skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're letting Congress as a whole off to easy by scapegoating one senator. A more bipartisan bill that included a few Republicans could have been passed instead.
It will make it easier for you to figure out if there has been dilution because now there is an open ledger listing out what exactly has happened privately between two parties.

Though if we talk about anonymity of all parties involved, this turns into a mush again. People can pick and chose what is hidden in plain sight too.
I don't understand why there isn't an option for me to pay for Google to remove ads from gmail.

I've already paid for Youtube Red and couldn't be happier.
The spam filter is [assumed to be] transient/generalized. While a user may set special tuning parameters to classify what they consider "junk", this probably reveals more about the inadequacy of the spam filter than it does about the user.

On the other hand, a program which analyzes mail to ascertain the tastes, interests, and personal plans of the participants is mining much more sensitive data, and it's compiling/storing it off-site long-term, and it's very specific to the individuals involved.

All of us who've used Gmail know how creepy it can get. Send a couple of mails about marriage and suddenly you start seeing targeted ads about engagement rings or other marriage-related things. Google stores this forever and they'll say "Ah, we know this guy was talking about marriage 10 years ago; traditionally, marriages fail after 5 years, we've detected a tense tone in his mails to his wife, BEEP BOP BOOP, DIVORCE LAWYER AD IS RELEVANT".

This inference is not only dubious (ethically and technically), but anyone observing your browsing while you're logged in will see these ads and may assume that you're seeing those ads because you've been searching for information on divorce, not because Google's inference is overzealous, although it may very well be. Search and replace with anything else: new credit cards/bankruptcy lawyers, research on a medical condition/ads for related medicines, etc.; the potential for creepy inference is endless, not to mention the concrete surveillance value provided to literal spies (via PRISM), nor the risk of compromise/abuse outside of the ad space. They don't have to get and process your entire mail archive; they just have to draw their inferences from Google's own inferences in your compiled taste/interest profile.

That's much more serious than a throwaway analysis of whether a mail contains spammy properties or not.
Outline.com or archive.is
> There's historic precedent for that kind of divorce between actions and consequences, and it is not pretty. There's a certain French doctor you should google: his name's Josheph Guillotin.

I'm not sure what analogy you are going for. Guillotin did not invent the guillotine, and only advertised it as a more humane way of execution. He was opposed to the death penalty.
There are many options to pay for email, fastmail just for one. Do you use one of them?
Given the fact that they were not willing to pay for any legal fee to get you onboard, I would be worried about whether they would actually fulfill their promise of providing you visa/GreenCard sponsorship down the road.
Less is used when you can't count the object discussed. Fewer is used when you can.

"I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money."

"I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."
Based on how humanity is evolving I can extrapolate that if aliens do exist, they are probably malevolent.
> Because the monopolies have exerted pressure on public education, including universities, to churn out advocates for the corporations bottom line.

Not only that, we fail to realize the continuing incentives for them to act in that way, even when acting as "researchers". Here is a highly relevant Propublica investigative piece on academic economists as consultants: https://www.propublica.org/article/these-professors-make-mor...
Only time I had C++ on my resume was when I was looking for my first internship and was desperate to pad my resume with _something_... Hey, I took a course in C++, so I can put it down, right?

I soon removed it afterwards after knowing what "knowing c++" implied.
Ohh, great. I'm moving into React, and really appreciate this right now –
Still Hoping for Better TomorrowGoogle
One thing I would like to add though is that despite the fruits of labor accruing disproportionately to the elite, the system has managed to lift up everyone else as well, right? So the system does work [...]

That really depends on the definition of »works«. If one is satisfied with the people doing the heavy lifting being a bit better off while a few overseeing everything are extremely better off, yes, then it works.
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/even-easier-intro...
I would argue that a sure fire way to make sure your game is more likely to succeed is actually making sure that your game is something that people genuinely want to play.

Which kinda goes against the indie mantra of "make what you want to play", but that mantra only holds 100% if you're doing this as a hobby. Otherwise, it's "make games that you're interested in and have a solid chance of being bought by asking potential customers what they think and see how they react to a simple demo you put together".

Kickstarter is kinda nice in this regard, but most games from there fail because the game mechanics aren't conveyed very well to potential buyers, hence why you should really put together a demo for them to play before you start to really seriously consider the idea.

I would also go even further and say that a solid formula is a game that uses familiar and fun game mechanics, but then builds on top of that to make something interesting. Stardew Valley is a great example. It's a Harvest Moon clone but with some pretty interesting characters with unique personalities. That's why it made an estimated revenue under $25 million on Steam (http://www.pcgamer.com/stardew-valley-made-way-more-money-th...)

At the risk of sounding harsh, Positech's games are pretty damn niche in terms of ideas and in some cases mechanics (look at Democracy 3). They're very original, it's just that being very original in indie game development doesn't pay nearly as well as being fairly original.
Sounds about right.

Until you remove all money and related influence from politics, it will only continue.
> A more bipartisan bill that included a few Republicans could have been passed instead.

Assumes facts not in evidence, notably that there is any bill oriented to the policy objectives the ACA sought to acheive that Republican Senators would have supported at that time, and (for relevance regarding the responsibility for the absence of a public option in the ACA) that such a bill would include a public option of the type Lieberman opposed.
What if you're buddhist?
In theory, yes

In actuality: they are a waste of my time and mental space
No such bill existed. You might as well say that things would have been different if there were leprechaun senators.
Trust has always been a problem. While blockchain is a good way to resolve the problem of trust between two parties or making the information public and accessible, all the while ensuring information is immutable, I am not sure how it actually helps bitcoin. Sure, bitcoin will always be the first PoC of the idea but will it last remains to be seen.

That said, too much hyperbole in the article. Too long and not worth it.
> And farmers can always lose money on a bad batch of birds.

> "A disaster flock I call them," says OCM President Mike Weaver, who raises poultry on contract in West Virginia. "They contract a disease that stunts their growth. And that's going to happen to (the farmers) eventually. The feed and the chicks, they don't have control over, but their pay is going to be based on those."

Wouldn't some sort of insurance be useful here?
> "Why not just build a faraday cage?"

Then my very next thought is, "Who is going to notice my house-sized faraday cage, who are they going to tell, and what are those people going to do in turn?"
Secret History
So in the end this story came to an unfortunate ending. The guy didn't even get a proper interview from Ableton. Quoting him from his website:

"EDIT: Unfortunately, at the end, I didn’t get the job nor an interview where I could have commented on or explained my design decisions. However, after I got the email saying that they don’t want to hire me, I did get a chance to talk with their head of design, Ed Macovaz. Ed and I discussed my unsolicited redesign and he gave me his and team’s feedback as well as some useful insights on how to improve as a designer."

To me, it's quite a strange turn of events. I would at least call a guy to have a proper interview.
I really hope that the investigation gets to the tech and allows the phone companies to actually shut this stuff down. I get calls every day from robocallers on my cell phone. Every now and then I get a real person on the line and can usually get them to swear at me when I give them a hard time for trying to scam people. Part of me feels bad because they probably don't know any better, but seriously? How can you not know? How many pissed off people do they talk to everyday because of this... Deceitful practices like this are exhausting and the politicians seem to not care at all.
In what jurisdiction is this? How do you enter such a relationship? How does dissolution work in such a relationship? What sort of "cruft" does marriage have that a "domestic partnership" lack? Also does this "legal arrangement" carry over to other jurisdictions? And assuming we are talking about the US isn't "mutual health coverage" decided by the employer or plan administrator? I know Tricare does not allow sponsors to enroll non-married partners, for example.
Kotlin 1.1.3 is out
Same. I completed the headline in my head with "because they don't need to anymore".
> Side-channel-resistance is a property of the algorithm, not of the implementation.

I don't think this part is true. There are constant time software implementations of AES: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/92/21442
I appreciate the big picture they've presented. I think an important next step is to measure more precisely. Specifically to look at how QUIC and HTTP/2 impact real world performance. After reading the paper it's not clear they've looked at that at all.
Soviet research of the 1920s on whether dogs can be psychic
Yes! You can directly include the React library via a script tag, or however else you want. However, it's definitely most common to use node to bundle your app with webpack, browserify, rollup, etc.
That will be in Swift 5!
I believe that rule still exists.
How do you know they were ever reading your email to begin with? Maybe they were never reading your email and this is just a publicity stunt to backtrack on an unpopular decision that they never actually made.
For now i think you can just wrap it all up in C headers, and implement them in C++, calling the right API.

But giving the way the Swift compiler is itself written in C++ and tied to the LLVM, i bet it will be "easy" for the Swift compiler team to create interoperability between C++ and Swift.

I think their current goal with ABI compability is one step in that direction.. so it will be just a question of Swift understanding C++ mangling in elf/coff/mach-o objects for the link time, and interpret C++ headers using Clang for the compile time.

Given all that, is not hard to predict that Swift will probably have the best interop with C++ code than any other language out there.
I totally agree. I would 100% resubscribe if it had an option for once every 3 months. I like it as a rare treat, I just wouldn't want it twice a month. I subscribed on two different occasions, but only for one month at a time. I'd hate to have to keep subscribing and cancelling several times a year.
So Douyu is still allowed to livestream? It wasn't clear from the article, or I misread.
You could search and filter after decryption (there are implementation issues with both for sure, but it is technically possible).
Humans becoming trustworthy? In other words, you have to fix human nature.
If the author is here, I'm curious about what they mean by this from the README:

> There is the PostgREST written in haskell, keep a haskell software in production is not easy job, with this need that was born the pREST.

Have people faced operational difficulties with PostgREST? From what I hear it's pretty battle-tested and performant.
Using metadata? Headers? Anything other than Tue email body would be nice. We still have blacklisting by IP and stuff like that.

I mean if I write a Nigerian prince email and send it to my mum, it should reach her no matter what the text says, right?
> I think it's a good time to point out that the most successful people ... were the ones who sold food, lodgings, supplies, and other needs to the prospectors

Indeed, my most successful side project to date targeted developers & designers rather than end-users.
You seem to have an incorrect version of differential privacy in mind. "Blurring the datapoints" as you describe would not satisfy differential privacy at all.

DP would not allow an information leak of this kind, unless the data set was modeled in a very silly way.
It depends on whether you consider mail headers part of the email. I personally think scanning mail headers still counts as scanning email.
Yes you can! Use a CDN like the example in the docs[1].

I've done this for a static site that has some dom manipulation, and it's quite nice as a jquery replacement in that use case.

[1]https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/installation.html#usin...
> and they are tamping down innovation (which creates jobs)

If you're going to go from the jobs angle - let me pose a question:

Today - in 2017 - not 100 years ago, not 40 years ago, but today - now.

Does unregulated innovation create more, better jobs then it destroys?

Do you draw a distinction between regulatory 'innovation' (Miscategorizing employees, breaking laws to increase your margins, skirting training or safety requirements, introducing conflicts of interest), and actual innovation (We can make more, or better stuff)?

Do you think they are equally valuable?

What is the ratio in market cap between these two kinds of innovations?
Out of curiosity, are you native to an western language? I think this kind of inversion is common on Latin languages too.
In the USA, "marriage" is a legal contract that is often far more cumbersome than any business entanglement. Something to think about.
I'm disappointed that this doesn't actually emulate a Unix device.
> is to have free and easy access to __accurate__ information.

As we've learned recently, politicized or partisan info ("fake news") can flood and disrupt our decision-making.
How the CIA gained access to air-gapped computers
You must not gig with too many professional singer songwriters...

I'm doing that tonight, and I dunno if I've met more that a couple who know what sus chord does. And I'm talking about folks who make their living from music.
The Human Rights of Women Entrepreneurs
(disclosure, I work on gmail, although nothing related to ads)

I can't find a citation, but I'm fairly confident that that's never been the case. Ad targeting from emails has always been siloed to within gmail. To quote the post:

>Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change.

That's pretty unequivocal.
This might be considered rough for a commercial project, but I can tell it has its own unique character, and I really like that.

Keep up the good work!
Maybe having e2e is more important to some people than searching or spam filtering.

Personally, I'd like to have the option, but as I don't, I don't use gmail.
They're older than that, this kind of puzzle is called a Takuzu or Binairo and was invented in 2009 by a pair of Belgians: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takuzu
I have never had visual studio "work right" it always tried to compile my stuff as C++/CLI, force linking against libraries that weren't needed or just didn't have the core language features I needed. Is there a simple flag to statically link the stdlib yet? Did they get rid of the crazy errors in the std lib when building with /w4 yet? I could on with gripes forever...

My life got so much when I just worked in Linux, then used CMake to hide all the visual studio grossness. My software all still builds over there and my unit tests still pass, but I get an environment that works and is understandable. I started with visual studio too, I never understood what the hell it was doing or why, there was always one more corner case or one more confusing exception to a rule or one more thing that wasn't standard C++ but msvc wanted.

I think windows and visual studio was designed to be impossible to understand intentionally, and this gets confirmed every time I ask some MCSE or or other cert holder "why" or "how" to some specific feature. I am fine with them not knowing, but they don't even know how to look it up of use technical tools to inspect it. With any other OS it is pretty easy to follow technical stuff all the way down to the bare metal and back up if that is what solving a problem takes and you can do this through the documentation or through the inspection tools like debuggers profilers. I have tried with MSVC on windows and get blocked the first time some "feature" I have never heard of and didn't ask for gets in the way. Now that understand some of what the older versions are doing I still don't understand why they do it, there is no clear technical reason to do much of the non-sense they do.

One last gripe, why does the installed thing fill like 20GB and take an hour to install when QtCreator, gcc and clang takes 3GB with all their dependencies and like 2 minutes to install from apt-get?
You know, I went into this article skeptical, but I'm now a believer if it works for this couple.

Solid relationships are built on communication that enables conscious compromises and deliberate decisions to accommodate one another while ensuring one's own needs are met.

For this couple, putting those needs, compromises, and decisions in writing is what facilitates that communication. Pretty brilliant idea if you ask me!

That said: Speaking for myself, going into marriage I thought "How will this change anything?" But, for me, it changed a lot. It's not about the legal commitment... that's just a technicality. Rather, it's the conscious decision to truly commit before friends and family that changed the way I thought and felt about my wife... it's hard to put into words, but at least for me, it was absolutely different.
You are reading the thoughts of a guy who was coding since age 11, has 36 years coding experience, has shipped over a dozen games, several of which made millions of dollars, got into indie dev VERY early, knows a lot of industry people, and has a relatively high public profile. And still almost NOBODY covered my latest game (in terms of gaming websites). Its extremely, extremely tough right now.

I am a content producer and I hope to eventually make games, someday. Yes, it's tough to monetize. But this sounds more like sour grapes than a substantive piece about the realities of making indie games. The earlier numbers are, at best, incredibly hand-wavy and he essentially admits to making them up whole cloth:

I’d guess 90% of that belongs to maybe a handful, at best 4 people? (I have ZERO idea, this is my guesswork)

It is one thing to infer and have soft figures. It is another to make strong assertions about the entire industry and back them up with numbers pulled out of thin air that don't even qualify as "soft."
The fact that you don't see a use case where this solution could shine doesn't mean others can't see it... Paired with bittorrent or IPFS this is perfect for digital goods...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_goods
Sounds nice enough, but I am not being shown anything. I would like to at least see a mockup or a barebones demo before giving up my email.
That's just a rare side-effect, not the reason why the scanning happens, or why the ads are shown.
You are not alone: so did I.
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In terms of production(both in budgets and in mix of tech+creative disciplines) I feel like film is probably the closest analogy.

Either way I agree though, it's a brutal space if you aren't aware of the 90/10 revenue split across the industry.
Small claim process is really simple - you fill out the form, where you can detail your claims, supply the documentation and then present it to the judge. You can have a lawyer advising you, but not represent you, and you can include the expenses into the full sum of the claim, but there are limits on how much you can get - $10K in California right now - and you are not guaranteed to be awarded the full sum. Given the outcome - $4k payment - I'd say not retaining the lawyer was the right thing to do. Maybe talking to the lawyer for an hour or so to get advice may be better, but I kinda doubt it would have resulted in substantially more payoff. Or maybe a letter from a lawyer on official letterhead (that is usually not very expensive) may have made the process a bit faster as Uber would realize the plaintiff is not going to be scared off easily.
Really? Could you be more specific on how regulatory fees and government service fees are a bigger problem than massive, gaping wealth inequality and the power differentials that go along with it?

And what's the solution? Deregulation? Wouldn't that just make consumers even more vulnerable to the predations of the powerful? In fact, it seems that powerful interests generally lobby for more regulation, not less, so I'm not really sure what your point is here.

And your statement about "too much government" is vague and abstract. How exactly is "too much government" contributing to wealth and power inequality. Historically, it has been government intervention that has acted as a counterweight to concentrated power.

In fact, people who have been complaining about too much government became influential in public policy about the EXACT time a lot of these trends in wealth inequality started (the late 1970s).

Sorry to be so critical, but I think a major contributor to our problems is people who make blanket statements about that are vague and imprecise and do not articulate any real policy goals.
In the US methods of doing things can be patented. That includes software. Look up MP3, LZW compression, or perhaps IBM's 2100 algorithm patents over the fifteen years from 2001 to 2016.

It's being narrowed, but it still exists. Until rather recently many courts would recognize "do well understood process X, but on a computer" as patentable.

http://blogs.gartner.com/doug-laney/patents-for-algorithms-h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8310084

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-cant-be-p...
Homomorphic encryption is on the way! Right?

(Right?)
I didn't downvote you but I suspect you got downvoted because DevC++ is super stale. Their last release was pre-C++11 and likely more than a decade ago.
Past performance is no guarantee of future returns.

Global systemic risk is increasing. Masssive infrastructure and response disruption can be devastating.

What was the worst powerplant disaster in history? What was the primary kill mechanism?

Related: http://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-...
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This is referring to whether you see ads for hemorrhoid medication all over the Internets after talking about them in an email.
What happens to the data that was already collected. Legally they can still use that data right?
I'd argue it's extremely naive to not have that world-view. Especially given all the evidence of closed-source software doing things like this in the past.
Well, all that really says is that the marketing for Go was successful, and that Go is sufficient to build said infrastructure (just as the languages preceding Go were).