skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you skipped the part that ad networks only keep about 30-60 days of data. Keeping things forever doesn't help when targeting ads to user intent, which changes pretty frequently. It's also anonymized and we don't have personal information like names or addresses. You're also discounting the value it brings to lots of consumers, marketers and website publishers alike to have relevant messages.

I really dont understand this argument of privacy as if everyone was living off the grid somewhere. What is the impetus here? And in context of web publishers, if you dont want ads then you'd have to pay for content directly, which is no more private and in fact reveals even more info.

The reason you use a credit card and not cash during real transactions is because you care more about value and convenience than privacy, so why are ads online such a target of all this?
> is about as correct as

This statement is broader than the patent applications.
By hand-written, do you mean physically hand-written or a hand-composed non-canned email?
I guess I've only seen half-baked solutions come out of crisis thinking. Also, there seems to be a tendency for some parties to put their little "pet project" into effect after a crisis. Since I just traveled, I would suggest the TSA as one of the prime examples of the way the road leads.

[edit: oh come on downvoters, tomjen3 is stating an opinion held by many and it kills any hope of discussion when someone gets downvoted into oblivion]
Medieval Bargain Books
I wish more of these types of videos had transcripts. Frequently I don't have enough time to sit down and watch all of this however if there were a transcript I could quickly scroll through it and find some of the highlights..
I enjoyed this thought piece on technical debt vs technical rsik: http://pl.atyp.us/2015-01-technical-risk.html
The state punishing people for not wearing seatbelts represents the idea that people need to be protected from themselves, by force.

If we go along that road, what's next? Should police officers be everywhere, ready to snatch a beer from an adult's hand if he seems to have had "too much" to drink already? What's too much? How do you know? The Nannier a state gets, the closer you are to complete tyranny.

Instead, we could just consider everyone personally responsible for their own choices.

- Didn't wear a seatbelt and got paralyzed in an accident? That's certainly tragic, but you're personally responsible for your choice to not wear a seatbelt.

- Didn't wear a seatbelt and nothing bad happened? Well good for you!
The scrypt encryption utility (http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html) is pretty simple, but it does what you are asking.
Sounds like an ideal "end-to-end" testing site for urban drone warfare (both aerial and ground.) The only thing missing is car/pedestrian traffic to route around.

Alternately, they might mean technologies for building pre-fabricated structures at a larger scale than is currently done with e.g. townhouse developments.
I'd say that lack of references is more often a sign of ignorance than innovation. I see that every day; transformative work like John Nash's thesis only come along once in a while.
> Of course, any actor that is willing to torture an answer out of you is probably willing to torture n answers out of you and/or watch you die in the process.

The eternal question of how to fight monsters without becoming one in the process.
I've been planning on writing something for a while, but there's still some things going on with some of the IP (now years later) and I've found it hard to write about it in an "internet safe" abstract way.
Seatbelts protect other passengers in the car.

People are terrible at assessing risk and they probably need a gentle legislative push for some things, like seatbelts.
I was once in a taxi in which the driver would snort cocaine when we stopped at a traffic light. Needless to say I got out and walked.

Another time I was in a taxi and the driver fell asleep on the highway. We were in stop and go traffic and after a long "stop" the traffic started moving but we did not. I noticed the driver sort of slumped over in his seat. I yelled "hello?" and he startled awake. Couldn't just get out and walk, we were on a highway in the middle of winter in Montreal.
Wow, this is shocking. My buddy and I rode past the accident. The cops kept signaling to us to keep driving.

They posted this yesterday shortly after the crash, but at that point they did not have the bodies identified: http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2015/05/2_dead_in_nj_t...
The US spends $454B on welfare programs[1], but has a population of 321M. If you scrapped the existing welfare program in favor of BI, you'd be able to give everyone only $117 per month. You can make adjustments for things like children not requiring as much, but we're still nowhere near a livable wage.

[1] http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2015USbn_1...
You might have trouble clicking through if you don't have an FT subscription. In that case you can google the title and read the article that way.
Iridescent Configuration
Good. Now, we have an active act of non-compliance with an (hopefully? please?) existing law that forces you to buckle up. Let's start the fines with 1k and see if this helps, if not, go up. Not buckling up is so insane, I cannot even begin to imagine it ..
Why would anyone be dumb enough to invest in this? Even assuming that it isn't shut down by authorities and even assuming that they can stay in the app store when they're so obviously a spammy spyware app, China Mobile controls their oxygen supply. All they have to do is start messing with their radius servers to make life difficult for password sharers. Why would anyone invest in a company that can by shut down by another company on a whim?
I do not think the verbing of "Overton window" conveys the meaning you intend.

Did you mean, "it constrains itself to the Overton window?" Or, "it attempts to move the Overton window (up/down)?" Because saying it "overton windows" the discussion is meaningless.
"... in a car crash".
Bingo. The problem with housing is that demand outstrip supply by a insane magnitude.

The only real way to fix housing is to flood the market with fixed price dwellings.
Does Culture Really Evolve Like Organisms Do?
Under download options, there is "TEXT" and these are commentaries about each crack. Great to read.

A small group of us successfully cracked a program or two, using just the monitor and some utilities we wrote. It was a challenge and an education all in one! Highly recommend reading through a few of these.
There's a TON of productivity gains available using current land. India produces 5x less food per acre than the U.S. We can feed 9 billion using less farmland than we do now if all farms were as productive as the best US tech can provide. plus agriculture tech is progressing very quickly, another doubling of yields is expected in the next decade!
Well to me this seems like a passive solution that would convert most people who right now aren't using seatbelts to use them. Now, if some are trying to actively be stupid about it - I guess nothing in the world can prevent that.

The best the designers of products can do is "make them as safe as possible by default". There will always be people who actively work against those safety mechanisms though (like people turning off their ESP for that extra "sports-like" performance for their car - in urban traffic).
He is: http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Rust-Jim-Blandy/dp/1491927...
I believe ams6110 meant that there is no need for Mozilla to build their own search engine from the ground up when they could simply partner with DuckDuckGo.
The trouble with the theory is that the seats on the buses I rode on were neither particularly high nor particularly soft. On the bus I rode regularly, the back of the seat in front did not have exposed metal, but many in my town did. Frankly, the fabric covered ones were not much better as you could feel the metal bar beneath the fabric. Even as a kid, I knew I was likely to get seriously injured in the event of an accident. Thankfully, accidents are rare. Perhaps, newer buses are somewhat better, but I imagine most of the old ones are still in service.
John F. Nash Jr., Mathematician Dies at 86
As antitrust case looms, 'Peak Google' debated
Is Uber Dangerous for Women? Many Say Yes
>I've gotten in the habit of using my seatbelt while in a taxi, car, bus, or whatever.

Are there seatbelts in buses?
Didn't wear a seatbelt and headbutted the person in front, snapping their neck. Sucks to be them, I guess. But at least you stuck it to the man.
You're welcome. And understood, though as my siblings here mention, not everyone feels that way. I've heard a lot of things similar to what you're saying, but I've also heard a lot of "Thank you for not writing minimalist, dry prose."
"There's no such thing! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly - ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; you can't die with it!" — House
"In a place with one of the best gender-ratios in the country for single women, female friends I talk to complain that most of the men are, in fact, not available; they are all busy working on their start-ups, or data-crunching themselves. They have prioritized self-improvement and careers over relationships."

I'm particularly curious about what she believes the alternative option is here. Are we supposed to waste our time and self-esteem with uncertainty and self doubt in the pursuit of a relationship, or focus on something that brings immediate and tangible results, and keep building up our confidence through building and administrating tech like coding through Python and working with Linux? Personally I'll always take the the one that brings tangible results and confidence before the one that brings depression and uncertainty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_missing_out

A few random thoughts:
- A story is in the news strictly because it's out of the ordinary.
- Related to number one, it's best not to compare your life to to the news. Essentially, you're comparing the day to day with the highlights of someone else's life. You don't have the full picture.
- One of the best things to do is something Tim Ferris recommended, avoid all news for a week, and focus on your life.
- Always remember there is another side to the story.
- In the end, you are the judge of how fulfilling your life is.
Thats not what we are talking about. We are talking about the system to control that people are in fact getting what they are supposed to and not cheating.

Thats many many times bigger than you would think. Also no one is talking about not spending on road and the current system doesn't really do that either IMO.
If you took all the money paid to all Walmart employees above the manager position, every last cent, and redistributed it back to the workers, you'd increase their pay by less than $100.

You are assuming that companies are all in a high margin low competition markets, and a bunch of other stuff that is simply not true.
Even If You're Fit, Too Much Sitting Is a Health Risk
Researcher who exploits bug in Starbucks gift cards gets rebuke, not love
I was using Fedora on it for daily software development for a couple of months. Almost everything was working perfectly. I ended up switching to a Dell XPS 13 2015 though. The main issue I had with linux on the SP3 was that I couldn't enter the hard drive password without an external keyboard on boot. (Lots of tips on /r/SurfaceLinux)
And often a good crisis shifts more power into elite hands:

http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine
From the opinion of the court, "If the test could be satisfied merely by the fact that an employer required an activity, it would sweep into 'principal activities' the very activities that the Portal-to-Portal Act was designed to address".

The Portal-to-Portal Act was in response to miners suing for back pay the time they spent moving between mines (after Congress enacted laws that made that seem like a winnable case). It was understood and customary that the time was to be unpaid (thus presumably their wages already took that into account).

The relevant portions of the Portal-to-Portal Act (as quoted by the court) are:

(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) [which covers work compensable by
contract or custom], no employer shall be subject to any liability or
punishment under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, ... on
account of the failure of such employer ... to pay an employee overtime
compensation, for or on account of any of the following activities of such
employee engaged in on or after the date of the enactment of this Act—
(1) walking, riding, or traveling to and from the actual place of
performance of the principal activity or activities which such
employee is employed to perform, and
(2) activities which are preliminary to or postliminary to said
principal activity or activities, “which occur either prior to the
time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or
subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases,
such principal activity or activities.

So there's an exception for activities which are customarily paid. I am not sure why the court worried that paying these temp workers would go against what the Act was designed to address. Most people would expect a required security screening like this one would be customarily paid time, thus is has to be paid under the law.
> I think the biggest problem with land-based farms is that there is only so much land available for it, and that land is also highly valued for other properties (such as residential and commercial ventures).

I don't think you really understand the distribution of land use and urbanization in the world if you think construction of houses and shops are a substantial limiting factor in its agriculture. Your remedial assignment is to drive from Denver to Chicago.

As for growing plants on another planet... and shipping them back to Earth... if you've got that sort of an energy budget to waste shipping food around why aren't you just building nuclear-powered underground greenhouse-caves or some nonsense like that?
It is illegal to prevent your employees from talking about their salaries. http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...
Some of them do become idle thats the whole point because some of them ARE idle. We are not talking about living like a king. We are talking about basic income i.e. getting by.
A recent episode[1] of the design podcast 99% Invisible talks about how this (or a similar effect) was exploited by Victor Gruen in the design of shopping malls, in what they call Gruen transfer[2].

1. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-gruen-effect/

2. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruen_transfer
Agreed. I've been focusing on getting the absolute basics in place, and it's already taken over 250 pages. I'm working on putting some muscle on that skeleton now.
As somebody researching automated reverse engineering, I would love for these to alongside the uncracked originals. While the text files document what it was doing, the ori isn't there to replicate the process.

There are file formats which record the raw head flux from spinning across the drives, which should archive any goofy drive-munging scheme employed.
Ask HN: I own kittens123.com.  Now what?
I wouldn't normally ask but it's a quiet holiday weekend.

I bought kittens123.com as that seemed one of the most basest, irony-loaded, domains I could think of that gets close to the most populous scurge of the kitten pictures (and preference for bad weak passwords).

Now what?
Riding with Strangers was always dangerous. Some kind of Dangers are universal and not specific to Women, contrary to what feminists belief.
We have a local school bus that took a head-on collision at speed (bus traveling 45mph, oncoming pickup at 60mph) and treated the occupants very well. The bus was full of high schoolers, the pickup was driven by another high schooler. The bus driver took a break near the ankle and none of the students sustained anything more than bumps and bruises.

Now, a lot comes into play here - the bus outweighs the pickup by several times, so it has the momentum to absorb the oncoming momentum and keep moving. But it's certainly not like hitting a flying bug. All that energy from the truck headed the opposite direction has to go somewhere, and it slows the bus dramatically in an instant. And these are high schoolers - no matter how many times the driver reminds them to sit down, sit correctly, they just won't. And even after all that, with no one besides the driver in a seatbelt, the students were all OK. (To satisfy curiosity: the driver of the pickup took serious injuries of which none were life-threatening; he spent two days in the hospital. He'd gotten impatient driving behind a tractor/trailer and decided to pass immediately after a curve without checking the lane first. This was a two-lane state "highway" and he was indeed in a zone that allowed passing.)

Then there's the Really Bad Accidents where the bus ends up on its side or upside down. Seatbelts are designed the hold under stress-- the button becomes near-impossible to operate and release. Smaller children will require the assistance of an adult. And there's ONE on the bus. With 50 kids. They make a safe belt cutter that a driver can carry, but now the driver has to visit every seat with multiple belts, cutting kids free, supporting them so they don't fall. This is not a scenario I'd care to have enter reality.
There is a subreddit for this, although I'm not sure what the current state-of-the-art is

http://www.reddit.com//r/surfacelinux

Here's a thread specifically about the Surface 3 (non pro)

http://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/35dmup/surface...
I've never worn a seatbelt in a taxi, but I've always worn them in an Uber.
So? That just said that (in the courts opinion) the way the law is written permits it -- i.e., that if it's wrong, you need to address Congress or fix it.
You won't want to do that without Windows 10, enabling Hyper-V before Windows 10 resulted in you loosing connected standby, but with Windows 10 it works great.
Speak only for yourself, please.

I paid close to 50% of my income in income and payroll taxes last year. I live in the US and am not in the top marginal federal tax bracket. I feel I am taxed more than adequately when compared to other economies that provide a much greater service level for their citizens.

The problems in the US are not on the supply side, they are on the demand (government spending) side, and simply - they are on the military complex side.
Nobel laureate John F. Nash Jr. dies
Some that aren't specific to women are, empirically, much greater for women, despite what anti-feminists believe, or pretend to for propaganda purposes.
Connected Standby only works for a couple of Windows Store / Metro Apps though. I don't think that's a big loss...
I visited Fort Lauderdale, FL earlier this year and it seemed like all the taxis were Priuses which of course all have a very loud you must buckle your seat belt noise.
I just started at a new job, at a new startup.

During the my first job interview with them, they asked, "Do you know how to work with a RESTful interface?" I said yes, and I told them to look at my Github account for examples.

During my second job interview with them, they asked "What do you consider when you are designing a RESTful interface?" I quoted a bit from the book that Sam Ruby and Leonard Richardson wrote, back in 2007, and which I've read cover to cover. Among other things, I said the overall goal should be to work with HTTP, not against it. Then their lead programmer tried to ask me what he apparently thought was a "trick" question. (He was quitting the startup to go back to school, and I was being hired to replace him.) He asked, if, for a given task, HTTP was too verbose a protocol, then what else might I use for a RESTful interface. I suppose that should have been my first warning. I wasn't sure what they were looking for, but I thought maybe they wanted me to say WebSockets, or perhaps they wanted me to push back against the question and ask why HTTP was too verbose, or they wanted me to suggest the use of TCP in an ad-hoc style that mimicked HTTP. I explored all those possible answers as I spoke with them.

Then I was hired and I started the job. Their system is not RESTful at all. The only HTTP verb they use is POST. They use it for everything, and they put all their data in the body of the POST. Their system is pure RPC, with a style influenced by SOAP.

The people I'm working with are in their early to mid 20s. I'm not sure if age is a factor, since I've seen the same mistake made by programmers in their 50s. But, for sure, there are some programmers who do not seem to know the difference between RPC and RESTful.

Of course, on a personal level, none of that really matters. I really like this place that I'm now working, and I'm happy to work with their RPC style. I have, however, insisted that we use correct terminology, just for the sake of clarity.
Cutting out 12db makes a huge difference (as decibels are measured on a non-linear scale). It can make the difference between hearing this for the rest of your life or not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HIfqyHbKgY
This is the purpose of http://rustbyexample.com, not the playpen, specifically.
The top marginal income tax bracket isn't the place where you pay the highest combined income + payroll tax, since the the larger part of tax is capped and it is otherwise flat, not progressive.

If your paying close to 50% combined, it probably means you'd pay less, as a percentage, if you made more. Getting close to 50% total rate is hard.
Oh no. RIP John and Alicia Nash. Where's the black ribbon?
Inflation is currently controlled by adjusting the amount of new money printed to back up loans given to large banks.

Instead of printing new money in this way, we could just give the new money directly to the citizens.

Quick napkin math shows that every person in the US would have gotten a check every year all the way back to the 30's (some years smaller than others), without needing to raise taxes at all. In fact cancelling some of the welfare programs made unnecessary by this system would likely result in lower taxes.

Loans would be more expensive, but more expensive loans seems like a small price to pay for basically ending homelessness and hunger.
Given how much manual skilled labor was involved in producing books back then it doesn't surprise me that there was a secondary used market.
Is anyone still using Python 2 for new projects?

I'm curious to hear reasons for this, given that Python 3 provides so much good stuff, and pretty much all the important libraries and environments now support Python 3.