skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally use 2 Browsers (FF and Chromium) for those reasons.

FF is my browser to stay private, therefore i am for example constantly not logged into my accounts (google/gmail/youtube).

Additionally:

-) 4 Easy Steps to stop online tracking

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/04/4-simple-changes-prote...

-) NoScript for FF

Stops every script unless you allow it.

According to http://stallman.org/facebook.html

"Pages that contain Facebook "like" buttons enable Facebook to track visitors to those pages. Facebook tracks the users that see 'like' buttons, even users who never visited facebook.com and never click on those buttons."

There also is a solution described to stop that, but NoScript technically should get rid of the problem.

-) Google has it's own privacy settings, i think you can prevent from being tracked too hard with setting those accordingly

-) DuckDuckGo is getting more and more famous, it's a search engine that market itself as respecting ones privacy and not bubble people (i personally still use google)

http://donttrack.us/

http://dontbubble.us/

-) I also use AdBlock+ so i am not bothered with commercials to annoy me.

-) If you are really paranoid you could use something like Tor/VPN

https://www.torproject.org/

https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-ano...

i personally don't.

-) don't allow third party cookies

-) automatically delete all cookies after shutdown

-) don't use sync programs/functions

-) store data online only strongly encrypted

The reason why i have 2 browsers is, that when i visit an unknown site with lots of multimedia content and when i don't want to be bothered with looking for what script does what (to activate some video embedded on the site for example), then i can just copy it into chromium and it works.

And in chromium i can constantly read e-mails or visit youtube when wanting to leave a comment, in FF i can browse privately (so simultaneously).

If you are sharing your computer with people make sure

-) passwords aren't stored

-) to delete browser/download history in general

That is all i can think of right know.

Oh and e-mail:

-) set up own e-mail server and use encryption

or

-) choose e-mail provider having servers in a country that you trust and that maybe has an encryption feature (for example: Hushmail, located in Canada, free encryption - known to cooperate with us authorities though)

-> if you don't mind paying, CounterMail probably is interesting for you

https://countermail.com/

Update:

Of course, in these days many users just give their information away for free. They react with false assumptions about being tracked (most companies think it is service to their customers - people aren't bothered so much with ads that fit their needs). So if you use facebook and use it to chat with people, you update your status, have many apps on a smartphone and just click on "agree" everytime without being concerned, then you shouldn't be too concerned about being tracked by Google either. Then you are just a hypocrite.
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though not in the Americas, Australia, or the Far East.

Does anyone know why some East Asians (such as myself) are lactose tolerant? Is that evidence of interbreeding in the past?
Cute riddle: Four kids holding one toy balloon
In comparison to other yachts (E.g. http://list25.com/25-most-expensive-yachts-ever-built/) "Venus" looks pretty minimalist to me.
Or...maybe they got paid as usual and enjoyed working on an very interesting and challenging project.
Even the proper use of the nipple has to be learned - if you start a baby on a bottle it often won't use the nipple correctly:
http://www.askdrsears.com/?q=topics/breastfeeding/common-pro...
Isaacson spoke with Jobs about it and it's detailed in his biography.
This is amazing. One thing that would be nice to be noted on this that isn't: 1920 was when Congress began its 435 person cap on the house. Gerrymandering begins.
> Interesting idea, and I'd like to hear more of this idea!

I managed to dig up one of the examples: IBM's History Flow. I believe it was in a course in Cognitive Science that I was taking back in 2004 where I first heard of this research.

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/papers/history_flow.pdf

I feel like there was something similar that was much lighter-weight (as in, not so "large") that I had seen presented at one point, but I had a hard time finding even this one. :(
There are two other major reasons they'll have gone for the lower resolution:

1) Power consumption - the retina display drains a lot of power (and handling the higher resolution requires a better processor which contributes further). This means a bigger battery, which means a larger and heavier device which kind of goes against the point of the iPad mini.

2) Price - It seems that one of Apple's key business goals with the iPad mini is to bring the lowest entry point of the iPad down. Retina displays a going add cost which means Apple would have to go in at a higher price point - kind of undermining the whole thing.

Apple have optimised for size and price and while I'm sure they'd have loved to have a retina display on the iPad mini, the trade offs they've made are consistent with the aims they have.
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How was scrolling on the first iPhone smoother than on current android devices running on said quad core chips?

This explains your in-depth knowledge of what processors and their comparisons really mean.

Thank you
This is cool! On mobile safari, it just crashes. On every device for me. It just halts. Anyone else seen this?
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Has anybody used this service? I've got something I can throw down tonight if I can get a recommendation...
So you're saying that it's an aesthetically pleasing piece of work that while functional isn't the absolute best you can get? Sounds like Apple products to me. (I wonder if this'll kick off a big yacht buying trend?)
Also in the UK, have been working in development/consultancy since I was 17 (and now 32) so have been around a bit :)

Personal advice, go for it - there's no harm in applying and interviewing at other positions (I've never quit a job before looking for another, I've always had another job lined up first), if you get an offer you then have a decision to make - when you hand your notice in, depending on the company etc. they may make a counter-offer to keep you - don't depend on them making it (ie make sure you have a concrete offer/signed offer letter before handing your notice in) but you need to decide if there's any counter-offer they can make that will make you happy to stay.

Personally, I've never taken a counter-offer (there's a reason I'm leaving, and an offer made when I say I want to leave isn't going to work out long-term) but if they offer to bring your wage in-line with your colleagues make sure it's in writing, along with anything else you want (ie additional training courses/certifications with a time-frame for that to be actioned in)

And no, your boss can't fire you for looking elsewhere - depending on how comfortable with your boss you are, it might be worth bringing it up before you look ("hey, just to let you know I'm unhappy about x, y and z, is there anything the company can do for me, otherwise I'm unfortunately going to have to look at other options available to me")
The font also matches the strings: type "file" in this font, and you get the "file" icon (etc). Try to copy & paste some of the icons on the page, or look at the source.

Clever, but I don't know if I consider that a good idea.
Do you think soft receipt can gradually replace hard receipt?
The one where I try and explain Surface RT vs. Pro
I'm pretty sure they've included side views in their main product galleries before.

I've looked at the previous lines, but I was surprised (and entirely lost interest in the product when it was clear they weren't willing to present it honestly) when this gallery was so misleadingly shot.

Steve Would Never Have Let It Happen®.

Seriously, their main selling point is "it's so thin" and they won't even show us how thin it is? That's not clever marketing, that's idiotic.
At first place, I thought you are Apple representative. Why are you so aggressive?

These are the marketing tactics and do you thing Apple have never done this before?
Yet another article about the adventurous kind of retirement. Is it me, or do all personal finances magazines seem to have one of those these days?
I'm sure it can play an HD movie if that's the file you have, just the screen resolution is such that it won't appear as HD to your eyes.

But this post is a wonderful example of the sort of doubt Amazon will be very happy to have spread as a result of the ads.
However, the techniques described in this blog are not technical and hence malware authors these days do not need technical skills to hide their creations from automated threat analysis systems. Furthermore, they are always researching and testing new ideas in order to fool automated threat analysis systems.

Let's see: the malware ecosystem has democratized the creation of malware: you don't need technical skills. The malware ecosystem is a totally free market where you don't need permission to try some variant.

The "A-V" industry, on the other hand, is pretty much top-down. Secretive, guild-like, announcing its verdicts from a position of absolute authority, marginalizing any non-approved research and discriminating against newcomers.

No surpise who's winning that race.
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I'm holding out for the pro version so i can use it for development purposes.
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So Amazon is just saying that 720p is not HD enough? They have decided to define HD as high-dpi screens only all of a sudden? I guess it goes with their branding, but yeah, totally misleading.
Thanks a lot, that's a fantastic response!

I really like my boss and it's a great company to work for, but the money is really a kicker. I'm not a greedy kind of person, I actually live a very modest lifestyle, but there are certain things a person who works full time in a skilled role should have, more than a single pair of shoes is an example.
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They're probably using 1080P as the definition of HD.

The last time I looked at buying a movie in iTunes, the max resolution they sold was 720P.
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You know, your whole post coud be rewritten as:

A lot of what you have written here is quite subjective, and in fact you could mount a case that Apple's marketing team do the same sort if things as has been demonstrated by Amazon.

There is no need to flame the original poster. Please reconsider whether the last three sentences were necessary to contribute to the conversation here at HN. In my opinion, they were needlessly inflammatory.
Just want to add that this is one of my biggest gripes with the iPad. I have to position things behind my iPad to hear things sometimes. It's by far the worst part of the iPad.
Ask HN: Who is using Mozilla's Persona?
From the website - http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ ... "At Mozilla, we believe that your online identity should belong exclusively to you. With that in mind, we created Persona to improve the way you sign in to websites."

What I would like to know is... who is using Persona, and if you aren't using it - why? It seems like the smoothest least disruptive login/authorization service I've seen so far. If you don't know what Persona is, I suggest you check out the website. It just takes a few lines of code and markup to add Persona to your website. So why isn't this gaining more traction? It makes more sense than Github, FB, Google, Twitter, etc... auth offerings. Your thoughts?
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No; please read what I wrote again.
Searching using cross correlation is effectively the same as searching using the euclidean distance metric I think, for which also they have a fast implementation.

DTW, however, can answer more interesting questions. For example, if you have two performances of a song captured in MIDI, the timing of each note played can vary a little, tempo can fluctuate and sometimes extra notes can also be introduced. DTW can help find the best mapping between two such performances.
What is that Gun/NoGun problem mentioned here http://alumni.cs.ucr.edu/~lexiangy/Shapelet/kdd2009shapelet.... ?
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For a start, repeal 17 USC 602 (a) 1.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap6.html

Then go about repealing other laws that allow companies to slice and dice their markets in this way at the expense of their customers.
“we already have nearly unlimited computing power at our disposal”
I have to disagree. To tackle hard problems I would be glad to have a billion times more computational power.
We are doing semantic processing of texts. For one customer we have a million texts, and processing one takes about one second. To have the computer automatically generate rules (Genetic Programming) we would like to have this:
the computer generates a rule, processes the million texts, and checks if that rule improved the overall understanding. Currently one million processing seconds are required.
But if we could do this on one million cores, we could generate one rule per second. The thing is: an evolutionary system will generate millions and millions of rules. So, even if we had a million times more computational power, it would still require several months to finish a run. Renting such capacity from Amazon & Co. would cost easily 5-10 millions.
With a billion times more computational power however this would fall in the range of perhaps a few thousand dollars.

Also, it would be useful, if mobile phones would feature such a computational power, so that strong AI software with above human intelligence could run on it. Such software could technically run on a C64 if enough memory were available, but answers would take quite a long time.

So, I really hope that we will see maaany trillion times more computational power in this century.
"I’d be humbled if you followed me on Twitter."

Insta-followed. Can we please make THIS be the typical tagline at the end of every article instead of the aggressive "you should follow me"?
> How do you attain the skills required to do this while not also learning not to?

Upvoted for being one of the greatest ways I've ever seen to put what is a VERY common problem. I will quote this mercilessly in the future, if I may. Thanks.
Quit my job in December and been running my own business from the road since. Been to Dominican Republic, Jordan, did a 2 month road trip around the states and visited a few other places.

The great parts are flexibility, ability to travel, and low costs.

The much more difficult parts tend to be socially-focused rather than business-related.
US detention of Imran Khan part of trend to harass anti-drone advocates
If (b) and (c) can be considered derivative works, then should a low-bit hash of (a) not also be considered a derivative? If a given hashing algorithm says the hash of Metallica's latest hit is 42, have I just broken the law by posting this?
Paradoxically giving a cheap gift often makes you appear stingier than giving no gift.
It's an excellent idea, because if the font fails to load you get an actual human-readable fallback, instead of "whatever some random other font put in the PUA". For example, whenever I visit GitHub I find the interface decorated with random Korean glyphs and 7-segment-LCD symbols, which is somewhat distracting and confusing. With a ligature system like this, I'd see things like "file" and "folder" which at least make sense.
You're overthinking it. Amazon is basically saying the iPad Mini is underpowered and more expensive. Yeah, what else is new? If Apple competed on tech specs and price, they wouldn't have sold a single Mac in the last 15 years. Price and specs is not why people will be buying the mini.
"our culture, especially our technology, is too heavily skewed towards consumption over creation" - This really cuts it to the core!
Incidentally 86% of Dutch people speak English, from my experience that is higher in coastal / docklands areas. Also an iPod shuffle is $49. I thought it was a nice gesture.
> The price difference goes to cover things like research, writing, and other fixed costs that exist no matter how many marginal copies are sold.

The price difference is market arbitrage designed to suck the largest profit out of a market. Pointing out research, or writing, or anything else, ignores the reality that if the production cost warrants a sale price of $x, charging $x * 5 or in some cases $x * 100 and using legal protections to do so is inherently greedy and immoral.

> Students in poor countries just get further screwed.

That's fine, as long as there's a more level playing field.
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I'd think the big problem would be this sort of stuff: finding places willing to let medium-term to tourists.

Have you had any issues? Do you pay cash up front rather than arrears?
>Why such a great support to Apple even when it is so evident that the mini iPad is a first generation product?

It's not really a first gen product. It's an iPad with the same aspect ratio, but a smaller screen.
An upvote says "I find this interesting", but you're only speaking for yourself. If you deem something "toxic" to the community, it implies you know what's best for everyone involved.
Getting really tired of how internet news is acting like mob vigilante justice is a good thing.
Cool! Well done, played the single player version and it ran well.
I'd be interested in hearing alternative takes on retirement in general.

It'd be interesting to see if the idea of "retirement" gets disrupted and the economy moves from a primarily labor intensive (and physical ability oriented) to knowledge intensive (and mental ability oriented).

We're already seeing people work longer, but I wonder if the notion of retiring will go away or if people will keep working as long as they can keep thinking clearly & feel they can create something of value.
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>A curious thought: are false-flag operations even possible with Anonymous, which is a label anyone can take, not an organisation?

Meh. Ultimately Anonymous does describe a particular cluster of people and behaviours, however loosely affiliated - and rightly or wrongly, they do have a reputation to discredit. When one incident is an outlier both in terms of action and (alleged) perpetrators, I think it's fair to call it a false-flag operation.

>hacking to troll and upset some group of people is certainly within the usual motivations of Anonymous activity.

Absolutely, but hacking to cause actual physical injury is far less so IME.
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Mob vigilante acts are not excusable. Not even if you dislike Pincus.
As far as the "Ultra-fast MIMO Wi-Fi", iPad Mini has that too. (I can only assuming they're referring to 802.11n)
I know it's too much to ask, but I would love for them to not collect data at all. In my offline life I don't have a central authority suggesting businesses to like or informing me of what's going on in my friend's life. I'm sure people could manage without this in an online life.
It's not the only symbol font that does this, and I like it - it provides a decent fallback if the font fails to load or isn't supported in your browser, and the symbols will be readable to screen readers.
Or you made an incredibly stupid leap of logic and forgot to consider the fact that these guys most likely are employed by a company that compensated them for their work throughout the months or years that it took to build the ship.

Think of it like you bringing out food and drinks for construction workers fixing your roof.
They are offering an SDK. Can't wait to hook it onto our CI.
I thought the tone of georgespencer's post was perfectly reasonable. Your post represents a tonal shift into the negative.

Please people, let's not turn HN into MacRumors forums (shudder)
> Where were you during Apple's presentations?

This has absolutely no relevance, i hope one is still allowed to be critical of something without simultaneously pointing out all similar flaws in the universe.

> For example, if I were to counter you, I would then say the entire of Apple's presentations and Marketing is just plain BS

Except it doesn't counter anything OP said, since he didn't talk a bit about Apple marketing. Also, OP is providing a constructive analysis, which is quite better than just "this is BS"

> So may I kindly request you to cut the crap and stop the bias and avoid provoking people into such techno-wars?

You are the one using abrasive language here. I did read OP as an interresting (and opinionnated) analysis of what amazon did to make their product seem better.
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What you say may be true for consumer or even "web scale" technology, but not for high performance computing (of the science type).

In HPC, people can always use more computing power to improve their simulations or numerical solvers, and we are nowhere close to hitting a limit in usefulness (think e.g. faster/more detailed simulation of large scale structures, say airflow around aircrafts, n-body systems, simulation of bigger quantum systems in physics ...).
While massive parallelization is of course used wherever possible, it's sometimes more difficult to come up with algorithms that scale, and sometimes you simply have to much dependency between your data to parallelize beyound a certain point. This is the place where this stuff could be used first, before it's ready to "trickle down" to consumer electronics.
The link to the Kernalmag article has the following quote:

Channel 4 discovered sexually explicit messages on Habbo within minutes of logging on to the site. Among the messages discovered were: “Hey licky your v a g i n a. There you go darling. Sticks diick jn you. You’ve lost your virginity. Right NEXT”, “Hey do you have a webcam? You got msn or skype?.. you take off your clothes” and “I want some cute girls not gay faggots”.

So, it's like every other platform on the planet where adolescent boys hang out? I understand that there are some valid concerns regarding sexual predators in games like Habbo, but I'd bet large that 99% of this behaviour is merely preteen boys being incredibly distasteful. How do we hold Habbo responsible for that, rather than the parents who raise these monstrosities, or the parents who allow their kids to frequent Habbo unattended?
You only need one to impregnate lots of cows.

I wonder what happens to the male offspring of Cows in India?
What does your girlfriend do? Does she work remotely too?
I quite like the idea.

People complaining that there's nothing 'ligature' about the font seem to be too harsh / don't like this particular take on the subject.

"In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes are joined as a single glyph." (Wikipedia)

I consider the (ab)use of ligatures a clever term for the font, considering that it _does_ something related (replacing the text 'file' with a file icon/symbol).

I also actually prefer the idea of having actual, meaningful words (which I consider accessible and memorable, much more than any abbreviation) in the source.

No idea if this is useful in the wild, but the hack is clever and interesting. Why shoot it down?
My experience shopping on Amazon - a bit like browsing in a vast, chaotic and disorganized third-world marketplace - is not one I'd like extended to my computing platform.

Amazon and others can tout narrow features as much as they want, but I still prefer the better-managed end-to-end experience Apple provides in their ecosystems.
Calling it vigilante justice is giving it too much credit.