skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony of this article appearing on Business Insider, a site which won't work if you try to load it with Ghostery or AdBlock enabled, is rather piquant.

EDIT: Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but the only way I can get an article to show up on this site is to disable all plugins, and load it in an incognito window. Up-to-date Chrome on up-to-date Lion.
For me, the only issue with AirBnB is that they want me to upload a picture of my passport. I don't care who's on the other end, you're not getting a picture of my passport.

Because of this requirement I had to cancel my nice apartment reservation in Boston only to stay in a far more expensive hotel. But at least they didn't keep a picture of my passport on file.
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Hey HN: Stephen from Lambda Labs here. Here's the link to the github repo if anybody wants to port this to something other than OS X. Ideally it would implement PTP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol) instead of using `adb pull`.

https://github.com/lambdal/LambdaBackup
How many sites block you for using adblock?

Yeah, that is likely the same number of issues you will have with no third-party cookies.
What do you mean start? All of those methods are already being used. Regular cookies are so five-years-ago.
I prefer the good old top menu rather than the new one on the right side.
I do not have, nor possess non-public knowledge about, unpublished vulnerabilities in Rails 2.3. I am just saying that my confidence in there existing one in the near term is "near total."
Digital Analytics Is Not Surveillance
Which summary you find more emotionally charged probably depends on your existing opinion, and how often you consume mainstream news. To me CNN's wording (and, for that matter, all TV news reports) feels like a stream of verbal knives, each word chosen to induce anxiety and put the viewer/reader on edge. Regardless of their veracity, "aggressive" is an apt description of their tone, and it's not limited to just this story.
I do think there's something to the argument that any reasonable implementation of "Do Not Track" would just further entrench the companies who already have large consumer traffic (Google, Facebook, et al), by virtue of the substantial privileging of first-party cookies over third-party cookies at that point.

Now, you could argue, this is desirable -- after all, companies with large consumer brands have much more at risk in terms of doing unethical things with data (yes, I'm aware of the irony of saying that after the PRISM issue, but I think that only affirms my point). At the same time, does Google/FB/etc need any more help in dominating advertising than they already do?
Just other day, I spent 30 secs (or more) looking for the repo URL on Bitbucket.

Then I thought how awesome GitHub was and it really understood users. It always had the big repo url on front and top where one can never miss it.

In this new design, GitHub has pushed it on to bottom right and reduced the input size. Bad Decision IMHO.
> Job #1 for a national government is national security, and governments inherently have the power to intrude upon privately operated companies.

I would say that job #1 of a government is establishing and enforcing domestic property rights (to allow an economy to function); and job #2 is building public-good infrastructure like roads.

"National security" is job #1 of an organism interested in its own survival--but there's no reason a government needs to be such a thing; the only reason I can see for it is the precedent set by monarchies, where each current king wants the government to persist in its current form so that they themselves will stay in control of it. A government could run a country perfectly capably while leaving itself undefended from being "eaten" by a foreign government (or populist coup) at any time.
Why? Because people won't write null checks some of the time even if they need to. Of course, this solution to that problem introduces a bunch of other problems that you've pointed out, and it would be much better for one's sanity to just use an option/maybe.
Property tax makes sense, yeah.

If that happens my new home is going to have to figure out their property tax situation, though (NH property tax is one of the highest)
Everybody Wants Something From You, What Do You Want?
Dell don't buy intel. They resell intel so it is all the same for them.

They will gladly resell whatever someone decides to buy. But every time there is a new chip on the market the big cloud operators and big end clients for intel chips take calculators and begin to evaluate very carefully.

Also intel are not evil. They just milk their customers.
That's the stuff History is made. I'm not American, don't think that it even matters at this point, but I'm printing a picture of the guy to stick it where everybody can see what a great thing a decent human being can be.
http://commafeed.com is the Reader replacement I've chosen. I also like http://inoreader.com.
There has been some talk that the reason Chrome stopped gaining share against IE and Firefox was because of the do-not-track situation. IE9 had it and then turned it back off by default, Firefox was the first to implement it and it is considering making it the default.

This is what I predict will happen, should Mozilla begin shipping with it turned on by default.

Advertisers will modify their contracts such that they pay $x if tracking is enabled on the browser and $y if it is not. $y will be much less than $x, perhaps 1/10th the amount because the Advertiser will argue it is harder to detect and prevent fraud without the tracking cookies.

Web sites will then these do not track (DNT) sessions as "low value" sessions and will either refuse to display content, or force some difficult to subvert captcha movie watching thing with survey in order to establish the low fraud barrier and get the 'good' price for ads.

The result will be that 'free' web sites will become even more obnoxious and subscription sites where they actually reduce or eliminate the advertisements altogether will become more practical.
You may have some incorrect boolean logic somewhere then, I'd check that out first. Do you have any system tests for these lights?
Here is an example of a website that uses something like this: http://internationalartsmegacrew.com/controltower/

I can't even read it

--shudder--

I can't speak to the quality of code in this library, but PLEASE don't use things like it. This is the equivalent of text that follows your cursor around, or midi music playing in the background, or animated "under construction" gifs.

It's horrible, and it does not make you look like a "professional" when you use it.
Introduction to Common Crawl
Cool, but the modal is huge. Being mostly a noob at this kind of stuff, I assume that's outside of the scope of the library?
Not many now, but if websites start feeling the squeeze from ad revenue, it will become more common (see Hulu making commercials 2-3x as long if Adblock is enabled).

It's also an unfair comparison because Adblock is opt-in -- you have to download the add-on to get it to work, which not many people are willing to do (what percentage of Firefox users use AdBlock -- maybe 5%?). DNT, on the other hand, is something all Firefox users will have enabled by default -- Imagine 20% of the worldwide browsing market suddenly blocking all tracking cookies.
> Using icons looks nice and allows for slimmer navigation but it decreases ease of use for me. I can find things much quicker with text labels.

I believe studies have repeatedly shown that users can find things with icons faster than text labels. Icons are less discoverable than text, but once you know what you're looking for, icons are faster.
This is easy to forget in the abstract, but never in actual practice (Aaron Schwartz for sure, but probably a vast majority who've encountered the US court system in any non-trivial way).

It is, in my mind, akin to spending / political contributions in politics. Money has an essential role to play but should not be allowed to corrupt the process.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Three branches of government. We hold these truths ...
It occurs to me that for about the same price you could reserve a private room in a hostel in many of these areas. Sure it lacks the charm of someone's apartment, but it also has the legal and cultural support that Airbnb is missing.
It's sad, I'm a product designer myself, but labels always win: http://bokardo.com/archives/labels-always-win/
Hi there! I'm Marissa, cofounder of Co-Ed Supply. Thanks for checking us out! We are going to ship a box every month with stuff in each of three categories: healthy snacks, personal care items, and entertainment.

If you want some examples, check out the types of stuff we shipped during our soft launch last fall. http://blog.coedsupply.com/tagged/boxpreview

Happy to answer any other questions!
Create a Twilio/node.js SMS translation service with local voice dictation
http://feedity.com/reader
Because once it's possible for an object to be null defensive programming means that you need to check damned near everywhere. After every method call, for example. And that's very, very cumbersome to maintain and very non-DRY.
I've tried this out and it is dramatically better then other alternatives, full screen-sharing suffers from latency issues (screenhero, logmein, etc...) and sharing an ssh session is a pain to get setup (e.g. wemux). I highly recommend it.
No, that would not cut the length in half, or anything close to it.

One form of "minimal encoding" you're describing would be to use arithmetic coding where the predictor simply assigns equal probability to each symbol actually used in the input. For example, if you encode a 1000 letter message which includes at least one instance of every letter (both upper and lower case), then you'd have 52 symbols, and your simple prediction step would simply assign 1/52 as the probability for each symbol. This will result in a constant 5.7 bits of output per symbol. So your 1000 letter message would encode at 5700 bits.

Now, suppose you discard capitalization. Now there are 26 symbols, each assigned a probability of 1/26, resulting in a constant 4.7 bits per symbol. Your 1000 letter message will now encode at 4700 bits. So you only save about 17% in this very generously constructed case.

The mistake you've made is to assume that cutting the number of symbols in half will cut the symbol length in half. In fact, reducing the number of symbols by half merely reduces the symbol length by a single bit. For example, you need 8 bits to specify between 256 possibilities, but if you cut the possibilities down to 128, you still need 7 bits.

In addition, lossy compression is usually combined with lossless compression, and a smart predictor could use context to reduce the cost of capital letters to much less than one bit per symbol (assuming that the text has a predictable structure, like human language).
Why would you be left stranded if this AirBnB booking fell through? Unless you had absolutely no money, what's to stop you booking a cheap hotel or hostel for the night?

I've never used AirBnB and have no real plans to. However, I have traveled around Europe extensively, and some of the best times were when I simply arrived somewhere and then attempted to find accommodation.

I rode my motorcycle from London to Spain, toured for two weeks and never booked a single hotel in advance (my GPS packed it in on the second day too, so I played with paper maps). Only once was the first hotel I entered unable to find me a room.

I traveled around Sicily on public transport, mostly buses, a few trains and ferries. Again, I never booked accommodation in advance, always found somewhere and was never stranded.
Show HN: Weekend project - RottenTomatoes and D3js
I think he's doing a ridiculously good job for an individual taking on the largest military intelligence organization in the world without lawyers or paid political consultants.

I'm not sure how you would expect him to conduct this disclosure without the "act of flight" or "becoming a focal point of the story".
Contest of Words: High school debate and the demise of public speech
OK, I see where you are going. Using crypto and web-of-trust as an identity system is really using it as a reputation system. I would point out, however, that the cryptographic identity is not a "hard and fast identity", at least not in a way that's useful. As you point out, I've met Bob, I trust Bob and Bob's an old friend. I know Bob's cryptographic identity, but I also know that identity could be compromised at any time. However, if I know Bob I'm much more likely to realize that.

The reputation system tied to that identity could also be compromised, the difference is I'm much less likely to find out until it's too late and the potential harm to me is very high (lets say the government is operating a Silk Road honeypot). That brings us back around to the problem of identity. If I know and trust Bob then his utility is higher.

Which is the point of the "web of trust", it (sort of) builds that utility system in. I personally know Bob and know he's pretty sharp. He knows Jim and has signed Jim's key, but I don't know Jim and I'm taking Bob's word for his identity. Jim knows someone as well and has signed their key, but now we're getting pretty far removed from Bob. Their utility (in this case their utility at confirming identities) is getting smaller for me. I'm less inclined to trust them.

But Bob, Bob's an old friend.

So I see where you're going, but I still think "identity" is the critical factor.
> The cleaning fees on Airbnb are listed in the final price you pay before confirming the reservation,

True, but when you browse by price they are not. I think this is the point the OP is trying to make.

They are asking if the post got prices from a final confirmation, including cleaning fees, or if they got their prices form scraping the data on their website, which wouldn't include the cleaning fees.

if its the latter then I've seen cleaning fees of $50 per stay which can close the gap considerably if your only staying for 1 or 2 nights.
I don't get it why not just use tmux?!

tmux -S /tmp/pair

chmod 777 /tmp/pair

tmux -S /tmp/pair attach
I use the github app on my smartphone, it's quite handy though I don't know that I'd what to do hardcore source browsing or editing on it.
I currently live in Manhattan and I've lived in London (Golders Green, Hampstead) and Paris (7th, 6th).

The reason why costs are rising is because of land use restrictions through zoning and building codes that regulate housing and commercial real estate density. In other words, politically induced scarcity benefiting wealthy landowners at the cost to those people wishing to buy housing, to rent an apartment, or to run a business is the cause for rising housing prices.

The answer is deregulating the politically induced scarcity of land use. The politically induced scarcity interferes with the market efficiency that would otherwise allow the housing to be more affordable.

This is a basic principle of microeconomics and was initially explained by David Ricardo when he explained that the Corn Laws that restricted the import of corn into Britain benefited landowners because it artificially increased the cost of corn thus making the cost of land more scarce and expensive.

David Ricardo felt so strongly about this that he joined Parliament to overturn the Corn Laws. Similarly the solution today is to deregulate the overly restrictive zoning and building code regulations that cause the scarcity.

Economist (and FT columnist) Tim Harford explains this in more detail in his book, "The Undercover Economist."
Mr. Snowden seems more informed than many of our politicians. (And many of our journalists as well.)
The preferred URL is the one in the browser address bar: "https://github.com/{owner}/{repo}". Works great for pushing and pulling.
So that Allies took zero casualties during WW2?
Agreed. I use Bitbucket every day, and while it's far short of 30 seconds, I do find it takes a second or two of extra scanning to notice where the repo URL is. And it's essentially on the top right, not aggressively out of the way.

Now, Github's pushing it even further out of view than Bitbucket's location.
Well, by all accounts, he's going to let the documents do the "adding new information" for him. That's smart. He's not asking us to take his word that these are happening, and he's not hanging the believability of these charges on his honor, which is already being smeared across the media far and wide.

He's answering questions as to why, not what, which is great, since it gives people a more balanced view of who the man is behind these things, and serves as a counterbalance to the "omg high school dropout with a stripper girlfriend" smear stories that have been plastered all over the news lately.
Hey there! As the cofounder of Co-Ed Supply, I just wanted to respond to your question. We're targeting both parents (or indulgent grandparents) and students in different ways.

There's obviously a market for parents to send care packages to make sure their kids are being taken care of while they're in school. On the other hand, we're curating the college essentials in our boxes to be the latest new and cool brands, so we want it to something that college students want to buy for themselves as well. At $20 a box, it's a great deal and affordable for both!
fyi, the default view is blurry because of how the camera is focused. To sharpen the view in camera settings increase the focal length of the lens.

Awesome demo, btw.
Because you need to open some port on your router, create an SSH account, and let your friend connect to your machine. That's a pain point.
I hope Digg Reader will be simple and usable product, because there aren't many quality replacements for Google Reader. I have to say that I transitioned successfully from Reader to Gwene (RSS/Atom to Usenet News gateway) so I can read articles in any Usenet reader (I use new Opera Mail). Unfortunately AFAIK Gwene doesn't support import from Google Reader, but that shouldn't become an obstacle for people with modest amount of subscriptions.
Dear Aaron, you've probably heard about the Neuralstem and their NSI-566 product which is still in the trial phase. But in case you haven't here is the info:
http://www.neuralstem.com/cell-therapy-for-als
Yup. Oz follows the concurrent constraint paradigm developed by Saraswat. His "cc"-family of languages inspires a lot of this kind of development. His doctoral thesis was published:
http://books.google.com/books/about/Concurrent_constraint_pr...

The first time I understood this fairly ubiquitous kernel-like language was from his papers, which I think spell it out more clearly than the usual lambda-calculus papers do. I do wish that more languages took after this style as the existing ones rarely take advantage of the quality that you can get from complex compilation analysis. I have not, for example, found one that is not dynamic, although many of them tend to be little more than a prettier and slower Erlang or, for the really good ones, a prettier, slower and less-safe Esterel. Instead, they are more Lisp-like, which is also technically declarative but are far harder to reason about temporally and therefore more complex to write and optimize.
1985 bombing in Philadelphia still unsettled
That's because we're a small minority and usually convert poorly anyway, so the industry could care less.

Block third-party cookies for everybody, and the ad industry suddenly starts to care. The perennial pitches for first-party tracking and first-party ad-serving products get funded this time around, and eventually you won't be able to block ads and tracking without simultaneously blocking site content and functionality.

Having third-party cookies turned off won't cause you any problems, it's true, but that'll be because what they used to do will get done through other means.
Even if nobody listens, it still needs to be said.
"Collect everything; analyze later" is not a feasible strategy. Nobody has that kind of storage, and even if they did, nobody has the CPUs to ingest the stream. I think it goes without saying that you need a Google-scale computer to ingest Google-scale network traffic, and that's just one of the companies in question, on top of all the public transit bandwidth. Nobody has presented any evidence that the NSA has computing facilities on that scale. The only one we know of is not yet built, and way too small.

I think it is completely feasible that the NSA would or does collect all or a great deal of voice traffic, because that's a tiny piece of network traffic these days.
It's probably just sizing the modal to your browser window by default, and you can override/adjust it in the CSS when you're styling it for your needs anyways.
http://www.noowit.com/pbeta, a personalized rss reader and more.
Ray tracing is the way forward.
Dirty. Immigrants are supposed to be dirty.
New evidence on juvenile incarceration and future crime
From the video it looks like this works via SSH as well so you will still need to "create an SSH account, and let your friend connect to your machine"
Maybe he doesn't know how every server is configured. Why would he be expected to?

If one data feed uses a fiber tap and another uses a daily sftp transfer, does it really matter if some/most/all of Americans' communications is ending up in a database to be queried by analysts today and god-knows-who 30 years from now?
This is tmux with the headache of sharing an ssh session solved.
The initial flip isn't animating correctly every time in Firefox. Half the time it flips over too quickly to see any animation. Flipping back to the original content looks alright though.
Lemme get out the `FUEL' moleskin, ....ah,yes:

Mitch McConnell
James Baker
Dick Cheney
Bush POTUS'
Feinstein
Peter King

Got it. thank you.
Interactive Online Textbook: World of Mathematics
6 Tips for Negotiating Effectively
Given all the security problems with rails lately would you still recommend rails for a green field project?
The more alarming piece of the article is this:

"The move might also invite legislation from Congress."

So ... presumably a govt body would define what a web browser is, then define what tracking is, and then ... what ? Legislate browser code ?

Would wget need defaults built in for the code that comes over ? What if I 'nc' to port 80 and redirect to a file ?

What is a "web browser" anyway ? What constitutes consumption of tracking codes ? Are there punishments involved ? Is the curl library at fault if it is misused in this government mandated way ?

Terrible, depressing, and predictable.
Business Insider works fine with 3rd party cookies disabled.

(Edit: Chrome on a mac, no plugins. I've enabled 'Block 3rd party cookies and site data' and Click to play for flash)
They have done that on a lot of routes in France.
This is a great iteration after receiving plenty of useful feedback on the last post (mine included) ... especially on the home page. Keep up the good work