skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certainly different understandings of the term 'malware', even within the technical community, let alone the wider world. The fact that a large number of people use it to describe "software that ended up on my computer that I wasn't expecting", no matter what it's doing, means that companies need to be very careful how they go about using this practice. Even if you have the very best possible intentions in the world, you're probably going to damage your reputation by bundling unrelated software, so why not just offer it as a separate download in the first place?
Although I think it's irrational to be afraid of flying, I disagree with your example.
I was under the impression that many people had the tendency to just ignore the possibility of terrible things happening, as in the black swan theory.

Perhaps nuclear power was safer than cars till now, but in my opinion it has the potential to be a lot deadlier if something really wrong happen (and Fukushima didn't happen in a 3rd world country with terrible infrastructures, how would it be if there were nuclear power plants everywhere in every country, no matter how corrupt it is?), so I find it rational to be more terrified of it than of cars.

But it's also a question of benefits, you can arguably replace a nuclear power plant with whatever technology you prefer, a car is harder to replace I think.
Cards play a large part in Material Design. If you are interested in implementing that type of design, enjoy the convinces of a CSS framework (Icons, responsive grid, etc), and aren't married to Bootstrap I'd suggest taking a look at http://materializecss.com
Go ahead and try to block users who block ads. People and companies have already tried that.

In the end it's a game of cat and mouse with the AdBlockers finding a way to circumvent whatever detection the adblock-blockers are using.
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Agreed. You can't get away from network blocks at the administrative routing level. But, at least life is a bit easier by making more common use of /48s and /32s - I.E. 2001:1868::/32 being 2001:1868:0000:0000::/64 -> 2001:1868:FFFF:FFFF::/64.

Thankfully, the 100x more common task of configuring an interface, will always be a /64.
I like the concept of card based design but this implementation reminds me of Ext.JS almost.
All the major ad blocking extensions work by applying various filter lists, all separately maintained.

They may choose to enable different lists by default (uBlock turns on more than ABP for sure), but they can be configured in a few seconds to do the same thing.

This extension is so much more efficient than ABP or any similar extension that it's a no brainer, and I've had zero problems with it when bearing the above in mind.

1/3 the total ram usage on both FF and Chrome, it makes it possible to use Chrome on a PC with <16GB of ram again.
> All the Stream Managers in a topology connect to each other to form an O(k^2) connection network

shouldn't that be !(k-1)? Or am I missing something about the architecture?
For those who couldn't access the site:

Webpage screen grab [0]
Guidelines [1]

[0] http://i.imgur.com/iq3W18x.png

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/18IkkbuxMbrzaVKHRnqXqtWimxF5...
It is me or does this feel like WordPress?
function hello() {
var x = 0;
return
{
x: x,
y: y
};
};

Just putting semicolons where you think it can work won't help you. If you write javascript, you must know what the asi does. So semicolons or no semicolons is completely irrelevant.
We wanted to stay simple as possible and use wide spread technologies. So HTML pages for templates, PHP for server side, file system for storage and drag and drop for editing.
Now that's a fault tolerant distributed network. IP is jealous in some ways. Can you email with El Paquete?

I also wonder if content is higher quality or at least more carefully curated than on the always connected internet.
That's neat. I think I'd seen that but forgotten about it since it has remained mostly irrelevant.

I'm excited about the idea, but I'm also pretty skeptical of this infrastructure even being run by Google. I'd rather it be open source. The project could fund itself through the same donations it enables for others, which is more concrete of a fundamental than a lot of other projects.
Of note related to this are the following:

* There is an email going around supposedly from an insider saying reddit intends to sue voat.co http://cityworldnews.com/reddit-plans-lawsuit-against-voat-c...

* Voat.co ( when accessible ) was mirroring some content from Reddit ( copyright infringement? ... )

* Voat.co seems to be crushed and possibly being DDOSed

* Last I heard when I was at a speech by Alexis Ohanian himself, he is for free speech to a rather extreme level. I did not get the impression he would ban any content besides what is absolutely necessary to keep the business running.
The Foundation of Virtual Reality
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Is there a good ad blocker that can be set to NOT block by default, and that provides an easy, one button or so, interface to turn blocking on for the site currently being viewed? I want to operate under a policy of giving new sites I visit a chance to show me that they can advertise responsibly and blacklist them if they show that the cannot.

All the ones I've tried so far (AB, ABP, uBlock) are strongly oriented toward blocking everywhere by default and whitelisting sites that you do not want to block on.

I suspect that most people who use an ad blocker do so not because of some moral objection to the very concept of advertising to pay the bills so that a site can provide free content to the general public. They use an ad blocker because they got tired of sites whose ads do obnoxious things like block the content, move the content around [1], make noise, put distracting animation in your peripheral vision, and so on.

By blocking all ads by default, the current ad blockers break the feedback loop that should be pushing sites toward ads that don't have the problems mentioned in the previous paragraph.

[1] moving the content around is what got me to install an ad blocker. Gocomics.com started doing ads that slide in from the left side, pushing the comic you are reading to the right. If you have zoomed in to make the comic more readable, this could push the right panel of the comic off the screen. Since the slide in ads did not run on every page (and when they did run, it was with a delay of a few seconds), you could not anticipate them and position the zoomed comic appropriately.
I believe short term sponsoring should be worked on. Your game needs a good mouse and Logitech wants to increase its presence on the gamer market? You feature an ad from them.

The way ads are served usually today is so terrible that it encourages the use of ad blockers. Get the control back on them. Integrate them in your contents - on your terms and transparently - and the Web will probably be better for everyone.

The problem is that it's a lot of work and you have better things to do. I've heard of proxy companies that to do the boring stuff (hunting announcers, contract negotiation, etc.) for YT streamers.
Reduced demand, smaller output ... sounds like some CA farms will be going out of business. Which, in a heavy drought, is probably inevitable anyway.
I mean, by comparison to the entire U.S., Michigan's non-water area is only 2.5% of the overall U.S.

Relativistically and logistically speaking, it's a tiny amount of land to cover with internet.
They are right next to Hawthorne Airport... that's the only place I can see the track being located. The rest of the surroundings are industrial buildings.
Ok, now I get what you mean. I was a bit confused, because it sounded like simply building an AST and processing that, which for me is the "obvious" form of an interpreter (without the generating machine code)
Ask HN: How do you translate your app?
I'm in the process of translating portions of a web app of mine into multiple languages. I was wondering what sites/services some of you have used to help with the internationalization process.
The process once it gets going is pretty quick but the energy buildup required is fairly substantial and is defined by material properties (shear modulus).
You're not helping by keeping a fix out of people's hands.
Ah, I see what you're saying. And I agree to a certain extent.

I guess what bugs me is that the CSPC is causing (by inaction) many thousands of people who are involved in lower energy bike crashes to get concussions.

Whether there is no market or not I think is debatable though, because the CSPC standard has definitely "warped" the market. In other words, all the helmets pass the standard and it's very difficult to tell if one is "better" than another. And because of that, differentiation is only based on looks.

Because the minimal level of protection is so high it's very hard to effectively market that one helmet is "safer" than another in that it'll protect you in the common but not life threatening crash that most people encounter. And because it's so difficult, nobody does it.

It's not hard to imagine that marketing your helmet as "safer" in some way might result in getting fines from the CSPC or lawsuits from your competitors for libel, since all helmets have to pass the CSPC test.

Given the choice between some risk of getting fired, going to jail, bankrupting your company, etc or just doing nothing, most people with the power to actually make a difference aren't going to risk anything. And I can't really blame them for it.
Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 with Open Arms?
I think $2000-$3000 price is the price Carlsbad pays for its desalinated water ([1]):

" January 17, 2008, article in the Wall Street Journal stated, "In November, Connecticut-based Poseidon Resources Corp. won a key regulatory approval to build the $300 million water-desalination plant in Carlsbad, north of San Diego. The facility would produce 50,000,000 US gallons (190,000,000 l; 42,000,000 imp gal) of drinking water per day, enough to supply about 100,000 homes ... Improved technology has cut the cost of desalination in half in the past decade, making it more competitive ... Poseidon plans to sell the water for about $950 per acre-foot [1,200 cubic meters (42,000 cu ft)]. That compares with an average [of] $700 an acre-foot [1200 m³] that local agencies now pay for water."In June 2012, new estimates were released that showed the cost for the desalinated water had risen to $2,329 per acre-foot. Each $1,000 per acre-foot works out to $3.06 for 1,000 gallons, or $.81 per cubic meter."

This particularly bad implementation does not mean it could not be made better. In the same source [1],

"In 2014, the Israeli cities of Hadera, Palmahim, Ashkelon, and Sorek were desalinizing water for less than US$0.40 per cubic meter.[28] As of 2006, Singapore was desalinating water for US$0.49 per cubic meter."

As for subsidizing the water plants, the question is unclear, but I've got an impression that it's not the case, the Soreq technology seems to be really more efficient.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Desalination#Economics
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"In the evaluation in section 7 of the paper, Heron beats Storm in every single metric."

In every metric except perhaps the most important one for actual users:

Storm is open source, Heron isn't.

Also, the @TwitterOSS account indicated that there are "no plans to open source in the short-term":

https://twitter.com/TwitterOSS/status/605460461761396736
> how things worked in the olden-days, before the Internet.

That's exactly the problem in Cuba. It feels like a time capsule from the 80's. It is not only about PCs and networking. We are talking about people that have to craft their own spare parts for cars from 50s-60s.

They have a submarine cable from Venezuela that gives them networking but giving the sad state of Internet connection in Venezuela I guess that is not of much help anyway.
When I'm wrestling with a problem I'll sometimes go outside and pace back and forth in my yard. Pacing has been a habit of mine since I was a kid, I remember doing it one time my mom told me "stop pacing, you're making me nervous."

As an adult I love walking, I feel that it's when I can think the clearest. And as an adult I still pace, especially at the gym when I'm resting before my next set.

Now I'm starting to wonder about myself. Anyways, go on walks!
AWS Fast Storage: EFS vs. EBS
They could use what I will call a rocket-estate crash coupling:

1. "Accidentally" crash a rocket near some properties there (far enough not to do any actual damage).

2. Wait for said property prices to crash.
I guess this is yet more systemd bashing, because the scripts are so small.

These runscripts are useless. They only start a service.

From the article:

This is deliberate; as the intent here is to allow an apples-to-apples comparison

It is not. It's comparing appleseeds with apples
Aren't these meant to be underground?
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What about removing the default filtering lists from ublock and then building it back up as you go using the "picker" ui?
> I worked a physical job, stocking books and filling book orders for a summer while in college[1]. I used a pedometer and rarely went much above 10k steps (for the 8 hour shift anyway). That's walking basically for 8 hours straight (with stops to place or grab a book).

Despite how it might subjectively seem, its not anything even approximately like walking 8 hours straight if you don't get over 10k steps; a fairly average walking pace is ~80 steps per minute, for 8 hours that works out to 38,400 steps.
The article explicitly focuses on the decline of violent crime. You can definitely argue that lower resale value of VCRs can cause a decrease in burglaries, however, it doesn't explain a similar decrease in the number of rapes.
I love it. If I installed an uBlock on, say, my grandparent's computer to try to prevent them from getting malware, I would be happy with it blocking SourceForge.
Good.

Seriously, the subreddits were pulled down because of behavior not speech. It would be nice to have a little less hate behavior.
Why is resolved feature-creep? It's rather nice to have working name resolution out of the box when coupling it with networkd and firing up a container.

I mean, it's not my standard usecase in this moment of my life, but I see how it can be useful.

(Also, your last link reports that "This bug is for livecd-tools which has been fixed", I don't know what's the point you're trying to make.)
With the amount of code developed in open git repositories, surely it is possible now to quantify these observations? Bring hard facts to the discussion.
Don't know what that's all about; sorry to press your hot button. But a stable society needs a middle class. You take businesses away, drive people to leave their homeland, its gonna be disruptive.
I agree with most of these points, however, anecdotally I will say that my helmet prevented some pretty nasty facial road rash when I was doored a few years ago. I tipped and hit my head, and then slid ~10 feet. My helmet prevented my face/ear from taking the initial impact as well as the subsequent slide across the dirty urban asphalt.

Helmets don't just protect from massive TBIs.
Well the design review is happening at Texas A&M. I'm sure they could have done the test track here easily.
> 8,700 daily steps is a lot...it implies a conscious effort to exercise

Well, yeah, you'd kind of expect that with active Fitbit users.

> so I wouldn't expect a significant drop with the weather.

I would, though I'd expect it to be less than you'd see from more casual people. Conscious effort doesn't completely negate the effects of convenient opportunities vs. adverse conditions.
If its difficult for reddit to turn a profit, how does voat.co plan to exist? Its maintainer footing the bill out of his own pocket forever?
What you call JSON is what I've usually heard called a ViewModel: a logical representation of the state of your view. I've found it very useful as well.
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You're in luck!

https://plus.google.com/+PeterKasting/posts/GpL63A1K2TF
I think it's reasonable to expect at this point that there would be quite a lot of people willing to help Musk battle various leeches and vultures.
My most productive day of coding ever was the day I took a day off work and went for a 10 mile walk through London. Whenever I got stuck I would shut the laptop and walk. Eventually, the answer would come to me while walking and I'd carry on coding. I think I spent about 2.5 hours coding and the rest of the day walking.

It's just a shame it was a) closed source and b) I didn't get paid for it!
> Guess what crop California spends almost 50% of its water on? Alfalfa, which is used to feed cattle.

Alfalfa isn't used for just cattle, you know.

Also, do you have a source for that number? I'm having trouble finding one from a U.S. or California government source (USGS, USDA, CDFA, etc.), but at least one article [0] pins that number at closer to 15% (and almonds at 10%).

> Also, just cutting out beef can make a huge dent. It's water usage is truly wtf level

A citation is also needed here. According to the USGS's 2010 data (which admittedly is likely outdated), livestock as a whole (beef, chicken, pork, you name it) takes up around 0.5% of California's water [1]. Whether or not this includes alfalfa is unclear, but if the previous figure is correct, I'd suggest that cattle water usage is nowhere near the "WTF" level.

That figure makes a lot of sense to me, having grown up raising angus cattle (I'm not sure whether or not dairy cattle have higher water requirements due to milk production being their emphasis). Alfalfa was certainly a big part of their feed, but grass hay and grazing were just as important to their diet. Larger commercial operations might have different methods, but I'd reckon that most ranches aren't high-scale commercial operations.

[0]: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...

[1]: http://ca.water.usgs.gov/water_use/2010-california-water-use...
Speaking for myself, I tend to purchase games. I avoid in-game purchases like the plague. I might download an ad supported game if the ads stay out of the way. If I continue to play an ad supported game and there's an ad-free, payed for version, then I'll upgrade.
I believe it would be overhead too as shown on their site. I assume it would be easier to construct overhead tracks adjacent or over the freeways.
Ex-A.I.G Chief Wins Bailout Suit, but Gets No Damages
OK, I'll bite. So what kind of Internet content have you paid for? And how do you pay for it without being tracked? Because you know, credit cards payments transmit your personal information. Or have you successfully transitioned to a Bitcoin-only currency lifestyle?
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/master/...

Spacemacs was pretty impressive when I took it for a spin a while back, still ended up back on pycharm/phpstorm though (just too functional after a lot of use).
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Given conditions, what else could have realistically be done? Post Bay of Pigs, things were gonna be hostile ( and Fidel Castro fed politically on the dischord ). Cuba sort of wanted to be offline. The Revolution timed with Eisenhower's departure, so Kennedy set the tone.

Bay of Pigs was a busted op; there is long term blowback from those.

Might be worth gaining a little perspective on the Caribbean in general - James Michener's "Caribbean" is quite good , an easy and entertaining read and sketches out the basic historical framework. We don't think of the historical significance of any of the climes which were once Spanish holdings enough in English speaking cultures, IMO.

Of particular interest is the effect of the uprising in Haiti, which we still feel today.

Also, I am somewhat surprised Canada didn't jump on trade with Cuba - ten years ago, vacations there were advertised in Montreal. The Canadian embassy in Cuba never closed nor did the Cuban embassy in Canada.
Brubeck – A statsd-compatible metrics aggregator
Why we picked AKKA cluster as our microservice framework
I've been a remote worker for the past ten years. If I'm on the phone, I'm up walking around the neighborhood because it helps me to think clearly while talking but also it gives me an excuse to get out of my chair. Unfortunately, more and more groups want to video conference which is annoying because I can't really do that while on the move.
I get what you're saying and do agree to an extent. But you have to bare in mind that the bundles are presented in such a way to deliberately trick users into installing software they don't want installed. SF very much intentionally loads adware and other software that they know the vast majority of users wouldn't want; and very much do so in a covert way (eg having the "Install" button labelled "I agree" so users think they're signing a EULA).

So one could argue that their installer is a trojan since it's actual behaviour isn't the same as it's presented behavior. Thus even if the software they install isn't malware, their method of deployment is.
They bundled user hostile software:

https://sourceforge.net/blog/advertising-bundling-community-...

Therefore, we evaluated a few Installer Partners to help us address end-users’ complaints related to one or more of the following reasons:

a) opaque installation flows providing little or no choice about secondary offering installations;

b) undocumented and difficult to uninstall procedures for those secondary offerings;

c) secondary offerings that are not always safe, trusted and secure applications.

We addressed points a) to c), and our approach was highly appreciated by eminent members of different open source communities.

Then they figured out that they had made a mistake and started bundling less user hostile software.

If they had not bundled stuff people didn't want, they would say that there instead of back peddling.
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Are you seriously saying that most distribution maintainers were happy with sysvinit?

For what is worth, all the Debian maintainers I know, even those who are not systemd supporters, felt that sysvinit had to go in a way or the other (eg. during the default init debate the options were systemd and Upstart, sysvint was doomed to be replaced and only kept as a compatibility option in any case.)
This is how piracy worked in Hungary during the nineties. Maybe at first it was floppy disks that I can't remember but I remember 120MB QIC tapes (floppy interface, crazy slow) then DAT tapes then hard drives. Weekly delivery from Austria.
Things worked for me like this while growing as a kid in Burgas, Bulgaria, up until I graduated in 1994.

There was a guy that used to carry a big back of disks - Apple ][, but mostly PC, where he would let people copy off things he got, but often he charged - for example I had to pay something like $1 for Mission Impossible back then (the Apple ][ and the PC game - can't remember which one I've got).

Open source wasn't really in my mind then, and It was a really good awesome moment when I saw that there are sources for a compression program (zip/unzip). Until then we've had PKWARE Arc, PKWARE Zip, LHA, LZH - and everything that was coming was only DOS binaries (no source).

And then one day he got this disk with these sources, and for some reason he let me borrow the disk and copy it.