skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything that users get conditioned to because of repeated appearance has this potential, and has been warned against.

What should really bother you is that rather than putting up these stupid cookiewalls the intended effect of the legislation was to get websites to stop tracking everything and everybody and this was the result.

Self regulation didn't work, then there was a soft push, which resulted in a lot of wriggling to get around the laws intent and now we will see the hard push.

I wonder how many parties will have the guts to try to wiggle out of the hard push, and I'm quietly hoping for one of the larger offenders to be hit so hard they have to shut down, which might send a useful message to the rest.

Analytics is fine but this wholesale profile building is really across the line.
Interesting - I got as far as here before hitting login

https://www2.swift.com/uhbonline/books/a2z/customer_security...

is there a openly published version of this - it would be interesting to see what best practise looked like
The whole point of this is to stop attackers who've managed to break out of the JavaScript sandbox. It's an extra layer of protection. If you're going to assume that an attacker is restricted to what JavaScript is meant to be able to do then the whole exercise is pretty much pointless; this is also a bad assumption.
Ah, I'm in the US, I don't know the real punishment, I was just saying ticket as the idea of punishment haha.
AppArmor isn't available on all distros - Fedora, for example. I think it's left up to the distro maintainer to set up AppArmor profiles.
The evidence is clear: https://helmets.org/stats.htm
Well, the real mistake is believing that people think or behave in a consistent manner. All attempts at "rational" debate starts from this flawed premise, and thus always fails.
Note that you're explicitly making an argument that a company being "too big to fail" should require us to continue supporting their monopoly and funneling money to them, all for the sake of "the small guy".

You're right that there is a potential negative impact for direct or indirect shareholders. However, these have to be weighed against a continued cost on society (everyone and their dog overpaying for internet while getting terrible service). I don't see you taking this other side into account. It also doesn't touch on all the money that gets absorbed by various entities somewhere along the way from "customer being charged" to "small guy shareholder getting their pension".

If we've determined that another system can provide a better solution in the long run, the question needs to be "how do we support people in the old system who are going to get hit by its demise", and then go about implementing the better system, instead of advocating for the rent-seeking monopolist's continued existence. Especially if we're talking about infrastructure.
Indeed, while a separate issue from cultural context of 19th century Russian literature, translation is a literary genre by itself. I also noticed that Americans are generally unaware of this. Not that I'd blame them. I wouldn't care about translation myself if I had been a native English speaker and enjoyed immediate access to the enourmous body of English literature :)
I was wondering whether this is actually the same as like jacking. Is the ‘leak’ in that case the ability for the Facebook page/post owner to be able to then look you up in the list of ‘likes’? If so, I think Facebook privacy settings may allow users to not leak their emails or pictures in this case.

Also, I think it’s more widespread given that ‘Google identity’ covers a large number of Google products, and signing into one signs into all. With Facebook any time I log in nowadays I open incognito, check messages, log out, whereas with Google I generally stay logged in, mostly because I want gmail and my cross device browsing history to work.
Curious. By "cash" do they mean only actual stacks of bills or all forms of "paper" payment like checks and cashier's checks too? Maybe not since those require a bank account and are traceable?
I was at one of the McDonalds last week with one of their updated computer ording kiosks. They place about 15 feet from the cash register. So if they is a line of 4 people or more, these kiosks are right in you face and tempt you to use them rather wait in line.
So with four people ahead of me I started using the kiosk. But the computer menus for both items I wanted to order where three levels deep. The line moved faster than my use of the kiosk. So I abondoned it a returned to the line.

Having been spoiled by voice assistants, I'd like one I could bark my order to and have it done.
> Particularly in suburbia. When I lived in a suburb I rarely saw kids out playing in a park without an adult hovering over them.

A significant part of this, I think, is a design failure instead of a parenting one. Suburbs are bad at almost everything they do, except creating neighborhoods with big houses, grassy yards, and decent schools. In particular, they're poison for both children's play and parents' peace of mind.

As for kids - empty lawns, identical houses, and artificial boundaries don't support energy or imagination. There's nothing to look at, nowhere to go, and not much to do. when I was a kid the only suburban house where we played outside was one where the neighbors had given permission for us to play games across 3+ yards. Meanwhile at more rural houses, there were trees to climb, places to hide, and forests to explore. And in mixed density condos and apartments, there were sidewalks along the roads, shops to look into, town parks with soccer fields to play on.

As for parents - suburbs are honestly one of the worse environments I can think of to turn kids loose into, after serious wilderness and dense cities. Many suburbs have no sidewalks and most have wide roads with long distances to travel and lots of vision-hiding curves; perfect conditions for kids to get hit by cars, whether they're walking, biking, or playing street games. There are enough people and cars around to worry about someone with ill-intent, unlike a rural setting, but not enough to trust in bystanders or authority figures like an urban or mixed-density setting. There are neighbors to get mad at your kids, but if you want someone watching them it falls entirely on you. And there's so little to do that it raises fears of vandalism, bullying, or any other badness you might get from idle hands. For a younger kid, the sheer uniformity of suburbs can raise questions about finding their way home.

There are almost no redeeming features to suburbs, but I regularly hear "at least it's a good place to raise a family". I don't think it's true; suburbs are superficially clean and inviting, but they lack the stuff that makes unstructured life healthy and inviting for kids.
> Not android

For what reason?
I think you are being downvoted because you only read the headline.

I'm with you that it is ok for the FBI to track people's public comments when they fit a risk profile, and to track their private communications with a warrent.

But in this case, the problem is that this man was arrested and charged with a vague terrorism thing for what amounts to facebook posts expressing sympathy with copkillers.

But in the US, it is your legal right to do that.
I'm not suggesting that the research is invalid. I have no reason to think it is and in fact I believe - as I stated - that maximizing individual productivity by working from home is effective.

However, I don't believe that every company needs to optimize for individual productivity. It is entirely valid to choose to optimize for other things, such as group productivity, or collaboration, or culture, or really whatever the leadership of the company may want. And as an individual, if you want to work somewhere where individual productivity is maximized, you may certainly choose to work in a place with generous work-from-home policies.

Fifteen minutes ago, I ran into an employee in the kitchen. She looked stressed out. I asked her what was wrong. She told me she wanted to cry. I expressed concern - asked her why - talked her through the situation, found a solution, got her spirits back up, gave her a pat on the shoulder and went on my way.

Could I do this through Slack? Maybe. Would she have reached out to me proactively (instead of me reading her body language) over an electronic medium? Nope, not her - she's too stoic for that. Is it important to me to have this type of high-touch relationship with my employees? Yes, it is.

Now she feels better. I don't have a study that proves that she does, but I don't need one. Is she more productive being here today? Maybe not. Maybe she'd be more productive at home, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. But I don't care about that - I want her here, feeling supported and encouraged.
I think the answer is that it is not a pretty competitive market.

The two biggest carriers have a 1-2% monthly churn rate.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283511/average-monthly-c...
You may not need WebSockets
Heads up, when I click your trial link I get a character mess.
I get "Dave" from the IRS a lot, it was so bad that I was getting one or two calls a day.
This is also a really good insight. To be Andy Reid you have to do both things: take copious notes AND audition.

It definitely seems important to understand the positive psychology aspects of this and set yourself up for success, but perhaps it's also true that the reason many people don't come into interviews with a 'pitch' is that... there is no such pitch. A lot of people _can't_ take the business somewhere new and interesting, or provide indispensable value. And they subconsciously know this. It's not that they can't _ever_ do these things, it's just that they need to acquire more expertise and build a vision.
The article says checks are allowed.
It would be very interesting to see a split second exact timeline on this.
I don't think that part is a joke.
Blocking calls from certain VoIP services is almost certainly going to be a violation of common-carrier rules (which still apply to phone service no matter what happens with broadband).

At a technical level, spam filtering relies heavily on analyzing email text. Doing similar analysis on voice calls is way harder. Also, there's UI issues. You can redirect suspected spam emails to a folder the user can inspect for false positives. What do you do with a call that hits the robocall filter?
I wish I had the discipline to read more. Even when I finally get myself to sit down with a book I always find myself zoning out.
I can confirm the part about feeling isolated after working remotely for 7 years. I try to compensate by going to co-working spaces or cafes and working from there.

Another thing that doesn't help my situation is that I'm mostly working alone on the project that I'm working on. I tried to compensate for that by volunteering my programming skills for an NGO.
This is basically what a good sales pitch is. Call it audition if you want. A lot of developer jobs are not looking for this kind of drive and skill set though. In fact, I have been told by a former startup employer to not spend so many brain cycles on how to improve the business and just focus on getting the code to work.

Many managers feel threatened by such people it seems. So not a good idea if looking for a job. Good template if pitching to investors.
oh, the beautiful windows 10! resetting file association whenever it pleases, interrupting whatever you might be doing with an update screen, breaking sleep mode on every other major update... the user's paradise!
Agreed. I've been working from home for 10 years and my wife and I homeschool our 7 kids. When Daddy's in his office he's not to be disturbed. And I absolutely love being able to be around to help and enjoy those special moments.

There are times when I'll message my team "Beautiful day here - I'm taking the kids to the park for a couple of hours." and then shift my work scheduled to after the kids go to bed.

I wouldn't trade this for any office job.
since we're at this, fizz buzz in css https://jsfiddle.net/yf68emtn/
Medium is such a censorship/ evil portal
Einstein never liked some parts of Quantum Mechanics. A very short description of his idea is that every possible property of a particle that you may like to measure is defined but you don't know it, so it is called "hidden variables theory".

The problem is that in some experiments this idea doesn't give the correct result, so Einstein is wrong here. See the details in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox

Everybody agree that it would be nice that the "hidden variables" theory where true, but everybody agree that sadly this theory is wrong.

There are plenty of experiments that prove that the hidden variables theory is wrong. The main idea is to measure some property of two particles far away, but you need some random generators to choose what to measure. The idea is to make the random election and the measure very close in time, so the particles can't communicate and agree about the results. So they must have agree about the results at the initial point and remember it in hidden variables.

Usualy random generator is a physical system. One of the loopholes is that perhaps the physical system of one of the random generators may somehow conspire with the physical system of the other random generator. They may send some signal to agree, "in three minutes we both will say 1" and so the particles may somehow know that the random generators will say 1 and agree only about the result for the measurement for 1. [The problem with the hidden variables theory appear when you have more than one option.]

This is ridiculously unexpected. If you put in each random generator a radioactive source, some electric noise, some lava lamp and/or other good random sources with some additional filtering to ensure that the random is good, there is absolutely no possibility that they conspire. But the alternative is that the hidden variables theory is false that is also not intuitive.

In this experiment they are using the input from humans instead of a "physical system" as the source of randomness, as if the humans were no physical system because they are magical and have "free will". The only way to one-up this is using unicorns because they are more magical and have more free will.

Seriously, there are no improvement over the previous work unless you think that humans are somehow magical. Moreover, even if humans have free will I don't see how they can ensure that the cell towers, the routers and all the internet connections don't conspire somehow to add delays to the signal and errors to make the random generator produce the result that is needed to agree with the quantum version and break the hidden variable theory. This is unrealistic and unexpected, but this is similar to the loopholes in more traditional physical system.
Teachers with guns is a good thing
Why small teams win
State machines implemented with gotos have very clearly defined regions for each state: the space between each label. Switch-based state machines are fine, but become hard to follow when e.g. you need a loop around a couple states, and are often abused to allow changing states from a non-lexically-local context (e.g. within a function call).

At a high level, this:

goto NewState;

is no less comprehensible or spaghetti-prone than this:

state = NEW_STATE;
break;
Technically in the US any transaction over $10,000 is supposed to be reported to the IRS (https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f8300.pdf), but I'm not sure how strict enforcement is on that.
Ask HN: How to become a remote contractor?
I'm a javascript developer working in London and I want to become a remote contractor so I can travel the world while working remotely.
Where can I find people or companies that can help me getting into the world of contracting and even be a intermediary?
Is anyone in this situation that want to share how they did it and how is going?
Hindsight 20/20
It's worth getting all the way through. He becomes transformed at a certain point, and realizes his earlier beliefs were wrong. Malcolm wanted to delete or revise the earlier part of the book at that point but Alex Haley prevailed to keep it as it was.
For the most part I agree (is it too tacky if I link to my other comment down page where I attempt to expand on that idea? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17047045
I've been using it for more than a year. It's _super_ useful!

I'm glad you highlighted this; I hope other people discover it.
>The rest of your points are absolute bull shit that can all be done remotely.

But generally won't be. I work for a tech company, and heck, much of those things don't happen even between people in different sites. The two people in our team who are at a different site usually don't learn a lot of things we do simply because over here we all sit in cubes next to one other. When an emergency occurs, we over here will learn about it through osmosis. This is why we now have meetings dedicated for passdowns to the remote workers just so that they learn what we did here. The problem is that they only learn what we think they need to know.

So while I agree with you that everything can happen remotely (and sometimes does), I think it is more likely to happen in person.
From https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/springsummer-2018/curse-wa...

"The phrase “war on cash” suggests a parallel to the “war on drugs” and aptly so. In both wars, traditional civil liberties are shunted aside in the criminalization, surveillance, and prosecution of victimless private activities

... The war on cash might be more accurately labelled the “war on people who use cash.” What are suppressed by the above-listed tactics are not inanimate objects but people. Cash itself experiences no harms. People do. Coercive anti-cash policies abridge the freedom and reduce the welfare of peaceful individuals who prefer to use cash.

... The war on cash is being waged for the exclusive benefit of those who already wield an inordinate amount of power and control over the economy and the people that are struggling in it. And they want more. By slowly, quietly killing cash, they seek to seize the last remaining thing that offers people a small semblance of privacy, anonymity, and personal freedom in their increasingly controlled and surveyed lives."
Isolation led to mental health issues for me as well. What you describe sounds like a very good solution to that part of this (Also: Meetups).
The point is to provide some counterbalance to the Guardian's biased framing of this case.

The excerpts are provided for the reader's convenience to quickly convey the gist of the article.

If you want to know more or verify the accuracy of this information, you can visit the link.
Elements of Statistical Learning
That's what I'm planning on. I almost cried (okay, that's hyperbole) the first time I grew tomatoes in my backyard in college. If I wasn't in an apartment right now I'd have planted already.
>> I think the correct approach is economic, not technical.

> This is a technical problem.

IMHO, it's both. Economic sanctions need to be put in place to motivate the telcos to create and adopt robust technical solutions.
It’s also easier to change a bus route than a streetcar route
Seeing as how the title paraphrases Shakespeare, I'm not sure what to make of the fact that "first, let's kill all of the lawyers" was in reference to making a less-than-admirable character king. It's a compliment to the legal system, not looking to tear it down.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/nyregion/l-kill-the-lawye...
+1 to whoever mentioned Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, or any of the Stoic writings.

The Old Man and the Sea. People either love or hate this book, but it had a profound impact on me.

The Moral Animal, by Robert Wright. Made me consider how much of human behavior can be explained through evolutionary biology.

The Truth, by Neil Strauss. Incredibly vulnerable memoir that will make you reflect on your own relationships and what you want out of them.

In general, I think that you can learn much more from classic fiction than any new business book. Books that have been read & discussed for the past 50+ years have much more staying power and timelessness than a TED talk that led to a publishing deal.
Haskell's being functional is pretty much irrelevant here. The process has one stdout. If functions that write to file handles don't acquire a lock, then the output of different threads will get mixed up.
Sure about that? ;)
I personally think Hofstadtler is one of the few people around currently who actually is on the right track to understanding the fundamental nature of consciousness. Although I would recommend 'I Am A Strange Loop' for a more direct dive into that specifically, GEB is great for an introduction to some of the twists and turns of self-reference, feedback loops, etc.
>"Me too. I'm guessing they'll hear the word "perceptron" less than I did."

Why would that be? The Perceptron is very much a part of Neural Networks no? Wouldn't it be common now?

I understand about Prolog being a big part of AI curriculum from that time but why was the Matlab so heavy?
That secret image thing... Can't the fake site easily proxy your chosen image from the real site the moment you submit your username to the fake site?
Thank you for the response :)

When I get some spare time I can send you the details on what I had to do to get it (barely) working.
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> Maybe crime rates are going down because people are more likely to stay hiding in their living rooms.

i fail to see the practical difference. if would-be predators are staying home, it is still safer for kids to go play outside.
I feel like this is something I've known about but never could quite describe it. Do you have any books or other resources you could link or DM me? I'm interested in learning more.
Teaching by Making: The Raspberry Pi Way
I like the fact that fabric 2 is a library first, instead of somekind of 'recipe' language. Putting aside invoke in its own library is a great move. Now, I can happily avoid Ansible.
I became interested in Marcus Aurelius when Hannibal admonished Agent Starling to read him.
Nutanix launches Nutanix Beam SaaS for public cloud management
I get far more spam calls than I do calls from any of those exceptions you listed. I'd be okay with changes that would break all of those use cases.
But you still have to commute every day. Wouldn't it be better to work from home 2-3 days a week, instead of commuting in every day?
Terrorist or hipster – what does a beard mean?