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Ask HN: Does a third-party cookie influence my search results?
We are all aware of cookies being responsible for providing more relevant and more accurate search results.

I was wondering if (for example) I am using Google as a search engine but do not allow any Cookies from Google my search results could be manipulated by other (third-party) cookies?

Links to more Information would be helpful!
RiotGames: https://engineering.riotgames.com/

Autodesk Stingray (formerly Bitsquid): http://bitsquid.blogspot.de/
More exactly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator
Thanks, that meshes well with my thoughts on it. We're less concerned with hiring right now than with acquiring more clients, but our customers are generally developers at small to medium sized startups. We fall into that category ourselves so we've felt like things that would appeal to us would also appeal to our customers (and vice versa).
https://product.reverb.com/

This is a good one
Maybe they look surprised because the question is misleading. They hear "name the most effective leaders in the [fight to stop] global warming."
Oroville Dam: “It was not whether people would die, but how many would die”
What are you basing that on?

A quick google suggests that at one point 85% of users used extensions.. and as of last year it was still 60%

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/01/06/surprise-40-of-firefox-use...
That is an excellent explanation. I wonder what those "immaculate" parts of business are that successful people never talk about because they never had any problem with it.
The difference is that according to this:

https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

Windows 7 still has twice as large install base as Windows 10. It's literally nothing other than MS stopping support for 7 because 10 is out - imagine the outrage if Tesla stopped supporting an older model S because a new one was out.
We recently started an engineering blog at Doximity [1] that I think is good (though it has less heavy technical content than others). I'd be really interested in what you all think is effective for both blogs-as-recruiting-tools and for giving back to the community. For our particular product, basically (users)∩(blog readers)=∅ so content is created solely for the software community.

[1] - https://engineering.doximity.com/
Have Blogs been superseded by Vlogs ?
it looks like a new thing, but 2 weeks ago I stumbled upon this via a link in Google Photos app and tried it. Resulting picture did not look better then one taken without flash in a lighted room using camscan app.
In 1988, 64 percent of Engineers were women in USSR
Without engaging in any of the rest of your comment, I'm going to call out again the attempt to shift goalposts from tech to STEM in general. Tech people want to believe that the gender disparity in their field is shared among all the STEM fields, but, of course, it is not: women are far better represented in other STEM fields. Computer science, physics, and engineering have similarly acute gender disparity. The rest of the STEM fields --- including mathematics --- have closer to 50/50, and some STEM fields, like molecular biology, have better than 50% representation of women.
> There is a common cause of neglect of the environment in both so-called Communist and Capitalist countries.

Rapid industrialization? That would explain worse pollution in Soviet-bloc countries: they industrialized faster than capitalist western Europe/USA because they were playing catch-up.
How does they say this?

Smarter people get fewer children. IQ is inheritable. This only says we get more and more dumber people around the world in general. Maybe parts of the world with more births get the m faster than the rest, but still everyone gets them.
Sounds to me more that it's a bug in the language. Too much undefined behavior is necessary for a performant program.
>How is this not exhausted?

If you would remove FSpecialization(Expression e1, Expression e2) a.k.a wildcard pattern, compiler would not warn you about your dispatching is not exhaustive. And if you'd add another type of expression, all your dispatchers and visitors without wildcard would become non exhaustive, staying valid code from a compiler perspective at the same time.
It would be complying with the standard if it compiled the whole program into one single call to abort! And yet it didn't do that. I wonder why not.
I don't want to repeat this comment but worry that I'll have to:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164886

There is major disparity in tech, but it is not a problem common to all STEM fields.
Do you have any data on this? I'd be willing to bet women are nowhere near as interested in a pure science career in Russia as they are in IT.
I think it has to do with psycho-evolutionary factors -- men have much more incentives to take risks, women much more so to play it safe.
There is a psychologist professor that studied exactly what you are describing and wrote a book on the results.

https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/books/the-luck-factor/
$100k - $200k long term (ages 30 - 67). STEM has initial high pay, but tops out by middle age. Late middle age, or 55+, and you are a target for elimination.

My coworkers daughter and her husband are both accountants. In their mid 30's they are doing much better than any STEM majors. They will both be firm partners by 40. +200k salaries for two people over 27 years (not that they'd work to 67 anyway).

I know of a mechanical engineer who went into finance. Not a quant, or even in NY. Just a manager for VISA. Her bonus is larger than my salary, and so is her salary.

STEM, well really TE, need to bank that initial high salary for, often forced, early retirement. SM majors, you are just fucked.
I mean the fact that you went and registered a throwaway to head down the path you're intending to gives away what you are really thinking.
Seconded! re-frame/reagent/re-natal are great. Really fun to use.
Can you explain why it's silly to rebuild barrier islands, which prevent beach erosion? Is it your view that people should experience the consequences of rising sea levels as catastrophically as possible?
Not for me or anyone else who commutes by train through areas where 4G coverage is limited and who has a limited data plan anyway.
The OP said they are concerned with birth rates in those countries and they replied to the question why with a post about IQ.
XXY Oscilloscope
The article mentions on plastic somehow finding its way to the Arctic ocean and then later briefly mentions an important term -- the thermohaline circulation.

It should be noted that this little-known oceanic phenomenon has a massive impact on the ecology of the Earth and personally I think studying it is one of the best starting points in determining how to measure our impact on the Earth's ecology (eg: sources and destinations of pollution).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermohaline_circulation#Effec...
Is it? I had one female engineer at my previous job, and one female engineer at my current job. Out of a medium-sized team.

Some other less-technical positions held by women, still much less than 50%.
Well if you try a different path - if low birth rates occur when societies are highly developed, what happens when this effect reaches Africa?
A Mind is Born
Can't Tesla just refund them the cost of the car and be done with it? Why would these plaintiffs receive anything beyond that?
Obscure Operating Systems
the reason there are many women in tech is simple: IT jobs pay ridiculously good compared to non-IT jobs and barrier of entry has been lowered enough for even non-techy women to realize they can train for few weeks and get a solid paying job as junior QA. and when they are smart and went for math/technical education - being software developer is a no brainer, it pays easily 10-100 times better than average job in any other sector.

same thing is happening in ukraine: https://s.dou.ua/files/lenta/salary-report-dec-2016/fem-titl...

full survey: https://dou.ua/lenta/articles/salary-report-dec-2016/?from=s...

compare to previous surveys: https://jobs.dou.ua/salaries/demography/dec2016/
Because people also care about their particular culture not dying, a worry to which whether the planet has enough of other peoples is irrelevant.
Being from Europe myself, I suppose I'm biased to wanting to preserve Europeans, and am not satisfied with merely preserving humanity as a whole.
Smarter, better educated, the result is the same.
Ubuntu 17.10 Release Schedule Published – Phoronix
C/C++ coding standards I've seen always warned against using unsigned to mean "cannot be negative", because of precisely this kind of bug.

The standards I'm recalling were in-house standards, but a quick Google shows that Google have published their standard and they warn against unsigned too: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Integer_Ty...

Bottom line: avoid unsigned for numbers. Use unsigned only for bags of bits.
Yeah right, and how did you arrive at your reasoning, any list of scientific studies?

This is good old sexist/racist talk "X is inferior in math because genes"
It's not exhaustive, because you're only dealing with the Const+Var case. You ignore the other 5 cases. Having a default case doesn't suddenly make it exhaustive, it's just an explicit acknowledgement that you can't.

Because what happens if you introduce a new expression, but not realize this means the implementation of F should be updated?

Regarding algebraic pattern matching, you can let Haskell check exhaustiveness and then drop the default case. The compiler will then warn you if you forgot one.

To give you an example, in our codebase we have an enum that is used 3068 times in one solution. A very similar one (you would need domain knowledge to understand the difference) is used 2985 times. Both are not defined in that solution by the way.

It's not out of the question they will receive a new enum member down the line. It would be very useful if the compiler was able to tell you a switch that uses either enum is no longer exhaustive.

If you could exhaustively switch on an enum, you could skip the default: case and have the compiler enforce you covered all cases. (I know, the C# enum==int would make that impossible.)
I might be reading your comment wrong, but survivorship bias can lead you to do catastrophic things, that is the whole point of the comic.
small population?
This is half the issue, the other half I see in the UK all the time is 'businessmen', who have been set up in a small business by their family money and the old boys network from their expensive school. Whenever you see business networking events they seem to be dominated by these people, or people in property.

I have had a lot of exposure to people 'in property'. People in property are people who had access to capital at the right time. Even worse are those who get to hear about government sell offs or developments which will increase values in an area before the rest of the populace. Then of course there are the money launderers. So I will add flexible morality to my list of traits that make a millionaire.
Ever heard about the "first noble truth"? :)
>because there are fewer stereotypes. Maybe well be a leftover from communism as well

It think this is the main reason. Stereotypes are great for capitalism. I can speak only for germany, but in the 90es i felt, there was a movement to reduce this gender stereotypes stuff, but this got completly reverted in the last 15 years or so. Nowadays there exists a Kinder Surprise Girls Edition with pink flowers on the packaging and special potato chips flavors for men and women (WTF).
I also recognise the effects frim this in my personal environment, with young parents going full into this stereotype things. The boy has to play football from day one he can walk. The younger daughter can not wear clothes from is older brother because they are not pink and she is put into ballett school ignoring that she obviously prefers football too. It's a real shame!
Visitor is just a collection of functions for all type's subtypes. The problem is that visitor knows nothing about class' subtypes, just like the base class knows nothing about it's children, so you have to add visit cases manually for each child class. The only way to detect that visitor is non exhaustive is to apply it to the child class it has no visit function for.
so would you say those fields that have >50% women would need to work on their gender diversity to include more men?
I don't think you mean that >50% is better, but your general point is right. Other STEM fields are not as male dominated. Even physics is not as bad as CS. I had several women TAs in physics, but none in CS/programming.
Ultimately I think someone has to else people will never stop using Java and your IT department will never improve. At least currently it seems like all the main venders are unified in progressing so maybe one day we can instead start complaining about something else, like how outdated html5 is.
> According to Unesco, 29% of women worldwide are in science research, compared with 41% in Russia. In the UK, about 4% of inventors are women, whereas the figure is 15% in Russia.

These numbers seem ludicrously high regardless of gender. I'd be surprised to hear that 29% - almost 3 of 10 - men were scientists. Is what they're actually saying that 29% of scientists are women worldwide, but in russia it's 41%? That would make more sense.
> Russia has a very low birth rate for native Russians

That was true 20 years ago but no longer true today. Russia is in a period of relative baby boom and fertility rate is now higher than in most European countries (except France, Sweden and Ireland I believe). It's already quite difficult to put kids in school!

Of course the effect is bound to peter out in a coming decade.
Doesn't using your tongue, which is usually wet, increase the chance of a false positive?
Do them a favour and quit, so they can get someone up to the challenge in.
No, he is saying that they have worse "nutrition" and less "butts in school", which increased the population's IQ in the past century. So if they predominate (and developed countries diminish) the general IQ might go down too.
This probably would have been a nice excuse to implement reader macros and implement it that way, it's kinda a shame to have it implemented in the interpreter since most of the joy of Lisp is how much of the language can be written in the language itself.
Sure, I don't see why that would be a problem. As a rule of thumb, Moby should follow the usual conventions of community open-source projects.
Building virtual reality experiences on the web with React VR
Just because representation is better in one patrialchal society doesn't really say anything. There may for instance be competing factors, for instance financial (as you have literally just suggested).

This doesn't really give any evidence for or against the argument that women avoid stem because of conditioning.
Browser history stealing with light sensor
I don't doubt for a second that everybody gets lucky breaks.

There is an issue of magnitude of those breaks, though
A quiet market? Nah, Oracle's to pay $850m for ad-tracking Moat
Should have explained the logic better: it is the banks that have taken the decision not to use PINs (partly) because they do not want to get into a position where they both tell people never to reveal their PINs, but also tacitly condone card sharing that implies PIN-sharing.
When would I use Caddy, rather than using nginx and configuring Let's Encrypt for myself? Honest question.
As I said on another thread - the problem with that is that Windows 2016 server launched with IE11. So the flagship server OS for the next several years won't support Edge, which is why I'm sitting in enterprise Citrix deployments in 2107 trying to make IE11 work.
Ask HN: What are you doing for earthquake preparedness?
There's a 76% probability of a M>=6.7 occurring in Northern California within the next 30 years according to the 2015 UCERF3 model. As someone looking to lay down roots in the Bay Area, and how most houses in SF are matchsticks stuck into sand dunes, these numbers scare me to no end.

I see people paying $3mn for old Victorians with brick foundations, it seems completely illogical. What can a sane person do to protect their house and family against odds like this?
> some STEM fields, like molecular biology, have better than 50% representation of women.

I hope those fields have scholarships and campaigns to get underrepresented men into those fields.

Your downvotes only serve to highlight your hypocrisy. If balance is the goal, then that needs to occur for all groups in all fields or none at all. Otherwise it's obvious you're just pushing an agenda.
However never hang clothes on a radiator to dry, this is the least efficient method of using your radiators.
“You know a little about virtualization don’t you?”
Will Blockchain Technology Be the Ultimate Disruptor? Harvard Says Yes
The link is malware to my iPhone. Locks me into a full screen ad for winning something, then breaks the back button. Had to close the page.
Most accountants will never make partner. You are taking two exceptions and comparing them to the whole population. You should be comparing them to people who become CTOs.

Besides that most people will never even make half of your lower end salary during their whole career.
W3C, Chrome and FF Ambient Light Sensors Can Be Used to Steal Browser Data
Being from that part of the world, I think there are two factors - first, a lot of previous generation females are in engineering/stem - back in soviet times there were a ton of engineering positions and therefore a lot of women went on to fill them. Today this lead to a lot of engineer-mothers who encourage their daughters to be same.

Second, and I think more important, is that engineering jobs pay - and especially so today. Given the issues with economy there, being an engineer (not just software) yoru'e almost guaranteed to find a job, either at home or remote/abroad.
It'd be great if the conversation were about how we can solve these problems, but currently the conversation is about whether the scientific reality of climate change is actually a hoax invented by the Chinese. So long as these yahoos keep getting elected, we've got a long ways to go before we start talking about cutting beef out of our diet.
Mr Trash Wheel is picking up large pieces of plastic. It would not work out at sea where the pieces are very small.
GKE clusters run on VMs, not on bare metal.
ah, thanks for re-posting that - when I started writing there were no other comments. I wasn't aware that this was solely a tech problem - I'll update my original comment to reflect this.

I wonder how science or maths is viewed differently to technology in this regard - perhaps because those fields are much smaller in terms of people, and super-specialised, so are already appealing to a very small, highly passionate, self-selected group anyway? I can't help but think that part of the problem is the fact that tech wants to recruit a much broader range of people (to make the required numbers of people in industry, which is ever-growing) and thus the requirement to appeal to a more "average" person tends towards displaying the biases of the average person at the age of interest (ie. primarily teenage)?
As a Russian who got university education in Russia and worked in both Russia and Canada, I can confirm that the reasons are both cultural and economic. First, for the big part Soviet Russia did not have a sizeable percentage of stay-at-home mothers: women were _expected_ to work, childcare was absolutely free, tight living conditions made multi-generational families, when retired grand-parents took care of children, a norm. It is also true that once young women chose to work they tried to maximize the earnings while not going to high-paying jobs traditionary considered male (think police or oil rig jobs in Siberia). It used to be law and business degrees, but now it means STEM.
You can also get rid of your TV and not expose them to ads at all.
Not sharing on a very public platform with so many readers, by fear that, even if 99.99% will yawn, someone will decide to try to compete with me... Living small, discreetly, living happy.
I see people on Reddit saying they'll leave to Chrome if XUL extensions will no longer work since Chrome would be faster than Firefox, but I don't think they understand that Mozilla is removing XUL extensions so that they can finally make Firefox faster again. And even if this wasn't the case Firefox is still way more customizable than Chrome.

I think that as more and more websites will move away from Java and Silverlight I expect that other companies will be forced to do the same as the customers will keep having less reasons to keep a browser with those plugins supported.
Not a billionaire, but also trying to keep some percentage of my net worth in cryptocurrencies. Worked great so far. 10% seems to be about right.

(I have much more trust in blockchain than in government retirement schemes).
A "Battle of the dependency managers" if you will .. sounds great!

I mentioned NPM in particular in the context of this being a node.js discussion. I've seen a few comparable tools in my time but IMHO NPM may be one of the cleanest, considering this as a feature of node.js - it does add to its attractiveness as a development environment.

Yeah it took the JS community ages to sort this out, but in NPM there seems to be an answer.
If this were true - if needing a good job for a good life predicted going into STEM among women - you'd expect poor women in western countries to flock to STEM training as well. Do they?
Just an anecdote but my female cousin from China wanted to be a vet, but economic pressure forced her to pursue CS in Canada instead.
It is possible you see better representation of both genders in a society where people choose their career based on potential ROI. Fewer societies allow its people to truly choose their career based on interest or passion alone, which might be where you see larger differences in gender representation.

However, that brings up the politically incorrect argument that men are more interested in Tech than women, which seems hard to justify as well.
Large part of the paradox can likely be explained by the small preferences thats derived from gender identity, and the correlation to the number of opportunities available to the individual.

For example, if a person choose from two similar professions with similar pay but where one is dominated by ones own gender and the other isn't, then I predict that a above 50% will chose the one which employ a majority of ones own gender. However if there is only a few professions that is high paying and a lot of unemployment in other areas, and many people live in poverty, then gender will be less of a factor in the decision.
It doesn't take anyone living on islands for them to be littered with trash.

I stayed on Kerguelen island for about a year (in the Indian Ocean, not the Pacific) and the North coast is just completely full of plastic trash brought there by the sea. Plastic bottles, tanks, buoys, ropes. The West coast is a bit too remote to survey, but it's probably even worse.

So, people living on islands create trash obviously, but the uninhabited ones might not be better.
Since molecular biology has something like a 54/46 distribution and tech has something like a 19/81 distribution I'd probably tell anyone who told me I should focus on the injustices of molecular biology to shove it up their ass.
I feel like the niche Caddy's trying to fill is for people who don't want to bother with that, or don't want to learn. If you already know how to set up nginx and LE (like you and I do), its only appeal is relatively minor: potentially saving a quarter or half hour.