skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a related concept, what is a reliable way of checking whether your phone has the patches? Recently I got an update to my Moto X 2nd Gen to Version 23.16.5.en.US (Verizon carrier) which takes me to Lollipop 5.1. But most lists I see about patches and which phones are fixed are from back in August.
I know and the money is not the issue, it is the wasted time and trust. It is like getting a new iPhone with a broken glass. So, for one guy to feel good, 100K others (customers) now feel bad. And you know as well as me that only a small percentage will do the refund thing. So, yeah there is both harm and foul here.
doesnt work on firefox ;)
I'd like to see them provide options for doing other interesting things with the books they identify besides finding e-book versions of them.

For instance, I'd love something that would let me photograph my bookshelves and then it mails me a list of my books with LOC or Dewey numbers attached. I started making labels with LOC numbers for me books to make it easier to file them, but it was a pain in the ass to look up the numbers.
That's what rtv is for: https://github.com/michael-lazar/rtv
The Quest to Mimic Nature’s Trickiest Colors
This is interesting, but as the author acknowledges, not legal in modern games.

Another famous position which relies on (legal) underpromotion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saavedra_position
You can always download previously purchased apps from your purchased list unless it was removed due to a legal reason.
I owned an RX-8 which had an air pump (secondary air injection) which would come on for about 30 seconds on a cold start. When the pump started going out, it would make a metal grinding sound. Drove like that for a few years until it quit working, and didn't think anything of it until SMOG time - $600 for an air pump which works for ~30 seconds...
You'll be glad to know that etcd has added basic ACL support to keys. If you were worried about isolation/access to the etcd cluster across apps, this might help you avoid running a cluster per-app.
I guess it's the same story as with "targetted" advertisement. I'm still to see any advert that'd offer me something I'd like. Don't remember one, ever.

In all those years - none. Not even close. Best notifications from Google Now is occasional weather reminders (because, duh, after an year they noticed I check them almost daily), which is very far from being useful. Steam - the platform that should know my gaming habits - had almost never offered me games that I was interested in (although "item from your wishlist is on sale now" surely worked). Music stores don't have a single clue of what I like and what I don't and all they do is some awfully rough genre matching which is nearly disappointing.

So, companies - gaming or else - surely have tons of data but I somewhat doubt they can use it any meaningfully, at least from consumer perspective (but hey, If they don't make me open the wallet and don't advertise them - it doesn't work for them too, right?) Wonder if the companies are somewhat hyping themselves on importance of this data and how it helps them, than it really does.
> Writing articles cost time and money. They are not free.

I didn't say "no cost", I said "marginal cost".

Installing a sink, making cups, etc. also has a relatively high upfront cost (probably more than writing a Buzzfeed article even). The point is that once the article is written and given to the first person, it costs nearly nothing to give it to next person.
This isn't a concern with our implementation because a hash of the asset bundle is also included in the URL. This is a pretty common cache-busting technique for static assets and lets you send more aggressive cache directives to the browser.
Is this an example of software becoming a hindrance or more beneficial to the industry?
Alright; he expected to be competitive, perhaps, but I still don't think he expected to win. He's never won a market before, so why would he think his current base is enough to start winning now?

Instead, he likely expected it to be another Instapaper: an app existing amicably along with a few other similar offerings, one of which is an entire company (Pocket), and one of which is Apple's own service (Reading List).
> It's very likely a good thing, and part of the reason that Linux is doing well while BSDs have languished.

You're mistaken if you believe that.
Selling options
--throwaway acct--

I have purchased a significant amount of my vested stock options from a very well-known private company (my employer.) How do I go about shopping around/selling these options to a private investor?

This former company has not been cooperative with some other individuals who have attempted to sell in the past.
In addition to the recall, and likely upcoming penalty, VW can now look forward to a class action suit regarding vehicle fuel economy.
> These would be demand deposits paying zero interest (not that they're paying much more than that today :)?

Yes. In fact, you would probably have to pay for the services around them, as with a safe-deposit box, so in some sense they would have negative interest. That's the price of being able to demand the money at any point. Banks would compete on the lowest price for this (and likely pass the cost through to point-of-sale surcharges.)

The core point is that the banks cannot commit fraud: they cannot tell all of us that we can have our money at any point and then not be able to deliver.

> "duration matching" sounds like those deposits are participants in the loan (e.g. share the risk)?

The idea is that banks can make profits on loans, but not by introducing double-counting of money at a given time-point, which is what they do now. (This is why bank runs are possible.) The participants still share default risk, which is hopefully covered by collateralization. If a bank fails to deliver on a given payment, they go into default like a normal business, and they have to strictly demonstrate that they can meet all time-dollar commitments without double-counting any money. Profits are earned via excess interest and I would imagine that well run banks would maintain a positive reserve on top of their commitment curve.

> "citizens dividend for economic stimulus" not sure about this one?

The government issues debt-free money or takes cash-flow from public entities like utilities and distributes it directly to the citizens. This serves as a way to broadly distribute monetary expansion, rather than putting money into the financial system or to favored constituents, with the attendant early-reciever and corruption problems.

It's not a system without flaws and it would be gut-wrenching to move to it. However it does have the advantage that it will never be implemented, so I will never be proven wrong. Perfect! ;)
I mean --- sure, fair. "Indefinitely," was the wrong word if we're going to be pedantic. But there's certainly orders of magnitude more space and available energy in the Universe than on Earth alone, so we're not restricted to just growing on this planet.
You can use https://srihash.org to hash links and update your HTML.
> The essential question is: Can it go from basic reading comprehension to advanced just by adding more rules. Is intelligence simply 10 million rules? If so, how do we go about creating new rules as language evolves? By hard-coding them, as in the example code?

I believe that it can go from basic reading comprehension to more advanced by adding many rules but of course manually adding them is not very feasible or scaleable.

> In my opinion, the fuzzy, statistical methods @davesullivan mentions have a better chance at generalizing (although they may well be augmented by rules-based AI).

I agree that a statistical model would be better since it will be able to handle more complexity. It would be much easier to train the rules from a dataset instead of hard coding all of them and it would be able to adapt to new rules as well. However, I could not find a good data set for the task I wanted.
Thanks for explaining!
I admit the line "Ghostery and I have both decided that it doesn't serve our goals or beliefs well enough" does make me wonder what Ghostery's input in this decision was. A previous post indicated a future release of Peace would have brought a similar granularity level for individual tracker/network blocking that the Ghostery desktop extension provides. If that's enough nuanced control for the desktop, why isn't it for mobile?

Having said that, though, I've followed Marco's writing/podcasting long enough to generally take him at his word. He's been pretty forthright about why he makes the choices he does and acknowledging things he considers mistakes. I noticed that several fairly big names in the Mac blogging/podcasting space came across the last couple of days as very hostile to the notion of ad blockers. Imagine having people you respect, work with at times and have considered friends for years attack the essential concept underpinning your new application as an immoral action that will destroy their livelihood. Given that, I don't find the "I stopped feeling good about this" explanation at all hard to swallow.
PhysX's "CPU-only" codepath was intentionally built at a lower optimization level than their "with NVidia GPU" codepath for a while, leading to disproportionately lower performance than simply the lack of GPU kernels would create:

http://semiaccurate.com/2010/07/07/nvidia-purposefully-hobbl...
This would be an awesome wrinkle in the story if the silent partner, "Jeremy P", turned out to be Jeremy Piven.
Is WiFi better than LTE? Do small files always load faster on mobile apps?
This is the area of software development I actively dislike. I've had interview questions about whether at work we practiced agile, or SCRUM or some other crap. I'd much rather work than relegate time to learning about the trendiest way to ship.

When I was in charge of development, it was simple. Ship as soon as it's ready as long as it's not a Friday, bugfixes go all the way to the top of the pile. I don't even know what scrum means. If it's dead, I'm glad I've heard the last of it.
A question about the future of the world wide web
I really wish browsers could leverage this for caching across origins. If my copy of jQuery has the same SHA256 as another file the user has already downloaded, there's no need to load it again
* Moderation is unusually good: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how-.... In addition, and as noted there, the economic incentive attached to keeping HN smart helps a lot; sites like Reddit don't have that incentive for moderators.

* Attention to culture is unusually good, and so is feedback: http://jakeseliger.com/2012/01/15/commenting-community-deter... . I actually got a real response for this.

* UI that encourages more serious / intellectual people. This is a signaling / filtering issue, but it works. When I've brought this up before I've read cries about elitism, but, again, the UI thing works.

* Meta posts like this one are rare.
No problem dung, in around 60 years once Marco is on his deathbed and publishes his autobiography with the actual facts we can come back to this discussion. Not.
Those benefits don't come without a cost though, and not just from cardholders who do carry a balance and pay interest. The merchant fees, chargebacks and other costs get tacked on to their COG.
Stop freelancing for pocket money
Couldn't the great chinese firewall just intercept Github.com's HTML page as well and change the subresource integrity hashes? I thought that the Great Chinese Firewall already has the ability to penetrate SSL connections via some means.
Of course it is. Companies usually behave rationally with regards to regulation and punishment. If the cost of breaking the rules is lower than the cost of following them, companies will break the rules. If you increase the cost of breaking the rules such that the situation is reversed, then companies will follow the rules.
In 2014, Ben Thompson at Stratechery explained how F2P "whale" targeting helped Facebook's valuation, https://stratechery.com/2014/dependent-digital-whales/

"Facebook is going gangbusters because of ads for free-to-play games, developers are excited about the chance to cash in via Facebook ads, Google and Twitter are trying to mimic Facebook’s success, and Google and especially Apple are hanging their app store hats on the amount of revenue generated by in-app purchases.

In other words, billions of dollars in cold hard cash, and 20x that in valuations are ultimately dependent on a relatively small number of people who just can’t stop playing Candy Crush Saga."
So, promoting a pawn in chess is undefined behavior?
Analyzing the Republican Debate Using Wolfram Language
They do have a monopoly on lotteries.
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EPA is well aware of warm up requirements. This is not a warm up cycle, it is a non-representative fuel map that alters performance from what they certify specifically for the EPA test cycles.
So that people will know. Titles are to inform, be descriptive.The way it reads, it sounds like a blog post.
I think you're just disappointed because you wanted to solve a chess problem. I liked the article because I read it as a story to be enjoyed rather than a problem to be solved.
That's clearly not what inversionOf was saying.
I have both sides of said purple sheet scanned, actually. The original sheet is in rather sad shape though, so the scans need to be vectorized, etc.
I'm not sure. Ph.T. apparently followed both the Schneier's blog discussions and QubesOS mailing list. We were discussing many methods of using separation kernels for desktops, security appliances, inline-media encryptors, VPN's, and more. Going through details for a year or two.

At some point, Ph.T. saw all that and asked about it on the QubesOS mailing list only to get our claims and their location in a comment section dismissed. That prompted my reply to the mailing list and argument that followed. That there's 250,000+ people lurking there for good information was why I put much of my design info there instead of my own blog.
The Revival of Concorde
Zimperium, the white hats who discovered the problem, has an app the check if your OS is vulnerable.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zimperium....

I think it's fair to assume anyone getting updates in the last two months has been patched. Samsung even (partially) fixed it in the two-year old S3.
We're talking about how to punish not if. If you can punish a parent in a way that does not affect the child, surely that has to be preferred way of doing it.
Epa can potentially require VW offer an incentive to owners.
Anyone know if this "defeat device" would be a violation of the various Euro* regulations in Europe? It's been widely reported [1] that diesel cars emit more NOx than the specification allows, but so far no consequences. More than 50% of all cars sold in the EU are diesel fueled, and many countries are breaching the EU air quality limits. This causes an estimated 400,000 premature deaths each year [2]

[1] http://www.theicct.org/news/press-release-new-icct-study-sho...
[2] http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health-consumers/eu-sends-b...
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> It's not normal to work 4 years to get 0.5-3% equity, prior to any funding, under highly uncertain conditions.

What is that based off of? I've seen that plenty of times to know that it's quite common. I've never seen employees #1-5 being treated like a cofounder, so from my experience, what you're describing is way off base.

> But if it's just a bunch of guys with an idea, you're pretty crazy to take that deal, and even crazier to keep working on it for 4 years.

A bunch of guys who are paying you (admittedly below market). And yeah, if you keep the same salary after 4 years, after multiple rounds raised, after various milestones met, yes you're woefully underpaid.
I doubt only F2P games hoover up the data. Ever read a EULA, end-to-end, and understood everything? Neither have I. But I will offer as a hypothesis that the phrase "we collect user data to enhance the gameplay experience" has a level of semantic elasticity unrivaled outside of politics.
It's happening all over Asia. First you have Japan, then South Korea, then China and Thailand (where Sony now make their top end cameras), next Vietnam, the Phillipines and Indonesia, with its huge boom in mobile commerce. Bali is no longer so cheap to manufacture and holiday. This is exactly why Myanmar has woken up and wants to become the next place in line for cheap manufacturing.
Playstation4 warframe
Irving Police Chief Admits Cops Knew Ahmed Mohamed Didn’t Have a Bomb
For a company without an office, why are they limiting their hires to the US?
I guess that makes sense. The title comes in just under the 80 character wire as it is, but I'll try to work it in next time.

In any case, my initial comment explicitly said "ebook" at least once. I'm not trying to mislead anyone :)
This is one of the best additions to the Web Platform as of late IMHO. Great if you run an operation with a lot of third party code coming in from sources that you don't control - even beyond the security concerns for just "keeping them honest" about the scripts they run on your page. I hope it gets adopted by all browser vendors soon.
They could (assuming that they can infiltrate SSL as you said). I think this is more oriented towards a different attack vector whereby the controller of a resource (JS, CSS, etc.) can alter that resource while the parent page remains unaffected.
Ad blocking is really a war between regular users and criminals, with ad networks as the battlefield (and sometimes the criminals themselves) and content producers/publishers as the civilians caught in the crossfire.

It's not the users' fault that not running ad-blocking is outright dangerous and stupid, and it's not always the website operators fault that their "trusted" ad networks let terrible things through constantly.
> But when decrying the slow-down in the formation of new businesses since the 1970's it seems a little disingenuous to leave the government right out of it.

Reich doesn't "leave the government right out of it", in fact, he specifically argues in the article that the business consolidation is very intimately tied, in a two-way relationship, with government policy.

> Reich should at least allow for the possibility that the increasingly regulated business environment in fact favors large corporations who have the resources to deal with and influence regulators.

Reich -- both in this piece and his whole mass of writings on business and political consolidation (its a recurring theme) -- does more than allow for the possibility that the legislative and regulatory regime contributes to consolidation, he pretty directly says the two are directly intertwined.

Of course, he takes a much more complex view of the nature of that interaction than a simplistic "moar regulation => moar business consolidation" view.
This might have worked back in 2008 or so, when this variety of app was still using third-party analytics software. In fact there was such a thing for jailbroken iOS versions - my startup even helped build one in an attempt to stave off some negative PR we were getting.

http://cydia.saurik.com/package/com.saurik.privacy/

These days many casual gaming companies have rolled their own analytics which can't be effectively blocked without rendering the game inoperable.

That said, this guy is hamming it up a bit and conflating the practices of his own company with the entire industry.
That was an accurate statement like 40 years ago.
Who should write the software then? People who don't know anything about cars?
Actually, wouldn't it be that the black King would just capture the Queen?
I've been trying out Google Contributor of late. It's not perfect, but it's the first practical micropayment service I've been able to use.

If we want good content, we have to be willing to pay for it.
D'oh; that makes sense.

Maybe I should refrain from posting my gut reactions (or at least wait until I'm awake first). =)
> It's an awkward position too: I know I should request a refund since the app will become progressively less useful as its blocklist becomes out of date, but I would've liked to keep using it until then.

AFAIK the app will stay on your device after getting a refund. You just stop being able to update or re-download it, which in this case are no longer on the table anyway.
I believe the AG's office is involved.
> "When you’re young, you want things: work, love, children. When you reach middle age, you want to want things. When you’re depressed, you no longer want anything.

It's funny that you quoted this line because I think it reveals a particular ignorance that the author has, namely a misunderstanding of depression due to her particular experience with it. A more truthful version, in my view, would be the following:

When you’re not depressed, you want things: work, love, children. When you have mild depression, you want to want things. When you’re deeply depressed, you no longer want anything.

Age really doesn't have anything to do with it.
Very nice quote. I'm not quite middle aged, but I feel like I'm already in that vein and it annoys me to no end. Nice enough house, job, family, kids, schools, car, etc and no real passion right now to step it up a notch, or any idea how to draw more pleasure from the things and relationships I already have.

I think the only thing I really want now is for my yard to look better. When I have free time I landscape, which would have confused the hell out of my 21 year old self.
No, its defined (both then and now), its just the spec has had breaking changes from earlier versions.
I might be off a little on my facts here, but Bobby left high school early to come work at GlobalCenter, before it was bought by Frontier, before it was bought by Global Crossing. He worked on early MPLS and helped grow the Internet very substantially. Bobby helped turn up one of the first 10G Internet links. So, it's easy to cast arrows, but in this case Bobby actually did real work in making the Internet grow back "in the day."
Why on earth are you paying $10/GB for bandwidth?
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Another reason Google won was because their minimal page. People like me, who was managing large corp networks in the latter half of the 90s set Google as the default home page for all machines because yahoo was (is) a hideous pile of shit as a main landing page.

This helped get users used to google as it was the first page on every machine I had control of as it manager...
The more I develop in C++, the more I wish I had a very restructure transpirer that would remove some of its most silly constructs or switch ite base defaults around.

Some examples:
- making all constructors explicit and adding an implicit keyword instead for that rare case
- automatically generated !=, <=, >= etc from == and < (with an explicit override when you want to be silly)
- removing some of the redundant syntaxes (const positioning, typedefs vs using etc
- removing the class keyword
There's subtle, dangerous ways this can be exploited. (Short version: It'd make SRI usable as an oracle to confirm or deny guesses for the content of a cross-domain resource.)
No. It was unclear whether you could promote to a piece of the other colour, but a conforming implementation of chess will not make demons fly out of your nose.
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