skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that GDPR is going to disrupt the google/facebook dominance in advertising nor curtail their collecting data about you. In fact, I believe GDPR rewards their walled garden/integration strategy.

The most onerous and problematic parts of GDPR for adtech companies is the acquisition of consent to share the data they gather with their partners. This means that every barrier from publisher, to ad network, to advertiser needs to be consented. Google/Facebook are themselves massive players at each of those levels and therefore can skip that step.

We don't know what will happen in the future, but I suspect that Google/Facebook will leverage their systems at both the publisher and advertiser areas to put more of the ecosystem into their systems.

This may be ok, consolidating your information into a couple of big players that have an even more holistic view of you might be preferable to having little views of you all over the internet. But its worse for advertisers and publishers and I find it disconcerting.

* Disclaimer: I work on GDPR related topics, this is my opinion and not that of my employer
> I like google's services. What I want is the ability to pay for them and not be a part of the product they sell in ads. Basically a freemium model.

You do have the ability to pay for some of them (G Suite aka Google Apps for Business), but even then you might not get what you want, since 99% of their users like you are still products. I'm reminded of this quote from Josh Marshall:

> One thing I’ve observed with Google over the years is that it is institutionally so used to its ‘customers’ actually being its products that when it gets into businesses where it actually has customers it really has little sense of how to deal with them. (https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-serf-on-googles-farm)
I think Boston and Somerville are just two different manifestations of one regional proposal, though they weren't really presented that way far as I know.

The sites in Somerville are actually a much better choice than the Suffolk Downs site offered by Boston. They're a lot closer to the Boston itself and are better situated for housing and transportation. It would also knit together those grim parts of Somerville that are cut off from the rest of the town by Routes 93 and 28.
Feel free to link to some relevant data or source if you have something. As far as I'm aware, historical data on skin color demographics are extremely scanty. Even in the case of major historical figures like Cleopatra, we just don't know for sure.
Our neighborhood has quite a healthy population of opossums, which are well-known tick-eaters.
That sounds like a real pain. New Jersey is famously divided into extremely small towns and it leads to lots of redundancy and waste and probably unhealthy competition between the towns.

To be honest, the problem may be the dividing of the cities as such. The solution may instead tax and run all of them as a single block (e.g. minimize city government in favor of county) or even combine into a single city.

This is moving the goalpost of the conversation above a bit, but my point is that the problem may not necessarily be "cities compete," the problem may be with the local bureaucracy. This can manifest in lots of ways like you describe.
This is a great team and product!
We’re probably 10-20 years away from the internet and especially instant messaging becoming a public utility. The product itself is immensely useful but so far hasn’t been monetized except by lock in to a bigger platform or by turning the user into a product.

We’ve had AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger and many others that can be seen in the list of protocols supported by pidgin.im. Now we have Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp, Skype, Hangouts and the thing from Apple.

Or at least there should be a standard everyone that wants to sell to public institutions should follow for instant messaging.
Philosophers explore and debate the very meaning of the words 'evidence', 'empirical', 'reasoning', 'facts', and various methods of knowing - many of which insist upon empirical evidence (e.g. science, history) and many which do not (e.g. praxeology, law, international relations).

By insisting that all philosophy provide empirical evidence, you've misunderstood what philosophy actually does, and assumed the epistemology of empiricism - which has a number of flaws and contradictions (that any philosophical rationalist would be happy to point out).
>the only thing really against it is the suburban sprawl

as much as HN (me included) likes to complain about sprawl, don't forget that there's plenty of people who love the suburbs. Sprawl is not a downside for everybody - the people who like it just call it "affordable single-family homes" and "quiet neighbourhoods" instead of sprawl
They're a keystone species, have culture and language (probably older than any human one), they mourn their dead, and on and on...
One, Bitcoin wasn't invented yesterday; it's 9 years old by this point. It definitely has a track record. Many technologies have demonstrated substantial use value by 9 years in.

Two, we're talking intrinsic value, which is a basically backward-looking concept.

Three, all I'm doing is pointing out the error in mr_win's claim that Bitcoin's intrinsic value is "exact equivalent to industrial use of gold as gold's intrinsic value", and is therefore presumably worth something.

So if you would like to grumble at somebody for suggesting that one should evaluate intrinsic value based on actual utility, please go bother him.
Unfortunately we are not a big enough seller on Amazon (it is our secondary sales channel and only accounts for about 5-8% of our yearly revenue), so we do not have a personal rep. Support related to seller issues is generally pretty bad and it may take weeks and multiple tickets to get 2-3 minutes of phone time with a representative based in the United States.

Most of the time you will get someone from a call center in India, who is very good at telling you that what you need can't be done 5 different ways.

I would imagine that once you get to a certain level of revenue, you can request to have a rep and will get more personal attention to your issues. I have no idea what the bar is, but probably at least $5 million of yearly revenue - which means Amazon makes $750,000 from you in fees.
Congrats Dominic and co! I saw that even Julian Assange was recommending scuttlebutt on Twitter!!

A couple people have asked about browser based access and some people have replied that that wouldn't work?

Could somebody explain why? Me and Dominic have debated design a couple times, and on my own system we have P2P cryptographic identities working just fine in the browser (see https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi... for an example), so this should be possible with scuttlebutt also. Could anyone explain further?
There's an opportunity in there for an AI approach to outsource requests like these to Fiverr.
Isn't this model already relatively heavily used? There are loads of apps that have a free ad supported version, but if you pay for it, all ads are removed.

They could spin it in a similar way:

Ad supported version is free. As part of this free service, you are tracked extensively to build a valuable profile for sale to ad companies.

By paying for the service, all ads and the associated tracking required to make your profile valuable to advertisers is disabled.

In this way, the tracking is spun as a necessary evil for the ad supported model to work.

This would probably require them to be pretty open about what sort of tracking is going on.
Yup, the Constitution does not have a good mechanism for dealing with states racing-to-the-bottom, either in taxes or regulatory climate. This isn't really the kind of thing that you can regulate Federally, either, under the Constitution.

The Constitution gets some things right, but it also gets a lot of things wrong. That's why the whole "living document" part is so important.
Once he's old enough to play, Snipperclips is a fun co-op puzzle solving game.
I have the same experience with ads all the time. Like, I get ads from Google to buy the Pixel XL 2 while I'm browsing the web on the Pixel XL 2 I recently bought from Google on the same account I'm currently signed in to Google with... Or Amazon will give me ads for books and things I recently purchased through Amazon.

I think a lot of their abilities are overstated.
I think you're arguing a point that no one upthread made. The proposal was to make sure that a real person was behind the account, in good faith - not necessarily that person's personal account. So your accounts and the ones you linked to upthread are fine. The "good faith" part means that there can't be a hard-and-fast rule for which Twitter accounts are okay. Human judgement will be required to sort out good-faith users (including brands or open source projects) from bad-faith users (paying people to run accounts that just inflate other accounts' numbers).
I fully agree with you, and given my preference for type safe languages, I find interesting that other languages are also an alternative, depending on the use case constraints.

However from a few CppCon and Meeting C++ talks, it appears that in such scenarios moving beyond C, is more of a cultural issue than technology one.
Various Android phones have had that for ages. Shouldn't be very hard.
Microsoft Teams update brings new app integrations and app store
I'm pretty sure this doesn't let you opt-out of ad targeting for search nor does it prevent them from using your maps and other data in their b2b offerings.
Venezuela says will pre-sell 'petro' cryptocurrency on Feb. 20
> If you don't teach proof-based mathematics at the undergraduate level then aspiring mathematicians would have to take those courses at the graduate level. This would cause advanced degrees to take considerably longer to obtain.

No it wouldn't. Most math PhDs require six or so courses before the research - you can begin with analysis or abstract algebra for proofs. The current system does have unnecessary redundancy.

> Like programming, writing proofs is a skill that takes practice to get good at. If you were to suggest that we shouldn't teach programming until graduate-level CS courses, you would be laughed out of the room.

Programming is more comparable to the computational mathematics that I've already mentioned should be in undergrad; more to the point, a lot of computer science theory need not be taught in undergrad either. Computer science theory is much closer to proof-base mathematics.

> I think the best mathematicians in history started learning how to prove things as children.

Approximately no one is one of the best mathematicians in history. That's an attractive idea, but I think it's more realistic to assume they were extraordinarily precocious than that proofs are easier to digest at a younger age. I could point to people who mastered computational mathematics at a young age too (like Einstein, at 14), but that doesn't say anything about which is easier to learn. I'm talking about which is more widely applicable for practical work.
Ya, I'll definitely be searching much more thoroughly now. I was lucky that the tick was huge and hard to miss (though it didn't feel that way at the time)
I had the same thought. I wonder if this is not already happening.
> Most of them believed in using state violence to enslave, rape, and murder non-whites, among countless other atrocities

And the rest of them believed that institutionalizing protection of the ability of the first set to do that was an acceptable cost of unity, such that the Constitution is riddled with elements contrived largely for that purpose, only some of which have since been purged by more enlightened successors to the Founders.
Yep.

Somehow I am starting to feel that micro-services are the new EJBs.
Didn't Docker announce Windows support years ago?
Eventually someone will disrupt them. But there will be a long time span before that where they can compensate for their lack of innovation by buying out possible competition with a lot of money.
The avoidance of overshoot when using a PID, especially for temperature control of any kind of thermal mass, can be achieved quite satisfactorily by using the posicast technique of setpoint control.

From my experience it is often observed in large processing plants that the operators have learned to do this instinctively from the standard faceplate.
5e addresses this by assigning much more responsibility to the DM. According to the rules as written, the DM should only call for a skill check when there's _possibility_ and _consequences_ for success/failure.

On top of that, the way they rebalanced skill checks and AC ("bounded accuracy") makes the game feel a lot better. This [1] is a fantastic article specifically addressing those changes, if you're interested.

1: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Understanding_Bounded_Accuracy_...
> Tumblr today is drowning in porn.

'Drowning' in porn? In the sense that that's a bad thing?
Huh? I don't disagree that devices like GH might listen in on you more than you are aware of, but how does customizing the trigger word change anything beyond which word summons an interaction?

I mean why would changing it from 'hey google' to 'hey alfred' or even simply 'alfred' make GH more likely to monitor you without consent? Why would it be harder to know what will trigger it, or make the results less likely to be heard?
They have very different definition of free and open, so it's impossible that they agree. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
Honestly, I really like Google docs. I use it for drafting my blog posts which will be public anyway on my website. But, Google is the reason I can't use it for private/ personal documents.
I started filming birds in super slow motion 240fps whilst I fed them. I was amazed at how much went on, it is as if their life happened at 10x speed with lots of in air action that you would not see otherwise.

I don't know their language but they are not schreeching for the sake of it. When you listen to their utterances in slow motion it is more like 'whale song', it is hard to believe something is not being said.

The birds I study have at rest heart rates that are stupidly fast. I do wonder if their smaller brains are being used ten times as fast and therefore do not need to be ten times larger. RISC vs CISC.

Until recently you would have to pay a fortune for a posh camera to do slow motion. Now with mobile phones a lot is possible and study is accessible to more people.
This is a nihilistic false equivalence that fails to consider what the actual positions are.
Well, yeah. If they're just tweeting and not @ing at other users, they can't really "spam" anyone since only their followers, who choose to see them, will see those messages.

Twitter does take a pretty dim view of DM and @reply spam though because it is genuinely annoying and not opt-in.
> However, if you try to use it to get news or updates on anything it is the least efficient, most stressful thing I've ever used.

Depends heavily on the set of people you follow. I've found it to be a great source of news, and I typically see news show up there hours to days before I see it show up in places like HN.
I've heard that they have a patent cross license agreement, which is why AMD can use x86 and Intel can use AMD64, but I hadn't heard about the ownership.

I don't see Intel listed at http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amd/institutional-holdings

Where do you see they have an ownership stake? How much is it?
DDR3 prices trend upwards because fewer and fewer companies make it anymore.

LPDDR3 has one slight advantage: an advanced sleep state which uses less than 1/10th the power than normal sleep. Laptops, tablets, and cell phones use this sleep state regularly to remain in "suspended mode" for extended periods of time.

DDR4 cannot do this. As such, LPDDR3 still has some demand in the mobile marketplace, despite fewer fab-labs making it. As such, I'd expect DDR3 prices to go up.

LPDDR4 has the advanced sleep state, but is unsupported by Intel / AMD processors.
You do not recall correctly.
Users get used to the flaws, shortcuts, or workarounds. That's with any software I've found. I typically argue that the difference between being 'experienced' with a bit of software vs basic/intermediate knowledge is having a greater depth of understanding of all the flaws and how to get around them.
Down voted, eh? I'm surprised, "Talk softly, but carry a big stick" is out of fashion. Anyone that disagrees (or sees a place to disagree) please comment. I'm genuinely curious.
Wow. 34% gross margin in a competitive hardware business. AMD is doing OK.
Use a yaml to stitch together commands/snippits and run them with a bit of style
And when you eat it, it tastes like steak! A food you've never even contemplated existing!

Heh, least of the issues here, but it's a bit audacious to produce an analogy the core of which is "imagine never having experienced something with which you are familiar".
I use it to follow a relatively small (a few dozen) group of mostly computer scientists with a few cooks/chefs and basketball writers. At this level it takes maybe 1-2 minutes to read an entire day's feed, and I usually end up with a few interesting things to read that I might not have seen otherwise. I have also found it useful at conferences to follow what's happening.

I have no idea how people follow more than say a hundred people profitably.
And you'd have a far less than a 1/1000 chance that they were a Roman soldier. So what?
You mean affecting the quality of life of the ones that do have a home?
That's a good point. But if that's the case, undergraduate mathematics does not need to introduce abstract algebra, topology, linear algebra, analysis, or any of the other higher level courses. In fact, they could finish out at calculus.
I prefer companies whose products and services I pay for directly. They're incentivized to keep me happy and paying. The more they invest in me, the more attractive they become to me and the more I may be willing to pay. Google and FB invest more and more in their ad business and can let the consumer products slide for a very long time in a way that would never fly if they charged real money and didn't have ad revenue to fill in the gap. (Case in point is google calendar - it just got a revamp but it was what like 10 years of garbage before that?)

I don't think corp gsuite lets you opt out of ad targeting and general tracking (I could be wrong).
Should. But my old OnePlus One started to reboot when I plug in a charger. Sometimes it reboots multiple times.

Of course I have no idea how iPhones are wired.
How much would it cost to pay off every single Hollywood paparazzi to drive over to Silicon Valley and focus their attention on the Google, Facebook & Microsoft executives for a month?
Thank you for these links!

So... This still seems problematic though - if you manually update it, then the hash of the page is going to change, and then you'd need to retrieve a different IPFS item than the original status page. And so on... No? This just seems like an odd loop.
I have completely ignored Twitter since some guy told me about it 10 years ago, and I have not once thought "wow, I wish I had paid more attention to that."
Based on what do people choose labs and pharmacies? I don't get that. When I had Kaiser I loved the fact that all was in house and worked reasonably well. Now I have a PPO and I have no clue how I would choose a doctor.
> BONUS: Guess who else is spamming their post feed: Tumblr. Tumblr didn't allow any adult content or keyword search; since Marissa Mayer took over she seems to have loosened that policy to fluff the numbers. Tumblr today is drowning in porn.

...what?

Tumblr was known for porn long before it sold to Yahoo. If anything, Tumblr started cracking down on blogs with adult content afterwards (for example, requiring users to log in before visiting them). There was a huge backlash from artists and bloggers with non-pornographic gay-themed content, because many of them were caught in the ripple effects from these changes.

I had friends who worked at Tumblr before 2012, and the running joke was that Tumblr was 50% porn and 30% pictures of cats. (Don't take those figures too seriously, but clearly porn was a large part of Tumblr long before the acquisition).

Also, Tumblr definitely did allow adult keywords in searches. I know this because of a rather unfortunate incident at a student hackathon my company sponsored, in which a student thought it would be a "funny" idea to search for a risque phrase when demonstrating his weekend hack (an aggregator of Tumblr posts).
Do they fail from thermal stress or electromigration?
I had good PSU, MB, mostly clean OS install and no overclock and my AMD card run like clockwork, with zero issues over 3 or 4 years. Literally zero crashes while running almost 24/7 and gaming regularly. Don't skimp on important PC parts and install crapware and you see that both manufacturers produce pretty decent software (putting shady marketing practices aside, like internet account requirement to update geforce driver or raptr-craptr on amd, just from pure tech point of view).
Philosophy is important. The fact that you're even asking that question indicates a deep ignorance of the history of ideas and thought. It's also slightly absurd because empiricism is itself a philosophy.

Empiricism, as a method, became important because Bacon wanted to replace Aristotle's logic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baconian_method. That took about 2000 years to happen, just to give you a sense of scale. And it's what helped spur the scientific revolution so it's also why we've got our little laptops and Facebook today.

The scientific revolution and scientific method are a branch off of a long, long conversation about the world, the nature of it, and how we should understand it.

Now, that's not to say there's not a lot of silly, useless garbage being put out under the guise of "philosophy". That's definitely the case. The challenge is identifying productive or useful parts and using them in a coherent manner.
Why is this any more barbaric than eating cows or pigs or chickens? We raise them, we eat them, and they're delicious. I hope for humane slaughter but beyond that, bring on the Sauerbraten!
I don't think so. They certainly don't show up on any of required disclosures of major AMD holders, so if they do hold AMD stock it is less than 1%.
Having the program behave differently under a debugger is a great way to introduce bugs that disappear when the debugger is present. Any features of this type would have to be completely optional.
You almost, but only almost, make it sound like there exists a difference.
I really like this.

I decided to host a pub for tech enthusiasts.

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"Many jurisdictions" =/= "all jurisdictions", and in our increasingly non-local economic systems, laws that vary by area are problematic and often go unenforced.
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Yes, no idea.

What I find awful is that HN and Reddit save me time by sorting out low-quality content, while on Twitter you're the one that has to work hard to do it (if you can), and Twitter itself just adds more noise in the meantime.
There's nothing ironic about that. Your question itself reveals your own assumptions:

* What is evidence?

* What does it mean for evidence to be empirical?

* What does "critical thinking" or "reasoning" mean?

* What is a fact?

Further (more meaty) questions to ask:

* Does your concept of evidence support the existence of a single truth?

* Can 2 people truly perceive the same fact in the same way? What does it mean to perceive a fact?

And the list goes on
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So it’s ok that Amazon just passes their tax burden onto their employees?
It's 2018 and Apple Music Still Has an iCloud Problem
Uber is piloting a bike-sharing service with JUMP in SF
Ah, I see. Agreed, definitely more than just machismo.