skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have a summary of the actual case? Because, according to the article: "(...) Google and its co-defendants hadn’t violated the Wiretap Act because they were a “party” to the communications rather than a third-party eavesdropper—the users were visiting their websites when the cookies were installed."

So it's rather unclear if they're saying that if you go to eg: plus.google.com, google is party to the communication, or if they're saying that if you go to example.com, and example.com has installed google's analytics tracking, then google is also "party to the communication"?

The latter might make sense from the perspective that any party to an organization could invite any other party to secretly record it? (Eg: You might be on the phone with a person, and without telling that person, invite your lawyer to listen in on the call. As the person you're talking to doesn't have any expectation of privacy from you AFAIK that'd be legal (in many jurisdictions, anyway)).

So, it would seem that tracking someone visiting example.com via cookies at a third-party site, might be legal wrt. wire-tapping, but may violate requirements to alert the user of tracking/cookie use?
Airbnb is no pioneer
Why didn't Amazon think of this?

If synthesizing such a 'holiday' for the US, my guess is that a date in June might work best.
Ambassadors of luxury
Shoppers Buying Justin Biebers New Album (SUPER FUNNY)
How is mobile support now? I noticed they've got a bunch of promising-sounding mobile upgrades. I'm interested in making simple mobile titles, but last time I checked it out Unreal seemed targeted at making super high performance games on high end mobile devices, rather than simple games that most devices can run. Tappy Chicken would make my phone get super hot and destroyed my battery-- and that's about as simple as a game can get. Is Unreal a good choice now for making straightforward mobile games? A year ago, I felt like Unity was a better choice for that, but wonder if that's still true today.
It won't help. To serve its purpose, any AQM (active queue management) like fqcodel must be done at the congestion point.

The end-user computer has a faster link than its internet connection upload speed, typically a gig ethernet whereas a xDSL upload speed is a few megabits/s.

If you transfer data to a random website (upload) from the computer, packets will accumulate inside router/modem tx queue, because this is the slowest link between the two hops. This is where it's important to have an AQM running to reorder/drop packets in that queue.
In Los Angeles you see quite a few of these. Big courtyard with one entrance from the street. Inside of it small houses facing the courtyard.
The fact that you seem to think that changes anything clearly demonstrates that this behavior is confusing.
Wow, my network monitor and firewall just went crazy on that page. Does it really need to open more than 190 separate HTTP connections for a simple news article (many of them to shady domains)? This is downright ridiculous.

Edit: Re-installing an ad blocker to preserve my sanity.
Dizzying Ride May Be Ending for Tech Startups
It not non-sense at all.

It is how many in the industry make a living, by doing consulting as experts in porting games between platforms.

Arguing about the beauty of FOSS and OpenGL, and the dismay of them being ignored by professional game developers, only reveals lack of knowledge how the industry works.

Once upon a time I learned the hard way that being too focused on that, made me lose the picture how the inner workings of the industry are. Back when I still cared about game development and had the privilege to visit a few well known studios. One of them apparently owns a black console that is selling quite well.

Professional game developers don't care about FOSS, 3D standards or whatever.

The only thing that matters is getting their vision of game out in the hands of their fans, regardless of what the systems their fans might have available.

There are plenty of companies selling middleware and consulting services for porting activities.

Gate keepers help prevent a flood of low quality games and copy cats like the one that caused the 1983 crash.
I didn't claim he was playing a role in the management of any company, I merely claimed he wasn't holding money.

If you believe Piketty that the wealthy are better investors than the rest of us then the wealthy are actually doing useful work: directing resources towards their most productive use.
> P.S. I live about 5 blocks from PSU! How are you liking the PhD program there?

My website is badly out of date; I graduated ~4 years ago. I found their PhD program excellent.

> Mind if I pick your brain? I've considered grad school off and on so many times...

Sure, no problem; I can offer various pros and cons for grad school. Let's continue via email.
> make the data 1TB and add 1000 machines, now lets see how fast you can sort with /usr/bin/sort!

Still faster than Hadoop, because sorting the data will be faster than sending it over a network. What should I do with the other 999 machines?

(I know what you actually mean, by the way. Make it 100 TB and say that the data is already spread out across 1000 machines.)
SoftEther is an amazing piece of software. As mentioned I was a little dubious of it back when it was closed source and touted so many features. After going open source I trialled it on a small network (~40 users) and it was rock solid.

My only gripe was user management. It lacks an LDAP or PAM integration, substituting RADIUS instead. No biggy, I can set up a SoftEther->RADIUS->LDAP bridge. The caveat is that SoftEther will only apply RADIUS authentication to accounts you manually define; so you must create a user in SoftEther and enable RADIUS for them. This may have been fixed by now, but was rather annoying back then!
Pretty cool. I couldn't really think of many questions, but I think it is a good idea. I wish Codey would respond with some funny answers to my nonsense though.
Heritability is a relative measurement. You need to know what environmental factors you are controlling for in order to measure it. Because we live in societies that are highly stratified based on attributes that are genetically linked there can be environmental effects on intelligence that are difficult or impossible to correct for that create a correlation between genetics and intelligence.
I originally used SSE events but ran into issues. see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30462850/ie11-sse-via-pol...
Ask HN: How do you tell the automation / hiring sweet spot
So I got approached by a headhunter and had a pretty good call with the CEO, sniffing out business models and software needs etc. One thing that struck me was she (sic) was "recruiting like crazy". And this made me think how if robots are taking all our jobs, why we don't focus more on automating away the need to hire (and manage) more and more people.

So how does a growing business recognise it needs to hire someone versus it needs to spend a week writing some marketing automation scripts or improving its PO process.

I would want to know I had some metrics and was hitting them despite not hiring, but I'm not sure what those metrics might be or how to trust them. Any thoughts?
distributed ml tends not to work well on aws. Many (most?) distributed ml algorithms are essentially limited by network speed. In a p2p topology, many are effectively limited by the slowest peer-to-peer link of the (nodes choose 2) links. aws networking is mediocre at best; even the rack-local instances are relatively slow.

cred: helped build a distributed in-memory ml toolkit
The ideas is to use it against outright squatters, not against other businesses that have the same name. You're right that it doesn't help with personal sites.

The "Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy"[1] seems pretty clear-cut against squatters. See section 4a and 4b. "Bad faith" includes "primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration to the complainant who is the owner of the trademark or service mark or to a competitor of that complainant, for valuable consideration in excess of your documented out-of-pocket costs directly related to the domain name." Basically a definition of squatting.

[1] https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/policy-2012-02-25-en
I can haz secrets? – Discussing encryption and sharing team secrets
Lee Valley / Veritas and Lie Nielsen have helped usher in a renaissance of well-made tools. Their planes and saws are arguably better than any produced during the 'golden age' before WWII. There are cheaper options from abroad available (WoodRiver, Quangsheng, etc) but I like spending the extra money knowing its supporting good, customer-focused companies who care about the craft.

(But I also like finding/restoring old Stanley planes when possible, which is cheap and ethically satisfying).
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/new-amateur-film-colle...

Seems to skip the bloody advertisement.
The slider doesn't seem to allow going forward in time?
Bob Ross Twitch Stream Numbers Are Staggering
Am I the only one who is incredibly annoyed by how Jetbrains IDEs indent code?! Really, the fact that they totally fail to indent even mildly broken code is infuriating. At least ten times a day I feel like yelling at webstorm "YES, I know that that code is broken, that there are two unpaired {s and one unpaired ', but I'll fix that F LATER! NOW I just want to type this code here and have it properly indented even if there's broken code 10 lines above it and 20 lines below it. I KNOW, and I DON'T care NOW!".

I just want to download stuff from my head to the editor before I forget it, then later fix the mess, and have the IDE/Editor still help me in the meantime. If it needs to temporarily revert to a caveman-style indent-like-the-previous-line or event to temporarily disable auto-indent, I'm ok with that, but don't horribly mess up what I type in failed attempts to semantically auto-indent broken code that I don't wanna fix right now...
SpiNNaker (Spiking Neural Network Architecture)
I'm curious.
Does it rot?
Weird. I am in San Francisco too. https://twitter.com/search?q=yahoo+mail+down
> Wages lag production so debt is required.

An alternative would be for wages to not lag production, and for the ultra-rich to make less money.
You do. ;)
> A manipulated plebiscite administered a month later indicated that over 99 percent of Austrians were in favor of the situation.

The vote was manipulated but it would not have mattered. I can tell you from stories of my grandfather of how dire his childhood and the one of everybody in the area was. They were ready to rally behind anyone who would take them out of starvation and suffering. Hitler came with popular support because he found an enemy who is to blame and he managed to unite people to be motivated to move themselves out of misery.

There is a fine line behind a populist approach that motivates people to do something and overstepping the line and doing a lot of damage in the process.
The Making of a $500M Mansion in L.A.
MySql, Postgres, and Vertica, at least, all support <=> as an operator that treats NULL as an ordinary, distinct value.
There's no limit to what you can achieve if you sit around playing with your balls all day.
Very nice insight, and I thank you for sharing. As a musician and writer, I've never really shied away from dealing with emotions, as they can influence so much in 'tone' (in the case of sound) or 'behavior' (in the case of fictional characters). You're right about emotions being valuable and enlightening, that's a nice way of putting it. Upon reflection, I think maybe what I was striving to convey is that even as a smart person, a caring person, and with time to think things through, there's still the reality of life to confront - as in, thought and good will alone can't change the world for the better. It's difficult trying to 'fight the good fight' (in whatever form it may be - daily social interactions, actions with consequences, etc), and honestly, not very rewarding in a practical sense. I guess it's the burden for some to be borne many years after they're born!
Capital gains taxes have almost always been lower than ordinary income taxes. This is not a new post-Reagan phenomenon.
I used Loyal3 for GoPro's IPO. I wasn't able to get all the IPO shares I asked for but otherwise it was a good experience. They are a legit company.
A LISP program is a list of characters.
How much hot work was involved there? I sorta skimmed the bits about particular products because I'd probably aim to make my own tools for this sort of thing.
No, the $4 Billion in revenue was last quarter. In other words $48/user annually, not to mention the huge growth of even that number. That's why its market cap is ~$300 Billion.

Yup, that's my bad, sorry.

That said, unless they can continue to grow that number, their trajectory is based on subscriber growth, and that must necessarily flatten out.

Profit alone is just a bad way to value quickly growing companies

Agreed.

But a company that can't not lose money is not well positioned.

And the fact that Twitter's growth trajectory has flattened out only makes me more nervous.

In most cities they're not "illegal contract workers" even today

You're right.

They're illegal across the country according to federal labor regulations.

Uber and its ilk are almost certainly illegally classifying their workforce as contractors when they should be employees. It's actually a really easy line to cross, and if you ever work as an independent contractor, it's worth familiarizing yourself with the regulations as it obviously has significant tax implications, among other things.

This is the basis for this class action: http://uberlawsuit.com/

When that hammer comes down, Uber's profits will evaporate. They're also very likely to face similar legal action in other countries with similar labor protections (e.g. Canada).

And that's ignoring their violating taxi regulations all over the place (though I admit I have more sympathy for them in that regard, as I generally view those regulations as anti-competitive).
I guess that funnily enough, the big irony of the text is that to do this: "people should be trying their own crazy things" a lot of this is only possible because the cost of certain things have been brought down by consolidations

There's nothing special in a pharmacy. It's a cookie-cutter business.

Build something truly new and innovative, don't try to compete for profit shavings and established markets unless you have 5 aces up your sleeve (like, drone delivery of prescription or something)
We're obviously talking from an entrepreneurs perspective here. But, it was entrepreneurs that discovered that a flashlight is a very desired utility. I suppose the danger for users is that future entrepreneurs won't experiment if they can't reap any benefit.
That's an oddly ironic suggestion, seeing that Apple's decision not to include Flash support in the original iPhone was probably our best hope for killing the damn thing.

I don't see any excuse for lazy web designers using Flash just for a static image gallery. My browser is perfectly capable of rendering images without a proprietary plugin.
To gauge the age of the repo, perhaps?
Random noise cannot be (on average) loselessly compressed, not even by 0.0000001% of the original size. To see that it is the case it is sufficient to notice that a compression algorithm is essentially a way to reorder all possible inputs, all at once, and then apply the pigeonhole principle. Kind of similar to the proof that if a loseless compression algorithm shortens at least one input, it must also extend at least one.

Claiming that there exists an algorithm that loselessly compresses random noise to 86% of the original size is just wrong.
Why are you crediting this to capitalism?

Having worked in a nonprofit that works on obtaining foreign aid, it's my opinion that these improvements have occurred despite capitalism due to the hard work of people like me, not because of capitalism.
A remark:

There's a fundamental unsolved (or, poorly solved, or, we don't like the solution enough) civilizational problem: I have a new society. Where do I put it?

And a longer comment:

I read at thing that suggested that companies with "noble purpose" make hand over fist more money than companies with a sole profit motive.

One way to take this is that, by operating under different goals, you become unpredictable to the established power, and the "OODA loop" concept teaches us that's a solid way to win. Arguably, against a better positioned opponent who can absorb you, playing by different rules is the only way to win.

Another way to take this is to pull the idea that "money" is only a measurement of "debt", and is thus inherently unsustainable because it measures a non-finite thing in a world of finite things. And so if you make decisions by maximizing an unsustainable sense of depletion, it stands to reason you'll end up making a depleted place.

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Of course, you can also read all this as "convincing you not to play our game, so we don't have to compete with you"... akin to "stability is good because I'm on top!"... but that just goes back to "need to play by different rules if I'm to win".
The DPI scaling issue is probably because you didn't call SetProcessDpiAwareness
Coding answers first, more nonsense later :) Thank you SO much for trying him out!
In music, 80% of the concert industry is owned by Ticketmaster. A diverse universe of record labels is steadily consolidating down. A shocking percentage of Top 40 hits are written by four Scandinavian men.

Yup, love that he included this tidbit. A little dramatic, but practical. They figured out the formula, so they're a sound investment. Even Adele has a track with Max Martin on her new album.

If there's a really cogent indicator of 'wealth disparity' there's nothing quite like looking into the "Top 1%" of music acts versus the rest. Not that music has, you know, traditionally been a great way to make a living, but the numbers are really exploitative in a lot of ways. It's quite indicative of the money first mentality I think, for music (and venues) to be consolidated (or allowed to do so) in such a racketeering fashion.

Number 1: Don’t sell out...Do something because you believe it’s wonderful and beneficial, not to get rich.

Oh, wow. I needed this. Mostly because it's such a futile thing to try and be independent as a musician and make a living...or really any money...but it's a personal decision, one based on principles. Glad he at least mentioned this concept for consideration.
I think part of this is driven by workplace sexual harassment laws, conflict of interest policies and relationship disclosure policies in your examples.

The risks for dating your assistant or a nurse are higher compared to what it was 30-60 years ago for example. Now it's safer to date someone at the same income level. Or someone in the same social group but outside of work, which will tend to be the same income level again compared to a workplace.

The other part is probably driven by how there are more dual income families competing for the same limited resources, such as housing, making the income of your spouse more relevant.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546489.
Using Ansible with Docker Machine to Bootstrap Host Nodes
The tax implications of preferred stock / preferred RSUs I think would make this worse for employees than options.
Yes, in an ideal word it would be easy to reproduce all the well designed experiments. But it's costly

* Time and Money.

* You have to assign a graduate student or a postdoc to reproduce the experiment. He/She will get probably a null result that cant publish anywhere (or in a low impact journal if lucky).

* It's necessary to copy all the devices. Probably the equipment in the research article is custom made and not available of the shelf, so it's necessary to make the modifications.

* It's necessary to gather and manage the volunteers and the staff. Get a quiet place that is available at the right time and be sure that everyone is there.

* If you can't reproduce the result, the original team can claim that you didn't follow some detail that they didn't explain in detail in the paper. So someone has to repeat the experiment again.

* If you reproduce the result, you have to check carefully that there are no side channels that explain the result, because if someone discover them later you can be labeled as a crackpot for life.

* It's more easy to make a small variation of a well known experiment. You will probably be successful an you will get another paper for you and your team members. (If you are feeling lucky you can try an interesting modification. It's less sure because it can fail, but if it successful you will get more fame (and can share a little of it with your team members).)
Oh sure, people will still hire programmers, but I expect conditions to worsen dramatically. The rockstar making a $100k+ salary in a $1000 chair on top-of-the-line hardware with free meals at the office experience is very much an artifact of the startup bubble. Mature tech companies offer that to stay competitive, but I expect we'll see a return to salaries closer to $50k in grey cubicle Pointy Haired Boss environments when the bubble bursts.
Windows users report bugs, crashes after recent security patches
By far the biggest impact on tunneling over DNS is whether or not you can make direct DNS queries to the server running iodine.

I did some tests a while and found that iodine was ~98% of non-tunneled speed when I could access the server directly, since then the traffic is wrapped over huge big TXT queries and it's really efficient.

But the common case for using it is that you can only lookup through a local DNS server, and then it's usually ~0.5% or so of the usual speed. I.e. 1-2KB/s at best.
> What exactly do you do?

I'm Intel's Chrome OS Architect; I serve as the technical lead for Intel Chromebooks, particularly on the software side. I particularly enjoy that I get to work on entire systems top-to-bottom: hardware, firmware, kernel, userspace, browser, apps/web... We get to work on problems like "How could this technology make Chrome OS or the web better?", or conversely "What technology could we create to solve this problem that Chrome OS or the web faces?".

I've also found it awesome building up and working with several exceptional teams.

(Note: on HN and elsewhere, I don't speak for Intel unless explicitly stated otherwise.)

> How did you get to that point?

I came in to interview for a completely different position, and found myself in the right place at the right time with the right skillset, and I was open to work on anything sufficiently interesting and challenging.

It helped that I already had extensive experience in the Open Source community. Also, Intel as an employer values and rewards graduate education.

Happy to talk more via email.
Does this mean the Commercial Crew Program, where Space-X finishes their manned launch capability, is back on?
Developers that always wanted to have their own side business, take note. This is the kind of opportunity you should always be looking for: a rapidly growing platform, full of small businesses with money to spend if you can help them, and a developer-friendly interface for you to do so. Shopify has a highly trafficked app store that makes your additions to stores plug-and-play, and they'll even take care of billing for you.
In Rebuttal to Paul Graham: Why You Should Talk to Corp Dev
>Both get a little carried away, but the main melody is clear and pretty interesting.

In case it wasn't clear, "Death Waltz" is just a cover of "U.N. Owen Was Her?" from the Touhou games (as are many of the more popular black MIDI songs from what I've seen).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyC5eWJhCr8&list=PL_I1U99bY0...

Circus Galop was cool, though. That's the first original black MIDI piece I've enjoyed so far.
That doesn't really refute gp's point. In medieval times, there were periods where dynasties didn't last, and every generation had new warlords from new families. That doesn't mean it wasn't a feudal society.