skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ads that follow you are called retargeting and the reason why they are used is... because they work! They get dramatically more clicks and conversions than other ads. There are also less obvious retargeting ads where websites trade their audiences with advertisers.

But yes, the ad system is completely broken. It's a complete security nightmare - they track you, in plain text, without telling you, they sell data about you without your consent, they are a great way to deliver exploits to millions of people (and their security policies are a complete joke). There are click-farms everywhere, pricing is not transparent, there are less-than-honest practices against advertisers all over the place, inventory gets sent to networks where they don't belong, then there are the intrusive ads, the dark pattern ads...

It would be nice to have an online ads industry that is safe and secure and honest to fund Internet content, but so much about (mass) advertising is so inherently anti-customer that I don't think that will ever happen. I hope we'll figure out ways to directly pay for content instead.
Yes, but the added weight of something as large as a 1kW resistor compromises the portability of the board. We're looking into how to do this without adding weight.
Replacing Makefiles isn't the hard part. People do it all the time.

The hard part is figuring out a migration path away from Autotools. Not even replacing them, that's relatively easy. Integrating them into a world dominated by Autotools, that's difficult.
Probably a response to last night's "Building C Projects" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8563005
So you bought a larger, heavier car, with a more powerful engine, and you think the problem is that engines are not getting more efficient?
Use a link shortener (perhaps buy a domain of your own for it) to avoid linking to your domain?
"when I look back I will clearly view the code I've written here to be way more important for humanity's progress than the code I've written for entrepreneurs' selfish attempts at billion dollar exits"
I'd love one! Rooted, acting as a high quality wifi microphone . If TTS is handled locally (doubtful) I'd love to tap into that as well, it sounds very nice.

This might be the new Kinect, a device least used for what it was originally intended. Fingers crossed, we might be getting a great microphone!
It does seem like they don't care, Looks like I should think about making my skills better than worrying about the company
thanks mate !!
Not that I'm personally worried about the FBI, but if I were? Living in fear that you'll get busted for making a lame joke isn't living. Whatever happened to all the grand talk of civil disobedience and standing up to the man? Instead we've got people on the "good side" going around saying "don't talk like that." The man doesn't even need to bother oppressing speech when you're doing it for them.
Develop a game, either desktop or mobile
Develop an app for the Android Wear watch I have
Spend time on electronic music production
Fix my M3

The list goes on and on.
Also seems ideal for beginners: look up the number of questions on SO asking 'which library to include for xxx.h'

Pretty sure pkg-config can help with that. Don't see why you need SO.
There's only so much you can do with last-mile lines. There is no known way to get data to your house faster and with more bandwidth than using light. There is nothing that travels faster than light in a vacuum.

The only enhancement I can think of is propagation for ever-higher frequencies (UV, X-Ray, etc), allowing more bandwidth. But realistically node hardware improvements regularly boost the performance of the same fiber cable, much like how cable modems are still improving using the same RG-6 from the 60's. (RG-6 is old, but it is still very good- physics still works just the same)

Last-mile power/sewage/data/etc hasn't changed much because it is fundamental. Water travels in pipes. Sewage also travels in pipes. The only reason data changed (POTS to cable/fiber) is because data was originally piggybacked on a network never designed for it.

One day we might do fiber optics with gamma rays, or invent wormhole communication, but I'm prepared to invest in plain-old visible-light fiber optics for now.

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As for water distribution in general (not last-mile), that's a problem with water rights, not water companies. It's a legal nightmare that has nothing to do with public vs. private utilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1scP9uZP9Y

Seems more informative and less salesy-pitchey
Almost done documenting, thank you for the comment, it means a lot !!!
Used in conjunction with ccache, this may not matter too much.
You can state the number you are currently seeking. It really does not matter what you made before but rather what you are willing to accept now.
Indeed. Thanks mate !!
“If you've used Make, you're used to creating Makefiles. In them, you manually build this immense graph where all of the parts hopefully add up to a working program.”

Actually, I used to generate rules using gcc -MM which does pretty much this: track dependencies in sources files using #include directives.

Nevertheless, I'm happy to see that the idea of automatically handling dependencies is still being worked on. I'd be so happy to trash all this scons config files we have to maintain on a near-daily basis.
Pretty much every ad aired this year for the Surface Pro 3 compares it directly to a MacBook Air, not to an iPad. (Literally--the MacBook is on camera alongside the Surface Pro in many of these ads.)

To the extent that you perceive the Surface advertised as iPad++, you're probably thinking more of the original Surface ads one to two years ago (which focused on the regular Surface, which did in fact ship with a free copy of Office).
Is there more to junk mail than meets the eye?
Show HN: DIY Clothespin Piano
Disrupting the pharmaceutical industry!!
One of my cofounders worked on this before we started Boosted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
Holy coolness, can you make a version that runs in node-webkit so I can hook it up to ableton and other DAWs via OSC? That would be 100% groovy. Do you mind if i do it myself some time?
There's nothing special about it really. Blobs of text have a grid position, then I set the CSS left/top properties to gridX * gridWidth etc and the scrolling is done by CSS translate on the parent container div. The browser handles it all for me
Supporting the Anonymous Use of Facebook via Tor
Would love to have an option to store state in the query string or hash so that I could share my favorite palette :)
New Georgia Tech Library [video]
I think he said that make solved only a small, relatively easy part of the problem, and he didn't want to have to work around the limitations of make and the syntax of makefiles. He also mentions that different make implementations have different idiosyncrasies that he'd have to work around. Also, I think he wanted to preserve more information about the dependency tree between the various steps, instead of having multiple tools each making their own half-assed (or completely manual) attempts at deducing that information.
You're being down voted, yet remember that the US was quite happy for NORAID to operate there even after 9/11.
Languages of Love
It's easyish to derive to good accuracy from the accelerometer signal alone (which I believe is always available).
A lot of big announcements at once from MS. Free Office, new Band, and did you see they're opening the Azure ML for free testing?

http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2014/...
The front page's "Sign in with Github" doesn't work for me on Chrome/Linux (Chromium 37 on Ubuntu 14.04).
The way you lose portability by moving to a high level language is that you don't have an implementation of that high level language for as many platforms. You're not losing abstract portability in the sense that the semantics of the high level code is very highly machine-independent. But an actual port requires an actual toolchain.

C is not inherently portable, and it takes a lot of know how, care, testing, and sometimes luck, to write C that is portable.

C is de facto portable in the sense "able to be actually ported" by having the tools --- but possibly at the cost of combing the code for nonportabilities that have to be uprooted.
If you do the math, riding 4,000 miles a year for 40 years gives you a 4.2% chance of dying in an accident.

This is not a useful statistic.

I ride almost every day (weather permitting), and with all the riders out there in my area, there is a wide spectrum of safety consciousness and skill on the road.

I guess I fall closer to the 'Hyperreflective self-disciplinary' camp, but I do realize that there inherent risks to riding motorcycles, and I accept them.

Not only do I wear protective equipment from head to toe, but I pay a lot of attention to what's going on ahead and around me. Who's trying to turn left up ahead? What's going on with this intersection, even though I still have the green light? And so on.

So I don't think it is fair to lump me into a statistic with these punks riding bikes with too much power and not enough common sense... all while wearing t-shirts, shorts and flip-flops.
I am a pure CPA buyer, so, I agree, that I don't worry much about fraud.

The big money is in brands. P&G goes on a 6-month blitz making sure every man knows about the fusion razor, and the person that cleans the house knows what a swiffer is. They use an ad blitz to secure shelf space and consumer interest, then print money hand over fist for the next decade.

As a CPA buyer, I personally welcome rampant ad fraud because it keeps the people with real money like P&G from bidding up ad prices. Ad fraud screws brands and publishers. It helps CPA advertisers, because it keeps the brand money out of the system.
Daniel Ellsberg [Pentagon Papers whistle-blower]: "Somebody told me that they can listen to what we're saying by my having this cellphone {waves what looks like iPhone} even though it's turned off."

William Binney [ex-NSA]: "Yes. [... goes off on a tangent about data analysis]

He doesn't really mention it. Indeed the vid is considering electronic communications and information which is put in to the public sphere. Other than that one question which Binney responds to only with "Yes" there's no other mention of private audio being covertly sniffed.

The BBC article is very sparse and jumps from being able to eavesdrop mobile->basestation and decrypt that to being able to listen in on all conversations within range of a phone. Clearly ludicrous.

I don't at all doubt that phones can be modified remotely to covertly listen and that some phones could enable this when switched off (though that seems unlikely to meet with normal design requirements, it seems that this covert listening would need to be designed in). I guess maybe you could make "off" only appear to be off whilst listening - my phone gets hot when doing anything extended like recording a talk or something and drains the battery quite a lot - even with the screen off. Seems that using this sort of surveillance on a widescale is highly unlikely.

>"all it takes is one secret order to the company concerned, with a warrant covering the entire country, and their entire product line is useful for surveillance on demand" [grey-area, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8569217]

Only, IMO, if it's already been designed in and you can hide the power usage (and data-store usage).

Anything better?
Quotable: Quote the World Around You
Not sure why I got down voted. I wasn't trying to be mean. I just thought it was funny how similar the idea was and wanted to give a suggestion. I hate when people down vote and don't explain their reason.
Introducing the new ParseUI for iOS
Yes. You can. Google has made some acquisitions lately in this anti-fraud space.

Most of the Valley does not care, and seems to be invested in maintaining and expanding the scale of the fraud. The market will eventually punish this when conditions change to be less frothy. It will be 2000 redux, for similar reasons as to why SV lost so much credibility the last time around (pervasive traffic fraud).

>Another example, ads that follow me. Oh god how I hate these. I visit a website, usually for a product that I already own, and the freaking ad from that company follows me wherever I go. This is money wasted.

Well, they do work for some people. They just have to be managed in a way that doesn't create this annoyance. You cap the frequency or make it so that the offer is actually attractive and useful to the user. Or you limit what it triggers on to only go off when the user does something that signals their intent to become a customer (like adding certain items to their cart and then abandoning without buying).

Many things that people hate about online advertising as a whole is more caused by people mismanaging the ads than is caused by platform problems.
Ask HN: Our Startup is falling. Should I fall?
I'm CTO of a cool Startup. We got investments, a cool product that everybody said "Whoohoo" when we showed what we can do with it. But we never sold it...(its free but we never did marketing)

We don't have money anymore and didn't pay our employees the last month. The CEO fails to convince investors or buyers.

What do you advice?
Good luck! What did you think of Ionic? (I've never used it myself, but am curious.)
If you're not getting value out of it anymore then change it to a waiting list you can ignore and focus on launching a v1 as quickly as possible.
there's a certain irony when advertisers--whose intention is to manipulate the preferences/behaviors/purchases of consumers--cry foul about their manipulation systems being manipulated
I got bored playing the game so I decided to whip up a quick solver instead: https://github.com/Shalmanese/num-solver
SV will not care about this until another 2000-level crash. Then, they will be forced to care, because the revenue will stop coming in. Until then the community will do the see no evil / hear no evil / speak no evil routine.
Awesome idea. Top Trumps for Software Stacks!
With a normal skateboard you often have to clean the wheel bearings. The maintenance is what I like least about skateboarding. Is a Boosted board any different in that regard?
LOCKSS is definitely a giant in this field, and David Rosenthal (who wrote the paper I linked as well) is great.

But LOCKSS occupies a small niche. My hope is really that at some point a commercially-focused project with a ton of engineering effort and battle testing behind it will displace a lot of what LOCKSS has had to do manually. Seems like that might happen as web services get more and more distributed and fault-tolerant.
I think its a combination of both. I got into it at the right time and right place, but I also figured out how to do it rather easily. And I know what i'm doing. I program every day for a YC company in SF with about 40 employees. If I was just faking it, it would have come out by now, imo.
In a similar vein: http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/
A bit of a higher price point, but some Formula 1 teams went through similar issues with their KERS system in regards to performance and weight. I think everyone converged on extremely high speed flywheels, but there was a fair amount of work into ultracapacitors. I'd imagine a 1,000F ultracap could handle the ~20-30 seconds of 100W braking power at well under a pound? I know nothing of their reliability or availability and I'm sure you guys have done your own research but just thinking out loud.
Maybe some kind of malware in the form of toolbars that sneaks into other downloads by the non-tech-savvy users?
I wasn't discounting his research (apologies if it sounded that way). I was simply pointing out that at the end he made it sound like this behavior was unexplained, when in fact that code explains it quite well.
LMFAO... this needs to be a short film on YouTube.
I logged in to request an invite, then it removed the option ... they know too much already!
Recently (during last two weeks or so) a lot of such suspicious traffic started appearing in Google Analytics as various versions of Internet Explorer, not only 7. We were forced to filter out IE completely to just calculate stuff like conversion rate. Great that legitimate traffic from IE was negligible anyway, but who knows how much of this traffic is still hiding there as some other browsers?

Thankfully, as far as I know we don't do any retargeting campaigns right now (but I think we did in the past, and we were targeted by those IE7 bots in July as well), but it's still awful PITA to deal with it in analytics data.

So, I'm seconding your comment completely.
I have not played with SonarQube, hadn't even heard of it until someone I told about Debt Ceiling last week or week before mentioned it to me. I thought it was closed source when I first looked, but I see it's at least partially open source at a glance, thanks for mention, though yeah, Java world is pretty far from ruby world...
Show HN: Pakible – Create custom packaging in 3D (built with Three.js)
Love the idea but not sure about the use in denser cities. I saw my first boosted in action on the streets of SF during my morning commute. Seems cool but the gentleman was riding in the bicycle lane at around 10mph which is much slower than all other traffic on the road, including bicycles.

I really want to love these types of transportation but I have a hard time seeing how they can scale without cities adopting to them. We already have enough trouble getting proper bicycling safety and then we introduce electric longboards on top of the existing skate/longboards and push scooters that already roll around on the streets and worse, sidewalks.

Maybe I am just biased because I dislike push scooters on sidewalks but then where is the push scooter legally able to go?
I used to work at UW Space Science and Engineering Center, which did lots of remote support for the projects down on the ice. We would often be communicating with IceCube to plan shipments, or get machines that touched each other working. This was one of the most interesting systems support you can think of.

The hardest part of the support was system updates. There wasn't even a local yum cache on the continent, and many of these machines had security standards they had to meet involving staying patched. Once I managed to start a batch-update job over SSH, and within 15 minutes I had the team lead run into my office to see if I was doing anything, because he received a call saying we were saturating the bandwidth to the continent.

I never even considered applying for the jobs down on the ice, because I would never PQ. Even migraines can be too much, because if you're going down they need you ready to work EVERY day you're down there. Transient medical issues happen, but chronic without any control, or requiring medicine for survival, immediately disqualifies you. My friend who just hit McMurdo this week had to have dental work done to qualify.

All that being said, Barnett and the rest of the Ice Cube team do some amazing work with extremely difficult technical problems to solve. It is the same level of difficulty as anything in space, and they have done remarkably.
British Spies Are Free to Target Lawyers and Journalists
Init.d and Start Scripts for Scala/Java Server Apps
You are saying that Google Search+Ads's success is as marketing-driven as Beats headphones?
ecological
I found the Bim editor interesting; particularity for the simplicity of its implementation.
Look at the job linked at the start of the article. There's always a few positions being floated either with IceCube, UW SSEC, or UW AOS that end up down there every year. That is also true of grad student positions, as you say.
Suggestion: a random button.
I was prepared for some stupid privacy FUD. HN comments don't disappoint though :)
Why Buzzfeed Doesn't Do Clickbait
I did not heed this warning. It is VERY LOUD! Heart attack loud :)
The whole basis of rights is to protect YOU if THEY are wrong.

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...

What if the government mistakenly determines that based on your pattern of activities, you're likely to engage in a criminal act? What if it denies you the right to fly? What if the government thinks your financial transactions look odd—even if you've done nothing wrong—and freezes your accounts? What if the government doesn't protect your information with adequate security, and an identity thief obtains it and uses it to defraud you? Even if you have nothing to hide, the government can cause you a lot of harm.
This video may be a better introduction to Boosted boards, but it's an old vid that lacks all the news I got from the posted one: new models/software/pricing/potential future products.
I knew the increasing legalization of marijuana would give rise to all kinds of side industries.
like this? https://openbazaar.org/
Steven Covey and Time Management
Charlie Rose interviews Deena Varshavskaya, founder of shopping app “Wanelo”
When I worked on PC hardware at IBM we operated on the rule that the cost of fixing a problem is 1x development, 10x in testing and 100x once sold to customers. Alas, that was before IBM's PC division was bought by Lenovo...
"No attack surface" was definitely simplifying too much, especially for LXD. I think I was trying to say that it is not impossible to mitigate those attacks.

In the pure sense, a hypervisor doesn't need to do anything except create a virtual machine. It doesn't need a way to interact with a user or even the vm once it is created. I have written a bare metal, type 1 hypervisor that did nothing but key log. The guest never made a hypercall and wasn't aware that it was a guest at all. Side note, I'm not an expert. Hypervisor research is just for fun.

We know there is an attack surface on LXD immediately because of the REST API and its interaction with containers. Any resource mediation also exposes an attack surface. Resource mediation is difficult, but not impossible. The attack surface really depends on implementation.

With my limited knowledge of the linux kernel, I can imagine a kernel running in its own vm, a vm for every container, and every container sharing read-only access to the single kernel. Each container could also be isolated via the same memory protection. I don't know enough to say that's possible. I think you're more knowledgeable than I am about lxc and the kernel in general. Any thoughts on this?
Yes, let's definitely accuse the government officials taking the legal bribes to sell citizens down the river. They deserve a lot of blame as well.
evidently that MVC is the wrong method for working in the client, also that AngularJS is awful and the php/drupal of our near future.
Sometimes this stuff isn't even bot traffic, it's traffic purchased from someone who fulfills by incentivizing people who play online games with virtual currency for viewing videos or clicking through to sites that serve the buyers ads. I presume they've also got into the retargeting capture game, too.
so I'm hoping it turns out I basically have no controversial opinions is what I'm saying.
Yeah, I think something along the lines of "an existant OS" is an acceptable translation. "To aru" has a subtle connotation implying that it is a standalone thing in its own regard. It's a pretty clever name for a hobby project like this, IMO.
Very interesting. What does PQ mean? Pass qualification?
Hint: if your comment is only a single line of sarcasm, you're probably not contributing anything to the conversation.
FWIW, you can experience some of this right now. Connect a plugged-in iPhone to a bluetooth speaker and enable "Hey Siri." I did this the other day and it's pretty neat. Of course in my case, my phone was across the room and once I started playing some music I lost control over it... Seems echo fixes that problem though I'd be curious to see how well that works.