skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Privacy Badger for 6 months and I can't recommend it enough for non-technical people (or technical people that don't want to debug websites all day long).

The one problem I've found is that certain services that use a bookmark/iframe combo (instapaper, for instance), create problems because you want to whitelist instapaper, but aren't given a chance. For that, I recently found: https://tsibley.net/provoke-the-privacy-badger/
Revolutionary leftism is immensely fashionable today, and anticommunism is treated as a joke while antifascism is treated like a sacred duty. People like Oliver Stone are taken seriously when they publicly support communist dictators like Castro (who is such a great leader, he has to try to keep people from leaving his country, and whenever they send their national baseball or soccer team to the U.S. for a tournament some of the players defect). A film director who publicly supported Pinochet would be blacklisted forever, but we consider it a travesty that, for a few years in the 50's, Hollywood blacklisted people for supporting Stalin.
It depends. If the target is a high security facility that happens to have periodic bug & unauthorized WiFi sweeps this could be a great side-channel vector which could go unnoticed. Of course I'd hope the management of such a facility would know better than to put a smart TV in a conference room, let alone hook it up to the network but honestly nothing surprises me anymore. I've seen older smart TVs in secure areas not connected to the network, but within a hands reach of a network port.
But I think the point of Google Fiber is not to be an expensive alternative. Fiber-to-the-home is inevitable, it's just a question of how many decades it takes to get there. Once the fiber is run, it's done. From everything I've read it makes zero economic sense to do anything but.

The interesting variable is the CPE. I don't understand the desire to keep it on the pole where it needs to be protected from the elements. The life-cycle of the CPE is also an order of magnitude shorter than the life-cycle of the fiber. The hit to get the physical fiber into the home seems like a rounding error compared to being able to simply build a fiber connector into the router and let the customer pay for upgrading their hardware every X years.
IME, youtube ads seem to come on dynamically, with dynamic amount of "forcible viewing" time, eg 5sec, 30sec, 60sec, etc. It does a pretty damn good job of showing me the most ad without my walking away in disgust. For example, I was on a binge of science videos and the ads went from 0 sec, to 15, to 30, in lock-step with my curiosity.
Does that whitelist the entire host? I would like to block everything but a specific JavaScript file on specific host. This is very easy to do with ghostery
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I think that it's arguable that the Khmer Rouge carried out the closest attempt at pure Communism, but it's not like that turned out all that well.

That said, plenty of people associated things like the Stazi/KGB with Communism. I haven't actually read Marx's manifesto, but I highly doubt that his "worker's paradise" involved disappearing masses of people and a "report your neighbour, Comrade" mentality[1].

[1] Though I do know that he thought that there would be a progression like "Democracy => Socialism => Communism" and that each transition would involve bloody revolution.
Extensive discussion a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8876445
The only really noticeable impact I've seen is that it blocks Disqus, which too many people seem to use for comments. That's usually not a problem, and I can always disable it in the rare cases where I really want to comment on something. What sites are breaking for you?
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Ah yes, the same infamous Can-con regulations that foisted Celine Dion on an unwilling world.
Why private conversation?
I have too.

I've only made it to week 10 but i've already learned a huge amount in a short amount of time (and only had to completely abandon my own code and start from scratch from the archived version once so far.) It's fun (and insightful) to watch half the comments disagree vehemently with something Casey said that day (const is useless? what?)
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Oh, I see. I was under the assumption that these settings were still site specific, got it, thanks!

Edit: Would be nice to be able to set those global settings once and not have them pop up on every page. And/or have a visual distinction between global and site specific rules, right now there is no option to globally disable images and then whitelist on a per site basis, right? I can just whitelist a domain which will then load everything?

My initial impression wasthat I could globally blacklist everything I don't want per default and then enable it on a (sub)domain basis.

I'll certainly give this a shot though. My firefox is really slow with ~20ish addons.
I think the point being made about malfunctions is that they are less likely to lead to fatalities than CFIT. This would explain the high percentage of fatalities caused by CFIT.
What does it break apart from google ajax search?
Eno, Bowie, et al also used it during the sessions for Low and Radiohead used it during the sessions for Kid A/Amnesiac. Its also related tangentially to Burroughs cut-up technique. Sources are the 33 1/3 book series on Low and Wikipedia, though I don't have links handy.

Really interesting to me. I like its paradoxical practicality. I'm sure it could be used for many different kinds of creative endeavors. Perhaps even software.
Increasing security how?

It seems a pointless waste of electricity and human effort, but justifiable with the current bitcoin prices.
Then wikipedia article is better.

Personally, I find the US answer more plausible. because of the existence of the two bar version. It's much more likely for people to simplify the two bar version by dropping a bar than to pointlessly complicate the symbol by adding an extra bar for no reason, so I suspect the two bar version was the original.
The US population wasn't totally anti-Hitler at first, mostly because Hitler didn't go full evil until pretty far into the War.

The early parts of fascism looked good. Germany was growing economically when the US was shrinking in the Great Depression.

The early mistreatment of minorities was swept under the rug. Remember, in 1935 the United States could probably be described as a lite-apartheid state. Jim Crowe wasn't all that different than Nuremburg laws.

The deathcamps came only after the war started. And it is pretty clear nobody believed the actual horrors going on in them.

It's easy to say that the world kept their eyes shut, but even Jews on train cars to Auschwitz didn't know they were going to an extermination camp.

But Germany was a first world, educated, fairly liberal country. If the holocaust could happen there, it could happen anywhere on earth.
What happens when the user changes the privacy settings? Whatsapp allows you to stop publishing this information.
North Korea is not communist, it's a dictatorship.
If you go into the settings and look at "My Rules", you can get a pretty good sense of the scope of the rules you have running.
Ask HN: How do you avoid or bypass ajax.googleapis.com?
I'm trying to wean myself off Google. The biggest hurdle I'm having is blocking ajax.googleapis.com.

So many websites out there use it and if I don't allow my browser it to connect to it, their website breaks.

What options do I have?
When I've watched these things, I've tried to see if I could figure out whatever bug the streamer was trying to fix before they could (difficult without the ability to actually look through the code on one's own), and alert them if so. It's like a game, but you might actually help someone out.
Sorry, but that sounds to me like anti-regulation/anti-government mumbo-jumbo.

You're insinuating Google won't be able to compete because it's going to be illegal for carriers to actively become worse than they already are, while neglecting just that: They're bad! They're slow. They have bad peering agreements. Their networks are congested. None of these issues are solved by net neutrality regulation, and they're all reasons why people want Google Fiber or municipal broadband. Net neutrality barely factors in at all.
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Even if Firefox were a monopoly, content owners would still desire DRM. Without the option to deliver that in harmony with HTML5, they'd just continue to use Flash, Silverlight, etc.

We don't need counterfactuals to imagine a world without EME; we've lived it.
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Typefaces aren't copyrightable to begin with. When you license one, you're only licensing the ability to use the name.
> There is a meme on the internet that ISPs are insanely profitable.

That's because they are, in fact, insanely profitable.

> There is a reason why Verizon is selling off as much of its wireline network as it can. Why would they do that? If it is a monopoly that lays a golden egg?

That's easy. Because it allows them to convert 50 years worth of future profits into an immediate payday. Which is only possible because their wireline network is worth billions of dollars, otherwise nobody would be willing to pay them that much for it.

> But even cable is facing an existential crisis. Cord cutting will destroy their business model.

Their business model is defective. The vast majority of their costs come from providing fast data service. The marginal cost of providing TV service on top of that is a small fraction of that. Which means they're significantly undercharging for internet service and overcharging for TV and phone service. Customers should be paying exactly the same for "triple play" packages as they do now but the "internet only" package should be most of that price because it constitutes most of the cost. At that point they can stop caring if you drop the TV package in favor of Netflix because they don't need it to be profitable -- and with any luck they'll eventually just stop offering it, because it makes no more sense for a physical infrastructure business to be offering TV streaming than for them to offer search or social networking. It just isn't their primary business anymore.
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Reading through the story and the site, it looks like it's not a good candidate for public domain because Robert Green arguably has not so much 'recovered' the font (what is he going to do, just scan the corroded century-old lead blocks?) as created an 'inspired by' reproduction, with enough creative input that it's not a good case for the Corel v Bridgman 'mechanical reproduction' exception - too much work and thought put into it.

As cool as the physical recovery is (no one really tried before? what a delicious story), it doesn't seem to have affected his digital version much:

> Since finding the characters, Green has made some minor adjustments to his Doves Type (mostly refining spacing and curves) but says he finally feels the project is complete.
Reminds me a lot of the first time using NoScript. Figuring out which domains added functionality, and which just unleashed another tree of third party domains that may or may not unlock the content. Fun, for certain definitions of the word.
If the organization is dysfunctional the project is doomed from the outset. From personal experience I've been in or seen more dysfuntion than function.
Probably the most illuminating quote from the article:
"The failed project exposed simmering layers of tension within the Department of Public Safety and its division that supports law enforcement technology and criminal history information statewide, documents show, and has triggered numerous restructuring efforts, including a new internal governance board."
But the trick is, you probably couldn't do a better job.

There is little technical challenge in a product like this. Building crud apps that scale to low tens of thousands of users is not that challenging. Since (I believe) we all share that belief, then why do projects like this keep failing?

I've worked on large medical information systems. The problems those encounter are

(1) you essentially never get to bulk replace entire systems; you will have to support ongoing data ingestion and export to other running systems, often systems not designed to support this or with poor apis;

(1a) if / when you fuck up, critical processes are disrupted. You have to engineer your systems and create backup processes to make this very unlikely to happen. There is a case I can't really share too many details of where a database was accidentally dropped in a datacenter of a hospital chain you've heard of. Said hospital chain was unable to access medical records for 20+ hours; this was in the 90s running on giant hpux machines and it took a long time to reimport data off tape. My employer was on the hook for $30M iirc, and I wouldn't be surprised if this actually contributed to serious patient injuries or deaths. Now obviously law enforcement isn't quite as critical as medical records, but it's not far behind.

(2) over the life of such systems, lots of workflows / processes have developed around using them inside hospitals or large doctors offices. You have to discover these processes, mostly stored in the heads of line level workers and their immediate supervisors, and figure out how to enable them in your shiny new system. To be concrete: the medical record system didn't support some requirement. That didn't stop users from needing it. So employees or doctors decided to use a field in a certain way, and they know how to interpret the presence and/or data in that field. You don't even know a field is being repurposed, let alone how they actually use it. This will be a large problem importing all the old data and in recreating the necessary functionality.

(3) no one person, and probably no small set of people, know or understand all the ways the system is used. Somehow, you have to capture that knowledge and use it to create a functioning new system. At least the medical record company I worked for hired lots of doctors and nurses out of hospitals to help them understand how users used the system in practice. You essentially don't understand at all how prosecutors, police, secretaries, and all the other people involved in law enforcement use this system.

There are clear parallels to replacing systems like this. Particularly when you have to do a live transition.
> But Germany was a first world, educated, fairly liberal country.

Interesting recent article: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/26/berlin-story
That will probably end up being part of ProductHunt's evidence you're intentionally building your startup on their name and brand, as will this submission. It's pure liability and it can destroy your startup.
Because they lost, and it is free to criticize them. Also there were survivors.

Stalin killed millions of their own people too and how many films you see about it? Few films about China revolution too. It was not politically correct.

Part of my family comes from a communist country. If the party came to acknowledge that you stored pictures or any other document or proof of "past errors" you will have lots of problems, so most people destroyed them. Delation was normal even between family members.

When you kill them all, there is very few people that could write the History. Most of what we know of the native Americans genocide comes from the very few Americans that opposed that. But most Americans were certainly ok with killing the people there if they and their families could profit from it.
I think it's also because Germany was brought back into the democratic fold (or at least half of it was), and Nuremberg enabled lots of access to documentation almost immediately after the fact.

Statin's crimes weren't fully revealed until two generations later, and Mao is still mostly unknowable.
Explain how he's wrong ?
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Perhaps, you should just switch to µMatrix.
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This is sensible. I tend to do a similar approach based on going over some code they have written and their decisions with them.
As I understand it, it's moving the active display area of the analogue output to a position 16 lines earlier than it would normally be. In effect that moves the top of the display area into the Vertical Blanking Interval.

From there the code is painting the required 0 and 1 pulses as a bitmap onto the top region of the Pi's display (which is now in the VBI area that teletext sets will be looking at.) Voila - right signal, right place, right time. Very elegant solution.
TV information services for hotels? Though the ones I go to already have something technically better, I assume via custom firmware.
I don't know much C#, but can't one understand the contract without knowing the default implementation? I would agree understanding the contract is probably essential, but the implementation is not.
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Sure, but reading these slides already used up a good chunk of the hour applying its lessons would have saved me...
The problem is that even relatively experienced contractors tend to not get these kinds of contracts. You really have to be well known and connected to be chosen for this kind of thing. It's no accident that they chose a multi-billion dollar defense contractor for this. It's also no accident that it has taken so long and cost so much. Being efficient and delivering on time - something they certainly have the capability to do - simply isn't as profitable as dragging it out.
> Also Eugenics was going in full swing in US has well.

For anyone who's interested in this part of the Nazi story, of which I am personally fascinated with, I urge you to check out Homo Sapiens 1900[1], a documentary about the Eugenics movement directly prior to World War II. Among other things, it basically chronicles the ideology and people who influenced Hitler, then goes on to show how these people's beliefs were embedded into the doctrine of Nazi Germany. What it does not focus on is the actual Holocaust, this movie is just talking about the philosophies that led to those atrocities. It's somewhat disturbing, but also enlightening, to see how some slightly hate-filled ideologies and pseudo-scientific beliefs can be combined with military might to form an almost unstoppable menace.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0176825/
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> When I was an undergraduate at Harvard, I knew the Harvard Depository only as it appeared in the online library catalogue. I could click a button and a book would magically appear on campus a couple days later. By my senior year, I could click a button and an email would pop up in my inbox a couple days later, with a scanned PDF of the book section I requested.

Nice.
"It is also worth mentioning that US population has not necessarily been that terribly outraged by what Germany was doing."

You can see film archives today and see people like Henry Ford and American Bankers as the main supporters of Hitler at the time.

Ford alone gave Nazis millions of dollars. He believed that "something has to be done with the jews".
Very interesting looking! One thing though is that the back button looks a little wonky in the Kitchen Sink demo.
Probably?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9018229
http://peertopeer.io/ is another one that does this.
Firefox profiles allow this functionality simply type
"firefox -ProfileManager" into your terminal...
Interesting. I don't think django implements a lot of this in their ORM.
Only if a tomato is a quince red-shifting.
I watched notch develop Prelude of the Chambered over a livestream a couple of years ago. It took a couple of days, but I picked up so much (I went on to port it to Ruby, bizarrely).
A locked down media player is more useful than an open paperweight.
Would it be better performance wise to get the Twitch.tv/YouTube/etc. summary of what they're showing and present that first, and if you're interested to click on the summary then you can load the video? Loading all of those videos at once is pretty heavy, at least for my mbp.
One of these days I'd like to volunteer (with a large enough group of peers) to build a system like this for the government free-of-charge. I can't imagine that a hundred good developers working part-time couldn't get this system migrated in a reasonable amount of time.

One clue to why if failed describes there being a tension between departments and a new governance board. Providing a system like this based only on best practices should be pretty feasible if you throw out all the petty politics and "perceived but useless" pet features.

I'd imagine the current system (as it's mainframe-based) pretty much follows the typical forms entry (perhaps they're still using green-screens?). Moving the existing system as-is to a modern version of an RDBMS with an equivalent web-based front-end should be the first step. Once you're current, you can add features as you go.
The Nazis are the only real villains left. People will laugh at you and probably call you a McCarthyist or Nazi if you are anticommunist.
Here's another large contract failure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/nyregion/3-found-guilty-in...

Multiple large organizations on a large scale consulting engagement seems to lower the chances of success.
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What I'd like to know more is why it goes before the quantity and not after.

Nobody writes "it weighs lb. 10" or "it's m 20 long". Or even "I had %20 of it".

Subconsciously I always read "$10" as "dollar ten". It drives me a little crazy.
Given the ratio of expense to scale of the system, I doubt that's true. Many similarly scaled projects fail inside private companies, but we just don't hear about them.
People incorrectly link mental illness to violence. Most violence, even spree killings, is not committed by someone with a mental illness. Mental illness is not a predictor of violence. (A previous episode of violence is; a drug or alcohol addiction is, but a mental illness, even a severe and enduring mental illness is not) People with a mental illness are very much more likely to be the victims, not perpetrators, of violence.

By linking mental illness to violence you stigmatize people with a mental health problem. This stigma makes people less able to seek help from professionals or friends or even family. People become irrationally scared of those with a mental illness and don't know how to offer help. Employers are less likely to offer employment to those with mental illness.

> I think most of us assume people who go on mass shooting sprees have some kind of mental instability.

But that's just ignorance caused by people who continue to lazily assume and then state that anyone who is violent is also mad - even if there's nothing to support that.

This is possibly an example of the conjunction fallacy. We see violence and cannot explain it, and so when we think "is this person violent, or violent and has a mental illness?" we end up at "violent and with a mental illness" even though it's less likely than "just violent".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy

Linking mental illness to violent crime is as lazy and ignorant as Fox news linking violent crime to African Americans, with the same mangling of statistics and undue focus on very rare events and lack of focus on common events.

Here's some further reading with cites: http://depts.washington.edu/mhreport/facts_violence.php
Flash and Silverlight were both dying before EME existed. Basically all it took was for Apple to say "no Flash" and Flash was as good as dead. I don't understand why you think that a free software infrastructure with a strong market position would be incapable of doing the same thing.