skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I understand that Facebook will try to extract as much value from advertisers as possible as well, testing the price they're willing to pay based on the conversions that advertiser hopefully are tracking accurately.

I more was curious of whether the history cleared with Clear History are primary markers for ad targeting or if other data is used, and in reality if enough users don't clear their data but have similar data fingerprints (the non-Clear History data) then Facebook could still present assumptions to target by for those who do clear their history regularly, e.g. it will be a moot point up until say 40% of people regularly are clearing their history and therefore can no longer accurately enough make those assumptions.
There's not that much overlap between the kind of optimizations that JITs do and the optimizations that modern CPUs do. The promise of JITs outperforming AoT compiled code has never really materialized. The performance advantages of OoO execution, speculative execution, etc. are very real and all modern high performance CPUs do them. Attempts to shift some of that work onto the compiler like Itanium and Cell have largely been failures.
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>No, sirs and ma'ams, your home's price appreciation isn't a right.

No, but they do have a right to vote for policies and politicians that defend their interests.
Eh that’s a good question, practically never. But there’s some good reason for it, in that development is not a routine job where you are completely interchangeable. There’s - thankfully - a certain amount of creative skill and professional judgement that makes me the hire and not a sub of my choice.

Several years ago Italy introduced CoCoCo contracts to capture this concept of temporary professional employment, between an employee on your payroll and a butcher you buy a stake from.

Eventually companies abused it and applied it to completely subordinates such as call center operators. It was - rightfully, given the circumstances - repealed.

I wonder if we could have something like that again, it would be easier than this pantomime.
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> we should have at least ~60% top marginal tax rates and treat capital gains exactly the same as income

I agree on principle with this bit at least, but I'm pessimistic that a change like this could ever happen. It seems right now the cat and mouse game is around what counts as income and what doesn't, and increasingly complex methods of exercising control over some asset without ever "earning" it until it's beneficial to do so, if ever.
I did a little poking on some of the profiles that are listed as top essay writers. A lot of them that claim to be "Professors" are actually photos of professors, but are usually from radically different fields.

This one is clearly just a stock photo:
https://edubirdie.com/writer/public/750289
http://www.humanresourcestoday.com/diversity/?open-article-i...
Search for "Chromecast" on Amazon. How exactly, is that not anticompetitive?
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I don't see how this is based on a Klein Bottle.
> New projects do use Java or C# rather than C/C++ though.

Nobody is picking Java/C# over C/C++ for performance reasons.
That's like saying "stealing isn't morally wrong - inventory control is retailers' responsibility and therefore it's their job to reduce loss".
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It's based on context. So something like a scale that makes sense when going about your average human business. For instance, the sun is 150 million miles from the sun. It's not, it's slightly less, but for "normal" human activity (eating, sleeping, sailing in straight lines, programming web apps, etc. etc.) it doesn't matter, it's close enough.

So for the earth (as someone else pointed out):

> the Earth deviates from spherical by only a third of a percent, sufficiently close to treat it as a sphere in many contexts (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_the_Earth)

For most of what most of us do with our everyday lives it's good enough, to the extent that pointing out that "the earth is not actually a sphere" just sounds pedantic.

It did occur to me that sailing in a straight line could be interpreted as an actual straight line, but the surface of the ocean is spherical(fine, -ish) and so, modulo waves, we might actually be measuring an infinitely small distance on the earth that was sailable (Ah ha, got you all!) but realised that jokes about derivatives, despite the crowd, weren't going to be all that amusing :)
Wow, I have no idea. I skimmed around their little review section and couldn't find anyone who wrote a full dissertation for someone, though I did find one person who apparently wrote a chapter for someone's thesis. That might be achievable, if you give them your outline and partially completed sections and they fill it in? Though it really doesn't seem worth it. I haven't written a thesis, but I imagine most of the work is in doing the actual research and creating something that furthers the state of the art, the writeup seems much easier.

Though a sibling comment mentioned that this might be a complete scam, which I wouldn't doubt. Or none of their writers actually accept offers to write an entire thesis, and they just advertise the possibility of someone on their site doing it.
i was talking about the parent post, he/she clarifying something in the article, but avoided talking ABOUT the article.
Few people want to program in COBOL; but businesses still depend on running COBOL code. Reminds me of another language: JavaScript.

The developers who didn't want to code in JavaScript, solved the problem of having to deploy JavaScript by creating other languages that compiled to JavaScript: CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Elm, ClojureScript, etc. And, more recently, by just turning the JavaScript interpreter into a glorified low-level VM, through WASM, so that it can be programmed in any language.

Why hasn't this approach been taken with COBOL?

With such a language in hand, you could take existing codebases (or compiled binaries) and write a decompiler that would convert them to your language of choice, so that the whole project could exist in the new form. Or, more simply, you could just write new modules (and rewrite any modules you have to change) in the new language, leave old modules as COBOL, and then link them together.
Is a certain browser required to reproduce the problem? I had no trouble accessing the archived page.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160826003417/https://medium.co...
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Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer

My 1 year older brother (to the left), my mother and me (to the right)

My mother has been working for one of the largest banks in the EU since before I was born and I've always been fascinated by her line of work, especially these last years since I've become a programmer myself. I've been asked to interview her plenty of times, and finally decided to do so.

* * *
The problem is that it isn't preinstalled, while iMessage and Facetime are.

Apple tries very hard to convince its users that its practices are not the problem, but those who choose not to use Apple products. Anything that doesn't come preinstalled is seen as an unnecessary inconvenience by most iPhone users.
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Given the comparisons to Gear VR, does anyone know if this is running Android under the hood?
"New projects do use Java or C# rather than C/C++ though."

But not for speed reasons.
Java is in no way faster than well written C/C++
I don't think anyone will make an ad removal fork because the ads are trivial to disable.

https://help.getpocket.com/article/1142-firefox-new-tab-reco...
I use Inconsolata-g as my font. In terms of colours I change between dark and light ones. In either case I like bright colours for the syntax highlighting.

I sometimes work outside, and then when it's sunny, I find the light theme to be easier to read. The dark I use at night. All other times I go by what I personally feel like at that moment.
Actually no, or not the way you mean. This is a legitimate moral trap: the "policy" at hand is construction permitting and land zoning, and those are almost exclusively local laws and regulations set at the city and county level.

Those governments, by design, serve the interests of their local citizens. That is, the population they serve is inherently skewed toward existing property owners. You can't fix this by complaining about money in politics or whatever, that's not why it's happening.

The solution has to be at the broader government level (i.e. in Sacramento in this case), wrenching back some of the control that has traditionally been local in the interests of the broader population and not just, say, Palo Alto residents.
Are you sure about the "lower than -30 F"?

https://www.isws.illinois.edu/statecli/cuweather/cu-averages... says the record low temperature for Champaign-Urbana, Illinois was -25F "on four(!) occasions: 9 Feb 1899, 13 Feb 1905, 19 Jan 1994, and 5 Jan 1999."

To be sure, -25F is plenty cold. I've lived one place where the temperature got that cold, and in crappy student housing where we filmed over the windows and you could see the plastic bellowing in the wind, and where a 2L Coke bottle in the pantry froze. Not something I want to do again.
> not honoring simple contracts

Please, tell me more about these jurisdictions that enforce void (not voidable, void) contracts.
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It says there are prescription inserts on the website
Just wanted to give a shout-out to Meghan and the rest of the team at Lyric.

I interviewed to lead their platform engineering team, and while I ultimately decided to take my career in a different direction, the process was smooth, the offer competitive, the technology interesting, and the story compelling.

If you're interested in this space, I'd definitely recommend giving them a look.
Amazon seems to have displaced other large low-paying companies than it has mom and pops (who were already gutted by Wal-Mart and the like). In fact Amazon props up tons of really tiny businesses that sell through its platform.
This is the opposite of why I want to use Firefox. Mozilla has really lost its way.
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When in the early stages of a product I'd argue a design discussion is much more than once a week, though I totally agree with you about not wanting it "random throughout the day."
Chagos is the preferred name for the atoll that the British named to be "their" Indian Ocean Territory in the colonial empire era.

Chagos should get direct control of .io, but it is a weird political fight.

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This just seems to be anti-coachella but with a clickbait headline. Sure coachella is super corporate not really surprising. As the article itself mentions there are numerous other festivals happening throughout the country that are community focused, that are collaborative, that are not focused on consumption, etc... etc...
Isn't this likely due to a second-order effect?

For example, there is (was?) a bug in nw.js with using @font-face to specify a font url that is in the same (local) location as the manifest. As a hack I tried specifying the font as a base64-encoded data url. It worked!

I had no use for base64, other than that there exists an interface for specifying data and it takes a base64-encoded string.
You can't unsend an email or text because generally speaking you can't control the other end. SMS was never built with the ability to "recall" a text, so once it's been delivered, it's off the carrier's hands. Email is similar, although with modern mail clients (outside of POP3), you would be able to remotely delete emails in most cases. Exchange recall works exactly like this; if the e-mail hasn't been read yet, then there's a chance for the recall to happen silently. Otherwise, you get a separate "X would like to recall" message instead.

With Facebook Messenger, you're entirely within their platform. You read messages on the Facebook site, or Messenger, and they control it fully. It'd very much be possible to add this functionality.
PRObably the Language of God
In crypto, you can dedicate a modest amount of computing power to get a "vanity address" -- hash enough wallet keys and you get an address that starts with 4 or 5 letters of your choosing.

This is basically the same thing for ssh keys... get something that vaguely looks like some shape you desire.

Neat!
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Not counting damages to reputation

(1 - P) * 1110 + (cost of additional legal fees)

Where P is Bell's probability of winning.
This seems similar to what Artemis Networks has been working on, although they don't use the waves for computation but communication.

https://www.artemis.com
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There's no "6 degrees of freedom" here, just head orientation, much like the Gear VR and so on. It's significantly more basic than the Rift in that regard.
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I think it all depends on incentives. If one goes to school with a sole purpose of learning something(employment, career track being non-issues), I'd imagine, they wouldn't care about the cheaters as they wouldn't be competing with the cheaters for jobs, promotions etc. This reminded me of a Russian pop star from the early 2000s who became a philosophy major at a major Russian university. Presumably, she didn't mind the cheaters as I doubt she was aiming at tenure track or something to that effect at the school. Although, I can't be sure :)
This is a big deal. And not just because it will obviously cause big problems for existing dating sites, but instead because the longer-term prospects of this strategy are the beginning of an amazon-like vertical strategy for facebook.

Instead of being an "infrastructure" layer like they have touted to be in the past, they are now getting into verticals. So anyone building a consumer focused business that relies on a graph should be pretty paranoid about what the future may hold, just as anyone in the retail/ecommerce world is already scared of amazon. Especially if you're using facebook auth or facebook ads to drive your business: because it tells them whether you're worth coming after or not.

Think of the forces at play here:

- (1) Facebook already has an enormous, aggressive, and well funded team ready to pounce on new consumer apps that are up and coming. See Snapchat features, and the dozens of other apps that have gotten to the first tier of success only to be out gunned by facebook.

- (2) The rapidly shrinking facebook API landscape (and related platforms), due to the Cambridge analytics stuff and other concerns. API access is shrinking, not growing, with many platforms (like WhatsApp) with no plans to ever even have one.

- (3) The prevalence of facebook ads as a "first place" to learn and iterate on your business. If you think they are ignoring the rapidly scaling consumer businesses, you're wrong.

- (4) And now finally, their willingness to go into verticals instead of stay at the infrastructure level. They have the perfect storm to come after any consumer business with network effects at the core of its functionality.
If you imagine the surface that is formed when every possible connection between pieces is made simultaneously, that surface is a Klein bottle. Obviously, making all the connections simultaneously is not possible in 3 dimensions, without allowing the pieces to deform and intersect each other.
Because they are far from the only store and it's easy to get a Chromecast wherever you are? You can't buy one at the Apple Store either, but that's fine.
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I can see it having to do with the ordering of timeline events, the ads you see, and the news visible in the top right corner.
The PC VR headsets have virtual theaters that you can watch any 2d content in. I'm sure this will have the same.
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So basically the most interesting experiences (eg. The Lab's Longbow game) are not available.

This is a very limited and transitional device then.
Go to the GitHub pages section of the repo settings, delete your domain name from the custom domain input, hit save, then add it back and save again.

If it’s still not working after that the you can contact support and they can press a button on the back end to trigger a cert request.