skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Given that employees are told they can no longer use the word "shadow profile"

What's the source of this information?
Well "capitalist market" can still be "unfair", due to information assymetry. Or can you perfectly decide which product is best "as-is"?

Not saying regulation is best answer here, just that the issue is more complex and "free market" likely isn't 100% solution.
Great - it is good to see competition to GoURL. The Woocommerce integration in particular is great to see. GoURL's woocommerce plugin is functional but the experience is not the greatest.

Good luck with it - I will potentially switch one of my products over to this on a trial basis.
That's if you're already approaching it from the point of view that it's a bad thing. I believe that question is unsettled.
You sign up for those when you get a credit card. You don't sign up for Facebook, they just start tracking you. You don't even have to go online for it to happen. They'll do it from your friend's profiles. It's quite different.
I wish they would allow one to resize the compose window.
As someone who has worked nightshift, I have heard it can cause cancer. It doesn't look good for us.

[1]: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/312064.php
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Indeed. If you’re truly in need of proof of the original claim, search advertising industry news for their various survey results of real people. The ad industry is pretty convinced that people are generally anti-trackers and not as much anti-ads. (They could be wrong, as could their surveys — but if you trust nothing, then no point can be proven.)
I've never used it. For some reason this makes some people extremely curious as to my reasons and then very angry with me after I state them.
I think, if you try to prove that it makes economical sense to make peoples' lives better and longer, you will always fail- it will always be more profitable to treat people like cattle and let them die quickly. Economic thinking is broken like that: the highest value is money, there isn't any value that doesn't translate into money and there is no way to justify losing money to gain anything else.

Reality doesn't really work like this, or in any case that's just a twisted interpretation of reality.
8 tips to get tabs right in web design
My data, someone else’s money
> A lot of plugins are orphaned at some point ... if you can't load those plugins, you can't open old files.

In other words, your music production business depends on old, unsupported, proprietary software. You may actually have to pony up and hire someone to fix your problem or help you switch to another platform. Welcome to the real world.
I work in education with children and background checks in PA is as follows.

1) State Child Line background check (Mail in a form $15)

2) State Police Background check (Online Access $20 I get this back immediately)

3) FBI Finger Prints (UPS Store $50)

So frustrating that we don't have a national registry with state police and national agencies. I Don't have to do the finger prints as much but the other clearances are every three years.

The issue for driving is I have to get my driving record. Some agencies ask for multiple of years so this could mean multiple of states and many states have outsourced the work.
Incognito mode makes cookie avoidance easy, even for average users.
"behind his back"
I'm a little confused. The "new" drug is combination treatment of two hepatitis C tablets, ravidasvir ­(a new drug)­ and sofosbuvir.

Ravidasvir is novel, but sofosbuvir is the active ingredient in Sovaldi and Gilead has IP protection on it. How do they plan to get around that?

The article hints they will work with an Egyptian company to produce it, but Gilead aleady offers Sovaldi for $900 in Egypt. Do they think the Egyptian gov't will turn a blind eye to violating the IP?
All I wanted to see is what the comments section now looks like. It's literally the only thing I'm there for, and preview photos never show it. (My biggest complaint with many HN app previews too)

Of course, when I try the preview myself, I'm greeted with this:

https://imgur.com/a/PvRhk
Libram!
Exactly. What real time advertising network markets have done, is effectively incentivized Facebook, and anybody else selling internet ad space to create a Big Brother database in order to maximise revenue from any source that's prepared to pay.

Whilst I suspect this probably wasn't exactly what Marx meant when he said that Capitalism inevitably sews the seeds of its own destruction... combine it with a political system funded predominantly by private money, and I guess the only thing saving the US at the moment is that the oil price is so low.

"My reality was post-apocalyptic and it wasn't this fucked up" Penny Adiyodi, The Magicians.
It happens several times a week when I'm out working in my fields.
Or using another browser. And yes your average user is able to do that.
Thanks for the advice! I'll look into that. I have not spent much time in assembly land so it should be an interesting lesson.
Zuckerburg is in the unenviable position of having to defend the entire ad-tech industry.

If he describes in granular detail how user profiling and ad serving works on Facebook, then Facebook is going to take the hit on practices that are basically industry standards. If he obfuscates, and focuses on FB controls then he seems like a liar.

If he explained how ad-tech works across the internet then it would look like whataboutism and him invoking the bandwagon fallacy.

At the end of the day it seems like someone/some company is eventually going to take the fall for the whole ad-tech industry and cause major reform - is Facebook the one who's going to take the arrow?
I have an hour commute to my real job, so I use that to hack on my side project before and after work.

Setting small goals has always helped me keep up the energy to move it forward. When you're working in really small time chunks, it's important to make sure you have something achievable to accomplish. You're not going to be able to do things like "finish the sign up flow" in one night, but you can do things like "finish the authByPassword() method" and still be moving forward.

As for the money aspect of it, that's simple, just don't spend any. Bootstrapping is all about doing more with less, so don't spend anything until you absolutely have to. When you do finally start writing checks, make sure you're spending on things that will have the highest impact.
An economy isn't something you choose to have or not have. It arises naturally as a matter of fact. Our legislation and rules and laws that govern it are a consequence of its existence, not its cause.
Agree. There were also numerous opinion questions that involved "Mr. Zuckerberg .... blah blah ... what are you views on XYZ?" I mean that's not exactly piercing Q&A.
That's not what the question was. The man asking the question wasn't technically sophisticated enough to ask about using cookies, and if he were, he would not have asked that question anyway.

The question was, does Facebook collect data on non-users?

What that means is, if I have not signed up for facebook, are you tracking my behavior anyway through the like button and other methods?
You didn't know pollen has it's own type of allergy (pollen allergy)
You can show your content to the people who were interested by putting it on your website. It's that easy!
>Assembly (specially on the 6502) is conceptually very simple and, while it may not be trivial to translate higher-level concepts to its simplicity, as long as what you want can be readily expressed in it, it's trivially easy.

That's precisely why I would qualify ASM as "tricky" and "tedious". You're bogged down in the tiny details that nowadays a compiler would probably solve as well (or even better) than you do. If you want to express "I want to make a function that adds two integers" then yeah it's trivial. If instead it's "I want to iterate through the leaves of a binary tree and compute its standard deviation" then have fun; good luck.

"This is a multiplication by 5, it's pretty expensive, probably better off shifting by two and adding once. Oh but then I need an intermediary register, do I have one available?"

"I guess I could inline this bit of assembly here instead of making a function call. Oh but wait now I need to re-do my register allocation to match."

"I need to reserve a bit more stack space to bank this register, let's modify my function's prelude and prologue to match."

Ain't got no time for that.

I think writing assembly is a skill any coder should have, especially if you usually deal with close-to-the-metal languages like C, C++ or Rust for instance. I think having a good grasp of assembly will make you a better coder, if only because it'll let you read the assembly output of your compiler to figure out what gets optimized and how (and also maybe what you could change to speed things up). There are also a few situations where writing assembly is the right solution.

That being said you'd have to pay me a lot to write a full application in assembly, regardless of how many layers of macros and pre-processing steps I'm allowed to use (unless gcc is allowable as a pre-processing step...)
This!

If you expect business people to cross the business/tech communication chasm, you have a lot fewer options than if you are the one to cross it. Learning their language helps you understand the value they get from your services, which gives you more leverage on rates.
It's pretty much settled that exploiting lack of privacy is a bad thing. Potential of such practice misuse was clearly demonstrated in the recent history.
He started X.com. The founders of PayPal were forced by their VCs to merge the two companies, because X.com had a massive cash position, and a banking license.
Facebook is designed to incentivize vitriol and dramatic interactions and actively prevents uniting around common interests. Facebook is a massive obstacle to robust political organization.
A 6502 isn't just combinatorial logic. Nearly half the chip is memory, either decode/sequencing ROM or latches.
>>Inequality may be a problem, but it's not an existential threat or even a primary concern to developed countries

>If a single person's net worth is more than a medium sized country's GDP, we DO have a problem.

I added italics to parts of our respective posts. They seem to indicate we agree.

We might disagree on the size of the problem or how to fix it, but that would be covering new ground.
See http://atrn.assembly.ca.gov/sites/atrn.assembly.ca.gov/files... for a map of their funding. I was looking at the Silicon Valley to Bakersfield leg which is dependent on $2.9B in federal funds which, to date, congress has been opposed to.

I believe that a working high speed rail system will help make working in California more affordable if it is practical to live outside the metro areas of the Bay Area and LA and still work there. I also expect it will cut down on traffic fatalities on I-5.
> Oh no, it looks like you're trying to access the hello app from your desktop or laptop (we're mobile only)

Good bye, Orkut! You didn't even give me a chance to convince me I should make the effort of installing yet another app on my phone.
Could that success be repeated in the 21st century? If so, how?
I would be horrified if they have any data on me give I have never had an account, but I expect it is there all the same.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-11/zuckerber...

1:38
Google can be forced to pull results globally, Canada supreme court rules
> So you see Alice has a whole bunch of problems to face. Oh yes, and there is one more thing I forgot so say - Alice doesn't trust Bob. We don't know why she doesn't trust him, but at some time in the past there has been an incident.

> Now most people in Alice's position would give up. Not Alice. She has courage which can only be described as awesome. Against all odds, over a noisy telephone line, tapped by the tax authorities and the secret police, Alice will happily attempt, with someone she doesn't trust, whom she cannot hear clearly, and who is probably someone else, to fiddle her tax returns and to organize a coup d'etat, while at the same time minimizing the cost of the phone call.

> A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy.
if you can find bindings to SDL2 it is easy enough to do 2d games

add opengl and you can do 3d games
Some interesting research on “assist” functionality was mentioned as a part of this fascinating talk on self driving cars and their perception of the world.

https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_urmson_how_a_driverless_car_...
> What data and what aspects of climate are you thinking of?

For example, data suggesting that major storms were more frequent in the 19th century than the 20th.

> World temperatures rose at a rate unprecedented for millennia during the 20th C

Only if you believe highly dubious temperature reconstructions, including their claims to be accurate to within fractions of a degree.
It's exceedingly slow. Neurons fire at not 4 gigahertz, 400 megahertz, 40 megahertz, 4 megahertz, 400 kilohertz, 40 kilohertz, 4 kilohertz, or 0.4 kilohertz (400 hertz.) They fire at < 1 hertz to about 200 hertz. [1]

That is literally 8 orders of magnitude slower than processers. 8 orders of magnitude is the size of difference between a grain of sand and 1.2 short tons.

In the time that your neuron moves 1 grain of sand, a computer can move 1.2 short tons worth of sand 1 grain at a time (talking about just cache here) - because it's switching at 4 GHz instead of 10 hertz.

That is enough to make a lot of back and forth trips. Now, you have to make a lot of these back and forth trips because the brain is extremely parallel. But the difference between these extremely slow biochemical firing speeds and gigahertz light speed enables this.

The speed of propagation in the brain is about 100 meters/second [2]. The speed of propagation between two fiber optic end-points is about 299 792 458 meters/second. That gives you 7 orders of magnitude to play with. Or, in other words, it can let you take seven orders of magnitude more trips across a data center (or go that much farther) before you miss a real-time deadline for when you need to address a neuron by.

In the future it's pretty clear that computers are not going to think as fast as the human brain when doing similar calculations using a similar topology, but, for example, 10,000 times faster than real-time.

This really shouldn't surprise anyone growing up in technology. Brains are slow, mechanical devices. They're not digital and they don't do signal processing at the speed of light.

It's taken us some time to catch up because a hundred billion neurons is still a lot of neurons, and algorithm development using similar topologies has been slow.

[1] https://aiimpacts.org/rate-of-neuron-firing/#Estimates_of_ra...

[2] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2002/DavidParizh.shtml
He acknowledged that they made shadow profiles and collected information not necessary for security from people who did not possess facebook accounts?
something to work for or towards does not imply work as in employment.
I've been coding for 25 years, getting paid for it for 21 years.

If you want to grow a team, you need to hire a mix of experience levels. With younger devs, talent is correlated with being opinionated - they have passion that hasn't been balanced by broad experience. And opinions are fashion-led. Find me a young dev who has no real opinions, and I'll show you a dev who has no taste.
I'm confused. Are you advocating for lower taxes to prevent the political establishment from enriching themselves, or are you advocating that employees revolt and overthrow the executives to install a more democratic management?
But if you don't hold too much cash/fixed income securities and actually hold equity investments (e.g. real estate, stocks), then why would inflation be a concern? All those investments should easily keep up with inflation by their very nature, or am I wrong?
I agree with a lot of points but... just want to note that you are referring to 1% income levels in your article, not wealth levels. Those are wildly different things. It's quite possible to earn a lot at some point in your life, temporarily being a top-earner in the country. Winning a lottery, cashing out capital gains on home equity or a business sale can do that. Or even having a really good year in a good job. The threshold is $390k of income in a year.

But that's an entirely different notion from becoming part of the top 1% richest people in the country.

Here's a graph on how wealth inequality is far worse than income inequality:
http://inequality.comm.ccsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/I...

Now, income inequality tends not to matter too much beyond a certain figure. At some point, which is far below the 1% level, you get marginal returns to your income in terms of quality of life.

However, wealth is different in that it affords so much power, which isn't compatible with democratic ideals where everyone's voice or vote is approximately equal. When 1% of the population holds 40% of the ownership and shareholder votes of all companies, land, factories etc, that can be problematic. And it is worsening.

Again, I'm not terribly concerned and I don't see wealth inequality as inherently dangerous, but it is a problem and it isn't getting any better.
>Most people are not low-income for no reason...

Low-income workers are as such because they're "ignorant"? Uh..

Why this would work is that free delicious food isn't likely to be turned down. I think people are often creatures of habit and feel intimidated by cooking, along with (as you suggest) disinterest. You don't just teach the mechanics and call it a day, they can walk away with a cheap delicious food and see how easy it is to put together. Ultimately also easier on their wallets than a cart full of 2L soda bottles, frozen pizzas and chips.
Adding extra complexity just means more to go wrong. Plain text can't really go wrong because anything can use it, anything can edit it, anything can show it. With "objects" I'm betting that Powershell itself never fails.
To me, the most interesting part of Metafont is that it can take parameters. So your font could, for example, take a parameter for weight, letting you create as many different weight variants as you like. You can use one algorithm to create a Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Demi, Bold, Black family of fonts. Or you could put a skew parameter in to generate an Oblique version (though true italics would require a separate algorithm).
Because money is a finite resource, is only useful when it moves, and when only a few people hold the majority of the purse strings, they gain an inordinate say in what problems get enough funding thrown at them to be solved either through active favoritism or passive inaction?

Please, we all know someone is going to make the argument you just did. It is the lowest effort, most intellectually shallow argument you can start with. In fact, it's a thinly veiled ad hominem if you think it through long enough as it boils down to "Poor people are poor because they suck."

In the United States, we hold it to be self-evident that all men are created equal. Period. When inequality of some form becomes so ingrained in our society so as to become everyday and even praised, it is only natural for a culture that holds equality amongst people as a core characteristic to wonder if something may be a bit off about the system.

To answer your question...

Why should someone who acts as an executive be worth so much more than the carpenter or operator in the eyes of their fellow men? Businesses are social structures, nominally intended to benefit society (often redefined as shareholders for the hard core capitalists out there) as a whole.

Yet... We see that executives and C levels get an exaggerated share of the value produced by the structure.

"But they have business savvy!" I imagine someone would retort.

Doesn't justify the compensation disparity. They just got an MBA and learned about how to structure a business while the carpenter was learning to woodwork. A business for business sake without professionals capable of understanding and executing the craft or service at hand is meaningless.

"No one would accept the responsibility without that level of compensation! It's too straining!" Another may retort.

That sounds a bit disingenuous to me. Is it mentally straining? Of course. Not so much so that orders of magnitude difference should justifiably exist between the average worker and the top of the pyramid.

Nominally, everyone should have an equal chance to start a successful business. Realistically, the later you come to the game, the more the cards are stacked against you, and in favor of everyone who is already there.

I would like to see society move in a direction where there wasn't so much incentive to "get money at all costs", but rather to solve pressing issues that are having a clear and present deleterious effect on society. The inability of many mundane laborers to be able to keep up with the market is one sych issue.
SaaS Founders, don't ignore this one simple step in your accounting
You already failed the exam if you clicked the link from your Facebook-signed/Google-signed browser.
Twitter's new emoji update ditches the pistol in favor of a water gun
This idea that automation will free up others to perform "higher pursuits" (especially programming) seems completely wrong. The reason is that we have a tremendous shortage of programmers, at least in the largest cities but in a lot of smaller towns too. These jobs pay much more than truck driving or burger flipping. If people could do these jobs, they'd be paid tremendously more with better job prospects right now.

There's nothing stopping people from training to be programmers today and working as a spoiled or fortunate software engineer, just as I am today - nothing other than the challenges of training, the time required, their own interests and capabilities, and possibly unawareness of the opportunity. Maybe a few people would try programming if they suddenly had money and no need for a daily job, but they could also do it today.
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Loudr acquired by Spotify
Good. The whole ad-tech "industry" should be burned to the ground; the sooner the better.
Actually "average people" in my experience very likely wildly over estimate how much information Facebook has about them. The default assumption I've seen non-technical people make is "they know everything". They understand at an intuitive level that when a company provides services for free and is worth so much, it probably uses a lot of their data. When these "average people" are business managers, this leads them to expect miracles out of Facebook ad targeting:-)

Technical people on the other hand who get into details and try to work out what and how FB is collecting data consistently under estimate FB and so get outraged.