skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If Python's `if` is weakly typed, then Rust's `for` and `.` are weakly typed. Few would say that, though.
The thing I don't understand: why not just make the "Do Not Track" switch set this, as well as sending the eponymous header? The user has stated an intent to not be tracked... so help them accomplish that!

(In the same sense, I'm surprised that "incognito browsing" windows don't implicitly download a Tor "component" and route through it, the same way DRMed <video> elements implicitly download the Adobe DRM component.)
I feel like that comment is a little disingenous or at least needs a caveat after reading this[0]. I know that casts are almost never needed in Haskell code whereas I needed them in my last Android application (correct me if there's another way).

0: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12468722/does-haskell-era...
I only know about Ireland, the UK and Germany. All of them have undergraduate medical schools and they're all really, really hard. But the competition to get in is intense enough and meritocratic enough that if you did get in you are fully capable of passing absent the emergence of mental health problems.

The intern year is pure hell everywhere as far as I know but that's after you graduate even you want to qualify as a doctor. A year when working a mere 60 hours basically qualifies as a week off and people commiserate over the length of time they've gone without sleep.
You can in some languages, but it's not so easy with dynamic, surface-level type checks.
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Are there _any_ good Packt press books? At all?
The author of the article got their numbers mixed up.

ELS only has ~370 communities. The 140,000 is accurate but is the number of individual sites/lots which that ~370 communities represent.
Yep.

> if there exists any more surplus value with which they could be paid more, it is reasonable for the employer to do so and unreasonable for them not to.

The one problem in practice with this is that typically, in a retail setting, employers are in a race to the bottom, and those that don't squeeze their workers get beaten in the market by those that do. It's really the evil customers capturing everything.

Of course, in the technology industry it's par for the course -- it's basically how the patent system and certain aspects of immigration law are designed.
You seriously think the US (or local) govt has a good track record with reinvesting tax revenues into low income communities? And be careful with advocating property tax hikes; property taxes can be very regressive for low income home owners.
This is pretty nice. I was curious how the spread was like for multiple links: http://www.rndmlnk.com/counts/testredirect2

side note, it was fun to see what the max redirects is in Chrome with the redirect loop.
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I must have missed the HN discussion when Mozilla announced they plan to sell [ads based on] browsing history... I'm not sure how that fits in with putting privacy first.

It sounds like user info is the only things worth selling!
> The way those people mean "natural" refers to things that people have been eating for millenia, not merely any natural thing.

No, it doesn't always mean that. Until recently I've mostly heard it in the context of "minimal processing". The whole paleo diet thing is much more recent interpretation of "natural", or at least it's more recent to the public at large (IMO).

> They very well know that poisonous mushrooms and rocks are natural but not edible.

Of course they know that some natural things are dangerous and deadly, it's this exact cognitive dissonance that I'm describing, and this is the problem. Adherence to a rule that we all know to be false (even those proposing it), while ignoring the times the rule isn't followed because it makes no sense, doesn't lead to useful results, it leads to dissatisfaction.

I don't see this as any different than the many previous hopelessly simplistic strategies for dealing with food. Fat is bad, caffeine is bad, alcohol is bad. Then, some fat is good, caffeine can had positive effects, alcohol in moderation helps. People strive for simple rules to help manage the complexity of their lives, and the multitude of choices we have. Unfortunately, simple rules rarely encapsulate a good strategy for a complex system, and we are very complex system, even just our dietary needs. Of all the places where (societally) we should accept, even encourage, some complexity and the required critical thinking is brings, I think our health is a good candidate.
Hmm, maybe someone should invent keys with arrows on them! :P
Packt books used to be good, their paper and cover quality aren't good.

Nowadays, it seems like they're trying to output as many books as possible regardless of the qualities. Most of the books are around 100-150 pages ugh.

On the other hand, Manning Publishing keep on taking my money, I really hope they start putting out book quality similar to Packt so I can stop spending money on them.

O'Reily have some really good book too like wise with No Starch Publishing. No Starch Pub have some of the best book material I've ever encountered minus web design books. Pragmatic Bookshelf have some quality books too and classic.
You seem to be under the impression that you can create one of those "free accounts" without apple tracking those activities. Privacy is not having anybody be able to log your activity, not "everybody but one company I like".

Apple's walled garden approach to everything makes apple one of the worst offenders with regards to not just privacy, but freedom as well.
Everything in Python is an object:

>>> isinstance(type, object)
true
>>> T = type('T', (), {})
>>> isinstance(T, type)
True
>>> isinstance(T, object)
True
>>> isinstance(T(), object)
True
>>> isinstance(int, object)
True
>>> issubclass(int, object)
True
>>> isinstance(1, object)
True
I wrote this gist that adds the ability to add multiple files from dired to git

https://gist.github.com/justinhj/5945047
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I think it's natural to expect that an audio-specific hashing function would operate at least in part in the frequency domain, and that it would have to identify key features to ensure that similar sounds receive similar hashes. That much is obvious. Anyone who's ever heard of the FFT could get that far independently in five minutes, and should be free to do so without fear of patent lawsuits.
Agreed - in fact, when writing services for Angular in ES6, I take advantage of the fact that I can define a function using const and then set the $inject propert of it.
Home owners pay higher property tax because they own the lot plus the house on the lot. With trailer parks, the owners only own the lot plus outbuildings etc. The trailers are owned either by the tenants outright, or leased/rented by a third party.
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I never said there was a problem with it based on the readership. I just think it's funny. ;-)
See Peter Naur's essay "programming as theory building".

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> Meant to simulate a town with a population of 35,000—about the size of Bennington, Vermont

because we all know how big Bennington is.
When things like this webpage is made into an app, does the app utilize the same technology or is it reimplemented in the native language? In this case the canvas tag v. the iOS app
I'm sorry you got downvoted - you are correct.
To me the most interesting part about this is how looking at the comments here it's apparently a great Rorschach test. "Whatever I draw always ends up lookiing like a uterus.", "everything I try ends up looking like some kind of bug", "Any image I make with this one looks like e-cigarette packaging", etc.
Is there anything wrong with using haveged after the system has been up long enough to generate a seed the traditional way?

I occasionally use it to make /dev/random unblock for applications that think they need to use /dev/random to generate keys (cough gpg cough).
US Today has a few more facts

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/gaming/2015/05/22/pac-man...
Pencil is awesome. Being a fulltime Linux user, finding a Visio like diagramming tool is hard to find. I used Pencil to draw and maintain a finite state machine for a startup I was working on. Best of all, it is free.
It's hard to find a universally recognized small town of that size. Could you name one?
The GNU IceCat web browser (derivative of Firefox) does that with Tor.
Another reason why organizational debt can be worse than technical debt is that often in the case of technical debt, the engineers know what the proper solution is, but given time constrains, they opt for a solution that merely meets their current needs. But with organizational debt, often the immature company does not even know what the proper solution would be.

And then, of course, there are cases of both technical debt and organizational debt where the people in charge don't even realize that they've incurred debt. They think they do have the optimal solution.
35,000 means this is likely a typo and that they probably meant Burlington. Bennington is maybe half that size.
Was it 1000 :-P

Also I should probably stop it from referencing itself
What if I need to send up encrypted logs from a number of clients? I tried to use nacl for this, but in its opinionated style, it holds that I have to have a sender private key to authenticate my logs, and it won't decrypt unless I provide the corresponding public key on the other end.

I don't want authentication here - there's no way for me to manage these keys; I just want to prevent someone from reading my logs off the disk...
Probably, yeah.

Even though this law should dissuade people from buying through corporate vehicles, all the existing housing stock (i.e. probably nearly all the property in Kensington & Chelsea, Knightsbridge, Belgravia, etc that is from the 1700-1900s) that is worth holding through SPVs is already held through SPVs, and will not be captured by this change.

Developers usually split up their new buildings in separate entities before they build anything, because I believe only stamp duty is payable on the land then. Instead of then selling the property, they sell the shares, which is taxed as capital gains (instead of corporate income) for them. Good times in the luxury market, since share sales in corporate vehicles tend to be tax free.

It's still very much a win-win situation for both seller and buyer (probably much less for new developments after this change), so no reason not to do it. I don't think this will raise significant amounts of tax any time soon. :)
Is it weird that I wish somebody would make a terminal-ized version of newer editors like Atom/ST/Brackets?
I suspect that would end up quite regressive, as the renters would end up paying the land tax on the buildings they rent (indirectly, of course).

Many of the lower income renters pay little net tax (often negative with EIC) today.
> ... it's still math...

This is a very prevalent misconception around here, so I will address it again. Saying "software is mathematics" is about as correct as saying "machines are physics". (Note that you cannot patent laws of physics either.)
Cookies don't matter when browser fingerprinting accomplishes the same task. Read the page you linked to:

"We do log records of the CSS and the font file requests, and access to this data is on a need-to-know basis and kept secure."

Just like every other Google Privacy Policy, it's insultingly disingenuous, couched in terms of protecting your privacy while actually reserving for themselves the right to violate it by collecting enough information on you for you to be uniquely identified and storing that information indefinitely.
That's right in most cases, but not in all cases. Compare modern, industrial bread with "artisanal" bread. The latter is in my opinion vastly superior. Not because it's healthier because it isn't, but because it tastes better and has better texture. Also some "old" vegetables like parsnip taste great. Or cucumber varieties that aren't as big but don't taste like water. So there are certainly reasons beyond natural health hype to like older food. And natural <-> healthly, unnatural <-> unhealthly isn't a bad rule of thumb.
My understanding of how the ads work is that the browser downloads a list of ads tagged by category, and chooses one to display based on browsing history that never leaves your computer.
One obvious and easy alternative to Google Analytics is Piwik. You host it yourself.

https://piwik.org/
Is it a corollary of this that at least one side of the connection must use a public key trusted somehow by the other side?
not anymore :(
Your have a very valid point about "the surveillance state gone berserk".

However, for the names mentioned we should be casting aspersions on the FBI rather than the NSA. The FBI (mostly) are the ones responsible for spying on all those Americans.

Believe it or not, compared to the FBI the NSA are "the good guys"!
I think they already do. I know they rev share with distros that ship it as the default search engine in their browser packages.
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AI will be much better than humans at taking those things into account consistently. Combined with real-time health monitoring, it'll actually be much better at choosing adequate recipes than you and me, who have to rely on outdated data and heuristics.

Spoiled food detection is also coming - the food can itself will warn you if it's spoiled: http://www.checkpack.ugent.be/
So this firefox feature is just a subset of what ublock does?

BTW, thanks for ublock.
Actually, your brain/gut is a parallel supercomputer. If your "gut" tells you that this is a bad situation, it probably is correct, even though you may not consciously know the reason. Your gut is processing a lot of information based on your experience, some of which you may not know consciously.

I don't have that problem so much anymore. When my gut tells me something is wrong, I usually also have a conscious logical reason. It takes a lot of self-awareness, though.
In Canada a similar argument could be made http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tg/rc4110/rc4110-e.html#worke...
From your link.

> Requests for CSS assets are cached for 1 day

Tracking font request "only" once per day is still spying.

Also, regarding your jump from Google's attack on our privacy to a larger to that "New World Order" reference is highly offensive. You're building a straw-man that was not stated, and perpetuating the belief that someone who complains about their privacy being attack must be some sort of "conspiracy theory nutter".
in-n-out, chipotle, five guys, that's pretty much all i eat at when i'm in a hurry. luckily there's one of those nearly everywhere.

maybe OPH (a much, much higher quality IHOP, though it varies by location) also.
Yeah, imagine how retarded the type systems of the popular static typed languages were, that lead to such a baby-booming of dynamic languages. People were traumatized so hard that took years to reconsider a middle ground.
There's a a difference between being "anti-technology" and being cautious. Nassim Taleb's paper applying of the precautionary principle to the GMO debate is probably the most lucid piece on the matter.

There's a reason that most of the US population views the anti-vaccine crowd as delusional, while at the same time being skeptical of GMO's. Vaccines have been used for over a hundred years and have a very clear payoff. GMO's, not so much.

You're writing these people off as anti-technology. That's wrong. These people use all modern technology just like you do. The odd-balls are actually people like you (and most engineers), who are eager to embrace new technology without thinking through potential negative consequences.

I'm not saying that GMO's are bad or should be banned. But I do believe that the pro-business American approach is dead wrong. Just as the American approach to weight loss and nutritional supplements (just put them on the market, no need to test), is wrong.

I'd argue that your approach (the American, pro-business approach) shows disdain for the scientific method. It's the kind of policy vomited out of a Congress where only 2 out of the 535 representatives are scientists. In China on the other hand, where 8 of the 9 top government officials are trained scientists [1], they're very skeptical of GMO's and have only allowed them, I believe, for the papaya crop. But as the data continues to comes in, the Chinese government is showing signs of warming up to GMO's -- as they should.

[1] http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/why-dont-a...
Los Gatos?

(This is not a well known place, but one of its schools was in "Saved by the Bell" so there's a tenuous pop culture link.

Wikipedia has several lists of US cities and, being polite, they tend to obscurity at the latter half of the lists. And those are places with over 100,000 people. My town - Cheltenham UK - has about 100,000 people.

So, how do you give an idea of how big a town for 35,000 people is? Number of high schools? Number of Starbucks? The article lists one church. A UK equivalent might list twelve pubs.

(my niece fibbed to me and said it was in "Greece" - something I believed for years. She also told me "oh yeah Deerhoof, they all went to my school" which is also totally untrue.)
>What is your suggestion, that they should abandon all analytics

Ideally, yes. Or at the very least don't use Google for it. Use something like Pwiki instead. Or perhaps try actually allowing your users to decide what if any information they feel comfortable sharing with you.

There are other non-profits like the Wikimedia Foundation and the Internet Archive whose websites still somehow manage to function despite not triggering any of the multitude of filter rules that plugins like uBlock ship with.
I'm inclined to agree with you, except for the massive, glaring exception of inherited wealth/passive income.

If you're just talking about the peons trading labor for money, then yes, more or less.

But there's another class of folks, and my anecdotal evidence is that they're freaking everywhere, overflowing with unearned wealth. I'm nobody from nowhere and I know many of these people, and they'd be screwed if they had to go through what I have.

The veneer of meritocratic capitalism in America should be at the breaking point IMO. But this is a vulgar place so I'm probably wrong.
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>Given Apple's track record

Well Apple collaborate with the NSA, so that immediately disqualifies them from giving the slightest shit about privacy.
CPU mining hasn't been relevant for years.
Most young people, including myself, do tend to think they would like to live until X years of age. Getting to know some older people, though, it's interesting how we tend to see things differently when we live that many years. I know quite a few people in their late 60s and I think they have Many good years left to enjoy their hard-earned retirement, watch their kids and grandkids grow up, or is some cases continue to do great work.
Based on the title, I thought this was about Phoenix.
Counterpoint:
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3045147/ibms-watson-designed-the...

Applying Watson to recipes is brilliant marketing, period.
No joke. My point being that SourceWatch takes a collaborative, wiki-based approach to looking at sources (of varying stripes), their bias and associations. As an approach, it's a reasonable start.

If you've got any specific beefs with SourceWatch based on the information presented, state them.

What I find most useful about SW is in tracking associations and relationships between sources and groups / organizations / funders. Not proof positive but often enough to confirm hunches and suspicions.

There are a number of other media watchdogs:

FAIR, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting: http://fair.org/ Produces Counterspin radio program: http://fair.org/counterspin-radio/

Sunlight Foundation (associated with Sourcewatch / CMD)

ThinkProgress: liberal political blog (given to outrage posts) http://thinkprogress.org/

On the Media is a weekly program produced by WNYC covering media generally, including both intentional and systemic bias (e.g., see their "consumers' guide to breaking news" guides). http://onthemedia.org/

Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog.

Also Media Research center (conservative)

RationalWiki isn't specifically a media watchdog but tends to debunk flawed logic (on both the right and left). It itself was a response to Conservopedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia

RW's SW page gives a reasonable assessment of SW's strengths and weaknesses:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/SourceWatch

Contrast AIM: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Accuracy_in_Media

Finally: reality has a well-known liberal bias, as a wise man once counseled a former appointed President of the United States.
The statistic that "29% of rental inventory is being leased on AirBnB" is absurd. They're calculating it on the number of rentals that just happen to be unoccupied/available right now which makes no sense at all as a statistic.
How else can you screen/tmux your work? Terminals ftw.
"Phantom" is a service not provided by BlackBerry itself. But this title made me think that there will also be benefit someday in using obsolete or obscure tech, much in the way that Macs were shielded from most viruses back in the day.
I can't understand why the British allowed Napoleon to go into exile a second time. My sentiments would be more along what the Prussians wanted to do.

Instead of just being a cliche, "heads will roll for this" should have been something that Napoleon should have experienced firsthand.
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I don't know much about this patent other than what I read in the past few minutes, but:

1. The claims don't cover "use FFT, get key features". It actually claims something different but quite broadly.

2. Having some background in signal processing, I can tell you it's never that simple. Many years ago, I once took on a similar project that looked like "oh, a simple frequency-domain cross-correlation should suffice" and it turned into a multi-month exercise that ended without a satisfactory solution. I'm guessing the right solution would have looked a lot like this patent.

Taking this use case, for instance: What's a "key feature" that works best for your use case? You do an FFT, fine. What next? What do you hash? How do you hash it in a way to get something useful? You have a ton of information: phase, frequency, amplitude for an N-point FFT, and you have M such chunks of FFTs. How do you use these M x N points to solve your problem? Can you come up with something (without reading the patent, of course) that works reasonably well in a reasonably short time frame?
Actually, much of it's first written, then read. Live interviews excepted.

But correspondents' reports: much is written.