skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flexport now manages freight for several publicly traded companies. You'd be surprised how badly the market wants this solution.
I would be interested in some kind of feature chart that showed which extensions handled which threats, so you could see overlaps/duplication or blank spots. I don't have time to read up on all the different extensions and privacy leak vectors.
Innovation/progress and restrictions such as copyright and patents do seem to be inversely correlated for the most part. It's often the case that when something is patented, others in the industry would rather completely avoid that technology until the patent expires (unless they think they can clone it without getting into legal trouble, which then defeats the point of a patent anyway).

Something similar happens with books too, where books are only popular for about 10 years at most if they are still under copyright, but those that are in the public domain are popular for decades or more.

Maybe there should be a balance, but what we have now in regards to both patents and copyright is likely not it, in the sense that copyright terms need to be greatly reduced, their impact somewhat more limited (some DMCA stuff is really abusive), and patents need to be accepted much less often and for actual inventions rather than obvious stuff that anyone could've invented.
Less than the overhead of downloading ads and tracking scripts.
Safari already has a setting,
Cookies and Website data: Allow from websites I visit.

Is Privacy Badger the functional equivalent of that Safari feature?
At the very top tier, the most advantaged professionals will be those doctors who are fundamentally effective and apt at customer service. Surfacing them is a win for consumers.

But the next tier after that will be a raft of professionals who are not necessarily effective, but still apt at customer service. Elevating them is a loss for consumers.

The question you then want to ask is, is it harder to be good at customer service, or harder to be good at internal medicine? I think customer service is easier, and thus worry that the second tier will be the largest of the tiers.

An easy response to this is to say that doctors will learn to get better at customer service. Maybe. But the effect I'm talking about also happens if we stipulate that none of these professionals really change at all, and instead the market just changes the way we sort them. I think that is likelier than the scenario where doctors who are not simultaneously good at medicine and managing an office suddenly figure out customer service.
I'm not sure if this is really that different from the problems with getting treated for a lot of other serious but non-urgent conditions in the USA. There's a lot of administrative overhead, excessive specialization, avoiding malpractice lawsuits, etc.
This is a great project idea. A challenge is in classifying all of the elements of every protocol dissector as interesting or uninteresting. For example, TCP sequence numbers are high-entropy but low-consequence. MAC addresses are high-severity but normally not propagated to an ISP or a remote site operator.

There are also tensions between trying to identify leaks to a network eavesdropper and trying to identify leaks to a remote site (or ad network). In many people's analysis, the network eavesdropper is worse because you didn't mean to communicate with them at all, so any information they derive whatsoever is a pure loss of communications security. But for projects like Tor Browser and Privacy Badger, it counts as a loss of privacy if different sites can recognize you as the same user, even if you intentionally communicated with those sites.

Using HTTPS will prevent a sniffer from recognizing that some tracking cookies or identifiers are being sent, so you simultaneously get a true improvement against the network adversary and a false negative measuring privacy against the ad networks.
I have no idea where they got that stat but it's not true.
It really highlights the true nature of the threat the NSA represents to the freedom and liberty of all humanity to communicate and share. Their wanton, extra-legal, militaristic sabotage is a real chilling effect on all of society and humanity.

It always strikes me that we are so shocked at something like the OPM hack, when we go around like psychopaths abusing and destroying and manipulating whole societies on a regular basis. Will it really take something like China or Russia or Brazil or anyone else infiltrating, e.g., our financial system and either erasing transactions or falsifying transactions before we realize that "oops, hold on, let's stop this silliness that we started now that we are being hit". Do we really need to have a brush with our own vulnerability and mortality to decide it's a bad idea?

I personally don't think that we have seen the worst of it yet. It took the massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the creation of exponentially more weapons that it would take to vaporize our planet to realize that we maybe shouldn't be such psychos, will it take something like destroying the financial system to realize we should just stop being psychos ... That some lines simply should not be crossed?
Breaking Down Apache Mesos with David Greenberg
My path was not nearly that long to getting one. Your healthcare is shitty, dude.

But I can tell you that getting one, if you have serious sleep apnea, is life-changing. Here are the differences in my life 5 years later: Income has doubled. Layoffs are nonexistent (I used to get laid off every 2-4 years, like clockwork). Lost weight. Testosterone went up. I am no longer late to appointments (my "time estimation" seems to have improved!) I have dreams again AND remember them!! Been YEARS since that! Actually have energy in the morning, how the hell did I live 30 years of my life without knowing what everyone else enjoys?? So I can actually exercise (because I have the energy), leading to even more fitness. Leading to better... dating experiences (ahem), and pretty much better everything!

My one recommendation with CPAP is DO NOT let the doc prescribe you the over-the-nose mask... You want the ResMed Swift FX Nasal Pillow mask (google it). MUCH MUCH more comfortable/less "claustrophobic".
No Ghostery?
What exactly is a consensus algorithm and how do you prove linearizability?
If you have a car, make sure to also take a look at Hoover dam. It's really an impressive sight.
Ah, it includes XPO.com -- hard to call a leveraged buyout firm doing a private equity rollup a "venture capital investment" but okay
It's like you people have never heard of bootstraps. When I was down on my luck, I worked hard and created my own opportunities. Now I sleep 10 hours a night.

I never got help from anyone but myself and my huge trust fund.
Yep. All my programs are under the MIT licence, which allows you to use them in your own programs, sell them, and keep all the profits for you.
Would it make sense or be workable for Yelp to somehow take into account geo-location? I know it would not make sense to limit reviews to people who have been at the location but there must be some way to usefully take this into account.
If you are going to say that my comment adds nothing to the conversation, I would appreciate it if you would make an argument for why we should allow software engineers (and designers, DevOps, Admins, marketers, CEOs, etc...) to make money off copyrighting their work and claiming things as intelectual "property", but not allow musicians (and recording engineers, marketers, distributors...) to do the same?

Why are software engineers able to make money without constantly flying from conference to conference away from their families?
Still, you should welcome this debate. It makes "shorter copyright length" seem like a reasonable compromise, rather than crazy and radical as the publishers would portray it.
Did you actually get coverage on Wired, TechCrunch, etc.? I checked all 4 sources and there's no recent mention of a Lucy. (aside from the bad movie last year).

That's very unethical.
[Demo] Google Drive Security Exploit on Android
Within 5 years? That's crazy talk man.
This is what you get for buying modern vehicles. Just you try hacking my rusty '86 Pontiac.

... I can't even get the radio to play anything other than a faint static hum.
I've been messing with a little kernel module to do that by logging all new IP connections. Having it there lets you watch all your applications for unwanted traffic. You could layer a policy/reporting/blocking layer in userspace.

Surely there's already something to do this aside from a full sniffer?
Deep learning is setting new records in accuracy for most major data types including sound, video, etc. Neural networks like word2vec are useful for text analysis.

These links may be helpful:
http://deeplearning4j.org/accuracy.html
http://deeplearning4j.org/use_cases.html
http://deeplearning4j.org/word2vec.html
Windows Bridge for iOS
Is this like an Uber for freight?
Sorry, but it's not waste at all to analyze data about the by-far leading review provider. Who's even heard of MD Insider?
A labor union for non-fantastically-wealthy artists would be a wonderful thing. I wonder why the existing labels are empirically not such a thing. (I haven't thought about this at all, maybe you know?)

It seems like the relationship between music labels and artists is more abusive than that between, say, book publishers and authors, so this may not be inherent to the problem.
The Exit Pitch: How I Hid Behind a Curtain to Meet Eric Schmidt
What other tracking methods does Privacy Badger plan to block in future releases? One can always test against evercookie.[0] And perhaps EFF could host a trustable demo site, along the lines of Panopticlick. I do get that this is an arms race, and that proprietary methods may be running under the radar, as Verizon's UIDH did for two years.[1]

[0] https://github.com/samyk/evercookie/

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/30/verizon_uidh_super_c...
The Political Ad Wars Come to Snapchat
I mean I would rather have 2 10 year experienced developers than 3 brand new developers, even if the cost was the same.

But maybe law firms do not think this way..
"A new political ad unit has arrived ahead of the Republican candidates’ debate: the Snapchat filter."
The vast majority of the time that I hear someone talk about "normal weight" they are referring to the average US weight, not the NIH definition. For example, I'm regularly called a "skeleton" or "beanpole."

At 6' and 155lbs I fall in to the "NIH normal," but far below the "US normal."

Were you referring to the NIH normal, or the US normal?
good catch - this is one subject that VCs do an awful job with.
He is in favour of a deal. He wants to see the text before making any decisions about this deal.
You still need a 2K OSX dongle to even use the tool chain though.
> Yet, programmers write open source software

Which is great, because they had the choice to do that. Whomever is doing the creating should be the one to make the choice.
I think it is my right to access culture, and it is my duty, if at all possible, to avoid supporting organizations that cause such pain and suffering in the world. I don't see what's so hard to understand about the fact that I don't want people going to jail and losing everything because they copied a song or movie and some company somewhere allegedly lost some fraction of a cent.

I think access to culture is important and what you're effectively arguing is that I should forego such access because some company somewhere is willing to not only sue me but also throw me in jail for copying some text, music, or video. I'm under no illusions that copying actually causes financial damages, of course--that's silly--but I suppose to some that might be appealing.

I also think that copying has been a huge boon to society and the economy in a scale that we can hardly fathom, let alone measure. It has contributed a lot more than the companies holding the copyright to the education and advancement of people and society. I know a lot of people whose great contributions were started only because they had the ability to copy copyrighted works, especially software. I don't know too many children, for example, that can afford to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on software simply to learn (and no, educational licenses, when they are provided, are not enough). We're talking about whole countries depending on copying for advancement not only of themselves, but of the worldwide economy and welfare: see Romania (http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-mix-of-poverty-and-piracy-t...).
Yes we are definitely thinking about a Safari extension!
Show HN: Polyfill for random_bytes() and random_int() in PHP 5 projects
That is a symptom of mutable code. In that case, side-effects are nearly a red herring because if the object were immutable, then you would really only ever have to check once.
> Success as an artist is not an entitlement.

Neither is unlimited access to a person's artistic creation.
Mine too. And companies have done that. It's great.
And if that hypothesis is based on data, great. And if there is no other alternative, fine -- but this technique should be viewed as a last resort (and an unusual one), not a first step.
You mean to say: No one want's to leave someone else's house, especially if they get to stay there for way, way, below market rate, just because the actual owner of that house wants to sell that house or fully utilize their investment.

The problem with SF, NYC, and LA is that more people want to live there than is currently possible by the housing market. As a result, supply of available units is overwhelmed by demand. So, if you are looking to blame some one, blame all those people who want to move to NY and are willing to pay more then the next guy for an apartment. If no one was renting these apartments for the price they are currently renting for, the price would fall. That's the definition of market price.

Further, with the internet connecting us closer and closer, I can not imagine where this drive to pack as many people as possible within as small of a place as possible is coming from. I understand that some will argue that high density community impacts the ecology less because you don't have to drive as much. Ok, I'll buy that argument, but can't we have more high and medium density communities in US instead of packing more and more people into the same 3-4 places around the country.
First Crime: "On Oct. 15, 2012, Williams got a call from a man named Javier Domingo Castillo. He told Williams he was a Department of Homeland Security inspector who’d helped a friend smuggle cocaine into the country."

He helped him beat a lie detector test knowing that he committed a crime. Now I would assume being administering a lie detector test is a "preceding before an executive department."

From wikipedia on witness tampering (this is what he was charged with): "Witness tampering is the act of attempting to alter or prevent the testimony of witnesses within criminal or civil proceedings. Laws regarding witness tampering also apply to proceedings before Congress, executive departments, and administrative agencies."

Police in the US are allowed to lie or use deception to get someone to get a confession.

http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/6909121-Case-law-on-...
Huh.. I never would have thought to use system-installed fonts to uniquely ID a browser like that..
What is the normal tech company attrition? I would think 20-30% seems normalish, but I never had full HR docs of a fortune 500 company or anything to look at. Generally a bunch of people quit after 1 or 2 years - if not you stayed for 10-20. If most of the fired people were the going to quit anyways people, no big change. (But i assume at least some of the low performers are the 20 year vets as they are burned out)
Creating a Killer Trend Story
Hiroshima: Bun Hashizume's story of survival (in animated form)
> Artificially shortening the lifespan of a product isn't profitable because of the hit the manufacturer takes to its reputation.

Isn't this exactly what Apple does with its chargers all the time? They change them in the slightest manner in newer generations, so the older generation charger doesn't work with it. I don't think there is an actual legitimate reason to do this - such as improved design or functionality. It doesn't seem to hurt Apple at all though, their hardware is still top notch and above and beyond its competitors.
Sure, something like LittleSnitch on the Mac is an interactive and easy-to-use firewall. But I'm really after something that is looking for things you could write easy filters for:

- Tell me whenever something that looks like an email address is sent in the clear

- Tell me whenever my name/postcode/other user-specifiable text is sent in the clear

- Tell me when I'm connect to an SSL site but the hostname is leaked

- Keep a list of DNS entries that I'm leaking

The real challenge will not be to capture everything, it'll be trying to show up items of interest.
If they took this seriously, they wouldn't have their cars connect to anything, or at the very least, the connected parts would be fully air-gapped.

How is it that we can be repeating the exact same mistakes made in software over the past 40 years, without anyone questioning whether the dangers of cloud-enabling cars is remotely justified by the features provided?
> Sleep deprivation can cause weight gain. If you already have obstructive sleep apnea, it may be impossible for you to non-surgically achieve sufficient weight loss to improve your sleep.

Sure, once you've tried lifestyle interventions and they don't work CPAP and surgery are options.

Why reach for those risky options when a lifestyle intervention - and that's not telling fatties to go lose some weight - is much safer and carries so many other health benefits?
I understand that spoofing one's user-agent can be very effective at fooling malware designed to for specific browsers. However, in practice I have ran into strange problems when doing this. Is there a generic user agent string I could use that would hide my browser vendor and make all sites display content designed for evergreen browsers?
I don't think "post-capitalism" is possible. People will always want to trade something and there will always be markets for those things.

But as technology advances, markets for certain types of goods tend to collapse as those types of goods one-by-one become abundant. The markets for copyrights and patents haven't collapsed because we have laws propping up those particular markets.

Is this arrangement useful?

Does copyright really allow artists to operate in a capitalist society? What do you mean by "operate"? We have the stereotype of the starving artist for a reason.
> “Choosing a physician is more complicated than choosing a good restaurant, and patients owe it to themselves to use the best available resources when making this important decision.”

And what are those resources?

I'm actually looking for a new PCP in NYC and there are hundreds or thousands of options. It feels like my best course of action is to just pick one at random.
Postgres used to have timetravel built in, but there's still a basic timetravel implementation in the contrib: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/contrib-spi.html
Legend has it that Vancouver's billionaire tycoon Jim Pattison ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Pattison

... used to have a policy in effect in his car dealerships that the worst producing salesman would be fired every month.

For instance, this is remarked upon in this National Post article:

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=fb5f68f1-5946-4b46...

(search for word "salesman"). I think, no conditions were applied. Worst just meant not as many sales or as much revenue as the second worst salesman.
Lead author here. It's true that longer sentences will have longer dependency length on average. That was one of the big methodological problems with previous papers that tried to show this. In the paper, we deal with this by doing stats on dependency length growth rate as sentences get longer, rather than averaging dependency lengths from sentences of different length.

I'm sure that among the 7000 languages of the world there are some that don't minimize dependency length. But I'd be content showing it's an overwhelming tendency rather than a true "universal"!
But follow my logic. Put a 13 year old in front of a TV with a collection of 2D and 3D movies - and see which ones she chooses to watch. My whole point is that the 13 year old's get to decide in the long run. Your "3D movies suck" sentiment is perhaps an adults opinion (one that I share), and perhaps also an opinion expressed about movie theaters - which is not the same as personal tech choices.
Yes. The author suggests the categorizations are either cultural or biological; another possibility is that they're defined due to common human experiences that transcend cultures.
> Happened few times to open source software

Interesting, what are some examples?
My experience is similar. If I have coffee or tea after lunch, I have trouble falling asleep at night. However soda or iced tea seems to have no effect sleepwise.
Oh, that's really cool, I had no idea. My friend works at a Chrysler dealer, and they have to connect a laptop to the car and update it like that. If it's available via a USB stick, why aren't they told to do that. I guess buy using the USB stick you can't justify billing Chrysler for 45min of work per car.
Interesting. I know that the dairy farmer's are going to get a chance to flex their influence over conservative rural seats if things don't fall in their favour. Likewise manufacturing bases are going to be shook up. My take away is not that Mulcair would see these decisions through. More so that he feels Harper has softened Canadian influence so much over the past decade that we don't have the negotiation power to stand up for Canadian interests. I think he will present TPP as leadership test which Harper has failed.
TLA+ is a formal specification language, not a model checker. There exists a model checker called TLC which works with TLA+. There also exists an associated proof system called TLAPS; TLAPS has been used to formally prove correctness of Byzantine Paxos.
Smart Homes Will Monitor Breathing and Heart Rate
Making a tech resume better
Solenica (which makes Lucy) was covered in TechCrunch [1], Mashable [2], Wired [3], and Forbes (as part of Qualcomm's accelerator) [4].

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/sunnybot/
[2] http://mashable.com/videos/2543680924001/
[3] http://www.wired.it/economia/business/2014/10/23/i-progetti-...
[4] http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2015/05/30/qualcom...
4 Biggest Threats for MSPs: Coach's Corner Episode 11
Almost 35, still haven't seen Star Wars in entirety, though I did own it on VHS for many years. Can attest that I did not "suffer" for it, though it has been a cause of awe and disbelief in others. Ok, just to be fair, some really stupid people got upset, but seriously, I wouldn't call that suffering. At this point, the movie's been ruined for decades--I just don't see the point of seeing a movie in which I already know what's going to happen. Also, IMO, from the parts that I've seen, it's just not that good.

Of course, if you apply this to all movies, books, and music under copyright you'd not only be culturally disconnected, you'd be culturally dead, so I do think the original comment is spot on.
> It could be argued that the existence of an OTA mechanism incentivizes lower quality (RTM patches)

Is there any evidence of this? I think of automatic updates more like a safety net, or a seat belt.

Does the presence of those things change how acrobats or drivers perform?
Another Way to Hack Hundreds of Millions of Androids with One Text
Nice illustration in wikipedia. I first learned about this feature of the moon's orbit from one of Isaac Asimov's science essays. In many ways, the Earth and Moon are like a double planet, though not so much as Pluto and Charon.