skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be an inherent problem with the ad network model.

You've got 3 or 4 different parties involved in the current ad system: The content publisher who host the ads, the ad network, the advertisers, and, possibly, the company the advertiser hires to write the ad. And it's not like old school print ads where the content publisher gets to look over a proof before everything gets sent out. Several of these parties either don't or can't really understand how the ads really work and what the final product is going to be like.

In this kind of situation, whose responsibility is it to maintain integrity and keep the bad actors out? I'm not sure that it's anybody's. _Maybe_ it's the ad network's, but, realistically, they're sitting on top of an immensely complex system that is going to be very hard to police properly, so they won't spend the money on it unless they're forced to.

I suspect that the only way to force them to do it is to have a court find that an ad network hosting a malignant ad is either tortious, or makes them an accessory to a crime.
Just to give a proportional representation - California is 2.5X of New York State's economy (2.5trn vs 1trn) and around 17% of the 2.5trn is from Bay Area. If you include greater NYC region (as opposed to just NYC and not NY State), then the economy of just NYC-related economy 1.3 trillion (2012 number, so may be 1.5trn is a fair number to adjust for baselines), which is 3X of Bay Area economy.

There is a reason why Godzilla stamps Empire State Building out more often than Golden Gate Bridge in the movies :)
It's not so much that you were drinking milk, as that you were drinking milk to answer thirst—i.e., you were drinking milk when dehydrated. When you're dehydrated, the mucous membranes of your mouth and throat and sinuses become highly absorbent to any fluid that passes by. If there are things dissolved in solution in that fluid, they'll get absorbed into your mucous membranes too, and stick around for quite a while (either until you drink something else; until you exercise or take in a sauna, and sort of "sweat internally", purging said membranes; or until your lymphatic system slowly flushes the contents of your interstitial fluid out to your liver.)

To talk about canker sores, I first have to talk about dental plaque. Plaque appears when both of these conditions are true:

1. your mucous membranes are saturated with nutrients (such as those in milk, or juice, or soda, or "saucy" foods) amenable to the growth of bacterial biofilms; and

2. you are dehydrated enough—or under the chronic effects of diuretics such as caffeine—such that you don't consistently produce enough saliva to reach the mucous membrane and battle the nascent bacterial colony.

(That's right: plaque may live on your teeth, but the food those bacteria consume mostly isn't food stuck to/between your teeth; it's food "in" the mucous membranes of your lips. This is why the regrowth speed of plaque seems to have no correlation to how well you've brushed your teeth—the factor is how much food they have access to, and brushing your teeth has no effect on the nutritive content of your mucous membranes.)

Canker sores, then, happen when an established plaque (bacterial biofilm) colony is pressed into a dehydrated mucous membrane, further isolating it from the reach of saliva, for an extended period. Picture, say, a dirty tooth pressed against your lower/upper lip as you sleep, with your face laying to squeeze that part of your lip around the tooth, such that saliva can't get in.

So, ways to avoid the problem:

1. brush your teeth at night (i.e. after you stop eating food.) It's more important than brushing in the morning, if you want to prevent canker sores.

2. If you're dehydrated, drink water or another substance that contains few bacteria-promoting nutrients (like unsweetened flavoured carbonated water, or even hard liquor.) If you can't—if only milk/juice/soda/beer/coolers are being served—then try to "chase" your drink with water as soon as possible. When you do, swish some of the water in your mouth as if it was a mouthwash. Ensure your mucous membranes themselves are getting hydrated.

3. Get enough vitamin C. Subclinical hypovitaminosis C ("pre-scurvy") causes the linings of your mucous membranes to weaken, making it easier for rough spots on your teeth to cause micro-abrasions in them, which is where bacterial biofilms get in. But make sure you're not "getting enough vitamin C" by drinking orange juice when you're dehydrated!
Yeah, but isn't it possible to trivially and inadvertently combine a bunch of systems S1 ... Sn which are all respecting the GDPR into a new system which doesn't?
The problem with your argument is that "every single mobile app worth its salt" will want to handle slow networks by showing pretty progress indicators, and just calling a single method won't do that.

Having said that, we definitely need to make Flutter's network story better. This isn't one of our near-term priorities, but medium term I plan to implement a library that abstracts away issues like unreliable networks, offline, etc, and has a very simple API.
Is there a security story for this interface? Internal NVMe devices are generally trusted and not passed around, but plugging untrusted things directly into the PCIe bus, with coherent access to memory, is a potentially huge security hole. This was an issue with early Thunderbolt.

And this isn't very hypothetical: aside from passing cards around, counterfeit SD cards are extremely common on Amazon.
The graph has no units. How has demand for electrical energy (kilowatt hours) changed?
I would argue that it is. When a business is operated for profit and individuals are incentivized by profit then tactics to capture and hold market share are going to be used.

What better way to maintain your profits than to have the government preventing others from competing with you.
No you can't. Even Greece doesn't have that level of GDP to debt, let alone the level of potential fraud in official figures.
Of course local electricity usage is falling. We import more than ever. Electricity (and other forms of energy) are being consumed elsewhere and then shipped to us.
Many cities in Spain also have large fleets of gas scooters. Scooters have no emission controls.
What's wrong with using multiple languages?
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On the other hand, wheat you grow for use on your own farm should offset the cost you pay at retail to buy supplemental wheat.
Keep it simple. Make sure someone can easily service it without you around.
Failing automation while I am on business trip is the last thing to leave my family with.

Also tech changes quickly so better keep some conduits or spare shafts for cables and pipes.
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catch 22; you need workers to make money, but you need money to make workers.
See earlier comment re: Apple as the adversary.
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But you are not factoring in the ongoing effort of preserving information?
> Assuming that EU startups will take GDPR more seriously than non-EU companies

It’s also easier in terms of jurisdiction. A non-EU company might just pretend they’re compliant but your legal options in case they’re not are somewhat limited.
I want to know more about that gamma-ray wall...

- Would the CMB be so energetic (from the proton's frame) as to create electron-positron pairs?

- If the particle can't travel more than 100m light-years, what happens to it? Does it slow down? Get destroyed? Is the answer markedly different from our reference frame vs the particle's?
Does this make Apache access logs illegal?

1) There isn't any way to "opt-in" to them

2) You would need to have a tool to remove every entry for an IP address when requested?
Disclaimer: I work on the Dart VM and Flutter engine

The Flutter team has done an amazing job recreating Material and Cupertino (iOS) widgets, and I honestly can't tell the difference. Also, platform specific behaviors (e.g., the scroll bounce on iOS) are also preserved.

If you haven't seen a Flutter app in the wild, I'd highly recommend checking out the Gallery application on Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.flutter.gal...). Here you can see all the available widgets for each platform and even toggle between iOS and Android behaviors.
Great article, I love it analyses real-world cases.

A small nitpick: there is a section called "Selling to undifferentiated SMBs", but there is no explanation what SMB is and it's pretty tough to google that.
I'm an American, I've had many close Chinese friends. What follows is completely anecdotal, but I've spent a lot of time trying to wrap my mind around it, for what it is worth.

Our cultures are incredibly different. At the same time our cultures are both unusually strong. And for some reason, part of American culture seems to be assuming everyone in the world is just like us, just in different circumstances. This is extremely foolish.

It took me quite a while to be able to understand some things about my Chinese friends that really confused and sometimes frustrated me. A big part of it is the American concept of freedom and personal independence is practically part of our DNA, while it is not valued very highly by many Chinese. Stability, peace and order are highly valued. Of course it would be nice to be able to do whatever you want, but it is much more important that the government is strong. Period. And you get away with what you can as an individual (I've noticed much less respect for the rule of law, much greater respect for personal relationships). And of course many (not all) are highly patriotic, as a great culture with a great history that has been under great pressure for generations, and feels that the rest of the world doesn't respect them like they should or wants to see them fail.

I guess I'd sum it up, that it seems to me an unusual amount of mainland Chinese would choose strength over freedom, and almost all mainland Chinese see themselves as part of a bigger society and a somewhat oppressive government is inevitable and it is futile to resist.

In America, we would prefer to free 10 guilty people than unjustly imprison 1 innocent person. In China, the concept is reversed, it is better to imprison 10 innocent people than let 1 guilty person go free. I actually heard someone say that. Think about it.
On the other hand, I'm happy to learn a new fun term. Language is boring without aphorisms.

Learning 'soak a few zeros' is more valuable to me than the whole rest of this thread. I doubt I'll ever use it, but I like it.
This is the case for every law. A disgruntled[1] employee at a coffee shop that has mold growing on the kitchen ceiling can, after being ignored by management for weeks, rat on the company. (And then get shitcanned, with no recourse, because none of their co-workers will testify to the truth on their behalf, because they are cowards who don't want to lose their jobs. Understandable, but sad.)

This doesn't mean that we don't need food health and safety inspection laws. It does mean that you actually need to run your business in a way that respects your customers.

Stop running your company with the attitude of "It's fine, as long as I can get away with it." I have no sympathy for that.

[1] You can be a disgruntled employee, and also be 100% in the right, if your boss is behaving illegally.
Google did not. There are things I dislike about the company, but they deserve props for that.
China's GDP is doing great, and GDP growth is the only thing that matters to quite a few people.
Look a little bit more, please.
You could simply go and read the GDPR text. It's actually ok. Compared to say the Verified-by-VISA spec :)
What would happen if this particle hit a person?
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Even the greatest emperor isn't going to fix all of the ills of society. What matters is what they can achieve during their time in power. If tomorrow some all-knowing wise leader were be elected to power in China, do you really think there would be no problems? That corruption and violence would vanish? You have to look at the historical context of their reigns.
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See if they have a standard questionnaire. If not, propose the BITS AUP SIG (Google it) or the Vendor Security Alliance questionnaire (again, Google it). — VendorTrust.IO
Inflation, Quantum Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle (2002)
Flutter is just an open source project. You are certainly welcome to use it (and maybe even contribute to it), but it isn't in any way something that Google wants to force anyone to use. We hope people like it and want to use it, that's all.
Well if it would be React Flutter Native, HN would be happy. Thats the recurring theme here, add react to foo for instant upvotes.
They've already bought a large battery - bolted under their electric car. Perhaps one day our cars will drive us into work, we'll plug into the grid there (or have it drive itself home), and home solar will talk to the grid and tell it how much to,charge our car during the day. Then we'll go home and run our house off the car battery overnight, making sure to leave enough battery power to get to work the next morning. Or party on Friday night because it was sunny and we have a couple dozen extra kilowatts that don't need to be saved for commuting in the morning!
how is it a mystery? it seems quite clear the a language made to appeal to people who don't like taking risks in their programming languages would not want to learn yet another syntax for another language with the same semantics... What I find a mystery is how google doesn't get that
Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in virtual currencies
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this is especially relevant to the software industry. "10x" coders may well just be people who pump the breaks on working long hours and confine themselves to working the number of hours that they can be maximally productive. work less to get more important work done, as it were.
Not to mention that if you rely on estimating pregnancy rates by taking birth rates and then shifting backwards nine months, you have lost three quarters of time, and thus there is no way to use this data to predict a recession even if pregnancy rates do precede a recession by three quarters. So it's fun to look at, but ultimately useless for forecasting if you can't get real time pregnancy rates instead of waiting nine months.
People believe you need growth, but you don't and there are major problems with it.

I just read and recommend The Growth Delusion https://www.amazon.com/Growth-Delusion-Poverty-Well-Being-Na..., which talked about problems with growth and alternatives to its most common measure, GDP.
The same thing is happening here in the US, on a smaller scale, by private companies under the guise of "hate speech".
For the user, no. But this is a technology forum so the distinction is relevant.
Who license the Nokia brand from Nokia, since the MS deal only included a time-limited use of it for consumer devices.
> So if you say something you shouldn't, this could very easily be something where your entire life is destroyed.

According to the article, this has already happened: Over on WeChat’s top messaging service, there were reports that some users had been banned or restricted based on the content they had shared. WeChat owner Tencent has disputed claims that it stores or reads chat logs, but — regardless — the app includes a social media-like feed where users can share public messages with friends.
SMB = small and medium size businesses
I can't infer whether 80s LA was worse or better than Beijing today from your comment.
We will see, new regulation is coming after GDPR and I bet they will plug the missing holes there. There was a cookie law that everyone circumvented. Now the same people are complaining about GDPR. The next round is going to put even more restrictions, and the regulation is going to be blamed. But the ones to be blamed are the ones who abuse it.
https://flutter.io/platform-channels/ is intended to make it easy to integrate with many existing "native" (OEM-side) third-party libraries.

There's also a surprisingly large number of pure Dart packages. See pub.dartlang.org.
I think this says more about the extensive tech-party/meetup culture in the bay area than any meaningful population statistics. Tech isn't even the largest industry in San Francisco [1]. As anywhere, you'll have a diverse set of friends/acquaintances in your hometown, but if you come to SF for tech reasons, chances are, you'll only meet tech people.

It only took me a slight active effort to diversify and you can meet the most interesting people in Healthcare, non-profits and tourism. New York, though remains unmatched in diversity along every dimension possible. It is not even quite the fair comparison given the population size differences between SF and NYC.

[1]: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Tech-isn-t-biggest-S...
You think I am reaching, but the GDPR does act this way.

Lets say your visiting the USA as an EU citizen and you get a pizza delivery from a local small pizza shop. They put your name and delivery address in their computer in an MS Access database that makes stickers, emails the delivery guy's gmail account and a person delivers a pizza to you.

They have no idea your an EU citizen and they just put enough information into their computer that would violate the GDPR. They have no real way to comply unless they retrofit their computer system to some vendor that is GDPR compliant, if it even exists. Just deleting your info from the msaccess db and asking the delivery guy to delete their emails isn't enough for the GDPR. And a computer system retrofit for most business might as well be like asking them to retrofit their building as far as costs go.

The end effect might be just outright banning all EU citizens from doing business with various places, because it's just not worth the hassle.

'Sorry you cant stay at our hotel, we are not GDPR compliant'

'Sorry we won't deliver to you, we are not GDPR compliant'

'Sorry you can't enroll in our classes, we are not GDPR compliant'

'Sorry we won't treat you at this hospital, we are not GDPR compliant'

'Sorry you can't get a bank account with us, we are not GDPR compliant' (Like a lot of EU banks with US citizens with FATCA)
#1 and #2 are already out to consumers in my local market.
Well Flutter does provide for a way to call into existing native code so I think that mitigates the code-reuse concern. The other thing to consider is that this advantage of code reuse was never realized to iOS. Writing apps for iOS & Android always meant having a C/C++ core with platform-specific shims; J2Objc more recently let you write it in Java but again that just lets you write the core in Java with 2 platform-specific independent frontend implementations. A lot of developers just wound up writing the app twice & shifting as much logic server-side as possible (which hurts battery too). This is the first time you can write the app once & run on both iOS & Android. AFAIK Dart is also only a requirement for the front-end. You are still free to use whatever language you want for your business logic. I'm not 100% clear yet on how good the bridging story is but I suspect it's not bad.
"1.The first half of the book receives far more editing than the last half."

I don't agree with that conclusion. I could write the entire plot on the first day, then on each update I expand the details evenly.

Or I could write 1/3 of the story, then realize I need more in the beginning to establish the full context, so that the beginning is fleshed out after the middle.

In an extreme case, I might envision a great battle for the end, write that, then start piling things on the front.
At this rate, it seems reasonable to assume they'd use a kill vehicle to take the satellites out.
I'll just ignore the passive aggressiveness that gushes out between your lines, because it only makes exchanging information about the matter at hand harder.

Let me start by summarizing the facts to get this straight. Germany does not generally ban diesel cars from cities. Some cities plan to ban diesel cars in limited areas and under certain conditions. These conditions are non-exclusively such that if door to door businesses is necessary you are still free to go with your diesel car.

You claimed that "the German economy would crash" as a response to a comment that asked for "Next: Petrol cars please.", which in turn was a comment to the article with headline "Diesel cars can be banned from German cities, court rules".

Germanies economy wouldn't just crash when german cities were able to ban petrol cars. What happens depends on when what bans are imposed and with what accompanying measures.

You don't name a single accompanying measure the cities that are planing. You don't name what exactly is banned. In the absence of knowing these facts, no conclusion can be drawn.

Also, neither I, nor the comment you responded to beforehand, nor the article of the thread mention banning all cars. Where did you get that from? Did you just made that up?

The metaphorical analogies don't convince me, because they seem to be based on intution and not on science.

I don't disagree with the other very interesting points you bring up. Surely, they need to be considered. I'm quite sure any city that plans a ban has thought about them and then some more, and has come up with solutions.

Cheers from a random person on the internet!
Interested to know what the kinetic energy of a near Planck particle would be.
Are you arguing that a face map and high resolution infrared photo is more public than a fingerprint?
Here's related work for those interested in the subject. Two old ones:

Burroughs Architecture
https://www.smecc.org/The%20Architecture%20%20of%20the%20Bur...

Capability-based Computer Systems (book)
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~levy/capabook/

Some new ones using a range of techniques:

SAFE Architecture
http://www.crash-safe.org/papers.html

CHERI Architecture
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

Note: CHERI runs a modified version of FreeBSD on a FPGA board. Quite practical if it can handle that!

Watchdog Architecture
https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/softbound/

Hardware-assisted Secure Allocator
http://jin.ece.ufl.edu/papers/HASP17.pdf
> Nuclear was turned off because it's dangerous

Nuclear was turned off because of FUD.
> A practical trouble is that once a company reaches a certain size, they no longer even know what data they have, never mind why.

That's a very good reason to do a little inventory then. Not knowing what data you have is a real problem in my book.
It's not "hacker" news you monkey with a keyboard. If it were you'd be able to delete your comments. Also alt-right and Russia are everywhere and very dangerous
This part I could agree, and for most of my apps make a lot of sense.

I download the code and run the sample where is possible to integrate flutter with the "host" language. Is better than react native, but I wish it have a more ergonomic api.
Exactly. Unlike Facebook which actively try to get into the Chinese market, Google doesn't try as much or it seems like it.
Good point, but the setting might change how that information is used, by Facebook or its users or advertisers (or subpoenas, etc).
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>This is why any time a major public company can't continue increasing profits, it becomes a national crisis and the government has to step in to save them.

This is completely false. Where in the world did you get this idea?
From other comments in the thread, it sounds like there are at least 2 different locations that they put the option. It's either region/country-specific, or an example of A/B testing, I suppose.