skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cross-section of undersea cables powering the internet
We had a nasty liberal-in-what-you-accept JSON problem: using JSON to communicate between services written in various languages (Python, Java, Javascript, C++): the python client was simply writing maps out which were automatically serialized into something almost JSON: {'label': 123} (using ' to delimit the label strings, not "). The Javascript JSON parser would silently accept this, as would some of the Java libraries, while both the C++ parsers we used would reject it. This was a pain to debug since some of the modules communicated seemingly perfectly, and of course those developers didn't see why they should change.
I think courts have ways around it if it is that clear cut : )

You'd be amazed at how difficult it is to pierce the corporate veil in the most popular states for LLCs and corporations (Nevada, Delaware, etc.).
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I wrote an essay on this exact topic: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2018/04/google-doubleclick-mozi...
Technically, nothing prevents Apple and Mozilla (and others) from implementing this technology into their products.
Both NASA and the Russians used pencils in the beginning. Once a pen the worked in zero gravity was developed (by a private US company, and not by NASA or with NASA money), both NASA and the Russians started to buy and use those pens.
Google would be the last to sell your data as they know better then anyone the value.

This and security is why I try to centralize my data at Google.

In the US an ISP can sell your data without you even knowing.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/04/04/isps-can...
ISPs can now collect and sell your data: What to know ... - USA Today
Then that is really stupid. I want an email client, not a gmail client.
Many problem solvers fail to take into account that a solution does not all have to be done in one swoop, but that it can be made much less risky and more likely to succeed by proceeding in stages. Only Superman jumps buildings in a single bound. The rest of us have to use the stairs.
> I think the only thing that might be missing is an indemnification clause

Don't worry, it's right in there:

> Further, you, on behalf of yourself and the Subjects, release Eventbrite and Eventbrite's assigns, licensees and successors from any claims that may arise regarding use of the Recordings, including, without limitation, any claims of defamation, invasion of privacy, or infringement of rights of likeness, publicity or copyright.

Aka if someone sues Eventbrite for violation of their rights by their broadcast or whatever, you will have reimburse them
I have already reached out quite a bit, independently of legislation.

When people were calling my phone in the name of a company, it’s often very ham-fisted and counter-productive for the brand; typically, they would have stale info like the name of the occupant from more than a decade prior. I generally push to ask how they got my number and if they actually work directly for them. So far, they never actually answer that one.

Then, I search for the name of their Chief Marketing Officers on LinkedIn and write tho explain how I got such a bad experience. They often respond by saying that they never would cold-call people, especially not with such terrible information, so I detail that I suspect it’s a third party who they pay to bring traffic, or a local store who took the initiative. More often than not, they act on it because they realise the cost for their brand those have. I’ve been able to stop a lot of repetitive calls that way.

I suspect that, if I can add up who is behind my data leaking, I can warn executive at the original company; it’s quite likely that they were not expecting the information to be sold, or re-used so transparently, or even to be confronted with it -- so I expect them to fight it internally, which should be a lot easier to enforce.

Typically, for Google and Facebook Ad network, I don’t even have to do that: both let me black-list advertisers. I can only encourage everyone to do the same if some advertisers are acting suspiciously.
Because, economics aside, it's a waste, and it hurts the Earth. There's literally an island of garbage, mostly plastic, just floating around in the ocean, killing sea turtles and other cute animals.

You may not care, but some people (customers, as they are known colloquially) do.
Interesting article. I never heard of them, but the original CEO blames real estate as being the cause of failure. He overlooks the fact that their sandwiches were MICROWAVED. Who in heck microwaves a GRILLED cheese sandwich?

$6 for a tiny, soggy microwaved cheese sandwich.
$3 for a tiny bowl of soup.

Real estate wasn't the source of their failure.
You just read a comment about entrepreneurship and then started talking about tech entrepreneurship.
To be precise, these are global averages, so from this alone it is clear the numbers aren't measurements but rather the output of some analysis.

The linked file is simply the analysis output, the source is the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, presumably their GISTEMP dataset (since that's the one about global average surface temperature).

The original GISTEMP analysis is documented here: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha00700d.html

with later refinements found elsewhere on the GISS site.

In brief they simply use weather station data, and build their global average from that. They also talk about change in the average rather than the absolute value, which makes sense since you are then much less sensitive to the absolute calibration error of each station.

Then they do a lot of statistics on it to compensate for lack of coverage etc etc, read it yourself if 30 year old statistics papers are interesting to you.
Not really. Google does search ads based on what you are searching at that time. Plus Google does ads with a call back so no data leaves Google.

The byproduct is ad blockers work by blocking the call back.
Why are you under the presumption that he did no domain specific engineering at Tesla and SpaceX? And let's not go in circles and repeat your previous arguments please.
Cruel isn't the default state of anything. Good and evil don't exist unless you're a human being and like to categorize everything almost arbitrarily.
Were some people wrong about the limits of resources? Yes. Are resources therefore limitless? No.

Did some theorists dramatically underestimate the complexity of the world and rely too much on simple models in the 70s? Yes. Did scientists learn their lesson? Yes. Nobody's been doing that shit for decades.

Even so, in your "alarmism" list:

> “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”

10.000 deaths a year are attributable to air pollution in London alone. That is despite the widespread introduction of environmental measures that reduced the pollution this quote is warning about:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/15/nearly-9...

In high pollution areas, regulation and cutting emissions has drastically improved health:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Triangle_(region)

Coal combustion in China’s power plants causes an estimated 250,000 deaths per year. according to the IEA (which is _far_ from an activist/alarmist organization. On the contrary it's been hilariously underestimating renewables: https://twitter.com/AukeHoekstra/status/931869221386104832).

> “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_loss

"The current rate of global diversity loss is estimated to be 100 to 1000 times higher than the (naturally occurring) background extinction rate."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity#Species_loss_rate...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-...

"Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves across Germany have vanished in 25 years."
You would now, but what if they had cost money in the first place? Like, you wouldn't have got used to their services for free for years? This is something people often forget when they are saying "of course I would pay money".

The world would be a whole lot different place (not necessarily any better) if Google services cost money instead of gathering data and selling it forwards.
It can be rendered to and parsed from text but that is typically not used.
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I’m sorry, but trying to draw this distinction is dangerously naive.

In order to get decent ad targeting for most industries, they need more than enough information than is needed to target a drone strike.

They are legally obligated to share this information with multiple governments (including the US) that openly and routinely engage in extra-judicial killings of civilians.

The only solutions to this moral quandary are to either (a) change multiple governments, some democratically elected, some not, or to (b) simply not gather the information in the first place.

Google has already tried and failed at option (a), and option (b) would eliminate the vast majority of their revenue.
I'm totally blind so I'd trust the call center employee more then my self. I'd love to have a self driving car that could get me where I wanted to go 99% of the time, as long as the 1% failure mode aborted the trip and sent me back home with out killing me. Something like a call center employee turning the car around and sending me home if the weather was going to be to snowy to make the trip would be life changing for me. Uber and Lift are useful, but not cost effective for daily commuting.
Next Google. Then we forget about it forever.
Use a lot of Google services and never had an issue with my data. Plus Google will secure far better than anyone else.
It's a luxury they can afford by being a vision and design centric company. They don't cater to demand, they create it.

By being quite generic and broad in their targeting themselves, they can get away with just collecting non personal "OS data", and they do it since the 80s.

Their biggest enemy are companies that create an easier market for developers and businesses by passing down data that those businesses can use to reach users. FB getting into hardware (they will be a future competitor with AR) is possibly causing them sleepless nights.
Influencing people is not "admirable quality" on itself. It is positive if you do it for good and horrible if you do it for bad. It amplifies your impact.

These qualities don't make you good person automaticaly, they oftentimes make you an asshole. Plus environment where everyone wants to he sen as leader tend to be disfunctional.
They are claiming the full rights to use the recording they make, but this does not stop you from making your own recording of the event (though there is nothing preventing Eventbrite from then releasing a competing recording - imagine if you have an up and coming artist performing, then Eventbrite can fully exploit the recordings of those early shows should they happen to make them).
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JSON is mostly a strict subset of Python. That's not unexpected, but it makes me question how something like this actually happened. Your bug likely resulted from someone doing a `str(obj)` instead of `json.dumps(obj)`. Hardly the fault of JSON for being very similar to Python's default string serialization.
I want to be clear that I don’t know if chemical weapons are being used in Syria, although the evidence for the use of Chlorine in barrel bombs is strong. I’ll be honest and say that I haven’t seen good evidence of organophosphate poisonings, but I’m just some guy so who knows.

What I do know for sure however, is that this blog is utter bunk.

The Belgian customs found that without having requested the appropriate export licenses three Flemish companies have exported 96 tonnes of isopropanol in a concentration of 95% or higher to Syria since sanctions came into force in September 2013.

That’s rubbing alcohol! That’s not evidence of sarin manufacture, it’s not a “precursor” it’s rubbing alcohol in typical concentrations for goddamned Purell. Can you use it as part of a process to make sarin? Sure, but it’s not a critical ingredient, it’s not what any honest person would consider a precursor, it’s just a solvent. It also antimocrobial and antiseptic, and you know... rubbing alcohol.
Well - there are competitors but they aren't nearly as good. Usage and popularity of these alternate products tell a story.
How, if at all, will the memory device in Intel's optane xpoint memory relate to neuromorphic systems? Is it commercial proof of concept for a commercially viable device that, with relatively straightforward modification, can support in-memory computing in the future?
> For example, you may now define which jobs you want to run just by tuning project variables, or you can restrict a job to be scheduled only when the variable is equal to a specific user.

How would this be used in practice?

For example-- suppose I want to give certain users access to my runners when they make a merge request. Can I use GITLAB_USER_NAME in .gitlab-ci.yml to achieve this?
Ah, I've figured it out: the next dialog, "Tell Us Why", doesn't always name a particular video that prompted the reccomendation. Some of them do, some of them don't. Which begs the next question: where are they coming from if not previously watched videos?
It's not just the oceans either. I ride my bike out in the middle of nowhere and I'll always find garbage. It's kinda depressing.
> I am trying to manage customer concerns

You do that by providing actual information, not by corporate zero-information talk.
Thank you for that, but if you look once more, you will see that you didn't answer my question.
Awesome that your upgrades are smooth, thanks for posting. We're indeed a completely remote team, see https://about.gitlab.com/culture/remote-only/

And we do want to make sure that all the features you really need are there. I understand the VideoLan needs https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/40321 and we're prioritizing it.
A blockchain is a specific set of choices suitable for a narrow set of use-cases
The latter, its simply weather station data carefully examined, see my other comment.

I guess you could do an actual global measurement if you put a satellite fairly far out with capable of measuring the IR and optical. Then you could define a black body effective temperature, but I'm not sure that straightforwardly tells us about surface temperatures.
Indeed! Facebook spends a ridiculous amount of resources creating text summaries of what's in user-provided images. Check out the alt="" tags next time you're scrolling through your feed. Every single image has one.
Why do we get irritated with our travel mates?
Uh, that's curious. Can't say that ever happened to me.
It sounds like a terrible idea. What if you don't have Android, Microsoft, Apple, or Amazon products, or even a smartphone at all? Smartphones collect too much information and it shouldn't be required to link all that data just to log in to websites.
This idea will never work. Putting aside all other reasons — the liability equation doesn’t make sense.

Imagine being a lowly “meat bag” in the call center. You’re presented with an endless stream of situations so difficult that the robot can’t solve. Eventually, you make a mistake, and people die. Checkmate.
Yep, it is also really nice to contribute to a repo that you didn't work on before and probably won't work on after. No need to wait for a clone anymore. Our mission is everyone can contribute and we hope this will make that even easier.

I agree that as an industry we should spend more time on impactful things. That is why we based our IDE on the awesome Monaco editor of Vs code that was open sourced by Microsoft.
Thanks for that imgur link. It literally send shivers down my spine, my arms, three times.

Just ... wow. The juxtaposition.
The thesis of the post was great. But then:

> In fact, I don’t think I’ve cared about prestige since 2010

Yeah, right. We're all wired to seek prestige. If we don't get it we wither and sulk. He just figured out that he's unlikely to get it via traditional means, and decided to seek it via an alternative route. Perhaps there are extremely rare mentally atypical people who really don't care about prestige, but it almost certainly isn't you or me or the blogger. Be careful about the lies you tell yourself.
Maybe you should quote the entire paragraph instead of truncating it in a way that makes it look ridiculous. As I said in the next sentence, "Musk is persistent and a quick learner."

And then as I write later in the piece:

"Musk ignored the conventional wisdom, and he has gotten much further than anyone expected. He has sold hundreds of thousands of cars and has hundreds of thousands more people eager to buy the Model 3 as soon as it's available. Moreover, Tesla has had a huge influence on the broader car industry, forcing every major carmaker to take battery electric vehicles seriously."
That's something we need to be aware of and do everything we can to prevent. Humane animal products are even more unsustainable than stomach-turningly efficient animal products. The world population continues to shift toward a meat-filled American diet, and it would be catastrophic to meet the whole world's demand with old-fashioned farms where animals have outdoor space to roam and aren't loaded up with steroids and antibiotics, let alone the ecological costs of keeping the useless males alive.
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Apart from everyone wanting to see multithreading happen there is no target or date.
The issue with Apple is transparency. I want a dashboard like Google provides to see what they are collecting, let me delete and download like Google does.

Both companies have basically the same terms with privacy.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
Legal - Privacy Policy - Apple
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Bing is good in search, I switched to bing after google search showed a result directly in the top of search results after parsing an amazon shipment email. I realised they are tracking too much. Every company who depends on ad will do or eventually do that unless there are regulations in place. As a user it's up to you how much you want to share your data with third parties and advertisers.
Exactly and little transparency from Apple on what they collect and not dashboard like Google to delete or download.
Exactly. And the top comment here isn't about either of those subjects, it's a bland complaint about search history tracking with the usual iOS fanboy pivot to "Apple's business model doesn't require that".

Everyone takes from this kerfuffle what they want. I tend to agree with you for myself, but for most people Facebook having egg on its face is just a stage to stand on to whine about whatever they think is important.

Which is to say: the answer to the question in the title is probably "no".
Apple users are defending Apple on this saying: Well, the user clicked yes! This is exactly how it should work.
Ask HN: Any good marketing advice for a cheap and small niche API software?
Hello HN friends. I am here for a long time reading high quality content. Now is my time to ask advice.

I have a freemium SAS software with a good number of visitors. Its free to use, but the API is paid. It solves a problem of a small niche industry. I already have a dozen of paying customers, and it already pays my rent. The retention is very high, but the growth is very slow. I am able to sell, but I see that I need to make some efforts on marketing. How can I do marketing for such a small niche?
I already did SEO (and continuously do) and I have a good traffic of search engines.

For this kind of business, I can think only in "content marketing", even being very technical an niche, and because I can't see other better solution, I shall spend some time doing it. As marketing is not my area (but I like and read a lot) I am afraid of spending too much time on this being blind of another better strategy, so I am here to ask:

Anyone has books or advice for my challenge? Anyone have seen similar cases, sharing the characteristic I mentioned (Small niche, freemium, SAS, B2B, API paid, global market)?

Obrigado (thank you).
The point isn't that the plastic doesn't matter--it's that addressing animal treatment and packaging in one fell swoop is incredibly unlikely to succeed.
Eh, I have the opposite opinion. The latest one (voice remote with Alexa) is pretty damn snappy, it's got all the catch up services in the UK, as well as Netflix and Amazon Prime video. I've sideloaded Kodi to stream media from my SAN and it all just works.
the login occurred awhile ago?
HTML pretended to be a subset of SGML, but never really was, and the illusion quickly dispersed as time went on, since HTML was strictly pragmatic and ran in resource-constrained environments (the desktop), while SGML was academic, largely theoretical, and ran on servers, analyzing text.

XML, on the other hand, was more of a back-formation – a generalization of HTML; it was not, as I understand it, directly related to SGML in any way. The existence of XML was a reaction to SGML being impractical, so it would be strange if XML directly derived from SGML.
For the HN crowd, this may be an option. The general public doesn't really care about privacy, and is not going to use DuckDuckGo or any other service whose primary selling point is privacy. The best search engine will win the market, and the best search engine will tend to be the one that can generate the most money to invest in its service.

Even if someone comes in and beats Google at some point, they will do it by hiring a massive number of talented people and buying large quantities of data centers and servers. Those things can only be paid for through advertising and tracking, as few people will directly pay for search services. I suppose a socialist/communist government somewhere in the world might have the resources to build a search engine of Google quality that doesn't rely on advertising, but they would have their own hostile agenda - that would be far worse than having to put up with Nike trying to sell you some shoes while you search.
I'm always saying that I can't understand how do we have a new hipster programming language/framework every year, but we still struggle dealing with JSON
Create a cross platform news app in react native
I think it's time a model will come up where you have an option to choose between an ad supported and paid version.
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Putting isopropanol in the export control list is BS.

That’s a precursor to everything - you might as well say: “we don’t like you so you’re not allowed to have industry”
Databases are 10-100x as reliable as the application tier in my experience
What do you mean can't use whatever you want in the US? Not following?
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3.0.0 will migrate playlists from the old stable version, but not from this beta version, because of a bug in this specific version

When you say "this specific version" as containing a bug are you referring to "this beta version" or "3.0.0"?
Company builds homes like plug-in Legos
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Interesting, I've never seen a deposit above 10 cents myself.
I like TeX for producing documents. But I'd take XML over TeX if I had to parse the markup myself, outside of the TeX toolchain. Any nontrivial TeX document is built out of a pile of macros, so you need to implement a TeX-compatible macro expander to parse it. And at least with XML there are solid libraries, while the state of TeX-parsing libraries outside of TeX itself is pretty poor. I think Haskell is the only language with a reasonably good implementation, thanks to the efforts of the pandoc folks.