skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just like the grandparent spread the word about his browser preferences....?
This may be an over assumption, looking at the timing of the block. Article states that because of the timing the site owners were able to seize his funded account, getting a few hundred dollars for free.

May have flagged him prior, but like the opportunity to take government money.
The reveal where he was a ghost the whole time was incredible.
Ask HN: How do I start solving binary challenges for CTF
I'm quite at home with web challenges. I know a bit about assembly programming, gdb as well. But somehow I find it difficult to solve binary challenges. What all tools should I start using?
There are several answers to this. The three that stand out to me are alternate power generation methods (inferior, but still helpful), designing systems with excess battery capacity, and, you know, using less energy at times when it's harder to generate.

People tend to be dismissive about conserving energy, but I expect they would think differently if they were producing & storing their own. We use way more than we need to-- some of the biggest power hogs are air conditioning and refrigeration, neither of which is necessary in the winter.
can't do a two word, but you don't have to worry about maintainer accepting $$ to allow certain ads through, as has happened with at least one other iOS content blocker
An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me.

Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?
> Like lots of other companies with high traffic websites, we are a technology company; one with a deep team of software developer expertise. It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package.

I'm a little curious why they decided to go this route instead of using one of the open-source solutions. Aren't there good solutions to this problem already?
Wording makes it sound like you pushed a button and an app was on the app store globally in less than a week...

Are you a magician?
What we talk about when we talk about distributed systems
I've been following solar for around a decade now and have yet to consider it because of it's long ROI. Sure, the technology has gotten more efficient as pointed out in the article, but a consumer's up front costs have yet to come down.

I checked again last year about installing an array on my roof. My original outlay would be in the 30-40K range with an ROI of over ten years. If you want solar to take over the world and be a viable alternative to low income families, this isn't going to cut it.

Also, does the author know there's a limited amount of lithium in the world while his projections are pretty rosy for electric, the facts don't seem to align with his assumptions:

William Tahil, the founder of Meridian International Research, a technology consultancy in Martainville, France, has argued that there simply isn’t enough economically recoverable lithium on the planet to support the auto industry’s ambitious plans. Tahil estimated that only 4.4 million tons of the world’s lithium resources can be extracted without prohibitive cost, a supply he believes will be quickly exhausted if lithium-ion batteries become a staple of next-generation cars.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/1124/034.html

So why people are focusing on lithium to herald in the new electric car revolution, we should probably already be looking beyond electric cars as a viable long term solution.
Similarities yes, but nobody is being murdered, and the claims of harm are vastly overblown if not complete paranoia.

I am saying this is a false equivalence, and frankly, I am simply not swayed that vaccination = hitler.
Wikipedia lists 14 US astronauts that are naturalized citizens.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_nat...
Nikola has a plugin called webapp that's similar. it's kinda broken though and takes some fiddling, and is a bit buggy. I would be very interested in your project. I love static site generators but I hate having to remember all the commands. a web interface would be really nice.
"this is the best phone you can buy"... if you need a phone for less than 8 hours a day ;)
They do now. What about when there's no grid left, or the grid that's there can't handle a sudden demand spike?
Did you implement stuff like a blog-aggregation-page and Atom-feed? How do you show the dependencies from aggregation to all aggregated items into the Makefile?

I tried using make, but then made my own 152-lines [0] of simple Python instead.

[0] https://gist.github.com/qznc/6fbdc37ad33e6853911a
Any reason you're not supporting the iPhone 5 or 5C? Is there something you need which they don't support?
Linguists do have a way of explicitly notating language, called IPA. However, just reading straight IPA can be exhausing. (dʒʌst ɹidɪŋ ai pi ɛi kæn bi ɛɡzɐstɪŋ). Not to mention, one's own accent comes through in the transcription. I remember in school i was confused by the utterance kœkəkœwlɐ which turned out to be "Coca-Cola" transcribed in a British accent (I'm from the US).
This is the first time I have really noticed the '405 Method Not Allowed' code. This makes it seem like you should explicitly handle every verb, when in cases before I have just left them unimplemented (which typically just results in a 400). Is it considered a best practice to handle all of these other verbs with a '405'?
I know the differences, but I haven't seen any popular ad-blockers that don't also block or allow blocking trackers because they all have various blacklists you can use (I'm referring to the ones like uBlock Origin and Adblock Plus).
PHP gets so much love and money shoved at it, the Ruby programmer in me finds it unfair.

That being said, I'm really glad that this helps millions of PHP devs around the world so bravo to the people working on this.
No, I didn't miss it. I'll admit that the article isn't directly calling for an end to encryption, but, at least the way I read it, there's some subtext about it. It seems like they're approaching encryption with the assumption that it's bad but we can't do anything about it, not that encryption is a good tool being used for evil.

> A trickier issue is presented by the encryption deployed by Apple, Facebook, Google and a range of smaller services that thwart law enforcement’s ability to access a target’s communications, even with a court order.

Why do they describe it as 'thrwarting' law enforcement? It's not thrwarting anything, it's just not providing them a back door.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but this article feels like it has something between the lines.
As a small follow-on, there is also Barrage [1], which is more of a framework than anything else. kellabyte wrote it to benchmark changes to Haywire [2], so it's geared towards configuring your client and server, and then collecting all of the metrics from both the client side, and the server side, and displaying them in an easy-to-digest format.

This obviously isn't terribly useful if you're just trying to gauge request rates, or apply load, but it's very useful if you need a repeatable way to not only measure request rates but see how your server is doing under load.

[1] https://github.com/kellabyte/barrage

[2] https://github.com/kellabyte/Haywire
Have a look at piwik: http://piwik.org/
Might not be cheaper to have to do anything (manual) than just pay for the ad.
The 5 and 5C do not have 64 bit processors, which is a requirement for Content Blockers.
Ask HN: How to start solving binary challenges in a CTF
I'm quite used to web challenges in a CTF. Also I'm familiar with assembly programming, gdb, but find it difficult to solve binary challenges. What all tools should I start using?
> Nope, sports have 0 value to me.

Honestly, sports have negative value to me, like ads. The manufactured excitement, the soap opera lives of the players, the constant assumption by the media complex that I must care about who plays and wins are draining. If I could pay for some sort of sports blocker which would prevent me from having to know about what sports season it is and what athlete is doing what, I would throw my money at it. Likewise for actors pontificating about science and politics…
I trust them to make the best business decision for their company but this goes a bit against my personal philosophy. That said, since Medium lets them use their own domain, they are only giving up temporary control.

I use blogger with my domain but it is the freedom to revert to hosting my own blog content that makes me feel comfortable with blogger. I am going to take a closer look at Medium as a writing platform.
This seems like a meaningless metric to me. I'd care a lot more about the number of repositories of projects using Swift.
Wait, did you?

"The court found 25 of 30 works to be transformative fair use under its standard, and remanded the case to the lower court for reconsideration of 5 of the works under the Second Circuit's new standard."

"On March 18, 2014, Cariou and Prince announced that they had settled the case."

Seems like they mostly found for him, but not 100%. And before the lower court could have the final say, I'm guessing Prince settled out of court. The last thing he needs is any judgment against him. Seems like that could open him up to a flood of lawsuits.

So it's kind of ambiguous. And, yeah, probably only ambiguous because he has the cash to put up a fight.
iOS content blockers don't support 32bit CPUs, apparently for performance reasons. This is an Apple decision, not a Mozilla decision (all other iOS content blockers face the same limitation)
I really don't want to sound negative, I'm sure a lot of thought and work went into this, but one has to wonder - would it not be easier to just use static languages instead of writing static analyzers from scratch for every dynamic language out there?
A "real names policy" is not appropriate to every situation, since it is inherently hostile to users. Some have even criticized its use at FB.
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Quickest route to a small Rails website
Working with smart people and knowing your role
People don't think nearly aggressively enough about what "automated" means. In the 18th century, farmers were 90% of the labor force. By the end of the 19th, they were less than 40%. Now, they're around 2%.

Automation is not a new thing. Imagine if the people who built the pyramids had trucks.
I'm fine with cracking down on ISIS propaganda as long as we also crack down on the propaganda of hawks in the West. ISIS is bad, no question there. But the US invasion of Iraq has caused more deaths than the fighting with ISIS. We need to stop pretending that these actions are different. Killing people is killing people even if it's done by militaries at the orders of men in suits.
wow. How does someone owe you something that didn't even exist an hour ago? Is it really so hard to wait for technology to do its thing?

edit: took out an unnecessary 'with'
Yes, there is: www.piwik.org
10 years ago, maybe, but nowadays federal-level LE runs extremely high opsec. Theres no way they would've run something like this from a government IP, let alone a non-virtualized machine.
Why not move to push GA data server-side?

Trivial to set-up, immune to adblockers affecting the completeness of data, prevents the write of tracking cookies, leaves data and utility of the GA dashboard mostly complete (loss of user client capabilities and some session-based metrics).

This is the route I'm preferring to take (being applied this Christmas via https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyga ).

One may argue that Google will still be aware of page views, but the argument presented in the article is constructed around the use of the tracking cookie and that would no longer apply.

I'm shifting to server-push to restore completeness, I'm presently estimating that client-side GA represents barely 25% of my page views (according to a quick analysis of server logs for a 24hr period). I'm looking to get the insight of how my site is used rather than capabilities of the client, so this works for what I want.
Starbnb – Vacation rentals from local hosts in 190+ star systems
I'm not asking for predictions, I'm looking for a statistical analysis that takes into account historical weather, seasonal, and load across geographies weighted by use.

This is all measured and recorded. Has anyone analyzed it? Should I pay someone to do that myself? Is anyone interested to try?

That's what I'm asking.
Grammars generating grammars
Yeah, me too. I can't tell if the system if just getting hammered, or if it is a problem with the FB integration.
Yet they are still listed on Google search [http://bit.ly/1ICwud0]. I guess it's easy to have principles when it doesn't cost you money.
The same is true in the US. You have your "free" terrestrial service (BBC, Channel 4, et al. vs the "big four" of ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC funded by ads) that show a few sporting events on weekends, but for anything beyond that you'll need to have an expensive cable or satellite bundle.

For example: the BBC shows some F1 races in their entirety and the rest are aired as highlight packages after-the-fact, while all races are shown on Sky Sports F1. In the US, NBC airs a select few races in their entirety (Monaco, Canada, and the US GP), while NBCSN shows the rest of the races live as well as tape-delay full-race repeats. NBC can be accessed over-the-air for free, but NBCSN is typically an add-on to a cable bundle, so you're paying $60+/mo to have access to that channel for (if you're only an F1 fan) at most 12 hours of content a month.
If you ever want to increase the difficulty of a roguelike, you could always adopt a conduct[1], like "foodless", "atheist", "pacifist", "illiterate", etc.

[1] - https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Conduct
IIIF Image API 2.0
Not really. This irks people (rational or not) who are put off by inconsistencies with naming and branding. I understand why the Firefox brand was chosen, but it feels "messy". We'll get over it.
Please tell me you're not suggesting that D&D is a game of higher intelligence.
There is lot of potential out there for retrofitting used Car battery to wall mounts. That is the approach, I would be more interested. Has Tesla reused any of its roadster batteries that have gone stale in wall mounts? Does Tesla as a company has a plan for having old roadster batteries along with Model S etc. to convert into home batteries in the future ?
Ever imagined what replacing RSS with Twitter can do to reading news?
The Olympics are particularly notorious for being a complete money sink. The host city builds all kinds of infrastructure to support them which become useless eyesores after the Olympics are done. You can find photos of abandoned and unused Olympic venues from as recent as the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Yep I agree. I was talking about compiled _high-level_ languages.
Don't delete their accounts, shadowban them.
Awesome project, Do you know where I can download a php_ast.dll for the latest php 7 for windows?
Twitter testing timelines that are not in chronological order
Maybe you meant "idealistic", which they aren't any more, instead of "ideological", which they have become, progressively.
Where can I find such blacklists for uBlock / AdBlock Plus meant for trackers? Is there a page documenting them somewhere? I'd be interested.
>I really love Atlassian APIs. JSON request gone wrong? Here you have an error in XML!

There's a company I work with that is similar to this: Requests are XML, successful responses are returned as JSON with status 200 (with an empty error status field), errors are returned as XML with status 200, and the error text node is always "An error occured [sic] with your request".
You'd need to buy too many cards to find them by number, tho the combination of issuing bank, IBAN, card type, expiry date and [post|zip]code would likely provide enough bits to identify a source.

The shops would combat this by narrowing the information available about a card pre-purchase.

Here is what a record looks like on Rescator (a popular autoshop for credit cards) pre-purchase:

http://i.imgur.com/eeEThdr.png
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Common in Italy too. I find it very useful because you can send doctors exams, images, and so forth without interrupting like with a call. But is a lot more real time and personal than emails.
I was under the impression a developer had the final say in when an app goes live once it's passed Apple's review, thus allowing them to submit it in advance, have it reviewed, and then make it public at a time of their choosing?
How exactly would they stop themselves from being listed on Google? A right to be forgotten request? Their decision was to ditch Google Analytics, not to disappear from the web.
Teaching Machines to See and Understand
Trump says “closing that Internet” is a good way to fight terrorism
You've answered your own question. Terrorist organizations wouldn't use a public platform just like how they don't currently have recruitment booths in Times Square.

If there are privacy implications those would be handled by legislature and judicial oversight like the rest of our public infrastructure.

I don't see why a public platform for social media would need any sort of real life identify verification.

Instead of having a private company decide who gets to say what, we have public representatives handle the curation. The FCC has been regulating TV and radio for many decades and as far as I can tell it is still relatively easy to criticize the government over public airwaves.
oh! very cool. Thanks! I knew about toom-cook, and based on what I do I figured it could be faster by breaking up into 'bigger power of 2 digits'. Now I know for sure (without having to implement it myself).

Realistically though, you're not gonna implement a FFT mult on a 64-bit integer/float even.

Pedantry is not annoying if it's a learning opportunity (or if it's excellently funny), IMO.
Even Microsoft, who should be really ashamed to do it again, only allows Edge browser engine on Windows 10 Phone/Mobile!

IDC released the mobile market share 2015 statistics the other day:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS40664915

Android: 81%

iOS: 15%

WinMobile: 2%
I'm curious, why is it that people dislike affiliate-backed links if the link is relevant, useful, interesting and of equal quality to the normal link? Seems irrational.
We also currently throw a bunch of them away because it's easier to just mine more than to recycle.
This is one example. Pocket is another.
People don't care about the cookie or any of the details of the implementation. They care about being tracked across the whole internet. If you are still contributing to that then you are disrespecting your customers. I hope that I am not one of them.
You're the author of the article?
>And those capsules look big (which is probably because there's so much sugar in soda, they can't make them tiny. Probably about 1/4 the size of a 8 ounce can of coke.

Also "carbonation beads stored within the pod"
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Why an Old Scam Keeps Landing in Your Inbox
How does being listed on a search engine affect their users’ privacy? The users chose to use Google themselves, they could well use something like DuckDuckGo if they wanted to. They’re avoiding 3rd party tracking on their users, not boycotting Google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokenization_(data_security)
Is it just me or is this a click-bait title with hollow content?
This has nothing to do with search. This has 100% to do with site tracking with Google Analytics.
Thank you for that. Even history doesn't stay nailed down.
Yes of course solar cells generate (less) power on overcast days.

Here's the issue: If solar is already on track to replace fossil fuels by 2030, everyone can stop working on energy. Bill Gates can apologize and shutdown his new fund. Sam Altman can stop meeting with energy companies.

But I'm skeptical. I expect there remain needed technologies. Storage? Transmission? Baseload? Such an analysis would tell us.

I'm asking, where can I find an analysis of this? All these articles are lite advocacy pieces that border on marketing.
I am also in Europe ( Germany ) but couldn't find this kind of deal you have ( 280 euro / season ).

Can you share it? I am a NFL fan and quite hard to see the games live except pirated streams in low quality.
Which was the point of the OP - and can't have your grid and eat it too :)
This is nonsense. Without writing an essay here, you are apparently focusing on the criminals in jail.

There are plenty of very successful and intelligent criminals that have long, prosperous careers in theft.

Bernie Madoff ran a very successful, very illegal Ponzi scheme until he was nearly 80.

And that's not even to touch on the internet ability to let you violate the laws of counties you aren't physically in against citizens your gov doesn't care about (eg Russia to US), and therefore greatly reduce the risk for punishment.
Trade routes need people in two places to be able to come into existence.
To any of the SpiderOak team: thank you.

It's more than just the tracking cookie, though. It's also about Google aggregating all its website data into a unified profile. The data they have on everyone is frightening—all because of free services like GA.
I don't understand your complaint. 1) They freely admit that they use Google products, and 2) Google search is a way to be discovered by curious users. SpiderOak is looking to avoid giving excessive user data to Google, which is a totally separate issue.
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Thats what my bet is on. LE agencies have contractors that procure bulk quantities of prepaid phones, prepaid credit cards, etc.. for undercover investigations. I suppose its possible they traced the BTC from a funded wallet they knew was government related.
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My point is: how expensive would it be to have alternate power generation, especially in cities? I think the grid isn't going anywhere anytime in the next 50 or 100 years at least.
> Sadly, we didn’t like the answer to that question. “Yes, by using Google Analytics, we are furthering the erosion of privacy on the web.”

The only thing "wrong" with using an analytics service to better understand your customers is that it places all knowledge of visits, including ones that wished to be private, in a centralized location. This can be useful in providing correlation data across all visitors in aggregate, such as which browser you should make sure your site supports most of the time.

In other words, there exists some data in aggregate that is valuable to all of us, but the cost is a loss of privacy for smaller sets of personal data.

If individuals don't want certain behaviors analyzed by others, then they shouldn't use centralized services which exist outside their realm of control. These individuals would be better off using a "website" that is hosted by themselves, inside their own four walls, running on their own equipment. A simple way for SpiderOak to address this is to put their website on IPFS or something similar.

I appreciate the fact that SpiderOak is thinking about these things. It's important!
Again, can't sum up in two words, but can sum it up in two points. This would be better because:

* It's by Mozilla, and it's more likely (probability wise) to be maintained and kept up-to-date than those that happen to be a single person's hobby project.

* I believe that big players in the web like Mozilla and EFF (eff.org) really fight for us, the common people. :) The more these things become popular, especially from bigger names, the better the chances of the whole ad-tracker-privacy ecosystem to improve for our good.
Simplecast crashed from the traffic :( time to setup our own site probably.