skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well it could be indicative of a crisis fomenting overseas. The two obvious trouble spots are China and Europe. The Chinese have questionable economic statistics (gathering accurate statistics was never easy to begin with), and who knows what's happening in Europe. One way to get a gauge on things is to measure the inputs, i.e. consumption.

The billion dollar question for those of us living in the U.S. is, if there is a problem, will it spread?
The FAQ site has this sentence:

Privacy Badger is governed by EFF's Privacy Policy for Software.

In the privacy policy you have this:

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Web site privacy policy has this to say about the collected information:

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So as a start you might want to disable automatic updates
I hope you can statically link cocoa into a window exe someday.
Which rules in particular?
The day... has finally come.
That was true in the container revolution also. Malcom McLean (inventor of modern shipping containers) had to sell his trucking business when he bought a shipping business because because the regulator at the time did not allow anyone to operate a trucking company and a shipping company at the same time. There were also rules in the US at various times which prevented people from operating a trucking/railroad company across multiple states as an anti-monopoly measure. Madness when you consider that this means shipments have to be unloaded at state lines!
Glad this is top comment atm, and thanks for saying it. Pop/folk linguistics is too easy and super annoying.

This is a bad article and it misrepresents the notion of a 'universal' in any sense (Chomsky, Greenberg, you name it) but the most purely functional. Things like sentence/word length being bounded by memory or cognitive capacity or whatever aren't a 'universal' in any meaningful or useful sense, and no linguist would argue otherwise. Probably.
G3 central banks started the printing presses, China (and many others) got the heebie jeebies about hyperinflation (and their ownership of trillions of US Treasuries), so they stockpiled commos.

Little did they realise that their own massive structural population shifts were going to continue to keep global inflation subdued, and so now we're seeing a wholesale dump of the stockpiles.

This thing was already telegraphed by the tankfest in copper last year. It was one of the favourite stockpiles and was used as cascading collateral for many times more than its value in loans (speaking to the equity bubble too). The old "metal with a PhD". The whole thing is now unravelling.

A conspiracy theorist might argue that "the authorities" (read: the Fed) have an interest in keeping commodities down, as this allows them to continue to print. Hence easy money for shale, and, including the convenient side effect of scr*wing the Saudis, allowing Iranian oil back into the market.

BTW: next stop is western property prices. That's where hundreds of billions in emerging markets money chasing safety has also gone.
To give perspective to people here, the movements in the commodities market before 2000 were very tepid but post the dot com bubble burst and the ensuing recession that commodities started to experience upward pressure and then come the 2003 Iraq War oil shock and then commodities just took off till the crash in 2008.

For more info, check this Wikipedia entry on the commodities super cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_commodities_boom
Shooting to wound is absurd. However, keep in mind that Bill Lewinski is a pseudoscientist who makes his living justifying killings by police.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to...
A partial solution is to get one of the finger blood O2 meters that will record, keep it on overnight and you get a log of heartrate and O2 levels in the blood.

Look at your O2 levels and see how low the percentage goes, if you get some serious dips then you quite possibly have a serious apnoea problem and need to get it properly checked ASAP. I think you should be in the 90-100% range, go below 80% and you're really heading towards trouble.

When you stop breathing your O2 falls.

(Usual disclaimer, I'm not a doctor etc)
So sticking needles places --which is what acupuncture does-- works fine, but the names used to describe it --which is what that chi/meridians stuff is-- mean that it's bunk? Why --because you saw a bunch of films attributing magic powers to chi? How are those films significantly different than any science-based event in any Hollywood film ever?
Maybe if we discredit the last thousand-odd of years of scientific progress and history and start over from scratch, someone will discover magic and we can all fly to the moon on the back of aether turtles.
> I just mortgage the house, my life savings, and my kids college fund.

Into what? Hogs or soybean meal? :)

Maybe hedge between the two: that way you have something to feed the hogs.
Can this be used to generate XAML from UIKit elements?

Let's say I want to see the Rendered XAML template of a standard UIButton?
Sounds like a strawman. Who advocates shooting people just to wound them? Why not shoot to disable a threat?
That is an interesting video to watch. I immediately imagine a self driving car, on its way to pick me up, swinging by this robot arm to charge up.

I wonder if it would be possible for something like this to provide a charge while moving? Like airplanes that can be fueled in the air.

I suspect the energy to keep the charger itself moving would make that a pretty inefficient way of doing things, but it's fun to imagine.
It’s probably more memetics (constrained by cognitive load) than genetics that select the features of languages, and there are likely many other factors that determine the complexity of languages and grammatical structures: For example, there is a sweet spot between minimal symbol count and minimal lengths of the words. In the extremes you have either short words but many symbols, or few symbols but long words. At the same time the number of distinguishable phonemes and therefore symbols are, of course, restricted by the sounds that are producible by the average vocal tract.

Secondly, the communication channels thought→vocalization→hearing→thought or even thought→typing→reading→thought are inherently very noisy, so you end up with a lot of redundancy, like particles, introduction and transition phrases.

And lastly, I think that there are always some words and phases that are not shaped by efficiency/cognitive load, but rather by whether it is fun or fashionable to talk in a certain way. There is certainly some cultural variance that can be orthogonal to efficiency.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9691522
According to EFF's Panopticlick[0], the biggest thing making my browser unique is the list of plugins that I am running. Short of disabling JavaScript, I don't know of a way to prevent that. Can this hypothetically be solved with Privacy Badger and are there plans to do so?

[0] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Makes sense; 70k isn't nearly enough to own/maintain a property. You absolutely need dual incomes and it looks like this guy is single.
There are some very comfortable sleep masks out there, you should give one a shot.
Be careful with this!

There might exist some other fingerprints that can lead to the knowledge of what browser you're using (the existence or non-existence of some feature, etc). If your User-Agent contradicts those others fingerprints, you become very easy to identify. It's really difficult to consistently pretend having a given configuration unless you are, well, actually running this configuration.

More generally, the more you use technologies to protect your privacy, the more you increase your fingerprint entropy, that is, the more it's easy to identify you.[1]

I wouldn't advice those "spoofing" tools, but rather to use the browsers' settings at the maximum of their capabilities (disable third-part cookies, delete cookies when closing the session, set Flash to 'Ask to activate', etc) and just the minimum extensions set to block third-part requests in a first-place (Disconnect, etc).

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/browser-uniqueness.pdf
In other words, this project is to CoreFoundation as winelib is to win32?
Evaluating Glob Patterns for `$PATH` in `bash`
I really like all the effort startups are putting into making employee equity more valuable, so awesome job here Coinbase! However, I was disappointed by the headline because I'm always hoping to see someone come up with a solution to the current cultural problem of employee equity's diminishing perceived value.

I've thought a lot about it myself and have yet to come up with a solution, but I really feel like it will cause major problems if equity is progressively treated more and more like a near zero value lottery ticket.
You're missing the fact that Citigroup has cornered the gold market and so the prices you see are what Citigroup wants you to see:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-04/why-did-citigroups-...

How do they do it? They buy and hold $2 Trillion in paper gold on each side, long and short.
I imagine you could do something like "const" in c++. If you're not familiar, const tends to have a lot of behaviors for one keyword, but in this context I mean const methods where basically const means "this method can't modify the state of this object." (Unfortunately it doesn't mean the method is pure, but it's better than nothing)

It does seem like a technique a bit better suited for static compilation though, just in that catching this sort of error at runtime would be slower and harder to figure out.

Even if it was a weak/easily circumvented check it might be useful though, at least as code documentation.
Autodidact: My kind of freak
Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — "No, you move."

As cheesy as that quote is, it's absolutely right. Also note that posting it is probably a copyright violation and reading an unauthorised copy is, too. You're welcome to either forget reading it, or send a million dollars per letter to Marvel.
It still seems odd. Most users who install the extension aren't going to carefully read an obscure GitHub page, they will wrongly assume that they are now protected, while the 'yellow' list of very common sites is still allowing many big companies to continue to track them. That seems wrong to me.
Coroutines are preemptible at I/O boundaries or manual synchronization points. Those synchronization points could be inserted by the compiler, but if you do that you're back into goroutine land, which typically isn't better than 1:1. In particular, it seems quite difficult to achieve scalability to millions of threads with "true" preemption, which requires either stacks or aggressive CPS transformation.
Thats not really how C# happened.

edit: also I think embrance,extend,extinguish wont work anymore in the dev space because Microsoft no longer have the monopoly on dev desktops and probably never will again - far from it infact.

Its more like they're trying to re-capture dev interest because very few decent websites are built/run on windows (other than StackExchange) and not much app development is happening on windows, etc etc.
Both the JVM and Linux pthreads are 1:1.
Privacy from OS creators is likely outside of the scope of your project, but I thought I'd pass along recently observing that filtering using the hosts file on older Intel OS X which works for other browsers does not seem to be effective for Safari. I'd long ago read of MS using their own DNS for IE, perhaps Apple is doing something similar? It could be done for performance reasons, but it certainly has privacy implications.

I hope you consider things like blocking loading of webpage icons, and something to deal with data being appended to redirects or even CSS calls when cookies are disabled. I'd read about detecting caching of slightly different colored versions of icons and beacons. Sneaky offsite https accesses (analytics etc) are commonly bundled in a pages JS and NoScript doesn't alert to that. Also, some browsers seem to make accesses to a number of sites on startup, before even going to open a page.

Widening the view from "advertisers" to data-mining contractors that even do drive-bys, it might also be worthwhile to study what could block local data broadcasts by code designed to modulate r.f. noise leaking from our machines. Tune across the A.M. broadcast band on a nearby battery operated radio. I've noted that sometimes there's much more pulsed/bursty noise that doesn't seem to be tied to any obviously more demanding content.

Some of the insideous Ad-Choices content seems to go beyond Flash for hiding data. From the plugin being called when there wasn't any visible content needing it, I think even Quicktime is being used to cache data.
It would really help if scripts from one tab could not be accessed by another, and were killed on closing the parent tab. I guess the litterboxing would best be done by a trusted browser? Bring on the worming tablets!
An offline analogy might be "I didn't want to stand out in a crowd, so I had a friend carefully embroider a custom mask that was thoroughly different in every respect from my normal appearance, and I started wearing randomly-chosen items of clothing bought at thrift shops every day".
Wow that looks much better than the original.
Ask HN: How to write a natural language date time parser?
The pits are about a micrometer in length. That doesn't take an electron microscope.
yes, my dad does a lot of business with freight companies too. but, around the LA/Long Beach Ports for his import business --- --- and they are very old school
Seems great Chris! However some examples in the Readme would be nice ;)
I wonder how the London police manage to keep order without carrying guns ?
PB has value for people who only want to block trackers and not non-tracking ads. Believe it or not, some people like supporting sites through ads. They just don't like being tracked.

Personally I use uBlock and Privacy Badger. I'm not sure if it's entirely redundant, but I have not had any bad experiences with using both.
Interesting reading; thank you. Though after following the threads for a while and going through the original fulldisclosure posts, I've come to the following thoughts:

Generally seems a bit of a grandiose story with no real evidence backing it up and likes of which have never been repeated, either (though if you know of other 3/4G hacks please say). This was also the same year Karsten Nohl was cracking GPRS [1] (which was extremely novel) and I wonder if the these two events have gotten conflated.

The little bit of evidence given on the FD post [2] and the comments on your reddit link seem to imply this was very much a hack against WiMAX, which whilst called a 4th Generation technology, bears little or no resemblance (or history) to the 3GPP standard known as LTE/4G. I think this is where the confusion comes about and the reason why 3G wasn't broken as a side-effect. We're both using the term "4G"/"LTE" but we mean different technologies.

[1] http://www.itproportal.com/2011/08/11/gprs-can-be-hacked-eas...

[2] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/92
https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/python-afl
The proposed benefits for the average citizen are more money in their pockets.
This all makes a very compelling case for "using firearms in an optimal way is outside the limits of human ability, so police should not use firearms." That's assuming your terminal value is not "police life matters more than any other consideration."
People who don't like the idea of police shooting someone not just a few times but a few dozen or hundreds of times.

When the police seem to abuse their power by shooting many, many more times than is necessary it's natural for people to ask what can be done to restore a bit of balance between the police and the public.

http://ktla.com/2015/05/23/cleveland-officer-michael-brelo-f...
"Health insurance companies, in general, absolutely will not reimburse for preventative measures"

Of course they don't. It's tautological. Insurance companies by definition do not insure against regular, predictable expenses.

A car insurance company will never insure you for new tires and a health insurance company will never insure you for regular, recurring wellness checkups. Because math.

Yes, sometimes they say they will, and sometimes such a reimbursement actually occurs, but make no mistake - that is never a claim payment and basically amounts to fee for service. You will not receive claim payment for items like this - they are not underwriteable.
Most sites are not designed to cleanly downgrade when an asset isn't loaded. I kingside it put website design :)
It depends a lot on the reporting rate for the kind of crime being monitored; things like drug use - where enforcement is almost entirely dependent on police action - will absolutely be subject to this kind of positive bias. On the other hand, violent crimes, like shootings, are events that are (usually) observed regardless of police involvement.

There's been some pretty interesting work on this in Richmond, CA, up north of Berkeley:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/555/t...
Basically, it was noticed that a small cluster of people were involved in most of the violent crime, and started interventions to make that cluster less likely to engage in violent crime.
BTW, it is back up.
Won't this then result in increased policing & suspicion of these communities?

Increased policing should lead to lower crime levels in these areas and communities reversing the association. Unless you don't believe that policing works but then why bother with heat lists at all, no matter how accurate?
If I had the skills to learn French, it would have been done by now (you're forced to take it for at least five years in Canadian schools). Don't know what it is, I can pick up coding languages easily enough, but human languages? No dice.
I...just...Where I am, a root canal runs to 2k USD, and a crown to 1k USD, out of pocket because dental is often not covered by medical insurance. Can you feel my jealousy?
I think Apple might be doing this themselves, dig into Photos.app on Mac Os.
`TARGET_OS_WIN32` has been there since a very long time ago.
Depends on where you live. I know plenty of people that own and maintain property on a single 40k salary.
No, the only browser with a functional equivalent to privacy badger is Firefox- and currently only in the Beta version.
I'm not sure if 53% over-estimate, but 53% are operating with no coherent IT maturity framework or awareness. IT preparedness is at an all time low with all the "growth hacking" going on everywhere…

And we wonder why even established players are getting hacked left and right...
Does this require Adobe Flash? I'm getting a "Error loading player: No playable sources found" message using Firefox on Linux. I don't have Flash installed but sites usually fall back to HTML5 video or tell me to install Flash. Neither happened here.

This looks really interesting though, so good luck with it and I hope to get it working soon.

EDIT: It's only the the live streams I'm having trouble with, the pre-recorded works fine.
More like grunt work.
The weight of the battery needed to charge a Tesla at anything like a 'fast' rate would be huge ... there's no efficient way of then propelling such a heavy battery along without then needing even more heavy batteries or a big ICE engine. So nope.

I think this is meant to complement the (as yet unreleased) Tesla can-park-itself-in-your-garage feature.
Homejoy's Churn was 80%
Yes: taxes.
Time to fix patents, stronger patent systems seem not to lead to more innovation
5 Methods to Use LTV to Your Advantage for Your Ecommerce Store
"An early study found that newcomers to the semiconductor business had to buy licences from incumbents for as much as $200m. Patents should spur bursts of innovation; instead, they are used to lock in incumbents’ advantages."
Brit here. Is the 'stop or I'll shoot' thing a myth or does it actually happen in the US?

i.e. do police in the US shoot suspects when there is no threat other than the risk they will get away?
In 2008-2011 a 40-60% swing took place in many parts of the US. Arizona, Nevada, Florida all being at the top of the list. The number of foreclosures was devasting to those areas. Vegas, Phoenix etc. were hit extremely hard. Many folks placed keys in the mail box and just walked away from properties -- leading speculators and savvy home buyers to come in at rock bottom and buy their homes on the cheap.

History may not repeat itself but it definitely rhymes.
I was impressed when it located the tiny company I current work for (The Day News & Media) but less impressed that it couldn't find the enormous multinational I used to work for (John Wiley & Sons). Where does it source the data from?
agree re: 53% operating without a coherent plan. Not necessarily that they overestimate, but clearly a large fraction are over-estimating if many self-evaluate at a much higher level of preparedness etc.
The New York Post has just reported that Brooklyn Assembly Members Annette Robinson [D.-Bedford Stuyvesant] and Darryl Towns [D.-East New York] have introduced a "minimum force" bill that would require officers to "shoot a suspect in the arm or the leg" and to use firearms "with the intent to stop, rather than kill."

This is what happens when people think TV and movies are an accurate representation of reality. Beyond the problem of police not getting enough firearms training in the first place, it just isn't possible to shoot anything other than center mass with any hope in hell of hitting with a handgun for the average officer.

This is almost as stupid as thinking a taser is non-lethal. Getting hit by a taser can kill people. New research into low lethality weapons for police would be great, but I'm not holding out much hope given the funding.

Perhaps we can stop with the fantasy and start concentrating on things like over use of SWAT, actual police oversight, and liability of the chain of command. On the other side, stop demonizing police before the facts are in.
Interesting concept. Straightforward path to monetization (recruiting). Nice work!

What response rates have you seen? How many people keep their logs up to date?
Possibly.

But, another name for “non-lethal weapon” is “cheap and effective compliance tool”.

With those, we risk making many forms of protest and civil disobedience difficult or impossible.