skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Young, educated people in Indian urban centers are essentially a demographic that doesn't need to be targeted because they're almost always sensible enough. Take away any of those three conditions, and the need for proper education among that group becomes harder -- as does the difficulty of reaching, convincing, and actually implementing any sustainable "culture of contraceptive use" among them.

It's what you'd expect where adults, especially lower- or lower-middle-class adult women, will almost never talk about sex, resorting to grown-up versions of "wee-wee", or oblique "that time of the month"-ish circumlocutions, if they do at all.

India also has a pretty grim history of adult men being forced to undergo (often botched) sterilization during the infamous Emergency declaration in around 1977, with a significant number of casualties. This kind of history obviously muddies the waters (as if the almost-institutional cultural reluctance to engage with these matters wasn't enough).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_sterilization#India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency_(India)#Forced_s...

I must say, though, that there are more TV ads than ever, and even the occasional billboard (which residents' unions will often try to shutter on the grounds of "public morality") for condoms or contraceptive pills. AFAIK (and it's no wonder why) the government doesn't advertise morning-after pills at all, but Indian Big Pharma does (and, again, I doubt how many of the people who'd actually benefit from the ads see them or act upon the information). Unlike the situation in the US, here the driver is some kind of ill-defined "decency" rather than the threat of swift retaliation from an enraged petty deity: not that it makes much of a difference.
Well, embarrassing someone or otherwise harming them with speech is not illegal, and the truth is an absolute defense against libel lawsuits in the US. Also, even if it weren't, public figures have less protection under these laws.
Well this looks exciting! So impressed with quality of stuff coming out of cncf.

I'm evaluating linkerd in our k8s clusters right now so it will be interesting to see how this fits in. Is it designed to drop in for ingress like nginx/traefik works?
Well, you can sue anyone for most anything - the question is whether you have a case. If the information is true, anyone who published it would most likely be protected on first amendment grounds, especially since there is clear public value and a policy reason for publishing the information.
Omne trium perfectum
In the book, The Everything Store, the writer tells about Bezos intentions for Washington. It was combination of fewer customers there and a close distance to a large book publisher, there were a few other smaller accompanying reasons like another poster mentioned about msft being in the area as well.
GraphQL today using Apollo for client apps that still depend on REST APIs
Agree, but beyond attack surface I just don't want to become accustomed to something that can be shut down, aqui-hire/closed down, or otherwise disappeared via the ongoing advance of technology.

This feature looks nice and I hope other browsers adopt and adapt and make more meaningful end-user advancements like this that are visible to the eye.
Ask HN: Take-home project interview results == Final step?
Hey HN, I recently interviewed with a company in the Bay Area that specializes in remote work and need some opinions on a practice that borders on, in my opinion, unethical behavior and unprofessionalism.

After a quick exchange of messages on AngelList and a phone conversation prefacing the coding challenge, I completed the assignment over the weekend, and today, I went to their office for a brief 2-hour on-site interview to present my solution, meet the team, and have a chat with the CEO--no lunch.

From my experience with take-home project-style interviewing processes, you are more or less in the final round after you present your solution and go onsite, without any further need to validate my coding competency. However after I presented, the CTO of this particular company told me there is yet another final take home project that involves implementing a couple features on their dev environment.

My questions are: For companies who employ the take-home project interviewing style, is this additional step common practice? If not, do you think it's worth salvaging the situation to see if the CTO will understand that I had already sunk a lot of time interviewing for this particular company--or should I just run?
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Sounds great. My only question: Why use "credits" instead of just using Bitcoin?
"PERIOD."

This is almost always the harbinger of lies, deception, propaganda, or lack of nuance.
I agree. In fact, withholding should be done away entirely. Try taking money from people in a non-transparent way and see how well that goes.

It's amazing how quickly someone's feeling on taxation can flip once tax season means writing a check instead of getting a refund.

Of course, that's exactly why the system is set up the way it is; a number on a pay slip feels much less real than dollars that you have to fork over, so people hardly realize the extent to which the government is fleecing them.
It's highly unlikely that the ISPs are going to piecemeal out private customer data & browsing history by name.

And why bother when they can follow Google & Facebook's insanely profitable profiling / targeting ad playbook?

Considering that almost 60% of us use Chrome which is owned / designed by the world's biggest advertising company (1) and that leaks privacy even in "incognito" mode (2) I feel like the narrative around the FCC order is not intellectually honest.

EG - Google - in fact - came out AGAINST the original framework that was repealed this week! (3)

The new FCC Chairman - Ajit Pai - has stated he endorsed this act to re-level the playing field for ISPs vs Facebook / Google / and the less visible ad tracking / ad profiling agencies.

And he's further stated that he's going to use this opportunity, of resetting the playing field, to create a framework that applies for EVERYTHING digital.

I am not going to pretend that I am optimistic that the FCC is going to build a consumer framework that we can all live with, but I am confused how Google / FB / etc are getting away with murder on the privacy / profiling side.

Let's use this opportunity to push for the "opt in" framework that makes the most sense.

(1) https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr...

(2) https://www.quora.com/Does-Google-track-what-happens-in-the-...

(3) https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/100319291940/2016-10-03%20Googl...
It's strong evidence, yes. And I certainly support the change. I'm just saying I don't think it would be a given just because the pilot program was popular among participants. People vote against their interests all the time when campaigned in the right way.

Edit: Also I noticed my previous comment was missing a word. Should have been, "Especially with opponents campaigning heavily against it."
"Cards Against Humanity" is known for their crazy publicity stunts. They raised $100k this winter to dig an enormous "holiday hole" for self-described pointless reasons. (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/27/503502142/...)

I'm not really sure how I feel about this one, though. The reason we're in this mess in the first place is that too few Americans really understand what's at stake re: online privacy.
Oh samstave the omniscient,

Can you please tell us which other people are billionaires?

OR

Are you trusting the same publications that George W Bush and republicans turned into paid propaganda to say that Iraq as Le weaponzzz of mass destruction? Remember NYT, WaPo, CNN were the major trusted news orgs that GOP bought.
Tensor products only describe the separable (i.e., unentangled) states.
Top DNS resolutions of white men 50 and older from the Capitol Hill region of DC would probably still be an interesting read.
Certainly yes! The chief reason is that you'll learn the difference between code you like and code you don't like. You'll learn what makes up that difference, so you can build it into your own code in the future. You will develop taste, so to speak. Taste is important.
Perhaps a practical answer to these critical comments: he could fund lawyers to fill out FOIA requests for that information. Presumably anything on govt computers and govt email is fair game.

--Update--
He brings that up (kinda) here https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/62a3kj/cards_agai...
I didn't mean to suggest that cancer researchers are insincere or want people to die, just that some people hypothesize that there is no "cure for cancer" even though researchers are looking for one. The possible implication about the researchers is more that they're too optimistic that their current research avenues will be fruitful, rather that they are deliberately deceiving someone or don't want to succeed.

If that turned out to be true, some of the research might ultimately need a reorientation.

I'm sorry for appearing to conflate the notion of researchers in some field being too committed to their field's approach or tradition with the idea of researchers being intentionally deceptive or wishing not to succeed. I started out trying to describe ways that people envision the latter could be true, but in fact I ended up thinking that it's the former that's particularly plausible. I have no specific reason to think either form is the case today for either climate or cancer research.

The basic challenge is that people, including me, have a wide range of incentives to want to believe and even convince others that what we do for a living is worthwhile. Hopefully most people are right about this most of the time.
Rockefeller's adjusted fortune is not $300-$400 billion. It's a lot closer to $30 to $40 billion in fact.

That huge fake number - which has been thrown around the Web for more than a decade - is derived from the GDP share.

It goes like this. Rockefeller in 1915 (pick the year), was worth the equivalent of 1/37th of the US GDP. Therefore, adjusted to today, Rockefeller would be worth $bazillion (1/37th of $19 trillion; which used to be more like $12b-$14b when the fake premise originally started floating about).

If you dig into the calculation that was / is used on that $300-$400 billion, that's where it's coming from in every instance.

In fact, Gates is objectively far richer than Rockefeller ever was, just not in relation to the US economy size at present. Rockefeller was worth between $1 and $2 billion at his peak, in his time. The inflation adjustment on $1 from 1910 to now, is not 300x or 400x. It's closer to 20x to 30x. If it were 300x, Ford's famous $5 per day pay rate (from 1914), would be ... $1500 per day. Laughable obviously; the 300x+ doesn't pass any challenge thrown at it.
You're focusing only on income tax in the US. The US is not the only democracy, and even if it were, income tax isn't the only tax used to extract value from those creating it.

In several democracies the tax rate has increased since the 1940s. For example, in Germany taxes as a percent of national income has increased from 29% in 1950 to 45% in 2011.

In the US, the tax rate has remained largely unchanged since 1945 when you take into account all taxes, not just income taxes.

My point was that the scope of what taxes support increases under a democracy. All savings from improvements in productivity are just used for new activities. Instead of returning those savings from increased productivity to taxpayers, they just find new activities to spend it on.

I want from the government today, exactly what we got from the government in the 1950s, but delivered with 2017 efficiency/productivity. The government needs to stop finding new things to waste our money on.
This. And it even comes with reftex and bibtex.
Yeah it's probably not a good idea. Taxing them more might be a solution. Like a 2%/year annual tax on properties with an exemption for your main residence.
Wikipedia page mentions "massively scalable message queue broker". And no word about details if the buffer is circular or not - but does it matter in my case - probably not. In memory message queue that can be optionsl persistent in case of a restart, that can be dobe with both Kafka and Redis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kafka
Amazon quite frequently makes my life better. On the other hand, I can't remember ever experiencing a difficult situation because Bezos is rich.
I originally thought it was a puff piece about machines on Wall st, but it does have some hard numbers:

"As part of the restructuring, seven of BlackRock’s 53 stock pickers are expected to step down from their funds. Several of the money managers will stay on as advisers. At least 36 employees connected to the funds are leaving the firm."
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> I think that's a little hyperbolic. In feudalism the balance of power is enforced by violence

Tell that to the hordes of unemployed people. Amazon is doing it darndest to employ as few people as possible in their warehouses and now are testing drone delivery.
Not to be pedantic, but it's not possible to inspect an entire rocket for all defects because so many of them are microscopic and internal (not on the surface of a solid part). These can be analyzed and predicted with fatigue models in aggregate with varying levels of certainty. This comprises the fascinating field of fatigue analysis.
It would still just be ANY queries for cpsc.gov.
That is expressing a ratio. A more concrete example, .46 a person doesn't exist even if that ratio is useful for expressing statistics.
I use LyX. It's interactive and visual, it generates clean and correct LaTeX, and it builds it for you, so you don't need to muck around with error-message parsers and makefiles.
I don't use Google or Facebook. I do use the internet.

I don't pay Google or Facebook. I do pay my ISP.

That is why Google/Facebook get away with so much. Their users opted-in and gave consent for their information to be used in advertising. If people weren't happy they could choose to not use the website. I don't necessarily have that choice with my ISP especially since in many areas there is no competition.
Just commenting that that is a very good definition of what realtime isn't! :)
> At some point, a human is going to take a look.

I recently saw a talk by Foster Provost, a big ML guy at NYU. The main points of his talk were that using fine-grained behavioral data (like browsing history) is better than demographics (at least in his context: predicting ad lift), and he proposed a way to interpret the model (somewhat). I left feeling disappointed. His system for interpretation was super post-hoc and tenuous, IMHO. It felt like a computer scientist doing social science (because it was).

I think ML is great for lots of things, but there are still lots of problems with using it in systems with humans.

An example: if you do a Google search for "Amazon <some book>" then you'll almost always get an ad from Amazon. So Amazon pays for a click that would have happened anyway. Maybe Amazon does this to crowd out other advertisers, but maybe it's just the algorithm being stupid and nobody is watching.
> which funneled it to a single individual.

You mean, which funneled a small fraction of it to a single individual. Bezos individually got more of it than anybody else, however to pretend that he got all of it, is silly.

Total non-stock compensation paid by the business. Total stock compensation paid. Total investor return since inception. Total benefit to all consumers in convenience and savings. Total benefit to the investor return derived and that capital being put to further use in the economy. And on and on the calculation goes. The money has been funneled to hundreds of thousands of jobs and hundreds of thousands of investors overall and millions of consumers (savings from aggressive margin pricing, or just value from various useful products Amazon has provided such as Prime), spanning decades.

Bezos has likely gotten a low single digit percentage of all the value Amazon has created for everyone.
Those are interesting issues. The answer, I guess, would be to only work on copies. But even then, nuking a copy of yourself would be troubling.
You're right, it's never going to be that you PayPal your ISP $25 and get someone's network history (though I may regret those words in a decade).

But, "Sell" is different than "Act" on though, right?

If I'm an ISP, my number one job tomorrow is going to be setting up some sort of software bridge that interacts with current real time bidding ad tech software to better target ads.

Expect the number of "ads that follow you around the Internet" to spike considerably, and be utterly resistant to things like clearing out your local browser cookies, PrivacyBadger, etc.
Literally who
I made something like this as well. A system for handling load order with a cool syntax, cycle detection and small footprint. There's something cool about writing dependency tools. I like the feeling of my own code bootstrapping my own code. No foreign includes in the system. But this is only on JS client side web, where ES imports haven't landed yet and I don't like the idea of using require or amd. On server side I'm perfectly happy to use require and npm and loads of other people's code.

I wish i know how to make code like this popular. I guess the problem is js developers already already have workable solutions that are basically monopolies. Still it's an interesting challenge to take their market.

It seems very hard though because if you think about any Improvement you could make to your code over theirs the existing solutions could make that Improvement too and their Improvement would have so much more utility than your own because it would be able to instantly reach all their existing customers. So it's quite the challenge to take market share from require and Amd and so on.

I guess the trick then is the old trick try to pick a niche that the Monopoly doesn't really serve. Amd and require are for everywhere .... But solutions like yours and mine might work better for small to medium sized projects in the browser. Or an even smaller niche maybe programmers of games or Demos in the browser. Size and complexity conscious.
So far latency has been comparable with other native load balancers: we've built performance profiles for nginx proxy_pass and haproxy to compare against although as we add features our numbers are starting to come down a bit.

We're still building our collection of tools for tracking down performance issues like lock contention, allocation hotspots, etc. I've had good luck finding cpu hotspots with linux perf and valgrind but less luck tracking down mutex holders and allocation hotspots. Any advice is welcome!
Just today I saw three separate articles (without seeking them out) giving umpteen reasons
Amazon is going to a trillion, or that Amazon is only getting started.

umm, i call bullshit
"An intern then manually clicked on each of [the 12000] addresses to ensure that the websites were ones the company wanted to advertise on." - true hero of this article
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If they take money from a company like Google that stands to benefit from more FCC regulation, I have a problem with that as well. I can dislike two things at the same time.

Allowing unlimited spending in the form of Super PACs just exacerbates your proxy war problem. In this case we have several companies with deep pockets that happen to be on the side of net neutrality, but their interests won't always align with the public's.
Wonder how fine-grained you'll be able to purchase data. Say you can buy data in a 2km circle minimum from a given point, and results with anonymized/aggregate.

Then you buy 2 more circles, find out where they all intersect - bam, got yourself data for a given point.

Same as the old Tinder tracking exploit.
Previous HN discussion for the earlier announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528456
Not resistant to uBlock Origin
I love the feature of Latex where you remove one brace from your code and then it breaks entirely with the very helpful memory overflow error. Great compiler.
I remember the Holiday Hole. We had it up on a screen at work. On the website, one of the frequently asked questions was "Where is this hole?" to which the answer was, "In American, and in our hearts."
Google and Facebook are everywhere, it's practically impossible not to touch their ad networks without filtering, and since many sites aggressively punish ad-blocking, "not using Facebook or Google" is looking increasingly like not using the internet.
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Even though you don't use Facebook or Google they ABSOLUTELY are using you.

Both operate global advertising networks, even if you never log into Facebook or set up an account they are tracking you.(1)

And Google owns the largest mobile OS which is RIPE with tracking / profiling features.

MacOS and Windows 10 also track you, Apple seems a little better - theoretically - about leaking your privacy rights - but MSFT is humming right along not only building a massive data business, but also buying up companies like LinkedIn to improve their ability to target you based on how you're using their OS.

So I disagree on the "we have a choice" part.

You've got me on the "I pay my ISP" but that argument died when Cable started showing ads.

(1) http://bgr.com/2016/05/27/facebook-ads-tracking-non-users-pr...
The difference to me is the valuation- during previous downturns they weren't trading at a $400 billion market cap.

I think a lot of people assume that because they're amazon that they'll crack the last mile delivery problem, a problem that FedEx and ups, two exceedingly smart and successful and well run companies have not, not to mention the usps. FedEx and UPS want no part of last mile delivery because there's no money in it. The money is in flying it across the country with 300,000 other parcels. I'm very skeptical that Amazon can warehouse and deliver goods to your door with a significant margin, and a significant profit margin is what will eventually be required to justify a $400 billion valuation.

To date, this has not been the case, and the fact is that while they've made shopping an amazingly easy process, they haven't made a lot of money doing so, certainly not compared to the few other companies trading at similar valuations.

I'm not predicting a doomsday scenario in that amazon is going to go belly up. I just think the stock is headed for a dive.
It's simple really. Teenagers tend to take more risks. A possible pregnancy is a good reason to use a condom, as a side effect a lot of stds are also prevented. Removing the pregnancy possibility from the equation removes the need for condom use.
I understood that the benefit of this to ISPs was to offer targeted, individual marketing. So I doubt they are selling by bloc/demographic, I suspect it's something more like Adwords. User data may be anonymized by name but it doesn't take that many data points of e.g. someone's search history to identify them. It's unclear to me what, exactly, you will be able to purchase, but it wouldn't surprise me if they can narrow a larger data buy down to a few individuals with high probability. About a decade ago now there was a leak of anonymized google search history and some researchers successfully tracked down several individuals.

Google/FB/etc get away with it because you don't have to use their services, although things like the supercookie are highly specious. If you want to use any online resources you are going through an ISP.

I, too, think the opt-in model is not unreasonable, but you know it will be buried in the most obtuse, double-negative-filled language their lawyers can contrive.