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> I don't like the idea of showing ads next to my content in this situation, but I'm pretty sure I have no right to control that.

You have every right in the world to control that. It's called copyright. If you choose a license for your content that prohibits putting ads next to it, then there you go: you used your right to control that.

Not saying it's practical, or business wise, or good PR, or, ... But definitely your right.
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Very cool. I like how you update the list. Page up/down doesn't seem to work though.

Edit: my bad, my focus was still on the country dropdown.
Looks great! Question for the author(s) of Brubeck: are you planning to add an InfluxDB backend, or is that something you'd want the community to pick up?
1: https://github.com/cloudflare/sslconfig
> Overall while annoying and a bit strange that this wasn't anticipated and fixed long ago I'd say this is probably a non-issue. As another poster said I don't see a payoff here so I doubt it will be actively exploited in some "internet screeching to a halt" kind of way.

favicons can also be inserted dynamically.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/260857/changing-website-f...

If some site has a js injection bug, or there is someone doing MiTM like the Great Firewall, I suppose they could inject a favicon link that referenced some location on another site, with the intent towards DoS.
Unfortunately these internet lynch mobs are spilling out to the real world where you can't even make jokes or hold viewpoints that are not approved by the Internet Hug Box Mob. See Seinfeld, Tim Hunt, or the Strange Loop mess.
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if(User-Agent == "Apple") {
showNonsenseNewsFeed();
} else {
showNewsFeed();
}

But serious: wouldn't it be enough to place a use policy or terms of use on mikeash.com restricting the use of the feed for commercial reasons?
Yes. I agree. I too feel this kind of animation library should not be used where animation libraries make little or no sense to use them. In fact, I'd go a step further and agree that no animation libraries should be used when animation libraries are not needed, not even this one, which looks pretty neat.

Where should animation libraries be used? I'd think they should be used where a user would appreciate an animation. Such places could be while waiting for something to load, or maybe on a website dedicated to animation libraries. I think that would be an appropriate place for animations. It'd be weird if a website dedicated to animations didn't have animations on it.
This. Sometimes the animations and what not are distracting for the actual content. It's almost like the bad powerpoint transitions we had.

As a sidenote.. I'm currently working on a patch to CyanogenMod 12.1 that allows you turn off fancy animations (such option exists already when you turn on power save mode)
I thought it would be reasonable to assume to whatever nonsense that followed was in fact caused by lawyers.

I am however not saying that is the case, I am just saying the assumption is reasonable given... lawyers... reputation.
I'm making no argument that they have to survive on their current business model, or that the current business model deserves to survive. I am simply stating that if you choose a content resource that does not require upfront payment but mingles their content with advertisements, there's an implicit social contract, and in some cases an explicit use policy, that defines how that transaction should proceed.

I don't see this as any different than if you were at a conference, and someone offered you a free book which you were interested in if you talked to them for thirty seconds about their product. Taking the book without hearing the pitch is not what I would consider acceptable behavior.

In all cases, it should be obvious that if you desire something (in this case, content), but are unwilling to pay the cost (in this case, viewing advertising), then the correct response is to not take the content.

Some people have made arguments about how intrusive some the the advertisement tracking is as a justification for blocking it. This is a perfectly acceptable justification for blocking that tracking, but it does nothing to address the further consumption of the content. The correct response to the abusive shopkeeper that berates you in line is not to steal his goods, but to leave the goods and refuse to give him your business.

> If you're telling me that disabling ads is bad manners then I put it to you that attempting to deceive the advertisers about the value of their ads is also bad manners.

How are you helping this issue by making it harder to tell which users are viewing advertising and which are not? In any case, the market decides this. You are just making information in the market harder to come by, making the market less efficient.

> In fact I'm starting to wonder if it isn't my moral obligation to block adverts in order to help advertisers save money that would otherwise be wasted.

Forgive me if that sounds a bit like a rationalization of your current behavior after the fact.
Regardless of what you think about whether these crises were connected, they did give rise to a rather important idea. At its heart, the idea is that, "I won't kill you for your beliefs if you aren't going to kill me for mine."

This may seem like common sense today, but historically we only arrived at it after having plenty of opportunity to deal with the aftermath of people being willing to kill each other for having different ideas about whether, for instance, Christianity is what the Catholic Church teaches us that it is.

This tolerance gave rise to such ideas as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and so on. Which were key ideas from the Age of Enlightenment, which ideals influenced the US Constitution and Western culture to this day.
They should just pay market rates. The alternative is hiring contractors at 2-3x market rate
Ask HN: What happened to CoralCDN?
CoralCDN[1] seems to be doing fine, no downtime announcement, no report of problems on their website, nothing on their Wiki.

Yet, since at least a few days, none of the *.nyud.net URLs seem to work, not even the one on their own frontpage[2].

I understand that this is/was a research project but if it has finally come to an end at least a farewell message would have been nice.

[1] http://www.coralcdn.org/
[2] http://www.coralcdn.org.nyud.net/
it's also working on iOS 8.1.2. As soon as you tap on the share icon, the download starts: https://github.com/benjamingr/favicon-bug/pull/2
Interesting concept, although the single most significant event of that era would have to be the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648.
"If you want to change how activism is done, demonstrate your better way."

Here's the change I want: I want people not getting mobbed for what are, at the absolute worst, trivial infractions that should be taken care of in the context of their own workplace. A lot of other folks who might be sympathetic to your goals feel the same way. Maybe if you want your activism to be more successful in changing minds, as opposed to just temporarily cowing opponents into resentful silence, you should put some thought into how it's coming across.
> If you don't use all the features, nowadays you can just create a custom build with the stuff you want.

Yes, that's precisely the author's point, except that you might not even need to make custom jQuery builds. You might be able to just use these few lines.

> But these kind of posts seem like mockery on the developers of a library that has provided extreme value for thousands for developers over many years.

There is absolutely no implication of mockery, and anyone who knows anything about Paul Irish knows how laughable that accusation is.
Uncovering input fields from iOS Keyboard
Thanks for your suggestion. I temporary switched all locales to english.
Any engineers or mechanically inclined folks around LA interested in assembling a team? Let's chat.

About me: full stack software engineer with a degree in Systems Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I work on classic cars and build shit with my hands when I'm not coding. I'm into efficiency, and I loooove the idea of building a better, faster cheaper CA high-speed railway.
If you don't have control over the logging (for a number of reasons) you can disguise your xf in the access logs. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of logging config files for access logs even ignore favicon.ico.
It would be enough to just reply "NO" to their e-mail. The problem isn't getting out of their system, but just how they're trying to do business at all here.
This poll. Microsoft has apparently decided to stop being evil. The other two never were. Please stop trolling.
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Looks good now!

http://www.vox.com/cards/crime-rate-drop/lead-crime
I love to code and solve problems and have been programming as a hobby since I was 6.

I followed a different career path (systems administration & support) and at 30 decided to change careers and develop software. I had to learn how to write better software to go after the work and the problems that I'm really interested in. I feel that writing software should be a means to an end.

Because of this, I made the decision to go through a coding bootcamp and look for a job. I'm not alone here, but you're right that a lot of folks are looking for a paycheck.

I see a lot of folks on this board write off bootcamps entirely (though it seems to be swinging the other way). It's a little disheartening.
Innovation like this requires some getting used to from consumers. I'm sure people thought fear of heights would be a problem for commercial airlines when they started up. Early adopters have to be fearless and then it will become mainstream once everyone perceives it as safe and normal.
As a hacker on Hacker News I'd have to agree with the others that animations are a Very Bad Thing. They are distracting to me, an easily distracted person, who is currently avoiding work by reading Hacker News this afternoon.
Have there been any documented cases of nuclear waste storage causing mortal danger, and if so, how do they compare to coal's waste storage (or, more precisely, the lack thereof)?

I don't know any details on either, but I'd suspect that the latter is a much greater threat than the former, and that the more we transition from coal to nuclear fission (and, alongside that, the more we develop ways to use nuclear waste more productively), the better.
I don't think that anything you wrote here makes sense as a response to my comment. Less resource intensive crops grow here, great. If they are cost effective then we should continue to grow them, if they are not cost effective then clearly they are not "way less resource intensive". The notion that we should maintain water-intensive agriculture because "you die without food" has nothing to do with reality. There is plenty of food and we could grow far more if we wanted to.

We are talking about luxury items. If you want crops that only grow in Mediterranean areas, great, so do I. We enjoy our luxuries, but we should not subsidize the unsustainable production of luxuries, which is what we are doing by giving them water at far bellow market rates.
It's true. I won't discuss anything sensitive online. All of my friends have political battles online through Facebook and it will only hurt their future job prospects. Many, many people have been fired over silly comments on Facebook (read: having an opinion that makes special-interest groups, and in some cases, people with mental problems, angry).

1984 is here and it's ourselves. We truly don't have the freedom of speech when just stating your opinion gets you fired, your business destroyed, or your personal life attacked.

We are also giving power to anyone and everyone that wants it. If I wanted to get someone fired, I could easily dig through their personal info and get a twitter mob online to protest their employer.

It works every time because businesses don't want the bad PR and the media just wants to continue on with the same narrative.
I might suggest that this is the "good Samaritan" principle at work. There is a standard that the government has made, and which it enforces. The government is supposed to do the right thing (at least so people tend to believe, all the evidence to the contrary notwithstanding) and so the existence of SOME governmental standard (even if it isn't great) really screws up attempts to improve upon it.

If there was no definitive standard and instead three competing standards bodies then people would have to get informed a bit and decide what to do. But there's a government standard, so anything that passes it must be OK and everything else is superfluous. I might not think that way when it comes to buying helmets, but how many moms or dads buying their child a helmet might think exactly that?

Once the complexity is hidden behind a good/bad (it passes the test or it doesn't) metric any kind of critical thinking tends to go out the window. The CSPC test is good in that it prevents people from making helmets that would fall apart if you dropped them accidentally.

But it's not good in that there are inherent tradeoffs between foam strength and shock absorption and it has in effect arbitrarily decided that one particular point on that line is the RIGHT tradeoff full stop.

I don't have the stats for lower versus higher energy crashes. But it seems likely to me (based on 30 years and at least 50,000 miles of cycling) that lower energy outweighs higher energy by perhaps some 100:1. And if the distribution is that skewed, then perhaps you could do more good by fixing the low energy crashes even if it costs on the high energy crashes.

But ultimately I'd prefer for people to have that choice by themselves. Right now you can buy high energy helmets and that's about it. There might be SOME that can also protect against lower energy crashes. But there aren't any low energy only helmets for sale ANYWHERE. I might prefer one of those for just tooling around town at speeds of less than 15mph. Thanks to the CSPC if I want one of those I have to make it myself. While I could probably do that it'd cost me a year and $20k and I wouldn't be able to recoup that investment by selling, because again that helmet wouldn't pass the mandatory CSPC muster.

I think the situation stinks, and telling me that it is actually good doesn't make it so.
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Would you expect that amount of fudging to change over time? Arguing that fudging stats explains the drop in crime requires that you believe in the last 30 years police throughout the country have started undercounting the amount of crime in their areas by increasing amounts year after year.
I liked it.

I was planning a product like these for a hackaton, mainly because I wanted to have something alike. Glad someone already made it =D
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websites for Kids is one of the places where animated UI can be used.
There is no API right now, but i'm thinking about it. Because the service is free for users, free for sources, and free from ads, I thinking about data-mining as monetization method.
Either the battery's temperature sensor is malfunctioning, or Philae somehow managed to achieve temperatures far below absolute zero. :)
Data would be really useful.

Everyone has an opinion about airbnb. Here's my big worry.

San Francisco's population of children has plummeted in my lifetime (I grew up in SF in the 70s). In this time, I think it has gone from about 22% to a current rate of 14% or so.

I guess it's just important to me that SF continue to be a place people are from, rather than a place where young people move prior to having families, or (increasingly) a place where empty nesters move and enjoy the city after having families.

Here's the thing, I consider this to be a very economically vulnerable stretch of life. I have two kids, in SFUSD, and I'm starting to see just how colossal a disadvantage a family with two kids would be in a bidding war against someone who intends to put the extra bedrooms in a SFH or a 3 bedroom apartment on airbnb instead.

It's no secret that housing is in short supply in SF, and that the price of a house or apartment in SF reflects what the highest bidder is able to pay. It's also probably not surprising that kids are very expensive. A two income family (pretty tough to live in SF if you aren't) means daycare - and daycare costs, conservatively, over $2,000 a month per kid. Even if they're in SFUSD ("free"), after care at school and summer camps will run you $8,000+ if you're doing things the inexpensive way.

Now, imagine that a family with two kids now has to compete against a bidder who plans to put the "spare" bedrooms on airbnb, and who factors that into the bid. The family has two very expensive, non-revenue generating children. The airbnb buyer has a massive advantage here, and I see it as another factor that could potentially put massive new pressures on an already collapsing population of families with children. It could also reduce turnover - someone who no longer needs the extra bedrooms and might have in the past downsized (opening up a SFH for a new family) now rents the bedrooms out full time on airbnb.

Sure, these problems could have existed with permanent, long term tenants, but I do think that it was less likely. Airbnb definitely makes it far easier and more profitable to do this - this is one big reason why the company is so large and profitable itself.

Is this happening? I don't know, I don't have the data. Until then, it's just a fear, though not (in my opinion, obviously) an unfounded one. But if they company won't open up the data and recognize the possible danger, my guess is that the public will support strict regulations.
The same dynamic shows up in a number of other systems. For example:

The Peter Principle. People who are performing well in their current role get promoted out of that role, until they reach their level of incompetence. At that point, they get stuck. Eventually the whole organization consists of nothing but incompetent people.

Gerrymandering. A political incumbent who redraws his district to include more supporters will last longer than one who doesn't. Eventually, all districts are gerrymandered, and all incumbents are virtually unassailable.

Vendor lock-in. A company that promotes consumer choice is easy to switch away from; one that promotes lock-in, by definition, is hard to switch away from. Eventually everyone will be buying from vendors they're locked into. (Unless the former company's products are much better - this was the strategy Google pursued until ~2011. Note, though, that they achieved this through some measure of employee lock-in.)

Basically the only requirement is that "good" solutions are more liquid than "bad" ones. Many, many systems exhibit this property.

You could look at most of modern society as a way to generate feedback loops on top of this dynamic to mitigate it. For example, an organization full of incompetent people is likely to go out of business and be replaced by a new one, often one founded by the very people who were driven out of the original. (See: Disney => Pixar, Apple => NeXT, Shockley => Fairchild => Intel, Netscape => Firefox => Chrome.) Similarly, a company full of bad, hard-to-replace code either embarks on a complete rewrite, or they're vulnerable to a startup without that baggage.
Thank you. You beat me with that one :)
How do you feel about the animations used in material design?

Animations for the sake of having animation is really distracting. But if used subtly and with purpose, they could help enhance the user experience.
Well, that's a very Protestant, Whiggish view of things. Catholic Emancipation in the UK wasn't complete until 1829 for example. The idea of the Glorious Revolution as ushering in a democratic and free era was really only true if you were an Anglican, slightly less so for Dissenters, and very much less so for Catholics (both in Britain and Ireland).

I think a lot of those crises in Europe were just continuations of the Reformation in many respects.
It wasn't a deterrent when I had a Pentium 3 at 600 MHz, it sure isn't now when I have a FX-8320E at 4.5 GHz.

I actually prefer from-source package installs because I get a higher degree of control over configuration options.
Thanks! After reading that I have finally got the confidence to send a follow up email.
> Blocking ads has nothing to do with redistributing someone else's content.

You're right, it's like subscribing to a service that does it for you.

> No, it's more like asking the newspaper publisher if you can have a version of their newspaper (for your own use) without ads, and them obliging.

No, if they had an easy way to enforce your viewing of ads that scaled, I think it's fairly obvious they would (as many of the blocked ads are indeed an attempt at this, such as the timed overlay). It's more like the distributor responding with both marketing material and content with the understanding you are to view the marketing material along with the content, and you routing the marketing material to the trash from the post office (or somehow tricking the system into not sending you the marketing material). The expectation you are to view the marketing material is still there, even if you've somehow removed your ability to receive it.
All I can really do in reply to this is ask you to reread the post I wrote more carefully. If you have a more specific clarification, let me know.
Bulletproof validation for Sass functions and mixins
So, it's bad in exactly the same way that GA is bad: it leaks user information to a third party.
This is the problem with housing subsidies: they very often go to those who don't need them. In New York, your choice of apartment is primarily based on location -- anything that's not in the >$1 million range is pretty similar. So if you're looking at two apartments near your work and the rent stabilized one is $1200/mo and the other is $3000/mo, you try to get the $1200/mo one even if you could afford the $3000/mo one. I guarantee you it's not $1800/mo nicer.

You see this effect anywhere that supply of rental housing is a problem. If you implement price controls, people with high incomes will seek out lower rents. They'll still often end up driving out the lower-income folks, because if you're a landlord with two applications for a vacant apartment, you're going to favor the one with better credit. Rent controls also deter landlords from investing, both in existing properties and in new ones.

IMO the right answer (and this is not a popular sentiment) is to let rents float and have certain desirable areas of certain cities end up effectively "off limits" to lower income renters. Is it fair? Not particularly, but the side effects of this situation are that the people who can afford to shoulder the costs associated with their way of life are the ones actually doing so. They are going to crowd low-income renters out of the neighborhood eventually anyway, and hopefully a housing / worker shortage would prompt the city to actually develop a low income housing solution rather than forcing landlords to just deal with rents too low for even basic maintenance.
Maybe it is a little late in the day but I just read that and I don't think I got anything out of it. Some people say it existed and some say it didn't. What's the point?
Nobody "told" me to go solve this problem, nor do I have any interest in implementing a potential solution; I just thought it was interesting. Because it was interesting.