skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how you concluded that that was my assumption. To have a "unique position" is completely irrelevant. The point is that Google users are sticky and valuable because Google keeps them engaged, and knows more about the users, and so the ads can be more targeted and thus more relevant to the user. In other words, ads shown to Google users by way of Google's ad service are (theoretically) more likely to be acted upon. That the users stick around using the Google services for long enough to potentially see the ads is icing on the cake, and Google's services being as ubiquitous as they are doesn't hurt either. Whether there exist other services in the same position as Google's has no bearing on the intrinsic value of the user base.

On the other hand, your argument that Schmidt's post is "b.s." hinges on the assumption that catering to users is a completely separate business model distinct from catering to their direct revenue sources (e.g. ad publishers). It's not.
> It's a huge, profitable, conflict of interest to have your content provider also be the internet signal provider to your home

So why isn't it prohibited on the antitrust grounds? Or they can't be sustainable as separate companies?
> The question is not about removing privacy addresses from the protocol...

This is correct. The issue at hand is talking about just how short-sighted and mis-informed this statement is:

"I personally see IPv6 adoption going to a full stall if users are told that advertisers found a way to tattoo cookies on their machines."

The only person who's talking about IPv6 "privacy" addresses is you. I don't understand why you keep bringing them up in a conversation about the effectiveness of browser fingerprinting.

I skimmed RFC 7217. It's not incompatible with "privacy" addresses. The RFC in question even mentions the orthogonality:

"The method specified in this document is orthogonal to the use of temporary addresses [RFC4941], since it is meant to improve the security and privacy properties of the stable addresses that are employed along with the aforementioned temporary addresses."

I don't see what your problem is.

If you're not interested in talking about the effectiveness or lack thereof of browser fingerprinting techniques, then I've no interest in continuing this conversation with you.
Has DNA Evidence Unmasked Jack the Ripper?
I think the real problem with the native Clojure compilers is that Clojure is designed to be symbiotic with host platforms that offer a much higher level of abstraction. For example, to perform well, all those persistent data structures require an advanced garbage collector. The JVM, the CLR, and the leading JavaScript implementations offer this; it would take a lot of work to implement one in the absence of one of these mature platforms.
I just find it utterly fascinating that these discussions on the merits of (Common) Lisp still draw 100 comments within such a short time. This has been going on for decades, in many different venues. This by itself should clue newcomers in to the notion that the language (family) may be worth examining in some detail. :)
Some: http://mr.gy/
All that money doesn't go the inconvenienced people.
That is not true.
Can you give me the name of a scientist before Islam?
I'm not from the town, but I bet that wasn't his attitude during the last election.

By that metric, flip-flops seem appropriate.
> but its got slower seeds

I'm not sure this would be true.

This may work for rarer content, but certainly wouldn't work for hot torrents. A fast webseeds CDN or whole datacenter of seedboxes is still on par with a large community-only swarm - that is, except for minor issues (possibly slower start) they both can well saturate one's downstream channel.

That is, unless one wants the download to start at full-speed right at the release second and not an hour or two later when swarm gets enough seeds. But I'm not sure most users care whenever their favorite series get an update at, say, 18:00 or 20:00.
Show HN: Download your spotify music
What distribution do you use with SystemTap, and do you get it from your distro's repositories or externally? I've spent a few hours trying to get a 'hello world' working on a couple occasions on CentOS and Ubuntu, and never really gotten anywhere. Although I have gotten kernel panics.
In aggregate, billions. It would be impossible to calculate per-viewer. [0] The thing is, at present they are paid by every cable subscriber, not just the ones who actually watch the channel. So by switching to the model you suggest, there are two options, charge the user directly what they were currently charging the cable company and lose hundreds of millions in revenue because only a portion of your current viewers will pay you or more likely they will raise the price significantly.

The other thing is it would mean they would have to build a billing and customer service infrastructure. At present they only really have a handful of customers [1] - the cable companies - so it's really easy for them to deal with that side of things. When you have 300 million subscribers, one of the biggest problems will be billing and customer service, so prices would further increase because of that.

I would love to see sport leagues do this. But things need to change somewhat before there will be any major incentive for it to happen.

[0]: Every league, team, sport is different, probably with different contracts with every cable company. The average wouldn't be useful at all because you would have more extreme data points than you would average data points.

[1]: Sure, some networks have online streaming options, but the kind of customer who has no problem paying the extra few hundred dollars a year for access are not the ones that will require the major customer support.
That sounds great. Did you teach them mostly what's on better explained?

Also I wonder how would math studies look if we teach people the intuition, a bit of the formalism and lot of how to use numeric and symbolic tools - instead endless rote learning.
I don't think they are presenting it accurately. I think what they are indicating is it was something like this:

Login page
...
$code_to_embed_captcha
...

I believe $code_to_embed_captcha was returning something along the lines of http://REAL_SERVER_IP/captcha.jpg instead of http://ONION_ADDRESS/captcha.jpg

This wouldn't allow you to identify users, the request for captcha.jpg is still routed through TOR. However it does reveal the true IP of the server.
You know what, it is. Also, Mohammad was a misogynist pedophile warlord. Ideas from medieval ages have no place in the 21st century.

(Down-votes from PC folks welcome)
Python 3 OOP Part 1 – Objects and Types
Yeah, there's a lot dismissive about it.

Or, put more bluntly: stop being an asshole. It demeans you and what you're trying to champion.
They've been a provider for other providers so their presence has been masked a bit. Many smaller, regional, ISPs frequently resell through them.
Day One Template Encoder for Launch Center Pro – LCPEncoder
Nothing will keep you from getting hacked by a determined government, but using Apache/PHP isn't exactly trying to make their life difficult. But at least they didn't use Ruby on Rails. :P
What's the benefit of knowing what your competitor is A/B testing?
If you're not convinced that browser fingerprinting is a useful tool in an advertiser's tracking toolkit, then you need to read what the EFF, lcamtuf, and other security researchers have to say. Or, you could just go work for a grey or black-hat internet advertiser.

Also, do check out my reply in the other thread with you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282694
Of equal importance to HN readers is work by both Ibn Khaldun [1] and Ibn Rushd (Latinized as Averroes) [2]. There are more accessible to Western readers, as both were champions of Aristotelian (analytic) philosophy. Ibn Khaldun is rightly being labeled by some as the founder of systematic sociology.

One of the great Muslim intellectual rivalries was the one between Averros and Al Ghazali [3], one that I won't spoil for anyone but it's a sublime look into efforts by Averroes to inject pure rationality and reason into discussions of the theological.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ghazali
As a long-time Lisper myself, I am a little surprised at the emphasis on LispWorks in this thread. I never used it much myself, and when I did I wasn't that crazy about it, though that was a dozen years ago so who knows. But the point is, Clozure CL and SBCL are just fine for anything I do. I would recommend Clozure CL to newcomers; SBCL is faster (I think), but more complex to use.
To detain you for an hour, he needs a "reasonable and articulable suspicion" that you're in some way involved in a crime, and that means more than just "He looked like a stoner."

"Fuck you" is not an appropriate response, but videotaping responses to respectful questions is: "Am I free to go?" "Am I being detained?" "On what grounds am I being detained?" "Can you please tell me the relevant statutes so I can look them up?"
>If a good enough Android tablet comes along, it can be used.

You have made valid points. However, the fact on ground shows that this a continent powered by Android in the smart device category. It used to be Blackberry but that is on the way out.

People should be able to afford the device before thinking about how long the battery will last. And I see the apps are available on phones. There are great Android phones that last quite long.

Do you know you need a credit/debit card before you can access the itunes store? How many people have access to that here?

Can you give be a link to the Android app I cannot see it on the website.
Wq.app: Offline-capable HTML5 apps
I used 'most' a few years ago because of the windowing support (this is before 'screen' did get support for vertical split). Also I did love about 'most' that it used to colorize manpages, when other pagers didn't.

I stopped using it, like 4 years ago, when someone did told me on IRC that it was unmaintained and did have some bugs.

Note that I did never notice any 'bug' in my time as 'most' user, even if they may exist, and indeed, it's still available at least in all Debian versions.

It's curious that distributions are able to "maintain" a package (maybe even with custom patches) which is not maintained or updated upstream, for years.

It's encouraging to see actions like the one performed by this IllumOS developer. If a program is opensource, we can fork, improve and share. Or as users, we can take a look at the code when making choices, lots of people forget this in favor of search engine recommendations.
A post-it note on my desk if I need a reminder for something today/tomorrow. Notepad.exe for copying/pasting code, URLs, numbers while working. Trello for everything else.
Show HN: Taxa – A tiny language inside JavaScript to enforce type signatures
User Interface Elements – Usability.gov
Whatever scale you use, this article has good advice on how to compute each item's total score for sorting purposes:

http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....
I must have gone at least 20 levels deep and it never noticeably improves.
Does anyone like their cable company? How do they compare to Comcast, Time-Warner, Cablevision?
Richard Stallman is not happy at all about the LLVM FOSS situation:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00247.html

> You say that as if it's good.

> It might be a fact, but it sure ain't good.

Is it bad that not everyone understands Hegel or Heidegger? Does that make their writings less useful?

> Is there a single good thing that can be argued to come from a language not being popular?

It's not a question of good or bad. It's a fact of life that some things are less popular than others, which says nothing about the usefulness of the tool.

> I meanbeside BS like "keeps the amateurs away?", which judging by the abundance of amateur Lisp code one sees, is not an actual advantage of Lisp...

It's just that not every programmer has the intellectual capability to understand, master and use Lisp. That's a fact. I've seen that myself countless times at university in beginner's courses. Also many programmers don't need the features Lisp offers and are happy with other approaches. For them Lisp is too complex, too flexible, etc.

Lots of people can learn some basic Lisp or simple Lisp dialects. But once they use actual features of Lisp, which allows every user to radically change the language, the things get tough... in the industry stuff like that is not liked. They want tools and developers which are more predictable.

I think you should get over this 'popularity' BS.
This hasn't been the case for a long time, although for some reason it remains a common misperception. I think it's mainly a marketing problem because people are always reading comments like this online, or hearing about such-and-such series that "is on Netflix" but disappointingly isn't currently available in the UK, while simultaneously being unaware of all the content that is available in the UK but not in the US.

For example, Netflix UK has the first 2 Hobbit movies, Pixar's Up, the original Danish versions of The Killing and The Bridge, all of Stargate SG-1/Atlantis, 24 and The Shield - none of which are currently available in the US. There's a load more I can't remember off the top of my head. The UK also got Breaking Bad a few hours after it was aired in the US, whereas US customers had to wait several months, presumably due to an exclusivity deal with AMC.

Obviously the UK also gets all the Netflix original content. Occasionally a new season will launch a few months ahead in the US, but that's not really a big deal. I can only assume this is done for same marketing reasons that blockbuster movie launches are typically staggered worldwide.

There are a small number of US shows like 30 Rock and Better Off Ted that I wish were on the UK service, and Star Trek DS9 is conspicuously absent, but that list is much smaller than it was 2 years ago.
> 2. Download the library using a web browser, and just put it where it needs to be.

That might work for certain projects, but let's say you're using 10 third-party libraries. If they're under active development, you can expect at least a few security updates between the time you first import them and the time you ship your own product.

It's not very practical (especially for a programmer!) to keep manually checking your dependencies' product pages for updates.
Constructing a perfect temperament is impossible if you require each logical tone to be mapped to a constant frequency. I've long been curious about what would happen if you allowed the specific frequencies to drift in order to keep the ratio between concurrently sounding tones perfect (well, closer to perfect, as you add more tones). No idea whether the shift would be perceptible, or to how many ears.
For many years, i have tried many things:

- Apps such as Wonderlist, Clear...

- Entries in my GMail Calender

- Notes App on my Phone

- Post-it notes

- Writing reminder emails to myself

At the end of the day, nothing really worked for me.
What DID work for me: a Whiteboard on my front door.

I have all my project ideas, to-do lists and appointments on there.
Seems like this is a golden opportunity for a consortium of microbreweries to run youtube ad campaigns:

"At Hood River | Deschutes | Ninkasi | Whatever (haha), we care about our community, starting here in 19XX, investing yyyy in local infrastructure, employing zzz, supporting aaa at schools, etc. This is our home, NOT a whatever place for us, and we think you care your about home too. So support microbrews, the NOT whatever beer."

(EDIT: "youtube")
Temporarily limiting access to a street, as for a festival, is not going to be seen by courts as an action "to limit expressive activity" – unless, perhaps, it was specifically scheduled to disrupt some usual expressive activity.

The community likely has other events, during the busy tourist season, with similar temporary restrictions of public spaces. Notably, one of the residents quoted as objecting to this event is a founder a summer music festival in the same town, which sells tickets, that appears to also convert usually-open public spaces into temporary paid-access venues.
It's been my understanding that the tuning of a piano is "stretched" compared to perfect 2:1 octaves -- at least this is what I heard from one piano tuner. Some details are suggested by all-knowing Wikipedia;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_tuning
"... I got fed up with the extremely long time it takes less to precalculate line counts on large files..."

When you were experiencing long wait times, did you turn off line numbering?

less -n logfile
It's perfectly easy to write imperative code in CL. You have objects, you have vectors, you have every control structure operator ever conceived except CALL/CC, ... what else do you need?

On the other hand, if you want to write more functionally, CL also now has shared immutable data structures. Check out FSet: http://www.ergy.com/FSet.html
I can see this from both angles. The first angle is, the mayor has gone ahead and from what I gather from the story, secretly withheld the agreement and failed to inform the locals or even let them have a say/voice their opinion. People just want to be heard, and when local politicians go making decisions that affect the town (however big or small) without consulting the inhabitants, of course people are going to be angry about this.

Then you can see it from the other angle. The $500k sum is just a fee for the company to have the right to have the party, think of it as a leasing fee. When you factor in all of the other things like accommodation, food, labour, cabling, generators, lighting and the fact 1000 people flocking to local stores, staff, law enforcement/security and then the clean-up, presumably that is going to significantly boost the local economy quite a lot.

If the party is properly controlled and constrained within the designated street, is it really hurting anyone? Financially hotels/motels are going to be the biggest winners and probably rarely experience an influx of 1000+ visitors at once staying for 3 days. Aside from the fact a company that produces alcoholic beverages is throwing a party and potentially sending the wrong message to some, put aside the moral indifference and it's just a controlled party being attended by young young young.

The inhabitants against the party need to understand they live in a town most likely being kept alive by tourists anyway. There will always be resistance to any kind of change (however temporary), especially those who spent a lot of money moving there (investors and retirees especially). The drinking and partying is already happening (albeit on a small scale) and like pointed out, will give the local economy a significant boost and could potentially result in some of the attendees coming to the party liking the place and coming back for a holiday at a later time. This party has also generated a lot of publicity for the town, people that haven't heard of the place before might be more inclined to visit now that they've heard of it.

I can see the good and bad, and unless I am just being ignorant and not seeing the bigger picture, it seems the good outweighs the bad in this situation.
OKC staff have publicly, repeatedly, that the reason the article was taken down was that after their acquisition by Match, the OK Trends staff had access to new data which showed that their original conclusion was wrong.

Example of such an explanation: http://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/pr2wo/dyk_that_okcu...
Because central Banks have been buying up securities to avoid bankrupting the government during the 4st 4 years of their party's president. Then they had to extend this to avoid hitting 15% unemployment by hitting the next recession when unemployment was already at 9-10%.

Then those %$##@$$% "job-creators" only went halfway : they hired people, but not enough and only temps. So now the Fed is buying securities, pushing up Schiller's P/E, to create employment pressure before hiking rates back up and presumably create the mother of all crashes by selling 2+ trillion in securities on the open market.

Now is the quiet before the storm. Best guesses seem to be dollar will appreciate for half a year or so, stock market stalling or at least slowing down, then stock market will crash, then another 3-4 months of dollar appreciation, then the Fed will crash the dollar again.

Interesting times ahead.
This is my guess as well. That or the captcha had a query parameter like ?nonce=1234&redirect_url=$HOSTNAME/login
Slackware, Clozure Common Lisp, Emacs, Slime.

Actually its not very fancy. I basically live in a live CL image, have some emacs key bindings which invoke a simple CL job system (EVAL in a thread). I can shift-right-click things to get a menu of actions for that type of file and plain-right-click to run the VIEW action for that type of file (as a job in CL).

http://i.imgur.com/2b47mII.png

I have a QUERY function which is hooked up to Recoll (full text search). I have the HTML ANSI CL draft under /usr/doc/ansi-common-lisp/ and HTML versions of all manpages under /usr/doc/man so finding documentation is quite nice. E.g. I (query "defun") or (query "gethostname") and get a sane list of results.

I have a markdown like language in which I write all my documentation, its media independent and has backends for plaintext, html and LaTeX output. I want to release it soon but well...

There is the SH DSL for executing UNIX commands, the PIPE macro for doing things like (pipe (sh hostname) (read)) (just a silly example).

My web server is open source (telnet to mr.gy on port 80). Its mostly "cute", not something you'd run on a large site.
> But the vast majority of the population is uneducated, uninformed and unmotivated. They're unwilling to turn off TV and talk radio and participate in their community.

That was always the case in past centuries (more so) and still, people frequently rebelled against malevolent authorities.

Have we become too civilized to resist? Or are we just too concerned with our individual well-being to sacrifice some personal safety for a common cause?
Yup 100%.

You would not believe the amount of fire I got responding to the writings of another black writer who touched this topic: Ta-Nehisi Coates when I expressed the exact same point.

I think the troubling aspect is the disconnect in the area you highlighted: necessity in context. Sadly there is so much demagogy taking place in the larger conversation of "race" that not even natural sciences like the study of statistics are safe from mindsets that want to rule conversation with politics over pragmatism.

Nomenclature exists to easily quantify and reference, not necssiarily objectify.
Bingo.

Though I have to say that I'm now investing in real estate, based on my own observations of the area I live now, but I'm not taking a buy-and-flip approach. Instead I'm trying buy-and-make-12%-ROI-on-rent. The rental market is extremely tight here. But it's not going to make me a millionaire in a year.
> CL has LOOP...

Oh gawd. The biggest wart on the language.

Let's just agree that it's controversial :-)
You can directly access malloc and free in .NET as well, it's just more inconvenient.
I would not be surprised if eventually Netflix is forced to charge different rates to customers based on their ISP and the amount of shakedown they are forced to pay for interconnect agreements. It is easy to imagine a base rate of $8 for Netflix and a $4 Comcast network fee.

After all if Netflix must raise rates to cover these new costs it seems it would be in their best interests to educate their customers in hopes of driving lobbying efforts to force common carrier legislation on ISPs.