skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visiting via Google keeps it away:

https://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fthecable.foreig...
I remember reading on HN that some US supermarket [0] could predict pregnancy based on shopping. So they would start sending baby-care products offers before the couples found about it. They ceased doing that because people found it just too creepy. Any more remembers more?

[0] a really large one, so that I recognised it's brand while never been outside Europe
If you are wearing a bullet proof vest then why should you care that you were shot?
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Oh there a lot of them. Really a lot. People often do those so that could get a visa as a student which is difficult to obtain otherwise :)
The first Facebook page I saw immediately after marking myself as "engaged" started showing me wedding related ads, and I fully expect "married" in a month will mean ads for home buying and baby clothes.

It was a nice change from "we want smart, educated Asian women to donate eggs for $10k+" though.
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" I think their still is the question of the legal risks of disclosing it, even if they are legally in the right."

Errr,the law requires they disclose it.

"and having the high level policy of 'no attorney work gets disclosed' seems like a generally safe thing to do."

Actually, many litigants have been heavily sanctioned for this kind of conduct (it used to be standard practice to cc attorneys on random shit and then claim privilege).

It's not generally safe, it's just a great way to piss off a judge.
You can get out of vaccinations in many situations with a) a doctor's express diagnosis that you should not be vaccinated or b) claiming to have a religious reason that prohibits vaccination.

These methods might not work for all universities, but I know they work for some.
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Take the oil for cheap then sell them missiles for big money.
The store was Target. The story was that a teenage girl was buying things there that was indicative of pregnancy and her father found out through the ads they sent her.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...
This is going to sound overly reductive, but I promise it's not:

1) What existing solution do you believe your product (or prospective product) is better than?

2) Where can you find a critical mass of people who use the existing solution?

3) Go there. Talk to them. Show them your product.

Now, none of this is trivial. First, because assuming you're operating lean, you start with no real clue if you're "better" than anyone or anything else, or on what dimensions that actually matter. You start with a hypothesis, and you have to seek out opinions (customer development). Second, because the existing solution might not be what you think it is. Or it might not be a product at all. It might be a behavior people are doing, or an "off-label" use of another product.

But by and large, this method works. It might not get you scale. But it'll get you in front of potential users, and those users will be primed to try out your product. The trick is in identifying the existing solution, finding people who use it, and getting some of their time.

I'd definitely advocate doing this before doing any "Show HN" posts. Show HN is a (potential) way to get a lot of traffic and attention in one blast. You don't want to play that card until you know you can benefit from it: either in terms of feedback (you'll want to have vetted out basic users and assumptions first), or in terms of users (aim for some indications of fit before firing the shotgun). The other problem with relying on Show HN, or Reddit, is that there's luck of the draw involved. Sometimes your post gets buried or washed out by the noise. Being good is no firm guarantee of charting to page one.
The assumption is that you've changed your relationship status, and that's how they know you're now single. Telling Facebook that you're single, and them using that information to present an ad for a dating website is not an abuse of private information. You've freely given a first party some information, and they've used that information to display an ad from a 3rd party. There is no abuse of privacy here.
Not yet, we are, right today, putting up price lists and descriptions. Expect all you want and need to appear through http://morphle.org and http://morphle.com before june 2014. Please come help us put up the papers/design/source code you ask for, we are swamped already. We are applying for YC, write if you want to join us.
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Last time I built a server project from scratch it was on a 300MHz quad-core Xeon base, which hosted around 150 simultaneous web users. It took some effort to make it scale like that but it was worth it. My hardware maintenance was low because we really maximized the software capacity.

In modern times, RAM and CPUs are more than 10 times bigger and faster, but I am seeing people get around 25 times LESS out of them, because they choose terrible tools, don't benchmark, and generally don't care. Now (different company) our app server pool has 150 nodes and each serves 4 users. The application complexity is significantly smaller than what I did 13 years ago.

I sincerely doubt any of my coworkers have read this document. It shows.
Typically, you swap them their email address for something they'd presumably want. Instant download of a white paper, one-month free course delivered over email about $FOO, etc.
In all honesty, I do believe it was a big mistake to do that. You only have one first impression on users and it's the best opportunity to go viral.
No, but it clearly state the flaw of HTTP2.0: a broken by design replacement of all possible TCP/IP layers on top of a subtly broken in some places stack.

Would you trust this unstable "pragmatic" house of card to deliver its promises of being "working"?
I block third party cookies, Ghostery, and block Flash. I've even opted out on the various ad tracking opt out aggregators.

I still get shown ads correlating to other sites I've visited, searches I've done, or emails I've received on Gmail.

I searched for Niles and Russound multi-room audio one Friday last summer, and HTD.com (Home Theater Direct) has been showing me whole house amps everywhere I go ever since.

The third party cookie block doesn't seem to help much any more.
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I don't understand who's exposure would be increased if the documents were released. Would it open up the NYPD to more legal action if the public gained insight into it's official FOIA doctrine? If that is the case, so what? If there is grounds for action, then good. If there is no grounds for action, then such suits will be thrown out.

As for being prohibited by law from disclosing the documents, I don't understand that either. As the appeal letter states, just because a document is written by an attorney for an organization does not make it subject to that privilege. Indeed, if you accept this argument, then it would apply to a vast number of documents that would otherwise be legitimate FOIA targets.

What it looks like to me is that the NYPD has something to hide, and they are stone-walling the process, coming up with nonsense reasons to avoid being transparent. No doubt there is something embarrassing in that policy document that they don't want to get out; or they don't want to set a precedent that these kinds of documents are accessible by the public, because there are other such documents that would be embarrassing.

The message needs to be sent, loud and clear, to the NYPD: don't want to share? Too fucking bad. You work for the public, and if you don't get your act together we'll vote in a new mayor and chief of police that will shit-can and prosecute for gross malfeasance all of you lazy, corrupt fucks that are obstructing the public's right to information on the rules they are subjected to.
Uhh... But in the scenario that two gifs are side by side, how would the part that goes above the white bar appear, if the white bar is not part of any image?
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5699552 (9 months ago)

High Scalability Post: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-m...

Original Shmoocon Presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73XNtI0w7jA
Here's a great slide share that I saw at my University: http://www.slideshare.net/wearesocialsg/social-digital-mobil...
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Catan got really popular when I was in college, and I noticed a distinctly different playstyle among the "normal" groups of friends I had and the ones that came from the Economics department.

A lot of people never think to do things like:
- Pay the robber to rob someone else
- Ask the robber what card he wants to take from you, and if it's something you're willing to give up just show him which card it is in your hand
- Trade away all of a scarce resource you have, then use the monopoly card to get them back, then trade them away again
- Paying someone to build roads to cut someone else off
- Paying to "rent" someone's port for a turn to get a better exchange rate

We like to use a house rule that requires all trades to "clear" within a turn (ie no arguments over enforceable/conflicting trades taking place on future turns).
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To me the problem with Monopoly isn't just that it takes forever, but that you can get into a commanding position early and spend most of the game slowly bleeding your opponents to death one by one. Monopoly is a game to resent people over.
Sounds to me more like a justification for presenting useless statistics and allowing 'outpacers' to give themselves more confirmation bias (which those communities already provide in spades).
You're not working with properly trained designers then. Layouts have certain empirical properties which can be judged objectively:

* Conforms to a grid
* Internally consistent padding and margins
* Information sized and arranged hierarchically according to importance
* Proportions conform to the rule of thirds or golden ratio
* Internally consistent UX patterns
(eg cancel buttons might be always red, confirm buttons might be always green)
* Text column widths are not too wide
* Color choice is harmonious (conforms to color wheel rules)

These are the main ones but there are many others. Unfortunately, these kind of classic design principles don't seem to be taught very often these days, instead design courses focus on the mechanics ie how to use Photoshop.
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In my experience Monopoly games played by the official rules with experienced players would drag endlessly due to trade negotiations. Typically, whenever a player was clearly in an advantageous position, the remaining players would form a loose alliance, shuffling properties and cash in an attempt to stymie the leader. The leader would fall back into the pack, a new leader would emerge, and the whole process would repeat. Every iteration would require a substantial amount of discussion, proposals and counter-proposals for an equitable but effective distribution of properties and cash amongst the "insurgents". Any thoughts on what we were doing wrong?

Catan at least has the advantage of monotonically increasing building and army points: Given enough time and even barely rational spending, a player is guaranteed to reach 10 points, no matter how alliances form and splinter.

The biggest problem we encountered in both games was the "spoiler": The player who was not in a position to win, but was in a position to determine the winner. Either you try to impose hard-to-adjudicate rules requiring "rational decisions" or you accept that a long-running game may be decided by caprice.
"[...] radical openness and honesty [...]"

Dalio's principles certainly make for a uniquely branded culture in the hedge fund industry.
third-party cookies are rarely necessary for logins (typically just when logging in with oAuth providers like Facebook and Twitter).
Yeah, that was the original point of the game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord's_Game
That's a pretty bold claim to make.

If third-party scripts or images are still being requested, then what prevents a site- and/or page-specific identifier from being included in the URLs of those assets? And what then prevents those site IDs, page IDs, the IP address you used to make the requests, your user agent's User-Agent string, the Referer header values, and other identifying information from being collected and stored? What prevents them from them from then tying this information together in a way that tracks you and your browsing behavior?

Keep in mind that cookies of any type are not at all necessary for such tracking to occur. The only way to truly avoid that kind of tracking is to not make any such requests in the first place.
It would be more interesting to also see the stats about IM's between two people. Also does their study account for all the teenage girls that post that they are in a relationship with their best (girl) friend?
Universe in layman terms.

Grandpa Tom, is playing "Mario" on his beautiful "iMac" presented by his grandson for Christmas. He is just a regular grandpa who is in his 70s and is really new to this computer world. After playing Mario for a while he starts wondering how does a key on keyboard is making Mario Move. He starts putting himself within Mario character and starts seeing things around him. What he see is a world where he just have to "Run from dangers, get powers, survive and save the queen". Mario is so much involved he doesn't even know that there is something called as keyboard and a monitor outside his system. Mario thinks he just have to move and perform certain actions to accomplish his goal. thats all.

After playing so many hours of game, Suddenly mario starts thinking "am i doing things on my own or am i being controlled ? how the hell i am going to find out. the environment around me just extends in whichever direction i go. but not if i die. so what is this sorcery !"

In this whole story, Mario is each one of us. The next obvious question is, how do you know ? Neither does Mario. Some of these Marios went beyond the simulated environment (non materialistically, because there is no matter which runs this system, just like above cpu, interaction....) and figured out all this. We can decide to "believe" or "find an answer ourselves".

Now a programmer knows an answer. I wrote this goddam Mario program, i did not give him enough instructions (C/C++/whatever) to thik, so he will never know what the hell is going on. But, given intelligence to think on his own, he might be able to figure out things around his environment, but still he can't see the CPU<->Memory<->GPU<->Display<->Keyboard interactions. He can, only if .... ? . So, who are we , better than mario ? who can think on their own right... ? what more do you want ?

Hope this helps.
The site is buggy on the iPhone, I've managed to scroll down only once.
not sure if serious....
but let's not kid ourselves that ads have no informational content

Every piece of knowledge has an opportunity cost.[1] To make this point more explicit, the cost is asymetric. Advertising is no different than a drunk on a subway or a schizophrenic homeless person shouting nonsense to a passerby. Yes, they are communicating information. Let me put a bunch of this "information" in front of an advertsing executive's home in Atherton, and watch him call the police and have his lawyer write a letter to the housing association to change the zoning code. And then, the circle of life (and information, and special interests) will be complete/. =D

[1] To paraphrase Nietzche.
no it isn't, apple pay the 15% Luxembourg sales tax for you.
Yes, but once you solve those issues, you don't need a super high resolution, light field based (or otherwise adjustable focus) display that's very small and has very high battery life, to achieve the same portability. Your face doesn't need to have a weird-looking and -feeling object on it, and if you can hook into the original eye signal, you get a free dual camera for AR. Oh, and on a less geeky note, it gives sight to the blind.

The resolution and the focus will certainly be solved long before an implant could give remotely similar performance, but an implant would sure be neat for the other reasons.
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would like to see if anyone can program a handicapping program
This article on High Scalability also covers part of the problem: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/2/5/littles-law-scalabi...
I think OSv or something similar would be part of that solution. Single User / Purpose OS designed to do one / few things and those only.

I could only hope OSv development would move faster.
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Focus on getting a product to the point that some small group (as small as one person) really loves the product. If you focus on that getting to 100 will be easy. Of course you will need to pick a product that at least 100 people have a use for.
I would have loved to have the ads "we want smart educated black men to donate sperm for XXX", then again, this might be one of those, 'careful what you wish for, you just might get it' sort of things.
An implementation of the idea: http://www.openmirage.org/

A good talk about it by one of the developers/researchers: http://vimeo.com/16189862
Not so much. AFAICT anything including an IFRAME to Google (e.g. a map) will set their tracking cookie, and anything fetched from any of their servers will probably try to identify you via browser fingerprinting. To do anything that really matters, you need to block the HTTP requests.
"It took some effort to make it scale"

It's often a lot easier to rely on horizontal scaling, especially on a strategic level when you're deciding whether to trust your organization's technical ability (which really means management's hiring ability) or your ability to call AWS and spin up another hundred servers.

"Easier" doesn't mean "cheaper" or "faster" in the long run, but it is lower-variance for sure.
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I had to deal with this in Ecuador about a decade ago. I had to always carry around a health certificate showing I was vaccinated against yellow fever or they wouldn't let me enter the eastern Oriente (Amazon) region.

I think it was a good idea. Too bad there's no vaccine against bot flies :(
Seriously. I have a 3 week old right now and was taking BART in everyday. People who know they have contracted a highly contagious disease and decide to travel on mass transit the day after should really consider the consequences of their malicious (even if unintentional) actions.
Does anyone know how Bluhell Firewall (Firefox) does against trackers?
So an exokernel?
Sales is a hit-driven business. If you close >50% of your potential deals you're on fire and are probably not getting enough quality leads.

Almost every other part of the business (marketing, engineering, professional services, G&A) is expected to perform or deliver at near perfection (say, >90% for a sloppy organization).

The only exception to the non-sales role that allows for a "low" success rate would be R&D.

As others mentioned in the comments, bonuses are typically the way to reward non-sales staff upon completion of their portion of the work. As well, there are usually equity pools that staff participate in.

A commissions incentive structure is incredibly stressful for employees who expect steady, dependable and predictable paychecks with bonuses on top. Commissions incentive structures often attract and encourage aggressive personalities and characteristics.

It may work out if your developers were comprised almost entirely of freelancers, but even freelancers expect to get paid for almost every project they complete. Maybe if your developers were also authors or blog post writers in their previous lives then they'd understand and appreciate the commissions structure a bit more.

Keep in mind, it makes little sense to give developers commission upon deal closure because, unless they directly assisted sales in closing the deal, you're essentially giving them money for no reason. Commission, if you're going to give it, should be handed out to developers after they do their part of the work successfully, in which case how is this different from a bonus?
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Interestingly the "clear within a turn" rule would mean that you could only rent a port from the player who's turn it is (unless you allow all players to use their ports at any time).

I also assume by paying you mean making an undesirable trade, unless you allow gifting through another house rule.

In some games I've seen the following: Player A (current turn) wants to trade wheat for a brick through Player B's port. Player A will trade 2 wheat and a bonus resource to Player B for x arbitrary resource. On Player B's turn they move the wheat through their harbour for a brick and trade this back to Player A for their x arbitrary resource back. Player B keeps the bonus resource as payment, and Player A gets usage of Player B's harbour. This couldn't happen in one turn as only the current player can use their harbour.
UI design obsession hit as hard as software design obsession, both are equally valid and should be respected. In others words if a designer tell you to move a button 3px to the left, then you should take in consideration his gust and ask them politely why they should. The same could apply if a more experience college tell you that this method don't belong to that class or that function is doing too much. Just respect each other and be on peace for the sake of the project.
>Content Blocked (content_filter_denied)

>Content Category: "Piracy/Copyright Concerns"

I'm starting to use these blocks at my workplace as a measure of site quality (this will be a high quality article). Can someone dump the text for me?
Absolutely I'd rather be "manipulated" better, if you count advertising that way. I'd much rather be shown ads for things I might actually want than stuff I have no interest in at all, and I say that as someone who has actually purchased things off of Facebook ads. If the ads going to be there regardless, might as well work it for the benefit of both me and the company presenting it.
The patterns are great!
Please provide some documentation on what this is. I tried to figure it out by hitting random buttons.. no luck.
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(1999)?
That might be valid if most modern monopolies weren't the product of government intervention.
Cool rebrand for Microsoft...Satya Nadella
https://www.behance.net/gallery/Microsoft-Rebrand/14607653
The last time I checked out Ghostery, it phoned home by design. Is this still the case?
Does it work through IA?

http://web.archive.org/web/20140217043940/http://c10m.robert...
That page is essentially a glorified intro to his series of blog entries, and they are on another domain, so perhaps they are not blocked:

http://blog.erratasec.com/search/label/C10M
The spoiler just adds a level of metagame. You can cripple me early in the game by repeatedly putting the robber on my best hex, but by doing so you've made an enemy for the rest of the game.
The author was pretty courteous in the method he used to log the data IMO.

1) He only connected to one of the 'MMO' servers instead of multiple instances

2) Only established 1 long-living (Websocket) connection which is basically like having 1 (idle) player on the server. At the rate that other players were connecting, he likely added little to no real load