skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So all that paranoia about being tracked by Google... wasn't paranoid at all.

Yes, I know Google likely didn't cooperate in this, but they built a giant tracking engine, so it's not surprising to see it repurposed.
I have a select few sites whitelisted, but they're disabled by default.

Also, I'm on Iceweasel/ Firefox instead of Chrome. It's probably nothing to worry about, but you can never be too careful these days.
Have you ever read a thread about gender issues? It's worse.

Side note: I appreciate the concern over whether this is exploitative. It doesn't make me mad. If you've read the stories, it hasn't been at ALL or even close, but the concern is fine.
A "rescue" bit my daughter in the face and very nearly destroyed her eye. I'll stick with pets of known social and medical histories, thank you very much. BTW: having a car meant I could race her to medical help without having to wait for public transportation (aka ambulance).
There's been talk about a Messenger for Twitter, we decided to build one, and think this is how it could eventually look.

Just today Twitter announced photos on DMs so we've got work to do. Feel free to get in touch inbox@cris.mx
Treaties must be ratified by the Senate (with no involvement of the House), and executive agreements (which are more limited) may be entered into by the President alone.

In both cases, the involvement of Congress is far more limited than for domestic legislation. Domestic law is the product of a "single, finely wrought and exhaustively considered, procedure" (Clinton v. City of New York) which is presentment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentment_Clause. Bills are introduced in Congress, and must be passed in identical form by both the House and the Senate, and then the President must approve.

Presentment makes legislation a very public spectacle. Bills get publicity when they are introduced in one or the other house. The back and forth and amendments are done in public. The reconciliation between the House and Senate versions are done in public. The President's approval and signature is a public act. There is time to lobby, there is time to contact Congresspeople, there is time to research and develop counterarguments and alternative proposals.

The treaty process short-circuits all that. The treaty is negotiated in secret. By the time the Senate is given a treaty to ratify, the language is more or less final and there is no time to build up opposition.
that gave me a chuckle. good luck with passing judgment on what you think is "okay" and "not okay" to say on people in real life.
Good point. We'll definitely keep an eye on this.

One of Heap's most important value props is retroactive analysis. You forgot to define an event upfront? No problem - it's available for you to analyze across your app's entire history.

A 60-day free trial helps our users make better use of retroactive analysis than, say, a 30-day free trial. The longer you accumulate data via Heap, the more viscerally you understand this need.
I've got addicts and alcoholics in my family. My cousin died from overdose. I've got close friends who killed themselves with drink. Lots of you do too.

Exciting times? IMHO, the last thing we should celebrate is new ways to get a buzz on.

There should be more discussion about how to minimize the incredible damage caused by drugs and alcohol.
There are books, both fiction and less so, and then what really happens.

The reasons acquiescence seems an acceptable behavior are:

1. Most people are rarely inconvenienced by arbitrary overkill. It is persons deemed "undesirable" (appearance or manner) that are subjected to disportionate punishment on a routine basis that makes the overkill seem acceptable to them. It is often shocking to learn what people have been forced to endure.

2. There is a modern concept that the government is the only legitimate holder of the absolute monopoly of violence, which necessitates compliant "good" people, which should be helpless and defenseless. This also requires justifying one's business and unlimited access to search physical person, property and digital life, so as to have "nothing to hide." But it's only the fool that hands over the keys to their own destruction by persecution by a voluminous and arbitrary legal bureaucracy.

3. The majority and privileged agree by consent through silence to the ends that the police are "correctly flushing society" of those they deem "undesirable." In their view: "If that's you, too bad (overkill is legitimized, and you're not important so it doesn't matter what we do to you anyhow).
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> 2) "A vector v⃗ ∈ R^n is an array of n real numbers" - In general vectors are not arrays of numbers, real or otherwise. This kind of definition will run into problems when you get into Hilbert/Banach spaces.

Surely this is ok if it is parsed as "(a vector in R^n) is an array of n real numbers".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor'...
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Ha, and I though I've seen everything about Carmack ... great footage, thanks!
lol, none of this matters. the terms are, what the terms are, you can just try to get more shares and more $.
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Not everyone uses cannabis to get their "buzz on".
Huh? Come to India. You won't have too much trouble finding government-run or government-authorized cannabis (bhang [1]) shops.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhang
There are two primary issues here: the prevalence of Google Analytics and the unencrypted nature of the majority of websites.

Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own partial results from a research project I'm doing using Common Crawl estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them[2].

That means that you're basically either on a site that has Google Analytics or you've likely just left one that did.

If the page you're on has Google Analytics and isn't encrypted, the Javascript request and response is in the clear. That JS request to GA also has your referrer in it, in the clear.

The aim of my research project is to end with understanding what proportion of links either start or end in a page with Google Analytics. If it starts with Google Analytics, your present "location" is known. If the link ends with Google Analytics, but doesn't start with it, then when you reach that end page, the referrer sent to GA in the clear will state where you came from.
All of this is then tied to your identity.

If people are interested when I get the results of my research, ping me. I'll also write it up and submit it to HN as it would seem to be of interest.

[1]: http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics

[2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoIUmP5ma8 (GA specific results at 1:20)
Tax and regulation will account for produced cannabis far better than the current black market. No different than alcohol.

I think it's worth considering that legalization is the ethical choice. Irrational laws in neighboring countries shouldn't dictate all policy.
For a second I misread you as saying Discipline and Punish 'has embedded technological controls...'

Which, depressingly, might be true. :P
How are you going about getting the deals / codes etc into your system?
Far more people die from overeating, where's that crusade?
Except prohibition was a constitutional amendment, and the Supremecy Clause of said Constitution says that an amendment take precedence over any state (or federal) law.

Drug prohibition laws are federal, but not part of the constitution. Very different, legally speaking.
I think more so than the error case (which is hopefully rare), you lose any possibility of optimistic rendering, where the user sees an immediate response (i.e. the message is added to the UI) while the server updates in the background.

The way this is set up, you must wait for an HTTP request to complete before any UI updates. I don't care how much caching you do, that will always be slower than immediate client-side update.

I really think the best way is to have both - send HTML to the client on page load, and get JSON for every subsequent request.
So your solution to the meth "epidemic" (scare quotes yours) is to... legalize meth?
Well, alcohol is a much more dangerous drug. As far as I know, there are no known fatalities from cannabis. It's also not physically addictive (unlike alcohol or nicotine).
I'd agree with you that a lot of damages are caused by alcohol, but the people need its opium, it's part of living, we have enough rules and laws that are stopping us from enjoying life.

Legalization and Education should be done together.
Gilbert Strang made a great series of lectures on the big ideas of calculus sans most of the computation - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBE9407EA64E2C318
Atlantan also.

>> happy spending $33/day to commute

Just curious, how do you factor in an hour+ of commuting per day? For me, that seems like it would far outweigh the costs of moving further away from the office. Time away from kids, time not working/sleeping, etc. Money can be earned or received in investments, but Founder time is a finite resource at the business. Obviously if you're married with kids there are a lot of factors that determine living situation, but in isolation it seems like a false economy.

It seems like just multiplying by your effective comp rate would make this commute far more expensive than living closer. For instance, if you bill at $100/hr, you've just told me your commute costs a minimum of $133/day (~$2,660/mo) [at $150/hr, that's $3,660/mo, etc.]. This should easily cover the price delta between e.g. midtown and 30 miles out. And that's before factoring in the other benefits that come along with not spending that much time on the road every day.

I can't make the math work, I'm wondering how others justify it.
Why not a Watsi for those without homes instead?
Disagree. The US bases all of it's drug laws after the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (Which arguably was US engineered)[1]. So the federal government has an international treaty obligation to create and enforce drug laws.

This is the major distinction between Cannabis prohibition and Alcohol prohibition. The latter could be turned off by the US government, the former requires snubbing the UN. There is always the unilateral option but the US wouldn't do that in this case because it would open the gates for every other country and the political interests are way too strong.

Basically for the US to formally "legalize it" the rest of the world would have to as well, which is why Argentina and Uruguay are great examples of leadership when it comes to the Drug war; they are both UN members and implied signatories to the treaty.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Convention_on_Narcotic_D...
"I know Google likely didn't cooperate in this"

I'm sure they have plausible deniability.
Don't even need cookies if you have JS enabled (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/05/every-browser-unique-r...) Without JS and with HTTP headers alone, you might be able to reduce entropy by using Geo-IP.
> we live in the two-dimensional space, which contains just enough information

I would change "just enough information" to "much more than enough". If it was just enough, then the universe would be an enormous black hole. Note that I'm not an expert, and I could be wrong, but this is my interpretation.
Unicorns are GMOs and would never be permitted in the same city as rainbow baths.
Har har. I work in finance.
Yeah, I did a 301 permanent redirect (the redirect is still there too), redirecting each page to the correct corresponding page on the new domain. I also told Google about the redirect through the webmaster's console.

I am ranking for terms like 'pizza codes', but I'm assuming that's due to my domain name (and the traffic from this is considerably less than I used to receive). I've pretty much just accepted the loss of organic Google traffic, and the site's doing pretty well without out it.

If anyone has experience with this, and has any ideas, I'd be eternally grateful. I spent a considerable amount of time looking trying to figure out what was wrong with no success.
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TL;DR

They are going to tear down Turner Field and do a large infill development project. Turner Field sits on one of the larger contiguous single-owner plots in the city.
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Not at all, why would you think that? I'm arguing that learning how to code while living on the street is going to require a spectacular amount of motivation, and only a certain percent of people will be able to pull it off (not sure I could).

Since $100 has a higher marginal utility for a desperately poor homeless person than most people with adequate shelter, the fact that someone turns it down shows an uncommon amount of motivation.

But really, if you're going from what I said to "root causes of homelessness", I can't help but feel you're just looking to pick an argument.
Side-effect free functions work great for algorithms which can be processed in parallel. Such functions tend to indicate good software design. However, unlike parallel processing, concurrent programming by definition assumes that each process will need to share access to resources. I don't believe side-effect free functions alone will help much...
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Well - he made it easy for you because based on how he phrased it, you only had to come up with one reason cars are good. You picked some low-hanging fruit (not an ad hominem attack; your reasoning is sound). Cars are a clear solution to certain problems.

That said, I think that these reasons tend to diminish when contrasted with the downsides (not that it matters, but I do own a car, and am not just trying to shill the other side). Example: having a car also contributes to the degeneration of the city. This is a point well-illustrated in the original article. Is it worth owning a car when it is intrinsically tied to urban sprawl and the decay of cultural vibrance? Ownership comes at a cost.
The book is really good and definitely worth a read, especially for the analysis he presents in the first few chapters. The "Fishtown" vs. "Belmont" graphs are brilliant. They do a great job illustrating just how much trends in marriage vary between classes. The upper 20% still marry and divorce at the same rates they did in the 60s, but the bottom 30% has changed dramatically.

Murray also does great analysis on what he calls "SuperZIPs": the zip codes in the top 5% of combined income and education. You can see you score here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2013/11/09/washington...

It's not just neighborhoods where the elites cluster -- it's entire regions.
Luckily Bitcoin's success does not depend on the banks 'feeling comfortable' with it.
I'm waiting for the day in the near future when an article on stocks begins with "Stocks are a lot like Bitcoin..."
Donated. This is a great way to help the EFF, and even a small donation can go a long way.

You can also help the EFF non-financially at their Action Center: https://www.eff.org/action
>Bond was charged with violating chemical weapons treaties for using chemicals to kill her husband's mistress' lawn (amongst other things).

This is a little misleading. The NY Times reports that Bond placed poison on Haynes's car, mailbox, and doorknob.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/19bar.html?_r=0

I don't mean to take a position on whether the federal government can use the Chemical Weapons Conventions to prosecute someone for trying to poison another, but there's a big difference between trying to poison another person, and trying to poison their lawn.
well, programmers and sysadmins are about the same level as janitors, or plumbers, or any other kind of laborer. not sure why you're upset at this.
Don't look at the prerequisites and dig right in. I don't think you'll have any problems. Linear Algebra is something that kinda stand on its own.

> this is what my whole Dependency chain looks like

You should not think like that when learning. If you want to be efficient just take shortcuts.

Learn machine learning (btw there are great courses on coursera or Stanford about that), and if you're stuck on something just check on wikipedia or another resource.
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This is spot-on.

I worked with someone who helped develop AJAX interfaces before it even had the name, back when XMLHTTPRequest was brand-new, and they built a product similar to this in philosophy -- must have been around 2000.

I worked with a similar model as well on a couple apps, until finally migrating entirely to client-side rendering, and I would never go back. The complexity of server-side code having to write out client-side to update things just defeats you after a while, it's hard to keep a separation of concerns, and things start to turn into spaghetti despite your best intentions. Refactoring becomes increasingly difficult.

But most of all, it's just like you say -- you can't do error handling, or change the interface before you receive a response from the server, or deal with simultaneous requests, or probably 20 other things.

I'm honestly really surprised to see someone recommending this today. Dealing with all these huge numbers of stand-alone snippets which update certain parts of pages in certain conditions, is just an organizational nightmare.
I saw that article as well and almost posted it. Very interesting cross thoughts between the Stranger article and the Noah Smith article. Everyone agrees that there is this is happening but no one seems to know what to do about it.
We need to get to a more mature place. Yes, drugs are addictive and destructive for a meaningful % of people who use them. Let's legalize, sell, tax, educate, support, provide health facilities vs make illegal, drive up risk, create criminal activity via gangs/syndicates and put young (men) people in jail etc. I'm not thrilled for sex workers and what they go through but I'd rather have it legalized and run by the state than illegal and run by pimps.
Sorry, but you're asking a homeless guy who has just made his first app to make it free? Look, I'm all for nature, but I'm more for giving him a chance to make a good living.
My point was that, no, not all men do, so you don't get to play the "everyone does it so it's okay" rationalization card.

Well, we aren't stupid either, and I'm sure most of us didn't take it that way, so if you want to address the contextual nature of his comment then maybe do that instead of scandalizing yourself in pity for the silent nongeneralizers.
Please, Mentat.
Well, the version numbering system has no bearing on the frequency of updates

Still, I don't see the difference between 1.0/1.01/1.02 and 1.0/2.0/3.0 -- it's still "3 versions". I say version numbers are bullshit, codenames doubly so.. just make it the release date or build number and be done with it. Automate it, and let no human ever think about it again. It's just an identifier for a specific changelog entry after all, and has no meaning by itself.
What's so interesting here is that here's a government implementing this against the will of the majority of its people. That's pretty rare period/full stop. Fascinating here. True visionary bold leadership or blatant disregard for democracy.
In my opinion, browsers should block all third party website content by default. Yeah, I know, the interwebs will break if they actually did this. Well perhaps someone should come up with some kind of website quality rating which indicates that a site can be viewed withing worrying about the prying eyes of FaceBook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.
Any such site was already broken. This change at most makes that apparent to a few more people.
Looks like a notification[1] is shown. I assume "Allow" will whitelist the site. Of course this doesn't help if a trusted site is compromised, but I think C2P is better than nothing.

[1] http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/firefo...
tcpserver does not pipe input. It sets certain environmental variables, closes fd's 0 and 1 and runs another command line program. It has no quivalent to QUERY_STRING. Very different from CGI or this Websocket contraption. Much safer.

But the parent says that "most command line tools were never written to be exposed to the internet at large", and tcpserver is a command line tool that runs other command line tools, so is tcpserver OK to use for "real work" by his standards? Maybe we should use a GUI tool "written to be exposed to the internet at large"?
This (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_countr...) page says:

"Used during observance of certain Hindu rituals. Government-owned shops in holy cities like Varanasi sell cannabis in the form of bhang. Despite the high prevalent usage, the law makes it illegal to possess any form of the psychoactive. However, this law is rarely enforced and treated as a low priority across India. Further, large tracts of cannabis grow unchecked in the wild in many parts of northern and southern India in many states such as West Bengal, Tripura, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamilnadu.[56] Many states such as West Bengal, Tripura, and the North East have their own laws allowing cannabis, locally known as ganja."
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>Finally, nobody seems to be talking about Leo's homelessness and how he's going to survive a bitterly cold winter,

If everyone keeps talking about Leo and his app, he'll have more than enough money to get off the streets, assuming his homelessness wasn't caused by mental illness or addiction.
What a coincidence... I was just a few seconds ago, before taking a break to read HackerNews, investigating an issue with a Chromium blocker (https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/issues/79#), and was puzzled finding that the `pref` cookie of `.google.ca` changed every single time the tab of the page lost focus. Even went to Google privacy page to understand what this cookie did, with nothing in their statement that could explain this. Now this?
This is another example of caging the eyes to a nation when the network effects are global.

Worldwide inequality is falling, that is well documented. So the Keynesian prognostication about a life of desirable idleness based on re-investment of capital into local markets and automation was slowed because the capital found cheaper means than automation for growth.

So when you want to talk about social equality look at the impact global capitalism had on South Korea from 1950-today (as just one example).