skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8327185.stm - McDonalds pulled out of Iceland when it became to expensive. I wonder if the EU is going to price itself out of international technology. The affect would be less than ideal for a continent that preaches globalization
Intrinsic value is a value that derives from the use of properties of the thing. It's not a derived value that requires the imposition of an additional layer of context to make the property valuable.

The iPhone, or any other phone, has the intrinsic value of being usable as a computing device, entertainment device, communications device, camera, thrown weapon, etc. If you want to be pedantic about it, the components that make up the iPhone have the intrinsic values of being usable for one or more of the above functions, and the materials that go into those components have the intrinsic value of being usable in industrial/commercial products or processes.

A bitcoin literally has no use inherent use on its own. It's simply a number. The exchange of these numbers has no intrinsic value, it would be like me and Adam exchanging a 2 and a 3 (not dollars or anything other units, literally just the numbers). Any value from the exchange is an additional layer of context imposed by me and Adam on the transaction--it's not intrinsic to the bitcoin itself.
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I'm a long time user and have paid the ~$20/year, subscription for >5yrs. It's been rock solid the whole time.

I find it's got the right out of GTD without being too bloated and/or cumbersome to use.
I'm actually much more interested in what Google collects about me. At least for me, it's somewhat transparent that Facebook tries to slurp up all they can, but it's much less clear with Google, that seems to try to downplay that they are in fact also, heavily reliant on your data.

Does anyone know if Google has made any statements on this?
HR related SaaS is a massive market.
At a certain age, you are vulnerable. You have to be protected. Either by your parents (close) or the government (through laws).

Once you grow up, most people can navigate on their own. You are then allowed to take risks because you are better at calculating. If you don't, you get eliminated but that's life right?

When you are young you'll always get eliminated because you are too vulnerable. There is a reason animals don't leave their babies and carry their journeys.
I'm genuinely interested why you believe this is the case. Can you point to anything in specific about the converged stack that makes you feel uneasy? From the CoreOS perspective, OpenShift will literally become the new version Tectonic, which was work from before the acquisition, but with the ability to install additional OpenShift components as optional Operators.
To each their own! :o)

Having lived several years in London, and experienced plenty more cities including NYC and San Francisco I’m more than ready for boring. Indeed, this is why my current home town is Stockholm because I kind of agree with you – it’s a little bit boring and very safe, and I love it!
What kind of data would you like to see?
No, ha ha-- I had the same problem you did with the numbers. ;-)
That's significantly more defensible (it has to search somewhere by default, and most engines are known by their logos, and Google is the only search engine worth a crap) than imposing paid sites on you by default.
re points 3 and 4, you can use airflow in a non-distributed manner to just run bash jobs (bash running python in my case). The telemetry it collects and web interface give you a lot of visibility that you don't get with cron and plain bash jobs.

I started with Airflow in this capacity -- maybe taking a day or two to set it up figuring I'd add celery when we needed it. It's been maybe 1.5 years and task queues may never be needed; we can always just buy a bigger VM on ec2 as it's only 8-core/15GB atm.
I used habitica for about a year and loved it. However, at some point my character was maxed-out and there was no incentive to continue (quest-events were a bit lame). I tried starting from scratch with a new character and quickly got bored. Maybe I should try it again, if they have improved it.
ANECDOTE: I've never heard anyone mention Tidal in real life even once.
The article says, at the end of it:

>The research was supported with a grant from Australian Eggs; they had no role in the research design, conduct, analyses or writing of the manuscript.

Not sure what to make of that ...
If websites are going to ask for consent to tracking or deny access to the service only allowing to take the data, delete account and leave, the whole thing will become meaningless. Users will just learn to blindly accept everything, as this is a huge annoyance to them.
It's a crude weapon... for a less civilized age.
Won't you have to convince the union to do this change? They seem particularly intractable from my outsider's POV. If they accept culpability here and make one change, maybe they would consider that as bending and inviting future concessions. It's a shame that overall efficiency and rider satisfaction count for much less to the union than their own politics.
Wasn't there some article a while back about how MoviePass was trying to have a big enough market-share in terms of movie-goers (read: popcorn and soda revenue for theaters) to be able to start pushing theaters around? In other words, they could say to theater companies "hey, maybe you should think about giving us tickets at a discount so you don't lose out on that sweet sweet concession money." Or maybe even play one theater brand off against another?

I wonder if theaters have figured this is a waiting game and they can just let MoviePass die and go back to business as usual...
Blocking Third-Party Cookies is a nice option, but it would be better if those settings were for full-blown First Party Isolation instead.
Ask HN: How can I get into Finance/HFT development?
Hi Hn,

I'm a self taught web developer, have experience with back and front end (node and python mostly), and have also been interested in finance as a hobby (I trade casually).
I don't have any higher education in CS or Math but I think I'm rather rational by nature and I was pretty good at math back when I was still in school. I also love learning so I'll be glad to take on whatever skills/knowledge I might missing.

I feel like the intersection of those two interests might be something I'd like to pursue further so I was wondering if anyone here had any insight/ideas/experience as to how I could get into that world, if there are any books you could suggest, required skills/languages in use, anything that could point me in the right direction really.

Thanks!
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I would consider this a bad sign. My wife recently left a company that had few reviews. The management would actively try to remove bad reviews on any basis possible, and have been successful enough at it. If you look at her (small company's) page, the reviews tend to be very polarized- "Great Place to Work!" "Keeping it 100!" to "Miserably failed at just about everything" and the reviews tend to be 5 stars or 1 star. There is not a single 3 star, and only 2 4-star reviews for a company rated overall at 3.4 stars. HR is almost certainly seeding it with good reviews, and several employees have had their reviews pulled, resulting in their reviews not in any way resembling a normal distribution.

Anecdotes aside, I think there are real tells:
-Review numbers being "hollow" in the middle.
-Data not quite adding up- for this particular company, No one has hit the "approves of the CEO" button, but I once looked at a startup that was quite the opposite- 85% approved despite a middling overall rating. Was the founder just beloved? Its hard to say, but I found the lack of matchup concerning.
-Are a significant number of complaints consistently in certain areas? Work life balance bad, bad leadership, etc... if so... these are probably true, and people not mentioning that may need closer examination.
Personally, I see a lot of similarities between "big" government and "big" business in terms of potential for abuse and massive bureaucracy and neither is particularly trustworthy (they are both composed of individual human beings with motives and desires). The major difference is that the government can abuse its power in the name of the "public good". Plus every business is beholden to the market and will go out of business if it does not provide what the public wants. What I am worried about is that we soon have a situation where the regulators that are intended to protect the consumer from abuse, prevent newer more ethical competitors from gaining market share. This happens a lot in the US where big business and big government form a sort of symbiotic relationship to maintain the status quo
You lose the power to participate in Facebook-only groups, which are surprisingly prevalent in some places. I have very limited access to two communities here in Montreal that I'd otherwise get a lot of value out of, because their only online communication system is via Facebook.

I've told Facebook to pound sand for roughly their entire existence - never had an account even though I had the chance right after they expand beyond Harvard - and am considering whether life circumstances will increasingly force me (in practical rather than literal terms) to sign up.

A company in that semi-mandatory position deserves lots of binding rules to protect the rights of unwilling users, just as is true for electric companies since you rarely have much choice there.

Plus, I don't think Facebook's massive wall of several huge interlinked policies with soft-pedaled descriptions of what they do meets either of your A and B criteria, especially not when it's modally interrupting the user.
how hard is it to put a location based speed governor on the train instead of using antiquated mechanical signals to enforce max speeds? or is that just too much common sense for the MTA?
> If you can't roll out a feature without violating EU privacy laws, you're not employing a "privacy-conscious approach."

Correction, 'you're not employing a "privacy-conscious approach" by EU standards'. The EU does not define for the world what privacy-conscious means.
Switched from Chrome for privacy reasons a couple of months ago. As a webdev (and hence heavy DevTools user), it feels excellent, the inspector's a little bit faster, and having containers for Facebook and Google tracking services is excellent. Spell check in text boxes doesn't work though - apparently it should, I have no idea why it doesn't.
> equifax knows about me, but no one will give me a loan.
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While that should be the case, unfortunately, that's not true. And it may make you less likely to notice if someone does in your name.
Rather than setting a timer + starting/stopping music, I'm a huge advocate of Focus@Will[1], which is basically a combo of the items mentioned in this article: No need to select music (they have an extensive library). You just set a timer and you get a "ding" to start work, which is oddly effective at getting you into the zone.

I've found it also helps to build a list of tasks _before_ you start working for the day. Then you can do your focused sessions 1 after the other, without wondering "What's next?".

[1] https://focusatwill.go2cloud.org/SH3f (Affiliate link. I'm a happy customer and longtime advocate.)
I had to read a little bit to find the real reason - combine faulty signals which trigger over-speed warnings when they shouldn’t — with the following...

“Train operators face steep penalties after a number of instances of tripping a signal, like losing vacation days or being forced into early retirement.”

That’s a recipe for exactly the problem they are seeing. Fix the signals. Fix the policy. It will fix the problem.

But I also suspect this whole thing is much more intentional than we are being led to believe — it’s actually intentional policies which have led to expected slowdowns in a jaded attempt to boost funding. The whole narrative around overcrowding has collapsed. The narrative around underfunding is also collapsing. But I’m not sure the other shoe (proof that this was a charade to increase funding) has dropped quite yet.
Can't speak to the greying as I have no part in that. That said, while I agree to a point, to me, adware is where ads are being served that are impacting the UI proper. Because of where it happens, apparently in a new tab/window, it isn't adding advertisements when I go to a web page that weren't already there. I also don't have to do a specific action to get away from the ad: I don't have to close the ad directly, it just disappears as a result of me doing normal behavior. So while perhaps "adware" it isn't the annoying kind at the very least.

I don't use Firefox so I'm not sure what it is showing, but if it is like the new tab in Chrome that pocket's extension generates, it is basically the top 3 in the recommended section of Pocket which seems to be popular articles of no particular importance or targeted. Earlier I saw links to an article for a Ryan Reynolds interview where he talks about his anxiety (apparently, didn't read it) and another article about all cultures appropriating (again, didn't read, so going on title). If it were targeted, I'd expect articles of a more technology/development slant.
I agree. Org mode will be more efficient and definitely much more feature-rich if you already keep Emacs open all the time, and especially if you bother configuring it properly.

Taskwarrior looks like it can work better "out of the box" and definitely more useful for someone who isn't Emacs-proficient.

Org-mode, for better or worse, is flexible enough to support lots of different kinds of workflow. It's cool if you know what you want to do, and the defaults will be enough for simple GTD workflow, but if you aren't sure how to properly organize yourself, you'll find yourself searching a lot for ideas from other people.

My current org-mode config looks like this: https://github.com/TeMPOraL/conffiles/blob/master/emacs26/.e....

You can think there's lots of stuff in it, but frankly, this is mostly on the lower end :). Most of the code is for tweaking tasks, clocking and agenda views to better fit my workflow. It's by no means finished - living in org-mode is very much about slowly discovering your ideal workflow and molding Emacs around it :).
I'm not too far off with the TaskPaper format.
There's a philosophy that, once an algorithm has been discovered, you don't really need to understand it to put it into practice. Why understand how sort algorithms work when "sort" is already built into every library? I'd be curious to see some sort of scientific or formal study on that, but in my experience, the people who view most algorithms as black boxes - they understand more or less what you get out when you put in the right things, but have no interest on how it gets to that point - can produce applications that do work correctly under optimum conditions, but fail in surprising ways when faced with unexpected input.
Habitica is an interesting suggestion, thanks.

I've had good luck with "todo list" and the "X effect" thing (basically just streaks - X out a calendar day for each time you do a daily task". Everything else, without exception, has been enough work to feel like a secondary task which I then quit doing. This might be a tool light enough to digitize those benefits without being a burden.
root cause? undercapitalized.
I believe the "lying" in this case is civil not criminal matter. As much as I dislike making civil matters criminal (like in copyright cases), I would support that here.
Required means for example that you need a shipping address to ship a product. Not that you need location data in order to build a profile used for various undeclared, vague purposes - or for an unrelated purpose. I don't use fb in order to watch ads. Fb shows ads on order to finance the service. They can offer a paid option to cover the cost of serving pictures of adorable kittens.
Since I was having a hard time finding the link in the article. Here's the page to add a NCTUE security freeze:

https://www.nctue.com/consumers

Here are the pages for adding security freezes to the other big four agencies:

https://www.freeze.equifax.com/Freeze/jsp/SFF_PersonalIDInfo...

https://freeze.transunion.com/sf/securityFreeze/landingPage....

https://www.experian.com/freeze/center.html

https://www.innovis.com/securityFreeze/index

Most people don't know about Innovis, which was mentioned in the article. That said, I've never run into a company where I've needed to lift an Innovis freeze. Anyway, I agree that it's tiring to constantly track which data brokers allow (are required to) adding a security freeze. In my opinion, better legislation is needed to curb this activity and data brokers in general.
You are right. Still, unless there was widespread purchasing of tickets for non subscribers going on, I would expect the effect of that change to be a blip, not a substantial drop in their cash deficit.
I have an idea. Why don't we give up on a strictly declarative format/solution? What if, associated with each possible API call, was a pseudocode or generalcode representation of the code executed to validate the request?

Is reading code snippets that difficult? For a short validation program, a machine could certainly infer if a type would be accepted (just run the validation).

I know that a declarative format seems like the right choice, given validation in mainstream programming languages is expressed declaratively via the type system, but these standards, to me, often seem to only translate awkwardly an implicit validation program into a very verbose declaration.
Oh, they're allowed to withdraw from the market, or decouple the privacy-invasive bits and find a way to make that work financially when users don't opt in to those. Nobody's forcing them to serve Europe if they insist on being this awful regarding mandatory tracking. They're free to allow space for a competitor to grow with a different attitude toward privacy.
Short answer: because this is Hacker News, not Middle Manager In A Large Organization Serving A Well Established Market News.

The author went to the effort simply because he himself found it interesting. He published it on a hunch that at least a few other people would find it as interesting as he did, even if they are not working in that industry, just because technology is interesting in its own right. He was right.
The ecosystem of React Native can be improved, beyond technically
I'd argue that too much philosophy will also get you in trouble for abstracting reality too much.
No, because this ToS thing is not actually a GDPR-compliant opt-in. It's a routine ToS update, with a few tracking things tacked at the end of it.

Companies have always been able to deny users access if they don't accept a ToS, but clicking "I Accept" to the ToS shown in the screenshots is not a GDPR opt-in, and I cannot stress that enough. It is just a ToS update, which does not cover GDPR-compliant opt-in to tracking. The tracking questions following it are also not GDPR-compliant.

They will have to ask properly for opt-in when the 25th rolls around, or they will face fines for non-compliance.

FB is trying to muddy the waters with this ToS update, probably to fool people into thinking "well, I already accepted a bunch of stuff a couple of weeks ago, I'll just accept this GDPR thing as well". It seems that you've bought in to their misinformation campaign.

The GDPR stipulates that you cannot make access to your service contingent on opting in to tracking, unless you service cannot possibly function without tracking. Strava would be a good example, it cannot possibly work without tracking a user's GPS location.

But FB works just fine with no tracking at all. The only thing that would be compromised is be FB's business model, and that's just tough luck, they'll have to come up with something better, a model that doesn't infringing on people's privacy.

Source: I work for a telco/ISP and we are extremely aware of GDPR and the consequences, and we've been working diligently for ~2 years to make our entire business GDPR-compliant. Training courses and tests of our understanding of the rules are mandatory for everyone, from customer support to CEO.
I'm unsure if this is actually Firefox fault. I'm running Linux (arch and Ubuntu), Windows and macOS, and Firefox is only slow on macOS, while my macOS machine is the second most powerful machine I have. Running Firefox in a Ubuntu VM on macOS is faster than running it natively on macOS.
And yet the 20 Euro one appears to have been a _sustainable_ business model.

Cineworld cinemas in the UK do a very similar offer, and again it costs roughly 20 Euros.

MoviePass pricing has always reminded me of the old adage, "If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.", especially when you consider they are paying full face value, which none of the European competitors I'm familiar with do, as they typically run both the subscription service and the cinemas themselves.

The more pressing question to me is why hasn't a large cinema chain in the US tried this model, when it is clearly working in many other foreign markets?
Most people leaning on doors are going to be young people with decent reaction times and balance

Say what?
I can transfer value within seconds using Zelle, Venmo, Paypal, Square, etc., for free right where I'm sitting now. Nowhere near a bank.

AFAIK, Bitcoin takes a minimum of 10 minutes assuming that I wish to pay the going transaction fee, or as long as 3 days (or even never!!!) if I use a de minimis fee. And that's assuming a significant risk that the value of the value transferred will not have the same value by the time the transaction actually goes through.
That makes it even worse. There’s very little going on and it still manages to be a fuckup. Look at all the others who are also getting stuck in this UX tar pit.

How on earth does this happen on what should be a straight forward site?
I thought that was blatantly obvious from the very start? Their entire business model is to gain enough subscribers, that they can use to leverage theaters.
I compose my json-schemas in yaml, and therefore use yaml-anchors to stitch together repetitive code.

The errors I've run into are more alongside implementation details like: `number` being interpreted as a float (not a decimal) which makes it's related property `multipleOf` erroneous.
AFAIK the policy is will be added once it's GA?
Extlinux on an ext4 partition doesn't need an offset. Or at least didn't when I wrote this: http://www.blackkettle.org/posts/archive/2013-08-19-bootable...
The electric car has a use for most people, though. If you don't think BTC is worthwhile, then the energy spent on it is wasted.
I don't think a star-system sized computational network is supposed to be used for the mere face recognition that my phone can already do. So the metric may be comparing apples to oranges.
There was a good article about it, but Observer swallowed it.

Here is what remained: https://web.archive.org/web/20151011192709/http://observer.c...

Basically, anyone using it, encourages more people to use it, thus causing further damage.
Disconnect was co-founded by an ex-Google DoubleClick (ad) engineer, and hired an ex-NSA (dragnet surveillance) engineer. There are tracker-blocking adblockers for every platform that aren't made by people with anti-privacy backgrounds.
(The same seems to be true of elevators.)

The solution to this is called "Pater noster".
Just kidding....
Vapes were becoming pretty common close to my HS graduation. Some of my friends would vape trying to quit smoking. Middle schoolers who were not smokers saw this and thought it was cool. Now the school had an issue where middle schoolers were vaping during class and becoming addicted purely because it looked cool.