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> This happens for pure text[nb 2] but actual documents often contain enough spaces and line terminators, numbers (digits 0–9), and HTML or XML or wiki markup characters, that they are shorter in UTF-8. For example, both the Japanese UTF-8 and the Hindi Unicode articles on Wikipedia take more space in UTF-16 than in UTF-8.[nb 3]
Shouldn't disabling 3rd party cookies also prevent this kind of attack? The request for the facebook/twitter favicon is being made from a non-FB/TW page and so the login cookie won't be sent.

This would depend upon how the browser implements its 3rd party cookie blocking. If it only blocks setting cookies, but still allows existing cookies to be sent, then there would be no protection.
It's been a good year for the English singing synthesizer world, with the launch of chipspeech. (https://www.plogue.com/products/chipspeech) But I'm pretty interested in whether more realistic singing synthesizers will be made, since there are a few recent new voices by Acapela Group and others developed for non-singing speech.
I have done something similar. Lost a lot of money in the immediate short term, but the long term benefits after 2+ years were worth every penny. A chance to upgrade your skills and work on something that excites you is imho priceless. You should grab it while you still can.
For use-case I'm talking about he would just:

- set the destination in Android Auto friendly UI,

- clip his phone in the car holder.

Done with no extra fuckery as you described.
Ask HN: What's a “Hacker News” for other topics?
I read HN almost every day, because of my interest in technology, startups, and geeky things in general.

Are there other sites that are equally good for other topics, that you like to read? E.g. is there a good one for architecture, or for games, or for languages, etc?
> Protecting from patent lawsuits is not evil as SW patents

Facebook makes hardware and runs a business, and their "we get all your patents for free" stance applies to all patents, not just software patents.
What's the message? "You're rarely caught, if you are caught all you need to worry about is a fine you can pass along to consumers, and personally? You'll be richer than god at the end of it all anyway."

This is symbolic crap, in a system that needs to be reformed from the ground up.
Wealthy people do not turn their own neighborhoods into ghettos.
My new Tacoma has a hybrid system called Scout GPS. The idea is that you run the app on your phone, and it does all the heavy lifting WRT GPS, computing routes, etc., and the dashboard display is basically a moderately dumb UI that displays maps on the screen.

In theory, it's a best of both worlds situation; the UI doesn't really need to change very often; what is most important is the maps/POI information, which can be downloaded either in-app or via an update. Practically, the UI is just irritating enough that I end up using Google Maps anyway, and just letting the voice directions get me where I'm going.

(edit: punctuation, because my inner copyeditor won't shut up)
That hardly makes sense. Changing the color of text is definitely a feature of HTML and CSS.

What's the lazy reason for not rendering that before serving the html page.
I think a .NET wrapper would be more direct/elegant than using emscripten generated code (especially in a .NET project).
What makes Gusto "even more unethical and sketchy?"
I'm sure I'm not the only one who created a load of recursive virtual PC's inside one another. PCeption.
Write a driver to offload interrupt processing of your Ethernet stack or something like that to them. Let's you get more done. Alternatively, the monitor the health or security status of your system with recovery option.
Reminds me of all the virus-delivering "buddies" that would walk around people's windows in 1995-2005.

Related: http://xpenguins.seul.org/
Probably that they dislike politically motivated conspiracy theories when there is an obvious, non conspiracy based explanation, e.g. the one you just replied to.
Non-paywalled article with basically the same information: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/10/12/w...
Swapping out a unit every 2 years (or why it craps out) for $200 sounds like a good deal compared to a terrible one that lasts 20 years and costs $10000 to replace.
It reminds me of this:

https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2...
I believe you're describing the choice between Tesla and Mercedes...
Chapter eight is refreshing. I hope it makes it into print.
I would prefer an HN 'rule' that denies the listing of any articles that originate from paywall sites.
>We can blame Stalin for a lot of things, but I'm not sure what alternative he had to a non-aggression pact with Hitler, other than simply watching Panzer divisions roll up to the Soviet border.

Stalin had a lot of alternatives. USSR spoke a lot about peace; it could lived up to this speech and seeked to support its neighbours against Germany when Hitler was perceived a threat.

Instead, Stalin decide to invade his neighbours, split the spheres of influence, murder any potential opposition in the parts is controlled, perform ethnic cleansing.

Stalin did have other options, but he was paranoid and power-hungry and thus he did what he did. I think it is a rather desperate whitewash to say he had no alternative. Yes, he did have.

Regarding the killings at the Stalin Canal works, Tuominen of course isn't the only witness and historian to document the killings on camps. And those who survived the experiment and wouldn't die of hunger were then taken to a ditch and were shot in places like Sandarmokh. The memorial is still there, although it seems Russia is developing to a direction where it may yet wipe it out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandarmokh
Fired a friend right before vesting cliff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12222622

Relentless PR pushes, rebrands, etc.

http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Defaults are strong and powerful, though. This is the main issue which companies like this have taken advantage of.

Many users don't know that something is on by default, and if the default is to geotag, people will nearly always forget to disable the geotagging.

You or I might know what it means when the 'place' icon is highlighted during a tweet. Non technical users might not understand the implication of thier actions.
Here's the archive link, if anyone needs it:

http://archive.is/BqWYq
Thanks for the last paragraph. I'm currently studying convex optimization and feeling pretty dumb despite having done well in some reasonably challenging math classes before. Gotta remember that it will get easier as these new topics trickle into the realm of intuition.
It's amazing how the cost of these MEMS components hasn't fallen at all over the last 20 years whereas the price of other MEMS components (eg. gyroscopes, accelerometers, microphones) have.
By leaving them en masse and ravaging their tax base, yes, they did.
Debian has a command-line tool 'pdftotext' which extracts the text from a PDF. It is not OCR, it pulls the characters from the file itself. Its in the package called poppler-utils.
Well, apparently in America, it helps to not be black.
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Ask HN: Any Intercom customers on HN?
I'm thinking of developing a customer analytics solution for Intercom and was wondering if this would be useful to anyone else?
Yes, that's in the Snowden docs:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/10...

http://www.digitaltrends.com/web/nsa-google-cookies/
Glad to see ripe-554 still being promoted :)
Oh no =(

Looks like they're still available as DVDs though, so at least it's not _gone_. Still sad though =(
admittedly I haven't used gitlab to the extent I have with bitbucket/gitlab - but so far I haven't found anything missing personally - in fact there a lot of things in gitlab that I wish were in the others. A lot of the github enhancements lately have been things that gitlab had first.

The only real downside at the moment is for public open source github is still the place everyone is expecting you to be. Its hard enough for small projects to be noticed on github, putting them somewhere else means nobody will ever see them just browsing. But for private or private-for-now projects gitlab seems to be the best fit for me currently.
Well, that's a damn fine point. I guess I'll submit a pull request.
"I'm not sure why car companies invested at all in attempting to build their own mapping software."

Given how much the OEMs charge for the systems (often it's a $2K upcharge), plus how much they charge for updates (typically $150 - $200), the manufacturers undoubtedly saw it as a potentially profitable product development effort.
His name is Nate Silver. Don't be obnoxious.

538 didn't fail to read data properly re Trump's nomination. Trump was a new phenomenon with no history to build a model from. 538's mistake was guessing instead of admitting they had insufficient data -- which is bad behavior, but not because their preferred methodology is bad.
2) If Microsoft published React without a patent rider, and Microsoft had patents on the tech in React, then you would be in violation in the first place, right? Microsoft can still you sue for violating their React patents, especially if you sue them first.
This one actually works for me! The other said that I was using Privacy Badger since it couldn't detect anything. I'm not, but I am using uBlock Origin. This one is only wrong about a couple (it doesn't register, for example, that I am logged in to G+, Khan Academy, Steam, Amazon, PayPal, or Skype).
Actually, the problem is not the height of the poles, because those cellular base stations will become progressively cheaper over time, so you can simply do more deployments. I may be missing something...what kind of spectrum reform are you referring to specifically?
They did not leave before the crime came to their neighborhoods. They left after the crime came.

You need to get your cause and effect in order.
Side streets need to support their fair share of traffic. Most cars these days are very quiet, barring the occasional beater, utility truck, and ricer. That being said, if they slow cars down Waze will direct less drivers to them.
Making Waves in Deep Learning--How DL apps will map onto a chip
I saw some of his drawings for the Poe stories before I read Poe and so they always influenced my visualisation of the stories when I read them. Rich food for a teenage imagination before there was a public internet.

"Through a chink too wide comes in no wonder" - Kavanagh
I think it's partially an artifact of JavaScript's historical arc. Piecing together examples was maybe not best practice, but it was pretty damn good practice in the days when Jquery was best practice and in those days Jquery was best practice because browsers varied. I mean the alternative to using black boxes was to recreate Jquery.

It's also partially an artifact of JavaScript's lack of namespaces and scoping rules and prototypical inheritance because these make it easy to make a class of errors that are conceptually difficult to understand without holding a complex mental model in my head...and that's after standardization of browsers reduced the number of arbitrary rules that could cause bugs.
What's this "permanent blacklist"? Is that something on the financial sector?
What's the 'bad faith' here? That React is a part of a conspiracy to get all their competitors to use and and then engage in some massive patent lawsuit against them all?
Until the headline reads "Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Goes To Jail", nothing changes.
If you've got anything Oculus compatible you should check out The Rose and I, I'm guessing it's a Little Prince inspired scene.

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/980646215356452/
Definitely. That's why we're going on, what, almost ten years since the collapse with barely any real repercussions for any senior financiers in the county!

We've just gotta be more patient... It'll happen.
Okay. Good.
Point taken for being a nav or not, but those touchscreens are still functional as in being a car stereo, contact manager (for BT calling), handling settings for the car computer etc.

But to answer my question why there's no standalone mode for Android Auto/Car Play - probably because they struck a deal with car vendors to sell more extras with the cars or newer cars.

So if you drive something older - fuck you and consume.
If the base car has 3.5mm input jack, getting bluetooth is pretty trivial.
I don't think there's necessarily any "human failing" involved here. At one point, Google was doing things that were inspiring and significantly changed how people use computers. Now, they're a lot more active in collecting personal data and I can't name one product they've released in the last five years that I'm excited about. My opinion of Google has changed to reflect the current situation.

A similar thing happened with Microsoft. In the 90's, they basically paved the way for commodity hardware. I could buy an OS from them and run it on any hardware I liked. That was a big deal. Unfortunately, the software ecosystem stagnated because it was dominated by one company for so long. (I switched to Linux at the time and have been using it ever since, but Linux was successful in part because hardware was commodized.)

Tesla and Musk's other projects might follow a similar trajectory of doing amazing stuff for five or ten years and then coasting on their established reputation from then on. However, that's no reason not to be excited about the stuff they're doing now.
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is an Environmental Travesty
Russian ship loitering near undersea cables
I rent from OVH it's like $3.99/mo or maybe $2.99/mo for a 10GB vps. Great speed too. They are one of thr largest server providers. You have full access too, so you do have to learn to setup virtual host / enable SSL, etc...

Also a domain can be as cheap as $0.99 for first year from GoDaddh but SSL is at least $9.00 from name cheap but you could get one of those let's encrypt Sal's but you have to update it every 90 days I hear.
"Financial details of Stumpf's retirement plan are unknown, but Equilar estimates he walks with $134.1 million from retirement. The package remains that large even after Stumpf last month agreed to a $41 million clawback following a grilling he received from the Senate Banking Committee reprimanding him for not taking responsibility. He agreed to give up unvested stock, but still owns shares vested in previous years.[0]"

[0]: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2016/10/12/wells...
I did notice that story, but that's only impressive if they don't entirely cancel out the effect by giving him a gigantic golden parachute, which, tragically, would be the expected behavior here.
Facebook-backed school software shows promise – and raises privacy concerns
My 2003 Mini Cooper (not very high end!) has this, as does my 2015 Subaru - it makes it incredibly hard to drive any other car that doesn't.
Apache 2 (the original React license, BTW) encompasses all of the legal protections and goals Facebook admits to publicly.

The current BSD license plus "additional patent grant", however, grants Facebook additional rights beyond the Apache 2 license that they refuse to admit to in their public communications, including this idiotic "FAQ". That's the "bad faith": Facebook won't publicly own up to why they want a worldwide, royalty free right to use a third-party's patents that have nothing to do with the software Facebook is licensing to them.

They don't own up publicly because it's unethical.
>right now you'd have to fly an enemy drone or plane near the carrier group

That's a technique from WWI. For a modern long-distance radar a carrier is like the Sun in the sky (as you would expect from a huge pile of metal on a plain surface). It's too big, and also too "loud" in terms of radio emissions to be stealth.
They could have embedded LOVE instead of X's and it wouldn't have created any mystery and unneeded attention, as everyone would know it was hipsters.. no, I mean hippies.. =D
Well technically yeah. The old saying goes "an old theory isn't thrown over by convincing people, but because their proponents die of old age" for a reason.
Uh, she invented the entire fucking government agency that polices this crap, absent which, there would be nothing.
That first link refers to a veto of an employee selling their stock; I can't find a reference to a firing before vesting cliff. Do you mean a different link?
Seems like a cookie they set for your browser. Normal practice.
I've often wondered, while using the somewhat substandard media navigation of my bluetooth enabled car stereo which has a touch screen, why there isn't some standard for specifying a very simple, somewhat static visual interface for bluetooth touchscreens (or screens with a set number of external buttons). A very constrained HTML, perhaps, that apps could choose to supply to provide better control through external interfaces.

For example, let Android or iOS supply an interface to view my contacts based on the reported dimensions of the screen and capabilities. Let Pocket Casts present a list of podcasts to choose from. Let Pandora show my thumbs up/down stored for the song, and register my new preference. If I'm at my desk, and I'm using one of these apps, there's no reason a simple app that provides the same interface couldn't provide me info about the connected phone through bluetooth, to let me know who is calling me, let me stream my podcasts through my desktop speakers, etc.

Does this exist, and I just don't know about it (or it isn't implemented by anyone)?
Add even a faint hint of an ESL speaker accent, and Siri becomes outright useless even for the mundane tasks... like setting a timer or sending a message.
One bank in NL (abn amro) is currently running an ad campaign with the slogan 'sign up for 3 more products and get 75 euros cash back' or something to that effect. It seems they've been going to the same seminar.
Walking Simulators: The Digitisation of an Aesthetic Practice
That was my biggest problem when I recently bought a car -- almost all of the ones with the options I wanted (out of dealer stock) also included the $800 manufacturer's GPS. Which is something completely useless to me since I could get by perfectly fine with Android Auto. So I ended up paying for a feature that I would not only not use, but was such inferior quality (it can't locate either my home address, or work address -- for home, it routes me to a house several miles away, and for work it sends me to the movie theater 3 blocks east).
Outsourced IT workers ask Feinstein for help, get form letter in return
So, are we talking about far ahead of emacs's default (which I can see), or heavily ahead of the heavily extended emacs most emacs users actually run (which I'm having trouble seeing, honestly). Either way, how so?

Regardless, I don't see myself using either or their descendants any time soon: Emacs is a very good environment, and I don't have several grand to spare.
What Does Silicon Valley Think of Peter Thiel?
I am one of these drivers - my car has navigation (didn't get a choice since I bought it secondhand) but I use Waze.

That said, having it has saved me on several occasions when my phone ran out of power and when there was no signal and I missed a turn.
Start from scratch/plain ol html. Add dependencies as you need them and for very specific purposes rather than have them "just because"
NYT is not liberal. It is just left of extreme right wing. NYT was a leading cheerleaders for Bush's Iraq War
Memory-optimized transactional engine (since 2014). Native compilation of stored procedures. In-memory tables that can optionally be persisted to disk. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn133186.aspx

In-memory columnstore indices (since 2012, but realistically since 2014/2016). Huge benefit for large analytical queries. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg492088.aspx

Native row-level security (2016). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn765131.aspx

Native always-encrypted support - database never sees plaintext (2016). Streamlines workflow, but this is doable with Postgres - questionable inclusion. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn765131.aspx

Dynamic data masking - don't use for security, though (2016). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt130841.aspx

R engine in DB (2016). https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt604845.aspx

Others have covered the things that fall out of the relational engine below, including SSIS[0] for ETL and dataflow programming, SSAS[1] for semantic modeling and analytics workloads, SSRS[2][3] for reporting.

There's also MDS[4] for master data management, native support for an elastic database (partition across on-prem and Azure SQL)[5], built in HA [6], and a whole lot more around monitoring and instrumentation.

This is not meant as a fanboy post, but you asked what is part of SQL Server that you don't get with Postgres. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I work for a Microsoft partner so I get exposed to this stuff all day long.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141026.aspx

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522607.aspx

[2] Traditional paginated reporting platform and also a newer mobile dashboarding tool based on an acquisition.

[3] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159106.aspx

[4] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff487003.aspx

[5] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql...

[6] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff877884.aspx
A lot of "you don't need Javascript" articles show a bunch of CSS tricks that look flashy and cool but in reality are brittle, limited, and hard to maintain. There's a fair bit of that here, but props for also pointing out some of the new HTML5 features that may have slipped under people's radars. I was aware of the form validation and I think it's a godsend, but I had no idea there's a native color picker now too.
A while back, credit reporting agencies hustled to adjust in the face of a few, but monetarily very successful, libel suits -- IIRC from memory.

It would seem that, with the right legal representation -- one willing to go the distance -- Ashley might have grounds for a very significant libel suit.

Wells Fargo management deserves to go to jail, in my opinion. However, it would also give me great joy to see them lose hundreds of millions of dollars to such suits.

They wholeheartedly deserve it, as do some of the line employees who had to endure such abuse.

Further, if the "gubmint" was serious about investigating and prosecuting criminal behavior, in addition to actually holding those responsible for policy accountable and jailing them, I'd like to see the laws for once enforced, at Federal and State levels, that require the government to cease doing business with financial establishments convicted of criminal offenses.

We have laws. And we have resources for criminal investigations. For once, let's actually put them to use.

If not, go after the politicians and government employees obstructing justice. If not with a formal charge, then by ending their careers.
No, but if Hawking tells me that there are two theories, "a" and "b," that compete to explain a given phenomenon, and "a" is right and "b" is wrong, and "a" is a theory that Hawking himself came up with, then I'll note that.

Even if, as in this case, I think that despite the bias, Silver is right.
The hassle involves the latency of wanting to watch something and it being in the envelope in your home.
I really don't understand why they bother with most of the 'fancy' systems they put in.. Its like everything is half-assed.
I have a 1 year old truck, that has Satellite audio, Radio, 4G wifi hotspot, etc, and somehow, I have to set the clock manually in the settings, using crappy buttons..
> People like driving themselves

I love to drive on a highway, but I hate to drive in the city. I'd easily give up on the former to get rid of the latter.
money, power, connection, take your pick
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