skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
License plates were designed around identification. The whole point of having license plates is so the police know who your vehicle is registered to.

Combine that with the fact that you're driving around on publicly funded roads, and you find yourself without any right to privacy whatsoever. You're in public, the very definition of "not private".

Where your car goes on public roads isn't private, even if you want it to be. It never has been.

That being said, just because your car is somewhere doesn't mean you are. Any competent defense lawyer in a criminal case would point that out. In some states, traffic cameras can't be used to issue tickets unless the camera has a clear picture of the driver.
Comcast already enjoys a physical government granted monopoly of the 'cable' access rights to their customers.
Google gets the metadata? That's news to me. I thought the metadata was encrypted by the TextSecure server?
They're just moving so fast it's impossible to see all of the moments where it's working.
Does it work in Mexico?
By the grandparent's description, the difference would be that DDG is not saving the ip address and browser information associated with the search query. If they're only saving the frequency of each search query and nothing else, then there would be no way to see for a particular user/browser/ip address what search queries have been performed because that dimension to the data simply doesn't exist.
I think the difference here is that there is no association of the search term with a specific search. If they see a term, they simply add 1 to the counter. Of course, that is probably vastly simplifying it. Basically, your search is thrown into a pool with all of the other searches. It possibly never even has an id associated with it. Just a frequency number.

For example, say I start to type "movie t", it'll see that often times after the word "movie", "times" appears at a high frequency so that could be one of the suggestions. I don't see how this introduces a privacy issue unless they are saving the searches by some personal identification number (whether thats an ip, user id, computer, etc), which they specifically deny. Without the specific identifier, there is no way to say it was user A who searched for "movie times" 300 times in a row and not 300 different users searching for "movie times"
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You may (and physically can) only overtake when there are two lanes going in your direction. The road alternates every couple of km between 1 and 2 lanes in each direction.
Something that has bothered me in the old version as well as this version is the wiki-summary/product/images/videos header. Often times (especially when im using a VPN) the search results load before whatever needs to be loaded in the header, so I will go to click a result and then the header expands into my click. This means I go to a page I did not intend. It needs to be a fixed size or its size needs to be determined before listing search results.
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I don't know if the claims on the birth rates amongst Muslims is true, but even if they are, are you sure you're not talking about birth rates amongst Muslims and Muslim-majority countries as opposed to Arabic speakers?

An overwhelming majority of the Muslims are not Arab and do not speak Arabic [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_world#Countries_with_the...
It's _A_ solution, but not a good one. I think most people consider it OK to force-push a PR branch and update the existing pull request.
I thought Atom.io might be my new favorite editor... until I needed to open a multi-GB XML file. Sublime handled it without a sweat, and even started loading a different 38GB (!!) XML file concurrently with no issues. (I didn't wait for it to finish loading, however.) Atom.io, on the other hand, balked at a mere 2MB. I've heard that even vim isn't so good at enormous files, so kudos to Sublime for that!
Ads API was and still is full of bugs and undocumented features.
Let's not forget that Wikipedia is essentially an iteration of paper encyclopedias. Encyclopedias have been the best form of the breadth of human knowledge for 2000 years

Wikipedia was not the only online/open encyclopedia, but it was the only successful one. To some extent online encyclopedias form a natural monopoly, and if that's the case then it's better that Wikipedia is it (rather than maybe Microsoft Encarta or Encyclopedia Britannica).

But I think I agree with you: this space benefits from having encyclopedias with different goals and ethos. IMHO ethos used effectively to be how paper encyclopedias competed.

I, for one, would welcome a good competitor: do you have enough of an idea to execute something potentially successful? Even if I am optimistic, that's difficult to imagine.
Unfortunately since Televisa and TV Azteca own a big stake in this bill, they won't give air time about it, and will go unnoticed by the general mexican public...
> The reason why they might achieve a monopoly at some point is because of the network effects in the alumni.

Aaaaand Hacker news :).

No seriously, HN does a great job of reminding people to apply at YC, this probably helps them get lots of applications. Other advertising endeavors probably help (tour buses going directly to Harvard, MIT, etc. where YC alumni talk to folks).
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/08/the-day-fred-wilson-d...

He had gone out to dinner with friends the night before
and realized that none of them -- "I mean nobody" --
believed the statements coming out of Apple PR about
Steve Jobs' health. "As good as the company is," he wrote,
"I just can't own a stock when I don't believe the company
is being straight with investors."

He called Apple out for lying about Jobs' health (they were lying) and sold all his shares. Hardly an indictment of his investing skill.

"I don't regret my decision to sell $aapl."
"When I think the company is misleading investors, I
don't want to be a shareholder, no matter how much
appreciation there might be in the future."

He was right when he said that devs should pick Android if they want to be 'in front of the most eyeballs', but he was clearly wrong on the relative value of those eyeballs.
This might well be the beginning of the end for x86 as we know it. The power advantages of ARM in the server space may not be as significant as in the mobile space but that doesn't mean they're minuscule.

There's a lot of code out there which already compiles to multiple architectures so that's one less objection. The rise of the open-source movement (and source-based distribution) have enabled this to happen on a wide scale.

Since the barriers to entry for a new architecture have fallen (and AMD intends to lower them further) it wouldn't surprise me if in a decade x86 is as much of a novelty as ARM was decade ago.
Wordpress, Joomla and Drupal. Those 3 CMSs run more than 50% of all the CMS powered websites on the entire Internet (http://trends.builtwith.com/cms), all written in PHP.
I also use DuckDuckGo as my primary search engine and have had very positive experience using it.

But the single worst thing about ddg is that it's still not possible to deactivate the "did you mean?" functionality. I rarely make typing errors so I spend most keystrokes on ddg putting quotes around things that I did mean.
I need to investigate this properly before I offer you an educated answer with details.
... and it's probably pure coincidence that Netflix is in direct competition with 1/3 of that bundle, too.
I fixed it for my mom by connecting her old iPhone to WiFi, and then deactivating iMessages. Not sure how well that would have worked in the case that she had multiple iDevices.
What about that statement demonstrates ignorance?
One billion MAUs.
iOS is popular enough that its often easier to find another lightning cable than a micro USB
The data mostly backs up Friedman's quip. So where's the ignorance exactly?

http://www.cato.org/blog/swedens-big-welfare-state-superior-...

"The 4.4 million or so Americans with Swedish origins are considerably richer than average Americans, as are other immigrant groups from Scandinavia. If Americans with Swedish ancestry were to form their own country, their per capita GDP would be $56,900, more than $10,000 above the income of the average American. This is also far above Swedish GDP per capita, at $36,600. Swedes living in the USA are thus approximately 53 per cent more wealthy than Swedes (excluding immigrants) in their native country (OECD, 2009; US Census database). It should be noted that those Swedes who migrated to the USA, predominately in the nineteenth century, were anything but the elite. Rather, it was often those escaping poverty and famine. …A Scandinavian economist once said to Milton Friedman, ‘In Scandinavia, we have no poverty’. Milton Friedman replied, ‘That’s interesting, because in America, among Scandinavians, we have no poverty, either’. Indeed, the poverty rate for Americans with Swedish ancestry is only 6.7 per cent: half the US average (US Census)."
Quick example:
"Is my password... cats6plus" does not appear to be pulled from any page(?)
http://www.bing.com/search?q=whole+foods+falls+church+va&go=...
I don't know, but I would have guessed that Google needs to know when it should deliver a message and where it should go, no? That is metadata in my definition.
Ah, looks like you might have accidentally stumbled into Poe's Law territory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
He sold his Apple shares because he doesn't own shares in companies where the BOD / PR team are obviously lying to investors -- specifically in regards to Steve Jobs' declining health.
Move at whatever speed and let it stay broken and confusing.
> A competitive market arises for security providers that offer security to potential victims of aforementioned crazy psychopath. These providers have no special legal privileges and are not imbued with any specific powers that anyone is supposed to respect and nobody owes them a duty of anything. If they want to accrue and keep customers they must offer good service. If they are not competitive with other providers in the same sector they will cease to exist.

Or, more likely, the most effective "security providers" will just decide that they have political authority by dint of might makes right. I mean, the emergence of warlords in the absence of established political authority isn't exactly a phenomenon that hasn't been observed repeatedly in history.
Which explains why it wasn't all recovered as well. Occam's razor strikes again.
Agreed. When is a fad not a fad? I don't know. It might last 20 years from start to finish but I can't see them solving their core business problem which is they don't know how to make money any way other than ads and data collection. The pendulum is going to swing the other way eventually.
> If a minority got into Stanford, there is a thought that probably goes into everyone's mind, that they had an advantage because they were a minority. White people don't have that same stigma.

Out of curiosity, where do you think that stigma arises from? In my view, this is one of the best arguments against affirmative action based on purely on race, ethnicity or gender. In my high school, which was the top ranked public high school in California, admission was based on test scores and an essay.

Because at that time the school had an race-based affirmative action policy, the black girl (who would eventually be valedictorian) complained that everyone assumed she got in because she was black (though she tested high enough regardless).

They removed this policy eventually after complaints from parents demanding equal treatment. Ironically in a few years white parents in the district started complaining that their kids were being pushed out by asian and indian kids.
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Isn't there some 'reason' why any company becomes the lead platform? It's silly to say Apple is less special because they too, had a reason.
I've had the exact opposite experience: when I need a microUSB cable or can't plug into a friend's proprietary car stereo, I'm told "just get an iPhone!"

With iPhone marketshare still above 40% in the US (and holding steady), I think it just depends on which phone-demographic bubble you're in.

Outside of the US, I'm sure things are quite different. Aren't iPhones in the EU required to come with a MicroUSB adapter now, though?
via an answer on stack Stack Exchange (link below)

"This isn't a vulnerability of/in OAuth 2.0 at all. The issue has been wildly overblown and misstated by CNET and the original finder.

Here it is in a nutshell: If your web site (example.com) implements an open redirect endpoint - that is, implements a URL that will redirect the browser to any URL given in the URL parameters - AND your redirect copies URL parameters from the incoming URL to the outgoing redirect URL, then it is possible for third parties to exploit this artifact of your web site in a wide variety of nasty ways."

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/57143/can-someon...
Disclosure: I work at a small ISP. We mostly compete with Frontier DSL and Comcast Business Class.

If you're buying residential it's safe to assume you're purchasing a burst-able speed and downloads/uploads aren't going to sustain that for hours on end.

Much in the same way that a Utility Company probably isn't gathering enough water for everyone to be maxing their pipes 24/7, residential ISP's don't operate under the assumption that every consumer will have maxed their connection at the same time, and they shouldn't have too. Smart traffic shaping and peering arrangements gives ISP's room to compete.

If consumers could afford a dedicated 35x15 connection they'd have a T1. When you're buying copper it's safe to assume it's going to be over saturated.

The real problem is ISP's for the most part don't compete. They zone of sections for eachother and rack in as much dough as they can. Consumers aren't informed about the quality of different types of connections vs others, and buy based off the cheapest Mbps down/up they can get.
What special place in hell do you live in that opening a 38GB XML file is a thing? I hate opening 1mb xml files so 38GB sounds like a really fun time...
I'm a fan of https://duckduckgo.com/html/ , not completely bare-bone yet fast to load.

But the new interface is nice.
I'll make sure to answer any other comments so long as I have something to contribute.
The frontpage is a lot more pleasing to the eye, however, the search results are much more readable on the current layout. The text is not very crisp under Chrome on my Windows 8.1 machine.
> There's a lot of code out there which already compiles to multiple architectures so that's one less objection

Yeah and there's a lot of code out there which has already been compiled to x86, the vendor has gone out of business, and isn't getting compiled again.
Actually, there are many forks of wikipedia. (http://www.conservapedia.com/ and http://en.citizendium.org/ being 2 of the more well known forks).

If you want to fork, most information you need can be found here (wrt database downloads) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download . You might also want to look up http://mediawiki.org/ for the engine.

Voting on article versions could be a bit tricky. Can you come up with a voting system that wouldn't be gamed somehow? And how do you propose a voting system would counteract bias?
No matter how noble the strategy, poor returns are poor returns, and your returns are your record of investing skill.

The counterpoint would be that selling the AAPL shares allowed the capital to be invested in some other venture that had better returns, not the 'nobility' of the strategy.
قلب refers to the verb "to invert"
and the Hearth in arabic is "قلب", and it was named so because the heart emotions and believes changes all the time

FYI: Arabic is the language by which Algorithms and Algebra were canonised the first time
To be fair, Apple's hardware lately has been unimpressive to me (a longtime Apple buyer) and their increasingly locked-down, inflexible software is calling any future purchases into doubt, too.
I heard about it before nintendo power existed.
That's funny. I agree that Zed Shaw was right: I thought that the context of the barb I directed at him in a talk many years ago --- where I compared him with Daniel Bernstein, Theo de Raadt, and Jason Fried from 37signals --- put him in an appreciative and positive light. But he didn't think so --- I hyperbolically said "Zed Shaw will kill your company" (the same way Theo and Bernstein would), and on review, I agreed that it was crazy that I thought the slide I had with him on it would seem benign to everyone.

I agreed so much so that when I was invited to speak at CUSEC shortly thereafter, I was videotaped on stage opening my talk apologizing to him.

Zed didn't update his post on his site to account for that, although he was aware both of my plan to apologize (we spoke on the phone and I agreed the apology was warranted, though not without some debate), and of the fact that I apologized (I confirmed it for him afterwards). But Zed doesn't owe me an update to his page, and I didn't ask for one. You, on the other hand, do bear an obligation to know what you're talking about before you try to use this incident in a public discussion. You obviously haven't lived up to that obligation.

I owe you no apology. My opinion about you isn't concealed and you aren't misunderstanding me. However, you are misrepresenting my comments by referring to them as "abusive" and threatening. Unless you're threatened by criticism of your rhetoric and of the technical quality of your project.
Is this the Adi Shamir? Interesting insight from one of the co-creators of RSA.
I think a 30% cut of all media sold in their app store, on their Apple TVs, and on their phones and tablets will sustain them quite well for a long while, especially from an investor perspective.

That said, as a user and fan I am also expecting Apple to produce another game changing device / platform and they haven't delivered in the last couple of years (need a compelling reason to buy the new iPhone, for example). I gather this is what people mean by downfall? Unfortunately I can only aspire to such a level of irrelevance hehe.
For the record (for anyone who is following the discussion), I have used the KendoUI/Knockout bindings and am comparing Knockout and React on equal ground. Nothing about the programming model would change if you just used straight HTML <input>s.

The main issue with Knockout here, is that the state of these apps (the JSON blob that changes as you click around) is not nice and rectangular and doesn't fit nicely into ko.observable and ko.observableArray. particularly the faceted search demo has tension where the lefthand facet checkboxes are grouped and have counts, but the top facet list is not grouped and don't have counts. In react, those are backed by the same state data, and the data is just regular nested javascript objects and arrays, you don't need to access the data through observables. You just use underscore to transform the data as you see fit.
Here's a cool trend. 1.23billion MAU in Jan [1]. 800M MAU in March [2].

[1] http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2014/01/29/facebook-passes-1-...

[2] http://newsroom.fb.com/company-info/

I have no idea if the trends are cyclical but to the parents point Facebook's active user numbers now may very well crash and burn as youthful users move to other platforms.
Out of interest woild you say the same for Google or do you think they will diversify more successfully? I think their ad/data business is more robust - I feel like it benefits me and Facebook's doesn't, but if the problem is only using ads and data that's a problem Google share.
That font is honestly nearly unreadable on Firefox. Font is too thin.
No sign of remorse. Screw the community that took him there. Get Facebook's billions under the excuse to get major game studios behind the platform. Huge blow to future crowdfunding. Lovely guy.
I had the same question as the parent comment. Perhaps I still don't understand. Doesn't that just create a bottleneck every couple of km? It seems to me that around here one of the biggest causes of traffic appears to be when ever there is a lane reduction.
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Alice or Bob have to sign the fee (in addition to the rest of their transaction) with their private key in order for the miner to spend it later.
> Pension funds don't collect warehouses of cash, they invest in income-producing assets. Why does it matter if those assets are issued by Verizon, Alabama, Facebook or the Treasury?

Because Verizon and Facebook invest the cash they receive from sales of shares in assets that create wealth. (At least, we're assuming they do for this discussion; to they extent that they don't, they're not good investments, which is my point.)

To some extent the Alabama Port Authority is indeed similar to Verizon or Facebook, although I'd want to see their books to see how much was actually being used to create wealth. But the vast majority of the cash given to the US Treasury in exchange for T-bills goes to pay current expenses, not to create new wealth. It's as if you bought shares in Peter Thiel's latest startup and he used the money to buy groceries or pay his electric bill instead of building infrastructure for the startup.

I can anticipate one objection: surely Verizon and Facebook spend a lot of money on salaries and benefits, office supplies, etc.? Yes, they do; but if they're using cash from sales of shares to do that, they're in trouble. Cash for operating expenses should be coming from operating revenues, not from new investment; if new investment is being depended on to fund operating expenses, we call that a Ponzi scheme.
And that's what emulation and binary translation are for! :-P
I thought they were a firm number one and iPads the number one computer. Just to clarify because I didn't know it was on and off, do you have a source at all just to see the details of that statistic?
My bet is that Google and Amazon will come out on top. My thesis on each of the big 4:

Google: Some investments in Google X and other technologies will pay off and Google revenue stream mix will change. Size of pay-off will offset or eclipse current ad revenues.

Amazon: Revenue growth will continue for the foreseeable future. They are still a tiny fraction of their addressable market, and have a humungous moat. Amazon will achieve profitability not by raising prices, but by squeezing suppliers (a la Walmart).

Facebook: Zuck does not think the best use of capital is reinvestment into core Facebook (see investment in WhatsApp + Oculus). That's fine, but has no track record of success with this. Oculus is very promising, but I was much more excited about it when it was a standalone company and John Carmack et al were equity compensated. The addition of Abrash is exciting though. I think this could be Facebook's Youtube if they play it right, but still not going to change Facebook's 5yr+ trajectory.

Apple: I largely agree with Fred Wilson about commodification of hardware.