skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, the "may" part in there is relevant, and not just an attempt to add in ambiguity to defuse things.

The Google Analytics property owner has to explicitly opt-in to allow Google to do this. And part of that opt in includes the site owner agreeing to an addition ToS certifying that they both disclose they do so and have appropriate consent to do so. You can learn more about that at [1].

In practice, most site owners toggle this feature on without realizing the liability they've agreed to. Because it enables additional reports in GA (by merging and exposing the demographic targeting data their ad system has), as well as pushes GA data into Adwords and DoubleClick if you want to link your accounts. But, Google does keep the GA data siloed off by default.

[1] https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2444872?hl=en
I've never heard of a company paying non-salary employees during a plant shutdown. (In the US, things may be different in Europe for all I know)
> Apple is lagging behind on web standards.

Google’s bright ideas aren’t necessarily standards. Service workers are only a working draft, and only implemented in 2 of the major browsers.

Obviously Google and Apple have different priorities, and clearly service workers benefit Google more than the other vendors.
Hi. If you read my comment, I acknowledge that I can't simply replace the existing data with an upload because they've probably been fixed - the problem is that the suburb boundaries that are in OSM are a mish-mash of suburb/locality boundaries and state suburbs boundaries. This [probably] occurred as a matter of history because they started as "state suburbs" and then people have corrected them in metropolitan areas. Consequently, today they represent nothing - neither statistical areas nor address areas - because you never know whether this particular area (a) represents the SS (b) represents the locality (c) represents both because they're identical (d) represents the SS on one front and the locality on the other.

One place to look at is Mirboo. I've just picked it to avoid yielding too much PII, but it barely respects the existence of surrounding rural districts. (It might even swamp them like others I know - I'm afraid I don't have my full system here.) I know of other examples (locations to which I have an attachment), but you'll forgive me if I avoid giving too much PII on a public forum.

I'm afraid I can't give an exhaustive list because I haven't produced one. Also because I anticipate that if I produce a report it will come to nothing - I usually find that public databases are curated by people who will refuse to accept that any major corrections are necessary because they've already worked on the problem for years and therefore a major correction is taken to be an insult.

As an example, if I can only produce examples in rural areas, I fear that someone will say "we have thousands of correct addresses, but there's only twenty addresses affected by this example, and thirty by that example - it's not important enough". At that point it seems there's no point even producing a report. OSM will just fall into the category of useless databases, where, like Wikipedia, accuracy and convenience are not valued.
The Kuwaiti Dinar (KWD) the parent mentioned is subdivided into 1000s, not 100s.
What market? What kind of progress did Microsoft kill, exactly?

Not to mention that back in the late 90s and early 00s when Microsoft was actively FUDing Linux, it was the server market they were afraid of. The LAMP stack was threatening IIS; the whole Mindcraft debacle, for example, was about the supposed superior TCO of Windows NT Server. Linux on the desktop was not a threat to Windows then. Microsoft wasn't talking about how Word and Excel were better than OpenOffice or whatever. They didn't need to. Microsoft's business was IIS, Exchange, SQL Server and so on, and they needed to FUD Linux to avoid losing enterprise market share against an upstart that could run lots of powerful Unix stuff at a fraction of the cost.
Part of what ruins companies you used to like is the money people get board memberships and have ideas about how fast they should be able to cart away the wheelbarrows full of cash.
I agree that you shouldn't have to lock your door, but a web server is nothing like a house. You should be expected to put a fence around your playground equipment in a grassy field if you don't intend for people to use it as a public park. Even more to the point, you should lock the utilities shed at the public park you run lest someone mistake it for the public loo.
Firefox has support for multiple profiles! I have a profile that I only use for Facebook, Gmail, and Twitter, and one that I use for everything else. Probably not perfect, but provides more isolation.
I'd love to have a utility that quickly toggles between two audio outputs in windows.
This article doesn't add much to the discussion. Very little is done to describe what the proposed "parallel automation" should look like, even though it is being held up by the article's author as the holy grail of driver assistance technology.

Sensors that prevent running into pedestrians are already being deployed. Collision avoidance is getting better and better.

Not driving into walls should be the next pri0 feature cars implement, but aside from that I see little actionable improvements being proposed here.
> I downloaded Facebook's data on me and found about 40 websites they said they had shared my profile with.

Which section was this in the downloaded archive? I'm not aware of any situations which this would happen except using "Log in with Facebook".
That's your behavior in commerce, sure. How were your political and social views nudged?
The guy who found the problem or abused it is not accountable.

This is clearly wrong.

If I forget to lock my door when leaving my house one morning it's still trespassing if you enter the house without my permission.
But there's no way to do so in JavaScript unless you implement a numeric type by hand, something that Dinero does not do.

In JavaScript every number is a IEEE754 floating point number, and removing decimal places will not change its representation in memory or its limitations.

The only situation when a JavaScript Number type is treated as an integer is a vendor specific optimization for small integers (e.g: Smi in v8).

You can still run into issues such as absorption problems if dealing with only "integers". e.g:

> 1e16 -1
10000000000000000 // wrong
> 1e16 -2
9999999999999998
> 1e16 -3
9999999999999996 // wrong
> 1e16 -4
9999999999999996
> 1e16 -5
9999999999999996 // wrong
> 1e16 -6
9999999999999994
> 1e16 -7
9999999999999992 // wrong

But this is just the beginning.
Your view of the internet only applies to things that aren't the internet. There exists no real governance or real ownership on the internet. These things do exist in some capacity, for the most part, in the physical world within national boundaries. Even still, if this were the physical world and some house existed, with an open door and outside the generally agreed upon distinction of what private property is, then you'd bet your ass I'd walk in and snoop around. If the owner came by and said "Hey! This is private propertay. I'll have you arrested!" then he'd certainly have the right to do so. I could then argue that there was no reason to think that this was private property because the door was open and it looked like public facility.
The "vaccine" you refer to here is racotumomab. It's not a vaccine in the common-parlance sense ("prevents disease"), but a different immunotherapy treatment which is only approved for use in Cuba and Argentina. I'm mildly curious why it doesn't exist in the US. All of the clinical trials in the USA which I can find on that drug are either incomplete[1] or completed-but-without-results[2][3][4]. For all of those trials, "Laboratorio Elea" is the sponsor or a collaborator, so I presume they have the rights to the drug in the USA. That's apparently a company out of Argentina[5]. I don't know why they seem to have given up on getting the drug approved in USA, but wikipedia says "[a study] is underway in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Uruguay", though the citation for that seems incredibly suspect[6].

[1] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02998983

[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01460472

[3] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01598454

[4] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01240447

[5] http://www.elea.com/

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racotumomab#Clinical_trials
I assure you MS is still not to be trusted. I find this recent uptick in naivety about them dangerous. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me, can't get fooled again.
http://MikeRoweSoft.com
Let's hear you say this next time you try to run a political campaign against someone who can outspend you a thousand times over.

You'll lose, and they'll have everything they need to take whatever scraps of pie you have on your plate.
Interesting. I am now curious about the demographics. How many Windows 10 users are there soley for either games or Photoshop, or Illustrator, for example?

I instinctively feel like ChromeOS and OSX (and mobile OS variants) are going to kill Windows desktop off. But I'm also aware I might be off base.
Some things that I like in Notepad++:

* Multi-window editing
* Restoring workspace on load
* Background, font, and default spacing options
* Source formatting by source type

These were just some basic things I used in the few times I used Notepad++ after hearing people talk highly of it; there are probably a ton more along with plug-ins but my usage was basic. It definitely made serious-ish development on Windows easier for me to do.
I was unaware of ka lite, but this looks like exactly something I was looking for. Thanks for the information!
Hah, I don't use Windows, far from it. But Microsoft is more than a single product. Few would argue that their desktop isn't dying, but they are diversifying for exactly that reason.
I've been to presentations of marketing teams that said they know how much is left on your mortgage when you hit their website, and they use that data, and a lot more, to figure out what price tier of items show up on the landing page.

The level of tracking that happens that people aren't aware of is scary. What Facebook has been revealed to do is pretty low on the creepy scale compared to what is happening.
I agree, however it is worth noting that this link probably only falls within the jurisdiction of the U.S.
The suspense begins..
There's such a difference, and it's so hard to find really high-performing ones, that you would be constantly telling customers, "that won't work well"...

We considered literally thousands of potential words. We also really didn't want anything like "hey" or "ok" to be required.

Note how long it took for "Computer" to be available - and you can imagine how many of us wanted that. I think it gives an idea of the difficulty.
Basic CMS: A php markdown-based single page cms
I think your arguments are well-reasoned, but I also think that you, along with others here making analogies to libraries/filing cabinets/etc. are too eager to equate physical access to internet access.

In the physical world, one can accidentally walk into a room they shouldn't have, perhaps mistaking it for the bathroom, and then leave without having committed any transgression. Entering a room you shouldn't be in doesn't mean you've automatically taken the contents of the room. On the internet, however, visiting a URL means just that. There's no "oh, it looks like I shouldn't be here" opportunity.

URLs are not doors. They aren't rooms. The same reasoning can't be applied to them, as they behave in fundamentally different ways.
I miss the Alphasmart stuff. They always felt like the spiritual successor to the TRS-80 Model 100 which was an amazing writing machine for its day.
They do, it's called Google Chrome.
Yeah, exactly. This works pretty well with location tracking -- few people request it, you can deny the request, and things almost always work fine when you do. (I've had one site lock me out for blocking location data, and some things work poorly on Facebook's mobile site without location tracking on, but I haven't noticed any other problems.)
How is this “unavoidable” when existing cars already have automatic emergency breaking when they detect a collision is imminent?
Control, it's less work, and Elon is so successful that he doesn't need to worry about the signaling risk of putting in his own money.
Reframing is a favorite tool of authoritarians. They just turn a knob and the new frame gets parroted by the media for weeks.
That can't be right, 0.5g will knock out a horse for many hours
Text Embedding Models Contain Bias
I have just set this up a week ago at my apartment. I use hostapd and dnsmasq on a raspberry pi to make it a wireless AP. It is connected to the primary router via ethernet and uses iptables to route wifi traffic via ethernet. Then I just installed OpenVPN to route traffic via a VPN. I haven't tested for DNS leaks yet as this is an ongoing project.

There are a couple of other things on my todo list still. Such as easier switching of VPN node (current method is to ssh in and restart OpenVPN with a new config...) and ad blocking.

Hope this can help you although it's still a bit immature and quite hacky IMO
Ask HN: What is the “TidyVerse” of other programming languages?
The TidyVerse makes R much more enjoyable to use and work with. What are some examples of this trait in other languages? What packages or libraries outside of the core library are almost fundamental to using said language?

https://www.tidyverse.org/
I love to voluntarily choose between working for a capitalist and starving, personally
After some checking, apparently it is a thing. THere's a whole industry of people doing interviews from remote locations.

It was quite funny to see when we complained to the recruiting agency how they had to call him back to "sign some more papers before he can get paid". Apparently he did not realize that we are a small enough shop that people who interviewed him might remember that and start feeling suspicious when the guy who showed up looked nothing like any of the ones we did talk to before; it helped that one of the admins took a screenshot of his Skype image, too.

But the scariest thing is that he didn't even feel bad about it -- he told the agency "what? I need a job". That he did not know a database from a hole in the ground wasn't going to stop him.
This is so crazy to me because I love the MacBook Pro keyboard (assuming you mean the one on with the Touch Bar). I know it's personal opinion and there are tons of people that don't like it but I seriously have no issues with it and feel like typing on it is just a joy. It's best keyboard (save for my mechanical Ducky) that I've typed on. It's definitely my favorite laptop keyboard, even more so than my 2011 MBP and 2013 MBP.
> most "native" apps use big chunks of the platform "frameworks" and are not platform independent, which was introduced by os companies and politics in the first place

That's the point. Why download another framework when you have one on your computer already that's tailored to your platform?
Poorly named, as it conflicts with the excellent Python based provisioning tool: http://www.fabfile.org/
They're just talking using the same technology to add back-up responses and leaving the driver primarily in charge, instead of making the technology primarily in charge with the driver only there as a failsafe. So they're advocating automatic emergency braking, lane departure warnings, etc. rather than autosteer and adaptive cruise.
Come on now, you were near the top of fark.com for a moment. That kind of infamy can never leave you.
My code review comment on this would be...

Don't be "clever". Use parseInt or parseFloat.
Because he pumped them coinz
Ordinary young people already laugh at this sort of ignorance. Ordinary old people will die soon.
You can easily store arbitrary precision numbers in an ArrayBuffer, there are several arbitrary-precision libraries for JS, for example http://crunch.js.org

I'm sure you're aware, but it should be mentioned that all languages using single-precision FP by default behave the same. Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP (or any other if you use float instead of double).
Dumpster diving is legal (in most places but not all) because the owners has, by putting something in the trash, expressed their intent to not own the item in question anymore.

A website isn't a trash can though.

If I accidentally leave a diamond ring (or personal files) in public somewhere and you take them that is absolutely theft.
Curious about your feel on Google. Are they more, or less, likely to fleece end users as compared to MS?
> FWIW, the Crown Zellerbach Building

I've always loved that building.

Very different neighborhood from Civic though -- even though they're only 20 minutes walk apart.

During and post-war that end of town was much less desirable. That changed significantly when the shipping moved. Also that building marks arrival of modern building techniques suitable for an earthquake zone. That triggered a construction boom in FiDi.

Mid-Market on the other hand was in a post-War retail boom. Civic was a major hub of retail and Theaters -- and was impacted a lot more by the BART construction.

All that said, the arc of San Francisco neighborhoods does baffle me at the best of times.
Yeah I have to use it for work, the machine has 16 gigs and like 8 gigs are used for MS to spy on me while I'm using it.
The EU also has significant sanctions in place regarding Iran.
Why? Big.js does this and much more and is pretty battle tested.
Nope. We’re building a very forward-looking business around fixing these bugs, with Glitch. You can go ahead and sleep for 10 years, though. We’ll be making the web better.
Don't mind the goofing. Which entity scares you more though?
Work notes I have separated by subject across various text files, using ### to delineate a topic. I then use Sublime Text 3 find in all open files (has regex option) as my notes can overlap the way they're separated.

Google Keep is what I use when I need to make a fast note to look up something later with no urgency.

I'll use PushBullet to push a link or something from my phone to my desktop for when I'm back at that device (I have it setup on my phone/laptop/chromebook).

For focused writing, I'll use a vim plugin called Goyo (https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim).

I think I'm a bit of a mess but this is actually a refinement of systems. One day it'll be perfect!
And I shouldn't have to pay an attorney to write legal contracts, while we're on the subject of fictional, idealized, romanticized, and imaginary realities.

This conversation has devolved into arguing against the analogy. This is the internet: everything on it is public unless care is taken to make it not so.

You may choose to argue whether or not that should be, but that's the way it is.
>So the only thing that applies to you is the price to have access to a Mac.

"So the only thing that applies to you is not wanting to pay upwards of a thousand US dollars for yet another development machine."
You're right that it doesn't make any sense. The problem is that advertisers don't care about views per se. They care about who is viewing their ads. And almost axiomatically, people who choose to look at ads for money are not the people advertisers want to target.
Going to a restaurant and taking every single straw out of the top of the straw dispenser is clearly anti-social and is probably theft.
Man, if it bugs you, have some sympathy for us directly south! People get straight-up fierce about the civic platitudes around here.
Obscurity is a perfectly fine security layer as you said yourself (i.e. it is one of many layers).

Relying ONLY on obscurity is a failure.
It’s pretty trivial to disable the data collection on the home version, and the corporate version doesn’t have it. For work Linux is perfect, for games Windows is still the better choice. Luckily nothing stops people from having both on the same box.
Imagine a caveman...
As the article mentioned, they went with a $25 online Mac solution instead.
i don’t agree with any of that. powerful people choose to interpret law in the way most favorable to their power

wolf doesn’t care about the reasoning of sheep so long as they submit
Yep, we’re betting on exactly that as the opportunity around Glitch. And the whole point of OEmbed was you didn’t have to know what it is — you just paste a YouTube link into your blogging tool & it does the rest.
Is education a waste of time and money?
The majority of the population has been brain washed into believing that they need a computer that's physically attached to them 24/7.

I believe that there is immense value in not having a smartphone.

It's a value that can't be packaged into a box and sold for the sticker price.

It's the value of being more engaged with your own life and the things that actually matter to you.
a "link" is something that connects two entities together in some arbitrary way. a chain link for instance connects the constituent entities of a chain (other links) together. a link in a linked list connects different nodes together. and a hypertext link connects two hypertext resources together. what you're doing is picking one specific definition and applying it liberally to all potential interpretations and contexts of said word. this is why i tend to espouse the virtues of generality over specificity; when you get too specific, you start eliminating the actual utility and flexibility of language. a link in terms of computing is most certainly NOT just a hypertext link, that is only one very specific interpretation of the concept at hand that you're falling back on to try and further your argument. liberally ignoring all the other possible interpretations is quite intellectually dishonest imo. still, you're entitled to perceive things how you want and argue it whatever way you desire. just know that the majority of reasonable and educated individuals will disagree with you. you're up shit creek and you keep denying every paddle that's offered to ya m8
Bear in mind that Apple keeps 30% of App Store revenue, which is tens of billions of dollars a year. If they just sold the hardware they wouldn't care at all how much users use it, but if users are on their phones for hours on end it's more likely they'll spend money on apps.
“We don’t sell people’s data. Period.”

LOL! They expect users to fall for that line?
Am I wrong in assuming that factory workers are salaried?
Are people who call Linux bloated for IoT-like devices really talking about lines of code? I always thought the main focus was on Linux's architectural layout and how closely tied it is to the x86 memory model & the PC in general.

Realtime OSs are currently in vogue because they better match how some IoTs devices work, so there's less abstraction that doesn't apply to that circumstances (and therefore improved performance/reduced complexity).
There were few devices that offered them but never mainstream. Here is a snapshot of their page from 2014 that lists some of their partners: https://web.archive.org/web/20140228171904/http://pixelqi.co... - mostly industrial applications and one Android tablet [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_tablet
Media mail? Were they 25 pounds each?
But the end result is that most GA widgets are reporting data that is being used by Google to improve ad targeting, since most site owners turn the feature on.
>Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB

So tell me, where can I buy that for my personal computer?

>because they're for serious people

No, because those who can get Windows 10 LTSB actually have the power to push back. Imagine telling Dell or HP that everything they type may be sent to MS at any time.

>You can still take control

So how can I permanently end all telemetry, now and forever on my box. I'm even willing to sign a letter that I won't hold them responsible for any viruses that I get because I didn't update in time.
How much did you pay for Windows 10?