skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Rarely do I encounter a nix machine without it on there.

Isn't it posix mandated?
Behind the Process of Being a Head Writer for SNL (2015)
Password Security Infographic from the UK's National Cyber Security Centre
I think French "à la" was the intent.
Show HN: Mixfont, a font generator for modern pairings
If you can get past the linkbait title and some questionable word choices on the part of the author, this is actually an excellent article. The article is not trying to convince you that ESP is real, at least not in the sense of in-the-world reality. Rather, it's an article about the standards of scientific proof, showing that there are cases where standard statistical practices can "prove" apparently absurd results.

The issue is that in general, it's hard to tell the difference between "absurd" and "unexpected". In theory, the scientific method is about designing experiments that produce replicable results that cannot be explained by current theory, and then refining (or replacing) the theory until the can explain the new results, while still making correct predictions about all cases covered by the old theory.

But what do you do when results are obtained that violate the foundations of science, such as the time order of cause and effect? Naturally, one should start by being skeptical of the experiment. Was the data accidentally recorded wrong? Was the data inappropriately filtered before being analyzed? Is the experimenter lying about the data that was obtained?

Usually, thinking about these issues yields some apparent cause of error that would explain the unexpected results without violating one's basic beliefs. Unfortunately, an apparent reason for disbelief can often be found even if the results truly are impeccable. Often, the result is that doubters continue their disbelief, and the believers continue believing, until one faction or the other retires from the field and the other belief becomes "consensus".

What Bem has done is to design an experiment that surpasses the statistical standards of many fields, yet "proves" a result that on the surface seems impossible. Most of the usual scientific errors have been avoided, and his methodology and analysis are better than most. One possibility is that our current conceptions of causality are wrong: we think that for A to cause B, A must happen before B, but in fact this is not a requirement.

Another possibility is that something is grossly wrong with our current interpretation of scientific results, and many longstanding theories which are considered "scientifically" proven may in fact be mistakes, or at least have no more "proof" than Bem has managed to show for ESP. For most scientists, both of these answers are problematic, yet it would seem that at least one of them must be true. One twist is that some believe that Bem's goal is not actually to prove that ESP is correct, rather to show that the foundations of science are faulty: http://andrewgelman.com/2013/08/25/a-new-bem-theory/.
Google Following Offline Credit Card Spending to Tell Advertisers If Ads Work
This is simply a way to do a layoff and better yet for the accountants the folks least likely to move are the ones with kids/families, which also happen to be the ones who are earning at their highest. 25 year olds can move on short notice, 45 year olds cannot, but its illegal to fire everyone who's over 30.

The article is also correct, talent is leaving. When you announce something stupid like this, only 2 types of people remain: a) lifers and b) people who lack the network or talent to find something else. When all you have left is types A and B you get stagnation at best and decline at worst.
Backblaze backs up my virtual machines... You just have to remove those file types from the exclusion list (where they are by default), and raise the max file size to "No Limit". Neither of these are hidden options.
What could go wrong? “Perl cgi html uploading linux kernel”
There's always C-z, but that actually works.
Is that really all I'm saying? Please read about: Structural inertia, organizational restructuring, core competencies of a business. It's incredibly difficult for a large company to change direction, build new capabilities, and fundamentally switch it's core competency (in this instance from a manufacturing business to a technology business). I presume you've never run a business at scale?
Many do, effectively. See: loyalty cards with special pricing or rewards attached. Membership cards for Costco or Sam's, though there are other reasons for those, too.

Stacking that stuff and CC rewards can save you several percent of your retail spending a year. Paying cash is like paying sales tax twice.

[EDIT] to be clear, you effectively pay more to not be tracked in general, not just for avoiding a CC. Loyalty cards get you regardless of payment method. Also, lots of stores try really hard to get you to take "their" credit card (god, Target won't shut up about it) with unusually good rewards or discounts at their store. You can bet they get access to those data, including when you use it other places, even if Visa or MasterCard services it (and also gets the data)
Hi HN community, wanted to share a side project that I've been hacking around on. I wanted to make a really easy way to generate new font pairing ideas, and showcase them as if they were part of a real app or website. It turned into Mixfont (https://www.mixfont.com) and I hope it can be helpful when choosing fonts for your next project. Would love to hear your thoughts!
At least you didn't use "Feleventh Heaven".
That's cruel. Also alias vim="rm -f" in .bash_profile
This is a bunch of baloney.

I have been off Google for many years now and I don't miss anything as far as I can tell. I still use their search engine but because I don't use gmail, I refuse Google's cookies and I change my IP address regularly, they cannot track me.

The real question is the opposite. What is that those Google fanatics get from Google that they couldn't get otherwise that is worth giving Google their entire private lives?

I never understood the psychological pull that Google has on people.

Google is every bit as evil as any other profit seeking corporation. Only, whereas a company like say Pepsico, just wants you to buy their product, Google wants to spy on you every second of your life. Why is that people put up with this is beyond me.
I can't vouch for, but I've heard (and read) decent things about Brave Star Selvedge Jeans --however I think they only do button-flies. I dunno about the next person, but I'd rather not fumble around trying to get the thing buttoned. I don't think I know of anyone having zipper accidents.

By-the-by, they recommend not washing too often, as little as once per year... just don't mix them with your regular washing.
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I'm in Australia. I like a lot of things about the US and lots of the people in/from the US as well. I went there about 15 years ago and had an awesome holiday.

I would never go there now that a dangerous buffoon like Trump is in office, also for a long time now it's been known that outsiders will be treated like a criminal at the border for no reason. And I mean literally no reason because I could easily not have all my masses of terrorist information on the laptop and just download it from the terrorist servers when I get there. So there is literally zero reason to be searching my digital property, and I'm not about to take the gamble that I could be prevented entry or delayed enough to possibly cause thousands of dollars personal cost for no good reason. The security theatre is ridiculous.

Outsiders are obviously not welcome so I'm not coming.

There are plenty of sane countries around the world to go to, why would I go to the US?

I hope the American people can find the motivation to vote and pressure their representatives to actually do something about their own freedoms. Not only border patrol but your militarised and outrageously unaccountable police force.

Sorry but that's just, like, my opinion, man.
Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (Research on Coding Bootcamps)
The point isn't that an algorithm is doing it. It's that algorithms are actively poisoning the system with orders that couldn't possibly trade. By stuffing the pipe with these orders, timely information to other traders is delayed; the article states that the delay can be on the order of 30 seconds.

If I'm spending a half billion to colocate in an exchange's data center because it'll trim a few microseconds off my data transit time, I'd be pretty pissed if I was suddenly delayed by 30 seconds.
In Colorado, property with tax liens is seized and auctioned to the highest bidder after a certain period of time.

What state/country do you live in?
Agreed. No knowledge in Python. How am I supposed to know specifics of x.append() and x = y within the same function?
> I guess for me, I don't care enough to make all those changes.

Up until I read this article, I used to feel the opposite way. I think there is some value in everyone having privacy and personal space. It gives us an opportunity to decompress and relieve some of the stresses of our increasingly connected world.

However, discovering that Google (and others) are merging my online and offline behavior is making me doubt my viewpoint (the 70% figure really hit hard). If I can't escape it, why not just be apart of it? Surely life is a bit simpler: not having to pay for email, better search results (DDG vs Google)... It seems that whether you want to or not, you _will_ become part of the google/facebook/etc ecosystem.

The other reason I used non-google services was in some ways to "hedge" my position. By using a non-google email with a custom domain, I am not tied down to any email provider (note: I bought the domain explicitly for email use). If I ever became unsatisfied with my email service, I could always switch to a different provider without the hassle of creating a new email address. Now, maybe this is just a defeatist view, but I think google/facebook are too big to fail. If google disappeared tomorrow or in 10 years, there would be chaos -too much of the world depends on it. Does this give them enough power to exist in perpetuity? Maybe it's time to just cave in and use all google services. It sure is cheaper.
I don't think this is fair. The mods want the site to be successful and the parent is pointing out something that should be a cause for concern for them. No one wants HN to turn into the next Slashdot.
You don't have to explain yourself to them. They don't know the legalities involved, they are grunts. Just tell them simply that you will only answer the question a single time, and the answer is no, and you will ignore future questions about the matter. And ask for your lawyer. If you aren't going to allow access into your personal devices to begin with, you're probably getting that interview regardless.
27 arrested for black box ATM attacks across Europe
Ask HN: Why is Bitcoin surging in Price
Most recent average across all bitcoin markets is over $2300! What are the reasons behind this, other than pure speculation?
Tesla Welcomes Gaby Toledano
It is possible to track the serials, if they wanted to; however, except for banks, I have not exchanged cash with a retailer who scans the bills at the point of transaction and if they did, they'd also have to tie a given ser no with me at the time of purchase. Since a particular bill will go through many hands, it'd be like trying to figure out who made a change on a system when it was done by 'root' or 'administrator' where the whole team logs in as root or admin. Basically attribution would be kinda inaccurate.
Non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
>all the comments I'm seeing here are sensationalist sentiments/anecdotes, backed with no facts, reverberated in an echo chamber.

You must be new here.
Didn't Ms"S use to use CTRL-Ins or similar?
BrainDamage Python Backdoor
Seems like it works better on desktop than mobile but overall I like the concept. Google Fonts is pretty good at visualizing the fonts in a normal text style, but I like how this tool creates the pairings and shows them in different ways. Nice work for a side project
I am especially excited to see more great content from setosa.io
I thought the back and forth between Johann and others deep in that thread added a lot to the piece: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...

One conclusion seems to be that seeing successive replications of an experiment that you believe to be flawed does not mean that one should eventually lose one's doubt. Unfortunately, it also does not mean that one's doubt is justified, and that the results can safely be ignored. Rather, it means that at some point (if you want to improve your knowledge) you have to figure out some way to analyze the experiment from another angle and remove (or confirm) the base cause of the doubt.
Did unrelevant and crazy testing on 4GB DigitalOcean VM with a part of a latest hosts dataset from Rapid7's Project Sonar.
Data is pairs of ip,certificate thumbprint. On ~1500000 of entries in ES (~300mb with indices, much wow) a sort for ip occurancies is made on the speed of light within 3.5 seconds if data isn't cached and 300-350 if it is.
Brief: Oops, we shortchanged drivers out of millions of dollars, says Uber
Thanks, i got confused because of urbandictionary.

I think I'll pass on whiz. All Wiz domains suffix are already taken unfortunately.
Science Isn’t Broken (2015)
>one of my favourite objections to my shoelessness was someone who claimed that it was unclean for others.

The difference might be that shoes aren't as good of a substrate for bacteria as a warm moist foot.

The athletic administration at my college required that I put my shoes back on when practicing soccer on the intramural fields. Their reasoning was that I could get a cut and develop an e coli infection.
Goguen, so prolific! the ADJ group, OBJ, Maude, CafeOBJ, Clear, The Semiotic Zoo, Sheaves, Institutions. I understand maybe 5% of this stuff. Why has Goguen's work not sparked more research? Especially with the emphases on Algebraic Specification and Category theory? Is Goguen still ahead of his time?
I didn't downvote, but some of those only help so much. Your name is still in the track data, and for credit you generally have to input a zip code. For online purchases, you're entering an address as well.
Unfortunately now anything you buy in person using non-cash is likely being tracked by them anyway
It's sad how much effect these isolated attacks can have. Hundreds of thousands dead from car crashes and smoking and whatever else, nobody cares, it's expected.

A few homemade bombs, and that causes people to change their whole outlook on a country? It doesn't make sense.

I wish there was some way we could not report on terrorist attacks, like we don't report suicides. Sensational news reports just blow things right out of proportion to their actual importance at the country scale.

It's hard to do, and maybe not realistic, but there has to be some solution where these asshole terrorists don't win. And they win as our freedoms are limited as well.

A few crazy people shouldn't be able to hold countries to ransom. I don't know the solution but it just sucks.
It's a practical approach, and my comment here isn't necessarily aimed at you, chx (since I don't know your citizenship status), but I would add this entreaty to American citizens like me:

If you ever get asked that question at the US border, please don't acquiesce to that request. They have the right to ask, and they even have the power to search it regardless of your permission, but despite an alarming drift towards a total surveillance, they have not established the right to force you to unlock/decrypt anything.

I'm flying into SFO tomorrow, and I am taking similar precautions as chx so that my laptop doesn't contain any meaningful data[1].

However, if asked to unlock my laptop, I plan to say "No, of course I cannot do that; it violates the most basic security practices and I could and should be fired if I exposed sensitive company data in that manner." And then just sticking with it. It will be inconvenient, especially if they seize my laptop and detain me, but as citizens it is up to us to resist the normalization of behaviors that push the nation further towards the precipice of idiotism.

[1]: As an American citizen, I have routinely done this when traveling to authoritarian nations like China; it's hard to express how outraged I am that my own country has degenerated to the point where sound security practices now require these kinds of procedures when traveling to the USA.
I've read new Chinese regulations and financial sector getting into it despite the ETF being refused... also speculation I guess!
It's better to simply leave issues enabled, but put in place rules for what constitutes a valid issue, noting that other issues will be closed without further consideration. Well-reported issues are gold, and the others are easy to ignore.
How can Monero compete with Bitcoin’s network effect?
Would be funny if this is the second wind for the Middle East after peak oil. Not that shipping sand sounds profitable.

Edit: Apparently, desert sand is too smooth/fine for most construction use.
Undoubtedly, the crown owns any "unowned" land. In cases where there is disputed title, the courts are the arbiter. There are probably not too many disputed titles anymore since the introduction of land registry was in the 18th century.
Just conjecture, but I imagine that he got tired of the mods accusing him of trolling (in his uniformly high-quality and civil commentary) due to his non-standard political views.
Pretty much all of those fingerprints require the ability to run javascript on the client side. Getting static content from Google doesn't allow them to do any real fingerprinting. Obviously, if you're executing arbitrary code provided by Google, they will be able to track you pretty much always.
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Socialist propaganda.

Nowhere do they mention businesses which have literally had to file for bankruptcy due to insolvency caused by upholding contracts with workers unions, smaller businesses which have had to close due to minimum wage laws (and the larger and more international businesses who can take their place). They vilify business owners and make them out to be lazy and entitled people whose work is not skilled or difficult and who only care about their profits. Includes a quote by a "Gender, Sexuality & 'Diversity Studies'" student (emphasis mine). Nowhere do they mention the problem that the US has with illegal aliens who work for far below minimum wage (and the threat they pose to citizens who live off a minimum wage job - the higher the minimum wage, the higher the incentive to hire aliens instead of citizens).

They bring up basic income, but don't seem to have any sort of idea in mind for how to deal with the destructive and antisocial things people do when they are not given a clear avenue to provide value by working hard and setting goals. They don't seem to understand job markets. The rich business strawman says "I should be able to set the wages I pay at whatever rate I see fit" isn't how it really works, job markets have a supply and a demand as well, an employer has to offer wages that are acceptable to their employees or else they will simply leave or be unable to support themselves (which leads to even lower productivity, of course, making it not really in anyone's best interests).

In short, they bring up a number of important problems (alienation, financial insecurity, low quality of life), but their silver-bullet solution to fix them by raising the minimum wage is very poorly thought out.
Is the goal to resist normalization of the behavior or is to get through the security theater?
They can track your purchases, but if you stop using Google credentials, they're going to have a lot harder time tying it to your ad views.

It's impossible to avoid having at least some data in various services, but if you divide and conquer, keep accounts separate as much as possible, don't have accounts with companies that collect data about you in other ways (or use fake names and email aliases), you can break up their picture of you.

While articles will point out how small groups of anonymous information can positively identify someone, these programs are likely to be more fragile on a large scale basis. Don't make it easy, and more than likely, at least some of the tracking and the benefit they get from it will fail.
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In particular, many states (e.g., NY) would only demand that a company collect sales tax if it had a physical presence in that state. Since Amazon had no warehouses in NY, it didn't have to collect sales tax here.

In NY, it's actually the purchaser's obligation to report tax that was due on mail order purchases where the company didn't collect NY sales tax - there's a box for it on the state income tax form. (But it's something that most people don't bother to report since it's difficult to enforce.)
Of course there are... can't all of them do that?
I think that's a reputation Uber has built for themselves. I've seen a couple of commenters here who consistently used to denounce every Lyft article and praise Uber without disclosing they worked there.
As a sysadmin, this drives me crazy. I log into a lot of systems I didn't set up, and then I press the key at the command prompt to bring it up in an editor, or invoke something that uses an interactive editor, and its nano. I have to exit it, export EDITOR=vi and do it again. I don't even like vi as a standard editor. I just expect the system default of vi, and nano is painfully underpowered. I'd even adapt to it running emacs, but it's like getting a nerf hammer every time you need a real one when the system pulls up nano by default.
Another big thing I think that has not been mentioned is that a lot of people live in apartments and don't have garages or anywhere to charge their car.

Imagine having to plan a trip to a local charging station every day or two and wait 40 mins to charge your car.
2549 also includes QoS
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2549.txt
Under the hood it's probably by reference, but the semantics are by value. By reference indicates that the original value
can be changed in the called function.

I think. Not a language lawyer.
I second this, seeking treatment definitely helps with learning to manage the disability. It seems weird describing it as treatment, I would call it more of a suppressor because once they wear off it comes straight back.

One of the best things to deal with ADHD is early recognition as it can cause them to fall behind everyone else. Quickly.

It's interesting though, not everyone knows exactly what it means to have ADHD or what it implies. Because of this, it isn't necessarily the best thing to tell your teachers either because they can start treating you differently. So I suppose the process of overcoming ADHD can heavily rely on your parents and how able they are to give you the extra attention and time you need.
"And it you try to circumvent it by i.e. temporarily encrypting everything for 24hr boom you just committed a felony"

This isn't true. Encrypting your device is not illegal, and they do not have the legal authority to compel you to unencrypt it or make you sign in to anything. They can make your life miserable, but the constitution still applies.
Depends what you're looking for. You won't find one single company with as many tendrils as Google... but that's okay, you should be really worried about a company with that many tendrils. If you need email/calendar/contacts, I recommend FastMail, for example, but you're gonna have to get your hardware and your other services from someone else.
slap[0] (the terminal-based text editor) was designed to emulate Sublime's UX within the terminal. It has a shallower learning curve than other command line editors.

[0] https://github.com/slap-editor/slap