skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the revelations of the past couple of years, especially these, it's very difficult to attempt to cap the scope of these operations. Combine that with a heavy case of impostor syndrome and I find myself questioning everything.

Gay marriage? Can such a large portion of the country actually be against gay marriage and homosexuality? I can count perhaps 1 in 20 or 1 in 30. Is that just because I don't associate with those who are against it, or was the entire debate a construct of a group of insiders with immensely powerful tools such as this to keep us busy?

Presidential elections? Grow up with a president personally? Oh, you grew up with the Senator? Sure he's not part of some secret club that's running the elections and simply putting whoever they want into power? You are? Well, I don't know them personally, nor can I unequivocally prove that they or any of the operations we feel are part of a legit democracy are actually real. Yep, just tap on that screen and your voice will be heard. Pinky swear.

I spent some time in Iran during an election cycle there - at least it's obvious the president is hand selected by the supreme leader. There's some sense of comfort in that. All we've done in this country is prove that our paranoia might not be so out of line, and that's a ridiculously frightening concept. It's time for some fucking real transparency. The cost of which is a lot less than the cost of this secrecy.
Ah, the rub is that some people don't believe it maximizes happiness or freedom to legalize any kind of sexual activity as long as a vague notion of consent is present. Consent isn't the only thing that matters in law.

I hope we never legalize polygamy in general, but I hope we do legalize polygyny. I see polygyny and same-sex marriage as polar opposites; polygyny represents maximal social good, and same-sex marriage represents maximal social chaos, almost to the point where one has to admit that society is already practical disintegrated. I see polyandry as less bad than gay marriage, but also majorly problematic.

Gay rights supporters would rather nobody ever express this opinion because they think it is bad. They have just now kicked Brendan Eich out of his job because they believe that strongly no one should ever be allowed to believe things they don't believe. Why can't we have a truly free dialogue on these issues? Why can't people say what they believe? Is there any meaningful dialogue at all if half of the populace is terrorized out of expressing their true beliefs?

I'm all for correcting incorrect things and I am beyond happy to acknowledge when I've been misled or when I need to change my mind. I am all for teaching other people to see things more correctly. I just don't think we need to do that by shame, humiliation, demagoguery, and persecution.
I find it hard to believe you've given your opinions on it much thought or research. Oscar Wilde nor any actual socialist advocates for crony capitalism/corporatism.
On point 1, have you considered innovating in the commission structure as well? If we've agreed on a fair market price, then I'd rather structure the commission along the lines of, for example, 25% of (sale price - 80% of fair market price). If you then sell the car for the fair market price, then you'd receive the same 5% commission, but you'd have much more incentive to drive a hard bargain.
One point that your write up doesn't take into account is that a car dealer can get more for a car, the same, car, in general, than a private seller can.

A car dealer can put a short or longer term warranty on a car that gives a buyer confidence.

If you are buying a used Honda from a Honda dealer who is reputable (and my guess is that is 99% of them are or they wouldn't remain franchised), as opposed to the local used car lot, you generally and on average are going to have better purchase security than buying a car from a stranger that does not come with any warranty or guarantee.

A car dealer also has (in theory) experienced salespeople who know how to drag the most money out of a buyer and exploit their weaknesses. You as a private seller don't. So you will (on average not the exception) not be able to get as much for the same car as the dealer will.

This is not to say that the idea presented by the OP won't work (because they appear to be adding a level of guarantee to the deal). Just that in the example you are giving there are reasons why "you buy a used car for 20k". Reasons that are separate from what you would get if you tried to sell the same car for 20k.
Well how else are you supposed to interact with computers? Programming does not equal CS, hahaha! I guess in what ever "science" you are thinking of people just sit there and telepathically control the computer.

The popular and misguided thoughts about CS is that it might involve math. HELLO! have you ever had to use a calculator to write a "Hello World" program? Where is the science in that?
Using florid vocabulary doesn't legitimize your heavy-handed slap on the wrist to eps, who was, however misunderstood -- trying to help a fellow user. The pg way was to just state what needed to be said and do what needed to be done, not make examples out of innocent people.

Shame on you, Daniel.
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It's one of the sad facts of life that when you design a popular protocol like HTTP/1.1 so that it can do something, but don't actually do anything with it, many implementers drop it.

Many HTTP servers will not allow you to specify precisely where you break chunks; I would expect that the significant majority of slightly higher level interfaces will not allow you to do that, rather handling buffering themselves.

Many HTTP clients will not allow you to read chunks precisely.

And as for the "event" paramter—well, such things are taken care of in RFC 2616 with chunk extensions; it would end up being

<length of data in hex> ";event=" event-name CRLF data CRLF

e.g. you would replace the following chunk-encoded data (the first and last lines are artefacts of the chunked transfer encoding):

1d␍␊
event: poke␍␊
data: "hey!"␍␊
␍␊
␍␊

with the following:

6;event=poke␍␊
"hey!"␍␊
␍␊

Unfortunately, chunk extensions have never really been used, so I dare say they assessed that technique and decided that it was simply going to require too much work. And so we're left with a new protocol on top of HTTP reimplementing precisely what HTTP already did, but which people forgot about, possibly for performance reasons.
I think you're missing the main reason why they made the separate device, to generate more sales.

If you receive a free device in the mail that can scan your groceries, you'll use it. If you receive a link to a free app then there is a much slimmer chance that you'll use the service and purchase the products.
There is already a dedicated Amazon Fresh app, I'd imagine they'll integrate the functionality.
For what it's worth, I'm currently midway through the 30 day free trial of Fresh, and I got an email offering me one for free.
So I got my Fire TV. It has some CEC support because it shows up as a source to my TV and the TV and receiver correctly switch to it. My TV remote, however, does not control the Fire TV. Given that the HDMI hardware supports CEC, I think this was their choice and one that they hopefully will change with a software update.
Tax benefit (in most states afaik) has nothing to do with whether the purchase is a new or used car.

To explain (for anyone not familiar since the way you phrased it might be confusing):

New car price: $30,000
Your trade in: $10,000

Net price: $20,000

So Sales tax 6%20,000 vs. 6% 30,000 (example of a state with 6% st)

If you sell the car yourself you can still use
it as a trade in if you can coordinate with the dealer and your buyer and
do what is known as a courtesy trade.

But you have to get the buyer to show up and take
your used car when the dealer delivers your new car.
The dealer does the paperwork and usually charges a
few hundred dollars or less for handling the sale. It is well
worth the trouble if you can get the cooperation from the buyer.
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Direct link to the transcript is here (although easily avail on the main site):

http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_the_unstoppable_wal...
Good question: I was new to the Chicagoland area at the time and chalked it up to not being aware of what all the area codes were.
A fair bit of it is here, including stuff for Active Directory (though I don't know enough on the subject to say whether any bits are missing) and SMB3: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc216517.aspx
No idea. My game is US equities.
Spaces are in fact often, if not always, an allowed character for passwords, at least in Microsoft/Windows systems. See "Use Spaces in Your Windows Password for Extra Security"[1].

[1]: http://lifehacker.com/5733535/use-spaces-in-your-windows-pas...
On page 53 of the "Adventures in Automotive Network and Control Units" paper there's a photo of what happened to the researchers garage after a command to run diagnostics on the brakes left the vehicle unable to stop even at slow speeds http://illmatics.com/car_hacking.pdf
How does a voting ring look different than this scenario:

I email my friends (that read HN) about finally going "public." Because they are my friends and they've heard about my ideas and work for a while now, they up vote.
Quite possibly, just don't count debt. Or give wealth as two numbers: The positive part and the negative part. My rationale is that debt is primarily handed out to people who are expected to pay it off someday.
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Every company that isn't the size of Microsoft is a drop in the sea of .NET.
I agree with olalonde - you haven't even read the essay. It argues for the abolition of private property. It's hard to have taxation if no one owns anything.

I agree with brvs - you don't know what you're talking about. A picture of Wilde and information about this essay are even mentioned on WP's libertarian socialism page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism - Wilde
Wow. This comment captures it best:

> "Hmm, a user adds to the kernel command line "debug" and systemd starts spitting out so much crap that the system doesn't boot anymore? That sounds like a major regression to me. Note this is a kernel command line, not a systemd command line. Userspace tools should not be using the same kernel parameters that are defined by the kernel. That's just broken and wrong.

> This bugzilla is the poster child of why people hate systemd and do not trust the developers that work on it."
My personal feeling is the 5% is to high for luxury or expensive cars.

I have one right now that I will be selling (2012 Porsche) and my immediate reaction was a) I still have to prep and detail my car - I don't have to do that if I trade it in and b) 5% is to much. c) I don't want strangers driving my car. d) I don't want to be hassled with selling my car which is why I take the hit at the dealer. If you want to call it that.

Remember also that trade in deals are actually negotiable. Like anything else.

Also dealers actually typically try to slant a trade in toward giving you more money (so it gives you an incentive to buy thinking you are selling something valuable).

You might want to alter your % based on price. And also create a way of separating sellers of higher priced cars from more commodity vehicles.
Heh, this reminds of a story many years ago at Google, where we got angry messages from some guy complaining that Google kept deleting all the photos from his online album.

We eventually figured out he his online album had an unprotected "delete this photo" endpoint via a GET, and no robots restriction! We eventually had to fix the crawler to detect things like this...
I studied economics. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot make something out of nothing, that money has to come from somewhere.

Just like in physics, the laws of thermodynamics, energy and matter cannot be created nor destroyed, but converted from one form to another. Socialism is the same way, you cannot create social programs without funding them in some way. How does a government get funds? By taxation.

This article violates economics, it violates logic, it violates physics, it violates so many things on so many levels.

I am not one to just read something and automatically believe it is true. You are going to have to prove to me that it is true. Unless I see some sort of evidence, I remain a skeptic.

Down-vote me if you want, it only validates that I am correct, and you are all covering up something.
I'm from Australia, so I think our system is similar (single payer type system). Our government won't be offering this drug in the short term. If it is really this good, they will negotiate a deal over time.

The advantage of that system is the government can give the company the choice:
a) Sell to us for $x, and patients can use for no/low cost
b) Go direct, and try to convince patients to pay $y themselves

This gives a pretty strong incentive for x << y, and avoids a lot of advertising expense.
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I think the grandparent's post is blowing the issue out of proportion. Amazon Dash isn't a phone app because phone apps are really slow and difficult for this use (if you've ever tried to use a barcode scanner based on your phone's built-in camera, you know what I'm talking about), not because people can't understand that their phone can do more than one thing. It is true that non-technical people are probably less annoyed by redundancy, but we shouldn't presuppose that this product is actually redundant just because phones can eventually do all the same tricks. The thing is that phones can't do those tricks as well, so the separation is justified.
I mean, really that's the only relevant question: when is C# going to be a great cross platform choice? Open sourcing a windows only implementation doesn't really change anything.
I am 3,000 hours into the DIY phase myself, so I appreciate your list.

I think Effective Objective-C and Effective JavaScript (as well as the "Good Parts" and "Secrets of a JS Ninja") were good books.

Also, the C book, since it is difficult to understand Objective-C without a firm grip on C. Although, there are certainly more recent and easier books on C to read.
I have used Facebook CPC extensively for my e-commerce company and it has worked wonderfully ( with the right settings ). I have had over 5% of clicks convert in certain months.

However, I have had little luck with adsense for the same company. Honestly I think picking an ad network for your market is a much bigger decision than "tuning" a network you are set on using!
I down voted your original comment and I'm a libertarian (the kind that believes in private property). Your regurgitated comment with complete disregard for the context is exactly what makes us libertarian look like a bunch of dogmatics and hurts our cause.
Could we just get rid of naming authorities all together? Why not just let trusted listing agencies handle it and users can simply pick the one(s) they wish to use. For instance, let's say I want to publish a website under the name "sony". Okay, that's fine, but it's going to get a lower priority then the offical Sony, Inc. site b/c any listing agency is obviously going to serve up that site when a user puts "sony" in their browser's address bar. However, a user could opt for an alternate listing agency --maybe one the offers no commercial listings, and then maybe my site would come up through them. Browsers could make it easy to switch between listing agencies and prioritize them.
If you think I'm judging him based on those things than you have twisted my words well beyond recognition. That's beyond what I can help with.
For what it's worth I doubt this video shows the whole story. Almost undoubtedly Amazon will batch your list up and email you a confirmation before it actually charges for and ships out the order, at which point you will be able to rectify errors in speech recognition or barcode misreadings.

Since Amazon seems to be specifically targeting parents with this ad, we might as well also mention that children will certainly find the Dash amusing with its beeping and red lights, and if Amazon automatically ordered everything your kid scanned for personal amusement, they'd have a lot of angry customers.

EDIT: On second watch, the ad does say "you can check out on Amazon Fresh or a smart phone", so they've explicitly indicated that there will be a confirmation process before the order is placed. This is just meant to make it quick to collect your list instead of having to type in "chocolate chips" and scroll through hundreds to find the brand you like and then repeat for every item in pantry.
Well, this whole incident involving Eich is a pretty good example.
The left-wing anti-liberalism streak that's fueled this crisis is apalling to me personally. And those who were so insistent on burning Eich, the heretic, because he wouldn't recant will hopefully regret their actions once it happens to someone, for example, who donates to Planned Parenthood and is pressured to resign by a bunch of conservatives.

If you would have been outraged if he was pressured to resign for having the opposite opinion but think what happened is somehow appropriate: you are a bigot.

I wish him the best of luck, some good rest to think things over, and know that (despite his opinion otherwise) we are worse off when there's a Mozilla without Eich.
I guess I should know better than to imagine that I could point out that someone in a position of privilege probably shouldn't play the victim to a bunch of people in positions of privilege...
Systemd is soon to be integrated as the default init daemon for Ubuntu, one of the most user-friendly Linux distributions available.

It worries me that Sievers, and the systemd team aren't approaching testing with an almost paranoid attitude. Linux is finally getting a foothold in consumer desktops, it'd be a shame for people to go back to other operating systems purely because "it broke one day, something about systemd".
You don't see how that's kind of insulting?

"Doing this lowly job [that you've done for years] has really given me a greater understanding for all the little people [like you]"
At this point we are mincing words. He said sorry he caused pain. That is hardly a nonpology. It does not justify the reaction and pain caused to him.

He has promoted equality within Mozilla. The sad thing is people also started to protest Mozilla, an organization with LGBT workers. It's free software with an independent agenda. Now it's malaigned as being homophobic.

The debate is being dumbed down with namecalling and blowing things out of proportion. It's become black and white with no room for nuance.

It's sad and scary.

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I'm commenting on the downvotes and flagging as an act of suppressing a rational discussion. Its similar to the shaming and cyber bullying. The whole "you disagree with me, I'll punish you" mentality that this movement has taken is not good for our culture. Surely we are more mature than that.

I don't have a complex and its not for you to judge.
Agreed. The audio alone was enough to immerse me. Right now it is in a background tab and I change the location every few minutes to change the sound!
" The mob mentality leads to situations where we round up everyone who is Japanese, Jewish, Homophobic, etc. and get rid of them."

This is an utterly insane strawman you all are creating. We're now comparing holocaust victims, people in internment camps and people who have had a constitutional amendment passed to take away their rights to the plight of having people boycott your business for your intolerance...?

What's the next step? Compare people who had their rights taken away and then boycotted a person's products to Hitler just to complete the internet hyperbole?
SSE is great. We wrote about it in quite a bit of detail a while back.

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/01/09/building-the-new-ajax-mai...

There's a couple of annoying caveats

1. The "retry" nature of the connection isn't quite as reliable as suggested. See the blog post above for more details

2. NAT timeouts. Make sure you have some sort of "ping" either at application or TCP level.

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/05/28/push-events-nat-tcp-conne...
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2011/06/28/http-keep-alive-connectio...

3. Each SSE connection is regarded as a regular site connection. So if people open up 6 tabs to your site, you might suddenly find your site is unresponsive to users because every available connection is used by an SSE connection. You might need to implement some inter-tab communication system instead.

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/11/26/inter-tab-communication-u...
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How exactly do you figure that? The act of not tolerating intolerance is itself intolerance. It will always be around, if we take your approach. The only way to full tolerance is to be tolerant of intolerance.
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Yeah! HN is too sensible and having just migrated from /. I want some ignorance, indignation and quotes from Our Lord in the comments to warm up my day.

Not even kidding! :D
We have to be very careful about our terminology when we talk about profitability of trading days. I have not inspected Virtu's trades, pnl statements, or legal documents related to them, so this is less about them specifically than about trade pnl generally.

When most firms talk about profitability of trading day, they are talking about the the profitability of just their trades. That is, if they bought for 1 million dollars and sold for 1 million and 1 dollars. That is technically a profitable trading day. If the cost of entering and exiting that trade cost them 2 billion dollars they will still mark that as a "profitable" trading day, even though it clearly isn't.

That is to say, it is trivial under this accounting scheme to come up with a strategy that has no losses. Just don't trade.

I apologize for not going into more depth about why I think Lewis is wrong. I've explained it a lot in my comments on HN lately and can't be bothered to do it again. That said, if the linked article was more professionally presented and didn't have the weird racial language the points are basically what I would argue against Lewis' premise.
I'm probably missing something here, but wouldn't it make sense for ONSTAR to sit on the drive critical bus? If it's able to monitor collision data and (in newer models) slow down a stolen car, it'd need access to drive-control systems.
Is all this heated language really necessary?
root + https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy is simply amazing.
"The source code you used" which you obtained from GPL sources.

You do not have to distribute proprietary source code which has not been incorporated into the GPL code (the definition of this varies depending on whether the GPL code is GPL, LGPL, etc.)
"So the main feature of Namecoin - to provide a censorship-resistant, cryptographically untamperable set of domain name records"

And the above means zilch to the majority (let's pick an arbitrary 95%) of domain name owners (source: I am intimately involved in this business since the start and deal with these owners)

Do people seriously think that the millions of existing domain name owners are going to undo years of marketing effort for something that they don't even need? Local restaurant for example has no issues with censorship at least with respect to their website.
The ad panders practically exclusively to parents (almost every shot is a parent with child), and they're probably more specifically targeting female parents (the ones who more often do the grocery shopping).

I thought it was a cute concept but also found the narration a bit grating, and I'm the parent of multiple small children. My wife would probably think it's adorable though.