't want to see your ads, and I'm not going to click on them or buy what they are selling anyway. If anything I'm less likely to buy a product after I see it in a banner ad because they are annoying and I don't buy products that annoy me. You have no business telling me that it's "stealing" when I configure my browser client not to show me ads that I don't want to see. The implication is offensive. Do you think that running a spam e-mail filter is "basically stealing" too?
I can't help but disagree with your final bullet. You won't have "contractual and checked by the compiler" trust in code you call upon, but it is quite common to trust the code that you call in any language to do just what it claims it will do.

Consider, do you really think that code was lacking local reasoning before the likes of Haskel? It is arguable that things were more difficult then, but the argument is still out that things are easier now.
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Yes, but you're writing in Haskell whereas my example is in Clojure. Hence the difference :)
read in conjunction with this ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402292
What is the free cash flow, 950k a year? The value is all discounted future free cash flows. Or the value is just whatever the buyer is willing to pay. Obviously lots of acquisitions will never pay for themselves because they are strategic acquisitions. Will minecraft ever make $2.5 billion? I would take future discounted cash flows, multiply by 3 for the hassle and call it good.
read in conjunction with this ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9402302
Very nice answer.

I have been reading Coders At Work by Peter Seibel, and one common pattern which I noticed among all the programmers mentioned in the book was they worked under another good programmer in their initial years (Jamie Zawinski under Norvig), which was implicit mentoring IMO.

All my college life, I have worked on a lot of projects (Personal & at Internship) which involves different technologies, and as you said most of the work is figuring out how to do X in the new language or framework. One key thing which I have taken from everyone, is that learning never stops. The mode of learning keeps changing through out our life, from rote learning in early school to formal learning in high school and college and then to informal learning afterwards.
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Raspberry Pi was a poor example for him to use, but App Engine (or any Google Cloud solution) was a good example. The Google-hosted sites (including the properties Google owns & operates) will always seem to have lower latency to Google versus everything from AWS down to a Raspberry Pi in a basement. Should that be considered an unfair impartiality in Google's algorithm?
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You're conflating a lot of issues.

1) Spam is not the same, you didnt ask for it so you are rightly refusing and actively blocking it.

2) Content is not free. Someone had to create it, and they can either charge you directly or let you see it for free by also showing you ads. When you block those ads but still read the content, you're stealing the access/time/production/value of that content without letting the publisher recoup any of their investment or make any profit.

3) I'm not really sure where this anger comes from. Advertising is such a big and growing industry because it works. This is not some evil conspiracy nor are all the companies full of idiots. You will find regular people much like yourself working at all of the advertising agencies, networks and publishers.

Impressions do work. It's not a "belief", it's a fact. Think of it like an empty road with a billboard and a store at the next exit. You can have a blank billboard and see how many people stop at the store. Then put up an ad and measure again. That delta is a significant and measurable difference and with digital advertising, it can be tracked to a very specific level to prove it works. There are also many different types and formats of ads which work in different stages of the sales conversion funnel. YOU might not think it works, but that's not what the massive amount of data and results show every day.
Iran can be secular and pragmatic, but this dispute stems from religion. Iranians practice Shia Islam, which makes them heretics in the eyes of the (Sunni) Islamic State. The Islamic State interprets certain bits of Sura 47 to mean they should behead disbelievers and heretics. Until ISIS reads the Qu'ran less literally, the two sides simply cannot coexist in peace.
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Hmm I wonder if that loop example can be rehabilitated. If we interpret it, not as a description of how to evaluate loop, but rather as a constraint on loop. Then we see that the statement is simply a non-condition on loop.

This would mean that non-termination is not a property of the function, but of the compiler/runtime, in that they failed to notice that loop was a partial function called with an input value for which it was not defined!
It's not "pretty easy". Adblock works at a network level by blocking specific requests, which makes it very hard to engineer around.

If you can show a different message to people with AdBlock, then you can just show them ads in the first place.
A site specific cookie to drop the paywall is totally different from cross-domain tracking of browsing habits.
> Bing is the default one on IE but bing just came along in 2009. Before that I'm not even sure what was the default search engine in europe for IE

MSN Search -> Live Search -> Bing

> Things have changed in the last years but most people configuration once set won't change even if google is not the default search engine for firefox anymore

If you never changed your default search provider in Firefox it was switched for you after the Yahoo deal.
I read this expecting something super shady, but to be totally fair to BuzzFeed, the incidents cited (all three of them) were surprisingly benign.

According to the NYT, one of the articles was taken down because it accused Axe (the body spray people), who happened to also be an advertiser, of "advocating worldwide mass rape", which the editor-in-chief decided was beyond even BuzzFeed's questionable writing standards.

Another article, about Internet Explorer, was written by a editor who had recently worked on an ad campaign for Microsoft while on another job. BuzzFeed took the IE article down (again, according to the NYC) to avoid the appearance of conflict, and instituted a policy against such rotating-door behavior going forward.

And finally the last case involved removing an editorial piece that criticized a Pepsi advertisement created by BuzzFeed itself.

If those were really the only three cases of content being changed because of the relationship with advertising, I'm not sure even I think there's a major issue here. At least at this time. While reputable papers like the NYT or WSJ of course have firm policies in place to avoid even the perception of conflict of interest, I don't think anyone is putting BuzzFeed anywhere near their level yet.

To be honest, when I heard the rumors last week that "BuzzFeed was manipulating content due to pressure from advertisers", I admit I just assumed the worst of them, too.

But this might be a case of me (and probably a lot of people) expecting poor behavior from a company simply because we're not fans of their product.

Maybe that's actually the biggest lesson from this? (Or maaaybe... the NYT is in on it too, and this is all part of an elaborate cover up by Big Advertising.)
Do you have a link to the discussion on narrow streets? Sounds ridiculously interesting. At first thought, I can't help but think this is something that doesn't scale. Thought being that it only works because a unique situations puts drivers into alert. Not sure how I could test that, though.
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You are wrong. Using ggautoblocker and tools like it is people reclaiming their lives from parasites.

The only possible reason to claim that others need to pay attention to those who would spam them with threats of death rape and worse is complicity with the intended assault. It is a leech declaring that refusal to wade in the swamp is murder.
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Unfortunately no. Certain networks do have a opt-out selection but this would not work because:

1) the opt-out choice relies on the same tracking cookies and stuff which would be blocked by adblockers

2) not every company offers opt-out because its a gray area of regulation, especially across global regions

3) you would have to opt-out of the infinite choices you dont want, just to let in the single one you do
I still have one! Flyback is shot on the CRT though =(
Curiosity has a battery of 5 kg and it delivers 2 kW thermal and 125 W electric power.
I wrote a document trying to clarify the meaning of 'ANSI', which is a misnomer of sorts,

https://github.com/erikrose/blessings/blob/blessed-integrati...
Maybe crickets aren't the food of the future
A nice read: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2013/5/21/porting-to-python-3-redux/
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Even more, it is not uncommon for law enforcement to actually enjoy legal protections from having to answer for any misbehavior or misconduct.
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Would it be fair to summarize your position as "facts about the lives of people who are substantially different from us are difficult to obtain; therefore, we should defer to their personal experiences"? If not, could you correct this summary?
>>As if having some image forcibly burnt into my brain will influence my subconscious desires enough to cause me to make a purchase sometime later. This idea is and has always been pure snake oil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_awareness

This absolutely does work on a non-trivial amount of people. Even when said people are aware they are being influenced. Anecdotal; I grew up with McDonald's fast food. Even though today I've taken up a much healthier diet for years, I'm still a bit sad McD's cannot be a part of my family's life. I'm aware it's because of those golden arches and that Ronald person that was always in commercials during my Saturday morning cartoons. My superMarioBros.3 toys came from McD's happymeals. To this day I still buy many Nintendo-brand t-shirts for myself, and even Nintendo stuff for my kids, and I know it's because Nintendo has etched into my head their marketing from before I was even 10 years old.... but I can't shake it off. McD's mixing Nintendo characters into their marketing image makes it even harder for me to ignore them... but I do because I see the real effects of eating unhealthy. Otherwise anything that doesn't have a very clear negative effect, the Ads do work on me. If I see something advertised often enough without running into any negative commentary about it, the next time I need whatever that company was advertising I will look to them first.
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Lower latency to google should have no bearing on serps.

Lower latency to the user should. If, ceteris paribus, google sites are lower ranked then yes, that should be illegal. ie consider regression and compute I[google] + site_speed; after controlling for site speed, being a google owned property shouldn't matter. It's fine if google owned sites tend to be faster and hence are more lowly ranked.

I specifically meant more along the lines of google can view your navigation through GA tooled sites, and there is a wealth of information that can be derived from that.
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If you have any UCS C240 M3's then you may have SimpliVity options to explore. https://www.simplivity.com/products/omnistack-cisco-ucs/
The Vice documentary of ISIS is very informative without having to view said LiveLeak videos.
This is lawful and common in law enforcement agencies throughout the world. It's called "pretexting".

Look up the PDF for "Lying and Confessing" by Christopher Slobogin.
The idea that banner ads which, when clicked, can be traced to a specific purchases is snake oil? That telling someone about a service doesn't increase purchase intent?
Yea, the author did a great job in writing this story. The death does sound like an accident? I couldn't imagine being in the new facility. The article was about a tragic death, but it was also about a generation(maybe the last?) of people who didn't live, nor play by the rules. I wonder if we are stifling people's lives, work, and intellectual achievements with all--these--rules--that--are--enacted--to--protect?
Only when using GNU rm and its descendents, as far as I know. FreeBSD and OS X's rm neither require that option nor support it. Unless you're asserting that psgbg has never used a system with BSD userland (which includes some running linux kernels) and none of psgbg's theoretical hacker mentors have either, it's not a safe bet they'll need that flag (or be saved by its lack). If they'd stated they were manually commit rmicide on a linux box it'd be a different situation, but assuming tools have safety nets is one of those things that happens to sysadmins. Sadly it's done to us at least as much as we do it...

All that aside every unix person who wipes a box for a reinstall should try rm -rf / and see what works and what doesn't. It teaches you a lot about shell builtins, filesystem dependencies, binaries still running and thus hanging around in /proc & its equivalents (which can save you), and weird stuff like /dev/tcp/ and /dev/udp/ (if your shell has them and they're enabled). A Linux or BSD machine can often be recovered live from deleting everything but /home, say.