skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, I've noticed the same with Wuala. The uploads were pretty slow. I've heard similar complaints from people using OneDrive. I would be very willing to switch to a smaller competitor even if it meant paying more than I do at Dropbox. But from my experience Dropbox is the only provider capable of synchronizing large amounts of data 24/7.
> no one is owed the viability of a business model

I'd like to emphasize this. Somehow there is a sense of entitlement. Many businesses got where they are today by driving competition out of business, preventing new entrants in their market, and/or 'disrupting' entire industries.
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The new website, https://verily.com/, was down when I posted this.
A lot of companies do store full card numbers. Not usually physical retail stores, but for online companies it's not /that/ unusual.

Most do just tokenize with a third party processing company though.
Well, the majority of users are pro status-quo. Most people want their content (their facebook, youtube, and links stemming from) to be free in cost, and are ignorant/unconcerned about tracking.

The ethical dilemma I see is whether users should have tracking disabled by default. These users do subsidize much of the content on the internet; is it wrong to leave them be.
Entanglement in a Quantum Neural Network (Based on Quantum Dots)
What does that link represent? Isn't it just a declaration that they have patents which may conflict with Opus? Isn't that just what a patent holder is expected to do?
Yeah, I figured that out the un-fun way. Hopefully someone makes a wrapper or something the way they have for other panoramic images or street view. You can fullscreen a side-by-side 3d image and view on the Rift but you'd need something to translate it to that format and map positional tracking.
This proposal started as a Chris Rock joke and has become mistaken for a serious part of discourse about guns. Any time someone brings it up, it's easy to know that that person hasn't taken the time to gain even a cursory understanding of how firearms actually work in human society.

So, let me state the obvious and dispel this notion: The last thing we want are unpracticed hands ahold of guns in our communities.

Basic competence with a handgun takes many thousands of rounds of practice.
Being paid for doing work has nothing to do with extracting rent, which is the practice of inserting yourself as a middleman so other people have to pay you "rent"[1] where none should be required.

The entire idea behind writing a Service as a Software Substitute[2] is about extracting rent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

[2] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...
Do any of the Google Analytics alternatives scale to that size?
> It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package.

Unfortunately, there's no way to replicate what Google Analytics currently offers (for free!) within a couple of weeks (or even months). Not with big data sets. Yes, GA does enforce sampling if you don't pay for GA Premium, but the free edition is still one of hell of a deal (if you don't care about privacy).

If you only use Google Analytics as a hit counter, sure, you can do that yourself within a couple of minutes. The advanced features are way more complicated, though (think segmentation and custom reports).

This also begs the question: why not use Piwik?
>Postel's law states that one should be conservative in what one does, but liberal in what one accepts from others; this is great advice for life, but terrible advice for writing software.

This perfectly sums up what I've tried to say about this "robustness principle" for years. Fantastic.

SIP inherits these status code ideas, plus adds super-neato whiz-bang headers, like "Retry-After", that allow comments. Their actual example is "Retry-After: 300 (in a meeting)". It's beyond delusional.

Except.... someone read the spec. They see Retry-After. They then implement it in some big iron that connects to the PSTN. Little SIP VoIP provider comes along, passes along this dumb header, Retry-After. Suddenly, big switch guy is pissed, as Verizon has disabled all his lines as "Retry-After" gets translated into "shutdown trunk" or something. Awesome. Really a round of applause for the IETF there. (You have got to know that these headers came about just sitting around thinking shit up, vs actually trying to implement telephony. That's why SIP says it might be used "to run a chess game", but has a mandatory "Call-ID" field. Oops.)
> it would eventually drive everyone to ...

... a new business model. I have no problem with that.
oil's below $40/brl and ng is around $2. the solar / renewable drive "began" with prices of both at 3*+ multiples of where they are today. the problem addressed has diminished which should affect investment / development and stall future transition.
Is there a plugin to let me use SQL to query Elasticsearch?
There are plenty of small "mom & pop" sites out there that store full credit card info, in plain text, in unsecured databases, in blatant disregard of card company policies. They go with the thinking that it costs to much to implement security and nothing will ever happen to us. We hear about the big breaches on the news, but I would bet for every big breach we hear about on the news there are thousands of smaller breaches that don't get recognized.

For example, about two years ago I had a property management company ask me to build out a site to handle rent payments for them. They wanted to store and have access to the full credit card numbers to manually process transactions for failed or late payments. When I told them they were not allowed to do that they terminated the contract with me. I know they went on to hire a developer to build out a site for them and store credit card numbers. While I don't know if they are still doing it, it did happen for an extensive period of time.
But the game doesn't explain anything. It doesn't even tell what commands can be used. I played like 10 games until I found out you can actually put on items, and that was by accidentally stumping upon the command on the internet. It would be nice if they at least listed what commands can be used, otherwise it is a guessing game, especially since some commands are more than 1 symbol.
And they knew he was worth hiring since his credentials as a top notch business man were obvious the moment he negotiated a 10% deal! It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I hope you did not think I was serious.

We would be much better off effectively banning guns in the US, but that's not going to happen.

PS: You can practice just fine using rubber (wax etc) bullets. (which are still very dangerous.) There not ideal, but basic competence works just fine.
I feel no ethical dilemma in dumping ads.

These are ads paid for by corporations that regularly screw people with the "sorry, I have shareholders to answer to" line.

I have my life to answer to, and it is limited. I owe zero to your cdn.
I was under the impression that WhatsApp is a relatively secure messaging platform [1].

I travel, from time to time, to countries such as the UAE, Singapore and France. I once attempted to get people to use Signal. No luck. HN seemed to have arrived at a consensus that Telegram is a crock of shit. So I shifted - in part due to local adoption - to WhatsApp. When their in-app calling was blocked in each of the above countries, I gained a little faith in their security model.

[1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/
And twitter deciding to allow supporters to use the application isn't unconstitutional either.
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I share your concerns. I've been looking into DIY flow batteries as an alternative for middle-income groups, but that approach isn't promising so far; we're still talking five figure sums up front to store just 45kWh (rounded-off, high side of average daily US residential utilization). Unsurprisingly for those well-versed in thermodynamics, energy is just plain expensive to store; another way of putting that is fighting against entropy is monetarily expensive.

These technologies are currently only accessible to highly-determined and resourceful people (those willing to make fundamental changes to their electricity consumption patterns, or those with 2+ sigma annual disposable income to fund their individual solution), and are still not ready for mass, de-centralized adoption. Grid-scale deployments might be another story, but any talk of a mass wave of private individuals adopting this technology is not matching up with the numbers I've run.

A combination of energy conservation and energy production technologies and techniques, I can see gaining traction, but that is a long, long (2+ decades) ways off in the US (Germany is potentially leading the way here IMHO).
It doesn't "follow." You can't just take a picture of a picture, that works be illegal and a copyright infringement. A photograph is only copyrighted if it had a creative aspect. If you duplicate a photo by taking a picture of it, your picture is merely a copy. His screenshots are merely copies. He gets around the issues by "transforming" them. Adding a quote isn't enough, imo.
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No it parses web server logs, however as mentioned above it doesn't work well for very high traffic sites.
Owning a gun does not reduce the odds that you or someone you care about being being killed by a gun.

Irrelevant.

So, you benefit just as much from gun control as everyone else.

Which is "Not at all".

PS: One option is to simply jack up the cost of each bullet. At 100$ a pop that still useful for hunting or self defense so no constitutional issues, but your not going to see teens firing thousands of rounds. ;)

This would make me and a lot of people like me very rich.
This would be a PCI violation, so if it's common, then someone has some calls to make.

I'm a stickler about enforcing data retention (and non-retention) standards where I work. We never store any credit card information. That would be an outrageous liability.
Mailbox replacements
I've never actually heard of successful anti-fraud busts.

Does law enforcement have any achievements or are they wasting time?

These don't even know to use vpn exit points and not use government ip addresses? Seriously?
>It's so frustrating seeing people talk about ad blocking as some ethical issue.

How often do you hear your family talk about the ethical implications about ad blocking? What I mean is, how often do people with no dog in the fight talk about ad blocking ethics? For me, never. Of course websites that depend on advertising dollars are going to complain about the public blocking their advertising dollars.
It happens all over the place. The problem with electricity is that the marginal cost of adding capacity to the grid is very expensive, and you only hit peak capacity a few days a year.

For a decade or more New York has paid commercial and industrial customers something like $50M to shut down capacity on demand in exchange for lower electric rates.

Doing that delays or avoids $500M investments in power plants. Time shifting and solar build on this idea.

If you live in the boonies where power interruption is routine, partial power preservation means your fridge, well pump and heat continue to work. You don't need to worry about frozen pipes in the winter when your on vacation or lost groceries after a thunderstorm in the summer.
My wife was recently on metformin for a while. According to her, even if metformin does prevent aging in humans (which is not at all certain), it would not be worth the side effects.
> I haven't heard a rationale for equity crowdfunding
> that makes sense to me.

My take is that it's political, meaning that we're trying to avoid the perception that only industry insiders can participate in and benefit from these types of investments. I've read some press about how companies are taking longer to go public, and that by the time they do, there's very little growth left.

(edit: Crowdfunding seems to me like an attempt to allow "retail" investors to participate in pre-IPO investments.)
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> Also, please note that Al-Qaeda in Iraq was the progenitor of ISIS

It wasn't so much a "progenitor of ISIS" as the name taken by the group that later called itself "the Islamic State in Iraq" (and later still, "the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria", and most recently simply "the Islamic State") during the period in which that group (which had been around quite some time previously) adopted the al-Qaeda brand.
Because Apple want you to upgrade plzkthx
Yes there is but its a different thing. This will do Joins across Indexes, that plugin will just give you a SQL syntax but will do only some form of joins - not in the range of millions.
can somebody explain why they need to use the Apple APIs to block content in their own software? will apple simply not allow them to put it on the app store otherwise?
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The problem this proposal is ostensibly solving is that currently, there is no way to achieve both 1) a minimum standard, among a few criteria, for firearm ownership or carry, and 2) ignorance on the part of a central authority about who owns weapons.

To the extent that both of these are important, this solution seeks to provide a system that does what the current one cannot.
Backblaze client is uploading at the speed of several mb/s, very close to my connection upload speed limit.
But I have a problem with that. I don't want to live in a walled garden.
The EasyPrivacy block list contains an entry that will block the piwik.js file. Of course, when you're self-hosting, it's trivial to serve that file with a non-default name.
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Because 4chan's ads aren't invasive and they don't track you. They're just small banner images displayed at the top and bottom of the page with no JS, no flash, etc.
Ghostery counts 16 things to block on the article's page, and without it I was shown two large, animated adverts.
> Irrelevant.

And factually dubious. It's an impossible metric to track, yet statists everywhere trumpet it as though it's established science.
Copyright dues nurture creation. But that doesn't mean someone can take my creation and build on it.
Just because someone is willing to pay money to him doesn't mean that he had created anything of value.
And who are you to set the price on someone else's stuff?
Privacy is obviously good but when I ask myself what specifically bad has happened to me because Facebook and Google know a bunch of random information about me I'm at a loss. Until the problem of privacy is tangible to most people it will always be an uphill battle
I get the sense a lot of those are community-knowledge-only documented, so IRC (I would assume) might be the best place to start if you're interested.
China testing something new? Or maybe some scriptkiddie testing their new botnet?
Free alternatives? Not really. Paid? Yes, SiteCatalyst and Webtrekk come to mind.

People seem to ignore that the tracking JavaScript is not what you're paying for. It's the backend + servers.
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Of course Joe & Jane Average's outraged howls of "it's not art!" are the precise reason why Prince is so rich & awesome. What you think is a critique is in fact the entire value proposition.
I don't know whether you were serious, but some people who parrot this proposal are. And it's weird and scary.

And while I respect your opinion about gun legislation, I disagree about the effects of disarming the populace living inside the belly of empire.

I'm actually looking forward to traveling to places where guns are banned, but I don't think it's the right choice for the USA.
There are ads that can be enjoyable. It is just short entertainment. My wife and I both thought of a commercial from Target where Santa was running to the store in the middle of the night in a partially empty parking lot. https://vimeo.com/55792604

I looked up to watch that one when it would come on. It was fun. I mute the TV when I get too many drug and insurance commercials.
If you already have a codebase in a dynamic language, it can be incredibly hard to justify the cost of rewriting (which will likely pause feature development until the rewrite reaches feature parity, etc.) v. the cost of employing a small number of people to improve tooling of your current language. Or even forking your current language (as FB have done with HHVM and the introduction of Hack).
Oh hey, it's my blog post.

I reported this to Oracle about 3 months ago (ref JI-9024492) but haven't heard anything since 2015-09-29, when they contacted me asking for some code to reproduce the issue (which I gave to them on the same day). :-/
Everything developers don't do is a matter of laziness if you ignore the fact that they might have other priorities.
Mozilla ad tracker doesn't work for Firefox iOS
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It feels excessive to call this misleading. The web browser team within Mozilla must be pretty well placed to be significant in creating an app for mobile web browser experiences.
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That's too bad you have little faith. But that's because in Thailand there isn't any mandated privacy, or the laws are toothless. Here in the US, that nurse could be fined $25,000 every time she hits the 'send' button.

It's a regulatory and educational problem, not a technical one. While it could be improved, and it's far from perfect, there's no reason what so ever to believe it's un-fixable.
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All in all, although this system may not be a drop-in replacement for "gun control," I think this is exactly the kind of discussion that makes sense to have in the 'hacker' community in light of the sudden insistence on the part of politicians to pretend that gun violence is a significant concern for the American public.
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Having implemented two different custom analytics dashboards, it's a lot more complex than you think.

Sure, the basics are easy. But marketers and business people want to drill into a lot of data which is non-trivial to gather.

Unless you have a compelling business case (which SpiderOak does), it's not worth it.
I wish they were a thing of the past. I don't always use an ad blocker, and I was surprised by having a video advertisement start playing automatically, broadcasting “Don’t take painful sex lying down!” to the entire room, and continuing with information about vaginal tearing.

This was on the New York Times website, of all places.
Man, I feel bad for all the people subsidizing my college football addiction over the years. Well, athletic departments' addiction to $$$ that is. But I never had to worry about not seeing a game live from my very own couch. It was very easy for me to justify $70/mo from September to January (until I found out I could get Sling for $25/mo). I never asked for 40 bowl games though. Hopefully all of those no-name bowls disappear. College sports was still exciting before they came along.
...showing someone can destroy or damage a company does not show they can run one excellently...

What it shows is that the marginal effect of a CEO is large - multiple percentage points of the company's value. Therefore, the difference in value between a good and bad CEO is equally large.

Gizi: "If the right guy manages the joint, it will do $11 billion. Are you willing to pay 10 million a year for this person?"

Repeat the math with $10B and $7B, and you'll still see that $20M or $50M is a very reasonable pay package to get the guy who is less likely to screw things up. Of course, if you truly believe CEOs have an insignificant effect, I encourage you to invest in companies with CEOs who are perceived as being terrible.

These results came from data that compared CEO remuneration to average employee remuneration.

Your linked study provides very weak support of these claims. It's restricted to bank holding companies and thrifts during the financial crisis. In fact, there is a pretty obvious alternate explanation of it's results - banks with a high pay ratio consist of a CEO + lots of tellers, mortgage officers, etc (e.g., Citi, Countrywide). In contrast, banks with a lower pay ratio consist of CEO + quants, traders, etc (e.g., Goldman, Morgan Stanley).

Can you think of another reason why banks with lots of mortgage officers might have performed worse during the crisis?
100s of copies of app dominate 'puzzle games' on Amazon Appstore
Piwik relies on client-side JavaScript for tracking, not log analysis.
Imo: the only hard thing in webdev are handling the complexity of scaling and legacy.

In many cases the latter forces you to compromises in what you pick and the first one in compromises when you pick it.

I fully understand when people try to make work what they have.

Eg PHP by itself is a very fast powerful language. The tooling and several aspects (dynamic type etc) are exhausting for larger code bases but this is something which people inhouse can solve without requesting the full company to switch.
Exactly what I did.
Tried using reader mode (on FF), got a nice chuckle.
> The whole point of a "static site generator" should be for it to be SIMPLE.

This is incorrect. The point of a static site generator is to generate static site content. You may use it in a simple manner, but there are many projects and companies that maintain huge, complex websites using static site generators like Middleman and Jekyll (along with various proprietary static site generators), in combination with content managers like Contentful. I'm talking hundreds if not thousands of pages, ecommerce, massive blog, multiple content types, etc. etc. I've worked on such projects, as have many others around here.

I'm glad that enlightened companies are increasingly open to using static generators for such websites, since many (possibly most) of them don't need to run PHP or Rails if the site doesn't have dynamic content on the frontend.

For such organizations, the point of static site generators is to produce vastly more secure and faster sites that are much easier to maintain and less expensive to host. Not to mention the ease of caching.

The OPs project, nice as it is for a small, simple project, would be impossibly simple for such projects. Anyone who tried to use it for a project of the scale I've described would just end up re-writing an inferior version of Middleman.

ssgen sounds like a cool project, and it also sounds like you're using the right tool for the job in your projects, but don't make the mistake of discounting a tool as useless or too complex just because it's not the right one for your purposes.
Not to be that guy, but I cut the cord, and it's seriously like a breath of fresh air. It's like discovering ad-blockers in the era of incessant pop-ups and flash ads.
It will probably take awhile, but trackers will move to aggregating log files, and blockers will move to TOR. And the arms race continues...
Which nesting tool is that?