skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those without a wsj subscription: https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/forever-young-tech-startups...
Brief cautionary notes on branded combination nootropics
https://www.fullwsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-1...
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984639

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984770
From the original github commit:

> With all these dozens of domains (over a hundred), it sure smells like they're incorporating a HSTS fingerprinting attack into their product portfolio. HSTS fingerprinting enables a server to tag every browser with an n-bit (ie: 100 domains is 100 bits) unique identifier so you can track that browser whenever it returns (or wherever it goes). Since users cannot clear their "HSTS cookies" as it were, this fingerprint remains permanently associated with that browser.
>
> Wonderful feature for an ad agency to track each visitor indefinitely. Even while in Private Browsing / Incognito mode.

Okay. Let's eradicate them from the surface of this planet.
I have the same feeling, regardless of whether his claim makes any sense or not, "meme-fying" the company and the underlying subject only makes his argument less substantial IMO.
I have checked multiple times and gorhill doesn't appear to accept donations. I seem to recall reading a thread where they indicated they didn't want to ever be considered to be beholden to anyone.

As mentioned above, uMatrix is my favorite. Once configured, it is easy... There is a learning curve.

I'd donate regularly, but that doesn't appear likely. I greatly appreciate their work.
Well then, I guess with that line of reasoning we should just turn off the computers and go live in the woods. There's obviously too much risk in doing anything.
Indeed. I've had tempura in Japan at a nice family owned place (in business for over 100 years) where you enter, remove your shoes and put on slippers and go upstairs to the dining area. The dining area is a bar that squares around the 3 chefs, the father and 2 sons. There is a "small" menu and a "large" menu and after you order a menu and drinks it comes out piece by piece. The final piece I had was a delicious piece of sea eel I added a bit of salt to and that just melted in my mouth. I'll never forget that piece.
$120M budget to bus 30,000 children to school? Does that sound like a lot, or is it just me?
That's $4,000 per child per year. At 180 school days per year, that's $22.22 per child per day!

At that rate, they could save many more millions by switching to Uber or some other ride sharing service.
Interesting facts and maps, but the major flaw I see is that rush hour isn't the same time in every city. And I'm not really sure why rush hour was used specifically, instead of some kind of average.
you're putting words in my mouth. I said i'm ok with hostility toward conservatives, not all the other groups you listed above. Out of the groups you listed i'd be ok with hostility toward "tort reform advocates" as they seems to be on the conservative side. All the others are either progressive or neutral so they either get my support or i don't care.
I was thinking the exact same thing while reading. And while holidaying in Bohemia earlier this year!
I simply can't get enough of the Monster6502. If they ever sell a kit I'm buying one in a heartbeat.
Daring Fireball should use a larger font and better contrast. Thank goodness for Reader mode.
Solving a CTF Challenge with S²E
Thank you :-)
I suppose it could work indeed
The left controls universities, the media at large [news/ent], and leadership in some major tech companies. The government isn't the only powerful entity in America.
Thanks! I'll definitely check them out.
>I'm well past the age I liked to waste time debugging setups.

Why not outsource that to Dell?
Yes. I agree. The best way to get away with mail fraud is to hope the feds don't care. I also believe it seems from a bank employees perspective is they all get away with it. However, the jails are full.

The problem is these guys repeat offend. If they just got $1500 - they would be fine. But they wont. They will repeat until they clear 150k. That is a life sentence. This is why the federal jails are full of drug traffickers. Drug trafficking is a lifestyle - they can't stop.
I think the point is it's incredibly lopsided considering the target of the decisions, and who they appointed, and didn't.
Heh, DC and NY you're not getting far, doesn't matter when you leave. After being stuck on I66 or I495 even at odd hours at night I can believe it.
Sure, but they weren't trying to invent a technical term -- it just caught on for some reason.

It turns out that if your game backstory reads too much like an MCSE study guide, your game won't sell very well.
Are there any non-paywalled options available? Web link no longer works for WSJ.
On the contrary Matt Taibbi has done some incredible work exposing the out of control culture of fraud and greed in the financial markets and the litany of fixing scandals.

Please read his work and make up your own mind.

The Libor fixing is real as is the FX rate fixing. Apologists for the banking system and governments often demand the the smoking gun in fraud and conspiracy even when its not always possible, unless at great personal cost like in Snowden, but here the smoking gun and entire armory is out in the open. Attempting now to discredit the messenger is disingenuous.
“…by car”. Nothing about rail or other public transport sadly.
That is a really interesting angle on it.
eBay fraudsters mastered this. They would buy and sell bullshit items like old postcards that would be shippable via first class mail, then wait a few months for the auction listings to expire, than sell a fake laptop or camera.

I was almost defrauded like this but refused the shipment and was able to claw the money back via chargeback at the cost of my PayPal account. With about 15 minutes of searching I was able to find networks of these phony sellers building up eBay points and running these scams.
Damn it, they're all over the place with the spelling: "piexinhos da horta", "peixinhos do horta"... Get it right, for christ's sake x)
If somebody brings up six points, addressing points two through six doesn't validate anyone's point on one. Refusing to engage on those is just way of running away from parts of the debate where you're less sure. Damore said far more than that there are biological differences. He made unfounded assumptions about how those differences apply to software engineering, and further about how they apply to software engineering at Google which is pretty obviously a special case. He made false claims about the motivations behind existing policies, and proposed alternative policies for which there is either no evidence or strong contrary evidence. And more. But nobody wants to talk about those flaws, because they know they can't. It's better for the anti-diversity agenda to keep the focus on the one part that they can hope to defend. Unfortunately, too many pro-diversity advocates are playing right into that.
Is that his official site?

https://twitter.com/seanodotcom/status/896089835324055552 says otherwise
Eagles Destroy Corporate Drones, Cost Mining Company More Than $100,000
I think, basically using the email to point to blog posts and other content you create/manage (or sponsored posts). I agree nor just a link, but you'd need some kind of teaser, a few sentences or a paragraph lead in with a "continue reading" link to the full article/post, etc. Each link would track clicks and such so you could build up data on what is popular, and who likes it.

The key being, once you have eyeballs out if the email and on a page, you're more open for affiliate links and advertising options based on the data you're gathering.
Doesn't this work as an argument against cash-settling options and futures? Owning a giant pile of call options and driving the price up during the settlement window doesn't help you any if you have to unload a massive quantity of the underlying stock.
People do really get their money's worth from Prime: "40% of Amazon Prime members spend over $1,000 a year on Amazon, while only 8% of non-Prime shoppers do so."

I'd be really interested to see what Amazon's numbers as a whole would look like if Prime didn't exist, clearly it is profitable enough for Amazon to be able to keep bundling "free" stuff into the package like video / music, file storage etc.
Average won't help you when T max matters more, for instance when you must decide where to buy an apartment. (I work on those problems)
A Question for Google's CEO
Just use the magic WSJ paywall skipping bookmarklet...

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
Max commute distance for most people is related to rush hour traffic not the average.
> even when (as is so often the case) the cycle lane is unsafe or unsuitable.

Near me there's a mixed-use cycleway alongside a main road (put in 10-15 years ago). Driveways cross it regularly and you have to stop at every side-road to cross, but the big problem is commercial buildings with lowered kerbs and driveways. We have a drive-through restaurant, two car washes and a business park. Cycling along there is lethal because the drivers don't look before turning in or coming out. I choose to cycle on the road because while annoying drivers I feel safer.
Yes, and I'm saying I don't see anything wrong with that.
Lyft is going global:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/13/lyft-to-go-global-take-on-ub...
>men would make better programmers than women because of something at the biological or genetic level, which is really the contention around Damore's memo.

Where does he say this?

As for the interviewers, so what? Either the claims are supported by the facts or not, who's agenda is served by those facts is an entirely separate issue.
Not being able to be openly hostile to minorities and other disadvantaged groups is now considered "backed into a corner".

Edit: Thanks for the down votes. But let's consider how ridiculous this notion of the right being "backed into a corner" is. Let's look at facts 1. Most politicians at the state and local level are white and right wing 2. Most business leaders are white and many of them are right leaning 3. Votes have been systematically stolen from left leaning parts of the country via gerrymandering and voter restrictions 4. Rural and white parts of the US are overwhelmingly over represented in the US government via Electoral college, Senate, and state representation 5. Over the last 20 years in two separate occasions the left had the won the popular vote but didn't get the Presidency. In conclusion - LITERALLY ALL INSTITUTIONAL POWER STRUCTURE IN THE US is owned by the right. But somehow they are backed into a corner.
Why would they? I think that would be a bit much money for most German VCs just to support a "trophy" startup.

I think they already lost most of the local support here with the layoffs. The VCs might even be happy that the talent that was tied up in SC is now on the free market and available to help build the next "big" startup.
There have been a couple of previous hacker news discussions on the problem of counterfeit goods being sold by Amazon. The problem here is that if there are counterfeit goods being sold by a 3rd party, you might get them even if the product listing your ordered from says that it is sold and shipped by Amazon. Amazon co-mingles goods from Amazon and third party sellers unless the third party seller explicitly opts out of it (which costs more money for them and someone selling counterfeit goods has every incentive to co-mingle their goods with others). I don't think I have run into counterfeit goods, but others claim to have:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13955981

I like the convenience and selection of Amazon, (and have been a customer since they started) but until they stop this comingling, I feel I have to be a little more careful what I buy from them.
100 mbit xfinity is under $58 in Chicago?
Yup. And letting-them-eat-cake tendencies are pretty prominent on HN across the board; see every vague discussion of UBI as a condescending solution to some future problem of automation, with scarce attention paid to the real decimation of non-tech industry throughout America. People whose way of life and work have been destroyed turn to proto-fascism like clockwork throughout history, and it doesn't matter how precisely you want to define "blame" to assign responsibility to one group or another: the bad times are coming, and they're going to affect everyone.
I completely agree, one of the things that keeps me coming back to Chrome is favicons in tabs which is particularly useful when you have a bunch of tabs open. I also have a favorites bar with purely favicons so I can fit as many of my regular sites/resources in there as possible while still looking visually appealing.
> Phone didn't work any more -- they removed the wrong line. Had to go to a land line, and hang on hold for 30 minutes to get someone to start restoring my account

Haha. I have a similar story where I needed help from Comcast. I was on the my cell with them and they wanted to verify it was me, and hung up to call my home number. Well, I only have a home line for a fax machine and do not have a normal phone in the house. I heard the fax ring a few times so I called back. It took over a 1/2 hour to convince them to use a different authentication method. They kept insisting to call my home phone. Sigh.
The analysis conflicts with personal recollection. It seems to show leaving SF at 4pm and being able to get to roughly central Mountain View in an hour. Google Maps says that if I leave today at 4pm, that trip takes "typically 1h - 1h50m" which in my experience is about right. One hour is a good outcome, not a normal one. In a car, at rush hour, sometimes it could take an hour to go four blocks down Battery Street in SF.

Also, of course, the article has neglected other modes than cars. If you leave on a rush hour Acela train from Boston you'll be in Providence in 33 minutes, well outside even their 10pm driving radius for Boston.
I think the biggest mistake he makes is about magnitude of those effects and the specific outcomes.

We don't really know how much of a difference those biological differences make. There is a lot of research that show women (on AVERAGE) are more people oriented. But the percentage and distribution of women vs men that are thing vs people oriented isn't well settled. We have some data on outlooks in adults but that is obviously _not_ pre-culture.

When looking at [research on the matter](http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Men-and-thing...):

Therefore, from the inter-individual perspective,the
individuals who pursue STEM careers are more likely to
be male than female. For example, assuming that
individuals within the highest 25% of a population
interest distribution are likely to make occupational
choices consistent with an interest type, the number of
women entering the engineering occupation, then, is only
19.5% of the number of men entering the field. This
percentage is very similar to the actual female–male
ratio of individuals employed in engineering. In science
and mathematics interest distributions, the female–male
ratios in the upper 25% asymptote are 0.60 and 0.64,
respectively. However, the actual female–male ratio of
individuals employed in the field of physical sciences
is only about 0.40 and, in mathematics, it is about
0.45. This discrepancy between interest data and real
employment composition indicates that there may be
reasons other than sex differences in interests that can
account for gender disparity in science and mathematics.

Considering Google pulls a lot from the Science and Mathematics fields (Dalmore is one such individual), I would expect Google's 83% male to 17% female engineering composition is somewhat skewed by sexism.
One of the big differences is that the "Japanese food" that most people in the US are familiar with like sushi, sashimi, and tempura are typically all available (perhaps along with other types of Asian dishes) at a typical Japanese restaurant here. By contrast, tempura, sushi/sashimi, even uni tend to be in specialized restaurants in Japan.
The idea is that all users are both even though reality isn't quite that.
'tolerant urban areas'

LOL
Golang (may contain syntax errors):

func readNumberFromFileAndDoubleIt(filename string) (int, err) {
file, err = os.Open(filename)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
defer file.Close() // BUG!! this returns an error, but since we defer it, it is not going to be handled
bytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
contents := string(bytes)
i, err := strconv.Atoi(contents)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
return 2*i, nil
}

Rust (may contain syntax errors):

fn read_number_from_file_and_double_it(filename: &str) -> Result<i32> {
let mut file = File::open(filename)?; // file automatically closed at end of scope
let mut contents = String::new();
file.read_to_string(&mut contents)?;
contents.parse().map(|i| 2*i)
}

4 vs 15 lines, I think it's obvious which one is easier to read
Sorry, but that's bs.
The new language Red is 98% Rebol compatible and uses native GUI feel. If only it'll get finished and reach 1.0. Still a bit left on the roadmap.
The second graphic confirms my hypothesis ... that los angeles employers have somehow staggered their hours (or given the employees more liberty) and that rush hour has become more equally distributed over a larger time range. This remediation has helped increase the number of cars commuting on the roads without significantly growing the underlying infrastructure (Washington seems to have the same pattern but I can't speak to that).

You can see the middle yellow dot is about equal distance between the red and teal ones. Recently (say 2013-) when I've gotten on the freeway at about 8:30pm in Culver City (near the 10/405 heading east), I've been shocked to see it's light rush-hour style traffic (generally under 40mph + cars keeping close distance + lots of brake lights). Honestly it's about 9:30/10pm when it starts to free up.

In the morning time, commute starts about 5:30 and goes to 10/10:30am and then the home commute starts up again around 2/2:30pm and goes until about 9:30pm.

I have a place about 250 meters from the freeway and I can hear the pickup in the ambient freeway noise starting around 5:00 in the morning until about 5:30 where it reaches approximately its maximum background noise.

People do the same "rush hour driving" at this time. There's a small distance between cars and large density of vehicles, but nobody has made a mistake to slow everyone down yet so people are doing this at a "let's beat the traffic" speed of around 80mph. It's so enormously dangerous. Take the 405 from the valley to santa monica once at this time and you'll understand why there's multiple accidents every day.

This is different from when I was in high school in the 90s. I went from essentially Agoura Hills to Encino. The freeway was empty until about 6:30 and then when I was lucky enough to have a free period where I wouldn't have to show up until I think 930? I could leave at 8:30 and it would be a breeze on in.

So in 20 years at least from my observation, the rush hour window maybe has increased about an hour either way.
The Republicans in congress aren't doing anything with that control though. For example they backpedaled on their Obamacare repeal promises when they had a chance to actually do it. They are more and more looked upon as part of "the swamp" or "establishment" and not really seen as conservatives, with a few exceptions.
I don't know if "fix" is the right word. Chopping your right arm off "fixes" the itch, although you're literally giving your right arm.
Free or open-source:

Tectonics.js: http://davidson16807.github.io/tectonics.js/

Torben's Planet Map Generator: http://topps.diku.dk/torbenm/maps.msp

donjon World Generators: https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/, https://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/world/

VPPlanetGenerator: https://toolslib.net/downloads/viewdownload/73-vpplanetgener...

TerraJ: http://terraj.sourceforge.net/

Wilbur: http://www.fracterra.com/wilbur.html

Platec: https://sourceforge.net/projects/platec/

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Commercial/paid:

Experilous Worldbuilder ($8): https://experilous.com/1/store/offer/worldbuilder (previously linked to on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681899 )

Space Engine: http://spaceengine.org/

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Theory, code, and links:

Red Blob Games: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/..., http://www.redblobgames.com/x/1728-elevation-control/ (previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14793809 )

Procedural Content Generation Wiki: http://pcg.wikidot.com/pcg-algorithm:map-generation
I've had success generating similar isochrones with Navitia : http://doc.navitia.io/#isochrones
It sounded to me like you already had all of this figured out. Why do you suddenly need to be a federal officer?
alt-right? :-)
And if you're going to the trouble of surveying for demographics, might as well add that data as fields in your ESP to allow for reporting and segmentation against those demos in the future. That lets you do things like target specific genders or ages with more relevant content/offers/ads.
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
― Philip K. Dick

The word diversity used to encompass all forms of diversity, including diversity of ideas. At some point in the last few years it was rebranded and narrowed in scope to be only include gender, gender identity, race (except white people), sexual orientation (except straight people), muslims (but not christians).

His definition of diversity is broader than what those on the far left have narrowed it down to.
Is there a distinct swing towards more stories that are less critical of the "screed" now? Or just that more are making it onto the front page here?

It feels like there was an initial almost universal condemnation in the press, followed by a shift as the days passed. Not a complete shift, but more stories that were either less critical, neutral, or slightly supportive.
Thanks for introducing this extension. Turns out, it's available for Chrome as well:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl...
I agree with you that they're wasting the power that they have, but they do indeed have the power at the moment.

The problem with attempting to repeal the ACA is that it leaves enough Republicans vulnerable in midterms that they don't dare repeal it, hence the inability to get the votes necessary.

Don't confuse ideology with self-preservation.
I see this weird pattern on Shark Tank (which to be fair is definitely not generally representative of tech startup culture) where the 'Sharks' turn down founders by glibly saying, "Oh you've been working on this for X years without any sales? Pass." It doesn't seem right to me. I get the idea of proving your idea through sales, but a product that's ready right now is a product whether it was made overnight or through tinkering over time...
Algorithms like bcrypt may have a maximum supported length: for bcrypt, over about 50 characters and things get dicey [1]. If you're running something computationally expensive like scrypt tuned properly, you don't want malicious entities to be able to send you a 32K password request, probably - easier to force them to keep it small (like < 50 chars), then block them based on request throughput.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/a/39851/1373