skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's difficult to comprehend how our politicians could have any issues supporting such an initiative.

This just seems like a variant of the sunk cost fallacy. The money blown on the Iraq war is gone. We can't get it back. So why would that have any bearing on the cost benefit analysis of another expense?
I have no idea how this doesn't have way more upvotes. I just played through the first level, this game is amazing, I am thoroughly impressed. Maybe I'm easy to impress, but I think it's amazing
quantcast was sued for resuscitating browser cookies when flash LSOs persisted [1], ie taking the cookie value from the LSO and recookie-ing the browser. quantcast and clearspring settled for $2.5m [2]. The crux of the matter seemed to be that users didn't know such data was in flash cookies or associated with quantcast, making it hard to opt-out, though I'm not sure if this is illegal; and violated quantcast and the 3rd party sites' privacy agreements, which appears to be illegal. A lawsuit outline for one plaintiff is here [3] and the full text of the initial filing here [4]. I naively assume there is a clear parallel to this case, though perhaps verizon and turn have thoroughly privacy policied their way out, somewhere in 30 pages of legalese.

According to Jonathan Mayer,

Commercial supercookies, fingerprinting, and zombie cookies are tolerated
(if not permitted) under current United States law. [...] Any associated
consumer deception, however, is a violation of the Federal Trade Commission
Act and parallel state statutes. [5]

[1] http://www.wired.com/2010/07/zombie-cookies-lawsuit/

[2] http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=bc3a4358-6692-...

[3] https://www.privaworks.com/Details/AlertReference/PrintPrevi...

[4] http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/07/CV10-5...

[5] http://webpolicy.org/2015/01/14/turn-verizon-zombie-cookie/
What kind of BS is this detecting?
>"It is Turn’s policy to always honor the consumer opt-out as enacted through either the Turn website or the NAI or DAA."

What does this actually mean, and how can I do it?
Thanks for explaining this important point. Competition outside of the last mile would be good for everyone, and the last mile infrastructure makes a lot of sense to run as a utility.
OTOH, were it not for bad Latin speakers, we wouldn't have the Romance languages. A John Simon/William Safire of the era is an important source of data on their development--he wrote a list of proper Latin terms and the corresponding words in the bad Latin he was seeing and/or hearing. Dang it, it's not caballus, it's equus!
deep learning is only applicable to some problems e.g. speech recognition and image classification where there is mountains of data to train many network parameters but also a certain level of complexity in the features. Most simple problems with a few thousand feature vectors for training are still solved by SVMs etc. Deep learning is getting excellent results in the problems it is good at though, better than any other classifier.

Remember SVMs were being thrown around as the ML wunderkind prior to Deep learning. After a while people figure out exactly what some things are good at and some things not so good.
The amount of information an automated vehicle would have to be able to decipher to be capable of being truly autonomous is pretty much pushing beyond the most advanced A.I. and visual learning academia has discovered today.

I don't know what gps resolves to but it's definitely not down to the foot that's required for some of the hairy situations truckers encounter on the road and our visual learning technology is terribly insufficient for even the most basic road conditions much less your average New England construction zone.

Even google cars can't handle weather or potholes or unpredictable situations well. From what I read they had to be coded for very specific paths around San Fran and any unpredictability would cause them trouble.

A more likely scenario in my mind is Drone trucks. Why can't a trucker head to the office drive his truck from his desk then go home at night?

Combine that with some gps autopilot and/or magnetic strips in the road as a guide and that's totally realistic even with todays technology.

These are more likely scenarios.

Edit: even cooler would be autonomous or drone blimps carrying cargo!

http://rt.com/news/aeroscraft-revolutionary-airship-cargo-18...
Huh, something is strange with the page you linked; I can't scroll down in any way, in three different browsers.
> Is there a "blend in more" plugin?

There's a Chrome extension called Chameleon ( https://github.com/ghostwords/chameleon ) that attempts to cut down on fingerprinting.
Tells if a developer is good at software fundamentals.
Bill wrote well-commented, well-factored code.
Except the evolution to this point requires complete inaction on the parts of the governments.

Yes, some businesses have more money than entire countries. Because we allow it.

It was the King who decided who was a Baron, an Earl or a Lord, and it was on the King's grace that they kept that position. Piss him off, act disloyal and you'll be stripped of your rank. If your subjects stay loyal... well then you get things like The Harrowing of the North.

The US Congress has 535 members, and we're not talking about individuals we're talking about corporations, which themselves are made up of shareholders. There's no formal loyalty structure.

Your feudal Lord granted you land so you could provide for your family, and in return pay rent to him. When your kid went missing in the woods, it was the reeve and the Lord's men who helped search. When your barn roof collapsed, it was the reeve and the Lord's men who helped dig out your animals, and it was your Lord who stabled your animals. It might have been mutually beneficial, but it was still at his will.

A shareholder is invested in a company because they think it will be profitable, but most large shareholders are more invested in the industry than the individual. So if they think something might jeopardize their investment, they'll jump and go invest in another company. The managers and employees? To them it's just a job, if they think their company is going to go up against the US Government they'll be out the door and pretend they've never even heard of the Globex Corporation, even if they're wearing a company emblazoned jacket.

I see no loyalty structure that would be capable of supporting anyone trying to be a neolord. When the US government decides your company has gotten too big, it'll just nationalize it or split it.

Edit: Nice HN, act like reddit. You can't come up with a valid argument against my post so you downvote it.

Yes we get it this is some distopian idea, but it'll never happen. The closest we've ever come to an organization like this was the White Company, and they--like these private contractors will--stayed on the good side of the super power of the time, the Papacy, because their existence was entirely predicated on the grace of being allowed to exist.
1) Click "Explore the Maps".

2) Click "number of broadband providers" on bottom.

3) Set sliders to color places with 1 provider.

4) The huge areas of green across the US are monopolies.
Anecdata meets market realities. Desktops dropped off in favor of laptops a long time ago, was it 2007? Even laptop sales have gone off a cliff in the last few years:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/171988-pc-business-set-fo...

If you know something about the PC market that everyone else doesn't, you could make a killing in the stock market (if you are right, of course). Post PC was always a term meant for companies to make investment decisions in "can we make money on PCs?" or "is the market growing, stagnate, or shrinking;" or "will we make money on that game if it is PC only or do we need to do a bunch of console ports"? It isn't about ideology, its about money.
It has a radius of 6.6AU, which means it actually has a diameter/width of 13.2AU.

Also there are a few stars which are candidates for "the largest star" which you can see at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars. A few of them are larger than VY Canis Majoris.
The Passport was by far the most innovative, interesting phone of the year IMHO. It's sad that because it's trendy to ridicule Blackberry, it was overlooked and that innovation may be lost.
Meanwhile on Windows Phone, we have YouTube blocked. Anyway, I have to admit Google Translate is phenomenal now, even though it's thanks to the guys behind Word Lens. Kudos to everyone involved. This is probably going to be one of my most used apps from now on.
NAI and DAA are industry trade groups; they have cross company opt-out pages via cookies / beaconing

http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/

http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
I think you've confused it with the (really cool, recently released) TwoPointFive plugin for Impact: http://phoboslab.org/twopointfive/
dogecoin?
verizon overrides; I'm not a web engineer but (I think) ssl protects tcp headers. if so, it's probably the only technical solution is either ssl everywhere or an ssl proxy run by users
>It was the King who decided who was a Baron, an Earl or a Lord, and it was on the King's grace that they kept that position. Piss him off, act disloyal and you'll be stripped of your rank.

And sometimes the Baron raised an army, killed the King, and took the throne for himself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England
This is how UTOPIA in Utah is run. There are a myriad of ISPs to choose from, and the pricing is excellent ($70/mo for gigabit from Xmission, for example).

http://www.utopianet.org/pricelist/
It solves the problem and looks cute, while costing next to nothing. This is good design.
No, it was never about that; see wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-PC_era

> The Post-PC era is a market trend involving a decline in the sales of personal computers in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers.

No disappearing there. Then:

> The term was first coined by MIT scientist David D. Clark. While both Microsoft and Apple's former CEO's Bill Gates and Steve Jobs also predicted a shift towards mobile devices as the primary method of computing, as a complement to the PC.

Many of us use our phones and tablets more than PCs, but of course we have also expanded the way we use computing (I still need at least a laptop to write code, my PC is not going away, but my sister's has).

Anyways, if you have any extra knowledge about the market and thing the analysts are wrong, you should make some money on wall street by investing in Lenovo or HP or something. But I wouldn't bet your retirement on it.
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There's an interesting extended discussion about this experiment in Richard Gabriel's essay "Design Beyond Human Abilities" as well:

http://dreamsongs.com/Files/DesignBeyondHumanAbilitiesSimp.p...
old news is old
I wasn't aware of Wells Fargo issuing Chip and PIN cards[0] and I appreciate you pointing that out!

The other USA banks that I've looked at (Bank of America[1], for example) issue signature-only cards. These not working in unattended kiosks is mentioned in the last paragraph of the Wikipedia section we're both referring to.

The main problem with Chip and PIN cards in the USA is PIN management. Since EMV was developed before every ATM was online, the card needs to be aware of its PIN. Not many USA ATMs support reading EMV cards, which makes changing the PIN on the card difficult.

This is why Wells Fargo[0] don't allow you to change your card's PIN and is why many USA banks simply chose to skip PINs altogether. The last sentence of the Wikipedia section we're referring to mentions this.

[0]: https://www.wellsfargo.com/credit-cards/features/chip-card/f...
[1]: https://www.bankofamerica.com/privacy/faq/emv-chip-card-faq.... under "Using chip credit cards" see "Bank of America doesn't currently offer consumer credit cards that include PIN authorization for purchases." Debit cards can be PIN authorised when running them over the online interbank networks, which makes offline PIN management irrelevant.
Hi Evgeny!

I put things like that on my Google calendar at the time they are due, set up with an email reminder. It has worked pretty well, although it doesn't put all the reminders together in one place. Speaking of which, I have a passport expiring in 2016 ...

BTW, I'm a developer living in Chengdu China, pondering career directions as I end a fallow period teaching high school -- I'm looking for peers I can talk with about what to do next. Would you be willing to chat some time? I like your posts and think it would be interesting to talk.

In particular, I am curious about the direction of societal change (Pinker's Better Angels, for example) and would love to contribute to it in a positive way, through my work.

Bill Baker, bbbaker at alum dot mit dot edu

skype, wechat: neolefty
> 1) Regulation. Maybe it'll happen, I don't have much hope of it being done intelligently

Why so hopeless? My water is clean, airplanes and roads are safe, retail banks don't lose their customer's savings, etc. Not all regulation works, but this one is pretty straightforward.
I see this argument often. How useful is this function vs taking lots of talented maths/compsci phds out of banking and into something else?

My guess is the system is utterly broken and we are wasting precious man hours gaming it.
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BMW Uses Frickin’ Lasers for High Beams That Don’t Blind
How do climbers like these reconcile drilling bolts into the rockface with the 'leave no trace' ethic?
> Clearing your cookies is not the way to opt-out of tailored advertising, and may in fact be counterproductive if you’ve cleared the cookie that indicates you have opted-out.

I realize the technical reason cookies exist yet this seems wrong to me.
If your savvy about browser's dev tools, uncheck "overflow: hidden" on the body tag. Presumably you block 3rd party / advertising JS? I've noticed more and more sites that break (and maybe intentionally?) with 3rd party JS disabled.
Any input on which distro? SmartOS is interesting, but seems to be more of a hypervisor / container for multi-tennancy?

Looking for a single server implementation with good package support. OmniOS / OpenIndiana / ... ?
What happens when random ppl are accused of having child pornography? I'd be Salem all over again, all it takes is one watery tart to convince an entire society that they need to stone the ppl she doesn't like to death.

Simply because it's a witch hunt is the problem, not the hunt it's self but the ppl who are to afraid to be called pedophiles to stand up against the hunt.

It's not find and good to sit there and watch someone being persecuted unjustly, you've got to keep in mind that it could just as easily happen to you.

I like the "this is normal, everybody does it" defense. If everyone were to run Freenet and store child pornography on their computer, then the which hunt ends at that. I've not seen the new MLK movie, but something along those lines where ppl are willing to die so that others may run Freenet without issue.

One should not fear the life of a Marter, one should fear living in a world where there are not any.
-- Michael Mestnik.
DO disabling journaling is a big deal.

What else has DO disabled and/or modified from a vanilla install?
I just use wordpress but if I wanted to get fancy and have something for the public, rather than just my self and close friends I'd say github pages.
I like writing JS just fine (okay, maybe not as much as I like writing Scala). And I think that doing a good server-rendered experience would likely require something at least as sophisticated as Backbone. But I just think JS should be concerned mostly with managing client-side UI and continuity.

For the project I'm working on, pages are generally comprised of large blocks of content, and to the extent that there is SPA going on, it's mostly swapping these blocks. I can definitely see the advantage of client-side rendering when model data tends to be spread out across the whole page. But there's no reason one can't have their cake and eat it too.
At first I thought this was just an awful idea, but after hearing what you're using it for I want to use it myself :P

Did you look into the possibility of "adapting" something like d3 to draw on the terminal? Or does it just lack the abstractions necessary to do that cleanly?
"Obama calls for municipal broadband"

"White House just endorsed CISPA measures, two years after veto threat"
http://www.zdnet.com/article/white-house-just-endorsed-contr...

Coincidence?
To play another devil's advocate, shouldn't that also imply that IE10 users sending Do Not Track are in fact explicitly representing their desire not to be tracked? I mean by that same argument the user, by using Windows/IE10 did in fact choose the default settings of the browser, per the terms and conditions agreed to upon installing/purchasing Windows/IE.

Live by the T&C, die by the T&C - unless you can hide your scumminess through underhanded or obfuscated tactics.
Yes, at least initially. I don't if any Apple employees still contribute to MacPorts, though. Apple does still provide hosting and infrastructure to the project, for what it's worth.
Any policy related to the things you've mentioned were or were not enacted by popular support, on those issues in particular. Brutal slaver warlord can take away restaurants, high fructose corn syrup, and your children with a single vote.

Nice try, but no dice.

Most of those things weren't voted on. Most of them were decided by fiat of the slaver warlord (a mayor) and couple of his family members (some board or commission).
and how is that different from the original meetup app?
> IE10 defaults to Do Not Track enabled. So sending the header is not explicitly representative of the user's wishes.

> Convenient, isn't it?

That might be an excuse, but it's not the reason. They easily could read the DNT header and the user agent, and trust DNT headers from non-IE10 browsers.
The development of artificially grown beef steak can't come soon enough.
There is no "moral right of anonymity" in copyright law. Even supposing there was, de-anonymizing you would not violate anything in the DMCA. The anti-circumvention section prohibits circumventing technical access control measures, not circumventing "rights" in general. Circumventing the rights that copyright law does provide an author is just called copyright infringement.
They did it in Sweden too (Telia/Skanova) and I haven't heard any such complaints. Just because something can be poorly implemented doesn't mean it has to be.
Can it do 4 layer PCBs? Probably the most important thing missing.
Press F11.
Not to make light of this, but doesn't this sound like the plot to Metal Gear Solid 4? Private armies and all?

Not sure I like it when reality mimics fiction like this.
> Would you agree with me, when I say, that all these things are nice, but secondary for a business?

No. Money is like oxygen: Essential for survival, but not the point of existence.
Because human life is more important than not leaving a trace.
Barnacle goose freefall
Especially on a highway. I am talking about a situation where normal operation isn't possible such as due to hardware or software failure. Of course it isn't ideal, but wouldn't be much of a problem if the other vehicles on the road are driverless. (To be clear I mean they can just stop in the middle of the road if things are bad.)

A plane can't just let go of all control surfaces. Heck it can't even leave them where they are. It must do something and always must provide some degree of control. A flying plane is moving at several hundred miles an hour and cannot stop.
I work remote. It sounds like you could swing working remotely a few days a week. Honestly I get a lot more done remote than when I'd go to the office. Less distractions, more productivity, less stress from that drive.

Would that be something you want to do? If you have a good reputation at your company I'm sure they'd be open to the discussion.
You don't typically call publicly owned infrastructure a monopoly. Public utility companies are created to prevent exactly what's going in broadband internet service.

If the city owned the lines, it would put all ISP's on a level playing field and enable broadband competition for the first time. They wouldn't be able overcharge you 10,000% mark up for the price of bandwidth anymore, and they'd have to compete based on the quality of their service.
> I think that *BSDs should be avoided because they tend to be a lot slower than linux deployments on virtual machines.

Many virtualisation providers don't support it properly, but "should be avoided because my suppliers are stupid" is a terrible plan.
Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw
You're right, the article would have been more complete if it had explained the widely acknowledged ways in which women get judged differently from men when they try and act more assertive and confident. I guess it thought it was aimed at an audience who were already aware of that, but that does seem a bit of a stretch for a mainstream newspaper like the WSJ.
Initially I used chart.js to paint the charts but I had to introduce it so many flags (no label Transformation, sensitive spacing etc) that I reverted to do it myself (even though I also have a working version with an altered chart.js).

I am using node-drawville which provides an Html5 canvas Api abstraction over the terminal. D3 uses svg so it is not adequate. However I did saw a port of d3 to canvas which I didn't had time to check.
That seems like a pretty negative pitch. "Come to our site and we'll tell you if your skills are BS or not." Usually people want to detect other people's BS, not their own.
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gmail

youtube

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my own blog where I record my workout training (bodybuilding split if anyone is interested in that) -- jimfitness.wordpress.com
None of this is simply "arbitrage" as HFTers want the public to believe. The major brokers are perfectly capable of buying and selling at the best prices across any non-darknet market with even rudimentary order routers. What's happening is HFTers are gaining informational advantages and then exploiting them in microseconds. Based on realtime orders, they'll infer that someone wants to buy share abc at price x, deviation y, and then bet on that happening. HFTers can even infer which brokerage firms are placing the orders based on technical data including lag times and data-sharing partnerships.
That deserves an explanation - you can backup non-ext2 linux partitions, surely? What have I misunderstood?
None of the examples you've cited are software bugs, all physical failures or pilot error.

If you're looking for something that could be software related try Air France Flight 447, though even that is ultimately pilot error. You could also use Ariane 5 flight 1, where a software problem caused vehicle failure.
I forgot to mention that post from Steve Yegge that is one of the best and most entertaining (but still very insightful at the same time) reviews of Amazon.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
I don't know whether they have a specific French <--> Chinese model. They might, they might not.

It's hard to train for all n^2 language pairs, so MT systems usually back off to English as a pivot language. i.e., they'll translate French --> English --> Chinese.
Should we stop making videogames too, because playing a game does nothing for the world.

Should we stop making music? If all musicans picked up trash on the side of the road, we would have a cleaner world. We can just replay 90s music forever.