skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a slippery slope for Google, and raises questions about their handling of ads for other industries where questionably ethical and/or illegal ads are run on Google.

As an example from my industry (full disclosure- as cofounder of an Obamacare-only startup, I am very biased here):

Search for 'Obamacare' on Google and you'll be presented with ads for sites that do not sell actual Obamacare plans, but use misleading language suggesting they do. The goal is to bait and switch - bring people in promising Obamacare plans, and then sell them plans that pay higher commissions but do not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act such as no restrictions on preexisting conditions, coverage of maternity services, paying for hospitalizion, etc etc. This is definitely unethical (people think they are covered for e.g. hospital visits and aren't) and in some cases illegal under state insurance law, but state enforcement personnel don't have the bandwidth to audit Google ads, and Google's auditors don't appear to have the industry-specific knowledge to catch that behavior.

Given this move with bail bonds, will Google seek to more broadly enforce an ethical standard on its platform (not to mention laws)? Or is this a one off? Note that insurance is a significant portion of Google's ad revenue, whereas bail bonds are negligible.
A while ago I was looking for a very lightweight system to set up a small CMS with no bells & whistles (Pico, Grav etc), but all of them seem to require PHP. Are there any alternatives around which could also dodge most common attacks by not having installed most common interpreters?
A bunch of tech predictions, many several decades out
That's why I mentioned a specific form that is needed. Education is treated like a commodity currently (speaking about the U.S.) even if that doesn't make a lot of sense. Teachers are paid to pour facts into kids' heads, which they promptly regurgitate for tests. Perhaps some of the accelerated classes will approach exercises in independent thought, but it's really not the focus of primary education. College has traditionally been a place where broader "learning how to learn" and critical, methodical inquiry was taught, but that has become less so because of the focus on preparing for careers, overemphasis on STEM but not the philosophies that created it, and of course the massive financial burden. People complain a lot about useless degrees, but one of the original purposes of a liberal Western education was to provide a lot of context, examine the "shoulders of giants" that current knowledge rests upon, and learn about all of the big questions that have already been asked instead of re-asking them and inventing the same new fads and tragedies each generation. Basically, we emphasize the "what" and "how" and neglect the "why". The "why" is dangerous to existing power structures. So, even college educated people often neglect to ask "why" at their own assumptions (after all, they went to college and know better!), or they're too busy drowning in debt to care . Public education has been largely based on an industrial model, like a factory. An assembly line stamping correct facts and behavior into minds. It's become dysfunctional even in doing that due to a number of factors.
It's bad for ones that spend a lot on advertising placement to capture business and make up for with high prices.
Not Yours, OpenStreetMap
The precedent has been set and we are one step closer to blacklisting it from search too. They have thusfar made no pledge that their search results are a neutral public space free from politicking, in fact they have done the opposite on numerous occasions.
Alternative Open Source
If it uses Stripe Elements for this (the v3 api), there is support for a SEPA dialog in there.
Maybe the other credit reporting agencies and other companies would take security seriously. Sometimes breaches happen. Sometimes it's clearly negligence.

And just because it's too late now doesn't mean the law can't be adjusted to prevent it from happening in the future. If you don't learn from mistakes, that's dumb. And obviously companies can't be trusted to do it themselves.
Not really. I'm still "the new guy" and I'm not sure how they'd feel about me outing it. Though the consultants keep talking about submitting the site for some kind of award. So maybe you'll see it eventually.
The SFBA runs on a gold rush / lottery model. You can move there as an "ordinary" person and make millions or tens of millions of dollars within a few years, i.e. a winning lottery ticket. It's probably better than a lottery because there's enough of a skills-based component that people convince themselves their odds are higher than a pure lottery would be.
As long as that dream remains alive, young talent will swarm like locusts and care relatively little about living standards or quality of life. And to be fair, at least for now, there are a lot of people in SFBA hitting the jackpot - good for them - so when I say dream, it's a dream at least loosely tethered to reality. But if the tide turns and millionaires in their 20s stop being minted, then the whole ecosystem is in for a readjustment.
If no company ever pays a price for data breech, what motivation is there to implement "new, secure methods of proving identity"?
The problem is that SSNs are not secret to begin with. They are a unique identifier that is in hundreds of systems already. They provide no security. We need another common system to confirm people's identities.
What would a replacement look like?
Simple stuff can be good for early "quantifying" activities. Hi Ho Cherry O is great for low number counting and subtraction from 10.

Uno is a good card game for order, addition (draw 2 + draw 2 + draw 4 is how many?).

Robot Turtles has been fun from a "let's try to discover what a function does" perspective but I'm not 100% sure what has registered yet. I found 4.5 yrs to be the sweet spot to start there.

The biggest thing though: time with your kid working on these things. If you're there, and you are engaged and having fun, it's likely they'll also be engaged and having fun. Start with anything. Keep it light. Let discovery happen without correcting. It's fun to watch.
I think that's the bigger picture though... Any area that figures out homelessness doesn't just have to solve it for their community, but for every community on a 10 hour bus ride.

The city I live in has good policies regarding helping homelessness. The problem, is that every city around us, including Indianapolis, ships their homeless here. It is a classic tragedy of the commons. And any solution that doesn't account for the game theory applications is doomed to fail for those very reason.
Here are some related papers that speak to timeframes and adaptations related to these early animal genetics.

Metazoa (760mya) - "animal multicellularity (gene regulation, signalling, cell adhesion, and cell cycle)"

Eumetazoa (760-680mya) - "Characteristics of eumetazoans include true tissues organized into germ layers, the presence of neurons, and an embryo that goes through a gastrula stage." [1]

Planulozoa (680mya) - "A 2004 study investigated the relationships between biradial and bilateral animals in evolution. If biradial is the link between radial and bilateral, then would seem to suggest that bilateralism occurred before cephalization. Called the Planulozoa Hypothesis, the authors suggests that ctenophora are the sister clade of bilateralians, and that all three of the groups – cnidarians, ctenophora and bilaterals – are the descendents of a single bilateral ancestor." [2,3]

Bilateria (650mya) - "A Hox system is thought to have arisen (indicated by a red bar) after the divergence of the cnidarians from the common ancestor that gave rise to bilaterian animals (ecdysozoans, lophotrophozoans and deuterostomes)." [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumetazoa
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planulozoa
[3] http://biologicalexceptions.blogspot.com/2015/02/mirroring-e...
[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096098220...
[5] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3003/cc4844fe878fbe00167da6... - list of gene adaptations by LCA.
Sounds like Applebees or the newer Roadhouse Grill. Refried TV dinners is how I think of them now...
> removing the whole bail bond system would be an improvement.

How would this improve the system? This would mean that only rich people who can bail themselves out would be able to await trial as free men/women. Poorer people would stay in jail and presumably lose their jobs.
Some madman built a Mario Kart clone in pure CSS
My 4-year old also has made tremendous progress by playing cards (Go Fish, Uno, War).

I agree also with your comment on apps, with only one exception: https://www.playosmo.com/en/. The Numbers, Tangram, and Words games have been particularly effective.
And advice on identifying such cash-cow parts? My vehicle repair knowledge is limited.
How do we know this feature doesn't also disable the headphones-over-usb if the phone hasn't been unlocked in a week? I don't think that would be a problem for most users either.
'Deodorant Challenge' leaves teen with second-degree burns
If Google wants to lobby to get rid of bail bonds, more power to them. But focusing on bail bondsmen is (a distinctly liberal sort of) feel-good ignorance: focusing on the “evil” business instead of the state that is actually causing the problem.

There is a good argument that the government should ensure adequate water supplies in the event of disaater. But if the government fails to do that, banning private businesses from “gouging” people by selling water at market rates feels good but actually hurts people. Targeting bail bondsmen in a world where the government abuses minority and low income communities by requiring excessive bail is likewise misguided.
But surely you can choose not to show political ads at all, which would be the parallel situation?
Your link isn't working either. Here is the text-only version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
You can compile and run your own apps though. You would need an apple developer account and pay the fee to be able to side load your own apps. There is a process that allows you to do it if you're serious about it.

Edit: Disregard my comment. I clicked the link and understand the context of your comment now. Still, if you want to code and deploy your own apps you can do it but there are conditions.
Does the LLC version of Atlas give you an account with Azlo instead of SVB?
Etherscan CEO – Space: the final frontier
In Belgium the Steiner school is free
Didn't and doesn't stop them from using VBA, which of course is already used by malicious entities everywhere, so if they're unwilling to stop supporting that then why not let unsandboxed python work?
That’s not what “rent seeking” means.
Somebody should create a list of JS free sites. They can sell it at Whole Foods in the "medicine" aisle. You guys know what I'm talking about; "JS Free -All Natural!".

I think we've about reached the point of ideology on this. If you are considering arguing with the other side your probably better off arguing evolution with a creationist, or facts with the GOP.
> it’s like they all used the same consultant in a dire bid for relevance.

I have a friend who works at a big management consulting firm and he told me that one of the partners built his practice/client base around optimizing menus for these big chain restaurants. It's apparently been very lucrative, so I think you're right that in many cases they are using the same consultant.
Parochialism-induced harshness — what could go wrong? POZIDRIV® bits are practically unheard of here (Canada); you have to go out of your way to find them, on the level of triwing or pentalobe, or JIS.
This kind of meta-argument ("not a theory") rubs me the wrong way. It's a concrete claim about what happened (a mind much like ours but smarter made decisions about what stuff there should be, and then assembed it.) It can't be dispoven because no matter what you find you could say that it was just designed that way, but neither can evolution strictly speaking because there's the anthropic principle to reckon with (no matter how unlikely we were to arise, here we are. There's a nonzero chance of it all just tunneling together, and it's a big universe - if you could somehow show that our existence depended on a one in 10^9999999 chance, we'd just say that it happened.)

Still, I feel that couching Christian or other religious faith in "theory" language is not completely honest. I don't think anyone really supports intelligent design, as opposed to Jesus speaking the world into being design.
The author talks about "noscript" and makes it clear that it's not a reference to the html tag but to the idea of surfing the web without javascript. I was waiting for a discussion of NoScript, the popular add-on for Firefox that blocks javascript by default and allows for turning it back on on a site-by-site basis.

I surf the web, as I have for many years, with NoScript turned on and as few permanent domains white-listed as I can get away with for security reasons.

I don't have any numbers to back this up, but my guess is that the population of people who use the NoScript add-on dwarfs the population of users that actually disable their javascript in their browser. I'm not sure how someone like me shows up in their numbers, but I suspect that I would be on the "blocks javascript" list and then on the "uses javascript" list if I am intrigued enough about the site to enable some of the domains it requests javascript from.

I don't know if web developers take that into account or not, but I suspect they don't because the number of domains I have to experimentally temporarily enable just to see some parts of some sites is getting even more ridiculous these days.

Maybe someone should design a new protocol that is built for interactivity from the start instead of one designed around static content with back-flips needed to make it usably interactive.
Maybe the structure of it will be that we have a right to our data and Amazon is obligated to provide access to it unless a reason is provided.
And that's where people will reject the notion of "wrongthink". If accepting the idea of "wrongthink" means accepting that slavery would be good, then surely you can see where many, many people will jump off the fence onto the other side can't you? Because many, many people believe the institution of slavery is inherently NOT good. People don't think it's simply "wrongthink" or a bad idea, people believe it's a patently false assertion. (Just to be clear, I believe it to be patently false as well.) That belief today is as strong as it was during the Civil War.

And there are multiple subjects out there like slavery. Is holocaust style genetic cleansing "good"? If you assert such a thing, people will not consider that "wrongthink", they'll consider it to be patently false. The list of issues like that goes on and on. I only listed the obvious examples as a sort of reductio ad absurdum.
Using zsh the equivalent command is ->% zsh_stats
Sample:
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2	53 8.0303% sudo
3	33 5% vim
4	30 4.54545% python
5	29 4.39394% cd
6	20 3.0303% P
7	18 2.72727% which
8	17 2.57576% pip
9	15 2.27273% touch
10	15 2.27273% la
11	13 1.9697% git
12	12 1.81818% kill
13	12 1.81818% PS
14	11 1.66667% ~
15	10 1.51515% ln
16	10 1.51515% jobs
17	10 1.51515% cat
18	9 1.36364% take
19	8 1.21212% ~\n
20	8 1.21212% snap
I put one of those graphics on my very first angelfire site, because all I had was IE and I hadn't checked how it would work in anything else. When people started paying me for web development, though, I started installing browsers, operating systems, and even acquiring whole new devices (wap phones) to see how my client's sites were rendering in the real world. I spent whole nights agonizing about tiny tweaks and compatibility hacks to make sure everything looked good, this was the majority of the job in the early aughts. Now, in 2018, if you stick to a somewhat conservative set of html and css you can build nice looking sites that render great in any moderately modern browser across thousands of devices. It's insane to me that web developers now would rather descend back into compatibility hell by making their sites rely on a stack of unwieldy and opaque javascript.
Well, why not 7 days?
Conceptually it's exactly what you'd want, but sites had to opt-in to "some weird experiment" instead of Google rolling upgrading their adsense TOS for a year, and then rolling this out on all sites that use adsense.

The reasons it's stuck in infancy, then, is the list of sites which support it which is here: https://support.google.com/contributor/answer/7324995

(Linked to from https://contributor.google.com/ )

There are about two dozen sites, and even then the only one I even recognize is tvtropes.
Mapbox has some excellent software. And they're hiring. Sadly, they're moving away from remote work, which probably eliminates a lot of good talent who are also heavy map users.
It's too late. We're all doomed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/tutorial...

Step 1 in the official Excel Add-Ins tutorial includes installing Node and npm.
Yeah, 7 days feels awfully long. When would you actually need that?

Edit: Okay, I suppose there might be an edge case where you break your screen and want to take a backup on an already paired device.
I really wish they would pass a law in North America allowing merchants to charge percentages based on card used.

Credit cards have some great features:

* buyer protection in case of fraud
* delayed payment helps buyer cashflow
* instant payment for merchant
* no overhead fees compared to handling cash

But, the extra percentage added for cashback is pure externality.

Right now merchants' only option is declining a card type entirely, like some do for AMEX.

Europe's economy is effectively saving perhaps 2% over North America's. I'm assuming here that 0.7% is the useful part credit cards do.
You were making a point about people should run their own data centers.

I'm making the point that one can never write high quality software if one does not master system administration and then system engineering first. It's impossible to write high quality software without understanding the substrate on which software is built. That's my message.
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Is this just Copenhagen Ethics[1] striking again? "Bail bonds companies are associated with something bad (the current criminal justice system), so they inherent the taint of evil."

What do they expect is going to happen when you make it harder for potential customers to find alternatives to the loudest bail bondsman? You just make it easier for the fewer, established bondsmen to offer harsher terms.

With that said, there is a right way to approach problems like this[3]: actually help the ostensible victims find a good alternative that does care about not exploiting them.

For an example of the model, here's my experience when I visited a California check-cashing place (long story): before cashing the check, on ridiculous terms, they walk you through several cheaper alternatives (no idea if this is a legal requirement).

I don't see anything in their announcement[2] that suggests they'll take this approach, which would be something like: replace the "bad ads" with ones for the superior, non-profit alternatives that they want these communities to use. It's just unhelpful moralizing from advocates with a dubious model of the harm's causation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855

[2] Warning: it will probably set off your add blocker: https://adwords.googleblog.com/2018/05/google-bans-ads-for-b...

[3] by "this", I mean a case where there's a bad system, and a for profit group that's offering a local improvement but seems slimy nonetheless
While I agree with the gist of your comment, most restaurants have never been "simply a place which served food." They've always been about the experience, excepting maybe cafeterias which are purely functional food delivery facilities.

A taco/hot dog stand is a deliberate choice wrt to the food delivery experience, i.e., informal and on-the-go. Steakhouses have always presented themselves as more formal dining options. (This includes Sizzlers! In rural areas, chains like Sizzlers have the same cachet that Mastro's or Ruth's Chris has in a big city.)
Thanks for the correction. I can’t afford $700 any more than $1000, so I left my wording intact. Note that the exact price point is entirely irrelevant until it drops to “throwaway”, which $700 is not.
> Removing the ability to advertising makes both problems worse, by reducing competition.

There is a good argument that increasing cost of visibility reduces competition. That a ban on Google advertising for this industry does that is far less clear; notably, banning advertising means the top relevant search result is the top organic result, not the top ad, so you've now potentially got similar visibility with zero Google ads spend as before took considerable ad spend.
>Whatever qualms you might have about the vagaries of the search algorithm, you can't dispute that it's difficult to game.

Nothing personal against you, but as a user I find that google's algorithms are trivially gamed by the SEO industry. Apart from the ads themselves, I personally think a small ranking boost for pages that don't run ads will go a long way to clean up the search results.
Not quite - after 7 days, the phone has to be PIN unlocked to reenable the existing keypairs.
> PC is absolutely counterproductive there

A. No, the terminology used by medical professionals is constantly shifting to do things like acknowledge that people with issues are still people.

B. Your reasoning is presumably about confusion and lack of clarity, yes? How exactly is a reference to a law that has never been proposed serving that?
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How are they sure about the notes of the melody itself? The Greeks used Pythagorean tuning, which is based on mathematical fractions, allowing us to know the exact ratios of the notes to each other. How would they get similar precision from pre-Greek notations?
Ask HN: What is the future of publishing in the age of Ad Blockers?
Or put it another way, If one were to start an online publishing house what would be the recommended business model? Other than the ad-blocker ad-bocker-blocker cat and mouse game or paywalls.
Rate Limiting for API Gateways
Its all fun and games until someone dies in an elevator...

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