skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked on designing tracking scripts for six months (fortunately they aren't in production). Flash cookies aren't a very useful tracking mechanism anymore, mainly because Google and other browsers now clear Flash cookies when you clear your regular cookies. Fingerprinting was very difficult to pull off in practice: even with canvas fingerprinting, font enumeration, plugin enumeration, etc. etc. most mobile phones are indistinguishable, and even when you find devices with unique fingerprints (usually because of the unique set of plugins installed) it's difficult to be certain the new device you've seen is the same as the old device unless they are coming from the same ip address.

Now, the one mechanism that was very effective was ETag tracking. When you request a picture or other asset from a website, the website can send you an etag id which is supposed to signify the picture's version. When the client revisits the page, the client sends back the etag to confirm the version cached is the same as the version on the server. The security leak is that the etag protocol allows arbitrary text to be set as an etag, so to set an etag cookie all you have to do is place a 1x1 pixel on each page with a random GUID, and when the user revisits the page the browser will resend the tracking etag in its request for the 1x1 tracking pixel. This works for browsers with cookies disabled, and will remain when cookies are cleared. The only way to clear it is to clear all browsing history entirely, including cached images.
I was referring to the browser side certificate that can be generated using the <keygen> tag, and then used for the subsequent HTTPS sessions. Would this be equivalent to ssh-keygen for SSH?
> 3,000 people a month die because of psychiatry.

Citation?
Looks like the Windows 10 update recently corrected a lot of the Path issues, so will have to see if this works now...
Well the 2 aren't mutually exclusive.

Throw a unique error code in there, as well as a description on how to fix it.
That's a good point. Singapore is an autocratic state and very small.

It'll be decades (maybe a century) before Americans give up their right to freely drive their cars.

The are huge individual american rights to move around freely that can't be denied.
grr... can't click into a textarea to edit existing text... :-( back to chrome.
I completely agree with this. Here is the key point of the article, which I think goes hand in hand with Facebook's mission to create a new web that they are entirely in control of: "From Facebook’s perspective, React has to serve two functions:
- priming and funnelling programmers into their enterprise and
- suppressing development efficiency elsewhere.
It’s positioned very well to achieve both."

This isn't conspiracy or tinfoil-hattery as other comments have mentioned. I think it's really the case and I doubt Facebook disagrees.
How does this differ from RelateIQ (now SalesforceIQ)?
Matt Levine's column had a good commentary on this (the headline at least), among other things.

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-03/tamed-bank...
We don't know how strong this effect is, but we do know the effect is logarithmic (every additional unit of C02 causes less warming).

You don't know this. You are convinced of it, and it is wrong.

See https://www.skepticalscience.com/saturated-co2-effect.htm for a debunking of this particular claim.

Fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro power are currently the only viable options to keep modern civilisation running. Hopefully we eventually find an alternative, but it's insane to risk mass suicide to avoid a manageable change in the climate, on the utopian hope that wind/solar will somehow leap forwards in efficiency.

And you're out of date. Real world costs per megawatt delivered is now lower for solar than coal. There is a lot of work to do to replace existing infrastructure, and this is not appropriate for all environments, but solar is definitely a cost-effective part of our future.

That is not "the end of life as we know it".

OK, that phrase is exaggerated. But, for example, a mass extinction of coral and shellfish due to ocean acidification is going to fundamentally change our oceans by a whole lot with who knows what long term fallout. And while we can mitigate warming effects with aerosols, we don't have a way to mitigate CO2+H2O = H2CO3 (carbonic acid).
Not to mention that it's counter-productive, assuming that the correctional system's goal is to successfully integrate offenders into society, which some people dispute.
I seem to recall that this study had a major discussion on HN not too long ago. Anybody have a link?
yes, it'll be a slow slog, but Americans aren't stupid and understand that fully autonomous roads are controlled by government and bad.
Be better by example. A good project manager will see the value and you will be (hopefully) praised. Show him this post. Talk to him that you're having a bad time following his code. Rewrite some of his work and present it to him. These talks are always hard to initiate because they might not get the right message and turn on you. Good luck to you!
> AC power enters the charger and is converted to DC. The PFC circuit (Power Factor Correction) improves efficiency by ensuring the load on the AC line is steady. The primary chops up the high-voltage DC from the PFC circuit and feeds it into the transformer. Finally, the secondary receives low-voltage power from the transformer and outputs smooth DC to the laptop.

I had a hard time reading this. It sounds like the transformer is getting DC power? Do transformers even work with DC power?
I think there's a big, meaningful difference between "no amount of work prepares you for this" and "no amount of [anything] prepares you for this."

With very few exceptions, a job where you're doing useful work, is not going to prepare you for those sorts of data structures/algorithms memorization questions. Libraries exist, you should (generally) be using them, not rewriting them every day. And yet I've been interviewed several times for roles where my actual work has turned out nothing like those interview questions. It's merely a way of trying to check "do they have a good enough memory and grasp of the basic concepts to work things out" as a (lazy, IMO) substitute for trying to see if they have relevant, immediately-useful skills that will complement your team. The less training and onboarding you want to have to burden yourself with, the less you should be asking those questions.

Fortunately, on my current team, I had the flexibility to change up our interviewing approach. And then other teams made comments along the lines of "how did you hire such good senior people who grasped our problem space so quickly?!" :)
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I have never, ever, seen Mother Jones do "an investigation into things that people on the left or the Democrats wish we wouldn't." Maybe there was a time that they were more extremist than the Democrats, and that's what they are referring to. They are basically Fox News, but on the left. Both Fox and MJ make you less informed than before because they leave out facts and stories that don't fit their preconceived viewpoint. They seldom straight-up lie, but the way they frame the stories and what they leave out gives you a distorted picture.

You have TONS of more reputable news sources to choose from like the Atlantic, New Yorker, NYT, Economist, etc. With MJ you're just reading straight-up propaganda and it's very distasteful.

In the case of mental health, a lot of things would have to happen before we could get those mentally ill people off the streets. And Mother Jones would oppose many of those things. For example, we would have to be able to commit more people to institutions against their will. We would have to make it harder to sue mental health professionals or else the government would be bankrupted. To really get a lot of them back to work, we'd have to lower the minimum wage to the point that businesses were actually willing to pay for their time rather than use a robot or an outsourced Indian. But that's a lot more complex than hurr hurr Regan was teh Satan, so you won't find that discussed by MJ.
I'd say that this is not really a Sweden thing as it's an EU thing. The come mainly from Romania and stay in Sweden for a few months begging for money, then they go back home. As they aren't Swedish citizens, and don't aim to be, (they often got family back home) the systems in place to handle homeless aren't working for them. Really it's countries like Romania that aren't handling it's Romani population very well and tend to have quite unhelpful racist attitudes towards them, making the issue worse.

There are also a few homeless people of Swedish origin, but they are mostly either drug addicts or otherwise mentally ill, making them unable to keep an apartment. Money shouldn't be a big issue as you qualify for social security payouts that cover essentials and rent if you can't get it by other means. However, mentally ill might fail to get this money, it requires a monthly visit at the local social services office and they can require participation in activities as job training as well as accepting any job you can get.
I use an SSH CA and it solves this problem.

It's simple to setup. You first create a CA, and then you sign the servers public key and the client's public key, and you take the resulting certs (alongside the CA's pubkey) and move them over to the machines. And I think it's important to note that you can do this process on any machine-- perhaps an air-gapped $30 Raspberry Pi, or if you're less paranoid you can do it on your laptop, but the point is that you can generate keys in bulk, offline, and move them over to dozens of machines in one fell swoop.

You still need to maintain an authorized_keys file in your homedir with your client public key, which means if someone was able to get the CA key they still wouldn't be able to get into the server without first getting the key that corresponds to the entry in your authorized_keys file. And likewise, if someone was able to get access to your user key, they would be able to login with it but wouldn't be able to add a backdoor key to the authorized_keys file unless they also had the CA key to sign it with, because both the client and server check the other's certificate against the CA pubkey.

Of course, if you see ssh keys as a panacea and subsequently use passwordless sudo or a weak enough password, they have root and can just edit your sshd_config and this was all for naught. But it does solve the problem of an unchecked authorized_keys file.
Situations like that were the first thing that I thought about when reading this news. The New Yorker had an excellent piece on juvenile sex offenders and the horror that that status inflicts on their lives.[1]

[1] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/03/14/when-kids-are-a...
Read page 14 of the article you linked in light of page 3 of the article I linked. The vast majority of the debt used to build the fiber system is ascribed to EBP, not the fiber division. So it doesn't appear in EBP fiber's profit calculation.

Your link shows less than $1 million of debt service on a network that cost $400m. Interest rates are low, but they're not that low!
No. Data that comes out of a political process where people can claim that they are reducing CO2 emission is a lot more suspect than data that comes from actually measuring the CO2 level in the air. This is how we can end up with such contradictory data - on one side there is a vested interest that says emissions are going down, while the measurement of the actual CO2 emission rate is going up.
Or the most recent Argon2, but I've learned to give crypto hashers a good 5 years before using in production.
The chances are quite high that they have spoken to "underrepresented groups" and having done so myself realize the majority of people are going after the interests they want to pursue. So what. This forced integration / diversity shaming is really just creating a safe space for scam artists with the titles of "diversity consultant."
I believe you can do pretty much everything from command line for Drupal with drush
Wow, Latvia, Croatia, Qatar? These aren't exactly high-tech countries but they do seem stable enough that they could host an aerospace company's operations.
McCrory, Lawmakers Using Disaster Funds to Defend HB2
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There's pitching an idea or work that you've done, which seems to work, even where it goes against the HN hivemind (see especially @idlewords / Maciej Czeglowski), where good citizenship's been established.

I thought there was a general guideline against submitting employment posts, though I can't find that in the HN guidelines or FAQ. Either it's mentioned elsewhere, has changed, or my weed's too good.

As for the response -- I'm commenting on what I've observed over years. Some forms of more direct promotion seem to provoke the negatives. Sometimes I agree, sometimes not.
Namely，MapReduce
I mean, it is not really hard to make $1B in sales if you have >$500M to burn ;)
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In fact I think 30% of the eCommerce sites are run on wordpress nowadays.
My understanding is that taxes for RSUs are typically withheld. See https://blog.wealthfront.com/stock-options-versus-rsu/
HRm. Well that's interesting but good luck. As Governor I would think he'd have a conflict of interest.
You don't think having been programming for the web since the web came into existence is not valuable experience to being a web programmer?

That is absurd. That kind of bullshit talk is why ageism exists and what perpetuates it.
Some interesting discussion is happening over on MetaFilter[1]. The uninformed opinion is that this is a great publicity stunt, but probably won't stand as the Governor is technically the head of prosecution and would therefore have a conflict of interest with every case.

1: http://www.metafilter.com/161399/Missouri-governor-appointed...
This is not the same - if you sell your house you have to buy a new one or rent, and unless you're willing to move, you will be paying just as exorbitantly as the person who bought from you. Most people aren't willing to uproot their entire lives just to make a buck on their inflated house price.
The CCHR mentions it in their documentary. Also found this in a Google Search http://www.rehabs.com/pro-talk-articles/psychiatric-medicati...

The medicines they prescribe kills more than heroin. And that's not even counting the shock theory. Yes, they still do that... Here's a video I found a while back on the modern day version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2-B-aluCE

It sucks people on HN down votes people for being the messenger of bad news. and full disclaimer, I am not affiliated with any of these mentioned sites or organizations. I just always had a bad feeling about psychiatry and these people confirm how bad they really are.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12221466 and marked it off-topic.
I would slightly disagree with the housing. At least in some areas, owning is cheaper than renting, especially if you plan to stay in the area long term. Seattle is definitely that way. Mostly you have to be smart and buy something you can't afford. A decent fixer upper will put you in great financial shape.
So you reached out and I appreciate that and wanted to thank you for it. I think trying to help people with comments like this is one of the great things of this particular forum.

That said, there's no particular sadness for me with regard to this. I was trying to point out, though, that the calculus isn't money then kids, it's also time and health. All those things ought to be weighed, particularly if you're in a position in your younger years to choose to have kids or wait (or try, as your case and many of my friends' point out, not everyone will be successful). In my case, I skipped relationships in my 20s because of my issues with depression. If I couldn't hold myself together emotionally, I didn't need to be in a serious relationship. I tried that, it was disastrous for everyone involved. Once I got my head on straight a few years ago I opened myself up to it again.

But I also want to say, thanks for being open to adoption. My girlfriend is adopted, as are several of my other good friends. People who are willing to take on children not their own, and provide them with good, loving families, are among the best, in my book. I wish more of my friends in your situation shared your willingness.
Privilege escalation in our own judicial system? Well hacked.
> Are there any papers on the actual lisp ports?

No. The flight Lisp was just a commercial product: LispWorks. You can probably get detailed info from them. We also used CLisp and (what is now) Clozure Common Lisp for development.

> Are there any gotchas?

From Lisp? No, not really. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to port the code from one Lisp to another. That part mostly Just Worked.
The reason that the data is 'contradictory' is that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is the integral of the emissions over time (minus the amount that gets sequestered by greenery and the like).

Even if the emissions level off fully, the expected amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will grow linearly. Emissions need to decrease to less than the rate of sequestration for the total CO2 in the atmosphere to shrink.

There's no contradiction: atmospheric_CO2 = integrate_{0,today}(emissions - sequestration)dt.
It's cute that this article doesn't even mention Wall Street's personal Shill of a presidential candidate: Hillary
At this point I'm not surprised any time I see bad press about Jay Nixon. Thank god he's term limited.
Most economic debate occurs in spherical cow land because it ignores the political realities of the debate. Sure it would be possible to have a wise, far-sighted government that invested in exactly the technologies that were needed for the future. But once the government is a source of patronage, politicians have a huge incentive to funnel off the money to their friends and cronies. In the end, it is usually better to leave the government small and accept that there is some long-term planning you'll miss out on.

In the same way, if we could have a benevolent dictator, he would certainly govern better than our crappy government. But dictatorship is inherently unstable because the most ruthless person seizes power. So the dictator could not stay benevolent for long. Better not to have the dictator, even if it means having a less efficient government.
> The primary chops up the high-voltage DC from the PFC circuit and feeds it into the transformer.

It chops it up to AC for the transformer.
show-iphone-location.com is one of the most obvious phishing URLs I've ever seen.
You are arguing technical details when the issue is one of exploiting laypeoples' misunderstanding of technical details. It's not about confusing options for shares. It's confusion about how the 90 day window works. It is not at all obvious that the tax consequences may be many times greater than the strike price, resulting in you losing your vested options.

This has been a surprise for many otherwise smart people. If you replaced it with more transparent terms, such as a "cliff that goes all the way to the IPO" or a heavily backloaded vesting schedule, I'd say most would consider it a below-market offer, even though it's roughly comparable. That's a reflection of the opacity and poor understanding of the standard terms.
Is that net after investing in your 401k?

12% for saving seems a bit low (unless you happen to be making 250K+, which then, ignore my advice).
Not here please.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12211882 and marked it off-topic.
I was wondering this too, I've never heard of a DC transformer. I thought AC-DC conversion circuits stepped down the voltage with a transformer prior to sending them through the full wave rectifier?
The CCHR is a Scientology shill group, and is about as full of shit as 10 pounds of manure stuffed in a 5 pound bag. So yeah, all those videos you watched are done by the same people who believe that your problems are caused by Xenu and blown up aliens.
I'm someone who has recruited mostly for startups for almost 20 years, and two years ago I launched a resume review and writing service (resumeraiders.com). My focus is on tech resumes, and I've done work for at least a few HN readers.

You don't need to show a ton of progression. You just need to know how to market the skills and experience that you have. If you've been profitable and are getting paid well, and have four substantial projects over four years, you're marketable.

Feel free to inquire if you'd like professional help.
Ah, this makes sense. Do you know how the "chopping it up into AC"works?
It depends on where you are located?
I've found recruiters/HR in silicon valley being cognizant about the fact that titles do not really matter if you are in a startup.
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Well, that's one way to draw attention to the issue. Well played Michael Barrett. Well played.
one or more shops near me in the U.S. suburbs has delivery. It's inexpensive but to keep it efficient the product range is more narrow. So they wont be getting your particular favorites, the essentials are covered. as somebody else pointed out though inspecting produce for delectability isn't going to be their concern.
Amazing that today's laptop chargers have as much computational power as the original mac
Mark Watney, Space Pirate.
Wonder if he would have caught it if the attacker had gotten a real SSL/TLS certificate.
I feel like a space launch complex would take up about 85% of the land mass.
Gutsy. At the least it will look bad for Nixon if he withdraws from the case.
The Sacred, Spherical Cows of Physics
Bah, thanks. We're developing a new version of the hardware for permanent installations, it has probably been our biggest challenge as end-users definitely expect consumer grade hardware while the number of units we build is very low so costs are high. Our first permanent installations will all be at corporate headquarters like WeWork NYC.
Just skip the resume. They're worthless anyways.

If you find a position you like, send an email. Tell them why you're interested, what you could bring to the table. You can mention your history if it's relevant, casually, just like you wrote it up here.

If they don't like it, fck them, their loss, try a different company.

edit: Just to be clear, i'm not suggesting you skip the resume because of your specific history, rather because the whole concept of presenting resumes is utterly inhumane and counter-productive.
Programmable ions set the stage for general-purpose quantum computers
You likely under estimate the number of accidents a human has in that time frame it ~108 years worth of driving. 1 accident per 8 years is hardly terrible. Further there rate of problems has likely been dropping so the most recent 120,000 miles are the most important.
Those are some impressively ballsy thieves. Obviously the street level guys have kicked them up to an organization of some sort.
The key part is the realistic sacrifice you mentioned. When budgeting, people often understate their expenses and tolerance for cheap food.

Leave the grocery budget as is, but cut down steaks and eating out.
ERROR 832A: Line 42, missing semicolon, you probably won't a semicolon here:

foo();
^

Or something of the like. If the compiler knows the error, it knows what things might be missing. In the case of limited options it could predict and continue parsing. Then, with a more complex error, that error code is actually useful for googling or reviewing the compiler documentation.
Yeah, Scientology seems a bit extreme. Apparently, they get in a really hot sauna for hours to cleanse and it sounds really unsafe to me. But besides them being part of Scientology, I do think they make some valid points.