skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious whether your stats such as open rate changed after you have migrated.
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Safari's third-party cookie blocking is not the same as Firefox's, last I checked.

Firefox just blocks them. Safari blocks them unless you visited that site in a first-party context. Shipping the thing Firefox implements breaks a lot more than what Safari ships.

So for example, if you visited facebook normally, third-party Facebook cookies won't get blocked in Safari.

Firefox _could_ ship the same thing as Safari. The upshot is entrenching existing monopolies, because only big enough players are then able to track you via third-party cookies.... This is the main reason Firefox hasn't done this, as far as I know.

Disclaimer: I work on Firefox, but not on the cookie bits.
Are you suggesting that they shouldn't investigate Tesla unless they also investigate all other car manufacturers?
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"so the outgoing carrier really has no way to know what source numbers are legitimate."

It shouldn't be difficult to get a single number that is legitimate and limit the caller id to that number. Any telecom carrier whose customer is requesting a wide variety of phone numbers ought to know that something sketchy is going on.
Sure, none of these chips are new, and the older models (which are easily & cheaply accessible) have mainline support. I wouldn't expect jack from Allwinner besides their crummy kernel 3.4 branch, but that is the beauty in mainline support, you aren't limited to what Allwinner supports!
Well where I live (Melbourne, Aus) what a assume are the equivalent to Zipcar actually buy/rent car spaces to leave for their cars.
For its target audience (browsers and web pages) it does.
> certainly you're not claiming the USG knew that expending X resources on the early internet would result in Google?

Of course not, why would you even think that? What about a technology being obviously useful implies the need to make arbitrary predictions multiple decades into the future?
They’re vastly different. John and Mary can choose exactly who they want to reveal information to.
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Not to nitpick,

> Raised in Chennai, on the southeastern coast of India

> After getting his doctorate in chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras

Madras is just the colonial name for Chennai, which is currently the name of the city and the capital of the sate - Tamilnadu.

Wonderful article, we've taken the colors for granted; Subramanian didn't and I'm glad that it has rewarded him.
Interesting how well good old B-tree still does.
Lima is for 200 and 400 series, which were what we were discussing earlier in this thread.
I think the outrage is that everyone thought it would just be used for mundane product advertising and were pretty okay with that.

People weren't expecting targeted political propaganda and other sketchy things.
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> - how does fraud get monetised? Once i have downloaded my millions of credit card numbers from Tor (or stolen my friends mothers wallet) I need to persuade a merchant to deliver me something - but it's always bugged me that they actually have to deliver it. to a physical address. that can presumably be traced. It all seems very low level

(Disclaimer: I work for a competitor to Stripe Radar)

This is actually really interesting. An important thing to remember about fraudsters is that they're mostly professionals. Every day they wake up thinking "how do I get around anti-fraud systems." Many are located in jurisdictions that have poor enforcement for cyber crimes, so they're not necessarily worried about official action. However you're right that they do actually need to get the goods shipped without too many questions.

Two common strategies for this:

* You know all those "work from home for $100/hour" ads you see? Some are run by fraudsters who use those people as re-shippers. I.e., the website ships to some guy in the US, and that guy reships the good to the fraudster in Eastern Europe for a cut of the profit. If the fraudsters build up a nationwide network of reshippers, they'd be able to find one who lives close to the billing address of the card they're using.

* There's an even cleverer scam that goes like this: the fraudster creates a merchant account on Ebay or similar. They then select high-value goods available on other websites, say BestBuy, and list them for sale at a substantial discount. Then, when an unwitting customer buys the good from their Ebay store the fraudster places an order from BestBuy using a stolen credit card and has it shipped to the buyer. They get the money from the buyer, the buyer gets the goods, and nobody's the wiser until the chargeback comes in to BestBuy a month later.
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"You may park in a bicycle lane if your vehicle does not block a bicyclist and/or there is not a “No Parking” sign posted"

You cannot completely block a bicycle lane, but part of your vehicle can partly cover the lane.
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>Yes, these scooters/bikes are making money.

Are they? Are any of the companies public? It seems like a burn through cash to get a user base sort of thing but maybe these companies are older and more established than it seems to me.
"Alexa – Customer embrace of Alexa continues, with Alexa-enabled devices among the best-selling items across all of Amazon. We’re seeing extremely strong adoption by other companies and developers that want to create their own experiences with Alexa.

There are now more than 30,000 skills for Alexa from outside developers, and customers can control more than 4,000 smart home devices from 1,200 unique brands with Alexa."

Meanwhile, Siri recently was able to tell me cricket scores :/
There are jarring contrasts that go too far. You very well could wind up socially scorned and unwelcome in many places. So you’ve moved away from everyone you know and the people near you inherently don’t welcome you. Sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Do your homework - visit a place on extended vacation first. Do yourself the favor of being open to vast differences as well. I’ve met people who just discard where I live is the way it is as out of date or backwards, etc, instead of dignifying the culture and history that proceeded them. We’re talking people who grew up one state away.
That’s really encouraging to hear. Thanks for correcting the date, too.

Something I’ve been thinking about since posting: imagine yourself in a sort of Victorian/steampunk world that runs on gears etc. What would you give young people to start getting them literate in the machines?

I figure it would be a toy: something like a meccano set. You’d want composable, easily understood parts that are simple to connect, and interact in predictable ways.

What you wouldn’t do is drop the kids off at a half-working tool and die shop and tell them to go make some gears. Maybe that’s qbasic.
I would assume so, but if the request is encrypted you wouldn't know what's in it.
6 pages design doc is too short for a company with 1000+ engineers.
I'm not sure how a law can be imposed other than by authoritarians. Laws are formal descriptions of how authorities operate, no?

Also, you seem to be implying capitalists aren't authoritarians. But that certainly isn't self-evident in the context of what I replied to.

Context isn't something you impose in the middle of a conversation; it's something you should evaluate before jumping in.
"Makes you wonder if a structural red could be created. I would guess not, otherwise it would exist in nature"

Moonstone sometimes exhibits red-orange coloration due to its structure of alternating layers of different types of feldspar. Opals do the same thing but by water-filled fractures inside a group of quartz spheres. We can synthesize both so making a structural red should not be difficult.
> According to new numbers just released from the U.S. Census Bureau, 80.7 percent of the U.S. population lived in urban areas as of the 2010 Census

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2012/03/us-urban-population-w...

I assume that number has only gone up since 2010.
The thing is, it appears that data was accessible. Perhaps they didn't sell it, as such. Perhaps companies paid to put a game or quiz on Facebook and they were given info on the users who used the game or quiz.

Or maybe Facebook put the games/apps up for free and just gave the data away?

I dunno, but "We aren't in the business of selling your data. We just gave it away." isn't a great message.
I had those same fantasies, going through the catalogs drooling over some of those awesome descriptions! I know it was talked about on HN some months ago, but http://www.artofatari.com brings back a whole lot of fun memories :)
Uber? You may say "Uber is just a platform" but they use public facilities as well as private cars. That User car takes up as much space as 20+ dockless ebikes.
I have to disagree. As someone who is grappling with the impact of these laws on US business I'm acutely aware of the non-existent privacy we all have and how our information is abused and resold.

The GDPR, while a pain, are a response to decades of an industry that should have known better.
It is not anti-American (its not all about you), its pro-privacy.
I’d prefer just an iOS whitelist (which seems like a much easier solution to this problem) - but this doesn’t exist.

The do not disturb work around mutes all notifications which makes it useless for me.
What would longer phone numbers accomplish?
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Not impossible, but unlikely.

There are enough businesses that have dealings in the EU that they need to be compliant.
>Linux may be free as in freedom, but it's not free as in beer, not if time is money

Open source project developers which are not funded are also spending their valuable time to create something. Giving them grief for not supporting an platform (one that especially is anti-open) like windows is also not productive.

When software corporations push their software using their market power in adversarial fashion, some open source devs may opt to be adversarial in not choosing to support the platforms. It is a way to combat fire with fire.

Microsoft played major role in suppressing desktop linux with its adversarial, monopolistic policies pushing windows which is the reason why many people are robbed of choice.

I don't know why the open source developers who spend time giving something to the community should bear the brunt of evils of corporations.

This is similar to large corporations (who pollute everywhere because it would affect their profit margins not to) love movements like Go Green , etc (which are important in individual level ) as they divert attention and guilt to the consumer when the company could have done otherwise.
Not many. And they make enough money that the fines aren't much of an obstacle.
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Well I had the conversation finally.

It unfortunately went pretty much as I expected.

The investors were completely understanding, thanked me for my hard work and wished me well as they know its time for me to move on. For them, this showed another point where the founder was unable to manage himself and the work properly.

Hopefully we can all give the founder feedback (if he will take it without being offended) on how to make the best use of his and our time working hard as a team.
Oh horseshit.
"piece of legislation intended to cripple US corporations and supplement EU budgets with US corporate profits".

The most ignorant fucking statement I have read on HN in a long time. The 2016 GDPR is an update to the 2002 EU Data Protection Regulation. It has nothing to do with taxes, profits or crippling any company. It is an enforcement of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
Not a lawyer, but I've spoken to many on the subject.

Consensus appears to be that if you are physically present in the legal jurisdiction of the EU, and not a tourist, it applies.

That said, its recognizes that there are situations that are impossible to account for completely (wifi on flights, VPNs, airports, etc.)
WASM is not a typed language. It is a language-agnostic compilation target.

So what would a DOM API exposed to WASM look like? COM is the only example that comes to mind.
Same feelings here. I read "racing the beam" a couple years back - the limitations and inventiveness to get around said limitations were both crazy.

About 13 years, I was reminiscing about Adventure, searched around a bit, and found Warren Robinett's email address. I wrote a fan email, and ... got a nice thank you email back! I was ecstatic! I later moved down to the Raleigh area, and, last I understood, he was working around the Chapel Hill area, so our paths may one day yet cross :)
One spot where I think that dynamic typing shines is dealing with anything from the schema-on-read approach to things, including reading JSON.

In Python, for example, you can just parse your JSON or XML into a dict and start grabbing what you need, typically with fairly minimal hassle involved in dealing with things like missing values or some clown sticking a string into a field you thought could only contain ints.

In Java, by contrast, ugh. You can laboriously litter your code with a whole mess of bean classes and have Jackson take care of the parsing. But if you want to obey Postel's Law, this quickly turns into a foamy quagmire of beans and annotations and whatnot that's at least an order of magnitude larger than the code that actually interacts with the input, and still throws an exception the moment someone populates the timestamp field with ISO 8601 instead of seconds since 1970/01/01. Or leaves it unpopulated. Or alternatively you can ask for a Map<String, Object>. That approach isn't actually any more strongly typed than what a dynamic language offers, but it does have the advantage of justifying the price of that fancy ergo keyboard.

I'm not a big dynamic typing fan overall, but I do think that the .NET folks were on to something when they added the DLR extensions to .NET and gave us ExpandoObjects.
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More bollox. Just stop fucking lying, you're just showing yourself to be an ignorant ass.
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From the docs:

https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/connect-external-...

> You can grant any application access to a Cloud SQL instance by authorizing the IP addresses that the application uses to connect.

> You can not specify a private network (for example, 10.x.x.x) as an authorized network.

> PostgreSQL instances support only IPv4 addresses. They are automatically configured with a static IP address.
You seem to be identifying capitalists with their customers and community in general. That is not generally accepted as self-evident, and in particular seems to clash with what I was replying to. The context is important.
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It was a gamble when he was aiming for the ultra-high automation route - but now that he is reverting to the big labor route, it seems positively unwise.
I find working toward a certification has helped me to learn a subject deeply. It's not about the cert itself. In the grand scheme of things, I've never used one to get a job. It's about setting a goal.

I've only done it twice. Back in 2008 I was trying to transistion from a C/C++ developer/bit twiddler to an "enterprise developer" using C#. I did the 6 test track and knew enough to have a broad overview and was a much better interviewee. I never put the certification on my resume.

Currently, I'm working on an AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate cert as a software architect, I need to know what is out there and it's forcing me to learn. I'm watching PluralSight videos, reading the books and watching YouTube videos.
The way I see it, if you are using a contract and you don't know that there is a sole owner that has the ability to upgrade the underlying contract to something else, which could be nefarious, then that is in the same wheel house as using a contract with a bug in it anyways.

It should be standard practice to have some governance model around the upgradeability (IE Multisig, Liquid Democracy, Aragon, etc...). Any contract that doesn't use some governance should be considered insecure and not used for financial transactions on the chain.
Sounds like there's enough demand to create a "homeless busing as a service" app.
What is funny about this is that in order to make the nontrivial determination that a subject is in the Union Facebook has to use all available personal data they possess about the individual such as IP history (consider the possibility of a European using an American VPN which still makes them European), geolocation history, etc... But upon establishing that they are in the Union the data they used to determine they are in the Union becomes a liability whose nonexistence would have prevented Facebook from determining if a person is in the Union. In other words they need to use personal data to determine if they need to protect and limit a user's personal data. Perhaps Facebook needs to assume all users are European?
While searching for it on Amazon, I noticed I have misspelled it as 'Thinker Board' :-D
I can relate... I never used an Atari 400, but did spend several afternoons entering code into a Timex-Sinclair 1000 (or ZX-81 if you prefer).

(There the big problem wasn't so much the keyboard as it was the 16K memory expansion falling off the back of the machine while you were typing. Just writing that makes me SO thankful modern hardware is as good as it is...)
I think you're understating how much of this law is about EU resentment of US tech companies' mindshare and marketshare.
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Maybe consensus should only be reached on certain invariants, with the underlying implementation being far more mutable.
I think the EU government would be in more trouble than either Google or Facebook if both companies decided to stop servicing all EU citizens. I think the only reason big companies aren't threatening that is because GDPR gives them a massive advantage over small businesses and basically permanently solidifies their positions on top of the tech world in those countries.
One idea is to use laser communications between satellites, as well as ground stations.
User's generally won't care about privacy, but they will care about money. What this essentially boils down to is Facebook is charging users by taking their data, which is worth some amount of money.
I think a solution might be to make links to the latest version redirect to a v/latest/ which redirects to the new latest version across upgrades. For each url v/1.2/docs if 1.2 is the new version, then it redirects to v/latest/docs and when copy-pasted to e.g. stack overflow, when someone comes along later when it's in version 1.5, it serves the v1.5 docs. So the latest Google crawl will see mostly v/latest/docs links, it will always serve those at the top of search results for docs, and then no matter what those search results at the latest version of docs.
> You very well could wind up socially scorned and unwelcome in many places.

This is not true. Maybe you could argue a few places are like this, but not many. For the most part, from personal experience, especially if you are a Westener, you will be welcome throughout the world.
I imagine they have documentation, but I also can't see a privacy permission ending well. How easy would it be to convince somebody to allow an app to turn off privacy entirely?
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so people are all like, "some third party website has my information and its all facebooks fault".

get fucking real people.
We've been running a production workload on Postgres/Google Cloud SQL for about half a year now.

While things are good for the most part, a couple of serious problems related to connectivity have us completely boggled. We're connecting from Google Kubernetes Engine, which seems like it should be a standard combination, but run into constant problems that we've dumped many many hours into debugging.

We still haven't figured this problem out. I've found the docs to be very weak on Google's part. A lot of the troubleshooting tips are not very helpful (and can consist of unhelpful broad strokes like "be sure to use indexes!"). Because Google Cloud is not as popular than AWS, there is less community guidance from others. And what guidance does exist is often in forum threads that feel less than reputable. There's a big push to try to get you to talk to sales rep that are not technically knowledgeable and just try to upsell.

Very frustrating. Unclear if moving back to AWS, or hosting our own Postgres, would help.
'Selfish driver' genes make you sick if you have only one copy; this limits hybrids. "Nuckolls et al. created fluorescent versions of the poison and the antidote and mapped their location inside and around the gametes. These elegant experiments showed that wtf4’s poison can leave their originating cells and cross into surrounding cells while the antidote remains trapped inside the cells that produce it."
CDC/ACM, so straight bytestream serial over USB.
Facebook is incentivised to collect and collate product data because it can then sell targeted ads for those humans. As long as the most cost effective path to those targets is through Facebook, and the aggregate target volume is high enough they will make money. Distributing the login data is just advertising.
portfolio123.com does a good job of that today.
> Private key is a password that identify you. Please make this unique.

how am i supposed to know if its unique and i haven't accidentally identified myself as someone else? Yes can make a very random and very long key, but that doesn't mean it's unique.
Budget supplements come from potential fines which are set at an exuberant rate.

"An update" as in adding new laws and regulations all of which are unneeded and all of which are targeting US companies.
I suspect "genuine" and "free" are terms of art. Not to mention "detriment". Reading it with common sense in mind may not be productive.
I'd much rather have scooters parked on the sidewalk than cars on the road. I previously used Lyft or Uber to get to work, now I primarily use Scoot, Bird, or Jump (depending on the distance/availability).

I've found all of these solutions are much more enjoyable and cost efficient than a car. Generally excited to see less and less people using cars in the city.
The keyword is used. I bought a pallet of circa 2008 enterprise desktops for ~$30/unit a couple of years ago. Most lacked storage, which killed resale value.
Oh great; an immortal Peter Thiel, just what the world needs...!
Brilliant! I've lived and worked in five countries, and I can recognise the impact this had on my personal and professional life.
Did they hire a designer to do... this?

Before people say "OSS must look bad" or "It's a minimal style", I encourage looking at https://www.djangoproject.com/. Aesthetically pleasing without sacrificing clarity, this website sets the standard for a technical project's homepage redesign.

Boring and half-hearted UI's should be relegated to the likes of https://www.oracle.com/database/index.html than to a lauded and respected database like Postgres.
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Beating a dead horse and outing myself to anyone that knows me!
Isn't this what EU wanted? Facebook is complying perfectly. You cannot protect citizens who are literally dumbfucks, no matter how draconian a regulation you pass.
I think in general HN finds any idea that Tesla should get a free pass distasteful.
Fines without teeth won't produce the desired effect. Privacy matters more than profit.
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