skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adblocking is already a thing on desktops/laptops and iOS 9 isn't going to ship with an Adblocker turned on or included. People will have to go download one in the App Store just like how they'd currently do in their desktop browsers.

The only thing happening is that the functionality is going to be added letting people do this. I suppose the fact that the App Store is really simple to use will make it easier on top of likely having a good Adblocker featured on top.

I'm already running iOS 9 dev build and have built my own Adblocker using the new APIs and it's been great, personally it makes me actually want to browse more content on my iPhone than before. Previously I'd just give up on some sites and switch to the laptop or not even load the content to begin with because of long loads and too many ads.
Windows 10 tries to make you pay to play Solitaire
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962913
The One Second Website
I'm not sure what the practical limits are on host file size, but I just checked my phone with up to date AdAway lists and it's sitting at 56429 lines (with about 10 or so of those being comments)
bahahahhahaha no.
Looks cool. The only little nitpick I have is that the "place to start your 365 project" tagline made me think it was referring to Office365 at first. Not sure if that's just me though.
> That's like saying, if a kid doesn't want to eat his vegetables or go to school, he shouldn't have to, right?

It's nothing like that, unless you belive society should act like, and have the same powers as, your parents.
I agree.

It's silly that the wifi owner has to opt-out of wifi sense. Because it's not like it's already difficult enough for a non-techie to securely configure his access point, no, let's add another thing he has to care/know about.

And the way to opt-out is even sillier: you have to append _optout to your SSID. The SSID should not be used to control the clients behaviour imho.
The inefficiencies of federalism comprise one of the inherent trade-offs in the U.S. system, and it is worth remembering that you can't actually transfer value over a wire: you can only transfer a promise. The value of promises is based on the integrity of the entities making them, and so the barriers to entry into the business of moving money are high, as they were high 150 years ago when the only mechanism available was letters of credit exchanged between well-known international bankers. I'm not sure you want those barriers lowered.
CoderGears launch the “Well-Developed Project” program for C/C++ projects
"Everything that Apple releases is a 'revolution' according to Apple fans" according to Apple haters. See Artie MacStrawman[1].

The article isn't saying that Apple enabling ad blocking in Safari is a "revolutionary" new feature; it's saying that bringing ad blocking into the mainstream could cause a serious disruption in existing online advertising business models.

[1]http://crazyapplerumors.com/2006/08/21/everybody-tired-of-on...
Reddit’s /r/geopolitics shadowbans users
Imagine LG doing something like this with their TVs...
Any relation to https://www.rooms.me/
or are you just lifting their design without credit?

You forget to take out links to their site. (bottom right)

Pretty dumb move, considering rooms.me is by FB, and there's bound to a be FB people looking on HN.
This is why we use Take-Home tests here at deezer.
The part we don't have got right yet is how to manage the length of such an exercise. Finding a problem where you have to both demonstrate how you handle several common issues and that is not too long is pretty hard.
Investing in an electric bike – wise spend or frivolous toy?
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Nice work! But people should be aware that this type of thing is patented left right and sideways. I wrote a patent for automated actor replacement in filmed media in '05, filed it globally, and it began being awarded in '08 in the various regions it was filed. Here's one of the US versions: http://www.google.com/patents/WO2007035558A2?cl=en I no longer own it; now it is part of a broad family of patents collectively forming a "Personalized Media" infrastructure. It is owned by a major media company I'm not allowed to disclose.

Essentially, it is possible to replace people, objects, environments, & audio elements automatically through a series of techniques. Those techniques form the basis of a powerful advertising and message delivery infrastructure. And the collective IP is already owned by a major media conglomerate.
> Ban flash. Biggest competition to native apps

That's not why that happened. Flash wasn't "banned," Apple chose not to allow support for it in Mobile Safari from the beginning. It was never removed or banned.

Flash was a dog. Power hungry, slow, inefficient. I recently had to touch the codebase for an Adobe Air iOS app and the runtime is pretty horrific. Adobe never got flash good enough for mobile, and Apple was right to call them out on it.

Flash was never any good on Android either. Otherwise it'd still be around.

> Cripple the iOS web browser just enough that web apps trying to have native style performance will struggle.

Mobile Safari is a good browser. It's fast and is not crippled. It consistently beats browsers on other mobile platforms despite running on often slower hardware. A great mobile web browser is what made the iPhone a great product.

> Release their own map to push Google out of their ecosystem. When that didn't work now they are trying this.

This is because Apple's contract with Google expired and they had to renew on terms that they could not agree to. My recollection of this is that Google wanted a bigger branding presence on the iOS home screen and refused to license mapping data for turn-by-turn navigation (I believe they wanted the Apple-developed Google Maps application to be branded "Google Maps" rather than just "Maps"). Apple saw no way out aside from investing in their own mapping data and infrastructure.
This stuff is straight out of "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. What's next? Facebook powered Metaverse and bikers with sovereign status because they pack personal nuclear weapons?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Apple provides hooks so that a web page can display an official, system supported "there is an app for this web site, tap here to download it" banner. I will bet $5 that Apple does not provide a way to block those.
They are right. If you haven't actually visited the establishment and used its services, you shouldn't be able to review it. Same with products reviews on Amazon or app reviews on phone app stores.
You can indeed. Are they the ones that shipped with the original Go as well?
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The internet is a tool that's the preferred method of communication among a growing number of people. Everyone who doesn't have access to it (by lack of technology, lack of education, etc) will slowly become more and more isolated from the rest of society as long as they can't access it. Even if someone chooses to never actually use the internet it is still important that they can if ever they change their mind.

Plus, a large number of old people say they don't need or want access because they don't know what they can use it for, or they're scared of looking stupid because they're not yet learned the technology required. That isn't the same as actually having no reason to use it. Most (like, 99.9999%) of people do have some reason to use it.
Optional, download-it-yourself ad blockers aren't likely to move the needle on iAd growth.

This is the problem with many of the comments here. 90% of iOS users won't use it.
This is sickening that someone approved this, knowing that buyers would choose the other trims based on safety ratings. In my opinion, someone should go to jail for this.

This is another reason why Tesla is so much better. They designed the car to be safe, period. They don't care to cheat on crash tests, because by designing the car to be as safe as possible, they will automatically do well in crash tests.
Yes, precisely. As an example, much of human communication is non-verbal and automatic. You're picking up on various queues, body language, there's a flow to it and all of it is subconscious.

If the machinery that does all of that is missing, broken, or functions poorly, you end up with an individual who has difficulty communicating well. He can speak, is intelligent, but seems absolutely daft when it comes to social interactions.

The general response of such individuals is to use the parts that work well to reach a reasonable outcome. For example, that persons' memory might be excellent. So that person memorizes hundreds of social interactions, recalls the specific one he happens to be in, and presses the play button on the recording.

The result isn't perfect. It's sluggish. Kind of like emulating software on hardware it was never meant to run on (hence, the analogy). But it works and certainly works better than nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtbbmeyh5rk
Good piece, but more specific to money licensing companies.

One more thing: Unlike most regulated industries, this is not a space where you "do and ask for forgiveness later". You have to be super aggressive when it comes to compliance. Otherwise you will get shut down. Think of it as "preventative health" to the extreme :)
I think that's the other side of the issue, but I think what the author is trying to get at is the fact there's an entire underclass of poor, uneducated individuals that are unable to use the Internet for the most basic tasks (govt services comes to mind). It's not a rosy picture when you think about the elderly among that population where the majority of services in the rural areas are very poor (I've had some experience with this while living in Norton, Kansas for a year). Having access to the Internet could make it easier to get the services they need.

In a larger context I see this as a problem of laying out infrastructure in general. Namely, the lion's share of the infrastructure dollars are put into the most economically wealthy areas. That's okay up to a point that the other parts of the country (rural) are also citizens of the nation and their part of the infrastructure (Internet included) is something out of the 1950s or worse. It's not so much about building an equivalent infrastructure (overbuilt and expensive) for the rural parts of America, but creating infrastructure that is compatible and scalable to the needs of those regions. In my opinion, leaving them with dial up or satellite Internet isn't an option.
Someone has to pay the bills. It's conceivable that the iOS users are all loss-leaders telling their non-ad-blocking friends to read the article, but that's kind of stretching it.
Testing without mocking in Scala
Hacking for charity
If people incorrectly assume that the alternative to "free with ads" is "free with no ads" then we will have a market failure.
TPP likely to undo New Zealand's ban on software patents
It isn't identical to the article.

I think there needs to be a list of convicted felons somewhere that is widely accessible with their addresses so people are aware they are in the neighborhood. However, I don't think it should list them as "sex offenders" or the like. There is an unearned stigma in many of the cases. [e.g. urinating in public gets you on THE LIST]
An odd statement given it's Google who's been doing this the most recently (QUIC, SPDY).
Shows to watch similar to it's only sunny, it crowd, breaking bad
Its not clear to me why you think "PHP is not a very good language for the majority of what we're building". In my opinion, you should have a strong reason for rewriting an application.

A good answer strongly depends on that. Here are some thoughts:

1) If it is for style and maintenance reasons, then Python with one of the frameworks (Flask is very easy to get started) would be a good start.

2) If performance is a reason, then see if you can separate out a portion of your PHP code to call the Go service. You can use message queues as a bridge between the services for better scalability.

For most applications pure Python will not hurt. Python is very productive to develop. If you need to scale in the future, you can identify bottlenecks and rewrite them.
Tech: Clinton wants to kick ISIS off Twitter
That's fantastic, and I have to say that I treat apps the same way. There's no question that push and other notifications are going to be used for [insert marketing buzzwords], but the core question is who are these notifications intending to benefit - the user or the app sending them? I think that good companies know they can accomplish their goal without being obtuse by using notifications to help vs. sell.

We discuss this exact issue in one of our upcoming pieces, the one focusing on users, and we touch on it in the marketing one as well. You'll have to wait a couple days for it though. :)
With all my respect to quality media like NYT, I don't want a full-scale subscription. What I'd like is paying a few cents for a specific article in a hassle-free way.

Micropayments are hard because of the transaction costs, but this seems to slowly change (see e.g. flattr). I wish more sites offered a per-view zero-setup one-click micropayment solution.

What's more interesting is what Google will do if their ads revenue shrinks considerably — I suppose 99% of their income is targeted online context ads.
> It is owned by a major media company I'm not allowed to disclose.

Why would a patent owner want to remain unknown?
It's a patent and you're not allowed to disclose its owner? Is that a thing? Secret patents?
I tried NoScript for a bit. Obviously most social networks stopped working, but I liked how NYT became free again (since they track you by a cookie) and obviously HN remained solid. Essentially NoScript just means no online socializing, which I think I might grow to become ok with.
Would you mind elaborating on your workflow? I tried pitching something similar to this to my team of 12 and got a lot of resistance.
In late 1980s, it was expected that by 2000, you'd have a GaAs computer on every desktop (powered by Occam or Prolog, of course ;-)). In the end, it turned out that silicon had more life in it than was expected, while being much cheaper and easier to manufacture.
New Magazine Teaches Web, Mobile and Game Development
Install banners are built in to the browser, and just show metadata provided by the site. I strongly doubt they will be blockable.
The article ends with:
"Summary
So here You have it. Google can index (and indexes) hidden text and dynamically inserted text. If content is relavant to Your website, You won't get penalty from google."

I think that's disingenuous. The panda algorithm is believed to specifically target duplicate content. You're saying that if I had a website full of content stolen from more authoritative web sources that I wouldn't lose any ability to rank? I think you're wrong :)
BLEkey – How to Clone RFID cards with a $10 device
Would you rather people spend time developing in this area only to learn they can't use their work?
Ted Nelson's Guiding Principles [video]
That's excellent, I like it!
The internet is a tool like anything else. You can waste time on it or be productive. To assume the 'real' world is not a time waster and the internet is, is a false dichotomy. People wasted plenty of time before the internet.

I'm also not sure what's the point of reading 'real' books. The internet and technology in general has allowed me to read more books than I ever thought I would. From book discovery to reading convenience, the internet has made books more accessible to more people than than any other invention since the library.
> Ban flash. Biggest competition to native apps.

Well, except native apps didn't exist when the iPhone launched and Steve Jobs was famously opposed to them.

> Cripple the iOS web browser just enough that web apps trying to have native style performance will struggle.

If you think that, you should watch this https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2015/?id=501
Venmo received both of CA and NY licenses itself while it was an agent to a money transmitter license for the rest of the states before it was acquired.
They still didn't take them out. The links are just commented out in the code now.
You're awesome.

To make it really authentic, the text that states the artist and track title shouldn't be so sharp. It should look as blurry as the video.

Other than that this is a perfect bit of fun. I love the Internet.
Other people his age seem to manage just fine not saying racist comments. Why is he an exception?
No, it wouldn't (most likely): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
One hopes its something reasonable like: "If you don't like the show, don't watch it."
Don't forget that you can whitelist domains, or disable/enable them per session.
I think its known Google can masquerade as a "normal" visitor if it suspects you of cloaking (non identifying UA string and coming from a non disclosed google crawl IP)

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en

I think they also use this to notify you in webmastertools when/if your site is hacked and is doing it to avoid detection by the normal user.
Those were the terms of the sale. I was not in a position to argue.
> If they don't want to use the internet, they don't have to, right?

Sure.

That doesn't mean that we shouldn't care about the social factors that result in them choosing not, and the social impacts that that choice has.

> The benefits and cost of internet use are concentrated on the individual

There certainly are private costs and benefits; an underlying premise of the article -- which, to be fair, it seems to mostly assume rather than support, despite the fact that the support for that would be the answer to the question posed in the headline -- is that there are also social costs and benefits, and that they are important.

> so I'm not sure that we should expend a lot of effort to force them to "join" the internet if they don't want it.

None of the efforts discussed in the article, or its linked articles, is about efforts to force anyone to join the internet. So, while I'm sure most would agree with you, you seem to be beating a strawman.
Hanes data breach
Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely look that book up.
5 secrets your customers will Never tell you
I wasn't even joking, I'd really love to try purely static (beside the old guard <a> <form> elements) webpages and am delighted there's such an option, this is amazing, thanks.
tl;dr; GS wouldn't have done anything, but it might magically change the "culture" and cause regulators to do other unspecified things which would have done something.

Um, ok.

Also, the main "make a quick buck" bank was Goldman. They did just fine. It was the "make long term safe bets" banks that had problems, e.g. Countrywide, WaMu, Citi. Also, there is nothing inherently wrong with securitization. The underlying problem was the mortgages themselves; securitization merely shifts the risk around.

Regulation isn't just a magic lever that you can switch to "more" or "less". Your post is as clueless as a PHB saying "we need more code, lets switch to J2EE so we'll have lots more lines of code!"
Github Enterprise is essentially a self-hosted version of Github. And there are similar open sourced alternatives like GitLab and Gitorious too. I wonder why those alternatives didn't threat Github Enterprise? First-mover advantage? Branding?
I don't mind ads. I hate the tracking. I either want a market solution to it, or, failing that, I want it outlawed.
>I wonder how many fell into the bucket of "found a computer (not the web) too difficult to use." I'm quite serious.

Absolutely. For years, I've been tech support for my dad. I think it's safe to say that he just never "got" PCs. Icons would move and it would cause confusion. I don't think he ever really grokked the concept of filesystems. In short, he was never really able to understand using a PC at a level where, if something happened that cause things to go off script, he could get what was happening and adapt. And he was genuinely uninterested in going deeper.

I won't say he's embraced the iPad I gave him to the same degree as your mother. I still need to pretty much set things up for him. But he's very comfortable reading the news, playing solitaire, and ordering from Amazon in a way that he never was with a PC.

(A Chromebook might have worked too but he can't really type very well and I suspect the fact that the iPad doesn't look like a PC is probably an element in his being more comfortable with it.)
This looks completely lifted. http://imgur.com/a/Jqmrq
Wth's a full stack Javascript developer?
I know what a full-stack developer is. Are these the same?
A couple of months ago, a Google engineer did an interview on this very subject where, I believe, he mentioned that text would be indexed and penalty would only be given when possible. This was interesting because obvious white text on white background would be penalized but not dynamically hidden text through Javascript because they were not able to reliably determine if the practice was intended and legitimate (a carousel for example) or malicious.

If anyone is able to find that interview, I'd be extremely thankful.
Binder is not 2% of the mass of the pill.
Indexing != SEO

A better test is to insert mentions to another site for relevant keywords. Then measure impact on ranking for the other site.

My guess is likely zero to negative impact (due to hidden text being penalized)
I doubt it will be around in the future. Apple introduced iAds because they wanted better (i.e., less tacky) mobile ads. Recall their initial messaging around iAds: we design your ads, extremely costly initial ad buys, only big brands. They even enabled WebGL just for iAd.

Unfortunately banner ads are tacky no matter what.

iAds was all about making the rising-in-popularity (at the time) free, ad-supported apps less horrid. Increasing the perceived quality of their platform, and selling more hardware.
Porting your Javsascript to ES6
FTFA: And it's not merely a matter of waiting for old fuddy-duddies who don't "get it" to die off: As the data show, older people have been among the quickest to adopt the Internet among the disconnected population.
No, he would rather be free to use the code he wrote.
Ars Interviews Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon
Even if it's patented you can still play around with the technology yourself. Just don't sell it or make a product out of it.
I'm not saying that. It's just frustrating.
Ok, I don't think the article was at all addressing this angle. It was trying to address how in certain demographics there is a real problem with people who do not want to interact with the web, as in they do not want to participate with the rest of society in that way because they feel it is not relevant to them, not because they are affluent and simply don't have a need to use it.

I've heard the old adage of "we all need to use our phones less, that's the real problem with society, nobody talks to each other anymore", but it always seems like people are viewing the past with rose-tinted glasses when they say this. Just take a look at this meme: https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/800/1*U36hBj8i-C7J...

I have real, spontaneous conversations all the time. The phone can be a distraction, but so was my paperback copy of the Lord of the Rings when I was a kid. So was my school newspaper with a sudoku puzzle and a crossword that I would do instead of listening to a boring lecture in college. Sure, some people have a problem with the phone, but I don't think the phone is necessarily at fault for people distracting themselves.
I can also not use these kinda apps lol. Whats the point of putting in all these features to stop people if it merely results in an uninstall?
As far as I can tell, this is just a patent troll's patent. It seems to be a very generic process for replacing people, objects, environments, etc.
Just to echo this a bit, I spent 3 years working on image similarity tech and a lot of our research was challenging, not because of the intrinsic complexity of the problem, but because we had to implement it in such a way as to step around existing patents.