skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do they need to sell browsing histories?
There are numerous way to profit without actually selling history:

1) Come buy our trueTarget analytic service - add a keyword search and out comes the name of every one interested in say "Evening college" (Comcast also has the address on file obviously)

2) Political observers - This Zipcode has the most mentions for "Climate change hoax"

3) Porn/Medical/<other potentially embarrassing stuff> : Too many services here -

None of this sells individual browsing history yet which of these would be certainly illegal?
This is a complete red herring to distract from the Republicans completely disgraceful sell out to big business.

If not illegal which of these would be ok under "we do not see your browsing history"?
There have always been mean people on the internet, grow the fuck up.
I think this whole thing is being driven by Verizon and AT&T being jealous of FB, GOOG, and AMZN. The NASDAQ is setting records and these execs think they can get it on it (or appear to) and see the same results without customer backlash.
Well they should worry but only if they use Ryzen CPU's which depend quite a bit on RAM
This:

As members of the community, we're interested in ways in which tech companies can use their collective power to protect privacy, rule of law, freedom of expression, and other fundamental American rights

And this:

We also believe tech companies have an opportunity and an obligation to reduce the polarization we've helped create.

are not really compatible. People from Red America already aren't welcome in tech (I am from Red America). This makes polarization worse by creating yet another filter bubble. Making tech companies into even more explicit vehicles for progressive activism might be a good thing on balance, but it won't help with polarization. Pick one.
Another criticism of globalism is the global labor pool, which is a major problem in the US. People can't unionize when the jobs can be shipped to a country with a lower quality of life. It takes away workers' leverage and guts the middle class.
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While you're correct, it should be noted that "security backports" are much less complete than they'd have you think.

Do NOT take the promises of enterprise distributors for granted, both because there are a lot of security problems that never get fixed, and because the expertise to sufficiently backport is often lacking (cf. the Debian SSL entropy crisis of some years back).

You are usually better off using a newer upstream with the security fix integrated than relying on a distro-pushed backport. For a demonstration, try installing redis from the official Ubuntu repos.
I use whatever editor at any given moment and then use (use 'my.testing.namespace :reload) in a repl in a terminal window. I have to watch for namespace collisions in the repl when refactoring into other namespaces and reloading those, but works really simply.
I think upvotes accomplish similar goals. I am significantly more likely to click on HN/reddit links with high scores. In fact, my attention when browsing a link aggregator is split about 60/40 between the number of upvotes and the titles.

I have limited time to browse, and it is much faster to "filter" content by outsourcing that to you guys.
Ask HN: What services/tools do you use to receive your business emails?
Hi HN

I'll be the only one user.

I've seen G Suite and FastMail. They start at $5/month for a custom domain name.

Do you have other suggestions?

(my domain name is registered in Route53)
Open Source http://killbill.io/subscription-billing/
Being "developer-friendly" can be a big draw. Take Stripe for example. It's an HTTP API with bindings in a number of languages. Previously I worked with a payment processor that required we run some sort of Java application even though we weren't a Java shop. Someone had to setup a way to wrap the Java application to interface with the payment processor (not even getting into the issue that now we have to deal with running a JVM-based application). Some companies are actively developer hostile in their interfaces.
that's not what he said, and there was no "uprising". the same people voted for an extreme candidate when there was no charismatic opponent (Obama) to vote for.
Thanks! The principle could be applied to many languages, just like probabilistic programming also has been applied to many languages (look for example at Venture, Church, IBAL). This is something I'd like to do in the future.

Perhaps the easiest approach is to try to integrate the ranking semantics in an existing probabilistic language such as Church.

Please contact me if you have any questions, suggestions, ideas etc.
> We also believe tech companies have an opportunity and an obligation to reduce the polarization we've helped create.

Liquidate Twitter?
All this means is that we should stop thinking of this stuff as RAM. Only the L1 cache is really RAM. Everything else is just a kind of fast, volatile, solid state disk that just happens to share an address space with the RAM.
FLAVOR: Ubuntu desktop

HEADLINE: fix smart autohide of unity launcher

DESCRIPTION: it is really annoying that the launcher does not appear sometimes, when moving the cursor to the edge of the screen. There are several bug reports for this issue, which are open for a long time.

In general I would love to have a way to pay an Ubuntu dev to fix a specific bug.
What's in a name? Lawyers and doctors have unions, but they're called associations, but there's a test, with the full force of the law, for doctoring or lawyering without having passed their respective tests. Github's 'like' button has proved that we developers are just as vain (and lazy) as the next human, so I feel this has more of a chance to succeeded if we recognize that. Some of us take pride in thinking that we are better than plumbers, despite most of us merely being the digital equivalent.

The G in SAG doesn't stand for union.
1) I kinda doubt Russian hackers code on typewriters.

2) Cyrillic is an alphabet, not magic incomprehensibility dust. There are plenty of Russian speakers who are not beholden to their spooks.

3) Assange has an agenda in addition and orthogonal to fighting secrecy. I'm not saying he's insincere; I'm saying that some leaks are clearly more equal than others. It would not surprise me in the least if he were to sit on some leaks in order to not piss off a source providing others, especially around hard deadlines.
You don't need to do FCC testing if you don't have an oscillator.
This. You wouldn't catch me in a brick house in Northern California.
Wonderful. He presented you the facts... and you've dissmissed them since they didn't fit your agenda.
> it takes founders and their sacrifices to make things happen

I believe that in many cases, the very first employees are equally responsible for the success of a company. I think this is especially true for tech companies founded by non-engineers.
It's funny but it's true. There's tons of production code out there making MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for it's company, that 1. compiles with 10,000 warnings, 2. has no unit tests, 3. has global variables and gotos all over the place, and 4. exhibits buffer overruns, undefined behavior, and thread-un-safety. In the commercial SW world, you almost never get time to polish the stone. You race to your deadline, release, and then race on to the next mess.

When I was a young engineer I used to think, "One day, ONE DAY, the company will go down in flames for all this bad software practice, and then I can stand triumphantly among the ashes gloating over how I was SO RIGHT to worry about compiler warnings!"

It never happens.
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> The NYTimes makes mistakes but it is a net good to society.

This isn't my concern though. The next layer of error beyond "good guy or bad guy" is "net good or net bad". My concern is that the NYT isn't just wrong occasionally, but wrong in systematic ways representing unconscious bias or direct manipulation.

Hoosick Falls was a clear good. We need more news organizations with the weight and investigative will to take on that sort of work. The NYT is excellent at this, and I hope it continues to be.

But... well, the NYT toed an establishment line in 2003, contributing to a deadly, misjudged war. In 2004, they sat on a major warrantless surveillance scoop for two years until a reporter forced them into it via book publication. After the Snowden leaks, they creatively claimed that he had decided which documents to publish without press input (the exact inverse of the truth). A Times reporter published a major article from the information Snowden provided, then argued for his prosecution because the article she wrote had nothing to do with illegal privacy violations. The list goes on at enormous length, and I only regret not keeping links to have handy on demand.

So I'm not comfortable saying "1 Iraq to 100 Hoosicks". My objection is that the errors that do occur point align with each other, and align with a narrative of expanded state power and foreign intervention. There may not be any objective media, but it's still important to speak up when the losses and the wins fall on different lines.
Ignore trolls work when they are motivated by attention. It does not work when they hate your guts and seek to harm you however they can.

That is like saying "just igore bullies" to bullied kid. It does not work.
I guarantee there's a way to get that pipe to purge all packages in your system.
I like how the code included in the graphic is CSS, as if he is at large for hideous styles.
It looks like it became widespread in the early 2000s, in the U.S. at least [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_privacy_officer
The only thing luxurious about some of these apartments is that they cost a lot and sometimes have air conditioning and heating.
Nvidia drivers check if they are running in virtualized OS and refuse to install, if they detect it. You have to hide the hypervisor signature from the guest.

On top of that, virtualization of the GPU, instead of passthrough, requires support in the driver on the host. There is no such driver for Nvidia.
This was one of the plans I had for housing next year as a college student. My friend had invited me to share the living room with another person in a 2-bedroom apartment that goes for $4400 a month; splitting the costs, we would've paid around $750 a person. The deal with the manager turned south, however, because he wanted to increase the rent. Now I'm aiming for a 1-bedroom apartment or studio to share with my brother that typically goes for $2000+. This is Berkeley we're talking about, so I can't imagine how crazy it is in San Francisco.
> Rules against firing someone for being gay or a different religion are a great example of something a union would negotiate

Except they're not, that's what our existing laws are for.

> Why do you see 'working conditions' as unrelated to these topics?

Because in my reading of this it doesn't sound like they're going after things like vacation time, pay, IP rights, you know, day-to-day stuff that a union would really be concerned with.

Instead it sounds like they want to define a shared set of principles that tech workers should believe in and then through sheer numbers said workers would convince their employers to be more socially conscious.

So again, I'd be shocked if the results of this were anything other than "A real tech worker believes in the right to an abortion, a real tech worker believes in gay marriage", etc. instead of, say, "a real tech worker believes in a minimum of four weeks paid leave" and similar statements.

tl;dr it's gonna be a bunch of touchy-freely Bay Area stuff.
Looks like Walmart will finally get it's ass moving. I think Amazon is getting too dominant as an organization. For the general good it needs a competitor to keep it in check. I hope Walmart can keep up. Beating up big brands to lower their prices is the side effect. Unfortunately, this means more automation for all, which means less jobs.

BTW, Bezos will be the richest man in the world within the next few years. Amazing what focus and determination can do.
Please don't violate the guidelines by calling names like this, and certainly not repetitively!
There used to be tech in interior California which is an inexpensive area. Sierra Online/Sierra Entertainment was a notable example. The Grass Valley Group was another.

Paul Graham's "How To a Silicon Valley" [0] has the best recommendations I've seen.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html
What exactly is the legitimate use of disabling the webcam indicator remotely?

Employer monitoring. Parental monitoring.
> afterlife paradise

This is optimistic thinking for some of us.
I read that and kept thinking "so when is Mattis going to cross the Rubicon"?

The Potomac is the new Rubicon, and the US is the new Rome. Where are we exactly in the imperial lifecycle? I wonder.
I only ever monkeyed around with Clojure, but on their first example: is it weird I'm OK with both?

The only thing that surprises me about both of those examples is that :state is a collection of things not just one thing, but I imagine if you're more familiar with their structures that would be less of an issue.
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Anything you like, basically.

Without a a union there's a power imbalance between employer and employee. People say it's all based on mutually agreed contracts. In reality, you are probably much more dependent on your job than the company is on you. That's because they may lose something like 1/1000 of their employees when they fire you, but you lose 100% of your jobs[1].

Unions are a way correct this balance. Employees band together, so that failure to reach an agreement is as painful for the employer as it is for the employee, i. e. (in the worst case) work stops and nobody gets paid.

[1]: If you doubt me, try getting Google to come in for 6 interviews and make your future manager do a whiteboard exam.
Not all motorcycles are that loud, especially the smaller ones more suitable for getting around IN the city. In proper urban areas, scooters are more convenient anyway -- smaller, more maneuverable, automatic transmissions, and more storage.
As a hardware developer, I'm surprised you actually bought a 3d printer. I found that Shapeways and Materialise work really well, and the quality of their SLS prints is basically impossible to match using a desktop FDM printer. Plus, there is no fuss: upload a model, click "order" and get your print in a couple of days.

I'm really interested in the next chapters, especially about dealing with manufacturers, working on injection molding design, choosing your materials, etc.

Also, thanks for writing this! There is too little information on building hardware out there. Nothing like the software world, and each beginning hardware developer has to start on his/her own.
Even with that analogy, the telephone company can see which numbers you dial, and when. It can make inferences based on that. Did you call an escort service at night and an STD clinic in the morning? Do you regularly call televangelist donation hotline numbers? Do you get a lot of calls from recruiters? The phone company knows all of that stuff - it's one of the issues with the NSA's collection of "just metadata".
Thanks, but would sooner recommend my third article: https://techspecs.blog/blog/2017/3/15/fuchsias-hypervisor.
Even if they mean well, eventually a board member is going to wonder how to make the next $250M. Then this idea will come up. If it's not expressly forbidden, and it will boost the bottom line, eventually somebody will be compelled to do it. Fiduciary responsibility and all that.
> If they are not, then we are all doomed to continue to exist in a messy world where security problems crop up every minute.

Side-tangent, but security enthusiasts need to calm down on the "world is ending" talk. Those of us who lived through Windows ME, where logging on IRC basically gave you a 25% chance of having your computer hijacked by some random script kiddie, think it's laughable to say that security is anywhere near as bad as it used to be. Night and day.
I wish that people who rail against MBAs, as if they're a cult that should be demonised, would take 3 minutes to look at the classes and topics that you cover in a typical programme.

You'll quickly see that they aren't programmes that you go into to exchange business cards and smoke cigars, and go off to do a few fun team building exercises and projects while casually reading Ries and Thiel and other pop-business bullshit...they're generally highly academic and very difficult to do well in.

An MBA is to business what Computer Science is to coding as a junior web dev. You'll probably never use 90% of what you learn, but you'll get a high level overview of several important fields which lots of important academics (e.g. Mintzberg) have explored over the last century, and you'll be a better worker for it.
Vote with your feet/filter/time. Don't go to to /r/the_donald.

I just use HN and twitter mainly. I keep Facebook because many friends can only be kept in touch with (out of the blue) via facebook. Otherwise, just block a lot of it.
Interesting topic and I can see how this is a daily issue for some, but I don't get the startup angle. What's the eventual monetization angle? Referrals for hair stylists? Paid membership to get new lists of or customized styles?

Which of the pictures of the girl (linked to the dropbox share) is closest to her natural hair? The styles are so varied it's impossible to tell! On the aesthetic front (obviously IMHO) it's a toss up between Oct 2016 and Dec 2016 for best (though all look very nice!).
Nobody in the advertising space at least literally sells browsing histories. They usually sell inferred tags of which interest groups or demographics you fit into, selected from massive proprietary taxonomies. So in the literal sense of the word, Comcast can be both technically right and still do exactly what they always intended to do.
The employees already instantiate a company's actual values. They just don't get to decide what the company says its values are.
There needs to be a rational middle ground.

Arch is bleeding edge and has no qualms pushing updates that break things and telling you to fix it. That's fine for workstations (and I've used Arch as my workstation OS for over 10 years), but it doesn't work well for servers.

IMO, LTS should be transformed to a yearly release cycle with 2 years of support, not bi-annual with 5 years. This would fix a lot of problems, especially considering that distros can get frozen with versions of packages that are already pretty old when they go gold. Keeping support around for 5 years (which is basically a myth anyway) is just a big waste for everyone.
Oh the joys of 754: {q,s}NaNs, denormals and other cases.

It's possible to describe an arbitrary IEEE754-like binary(k) and other custom formats using:

S:E:I:M (sizes S+E+I+M = k)

Where:

S sign bit, usually size 1

E exponent field

I implicit/explicit leading 1 field. usually size 0, except for some internal representations and x87

M mantissa

For standard binary(k) formats where k >= 32, the IEEE754 sizes are:

size S = 1

size E = round(4*log2(k))−13

size I = 0

size M = k-1-size E

For small formats, sizes of E and M don't follow the above rule.
That probably explains why "other engineering disciplines" do not have as many startups as software. If you do not like the current place and its values why do you hold others and its owners hostage to your ideals? Why not start a new one and attract better talent with your better values.

Tech companies are trying to do something better than what previous generations could do.
For once, I wish the upvote button would have a multiplier.
Your supervisor sounds like a typical middle-management asshat.
I'd love to hear about how you developed the connector.
I think the difference is that in wood frame you can sometimes hear things through the walls. Whereas with concrete, any sort of impact (chairs moving, doors slamming, people walking in heels, the guy putting a nail in the wall to hang a picture on) gets transmitted to the entire building.
Or more bad news for the Trump administration with evidence of communication etc coming from Russian servers? ;)

Further down someone asked: "What would be the advantage to making your exploits appear to come from other countries?". If you want to sow doubt about the validity of evidence presented this seems like a good way to do so (not that we shouldn't be skeptical given the tools available).
There are no plausible scenarios where survival of the species is easier on Earth than on Mars. Even in the worst runaway climate change scenarios or the worst nuclear war scenarios, Earth is still more habitable than Mars.
Sorry if I wan't clear, the point was that it wouldn't be possible to do in time for 17.10, which is what the original post was asking about.
If by on chip you mean on CPU I agree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_controller

But, that's part of the CPU packaging, a signal needs to get to these pins on the bottom of the CPU and that takes time.
Yes. Mandatory unions (And be careful about how you define that, because many would claim they're not while still requiring their pound of flesh[1]) are signified by their monopoly on labor.

By maintaining a chokehold on who can supply a vital resource (labor) to businesses, Unions have a history of strangling their patrons - See Detroit. From a distributed systems perspective, Unions represent a single point of failure.

I'm entirely in favor of groups banding together to request, nee, demand, rights, pay increases, healthcare. Once they start having 'management' tiers of their own, they're no longer representing you - They're a corporation you work for, contracting to your nominal employer. Just being clearer about it doesn't work - Microsoft hires an army of 'contractors' who are abused in precisely the same way. Nor does having multiple competing pseudo-unions - There's dozens of headhunters to go through to work for microsoft, but they all compete on 'price' and drive wages down[2].

[1]http://www.nrtw.org/required-join-pay-teacher/ - "educators cannot be required to do more than pay a union fee (typically called an "agency fee") that equals their share of what the union can prove is its costs of collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment" - Which is to say, you don't have to join the union, they just get to negotiate for you, take a cut of your pay, and be the intermediary that represents you - While you've proved your disloyalty to them by not choosing to 'join' them, so they have no actual incentive to do so. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrichs_v._California_Teach...

[2] The lightly fictionalized https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs, which still rings very true more than 20 years later.
You could build your own. I'm sure you've seen the Arduino DIY phone?

Take something like that - but use a RasPi Zero W - add on a better touchscreen (plenty of options there).

The Arduino version used a 3G module - but if you are willing to fork out the money, you can find 4G modules out there (they aren't cheap, though).

Then all you have to do as the code magic, a 3d printed case, etc...

You'll still need a cell service provider, of course - no real way to get around that, unless you wanted to set up some kind of wifi auto-hacking system to scrounge off of insecure (and other free) wifi nodes (coverage would be spotty, of course).