skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't use Facebook and WhatsApp either, and Twitter doesn't have my real name, so I know that it is possible to avoid many intrusive services, but it depends on what communities you are part of and what sort of people you want to stay in touch with.

I guess the proof is all in the etc etc etc.

How about things like using Google search, exchanging unencrypted email with people who use ad funded mail services like gmail, using software or hardware that isn't completely open source (or working with people who do), using ad funded web sites, operating systems or apps that track you, using credit cards and other authenticated payment services, using location based services, using the internet without Tor, making unencrypted phone calls?

But yes, strictly speaking you are right. It is not impossible to avoid all of that and still have a social life. It's just very very difficult, and that's why it makes sense to speak up when useful services are designed in ways that create unnecessary privacy issues.
I own a first gen. The only negative is the disdain people show you while riding. I get shit from skaters and random people. The high price tag was manageable for me but it causes people to put you in that "rich techie" bucket and talk shit. Though maybe I'm just too self-conscious.

It's super fun to ride though. I was comfortable on a normal longboard before getting one. I'd say it's worth learning the ropes on a regular longboard first so you can get comfortable with braking without the engine in case things go south.
Well, there is such a thing as self-authenticating evidence.
> I wonder if there is some room for an ultra cheap "micro" PAAS

PythonAnywhere is kind of like that.

The hacker plan base cost is $5/mo + $2/mo per web app.

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/pricing/
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I've written a good bit of Inferno and one thing that's really neat is how closely related Limbo (the programming language) is to Go. There's good reason for this, of course-the guys who wrote Inferno went off to Google and made Go. The Tk GUI capabilities are a bit annoying to work with, but it's really not hard to whip up a GUI application in Inferno quickly--all the while getting to interact with those 9P servers which make data exchange really simple.
Things like this happened with flash but you had no control over them since flash was all or nothing and closed source.
What do you mean with "The stupidity is 100% with the web devs and customers"?

The law requires user consent, in form of a click on a banner or scrolling the page, before setting any cookie.
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> This is the same old argument advocating for rewriting everything from scratch just because someone somewhere managed to develop a new flavor of the month.

I'm not saying rewrite everything for no reason. I'm saying that there are reasons, and we've gotten a very good idea of what those are over the last 40 years.
You can get more technical details in the scientific paper: Julien Herzen, Albert Banchs, Vsevolod Shneer and Patrick Thiran. CSMA/CA in Time and Frequency Domains in IEEE ICNP, 2015. http://www.hrzn.ch/publications/tf-icnp15.pdf
> apart from working on 'fixing' browsers to create pixel-
> perfect renders

Alternatively, maybe have browsers slightly randomize canvas drawing results in ways that are essentially undetectable to a human eye.
It makes it quite difficult to write a terminal emulator web app.

Chrome, at least, can resolve this issue by bundling up your web app as a Chrome app; apps launched from the Chrome App Store can launch into a context where the standard Chrome modifier keys aren't mapped.
As I am cranking away on some Go services on my laptop on my local coffee shop wifi, I see log entries popup of people trying to access php pages.

I go and ask the staff, and they said their POS is full of some weird software.

a good VPN provider is worth it, but finding one that will not keep logs on you is another story.
Route53 supports private DNS. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/11/05/amazon...
Honest people do not go offline, only people with something to hide do. Honest people have all microphones accessible and all cameras untaped. I am afraid you have been flagged by NSA because of your suspicious behavior pattern.
I agree completely about the user-space tools on Linux. My doubt is that Google will come up with a solution that applies anywhere except Android. But given the hopeless situation there at the moment, I'd be okay even with that.
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Sometimes all you need is printf, not direct memory access to the character byte array.
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All of this over toilet paper
Thanks! Are you considering getting back into it ever? With VR coming now?
Couldn't finish Black Swan, the same idea, regardless its merits, is discussed on 300 pages over and over again. Highly repetitive, the tone is generally condescending. I didn't like his stories about giving taxi drivers 100 dollar bills and observing their behavior.
I've followed a lot of arguments over the accessibility of k and I'd say what it boils down to is that like Lisp or Forth, for a passionate few, it just fits how they think, and for the rest it doesn't. I tried it for a while, but found the paradigm too rigid for general purpose programming. Also, I got tired of the mental effort it took to read/write code where every line is as readable as a long regex.
Over 3,000 top sites using the font technique, and from the description this sounds really wasteful (choosing and drawing in a variety of fonts for no reason other than to sniff out the user).

Each font is probably associated with a non-trivial caching scheme and other OS resources, not to mention the use of anti-aliasing in rendering, etc. So a web page, doing something you don’t even want, is able to cause the OS to devote maybe 100x more resources to fonts than it otherwise would?

A simple solution would be to set a hard limit, such as “4 fonts maximum”, for any web site; and, to completely disallow linked domains from using more.
Can you give us a couple of examples of how lisp macros "abstract away" patterns?
As a human who is also apparently a leg-humping chihuahua, I just wanted to chime in to say that Noah Webster is a dumbass.
Congrats to the founders, Boosted is truly a great product. I've been using a (less expensive) electric skateboard, but I think I'm going to sell it and grab one of the 2nd Gen Boosteds for commuting around Boston.

I was hoping that there would be a more compact version for improved portability. @skdoo -- any chance we'll see something like this in the future?
Ask HN: How do I backup logical partition table with dd command?
I can take a backup of primary partition table entries (dd if=/dev/name of=file.txt bs=512 count=1), but how to take a backup of logical partition table with dd?

I tried to follow this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_boot_record but still unable to figure it out. I prefer solution without using sfdisk/fdisk binaries, that the possible? Anyone here attempted such task before?
Only takes about 30 seconds to recompile the OS, though.
The lack of bounds checking is one of the biggest problems in C, but there are worse problems (use after free) that nobody has even thought of a solution for.

> That widely-used C compilers don't do that is a strong hint there are other, real-world constraints in place.

Yes. Those constraints are self-inflicted wounds caused by the fact that C wasn't designed for this. If you have a proper iterator API, a culture of unsigned array indexing, widespread use of a size_t equivalent instead of int for loops, etc. etc. these issues vanish.
Stanford course on Programming Contests: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs97si/
If someone is thinking citation needed:
http://www.sec.gov/spotlight/enf-actions-fc.shtml
I think Black Swan was mostly propelled forward by its extremely poignant timing: It was published just before the financial crash, an event it seemed to describe in pretty high detail.

Also, I liked it. I felt it did very a good job of describing some important concepts in statistics and epistemology that weren't obvious to me at the time. YMMV, especially if you (unlike me) paid much attention in college maths and statistics.
What about Finch?

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch
Thats what made Opera up to 12.xx great. “Edit site preferences…” menu let you tweak EVERY SINGLE option per domain.
One argument of embodied cognition and enactivism is that all our concepts have an embodied basis - even abstract things like math, computation, language, philosophy, etc.

The article mentioned radical enactivism from Anthony Chemero. Another person who's written a lot from this perspective is Dan Hutto: https://uow.academia.edu/DanielDHutto

Here for example is an article describing "Remembering without Stored Contents" https://www.academia.edu/6799100/Remembering_without_Stored_...

and he has a book: Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds without Content. First chapter:
https://www.academia.edu/1163887/Radicalizing_Enactivism_Bas...

But for a more general, less radical background on this topic, see also work by Rafael Nunez and others:
http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~nunez/web/publications.html

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience
http://www.amazon.com/Embodied-Mind-Cognitive-Science-Experi...

George Lakoff & Rafael Nunez: Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being
http://www.amazon.com/Where-Mathematics-Come-Embodied-Brings...

George Lakoff & Mark Johnson: Philosophy in the Flesh
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Flesh-Embodied-Challenge-We...

Mark Johnson: The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
http://www.amazon.com/Body-Mind-Bodily-Meaning-Imagination/d...

And there are now around 30-40 books on this topic, at least.
He's really wrong about the kosher example in a way that makes me wonder whether he really understands a lot of what he's talking about.

Anyone who is familiar with kashrut knows that only vegetarian foods (with a few exceptions) are reliably kosher, because it takes very little to make them kosher, just paying for an inspection and certification to say that there aren't any animal products. But if you want kosher meat, kosher cheese, kosher wine, or kosher cooked food, it's significantly more difficult to find that.

Why?

Because those impose real costs on the producers that force them to change their practices. If you want kosher meat, that excludes pork and animals have to be treated differently. If you want kosher cheese, it can't have rennet (an animal protein), which most cheese does. If you want kosher wine, it needs to be processed in a specific way. And if you want kosher cooked food, not only does the restaurant have to follow all of those rules but they also can't serve milk and meat together. Suddenly, it becomes a lot less common to find kosher food if you actually care about it and aren't just cherrypicking an example for a book.

If you want a real lesson from kosher food, it's that companies will adopt all sorts of certifications and make any number of promises as long as they don't have to significantly change what they're doing. But if you ask them to do something that would really cost them money, then they are much less likely.
"People coming up now are looking for magic bullets and shortcuts and things they can just follow by rote"

This is the normal progression of learning. As a beginner, following the rules by rote is the goal. So, for the newbie that is first being exposed to design patterns, implementing some of those patterns should be the goal so they can learn where they fit in the toolbelt.
I went through literally the same moment of dread as you a month ago when I installed ubuntu and realized backspace didn't go back in firefox... then I installed chrome and all was well. Might sound odd but I probably would have stuck with firefox on ubuntu longer just if that had been the default. I use escape and backspace keys regularly without even thinking about them until they don't do what I expect.
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Unfortunately looking at just the business rules and procedures leaves the oft-hidden 'soft' requirements (the -ities) in the dust. Unless you explicitly state the corresponding requirements, having the business rules and procedures as your overriding concern will lead to pain. And explicitly stating a testable requirement for e.g. maintainability or security tends to be quite hard in practice.
In 2009, there was an interesting case where a federal district court ordered a plaintiff to disable its robots.txt to allow the Wayback Machine to disclose an old version of the plaintiff's website.[1] Someone at the Internet Archive provided a declaration stating that it would place a significant burden on them[2] to respond to a subpoena themselves, whereas all the plaintiff had to do was modify its robots.txt. The court reasoned that since the plaintiff had the technical ability to un-block access, they could be compelled to do so, and made them disable their robots.txt.

[1]: http://www.american-justice.org/upload/page/123/69/docket-18...

[2]: https://tonybox.net/tmp/ia_decl_pacer.pdf (downloaded from PACER)
As long as you don't need good interop, JSON Schema can be pretty great. (If you need interop, it's not, because none of the tools seem to implement unspecified behavior the same way.)
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Google has explicitly WontFix'd bugs on the subject of expanding incognito to be hardened against fingerprinting: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=142214...

Don't you think this sort of thing warrants a separate sort of browsing mode? A lot of people who use the likes of incognito mode just use it for e.g. browsing porn where they don't want the local history to be preserved.

Turning that mode into one that's highly hardened against fingerprinting would in practice ruin the browsing experience for those users. Just look at what the Tor browser needs to do with fixed preset resolutions, no JavaScript etc.
Re: Electric guitar. It pretty much all starts with Les Paul.

Not only an absolute genius on the guitar, tasteful and accomplished beyond what most will ever achieve, he also had a knack for electronics. That's putting it mildly. Numerous innovations and systems he created for looping, recording, editing, and manipulating sound laid the foundation for what modern music is today. Jimi was just about to start working in his personal studio and may have been able to continue to build sonic experiments with some of the emerging tech; sad that it didn't turn out like that, but it's life.

Just figured I'd drop his name in this consideration, he certainly deserves the recognition in my opinion.
Yeah, you win. All of the definitions in this popular online dictionary are some variant of "animal == nasty type of human", so this must be a better source:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Animal&utm_so...
Well, sorry for shying away from technical discussion and mildly doxing you. But it is truly remarkable that your style remains recognizable across decades, languages, nicknames and discussion forums. I am actually honored to have a small discussion with you :) Hope you are well.
Preboot: Record and play back browser events
The relationship between clockspeed and power consumption is nonlinear.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/122050/what-l...

(see graph in the first answer)

Also, it's not known that the TPU have a way to allow to increase the clockspeed arbitrarily, nor is it known whether their architecture is capable of ensuring correctness at arbitrary clock frequencies. Some architectures make assumptions like "The time for this gate to reach saturation is very small compared to the clock frequency, so we'll pretend that it's instantaneous."
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I'm also a programmer who does 3d modeling as a hobby. I'd never do 3d modeling as a job. Not only does it pay less, but a lot of the novelty would be lost. There's something endearing about being able to come home, shrug off my job for a bit, and model something.
I didn't know that. Went this year to see Ozzy + Black Sabbath in Los Angeles, then Iron Maiden later, but the biggest event I was was David Gilmore (from Pink Floyd) - the sound (at the Hollywood Bowl) was so amazing, that when I recorded it, and sent it to my father, he couldn't believe it was live. And my father, since he bought me Heaven & Hell when I was teenager, and had lots of time listening to Wish you were here, Welcome to the machine and many other crazy songs in the car.
I use Backspace back quite a bit myself and was confused when it stopped working but I think it's the right decision to remove it. I'll just switch to Alt-Left rather than switch to an extension (and endure the week or two of annoyance while I adapt).

I actually use Page-Down instead of space which I suspect makes me weird but I feel like Space should be next on the hit-list as long as they are cleaning up confusing shortcuts.
Anyone with a cursory understanding of LSD's history and effects can skip this read.

Woefully absent is a mention on how the Nixon Administration blatantly whipped the public into a frenzy about communist/Eco-terrorist hippies and riotous blacks by associating them with LSD and heroin, respectively, just so they could use "rule of law" to terrorize and arrest political enemies. This is the true catalyst of the war on drugs and it is a story that needs to be told again and again until it is done.
Isn't edn a data/object format, rather than a markup format? It's like a better JSON.
You suck at masking ;)
Except that we now have better bicycles (Go/Swift/Rust).
Some interesting ideas. He points out that cognitive science is young and can be multi-paradigmatic, and is clear that this is non-mainstream cognitive science. It is an attempt to explain cognition without involving appeals to mental gymnastics on mental representations of the world: the world is its own model.

"The term radical embodied cognition is from Andy Clark, who defines it as follows: Thesis of Radical Embodied Cognition[:] Structured, symbolic, representational, and computational views of cognition are mistaken. Embodied cognition is best studied by means of noncomputational and nonrepresentational ideas and explanatory schemes, involving, e.g., the tools of Dynamical Systems theory."

"...antirepresentationalism (which implies anticomputationalism) is the core of radical embodied cognitive science."

There's a long discussion of Randall Beer's 2003 paper "The Dynamics of Active Categorical Perception in an Evolved Model Agent" that uses a continuous time, real-valued neural network (CTRNN). https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/DevelopmentalRobotics/...
"Using the model of the CTRNN alone, one can only tell how an instantaneous input will affect a previously inactive network. But because the network is recurrent, the effect of any instantaneous input to the network will be largely determined by the network’s background activity when the input arrives, and that background activity will be determined by a series of prior inputs. This model of the CTRNN, in other words, is informative only if one knows what flow of prior inputs to the neural network typically precedes (and so determines the typical background activity for) a given input. The impact of the visual stimulus is determined by prior stimuli and the behavioral response to those prior stimuli. The model of the CTRNN is useful, that is, only when
combined with the models of the whole coupled system and the agent–environment dynamics. These three dynamical systems compose a single tripartite model. ...The models also show that the agent’s "knowledge" does not reside in its evolved nervous system. The ability to categorize the object as a circle or a diamond requires temporally extended movement on the part of the agent, and that movement is driven by the nature and location of the object as well as the nervous system. To do justice to the knowledge, one must describe the agent’s brain, body, and environment. Notice that none of these dynamical models refers to representations in the CTRNN in explaining the agent’s behavior. The explanation is of what the agent does (and might do), not of how it represents the world. This variety of explanation—of the agent acting in the environment and not of the agent as representer—is a common feature of dynamical modeling..."
I never finished watching Season 3...

("Pink stars are falling" is a reference to Under the Dome)
Cronjobs are harsh to manage. Use Cronjobs in the cloud instead
It's all about when it was done. Before the GFC everyone believed that if you were rich you were smart and the opposite. If you challenged this you were a loser.

Then along came a cranky old uncle, who had no business being in the building, except that he did.

Turns out he had a point and now we consider these ideas trivial.

Today if you say all people are born equal and deserve equal rights 99% of the world will agree. There was a time when this wasn't true.

What you say + when you say it = what it's worth
With somewhat limited time and equivalent items to pick from to fill that time, what's wrong with discriminating on price efficiency?
According to Wolfram Alpha [1], 30! is 2.65e32

;)

[1] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=30!
The course is an introductory course, suitable only for beginners. Do you know any good resource for intermediate-level programmers?
Even when you need interoperation, the well-defined subset of JSONSchema may do reasonably well. I think every library out there handles the essentials (the core types and basic constraints) in the exactly same manner, and the incompatibilities starts with less common things like references etc.
On OS X, Command-left bracket has worked on Chrome, Safari, Firefox (and probably more) for years. Not sure about Windows or Linux, but keyboard shortcuts are very well established across browsers in this way (like Command-L, and all of the Emacs bindings like Control-A, Control-E, etc.).
Of course, now a site could potentially fingerprint you by the set of APIs you have disabled!
Nature Biotechnology is in fact only "a journal", there is Nature proper and then lots of spin-offs that have to be evaluated on their own merit.
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Given his predilections, I guess the austerity of the language will be reflected in the user interface, too. So my bet is that this won't be a new Oberon, QNX or Inferno, but closer to ColorForth.
I just bought an entire TLD for signups/spam and made it a catchall. One positive is I know when companies are breached often before they announce it as my pagerduty@domain.com told me a little while ago.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/31/incident_managers_pa...
> The Ethereum virtual machine has to be completely error free if any sane person is going to put their money into it. I just don't see that happening.

Are you aware of the $155M USD people have sent to https://daohub.org using (depending on) Ethereum?
As a tourist in SF in last January what exactly could I have done to help the situation? Buy a rice farm and shut it down?

Drinking tap water is the most efficient use of water possible.
I think the problem here is one level of abstraction further out. It's not whether anti-GMO types can keep you and I from buying GMO products -- indeed, it's unlikely that GMOs are going to have much to offer western middle class consumers.

The big kicker is the effect this battle have in the third world, where GMOs hold the potential of a much larger impact (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_rice ).