skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at the fact, that Google CEO Eric Schmidt actually recommends to teenagers, to change their name at the age of 18 just to escape the online artefacts of their young years[1], there are actually strong arguments to have a "right to be forgotten".

As we are moving forward to a society, where everything we do is shared online, not only by us but also by our friends, we suddenly loose the control over how we are portrayed. Of course there is the argument that this has been true with classic media, but from personal experience you always have the chance to rerecord something you said on a interview if it's not live and I pre read a majority of all print articles and interviews, because newspaper have high quality standards and try hard to get everything right.

As copyright holders are (quite successfully) lobbying to enforce their rights to their content globally, we as a society should enforce our rights on how we are portrait globally. This should not be exclusive to europeans and european cyber space, everyone should enjoy the freedom to decide which parts of his past should be forgotten.

[1]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/16/google-ceo-eric-sch...
Contra to the other posters requests for paypal,

I refuse to have a paypal account, and recent changes to how they process payments mean I can't just pay with a cc without having an account.

If you are accepting payments, it might be a good idea to have more than one payment processor.

Especially if paypals notoriously badly timed account suspensions might force a existential crisis for your business.
So it's almost if, in addition to exercising, these people need to track their calorie intake accurately. Truly groundbreaking.
The calories are not what you should worry about in Coca-Cola. 1 500ml bottle (supposedly 2 servings, but really who does that?) has ~60% RDA of sugar which is just ridiculous.

I don't get why they don't just make a fizzy drink which contains at most 10-15g sugar per 500ml (and not fill it with artificial sweetener).
There was an article here that 50% of food science is not valid research. Further companies in the food industry pay researchers to do research which by chance often returns positive studies in favor for those who paid for it.

"No connection with Fructose and obesity"
Sponsored by the Canadian sugarinstitute
who is owned by: Coca Cola and Pepsi co and corn producers.
The output range is from 0 to one less than the 31st power of 2, if that helps. Each mouse click returns a value between 0 and 255, inclusive (one less than the 8th power of 2). I'm not familiar with the technicalities of "entropy", but does this help?
where it can be blocked.
Maybe they're losing the less tech-savvy folks too, as their "computer whiz" friends and family members grow tired of fixing yet another drive-by toolbar or ransomware install. Myself, when working on someone's computer, I now download Adblock as a first thing after a clean browser installation.
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"Oh no, our server made a boo boo. Please try again."
It prevents ad companies from fingerprinting you, you never make the connection to seedy-ad-company-X, you only make the connection to facebook/nyt/WaPo etc
Ugh, what garbage.

Apple invented/popularised windows, grid of icons and flat design apparently.
Is there any really way to design your application to handle S3 failures like this? S3's SLA has 99.99% availability, but is there a way to handle the 1% so your application is not affected? Options I can think of:

1. Using a CDN to serve files can help in some cases
2. On-prem systems may be able to use gateway-cached volumes and use the local disk cache vs S3

Other ideas?
Some ads are presumably responsibly implemented and for decent products
Java applications from my experience are simply more hassle to deploy and maintain on Linux servers.
That's why people may have such rights, not why they should.
> Ad-blocking will lead to almost $22 billion of lost advertising revenue this year, according to the report, put together by Adobe and PageFair, a Dublin-based start-up that helps companies and advertisers recoup some of this lost revenue.

I guess assuming that the users of ad blocker users would visit the sites with the same frequency as without ad blockers, and they click on ads with the same probability if they see them as people who don't use ad blockers.

This is the same fallacy as counting the lost money on pirated content. Most people who pirate wouldn't buy a product even if they couldn't pirate it. The solution is much simpler for ad ridden websites: what about not serving the main content for ad block users? If you don't like them then don't serve them, it shouldn't be that hard. Maybe they don't do this because:

- Ad blockers are still a minority on most websites

- They don't eat up much bandwidth

- It would be really bad advertising (ha!) for them doing more harm than good
Ad networks is also a pretty convenient to spread malware. see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvertising
Keep in mind that artificial neural network are not meant to simulate biological neural networks. They are just inspired by a simplified (and obviously flawed) computational model of the brain from way back in the stone age of neuroscience.

Finding parallels between what ANNs evolved into today and the little we know about the brain may be interesting, but don't think, even for a moment, that you have a model for "backpropagation in the brain".

P.S.: I like the implied criticism of the Human Brain Project at 50:10 - "You need a computational theory (not a billion euros) to recognize what you discovered!". We really need to work on theoretical models of computation before we throw money and hardware at simulations. No emergent behavior is going to jump out and save us that step.
coke contains virtually no calories.

and a large coke from mac ds about 100% of your rđa of sugar.

then people wonder why so many people have diabetes - an inability of your body to process sugar...
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this is excellent, hadn't seen it before! thx
But isn't it obvious why people might benefit from such a right? If you are uncomfortable with something in your past (not all too uncommon), baam, you benefit. The only interesting question is, if this right should stand above free speech, free trade, etc. There are good arguments for both views.
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you're not presenting one side of picture, what you are stating is plain wrong in many cases. Each sentence contains a lie or half-truth (ie something valid for few states out of 30 ain't universal europe-broad truth). I ain't lowering myself to your level, but let's say your comment is subpar for this site. Strive for better next time, I am sure you easily can ;)
So you have to wait for a buff bike messenger to arrive so as to remind your date that there are way hotter people out there.
You're missing the point I was trying to make: Google wanted to implement the Right to be Forgotten only on the .fr domain, which seems like a cheap trick. The way legislation works around this is by simply saying "if you serve people from our country, you obey our laws", which makes sense.

Also, both this law and the cookie law are EU-wide laws, and I don't think Google will be retreating from all EU countries any time soon. That's how these things work when you're a small country, you work together with others and suddenly they take you seriously.
There doesn't seem to be much gain in comparing yourself to someone else. Invent a new way of doing things and focus on being the best at it.

Maybe YC is just doing it 10x or 100x better, and everyone else is doing it wrong and doesn't know why. This is not really that unusual of a pattern in other areas.. think about how Google compared to every other search engine back in the day, or how iPhone compared to every other phone when it was introduced.

YC seems to focus on things that just make good sense, and keeping it simple: make things people love, (really) help each other, be determined, keep burn rate very low, solve one problem at a time, and keep quality high in order to increase the value of the network. The fact that YC is surprisingly successful seems to be a natural outcome of basic principles.

It might be even simpler than that. Be excellent to each other. Looking at their terms on their websites, most accelerators fail at even that.
> We need a better system than ads.

We already have that, it's called a link with text or an image file with no scripting or plugin. But since there are 3 parties involved who don't trust each others (content providers,ad networks,advertisers) , it's not going to happen.
I prefer Coke Zero over the taste of normal Cola. Normal Cola just tastes of sugar to me :')
It's an arms race. Blocking cookies currently works.
that's 100 years old history, and true. now let's talk about these times...
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Personal, but fun anecdote: my girlfriend works in marketing and kept away from ad blockers for a long time, partly due to professional sympathy, partly simply because she wanted to see the ads, since she has a professional interest in that sort of stuff.

She eventually caved about a year ago and installed ABP. No matter how interesting it was, nor how much she sympathized with the folks working in media agencies, browsing the web simply became completely impossible, especially over an occasionally flimsy 3G connection.

Simple ads are "collateral damage" in this case, but even those can be worth blocking, e.g. to protect against tracking.
You should avoid tracking pixels too, or downloading any 3rd party content (like CSS). You can use umatrix for this though.
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If 1/3 people in certain countries use ad-blockers, I'd venture to guess that they are no exclusively without value. In fact, since they are probably more savvy than the rest, they might be better targets.
Ask HN: Do you write software assuming that every server will be hacked?
And they say we're not in a tech bubble.

In what world is this a viable company? It's not, you can get condoms everywhere, and it'll be fsater than this, and cheaper.

But because it has an app, millions of dollars will be thrown at it to keep it afloat, but in the end it will sink and the money will be wasted.

What's next, an app for getting 2 slices in under an hour for when you want a sandwich?
Another way to do this would be to use numba package to generate LLVM IR from Python bytecode (it supports a rich set of instructions including numpy stuff, has type inference, etc), and then run it in the browser via emscripten, with some adjustments to the IR if required.

Quick googling yields a related blog post: http://cyrille.rossant.net/numpy-browser-llvm/
My favourite of his shorts, "Jak Działa Jamniczek" ("How does a dachshund work"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r16GL3N4PdM
That's why I packaged the application in two way:

- a .war for deploying in a standard 3.0 servlet container

- a self contained executable war that has a embedded jetty http server

For the self contained option, you only need a working java 7 runtime. I don't think that I can do it simpler than that.

Additionally, if you prefer an even more automated way of updating the software, the application is available on maven central, so you could (as we are currently doing it in our openshift instance) use the maven jetty plugin and select the depedency.

I can't really think of a simpler deploy system. (except statically linked binary, obviously, but there you need to select the correct os :))

edit: we have a docker image for testing purpose too.
Going just by the title, is this an escort service?
It's "Orcrist" in base 64.
Any front-end dev willing to work for crypto?
NEM is a new cryptocurrency that in 4 months has introduced a lot of new features for blockchains. A new code written from scratch by professional developers for professional developers utilizing API's.

Looking for a dev skilled in ractive and also knows some js, and scss to help build UI and UX.

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The point is not to actually be forgotten, but to create a limited barrier against casual discovery.

In Norway basic income tax information is publicly accessible, and have been "forever" at the tax offices. This was considered important for accountability, while the limited access was considered to make it an acceptable loss of privacy. With the advent of the internet this information was suddenly available online, and "everyone" looked up their friends and neighbours. Suddenly the privacy impact was drastically different, and recently there has been new restrictions added to find a balance more in line with the original.

This is what the right to be forgotten is about too: Practices that previously had little privacy impact, and public benefits, now have vastly different privacy impact due to the internet. As a result we need to find new balances. In some cases the benefit of the information will outweigh privacy considerations. In others they won't.

Even then, so far EU courts have made it clear that the original publication is protected: Nobody has been given the right to have information wiped from newspaper archives, for example. But indexing and making that information extremely easily available is a separate issue.

There's no reason for a black market: The information is still there and easily accessible for those specifically looking for that information. It is just not pushed in front of someone "just" doing a regular search for someones name.
Honest question: why doesn't google just stop serving France for a day, with a message such as "we can't provide service to you because France is bothering us, contact your (whatever the French equivalent of Congressman is)"? Or at least do what they did with SOPA and put a link on the homepage.

Does anyone think that wouldn't work, or that the cost to Google would be too much? I don't think France would be as willing as China to part with Google.
Maybe this study will prompt advertisers to consider why a third of the internet is blocking their ads?

Just kidding. They'll just get mad at blockers and continue to make their users' lives a living hell.
Here is an alternative view to these corporate 'studies':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Or simply watch pictures taken in the 1920-60's, it's pretty shocking how most north americans were much much leaner.
Good thing they don't advocate not using goto label, nor removing it from the Python implementation. Heck, they're not even saying we should stop using goto labels on new projects.

Besides, goto label is a really low hanging fruit that hardly complicates your interpreter, and has no negative impact. They discuss heavier optimisations, some of which are slower on Haswell. Those might not be worth their while any more.

Also, "only on Haswell" won't apply for long. I give AMD 2 years to keep up with Intel's mighty branch prediction, if they haven't done so already. Mobile platform may be different given the energy requirements, though. I don't know.
https://twitter.com/andywingo/status/630705153922838528
The philosophical justification already exists; it's the same that is used over here for justifying our privacy laws (which include the right to privacy even in public for example, or how sex offender registries are usually banned): people's right to privacy is given a high value.
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Wow, only something like 10 to 20% in the US ? For the first Internet nation of the world, I was expecting better.
Sometimes it's like we live in a parody of the real world.

I feel that the online video ad situation is akin to advertisers blasting loud commercial jingles in the middle of the night, while complaining that people are getting sound isolated walls and how that's hurting their business, some even going so far as to talk about how thick walls should be illegal.

When I navigate to an url I don't get a fully rendered webpage ready from the server, but instead I get served a bunch of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It's then up to my computer to compose those things into the interactive website, using the rendering engine of my choice. How the website turns out being rendered can depend on a number of factors, like what screen resolution I use, what fonts I have on my system, etc. Maybe I'm using a text browser that can't render pictures or video.

So, it's so darn crazy to me that some people would say that I'm stealing or being dishonest by not rendering the ads in the website. Is it really my duty to render those ads, even if I don't intend to click on them? Would I still be stealing if I rendered them, but never moved my eyesight over to where the ad is placed? How far do I have to pretend?
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This. This is what pisses me off at the Android and it's ecosystem. I'm an avid android user, and more and more witnessing how it's turning exactly what windows was(is) and how crappy they are in protecting their users.

You can submit an app to the play store and get it approved within a day. I mean, come one, phone data are some of the valuable possessions one has in this century and they care less about it being abused. I wish there can be a tightly knit app store similar to iOS with stringent reviews & regulation, but I know it's never going to happen.
A lot of law exist as a recognition that society in general when people are left to their own devices can behave in ways we fairly generally agree are wrong, and that we know from experience we're not showing signs of evolving away from.
Ask HN: Looking for Canadian immigration advise
Programmer (C++, Bash, Python, PHP) looking for a way to immigrate to Canada since 2008, started an immigration process with Quebec [1] and then with the Canadian government [2].

I live in a South American country suffering an internal armed conflict, and this is one of the main reasons for the immigration, it does not affects me directly though but I do not see a good future for me being here.

I work for a USA company where all employees work remotely. They have tried to help me but they can not offer me a Visa for Canada, maybe for the USA but I would not feel safe there being an immigrant.

People around me tell me all the time that I am smart, that I should be working at Google, I laugh every time but decided to try it. I have been interviewed by good companies during the last months with (generally) good results, they declined their offers after I told them about my situation. And most of the companies that interviewed me can not hire a foreigner anyway (SpaceX is an example) so I do not blame them, but this is a proof that I am losing opportunities in life to keep progressing while living in this country.

I have this idea that human life is based on goals, people without goals lose their desire to live. I am not talking about suicide, in most cases they just sink in a mental state and stop progress, they just wake up, eat, work, sleep, and repeat. And this is what I do every day of my life; I do not have friends, nor a girlfriend, I only go out to pay the bills and buy food; I am basically starting to lose my goals in life.

What would you do if you were me?

[1] Three documents (ID, Birth Cert, University Degree) were not original according to them, I sent copies authenticated by a local Canadian lawyer because I needed them here, it took them twenty months to reject the application so fortunately I did not send the originals.

[2] Profile was not good enough for a skilled working according to them.
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I think most services use the message queue as a message queue (SNS), but everyone has to store their files somewhere.
Bittorrent Sync has the same problem, closed-sourced and only the businesses claims as to its security and 'truly private' sharing technology. Such a shame as I was really excited about Demonsaw, thought it was 'the one'.
Brainstorm from a while back: Vegans exercising bikes to power bitcoin mining.. vegan bitcoins.. sell for more $
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Which is true, however facebook is incentivized to go after anyone who is successful at using that content on their on site (linking to profile photos).

I learned this the hard way from a project I was working on that mined and crowd sourced personality information, where we shut down after a loss in traffic in response to a C & D from facebook to not link to photos (which disrupted how people engaged with the site).

What we realized though, was that n-1 people truly don't care about ones own privacy, and because of this, if any laws people create to try to address this aren't reflective of what is possible in reality, it will be toothless (like when me and my friend got a request from CNIL, and basically ignored them with no consequences).
I am very very very interested to know what the guys in YC saw in this!

We hear Paul and Sam saying that the hardest part of their job is saying No to great ideas that just weren't that great and then we come across this? Seriously?
There's a lot of truth in that, and the orthodox interpretation is indeed riddled with incoherence. But what fascinates me is that after so much effort, the quantum community seems to be further away than ever from coming to a consensus on interpreting the theory. Every proposed interpretation does away with some foundational issue, yet introduces another in the process.
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What is the best ad blocking plugin for Chrome nowadays?
Ask HN: Does modern software development require too much knowledge?
New developers need to know SO MUCH stuff that I wonder how its possible to get anything done without four years intensive learning and practical experience under your belt.
Are the studies still producing valid, peer-reviewed results?
replicate to different data center e.g. Azure.
Well, we already have grilled cheese delivery services: http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2015/01/06/postmates-grilled-c...
Think of the impact in term of image.

Would you be ready to use a company service that is willing to switch off its services, even temporarily, when they don't agree with the local law? Using your users as hostage, is a very bad way to create goodwill.
Second this, I would love to hear how companies handle S3 outages. Although one correction, it's 0.01% that you need to handle (if they deliver on their availability promise). That's less than an hour a year.
I don't really understand all of the comments that are trying to argue with you. I personally agree, he WAS acting like a jerk at that moment. If it was anyone else, people would be very annoyed at the person arguing semantics when the meaning of the question was quite clear. But for some reason, since it's Feynman, people are acting as if he's somehow above reproach. As the interviewer stated, "It's a perfectly reasonable question."

But beyond the semantic argument he is making, I think the even greater issue is the lack of humility he is showing. In the writeup on the site they explain, "Feynman admits that it's actually an excellent question, but one he simply cannot answer in terms that a layperson can understand." But of course, that isn't true. The truth is that he doesn't have an answer, but he's choosing not to admit it.

In the end he says, "I really can't do a good job... any job... of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else that you're more familiar with because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with." That's the closest he comes to actually making a humble statement, yet it's phrased in such a way that it seems like he's blaming the interviewer for not being capable of understanding.