skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The uptake of AdBlock and its commercial sibling Adblock Plus has been gradual"

Adblock Plus is in no way a commercial offshoot of Adblock. I thought Adblock went defunct, Adblock Plus picked up where they left off (plus extra features), and then at a later point Adblock returned. Despite the name, it's not some industrial commercial version of Adblock. They're different plugins, with different people behind them..... right? ABP is open source, too (according to its site).
thanks, I was looking to do this on a macbook pro. looks like the 15" with the quadcore and 16gb would be the way to go. I was initially looking at 13" with dual core and 16gb due to batter life and weight.
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And when that happens it will be interesting to see what happens to all the user data they amassed. Good chances it will be a cross between the user data sale by RadioShack [1] and the scramble to acquire Nortel patents [2].

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/paularosenblum/2015/03/24/bankru...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/jul/01/nortel-pat...
> When Wi-Fi Sense is fully enabled, it shares most of your Wi-Fi access passwords with all of your Outlook.com, Skype, and Facebook contacts.

I'm scared.
> No, not even nearly enough. Every little problem domain needs its own language.

> Then you really do not understand the value of DSLs. And you don't have to dump anything, eDSLs allow everything to co-exist nicely.

How about using a language that lets you build DSLs from it? Lisps are especially good choice.

I don't really see the point in createing a new language that is 95% identical to everything else, only to tweak that last 5%. Yes, you're still using a library, you're just hiding it inside the compiler.
I'm looking forward to the increased number of affordable subscription-based news and entertainment sources that spring up due to the inability to rely on bottom-of-the-barrel style ad revenue. (A model that isn't working for the majority of providers or consumers.) We've seen an explosion in quantity of content. I'm looking forward to an uptick in quality.
Really? Do you have some examples? What are these disabilities measured against other than the "norm"? Some of the most learning challenged I've known were incredible streetwise for an example.
It doesn't have to be fine, but it has to be optimistic. "Long week, but the weekend's almost here, amirite?" Perfectly OK.
Safari is more energy-efficient than Chrome and Firefox on OS X
Well, okay. Let's change my question to "Is it fine for me to give my money to comedians I find funny, and not to comedians I don't find funny? And to then tell those comedians why I'm chosing not to buy their product?"
Let's say it's a confirmation bias from someones who has 2 shrinks (and no clear diagnostic appart from depression), some medicines and not been employed for 3 years.
Can anyone provide back of the napkin calculations on this proposed supercomputers computing power vs Googles compute farm?
That's too simple. Apple (and others) have relentlessly tried to optimize power saving. People like phones with a good battery time, plus I assume that there can be significant cost saving if you can use smaller capacity batteries.

They have probably come to a point where a significant amount of power use during mobile browsing is caused by ads (both rendering and the extra network use that it incurs). Blocking ads could be a welcome power saver.
Note/JFYI: The link goes to a pretty slim article that has an auto-playing video.
Pretty much this: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

Note that certain adware/spyware domains, like google-analytics( look at the tags <maybe-spy> and <maybe-ads> ), are commented out, so edit the file as per your needs.

Google's re-capthas are coming from google.com, to block them add:

127.0.0.1 google.com

127.0.0.1 www.google.com

This may be a tough choice to make, depending on how integrated has Google become with your life ( note how I phrased this relationship ).
That link doesn't work because of the dot at the end. Correct link: https://github.com/golang/go/network
While the article may have a pro Apple bias this comment exudes a negative Apple bias. Equally distasteful.
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I see GitHub's monopoly being in the services that integrate with it. We couldn't switch from GitHub even if we wanted to, not without finding alternatives to all the integrated services we use. That's too much friction for little gain.
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Ah, thanks for the pointer!

keyboard.type('foo');
keyboard.press('fn');

... makes much more sense.
I don't see any reason or indicator for a revolution. Ad-Blocking has been around for years. Also on mobile. It is nice that Apple finally has hooks for plugins in their mobile browser, but it is by no means a game changer or a revolution.
or the Bitcoin farmers?
> I don't understand why their apps for other platforms is so bad;

I assumed it was to push people to the FireTV.
> The overall article is of good quality but it reeks of Apple bias I personally find distasteful

Your entire comment is just anti-apple biased assumptions. How are you any better than the article?
>I'll bet Apple won't consider "Install from Apple Store" type messages as ads."

Which for me, is the worst kind. When you accidentally click an ad (sometimes unbeknownst to you) and suddenly the browser is closing and iTunes is opening, trying to get you to install Game of War...

That said, if ad-blocking works on iOS, I think much of what he writes comes true. It will be interesting.
CoreOS on ARM64 anyone interested to help?
Are Apple and Google needlessly destroying each others margins, here? Apple pushing ahead with this will just make Google desperately push Android as hard as they can.

If Google's ecosystem were left alone on iOS, Google would have fewer reasons to push Android heavily. On the other hand, if Google need Android devices out there in order for their ecosystem to survive, they might be more willing to see Android devices put into consumers' hands at break-even (or even loss-making) prices. Apple will either see market share decline or need to sacrifice part of their margins to maintain share.
It should come as no surprise that there's a huge segment of society whose stance on racial slurs is 'more, please.'
They could be referring to the app landscape too.
Though that's also true if it's done application-server side.
Honestly, the experience on some of these mobile websites is so horrible that I've actually started boycotting them when they're just too bad to endure. It's funny, as the screens get larger, the content space stays the same or shrinks. I think, "ooh more content on one page!" and they think "ooh more ads to cram in!"

It's just the worst. Ads with tiny close buttons, ads that mimic the content on the page in order to get you to click, banners at the top and bottom of the screen. I DON'T WANT YOUR SHIT. I can't wait till all of that goes away.
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Good idea. Vote with your feet!

(Just switched, never looking back)

I see it as changing my phone from having 3 "pimps" (mobile operator + Samsung + Google) to having just 1 (Apple fending off the others). And for the price of a cup of coffee you get quite decent apps instead of freemium ad-supported, slow as hell, ugly garbage apps.
i don't see anything in that paper that wouldn't fit into a regular API. i did see a line that said the details of the VM were outside the scope of the paper. i would be happy to hear what in those details prevents this from being done with existing languages. are you familiar with it?

also: easier for the developers perhaps but not for users.
> Not to mention the people who could use it legally but refuse to subscribe to Amazon.

Is that any different than those who refuse to subscribe to Netflix, HBO or Showtime, etc...
> Apple gets a cut on any money made from apps but not from Web ads.

Not if those apps are free and using non-Apple advertising networks like AdMob.
Good, no more blogspam/clickbait crap.
I think it is safe to assume that they will lobby to make ad blocking illegal before they go down.
Call me cynical, but I think most of the legislation introduced is driven by lobbyists from the start anyway.

General public may have the illusion that these regulations are in the interest of citizens, because of clever wording and names used, etc. The "Freedom Act" is SO not about freedom, it is almost funny.

EDIT: I am not cynical - this is a well recognized practice (thanks to cfreeman for his post below):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
>>Of course, at this point we should step back and ask “why were the adverts there in the first place?” Oh yes, because they help pay for the content. In some – well, many, almost all – cases, they pay for all of the content.

Honestly? I don't give a crap. Too many places have abused it and thrown stupid crap in just so they can make money. Just like the idiots who are careless with fireworks and then states ban them, the idiots have ruined it. It may not be fair or completely make sense but I don't want to see your ad NOR do I want your stupid newsletter so I'm going to block the modal window along with every ad on your site just so you end up losing money.

My favorite has been the "Complete survey to continue reading the article" or "Become a member to continue reading the article". Both of which cause me to just go, "Ok, well screw your site then. I'll go find one of the million other publishers of the exact same article on the internet. You don't have a scare resource anymore because you're just another bullshit media rewriter."
Honestly, aren't your comments as much an example of Apple bias as what you're commenting on, but with the sign reversed?
Another way publishers can fight this, is to not show the content if they detect ad blocking.
So ... I wrote that, and it's worth mentioning that I knew Noirin before the preference for different pronouns was stated. That is, I knew Noirin, as mentioned in my blog post, during the ASF days, before they moved away from ASF activity into other areas of activism. Thus, I used the pronoun which was preferred at the time of our acquaintance. Much like people that knew me as a kid call me "Richard" and people that knew me in college call me "Rich", likewise, people that knew Noirin earlier and later will likely use different pronouns, based on the norms at the time. No disrespect is meant, just fond memories of a too-short friendship.
> A DSL would have a nice BNF-like syntax and abstract any implementation details away.

Use powerful enough language.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Common_Lisp/External_libraries...

Here, you can pretty much write out your BNF directly and get a parser out of it.
I get that. That is exactly the same condition as sanitizing inputs in every other context of passing parameters to a service/proc/func. I would not phrase immunity to injection conditionally; there is no immunity, only sanitizing inputs.
How many of their staff hold PhDs, particularly in cognitive science, foundations of math, or AI? It would seem like a useful thing for them to get.
It woudo be interesting to find out how many production staff they poach.

Perhaps they used a lot lf contract staff anyway and won't be a big deal.

Either way, with Andy Wilman in charge and undoubtedly a bigger budget, I would say it will improve, if anything.

That said, I doubt it will be a clone of TG. They probably have had some ideas they have wanted to try, but couldn't because of the BBC and because they wouldn't be 'top gear'.
Most of the microwave amplifiers modules (MMICs), mixers, etc. the company I work for are built on GaAs, and we're starting to use GaN (Gallium Nitride) on one of our Ka band units (28-31GHz). The GaN parts are quite a bit more power efficient.

Not exactly sure why the tech is not more widely used though. Funnily enough, most of the GaN and GaAs devices in general use are LEDs!
Agree completely. My wife is Brazilian and she dislikes that term, but what else can you say? United States-ers? Technically Mexico is the United Mexican States, so that won't work either!

The silly thing is that it's viewed as a form of linguistic imperialism, where in reality it's just where the chips fell. And it's not limited to just that term. In our attempts at political correctness we often make a bigger mess of things. The term "Oriental" had fallen out of favor, and now we say "Asian" which to me is horribly imprecise. In Brazil, my nationality is "norteamericana" (North American), which of course is unfair to the Canadians and the Mexicans.

At some point you just have to accept it as the convention and move on.
I love this mockery of Top Gear by Stewart Lee...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc
Then they still get the $100 the dev paid to publish the app in the first place.
Ad blocking is very expensive. The iOS approach is the best idea. Have you seen the cost in memory and CPU of browser ad blocker extensions? That's prohibitive in mobile.
It kills me every time I read about how the world's nth-fastest computer is just used to simulate nuclear explosions, so it was a delight to see that they're planning on using this one for some good.
Please read: "No, German Scientists Have Not Confirmed the “Impossible” EMDrive" http://io9.com/no-german-scientists-have-not-confirmed-the-i... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973528 (5 points, 5 hours ago, 1 comment))

My abstract: It's very strange that the thrust don't appear almost instantly when you turn on the device and disappear almost instantly when you turn off the device. It's Is suspiciously similar to what you would expect from a measurement error due to thermal effects.

The only comment in the HN submission is mine, and I'll copy it (with a few modifications) because it's (more) relevant here.

Some numbers to compare:

The German experiment got 20uN with a 700W magneton, that is 20uN/700W = 0.03 mN/KW. (Probably some energy is "lost" and the "real" efficiency is higher, but when you claim to break the physics law the measurements must be foolproof.)

The maximal theoretical output of a device that don't break the currently accepted physics laws is 1/c = 0.0033 mN/KW. So the German measurement is 10x bigger than the theoretical maximum.

The 18-month-to-Pluto and 4-hous-to-Moon calculation use 0.4 N/KW = 400 mN/KW, that is approximately one half of the maximum claim of any of this device family, but most experiments get much smaller results. The 0.4 N/KW is 130,000x bigger than the theoretical maximum and 13,000x bigger than what they got in the German experiment. So if a device with the same output of this experiment, the trip to Pluto or the Moon will be much longer.

(Disclaimer: Just to be clear, I think this is only an experimental error.)
I scored a 44, I understand that it could mean nothing, but I have honestly been thinking about getting checked out for Autism for some time; especially after reading some of the recent HN stories about it and feeling a lot of the same things.

How would I go about being tested for this? What kind of doctor do I need to see?
"Amazon can also license rights to the show to broadcasters or streaming services in other territories around the world where Prime video isn’t available."

Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2015/07/30/former-top-gear-ho...
On my desktop, I use Firefox with uBlock Origin. On my Android phone, I also use Firefox with uBlock Origin. shrug
Of course, how many of those publications are Yet Another AIXI Paper?
Agreed, Top Gear is not enough to warrant an Amazon Prime subscription for a majority of people.
iOS has a substantial percentage of mobile web usage. In many parts of the world mobile devices are overtaking desktop devices particularly for casual web browsing etc.
So root it and get a device-wide ad blocker?
I can't wait to try this out once it launches! I remember when the web wasn't littered with all this garbage and I'm happy that we can go back to those roots. Did you see how fast everything loaded when it didn't have to load 27 popups and tracker beacons?

Next step is for Apple to enable a default privacy blocking block-filter and enable it on first boot.

I'm going to buy my wife an iPhone 6 once this lands to send a message loud and clear to Apple that what they're doing is great for users.
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Interesting. Thanks for the detailed reply.
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Yup. Examples: value stored in a table is concatenated into a query without escapement, leaving it vulnerable to injection. Whose job was it to ensure the DB contained clean data? My policy has been to call quote_identifier or quote_literal (PostgreSQL) where applicable, or use typecasts to enforce value literals.
>Ads with tiny close buttons

I recently encountered an ad with a tiny close button that jittered, making it impossible to touch without triggering the ad popup. How clever.
That move might backfire, though. If Apple devices offer an ad-free web but not ad-free apps, then users will drift toward the web, just as content creators drift toward apps.
Well, you could take the API it presents and fit it to another language's FFI. Maybe someone who wants it for their language will do that.
You mean : "It does seem like a solution cooking for a problem." ? ;-)
How long will this revolution last if content providers decide to not show content to iOS users? I mean if they exist to make money and they can't on iOS would it matter that there were hundreds of millions of them? With ad blocking it would be as if they never existed in first place.

Perhaps the idea is for Apple to get the content providers to make apps so they get their cut? Perhaps it is better for the content providers if they make content for-pay only for iOS users and make it work because Apple's users don't mind paying for stuff?

This is definitely not about Apple's good will for its users or love for the UX though - interesting how Apple and its fans like the perpetuate everything under "because Apple cares" banner!
Surely the overwhelming majority of ads delivered on mobile devices are in apps, and iOS9 won't block those as far as I understand. This will drive more content sites to develop their own apps (and presumably wind down their mobile web offering).

It won't kill companies; it'll kill the web.
> Both incidents the BBC have him for he was coerced into situations

There are many more than two incidents!

> They were looking for reasons to cancel such a popular show because it had such a disparate budget from the rest of their shows and that was upsetting parties within the BBC.

Surely they could have just pointed to the money it made back? "We give it huge budget because it earns more money for us than anything else we produce".

The BBC has a history of poor management of talent. See eg Chris Evans getting sacked from the Breakfast Show after making demands.
Press: "What's it for?"
Obama: "Uuuh... NASA."
Aside from ads, mobile websites in general are complete garbage. So then adding a banner to the bottom is just icing on the cake.
> It's also worth noting that Wi-Fi Sense passwords are stored "in an encrypted file on a Microsoft server."

Yep.
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>> If the site generates the ad, it’s suddenly a lot harder to block. <<

Seems to me that this is the loophole in the entire ad-block plan. Seems like it'd be relatively straightforward to make a system that pulls in the ads from various sources, brings them locally, and then displays them from the website's domain. Seems so obvious I'd think someone is already doing it.
$100 per year and per company, for unlimited Mac, iOS and Apple Watch apps.
Please remember that Apple has only said they will support plugins for Safari, no direct mention of ad blocking.

If there is ad blocking it will be provided by a third party.

If it is then it will be up to the third party if they want to block this kind of advert. By their nature however "install banners" are typically part of the content (if it's for the site's own application) so a typical ad blocker wouldn't catch them.
If however it's a third party advert showing an app install dialogue/overlay it will likely be blocked, by the fact it will likely come from an ad providing domain.
Which is why people want to block them completely lol
I mostly wanted to indicate that it's a bit unreasonable to assume that because one person (grkvlt) does not install an adblocker - it's safe to assume almost no one does, as insinuated
grkvlt's comment (at least by how I interpreted it).

That said, of course the usage numbers I quickly retrieved from Mozillas Add-ons for Firefox page - are not conclusive of total adblocker installment. I took two sample add-ons. There are at least a dozen add-ons just for Firefox. Even Firefox itself has adblocking capabilities by the way.
With poor internet connections, the stuttering audio gets frustrating very quickly. "What did you say?" "I missed half that sentence." "Could you repeat that?"

We end up just typing it up on the 2nd or 3rd try because the audio keeps breaking up. There's only 1 more week of this, thank goodness.
Have you tried Firefox and uBlock (maybe uBlock0, I forget) on a reasonable Android phone? It is amazing, and vastly superior to any other mobile browsing I've tried. Including Safari on an iPad.
>Requires root: Yes

Some of us can't be bothered.
Precisely! I'm all for this quite honestly.
If you have SU/root, or build your own system.img you can use a hosts file to kill 99.9% of all in-app ads or apparently Adblock Plus has this feature too. The only time my hosts file failed was some simple weather app that refused to work when it detected no access to it's ad server so I rewrote it myself.

If you don't have root you can build your own VPN that can kill all ad traffic, a service that offers this must exist somewhere. If this all sounds too complicated buy an iPhone until Android enables an easy way to kill annoying mobile ads.
It's better than doing the real thing.
Just like the NSA spying on US citizens, right?
There's adblocking for that as well. Adaway works decently. Xposed can even do more.
Having apps locks you in to the ecosystem. If you're installing one app from the app store you're very likely to install others.
Are you saying that iOS9 has hooks for ad blocking in Apps? I doubt that.
No, my point is that the rest of the world doesn't care what feminism "means to a single person": you.

You sit around and trash the work of thousands of committed people cuz "waah my fave internet site did something i didn't like". Go back to brogramming shitty ruby apps.
$100 minus the reviewer salary, bandwidth, support, etc etc
Ask HN: Any real world experiences with NativeScript?
Hi. I've been using phonegap for mobile development but I am looking for ways to get more "native" while still being able to "write one, run anywhere". Any experiences real world experiences using Nativescript (https://www.nativescript.org)? Looks like an interesting alternative on paper.
And I for one would say: good riddance.
The web is 20 years old. I think if this was going to happen, it would have happened by now.

Outside of a few niches, people just aren't willing to pay to read websites.

What I could see happening is premium content being bundled by ISPs. Pay for X package from Y ISP, get content from A, B and C websites. Kind-of like how TV channels are bundled.

In all likelihood though, I think advertising will continue as is. Advertisers will just come up with cleverer ways of presenting it.