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You're changing the goal posts. Of course your views are shaped by the country you grew up in. That's not the same as saying they're manipulated from up high by the media. My mom grew up in Bangladesh. Even when I, much less she, was a kid, we had one TV station that was off the air half the day. Nobody was spending billions to influence her opinions. Saying her voting patterns here in the U.S. are the product of media manipulation is frankly offensive as it denies her agency and free will.

The motivating philosophies behind American voting patterns are present all over the world: distrust of individualism, strong reliance on government to organize social affairs, condemnation of speech that tends to upset the social order, etc. Whether you're talking about a New England farming town or a Bangladeshi village, these viewpoints are recurring. There is a good reason why: they are beneficial in a society with limited resources that must work closely together to survive.
It does make sense that 3rd parties should not be allowed to log cookies without your consent, i.e. all the ad trackers. If they had targeted those overly intrusive ad companies, great! It would have worked!

However they made the law too broad and had it cover on site cookies too, which get used for the typical session information that powers features that every consumer expects these days (recently viewed, shopping baskets, etc.). So the companies got caught in the general stupidity.
That's a good prediction. I'm not sure how they could survive independently. It doesn't make sense.
There was an article about this on HN a while ago: http://zedshaw.com/2015/06/16/early-vs-beginning-coders/
You might be surprised how much data cookies can hold. Google Ads cookies (anything with __ga, etc.) are in almost every site do indeed appear to hold some tracking data.

But I agree with you that this is some misguided legislation for many reasons.
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When the Green party gets a lot of votes those votes come from the Democrats and the Republicans win. Conversely with libertarians.
My university dictates the style of a thesis so no chance there but it looks good.
On a related note: When I indexed the whole English wikipedia last year, I was surprised, that it was possible to have a JSON version of it indexed[1] and searchable within half an hour on my laptop.

[1] Using parallel bulk indexer for ES: https://github.com/miku/esbulk
MixPanel is nice, but its support for multiple sources of data is not very good. You can slice and dice events, but if you want to join that to your user database, things get awkward/not-possible pretty quickly.

The 2nd thing is that MixPanel is write-once, read-forever. aka if you misspell something or change definitions you end up in a bad place. These ETL processes are much more capable of adapting and normalizing a schema over time.
Is that true? Is the HN demographic really that young. No wonder it seems like everyone here is more liberal than average.
This is another example of old corportate red tape getting in the way of progress
A use case for which it is unambiguously better, basically.

Wine continues to implement more and more of DirectX (cos the guys at Codeweavers are gamers too). Wine is really pretty bloody good these days.

I recall tales of WoW players running it in Wine specifically so people they'd pissed off couldn't h@xx0r them, but I have no idea on numbers.
Those studies focused on geometric sans serif fonts like Helvetica. Humanist sans fonts have been demonstrated to have higher legibility in print.
At least all of the Clinton Foundation stuff is finally coming to light.

Wherever the Clintons have gone, scandals and coverups seem to follow them - which should be a clear red flag to anybody with a half a brain.
Can you get updates without a subscription? I thought that was the case. Or maybe that's just the Unbreakable kernel now? (includes dtrace and some oracle optimizations)

Perhaps I'm remembering from the original release of OEL... I was certain updates were locked down much like RHEL traditionally was (requiring a subscription). At least that's the way Solaris is, too!
Actually it invokes undefined behavior when it passes a float to printf() and then tries to print it using %d (which of course expects int). Don't do that.
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Anyone got a similar resource for self publishing ebooks? I had some stuff hacked together with org-mode and some other bits a while ago, but would like to know of anything better.
Probably because there were fewer characters to type and it's slightly easier to read.
Personally the deaths of multiple people at the hands of a domestic terrorist and the racist societies that support him matter more to me than how much I pay in taxes.
"What the supreme court said is that you can't arrest the hotel employee/owner for not handing over the information immediately, which was part of the LA law."

Didn't compliance also require a valid ID from whoever was checking in? This decision permits an anonymous(cash) business transaction.
I'll note, we have a Linux distro that is in fact doing stupendously well and has end-user consumer sales into the billions. It's called Android.
"If/when production is free you don't even need to compensate the creators. They can get whatever they want, like any other guy, and they'll create only when they feel like it and not (say) once per year to pay bills and buy stuff."

If history is a guide, I'll say that the inventors themselves won't want to share with you or I. They want to be compensated in some fashion for their inventions. Be it money or power, they'll demand control of our use of their creations. So, I can see how an inventor in our current social structure would become like Immorten(sp?) Joe but without the nuclear wasteland.
> I wonder what the next oldnew tech will be.

Analogue, chemical, film process.

When someone works out how to make it in reasonable quantities I think we'll see people using analogue cameras and chemical film.
I do understand that there's more than two parties, I should have made that clear. The US system is more or less a "winner takes all" system, leaving small parties little or no change for representation, even if they do represent a large percentage of the population. It is pretty much the same "problem" the UK has.

If the Americans are happy with the system, then then there's no issue, but if a large population group feels unrepresented then I don't think it's a fair system. There's a valid point to be made in terms of the size and diversity in the US might pose a problem for a parliamentary style of government, in as so fare as a plethora of parties could gridlock legislation.
From their video:
The presenter: "Why would you (the assistent lady) be interested in cars?"
The assistent: "I'm the perfect chick to be into Masserati."

It's a bit disturbing to see an employee presenting her personal life, kids, interests, and what not. Good job, IntentHQ!

The video: https://www.intenthq.com/resources/interest-fingerprint/
Putting words in my mouth... Ofc there is free will, but if you think media manipulation means you are forced in front of a television you are just a blabbering idiot.
Yes, of course people believe this sort of thing. And yes, this is indeed why we cannot have nice things.

Before you down vote because you think I'm anti-H.C., I'm not. Nor am I pro-H.C. I've not made up my mind yet.
(See the sibling comment with a "10." in it for context.)

8. Ngô Bảo Châu’s proof of the Fundamental Lemma. This is a big one but I'm not sure I can say anything useful about it, but let's see if I can get maybe 0.1% of the way towards doing so. So, we are interested in prime numbers, and there's a powerful way of investigating how they're distributed that's based on something called the Riemann zeta function. For some values of its argument, you can compute zeta(s) as the sum of this series: zeta(s) = 1/1^s + 1/2^s + 1/3^s + 1/4^s + etc. Euler noticed that you can factorize this as the product of 1/(1-1/p^s), where p ranges over all prime numbers, and "morally" this is why it's related to the distribution of the primes. You can use this -- with a lot of fascinating but difficult technical stuff along the way -- to prove the "prime number theorem", which says that the number of primes <= x is about x/log(x). Now, suppose you're wondering about a subset of the primes; e.g., the ones that, when you divide them by 4, leave a remainder of 1. Then you might compute the same product, but only over those primes; or, conversely, only over the primes that leave a remainder of 3 when divided by 4. (There is exactly one prime that falls into neither of these categories. It isn't hard to find.) Thinking along these lines leads you (if you're clever enough) to what are called "Dirichlet L-series": a(1)/1^s + a(2)/2^s + a(3)/3^s + ... where the sequence a(1),a(2),... has a particular form. And you can use these to prove a generalization of the prime number theorem that tells you, e.g., that the number of primes <= x that are 1 mod 4 is about 1/2 x/log(x).

These sequences a(k) are periodic modulo some integer (e.g., the one you need to discriminate between primes that are 1 and 3 mod 4 has period 4). You can think of them as being associated with "the integers modulo k", which is an "abelian group" (which very crudely means something in which you can do addition and subtraction and have the results make some kind of sense). Associated with other abelian groups there are other L-series-like things called "automorphic L-functions". And these things are (kinda-sorta) the subject of the so-called "Langlands program", which sketches -- the details even of the conjectures involved are in many cases not clearly understood -- relationships between lots of objects in pure mathematics that I haven't yet said enough even to define: automorphic forms (related to automorphic L-functions), group representations, etc. And all these things have intimate connections with the prime numbers (as I kinda sketched above), and with other number-theoretic things (e.g., the proof of Fermat's last theorem makes use of ideas of this sort).

One of the conjectures in the Langlands program is the "fundamental lemma". I can't even begin to tell you what it is, I'm afraid, but it's important and now it's been proved :-).

What's next: decades more chipping away at the Langlands program, bringing gradually more understanding of number theory, algebraic geometry, and related areas of mathematics.
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Hi pbowyer,

Apr 9: I believe the context cannot be ignored. First @anonwarnings publicly says “read through their [OrientDB] bug tracker some time, you'll be scared”, then @lvca removes dozens of bug labels on Apr 8 and then the bug label color changes to light grey. It can be a coincidence but I doubt it.

Jun 5 & 16: common reasons for forking (and splitting a community) are a dead project or disagreements regarding architecture, feature set, etc. Oriento was still active and the only disagreement was the main contributor stating that OrientDB wasn’t the best multi-model database out there. The main contributor was not the only contributor, others had write access and there was an open path for the OrientDB team to push their changes (as they had done in the past). The thread quoted and linked on Jun 17 goes over more details. OrientDB was obviously in their right to fork but in my own opinion it was not the option that most benefits the community or even them.

After February we hit some small snags: queries that didn’t work as expected or small bugs with known workarounds. All stuff that we could find solutions for in stackoverlow, google groups or github issues and are not noteworthy. Our code still doesn’t work with OrientDB 2.1 RC-4, we suspect an undocumented breaking change somewhere and we haven’t bother investigating. Currently we are close to go live in production and essentially we are very nervous.

I don’t want to give the wrong idea, I still believe OrientDB has great ideas and it’s somewhat a flawed diamond. Unfortunately the flaws lie in the project management, developing methodology and testing practices. Unless these change I don’t see OrientDB becoming the rock solid database every database should be.
Since when is music not part of a classical education?
Its tough to follow a large truck on a 2 lane road. Overtaking them is very difficult and dangerous at times. Maybe after some time this becomes a mandatory feature, just like brake lights, reverse light etc.
so... has anyone made a chrome plugin to just click all the buttons yet?

We can keep a list of [ webistes -> $('#TheCookieDiv').click ] - commands which we keep on github and shake like homebrew does (`cookieThing update` could be run daily)
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Seems like this is a lost cause. With nearly no action after 7+ years, Apple's not going to change the app store fundamentals.

But, boy was it exciting at the start! Shed a few tears and move on...
I know full well what data is stored in cookies, and you're still only describing IDs. The actual tracking data would be stored remotely, with the cookie used just as a "car licence plate" of sorts. On it's only it's a harmless unique identifier but the privacy issues arise when persistent data is held against that identifier. So my point was, the actual privacy issues isn't the data stored in the cookie itself, it's the data on the remote servers - and thus that's what needs to be legislated against if the EU want to address privacy issues.

I do agree that ideally we don't want these cookies either, but those cookies would be useless without any data against anyway.
It's very sad that people only vote their party. People need to learn to cross the line when it makes sense to. We are nearly perfectly split down the middle. This is a weak position to be in.
People are missing that the whole Taylor Swift/Apple thing was intentional and completely orchestrated to generate buzz about Apple Music. Nothing an A-list celebrity does in public is unplanned, her letter was way too PR friendly to be penned by a 20-something musician.
Why was this downvoted? A counter argument would be appreciated please.
Two things that would be very useful:

1. A combination of static "number of instruction"s, as here, number of times each instruction is executed, and amount of time spent executing each instruction.

2. Statistics for a Markov chain - i.e. not just what single instructions are common, but what combinations of 2 / 3 / + instructions are common. Preferably both in-order and set-based.
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Also the noise of the HDDs is killing me.
I have quite a silent rig (fiddling with music/audio in my spare time) and the most noisy thing was the HDD where my audio samples were. So I've moved everything to SSD and I'm looking for another 512GB to add.
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On a legal note, I would imagine we could say "By using/downloading the plugin, I opt into all cookies, all the time"

Companies would like this too because they then could keep doing exactly what they are doing (to be complaint), but perhaps we could convince them to add a file to their websites specifically for our tool to look up the DIV. Something like www.site.com/cookieAcceptDiv.txt which would list the clickable region to suppress the pop-up
There are many things I could say in response to that, but I am constrained by the standards of HN decorum to not say most of them. I will, though, echo hluska in that I don't think you understand what Rock Band Land is. I will also note that the idea that "only a few have" creativity is kind of hilarious, but the humor is dampened by hearing a parent (or anyone, but especially one charged with the raising of children) say such a thing. Almost every child I've ever met was a wellspring of creativity waiting to be tapped, though I've certainly encountered cases where nobody around them knew how to encourage the child to express it. And I certainly know many adults who had any spark of creative drive beaten out of them. I'll leave it to you and your sterling grasp of society to figure out the whys and hows of that.
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Wow, what an impractical suggestion. At least scripting is possible with NoScript, but images are impossible on Lynx.
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what bothers me is that most websites just show the warning but sends you the cookie anyway while they are mandated to wait till you agree to do that, and basically there is no enforcement so even if I were upset about a site tracking me without consent, I cannot report it and no penalty will actually ever happen to people in violation of this law.

anyway, I think this is mostly a social and educational failure and shows how much more we need to do before we actually own our own hardware instead of relying on the god will of third parties, which never actually works.

moreover this should have been fixed at browser level, and it already was. anyone caring for privacy already had configured the browser for this stuff; at most people just needed more awareness on what was already available in term of privacy controlling extensions

instead we got retarded regulations which explicitly exclude session, authentication and social cookies so basically does nothing about the real issue - 'oh this is not google analytics, it's google plus tracking you - wink wink' - and data mining proceeds as usual.
At our company we use a svn hook with Jira, so all commit messages must contain a valid Jira issue ID which contains a detailed explanation of the commit itself. So our messages are always like:
PROJ-0001
I did this.
IMO does the job and is much easier for the developers.
Personally I have been following the forearm method [1] of keeping my disposable five-blade cartridges sharp. Maybe it won't work for everyone, but it certainly seemed to make a difference to me. Then again, I also grew out a beard so now I only shave a part of my face, and generally do so twice a week, not every day. Having said that, my most recent cartridge lasted me just about a year.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5502841/extend-the-life-of-your-razor-...
hyperbolic-ier stuff is exactly what I felt was missing, I might have revisit. I also enjoyed the hydra game a lot.
Github has a way of linking issues with commits. You just mention the issue in the commit e.g. 'This commit closes #1' and i believe the issue will close with that as well, but it will show up in the issue.

Jira and other ticketing systems can often read repos and look for ticket ids. In my commits at work I just mention PRJCTNAME-142 and that'll link to a ticket and aggregate in jira all the commits/pull requeusts/branches... tagged with that
Thanks for sharing your experience.

> The bugs are there yes. I hope they fix them soon enough because the product idea is very good.

I totally agree with you and 10 months ago I was really hopeful about v2 being the silver bullet. I doubt v2.1 will be it since it doesn't even run with our current code. Perhaps further ahead they will get there.
> It does make sense that 3rd parties should not be allowed to log cookies without your consent, i.e. all the ad trackers. If they had targeted those overly intrusive ad companies, great! It would have worked!

I agree, but cookies aren't the only method of being tracked. So we're back to my original point that legislating against cookies specifically isn't the right way to go about addressing privacy concerns. Hense why I said they should be targeting the tracking data that is stored remotely, as that will cover a multitude of sins.
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> Modern internet has a surprisingly small dependency on Flash.

It depends what you do. I've not used Flash for about 10 years, and never really missed it. The most common use of Flash these days is for video players, which is the easiest use-case to work around since it doesn't actually require any Flash-specific capabilities; wget and VLC are a fine replacement, and the URLs can be extracted using Firefox addons, greasemonkey scripts, commandline tools, digging around in Firebug, or just Googling around to find an alternative source. I don't know about videos on facebook.com, since I've never had reason to visit that site.

"Real" uses of Flash (like newgrounds.com which I used to visit obsessively) are basically impossible to work around. None of the FOSS reimplementations (LightSpark, Gnash, swfdec, etc.) is any good, although swfdec seemed the least-bad in my experience. On the other hand, such usage is rarely critical. There are very few "giant Flash file" sites around these days, and most of those that used to exist could be either safely ignored (eg. games) or worked around (eg. emailing the owner to obtain whatever info you need).
So - let's take those one at a time, because they are interesting.

"Watching too much cable TV" - Cable TV is a broadcast Medium, and watching it, like listening to broadcast radio, has no marginal cost or impact. You can leave your TV off for an entire month, or tuned to a channel for 24x7x365 - zero difference in cost to the provider, or impact to other people on the service.

"Making too many local calls" - More than one person has been required to purchase a business line when they overused their local calling privileges. Indeed, on some CO to CO trunks, if enough people (ab)used their local calling privileges, the entire exchange would be blocked and nobody could call in/out. Unlike the case of internet connectivity, there is no graceful fallback - once the trunk reaches capacity, it's dead for anyone else. (Lumby, BC to Vernon, BC - used to happen all the time - 48 people could bring down a town of 1800). That's why those types of deployments require some type of per minute charges to avoid that scenario.

"If it causes degradation for other users, that's the fault of the ISP that has over-overprovisioned us" - We totally agree here. Any ISP selling unlimited service, and not clearly explaining how many gigabytes "Unlimited" equals, is doing everyone a disservice.

"Caps are just a way to squeeze out higher profits by reducing the necessity of upgrading infrastructure." - We disagree here. ISPs should provide Caps to their customers, and clearly communicate what they are - and then compete to provide higher caps while ensuring they maintain the line rate they've committed to their customers.

For example, if I've purchased a 1 Gigabit connection, the ISP darn well better invest in their infrastructure to make sure that none of their ports are blocking. Comcast utterly failed to do that with Netflix recently, and I find that annoying beyond belief. At the same time though, I don't expect Comcast to provision enough capacity to support all of their customers at 1 Gigabit (or whatever a high speed connection is) at the same time - that's cost prohibitive - particularly as it will rarely be happening.

On the Big I internet, this is solved by what's called 95th percentile billing. This is probably too confusing for the average user, so something simpler like, "You get a 1 Gigabit connection for $75/month, with a 10 Terabyte/month Limit during Peak hours, and Unlimited Terabyte limit in Off peak hours, $20/addition Terabyte in Peak, and we make sure that none of our upstream ports our blocked on any of our peering routers" is exactly what I'd be looking for.
IMHO browsers never should have gotten cookies in the first place, and they certainly shouldn't have ever allowed them to be accessed from different sites. Sure, it's very convenient for a site to recognize you when you return, but there are other way to get much of the way there.

But hey, rather than scaling back HTML 5 includes a client side database! WTF?
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