skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! Not sure if you knew about it, but sentry does javascript, python, php, golang, and several other languages all with one super nice user interface. It was originally developed by disqus, but now spun off into a hosted version as well. The code is 100% open source and I suggest it to anyone with a serious production webapp.

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

http://getsentry.com
The country where 1984 was written seems determined to make it factual history. Once a government decides it's fine and dandy to spy on its own (and others) it's unlikely to ever go backwards.
"Thank you for using the Influencing Machine. This call may be recorded for training purposes."
Every day I hear about sites being broken for people with AdBlock. Yesterday a friend couldn't complete his buy at a online ticket agency due to AdBlock. The problem is that you never know if the site is broken or if it's due to AdBlock and most of the times you don't even realize it (especially true for people who are not power users).
I used to block ads before we noticed that 30% of our website revenue was lost to adblocking. We realised that people weren't intentionally blocking ads on our site, but probably due to some bad advertising that pushed them over the edge somewhere else on the internet. There was nothing we could do, so started a new business (PageFair).

In your post, you are correctly angry at advertisers. But adblocking doesn't punish advertisers, it punishes websites, starting with your favorite ones. Right now, the advertisers just go somewhere else for their traffic. Even if it did somehow punish advertisers, would it discriminate between the relevant & polite ones (e.g., job ads on stackoverflow) and the spammy ones (magic weight loss pills on dictionary.com)?

Agree that the publishers and web users need something better. That's our goal at PageFair.
Where I'm from people doing the beatings would get warnings, detention, special class and consultation, or as a last resort youth detention center ("prison" for kids with focus on rehabilitation) in that order. Sure, you could also move schools but this seems more to have been a decision taken by parents and not the school system itself.
My guess is that they have a script that observes ad placements and counts "non-impressions".
Counting impressions at the site level is not the same as counting them at the ad server level. There are generally multiple ad servers daisy-chained into the ad tag, creating a lot of latency. It is very typical to lose 10% or more ad inventory simply because the ad can't load in time.
If pagefair can't account for that, then the number is highly inflated.
The rise of Qualcomm
“The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control”

Scary shit...
It's possible this was an unintended bug. It seems fixed now when I look at it.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/118173160071859284230/posts/hD7F...
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Yep, we know sentry!
Usersnap focus on client-side recording of user-reported bugs - you'll even get a screenshot of the current situation.
A power the US has claimed as its own for some time.

In practice, extradition will cover most cases. It will be used against Gmail and Yahoo in the first instance.
This reminds me of Frederik Pohl's [1] book The Gold at Starbow's End, in which Gödelization [2] is used to compress a huge message into a very short one. There's a brief description of that part of the book at MathFiction [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl

[2] http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Gödelization

[3] http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumbe...
I couldn't be bothered coming up with a username and password for something that I only know is a "puzzle game", with no further information.
Chrome and Firefox have the ability to add in custom searches. After getting it setup I think all you'd need to do is type `mdn [terms]`.
I met David at JuliaCon a couple weeks ago -- he's a physics professor at the National University of Mexico and a charming interlocutor. I haven't made it through this (4-hour) tutorial myself, but the word among the core developers on the Julia mailing list is that it is very, very good.

As others have posted, the 3-hour second part is here: http://pyvideo.org/video/2753/introduction-to-julia-part-2
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David did a phenomenal job with this tutorial and I highly recommend this as a starting point for anyone who wants a good, digestible (and entertaining) intro to Julia.
Yeah - But I think you can do some of that stuff with the built-in Firefox Inspector. Just right-click and hit Inspect. On the right side of the toolbar click Style. You can try out styles there.
Big man, I drop by London once in a while if there is a massive event as well, as the WEAREFSTVL2014 for instance, here in A'dam there are plenty of GIGS and I am always there, first to get in, with my wife, or by myself if necessary. BIG UP indeed.

did I mention travel and be original? :-P
"But advertisers crossed the line when my phone started talking about construction contractors at me out loud. Instantly switched to Firefox, installed Adblock...."

Bingo. Every time I switch to, or add a browser to the ones I regularly use (this also included a desktop Windows to Linux switch), I forgo Adblock. But I inevitably install it after hitting a seriously abusive ad.

In theory I'm willing to give advertisers a chance, in practice the bad actors have poisoned the well so thoroughly I, and evidently many many others, including ones I influence, or setup and maintain their computers (my parents, who have a fair amount of disposable income), block almost all advertising.

And, yeah, I can't see how this won't end up changing a number of business models.
> "[E]mergency legislation is necessary to keep the country safe"

After the number of times US and UK spy agencies have been caught red-handed, do people really still buy this? Because that'd be the saddest part of all.
Parallel construction, I suppose: use the GCHQ records to select a target, then pull the ISP's copy of the data into court.
I don't think X11's network transparency is useful at all nowadays. RDP and VNC give much better results.

Wayland's model is much more likely to end up with useful network support.

Modern graphics simply does not scale across networks naively.
Do you know the 9 stages of crowdfunding?
So at first glance, how is this better than e.g. Slack?
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Fully fund your Roth IRA. Visit a financial planner. Make sure you have your plans in place for retirement. Then play.
The voice of Hulu has been fired
Forget psuedorandom. Get *truly* random with fair_dice_roll 🎲
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Have you ever heard of hindsight bias? Many experiments have shown that people overestimate how easy it would've been to guess future outcomes. They did this by actually asking people to guess certain outcomes, then asked them a year later what their guess was - people's self-reported guesses were usually off, in the direction of what actually happened.

One of the problems with this is that our brain tricks us into believing that we're better guessers than other people, because hey, look at all the times we were right in the past! Except we weren't right - it's just our memory deceiving us.

All of this is to say - Google hires extremely smart people. I would really hesitate to call them incompetent, both because what you say was "sure to happen" is a big dose of hindsight, and also because you have no idea what their goals were - for all you know, they took a risk that the project would either stall or become super-successful, so they shot for the moon. That's a legitimate option.
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Y u no do Mozilla Firefox addons ?!

(do want)
Wouldn't making layout.css.visited_links_enabled false in about:config do the same thing?
Fair points. We need to provide the source data and a full explanation. We're going to publish a detailed report in August with everything in it.

To answer one of your questions, the predicted desktop rate is based on an assumption that adblock adoption is driven by word of mouth (we have a basis for this assumption), and a compound growth rate is fitted to raw adblock rate data.

It's hard to combine the google trends data into the same model, because it's just a picture of search volume, not total adblock installations. I think it would be a fair to assume that the growth rate of new installations would match the growth rate of search volume, which means that the growth rate of 65% we're seeing this year is higher than it would have been in previous years.

Finally, I want to acknowledge that nothing can grow exponentially forever! At some point everyone who will use adblock will already have it installed. I'm pretty sure some countries are pretty close to adblock saturation already (Germany, Poland, Sweden and Finland).
> If you don't have an account, you should.

Just a word of caution for those ready to act on this right away: research before paying (unless the price is something you can afford to spend without thinking).

After I impulse-bought a Pinboard account (about two years ago), I realized that not always can I save a bookmark immediately—for two reasons: 1) the extension for Google Chrome was buggy to the point of UI not showing up at times, and required logging in every now and then (the extension didn't see any change until I switched to Safari much later—perhaps it was fixed afterwards), and 2) although I use Pinboard somewhat episodically, I couldn't save a bookmark a few times because their servers were down.

Even though Pinboard's UI is very clean, and I feel more confident knowing that I paid for the service, and I like privacy-by-default and clean UI, and I admire its founder, I wouldn't recommend it. The primary purpose of a bookmark manager, I realized, is to help you immediately free up your mind by storing an URL, and it trumps everything else.
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Beam me up Scotty!! uRadar gives cyclists eyes in the back of their heads...
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"At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US. This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores."

I think he meant that the NSA had access to the 80% of calls that are routed through the US, not the the NSA is recording and storing literally every single one of them. I think he was misquoted or misspoke.

William Binney hasn't worked for the NSA since 2001. Were they recording all calls back then? Did someone still there leak new information to him?
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Your view is certainly not the same as the way many people view Kickstarter.

But let's not quibble over what Kickstarter is. There is obviously a lot of value in having some kind of market where people hand over money with the risk of project failure, in order to potentially get a new product that they want to exist built.

How would you create such a marketplace and communicate clearly that that's what it is? I ask because I thought Kickstarter was exactly this, but apparently you don't agree, so I wonder where our difference of opinion stems from..
People still buy the Daily Mail, that's what matters.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html : at time of writing this comment, I can't find any mention of this story on the front page at all.

Also, to be fair, if you're an average white guy who doesn't get involved in politics, you're not likely to have surveillance used against you. It's a police state in potential, a "fleet in being" that has not put to sea.
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Where did the rest of your money go if you co founded a company that turned over £4million? Is it locked invested somewhere?
It's unreasonable to compare the functionality of zones in 2014 with their functionality in 2005, when vserver was contemporary and the principal containerization solution.

In 2014, you'll find that LXC or OpenVZ (or Xen paravirt in some environments) are the preferred virtualization solutions and have been for years, which have every advantage zones have.

By "weight" of zones, I mean that they're still effectively Solaris containers running init and basic services. Linux containers do this. Docker doesn't. It's app virtualization.
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> Its not even clear that the planned nomination was ever even real -- it was claimed in an "e-mail newsletter" by an author citing anonymous "reliable sources" and then picked up by outlets with broader readership (like Ars) and reported (and headlined) as fact; whether the origin was a result of real knowledgeable people leaking information, or a trial balloon, or people wanting to assure a contrary result pretending to knowledge to create political pressure in the opposite direction or, the author of an email newsletter making stuff up to get attention, or any of a million other ways Washington rumors get manufactured is far from clear.

It's a fair point, as we don't and likely won't know the why. Hell, I see the event chain as a not-unlikely consolation prize that "we" defeated an opponent of patent reform at least, even if the patent reform legislation failed.

But also, we were so badly defeated on the legislative front, the White House could have wanted to test if they needed to switch positions based on relative political strength, if we couldn't stop the nomination.

Having just gotten back from DC to talk startup visa implementation, it's been underlined to me how much goes on under the surface in that town...
Publicly complaining about Google's search results to the WSJ journalists.

Bold move Yelp. Let's see if it pays off...
[citation needed] though
1.) The article didn't link the original letter. If you want to give the context, then link the entire text from the letter. Wittes may be completely accurate, but there is no way to verify his credibility.

2.) Wittes still didn't prove that his remarks are not a general argument to the specific issue he is writing about. The quotation is so generic that is seems to be a basic principle that he believes in, and he is using that principle as his argument against this specific instance of liberties being curtailed. If Wittes posted the actual text that surrounds the quote, it would become clear that he believes in this general principle in every context, not just in this specific argument.

"There is not in any volume, the sacred writings excepted, a passage to be found better worth the veneration of freemen, than this, "those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety;" nor could a lesson of more utility have been laid at the crisis before the Pennsylvanians."

http://books.google.com/books?id=HptPAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%2...
There's a new blog post up where GADTs have been used in one of the OCaml-TLS libraries (i.e ASN1)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020125
My prolog sense is tingling!
Yelp counts visiting the restaurant's home page as a "Google+ local page".

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/487032160663007232
"Tabs" are probably in the same Webview (not actual "browser tabs").
>> "Make certain that the flight is one way"

Be careful with this. I had to book a one way flight once but it actually worked out more expensive than booking a return. So sometimes it might just be cheaper to book the return and not use the return trip.
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Nothing usually happens. Officially, you can be prosecuted and sent to jail.
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Docker is application containerization.

While Docker is built on top of libcontainer and cgroups (used to be LXC), traditional containers, including LXC and zones, start init and enough services to look like a "normal" system. You can still use rc.local to manage applications if you want to, I guess.

Docker is a build system for containers which run /bin/foo as PID1, with no services, no ssh, and no init (which presents other problems reaping children, handling sigterm, etc). It's containerization for application virtualization.
"At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US."

It definitely seems like he meant that 80% of calls are recorded and stored. Whether that's true or not will (hopefully) come out in time.
The NSA is recording every call in the Bahamas and Afghanistan. They can listen to any call made in the last 30 days. (Edit: Only cell phone calls, but still.) It's possible that a similar rolling-window system is in place for calls going through the USA.

Bahamas: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/05/19/data-p...

Afghanistan: https://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-statement-on-the-mass.html
The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Vol 2 [1] has a great chapter on ghc, which includes a good look at the ghc runtime (section 5.5).

[1] http://aosabook.org/en/ghc.html
What source would you trust for a citation?
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The problem is that most people won't even click the "Register" link. For me personally it has nothing to do with email though. It's an obstacle which I can't be bothered with, even if it's just username and password.
Generation X and Y had a easy childhood and learnt to be egocentric and only think about themselves. Even philanthropic initiatives are only masks to feed their ego and personal development. Ex: voluntourism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_travel

Disclaimer: I'm in the frontier between these two generations. I was taught to be like this.

I wish I wish I could be like you advise. I can listen my father words in your words. By the way I read your book, great ideas there.
this is unsolvable. the 2 sets of children that can't travel with the adults and the police criminal pair that must be together make too many dependencies. is this a joke?
> We currently have < 1% opt outs.

I have a feeling this may be because even "Close Buttons" on ads have a reputation for being untrustworthy.

I've drilled it into the heads of all of my not-so-computer-savvy relatives to NEVER click anything on any ads, even if it looks like a close button. They often aren't. (Telling mom and pop that clicking on 'em will give you viruses is very effective.)
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> The only chance for a resolution is to vote a minority party in with a decent privacy manifesto and hope the hell they stick to it.

I think we're beyond that. The whole system is broken i.e. government, parliament, "democracy", elections, parties etc.

Really, parties, elections, government and such are just a distraction from the fact that corporations control the world.
on mobile, my service provider (free.fr) offers ad block on ISP level. Very nice feature, my only concern is that it is an opt-out choice.
Part of this is just Finance 101. Valuation is an art as much as it is a science. Arguing assumptions is exactly what valuation is about-- this does not seem to reveal anything great.

Gurley is obviously a buyer of Uber while Damodaran is not. The lower TAM or penetration numbers could even be written off as conservatism, after all humans are generally more optimistic about future prospects.

Gurley makes a good point on the elasticity of Uber but frankly if I am in a suburb (as most of my close friends and family), you do not use Uber as much given you own a car you paid $30K+ for. In areas like NYC where Uber is used more, there could be higher demand but then you meet a limit- the number of cars on the road... too many causes congestion and people opt for mass transit. I do agree with the napkin sketch but I think there are multiple forces working against Uber away from large metropolitan areas (which is stated as a growth opportunity) including 1) car ownership; 2) infrequent trips -- you generally do a bunch of errands in one shot due to distance; 3) physical space-- how many ubers can there honestly be in a 20-40 mile radius in a lower volume area? Why not go to a nearby city, instead?

Uber is a great service and I use it a lot but I find it hard to see as a car alternative. It is an alternative to existing cabs and mass transit in most areas. It will be interesting to see how it grows and like previously stated, what kind of margins it's drivers are earning... at a certain point you can only drive so much in price drops till they leave for the alternative.

"Appendix"
I even spoke to a yellow cab driver in NYC the other day and he stated that he is rounding up support from the commissioner for help on two things: 1) Green cabs (limited to where they can physically pick up but often times break rules) and 2) Uber.
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Interesting, that's the most positive thing I've heard about Wayland so far (much simpler system).
right, that's the point of stacking and other structure-wise efficiency enhancement... I didn't go as far as the warm air rising =)
> remember that the US median household income is 50k - and that's for the whole household

That figure includes folks in rural areas where Uber is basically non-existent.

I don't think you're going to get $50k annually with Uber right now unless, at the very least, you're in a major metropolitan area.

That said, I still can't deny that $50k (if that number is realistic and already includes expenditures like gas) is a good amount for what amounts to borderline unskilled labor.
We're staring at the gradual but deliberate end of privacy and its scary. The large majority of the world's population either doesn't know or care how significant or dangerous this trend is, and those few who do will find their way into surveillance databases because they act "suspiciously" by encrypting their communications and guarding their privacy.

I don't see a powerful enough counterforce against this insidious trend anywhere around the world. "Inspired" by the US, other countries are joining a competitive surveillance race stoked by private corporations selling everything from GSM monitoring to big data.

</rant>
That doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for sources. Otherwise it's just blind fear mongering.
The biggest differentiator is that ChatGrape integrates (and attaches) all your issues, files and documents automatically as you type. We call this Deep Service Integration. This way, you'll never again lose time searching for documents or issues you're trying to reference ;)
I make enterprise buying decisions and it is on my radar. But then again, I frequent HN so there's that...
I am going to test it for my experimental site.
> Do chrome extensions allow you to enter javascript functions that get executed via settings?

Maybe I misunderstand you but isn't that what an extension does?