skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What matters is the fact that they can associate web browsing actions (pages visited etc) with your Facebook account.

And what will kill them is the increasing regulatory pressure (GDPR especially) that will end this soon, for a significant percentage of their most valuable users.

Once GDPR lands Facebook will need every user to explicitly opt-in to tracking their non-FB browsing actions, plus separate opt-in for tracking various elements of their Facebook data itself, and will face very tight constraints of how this can be shared with advertisers even once they have that consent. Sharing WhatsApp/Instagram's data with Facebook would be another separate opt-in there, etc etc. Access to these sites cannot be contingent on you agreeing to give them your data (that's not considered legitimate consent). Effectively the EU is going to forcibly stop them tracking EU users, or using any of their data for advertising, for anybody doesn't explicitly ask them to.

This is going to hurt. They're going to have to persuade every EU Facebook user that they _want_ to have their data tracked for advertising. Right now I can't see them making a convincing case for any significant percentage of their EU user base (though I'm sure they've put a lot of thought into this, so there may well be developments here in the coming months).

The EU is nearly 20% of Facebook's user base (~50% larger than the US), and as a relatively affluent part of the world, it's a particularly valuable segment for advertisers. Before the end of this year they're going to lose their unique advertising advantage for a very large proportion of that group, and I'd expect over the next decade other countries and regions to follow suit.

The model of advertising on the Internet is going to change pretty drastically over the next few years, and Facebook's success fundamentally depends on the current model. The 'crucial moat' you point out is about to disappear overnight, and they're not in a good place to deal with it.
Thanks. Sounds like management by metrics instead of vision.
> ...you will only be allowed to contact/interact with those college girls if your sesame score is higher than 750. You have to question the overall integrity of the company and the team behind such ideas.

> With such track record, AI or no AI, I wouldn't trust such a company for handling my personal data and finance.

China is not America, they value societal stability over personal freedom. It's absolutely fine that you wouldn't trust this institution, but it's not made for you.
... Why? What's so confidential about your floor plan?
> has he proven a talent fostering the invention of ground-breaking tech?

Schmidt was CEO from 2001 to 2011. During that time period, Google basically invented all the infrastructure we take for granted in distributed systems today, popularized the concepts of JavaScript-heavy web applications and Software as a Service, created from scratch a new browser (Chrome) and a new operating system (Android) which promptly dominated the market, and became one of the top five largest companies in the world.

I think he deserves some credit, yeah.
Do the minor, elderly, disabled or other types of dependenents deserve to lose everything too because the person charged with their care loses everything?
Update the image and roll out new containers?
A Literary Road Trip into the Heart of Russia
The UK intends to continue with GDPR post-Brexit
Yes it’s a really poor design decision. They could have at least added “local time machine backups” color to Disk Utility, or added a way to turn them off.

Agreed re: snappiness of other OS. Ubuntu flies on my 2013 MBP.
I have a certain dislike for wooden houses because a) they seem to have high maintenance requirements, since wood as an organic material is often attacked by fungi, mould, or insects b) the ones I've lived in were old buildings lacking insulation and draughty, thus freezing in winter. That could be fixed with insulation of course.
Thank you for that - Medium is blocked in Malaysia, for example, which I can bypass by using Google DNS on WiFi, but not on 4G...
About first part, I was very interested to read the original paper too but couldn’t find it in the article. This is so unprofessional of MIT Technology News.
I looked at love for teaching school children. It looked great, except they unfortunately use some sexual names for many of the most common libraries (like anal and lube). Highly amusing I'm sure, but I'm afraid not safe for children!
> Is a lot of documentation written in LaTeX? I would never use it for that.

No, we have CS interns from the local college who invariably ask about it. We only have them for a few months, so I've probably answered that question several dozen times in the past few years. I know they use LaTeX for their papers as required by their CS department, so I know why we get the question. I'm just tired of answering it.

> Word is a pain if you need something other than very standard formatting.

I don't disagree with that, but our standardized formatting is to use the default styles. Use Title for the doc title, use Heading 1 for each major step or process if the doc has more than one (most don't) and Heading 2 for each individual step. This means the Navigation Pane serves as your document navigation. Most of our docs are less than 20 pages or so (and most of that is screenshots).
Look at Warframe. Their model is much better than anything Blizzard or any of the bigwigs offers.
I didn't question his right to make a decision, I just wanted to know who was involved.

It isn't an attack to remind someone they might be biased.

It's not a threat as I have no interest in getting involved with a PyTorch fork.

I didn't order to give more information, I asked. I want to quote him and his first answer didn't give very much info.

I didn't accuse him of wasting my time by saying I spent several minutes looking. I just wanted to make it clear that I wasn't being lazy and wasn't able to find any public information on how PyTorch came to be lax.

I didn't say they should roll over. My point is that I don't know if this is an effort built by a small group who have done most of the work and want to keep it a lax license, or if this is a codebase that has a large community of random people who might want that protection.

You might know of PyTorch, but tons of people don't compared to Google's Tensorflow.

Thanks for the tips!
The article clearly states:
"The following is a joint statement from Visa and Worldpay, which is Coinbase’s payment processor partner. While Coinbase initially distributed the statement on its own blog, we’ve also received the statement directly from Visa."
In that statement: "This issue was not caused by Coinbase."
Ah, the good ol' "if you have nothing to hide" stance.
In theory, an N95 mask should work. At its weak spot - .1 microns or so - it’s still 95% effective. It’s been shown to be 95% vs NaCl, which is smaller than bleach (NaOCl).

But in personal experience, whenever I finish up with a patient in contact isolation, I use bleach wipes on my steth. Not only does the odor strongly penetrate the mask, but by mitigating the dilution effect of free air flow, I honestly feel like it concentrates more of the crap inside the mask.

For whatever anecdote is worth.
Understanding why has always been my primary way to learn things. Do you have any suggestions for books or courses I could dig into to better understand this approach.

My oldest who is 8 is quite good at math and on the math team and his school does do a lot to teach them but I want to help him how to think.

In almost every other field I can but I am not good enough at math to understand which "games" to play.
And then, a few decades later, Stephen King recycles the twist.
Without an in-depth analysis of production capacity of the USSR at that point we probably will never be able to simulate that well (not sure if we have the data). But it clearly was the Soviet Union that took the big hit in people lost.
On YouTube, you get to watch the infringing material for free (well, for the low low price for watching ads, but that's not a "tangible" transaction to most folks).

With Udemy, someone has put an actual price tag (and you need to get your credit card out and all) on the content someone else created, so it feels worse.
Warning: Controversial opinion ...

In a world that has the game of Go, I don't understand why countries continue to push chess. As a game, Go is far superior.

I'd love to see a proper study of colateral and transferable skills from chess versus Go, I'd even be happy to discover that my intuition is wrong, but I'd be really interested to get proper, unbiased, objective data.

But Go is superior to chess.

</rant>
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Yeah, but Gmail could trade messages with all the email accounts everyone already had; there was no bootstrapping a social platform problem.
I'm average. I've had no problem building a successful career. I've had some great jobs and a successful freelancing business too. Stop worrying about "being average" - you are almost certainly above average anyway, and get down to some hard work! :)
As of iOS 8 and Android 5.0 the operating systems should do it automatically.
The guys with asbestosis, silicosis, and berylliosis did.

There actually aren’t enough people dying of coal miner’s lung to allow good studies of it. Which is too bad (Er... you know what I mean), because our treatments for it are subsequently based on arm-chair hypotheses rather than solid science.
It’s not too hard to setup a daily cronjob to renew automatically.
The Debian processes of package authoring is very complex. I maintain my selection of packages as a private metapackage so that I can "sudo apt-get install ./goktug.deb" and be ready, basically just a list of packages, and even that's complex compared to a PKGBUILD or a BSD port. Recently I wanted to package and maintain Arch Linux's netctl for Debian, and reading the suggested documentation, multiple hours in, having accumulated dozens of tabs of highly-suggested or required reading, I realised I still didn't have a working example package at my hands, and gave up. Furthermore, my packages list had to grow up incorporating more than ten tools specific to making and maintaining Debian packages, before I had even a working prototype of the thing at hand. I'd prefer by far making an RPM or pacman package to that.

Edit: After reading the linked article, I want to add this: I believe things from NPM don't really need to be packaged individually. The community is an outlier in many respects, with its sloppy practices, its very wide scope and the sheer innumerable amount of "packages" it hosts (many hundreds of thousands). For the rest, only the libraries the application software packages (from Firefox to coreutils, anything that's not a library) use need to be packaged. The rest is most often installed by developers or users that are installing non-package software, so they will somehow need to use a third party package manager anyways. The OS package manager does not need to include everything, but what's essential and stable.
Externally "testing" a filesystem isn't exactly easy either. If an error occurs, there's not gonna be an exception thrown that you can send off to telemetry.

If you're lucky, your customer notices that files are missing, understands that it has to be a bug in the operating system and maybe even has a rough idea what they were doing that caused the bug to occur, then calls up support and your first-level support is competent enough to direct the problem to the filesystem people and then it's still going to require a lot of luck for that department to reproduce the problem and to actually find out what in the code is causing it.
What's the proper way to only show 'new' comments on HN?
We also raffle off dates with celebrities, and other things where value isn't clear-cut. It still usually falls under the same rules.
Me too, and I don't think I am crazy. Seems like Meetup was a pretty ineffective company from the slides.
He certainly has business achievements but I'm not sure how much these count as invention as I mean it. The type of invention I have in mind is where novelty is a significant obstacle i.e. it requires education and transformation in the expectations and behaviour of the audience not just solving technical problems. In this type of invention, you have to swim upstream against the numbers holding on to a vision to break through.

- Chrome - competitive play - iterative improvements over competitors

- Android - competitive play - purchased, playing catch-up to competitors

- Infrastructure - internal services

Basically, is he is more Xerox Copier division than Xerox Parc?
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - Kurt Vonnegut
More that iRobot disclosed plans to sell the floor plans to the homes of their product users without telling them.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2017/07/25/ro...

I do not count a clause buried in a terms of service as informed consent.
You're confusing your posters. freehunter asked for an example. zbentley complained that it was anecdata/specious.
Yeah, it's funny. I recently attended a school reunion and a few of the real high fliers actually ended up doing OK but not in line with expectations. On the other hand there were the low fliers who never stood out who went on to do amazing things!
Telegram raises investment of $850M for billion-dollar ICO – Viral Docks
I remember being very excited by Wave when it was released - and while I didn't use it heavily, and didn't use it with many concurrent users on a document, I never particularly suffered from the usability issues others have described.

For me, though, it failed for two reasons:

* Wave was a solution in search of a problem, a need. It was fantastic as a tech demo --back when it was released, it was magical-- but it never seemed to fill a niche? It wasn't fully-fledged-enough to be a word processor, it wasn't really for communication, etc. I liked the description of other posters using it for gradually developing ideas --almost like a virtual pinboard-- but my guess is that very few teams work like this, and especially few outside of the bleeding edge tech space.

* Change is hard without a compelling reason. For example, I work in a (non-IT) organisation which offers people a choice of (legacy) MS Office + Sharepoint, vs. (the upstart) Google Docs. To me, Google Docs is far better for all a fraction of our work - it's faster, smoother, easier to share, and has (thanks to Wave!) collaborative editing... yet the proportion of users with the mindset to adopt it voluntarily I'd put at <5%, and probably even lower. And Wave offered a far less rounded, less compelling, less approachable product than Docs.
You don't have to give all the context to the children. And if they're not already old enough to understand what "anal" means, you can just say it's a butt joke (or maybe just leave them to their ignorant innocence, they can just believe it's a made up name for a time). If they are old enough, I'm afraid avoiding the word is going to save them.

"Lube" is used in non-sexual context. You can escape the puritan "inappropriateness" by referring to mechanics.

Also, how about replacing all sexual names by something else? A little sed script should be enough, right?
Now you weakening your social graph, which means you have impact on many related things.
Coincidentally this rant from British food writer Jack Monroe in defence of the ready meal in the context of poverty and insecure living situations just passed my twitter: https://cookingonabootstrap.com/2018/02/17/my-ready-meal-is-...

(hilariously that URL is blacklisted from HN "submit")
> ... knowing lots of sweaty folks? Living through summers of sweat and humidity?

How is that evidence of anything?

> Knowing that lots of folks are fine with simply washing up on non-shower days

Clearly the issue in question is whether some form of daily washing regimen is needed, not whether it is specifically coming from a shower head or not.

All you're saying there is lots of folks are fine with daily washing.

> and that some folks simply don't live in areas with such shower access?

That's irrelevant to the issue we're discussing.

> Waking up slimy with sweat around the breast and armpit area and having a brutally honest spouse who'd tell me if I stink?

I was asking about how you'd know beyond personal anecdote

> Freaking medical knowledge about what causes the smell?
Seriously. Just stay clean, and that doesn't actually involve daily showers.

Again, were taking about daily cleaning not specifically whether there's water from a shower head.

How are you supposed to stay clean? What if you get dirty? What do you do then?

> Change clothes as necessary, especially underclothes. Use products that reduce sweating under the arms. You can wash up without showering,

Again, the issue is about washing not specifically how the water is delivered.

> and if it is a hot, humid area everyone has a bit of sweat.

That's irrelevant to what we're discussing.

> Only a few areas tend to produce strong smells on a daily basis.

That's also irrelevant... does that somehow indicate that washing isn't required?
I had a 3-month trial of Pluralsight and liked it, but couldn't justify it on top of Safari Books Online for personal use. For MOOCs EdX for me is by far the best. Content from real institutions with real reputations that they won't allow to be sullied by poor quality, and you pay only if you need/want a certificate at the end.
I just looked if there was a newer version of it. There doesn't seem to be, but Christer Ericson does still have a dedicated page for the book. The errata section[0] is surprisingly small given that it is 632 pages. I thought this snippet was interesting:

> All illustrations in the book were redrawn from my original illustrations. Unfortunately, the company in charge of redrawing the illustrations mangled almost all of the illustrations doing so (right angles became accute or obtuse, etc). I thought I had caught all their errors before the book went to print but sadly it seems I missed a few.

Tangent: his 2003 presentation on memory optimisation[1] is also still a very interesting read, especially the last section on aliasing. I wonder how much of those comments still apply to modern languages (or C and C++ compilers, for that matter).

[0] http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/books/rtcd/errata/`

[1] http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/pubs/
This site [0] explicitly says that VPN over Tor is a bad idea. It's quite possible it's wrong. But I don't understand why?

[0]: https://www.expressvpn.com/how-to-use-vpn/tor-vpn
The only question is - was it business investment followed by will of Abramovich or something else?
Haven't worked with Lua + Löve on Android yet, but Kotlin might be an alternative. Comparably convenient like Swift IMHO.
> In that world, there's no need for security patches, because you're using a managed fast language (OCaml/Erlang/Elexir/F*) and you don't have things running next to your application that can pose security problems; no shared libraries, no kernel, no SSH daemon; it's all compiled into your app.

You're too optimistic. Managed languages solve a few security problems, but not all of them. Logic bugs still exist. Encoding issues still exist. Shellshock still happened. PHP is a managed language and we don't hold it as an example.

The only thing that the lack of shared libraries does is that now, you have to compile the same code into the app. It's going to contain the same errors, but now you have to replace the whole app rather than one library. It's also harder to tell from outside if you're relying on a specific version of a library.

MirageOS provides you with a kernel. You're not getting rid of that one. Also Erlang needs some system to run on. It may hide in the same package and be called Ling, but it's still a kernel.
> Ant uses advanced machine-learning algorithms and custom programmable chips to crunch huge quantities of user data in a few seconds, to determine whether to grant a customer a loan

Is this legal in the U.S. and E.U.? These AI systems can increase profits by saying who should get loans, but not why they should. If a U.S. business can't give clear criteria on how it decides on whether or not to grant loans, and instead allows an AI to decide based on any possible unknown criteria which could include ethnic profiling, then wouldn't they get sued soon enough?
... makes perfect sense in the context of what the teachers are trying to teach ...

What's the point with homework then?

School takes the best part of a childs day, and when they don't make it through, the parents can finish with a tired child.
Bricks (everywhere, internal walls and all) and concrete (for the floors) are the best - no stupid squeaking, nothing to rot, nothing to break, great soundproofing, good thermal insulation if done right, will last a long time provided no natural disasters. Not even expensive depending on the region.

That said, I don't get the point of a wooden skyscraper. I'd guess it's earthquake resistant, and it's not actual natural wood but a mix of synthetic materials and wood.
They basically say: be an adult, don't split hairs, do your job and think about the user.
Namecoin: A new more decentralize and secure way to do DNS
In practice, modern teenagers are going to go to the love wiki to find libraries and documentation, that's the main place to find it. There is no point me giving them an incompatible variant, which won't let them take their programs home.

Also, it's easy to say "oh kids, just tell them it's a joke", but in today's society, that is the kind of thing which could easily get one fired. If just one library was named sexually, it would be easy to say "oh, you are misreading that", but the pattern is obvious.
Guessing games still fall under regs in Australia [0].

Schools can run them fine, as most schools fall under "charitable organisation", so they just need written consent from the board, and a prize less than the state's maximum unlicensed game competition amount. ($5000 in Victoria, $2000 in Queensland).

[0 PDF] https://publications.qld.gov.au/dataset/fc2f9cdd-8799-45bf-9...
Chrome wasn't created from scratch, it was WebKit-based (which Apple didn't start from scratch either, it was KHTML-based). This not to deprecate Google, but to give some credit to the open-source projects they based their work on.
I think that comments here are really negative towards capitalism and generally saving for passive income. I would just like to say that even if it's difficult to achieve 1000$ passive income it's always good to generate any passive income at all. Even if it's 5$ it's good once you calculate how much it will give you in your whole life (if you are young of course). Saving is like a snowball that accumulates money. I am nowhere close to FIRE or 1000$ passive income but I like to think that I have savings that allow me not to work for at least X years (mine number is between 3-4 years now). It gives me some 'fuck you' approach towards my job that helps a lot with the stress and improves my assertiveness.
I won't agree that internet provides you with such level of information. Internet is a service, it can't figure out your desires, but FB and other social networks really try to do it.

The only reason such for fake news being spreaded everywhere are suggests and recommendations from social networks feed. They multiply junk and fakes.