skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We've always done pointless stuff, but the engagements (microwork) we do on social media may _seem_ pointless to us, but to Facebook it creates the value they sell.

As the time I spend grooming my hair every morning creates value for my hair wax company, or the time a salesperson spends filling in SFDC creates value for Salesforce. If I'm a salesperson, I don't expect Salesforce to pay me personally for the time I spend engaging in microwork using its product, because Salesforce creates value for me too. Facebook creates value for its users too, whether you choose to see that or not.
"again against original idea of prop 13 to just help elderly with living in their places when retired"

But if that isn't the case, then wouldn't a home have to be sold to cover the tax increase? So you couldn't keep a home in the family, either.
Illnesses from Mosquito, Tick, and Flea Bites Increasing in the US
When visiting a university in China, I saw a prominently displayed list of students who were caught cheating in the most recent term. I haven't yet seen such lists in American universities.
Does the antifraud position involve any ML engineering work at all?

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What I am saying is that by virtue of me not having met thousands of women in a dating/romantic context, it was pretty clear to my wife and I, early on, that we were working a lot better than any of our previous relationships.

It's like if you gave me three apples, and said "which one is the best," I'd be able to tell you pretty easily. If you gave me two thousand, the best one would probably be better, but I'd probably be very indecisive about which one was best, and probably be wondering even as I picked it whether perhaps another one was actually the best.
I applaud the change you’ve made in your life. I think it’s great. However, living like that is pretty difficult if you have to provide for a family.
The complaint is against Google, not any particular domain registrar, to be fair. At first glance it seems like you’ve botched this roll out for the (preventable) reasons mentioned above. Wordpress, although I didn’t agree with some choices they made when doing it, did a wonderful job rolling out the dot blog TLD, as a counterpoint.
Your solution would cure a lot of ills besides just this; in fact it has long been known to be the formula for improving schools in lots of measurable ways. In other words you are describing "good education." They should be doing it already whether cheating is an issue or not. But they've already rejected it, at least in many public schools, because they're too resource-constrained.

...or believe they are.

...or are made to believe they are.

...or are given so much pointless BS to do that even though they're not, they are.
It sounds like a small problem if all tech companies want to stay in a small geographical area and if they work with each other to resolve it... They should look at what China is doing if they need ideas.
That's what it seems to be. I can't see what else it does.

https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.imagejpeg.php
this happens to me too, thought it was normal... I'll have to avoid using it for now.
A poorly educated person is the most likely to benefit from an education. Cheating just means they intend to get credit for an education without actually becoming more educated.

Cheaters have no place in academia.
Why not simply have your webserver remember what state the door _should_ be in? Maybe don't rely on that from a security standpoint (eg. GET /garage/status => "closed, everything is secure"), but I suspect it would work for most situations.
So, they greek all the text on the page unless you turn on Javascript, but even if you turn on Javascript for their own domain, they still greek all the text?

I'm confused. Why would they want to do that?
Yep. I'm a teacher. In my experience nearly 100% of students caught cheating turned in essays that were terrible to begin with. They would most likely not pass the course even if they didn't get turned in for academic dishonesty.
Dan John is less dogmatic and a bit more of an essayist. He's got lot's of great advice and stories about staying in shape as you get older. http://danjohn.net/
According to The Internet they use:
* React/Redux
* Node
* Docker
* AWS
Stay perpendicular to North/South and you follow a parallel.

None of these things is of course possible IRL.
Keep in mind your parents _could_ support you on waiting tables. That is no longer as viable.

I'm sorry, but your whole experience reeks of the annoying kind of self-righteousness that only people with no real obligations have.
Is it a declared right to keep a home in the family?

Also why new homeowners not inheriting it are supposed to be paying property taxes in full?
> Pretending an entire language barrier is the same as the barrier between Rust's safe/unsafe is kind of ridiculous.

I’m not pretending that. Just two points.

1. If you really need unsafe code, because raw pointers, or other reasons, C++ is safer than unsafe Rust.

2. If your project has two distinct parts, unsafe lower level, and safer higher level, you don’t need to use C++ for both. Real world software use multiple languages in the same project for decades already, e.g. QuakeC was developed in 1996.

> a regular expression library might use unsafe internally

If a library wants to do that, it probably means that safe language is too slow :-)
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/tree/master/src/System.Text...

> I work heavily with finite automata.

I’m not saying Rust is useless. There are projects where it shines, and where I’d probably picked it myself. Like a web browser CSS engine, or your finite automata, or many other things.

I’m saying that there’re large problem areas out there for which, due to various reasons, other languages are still way better than Rust. I do realize Rust evolves fast; eventually these areas might shrink or disappear. But in its current state, my opinion is the applicability is limited to very narrow areas: no bare metal, no SIMD, no GPU APIs, very limited asynchronous IO, limited embedded options, very limited numeric libraries, no GPGPU…

I’ve only listed the areas where I have recently (last couple of years) developed substantial amount of code in any other language.

It just happened that I didn’t work on either finite automata, nor browser CSS engines.
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But if you do that, the value of my neighbor's property goes down.
Why on earth should I do it? Give me one good reason; enforcing HTTPS doesn't count as one. And yet, it seems like HN crowd is queuing o buy these... Are you planning to get them so that you can sell them at a higher price later? What makes you think this product of Google does better than Google+?
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Unencrypted server name indication is sewage.
As I understand it, there is discussion to start using the station again after they finish electrification, which of course assumes the town doesn't try to stop that somehow. It will also reduce air (and probably noise) pollution to nearby properties, because the trains will no longer be running huge motors spewing massive amounts of diesel exhaust while flying through the town.

None of that matters. Atherton is the wealthiest zip code in the country, and is comprised completely of high-end houses and mansions owned by the super rich, most of whom couldn't care less about mass transit or regional growth issues. They've got theirs, the hell with everybody else. Their strategy for keeping it this way is to fight all change, even if it's mutually beneficial.
[updated my comment, apologies for the poor wording]
Yeah, the number of "registers" needed isn't really NP-complete the way that the number of colors in a graph is. It's just the maximum number of live values, which, while not exactly trivial, is not that hard to figure out.
To be clear, I was buying one primarily to see whether it would suffice as an alternative to a projector (hitting a nice balance between image quality and lack of eye strain) so I'm coming from a perspective of exclusively caring about resolution. I mightn't complain about a smudged visor on mars, but I absolutely would complain (and have complained) if a film was out of focus in a cinema to the point where reading the subtitles gave me a headache.

As far as more immersive experience, I probably could afford to build a new computer and get a proper VR system rigged up but the cost involved vastly exceeds the level of appeal it has to me. The image quality is definitely at a level where it it probably already is pretty great, mind!
Solid MEH, we bought my mom a jigsaw puzzle with no edges and the image (kittens) flipped on the opposite side in like... 94?
Nicotine Gum is also great - easy to get a very small dose if that's what you want.
Yes, even if the prices aren't extortionary, I worry about the cap.

And the usage monitoring/scraping they keep wanting to do, and the upcharge for "opting out" of that. Especially as more and more online resources block access coming from/through commercial VPN's, AWS, and other convenient means of using a VPN as an individual, to bypass such monitoring.
The phrase "this call may be recorded" is literally granting permission.
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SMT is the technology; individual devices are SMDs, or "surface-mounts" or "surface-mounted".

Beyond terminology, SMD are much harder for an individual hobbyist to desolder, replace and resolder than through-mount, but they are easier for pick-and-place machines to deal with.

If you're prototyping a simple device, you can start with a breadboard -- no soldering. Then you can get a circuit board printed to your spec and use the same components, for low-volume work. If you need high-precision placement, you will probably need to transition to surface-mount.
Tangent: What is the term for these sorts of introductions?:

> In computing, we have pretty much come to accept the idea that smaller is better. The smaller the features on a chip, the more transistors we can place, the more computation can be done.

This doesn't actually help the reader understand the contents of the article. At best, it tries to make the reader care about the article by drawing a vacuous comparison to a generic piece of conventional wisdom.

There's a similar thing going on when I try to Google for recommendations/reviews for, say, an exercise app. Very often, the article will begin with just absolutely useless words like

> Research shows that people who exercise are happier and healthier. But this fast-paced modern life doesn't always make it easy! There's just so many things to get done. How can we make sure we're exercising as efficiently as possible? Workout apps! But which ones? Let's take a look at some of the different workout apps available in the app store.

Is this sort of filler material being added because writers are getting paid by the word (honest question), or is it actually demanded by the editors of the websites because it attracts more readers? Or is it some sort of SEO thing?

Just trying to understand this phenomenon.
They already probably have a month worth of data. They can extrapolate those numbers out. Also they have lots of data on what the trends are.
Holography is about encoding a high dimensional (3d) structure in a lower (2d) dimensional plane, that this done by cleverly modifying a wavefront is mostly to do with light being waves.
Well, that's not that easy. If you host abroad you also subject yourself to the laws of that country. The consequences could be pretty messy, especially if you assume that the laws work the same as in your own country.

E.g. the Americans are used to the first amendment protections even for stuff like holocaust denial, white supremacism, outright racism and similar. However, if your hosting happens to be in Germany (or many other EU countries with similar laws), you will get hammered, because publishing stuff like that is illegal there - the hate speech laws are much tougher and there are also specific laws covering stuff like holocaust, nazism, etc.

Or here in France we have a "wonderful" law that makes it a crime to say anything that could be considered as "apology of terrorism". Basically as little as a tweet saying that "They had it coming" (or something to that effect) in relation to a terrorist attack could land you in legal hot water with a large fine (most common, up to $120000 possible) or even a prison sentence (up to 7 years is possible). And that's not a theoretical thing - there have been several high profile prosecutions like this already, most recently a left wing former MP publicly praising the death of the French police colonel who exchanged himself for a hostage during an attack. He said something to the effect that one more dead cop means fewer cops to attack people (he was referring to a high profile police brutality case here) - but that was enough to get him arrested and will most likely earn him a hefty fine.

Now imagine that you are hosting a forum where people are debating or posting things like that - you will have to cooperate with the authorities, take the posts down and hand over any relevant information about the users involved or you can be held co-responsible for the crime. In such case you could face prosecution, have the website seized, etc.

So not all is rosy on this side of the Atlantic neither.
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Push notifications? How do these work, when the app can't rely on access to any particular domain or IP? Your posts in this thread seem to include a great deal of hand-waving.
I believe William Gibson described something similar to the self-building towers in his book Idoru[1]. I think they were called nanotech buildings[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru
[2] http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=83
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That’s because American universities don’t put your name on a list when you cheat. They expel you.
GDPR has become a pretext for all sorts of product moves that would have happened anyway.

http://blog.makethunder.com/doubleclick-id-alternatives-doub...
Screen resolution isn't good enough yet for a passive experience like movies.
Unfortunately, until the big guys and the startup scene decide to move elsewhere, or at least spread out beyond the Bay Area, that's not very practical advice. I recently had a couple interviews with Google, and basically, for the positions they wanted me for, I would be required to move to Mountain View. So your advice in my situation would boil down to "Don't work for Google."
My wife has moved entirely to FB Marketplace for buying/selling, because you can get a much better sense if the person you are transacting with is sketchy or not. This is a huge upside that FB can leverage.
Or, as the calculus on living in the Bay Area shifts [0], top tier talent starts to direct itself elsewhere. This stems growth in the Bay Area since founding successful companies in lower cost areas will be possible, housing investment slows as a result of that, and the market naturally cools down a bit [1].

[0] Don't fool yourself into thinking that only people without the income or capital to live well in the Bay Area would leave it. There are intangibles (culture, traffic, distance to skiing, etc.) that, for some people, are non-optimal. For others, it's perfect. That's okay, humans are a varied lot (and it's a good thing).

[1] Nothing major, it will remain expensive due to geography and talent/creativity/capital density.
Yep, I keep reading about how Google Fiber (or its like) entering an area causes competitors to launch competitive offers -- just in that same area, of course.
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To themselves, not you. And in the "might" sense, not in the "permitted" sense.
Great PR opportunity for Cloudflare to pickup the torch.

EDIT: Not supported by Cloudflare.
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Alcohol powder
Luke from Linus Tech Tips indicated that 3dof "VR" might be damaging VR as a whole, as it gives people an unrealistically awful impression of what VR has to offer. This is in contrast to what I originally thought of Cardboard+co: low barrier of entry teasers. After repeatedly hearing that VR isn't special from people who have only used these low-end devices I've been forced to agree with Luke.

These platforms should drop the VR moniker - they are 360 stereoscopic ten day wonders and little more.
“Get married to escape vendor lock-in”

Out of the frying pan, straight into the fire!
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I guess moving out of a tech city is the first step though. Rent is hard to afford.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4656605.
Richard Feynman “Tiny Machines” Nanotechnology Lecture (1984)
I think it's quite clear what the point is from Signal's attempt at implementation of the theory as well as your freshly minted wiki page.

That doesn't change the dubious nature of it. Putting other valuable services at risk for a single service's gain is clearly dubious.
I struggle with the interface all the time. I often keep accidentally changing the page, or quite frequently a large number of pages for reasons unbeknownst to me. I often have to dig things up in unintuitive menus (especially things that I dig up infrequently enough to forget the sequence). On top of that, the clumsiness of the e-ink display--text selection is abysmal enough on iPhones. I would love a kindle with physical buttons/keyboard.
I dont want VR unless it and it's software is foss. Is the hdk2 my only option?
> E-recycling innovator is going to prison for trying to extend computers' lives

No, he's going to prison for counterfeiting software -- to the extent of having overseas manufacturers print custom CDs with fake Microsoft holograms on them.

More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16946478