skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ok, but in a cookieless world, how do I identify people to target?

The current flow is this:
advertiser pushes 1-party data into an exchange or ad network, either directly or via a dsp or dedicated company ala liveramp or via retargeting partner. This can be as simple as "target this user" or very complex, eg catalog integrations ala tellapart.

With no cookie, how can an exchange or network know that anyone wants to show an ad to this viewer?

The other possibility is a single company sees all / has global ident ala fb and google on mobile.

Also, you keep coming back to multiple parties having a claim on a conversion. That is fundamentally unrelated to cookies. It's this: multiple parties showed an ad to a user. Forget, for now, how that user was identified. If that user then converts, which partners get how much credit?
Yes and no. The standard specification defines a C that is very portable. It is quite reasonable that you cannot portably take advantage of your system architecture, which means you cannot do it using C as defined by the standard.

But you still can write stuff that looks just like C, that a C compiler will accept, and that lets you take advantage of your system architecture. You just need to understand that a new version of your compiler can break all of your nifty tricks.
How is Mathematica generally more "feature-full"? What are you comparing it to?
I used to lead tours at a plantation. You wont believe these slavery questions
This program might appeal to digital nomads. It is a good way to work on your projects for 6 months in a country and then move on to someplace else. I am guessing the program may have some restrictions in this aspect. Nevertheless, interesting program to attract entrepreneurship if conditions are not onerous.
My favorite part of being a human is that I get to decide what stresses me, what makes me anxious, etc. So I make interacting with technology about me deciding how much I want to engage. Phones have silent. You can turn off email notifications pretty easy. You can turn it off on nights and weekends (I can't recommend this highly enough if you are in a position to do so).

Sure, I get peeved with folk obsessing over their phone's Instagrat feed. But then I remember that it's their life, their choice, and who am I to think it's inherently wrong?

I also couldn't help but think of this Louis CK bit the whole time reading this:
https://vimeo.com/69662330
Thanks. I ended up using it in the new version.
Unfortunately the schedule 70 provision in this RFQ requires that you both get your devs to put something together using your open source codebase, AND spend months navigating all the bureaucracy to get on GSA schedule 70.
Also consider DUIs (now that we have motor vehicles), office work (where drinking during the day - at least heavily - is typically forbidden), and to some extent possibly the suburban lifestyle (most people don't live a few steps from a bar) and I can see why the amount would be higher back then.
if your plan is to just vacation in France for 6 months and hack on a prototype, do it. But that probably applies to anywhere in the world.

If you want to set a business up and live in France forreals, then don't do that, and read below.

tl;dr - france is not a culture celebrated for its high risk profile. it celebrates its past and culture, things it wishes to preserve. everything else suffers because of this.

Moving from US to France all of your costs are going to go up. It's really hard to get French people to adopt the latest trends. Historically things are very conservative with the benefit of the doubt erring on the side of the status quo.

Any legal, gov't, or bureaucratic issues you think you have in the US, you can multiply by 20 if you set up in france.

The whole taxation system in France was never designed to deal with risk-heavy entreprises. If you employ someone, you must budget for paid vacation. To employ them at all, you need to draft either a CDI (Contract Duration Indeterminée)which means basically that you're employing them for life, or CDD (Contract Duration Determiné) which means you employ them on short term contract only. So either you marry them or you can't promise them much upside.
Finally someone that understands.
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High end is fine. I will have a look thanks.
> What's hilarious is that you're relying on hope for security.

I hope that CAs don't get compromised and sign SSL certificates they aren't supposed to. Oh wait...

I hope Debian doesn't release a version of software with a security hole in it. Oh wait...

I hope OpenSSL doesn't have any bugs in it. Oh wait...

Does this mean I completely disconnect sit in a corner and hope for the best? No - I'm realistic. Software like OpenSSL, Debian, and people who run CAs are made by humans and will make mistakes. They will fix their issues and life will go on.

> The Raspberry Pi boots from its GPU and only non-free software is currently available for the GPU, even starting the machine requires a large (2MB) blob of non-free, unsupportable software

And? Systems you use everyday use closed source non-free software. Do you use Android or iOS?

As far as encryption goes in the Linux kernel - even Linus himself said it doesn't matter if the NSA has a backdoor to the random number generator [1]. If you feel that he is wrong please contact him and post his reply.

[1] - https://www.change.org/p/linus-torvalds-remove-rdrand-from-d...

edit: forgot a word
Many ISPs add their own consumer/residential netblocks to some blacklists (such as the Spamhaus PBL [0]) in order to help prevent spam from originating from the PCs of compromised users. Obviously, it is a receiver's choice whether to use such lists or not (although many/most? large mail providers do) but rejecting mail from these netblocks does result in a very noticeable decrease in spam.

[0]: https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/
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This is a really good article, and balances the viewpoints of both inmates and corrections officers. I encourage y'all to read the whole thing and not just skim.

I think the prison system is ripe for a disrupt, but it makes so much money for so many people and the American view of justice is (in my opinion) so incredibly warped towards punishment I don't see how anything can change.
Did the taxis completely block traffic in Manhattan and assault/kidnap uber drivers?
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Haven't looked at elixir yet, but being an erlang fan and quickly hopping through the source it looks like elixir is doing for erlang essentially what coffeescript does to javascript. Something many non-erlangers have long lamented is the syntax so this looks quite interesting, also adding the running compiler is a nice idea for the macro support :)
From the article:

> There was also strong incentive for us to promptly pay him, so he’d keep playing.

I loved that line, because it's the converse of a casino player in a hole, thinking maybe they can make it back if they keep on playing.
Agree.
And even more so when goods purchased with bitcoin have to pass customs.
it's motion without action, sound without content.

that might just be soothing in general
Google knows how not to use GPL AIDS licenses, thanks!
Few people see scamming a casino (a business designed around scamming people) as "wrong". They see it as "a taste of their own medicine".

Go to any Joe or Jane on the street and ask them if swindling (conning) $50 from a lifetime "professional" con artist is wrong. Out-conning the con artist is typically seen as a thing of approval.
>Most personal mail servers are not going to be sending mass emails.

There's no way to tell whether a random host on some residential ISP or VPS provider is doing personal email or spam.

>An algorithm that auto-spam-boxes mail from domains it's never seen before (or only receives a small trickle from) is ignorant.

Since blacklisting is so prevalent, spammers who aren't idiots will be sending most of their spam from different IPs. They go out harvesting unpatched VPSes and Windows botnets. The latter is patched by residential ISPs blocking port 25, the former is still a problem.

>Maybe the big mail providers need to update their strategy regarding automatic spam-boxing?

Why? Almost all legitimate email is coming from one of the big mail providers or a big-corporate Exchange server. What reason do they have to let more spam into their users' inboxes?
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You should try a current-generation VR system, or even last year's tech like the DK2. You would be surprised.

Motion sickness is now mostly an issue of badly designed software, not hardware. Developers porting content designed for 2D screens don't realize that their camera movements make people sick.

As someone who writes VR software, I think VR hardware unfairly gets blamed for bad VR software.
I think you're right, Tabletop Simulator gives you an environment to do anything but doesn't help you define interactions and rules as far as I know.
Usually they will retry for days. 4 days is conventional, and it's rare to see less than 24 hours... So you're right, it's a rare concern.

And of course if that's an issue, it doesn't take a huge amount of effort to run two - the secondary only needs to run the MTA with sufficiently longer retry intervals for passing mail on to the primary to give you whatever safety margin you'd like.

People seem to forget that e-mail started out in an environment where not all recipient hosts could even be expected to be online all the time - there's decades worth of solutions for doing store and forwards for hosts with intermittent connectivity, so dealing with failure of an MTA is easy.

My big issue with running my own mail server these days, though, isn't the inbound e-mail but deliverability of outbound e-mail. These days I'd be inclined to pass my outbound messages through somewhere like Sendgrid or Mandrill (at a cost) to let someone else deal with the deliverability problem.
A big part of it is about sanitation--since pure water wasn't so safe to drink, people drank far more tea (boiling kills bacteria) and beer/wine (fermentation has a similar effect).
If it is indeed socially optimal to concentrate wealth, then we should advocate a regressive tax policy and encourage the poor to donate to the upper middle class.

Do you know of published research that supports this conclusion? I'm honestly curious.
It's because the absolute best people want to leave France.

Top talent wants to move to the #1 best place in the world for their industry, no less.

Are those definitions or observations?
looking for a cofounder with experience in apache spark, rails, and search.

I founded http://bookprice.co .. feel free to hit me up at team@bookprice.co if you are interested in building a search and fulfillment engine for not just books ;)
The physical "work" of trying to take off uphill in 7th gear is a lot more effort than taking off in 1st gear on a 7 gear bike.
There’s a Debian package for an implementation of the “tcpclient” program: `apt-get install ucspi-tcp-ipv6`. You can also find TLS-enabled versions of the client here: https://github.com/SuperScript/ucspi-ssl (see the links).
People should be masters over the technology, not the other way around. It's important to feel in charge and to retain the right to freedom of choice. Too many people are too worried not to keep up with everything new and shiny. But many people don't care and go their own way...
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Your point of view is extremely naive and insulting. You can't blame entire nations for the lack proper government management or cultural differences.

On the other hand, I understand that you're probably are a lesser mind and you simplify complex topics, like the one discussed here. It make you think you understand them. But you don't.

Your comment is implying that all Germans are Nazis. They are not.
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a) "need" in the Communist/Marxist sense is definitely not the same as "want". I know that need and want exist on a continuum, but most software development is pretty firmly in the "want" neighborhood. When Marx used the word "need", he was talking about safety, food, shelter, clothing, etc. Porn and video games aren't the modern day equivalent of those things. That's part of the reason why the Marx philosophy doesn't necessarily match up with FOSS.

b) Even ignoring "need" vs "want", tell that to my mom's quilting club. The venn diagram of quilters and coders has an extremely small intersection. The same can be said for tons of activities that old ladies and women in general enjoy.
You're pulling a huge bait-and-switch in your argument here. No one was discussing indexing for "organic" search results. The original comment:

> In this case the facts [for "knowledge graph"] come from Google+ reviews. Google is just as likely to display Yelp reviews if they were able to collect that data. Yelp however doesn't supply it.

This statement is implying that Yelp should be supplying their data to Google in order to be included in the "knowledge graph". That is what I was responding to. And I think Yelp has a pretty compelling case of refusing to open their data to a competitor.
RFCs dictate that a mail server retry sending when the MX host is unavailable. If the sending mail server doesn't retry then it is the sender's fault if a message is returned undeliverable without retrying at least a few times.

The "de facto standard" for retrying was (is?) five days, because that's what sendmail defaulted to for years. Nowadays, many senders don't retry that long (my mail systems are set for 48 hours) simply so that a bounce/undeliverable mail is returned to the sender much sooner.

IIRC, there was a certain version of Exchange (I forget which now) that apparently didn't retry and would immediately bounce a message if it was undeliverable on the first attempt, but that was quickly fixed.
I really like this concept, it goes to great lengths to be minimalism, not just a <well-know-linux-distro-here> remix.

I think Linux on the desktop still needs a lot of iterations to be successful and these experiments can be a great sandbox for them.

I hope to see more static linked distributions, but in the meantime there a few alternatives like:

https://github.com/jelaas/bifrost-build

http://morpheus.2f30.org/

There is also a static binary retriever at

http://javier.io/blog/en/2015/06/23/static-get.html

In case you want even more static packages out of RLSD, I'd probably add the RLSD packages to it sometime soon.
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Good one. Too bad humour is not tolerated here :)
Having attempted to do exactly that, I have gotten a little wiser about just why the existing software is so bad, and why it's hard to supplant. Writing better software isn't the hard part.

As you alluded to, it all comes down to the difficulty of selling to them. No matter the size of the customer, they all seem to take two years to make up their minds to buy. That is pretty harsh on a scrappy startup. To grow quickly, you need to pour a very significant pile of money into an enterprise salesforce two years before you actually want to start making money.

That also leads inexorably to the conclusion that small customers aren't worth the hassle, so you need to target the behemoths who can spend enough money to justify their acquisition cost. And the behemoths are so scarred by years of disastrous IT projects that they are deeply risk-averse.

I also think the industry remains in denial about the strategic value of software, so you don't actually get paid what you're worth. They all know they need software, but they see it more as a necessary chore than an opportunity to revolutionize their business.

My hope is that a real technology company directly enters the healthcare market and starts kicking butt by building their healthcare services around great software from the ground up. That would shake the incumbents out of their denial.
It would indeed defeat the purpose of going there. I have been to conferences before, but never alone. Usually, the person I went with was pretty social and I had no problems getting in touch with other people, through my colleague.

The worst case scenario doesn't sound too bad. I just don't want to come back without having spoken to anyone.. I would see that a bit as a failure, considering I'm going there to challenge myself.
Can we stop saying "from anywhere in the world." It's not 1994 anymore.
I'm not sure the difference is really there. The fact that this place is a casino matters a lot. My understanding of typical morality is that it's totally cool to exploit a weakness in a casino's games to shift the odds in your favor, and the casino's recourse is limited to trying to make this impossible, and banning people who do it (while still paying out whatever they won before they were banned).

However, it's not cool to break the casino's games from within. To make an analogy, if you discover that e.g. a casino's blackjack decks have twice as many 7s in them as they should, and you use that knowledge to make a ton of money playing blackjack at the casino, that's legitimate. However, if you break into the casino and replace all their normal blackjack decks with ones which have twice as many 7s, then use that knowledge to make a ton of money at blackjack, that's bad.

So the question is, which category does this particular attack fall into? Apparently they exploited a race condition, wherein outcomes became predictable if lots of games were played simultaneously. Is that exploiting the game within its rules, or is that breaking and entering?

To me, this feels legitimate. An analogy to physical games here might be finding a roulette table where the dealer under some circumstances lets you place a bet after it becomes apparent where the ball is going to land.
Plainly – Getting stuff from one place to another. With international importing/exporting, it goes beyond "shipping and handling."

How does it get from the warehouse to the port? Going by ocean or air? What taxes, duties, etc. are due at customs? How does it get from the receiving port to the final destination? Who arranges each step? Who pays for these things?
Serious questions: are not these types of contract a standard in almost any west-EU/north-EU country?
Not allowing to run servers from home is especially vague. So it's not like if only port 25 is blocked

Are you allowed to run a game server, ftp server, web server, ssh server ?

Words first mean what is written in a dictionary or encyclopedia.

Internet : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

If you are not allowed to run server, they are WSP (Web Service Provider) not ISP.

But if you are OK with ISP not providing internet, I'm sure you are fine with unlimited limited or throttled after x, 24/24 access between 9-5 and secured http page as long as there is a padlock favicon ...
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Does anyone know of a modern, comprehensive list of such industrial espionage events from a trustworthy source?

One of my go-tos was the European Parliament's report on the ECHELON interception system[1] as it gives an idea of how long this has been happening (the report was published 2001), but it's so very old now.

Under "Published Cases", the European Parliament list industrial espionage attacks on a variety of companies and government agencies. Some you might consider reasonable (exposing bribery in the bidding process then nudging the contract to a US firm) but others are incredibly dodgy (forwarding technical details about a wind generator to a US firm so they could patent it first).

[1]: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
one thing you'd lose that way is the direct secure delivery. not that it'd matter if you send it to someone on google, but you can't trust the relay server not to tamper with the mail

unlikely, but if you are the type to run your own mailbox, probably that matters to you
That is not my original comment. Yelp is currently refusing to open their data, but they cannot both do that and demand Google artificially rank them highly in the results.
In this case, I read that as "Standard Operating Procedure".
SBCL runs pretty much everywhere: http://sbcl.org/platform-table.html
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Here's a spot to start from: https://github.com/DomKM/omelette

EDIT: The example in the link provided builds on the now deprecated CLJX, so it's not entirely up to speed. (CLJX was the way to write clj/cljs in the same codebase until "reader conditionals" came along).
I'll add one thing to this: good luck firing anyone, even a grossly incompetent employee.
FWIW, OpenSMTPD is extremely simple to configure and get up and running. (I don't use it other than as an "outbound-only sender" but the configuration file is very readable and simple).
Wordpress is bloated but you don't have to bloat it.

I wouldn't switch because I don't have time to learn yet another blogging platform and be clueless when something blows up or go wrong.

"I just want to write" is a lie in 90%. Yes, you want to write.
Then you want to put an ad or two.
Then you want to sell ebook or two.
Then you want to allow people to become members.
Then you want to charge for premium blog posts.
The list goes on.

Wordpress have free or commercial answers on these + on million more future requirements. Less known platforms are not that fast.

I host my own dedicated server with Cpanel that has 1-click wordpress install. I like that and charge people for that.
Everyone is happy.
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> renumber 10,1000

Silly

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The big providers are actually less of a problem when it comes to RBLs than smaller ones, as the big providers have their own filtering and/or rely on reputable RBLs. The bigger problem in my experience is companies with overzealous IT people with the authority to largely do as they please, where you get some percentage that pick their favorite set of block lists with no consideration for whether or not said block lists are properly run.

We occasionally get on block lists, and though we do get onto reputable block lists now and again after mistakes by users, they're rarely a problem and quick to get off. But now and again we get on some shady block list where there's no quality assurance, and where delisting procedures are onerous. Every now and again one of them is an outright money-making scam ("pay $99 for express delisting, or wait for X days for the regular service; oh by the way we just randomly added you with no basis")
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After the dailymotion debacle France would not be top of my list if I considered doing a start-up.

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/30/sacrebleu-french-pride-kil...
As an example of how complex even FedEx can get, there are cases where it may make business sense to put a bunch of goods on a truck, drive n miles to a place where you'll get a better FedEx rate, and then ship from there (zone skipping).
Ah, okay. Why don't they just use FedEx then?
Thanks. That's exactly what I'm planning to do. I have been preparing, mentally, for this. I made a list of things that might cause me to panic, starting from the moment I walk out of my door to get on the train, until the moment I get back home. I ranked these events from 1 to 3, with 3 being the most stressful. For every 9 points I get, I'm rewarding myself with something, probably some vinyl ;) I don't expect to 'score' many points, but even one '3' would be a huge win, like you said. I'll let you know how it went afterwards. Thanks again.