skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By and large, it doesn't, very well.

Compared to what?

It may be easy to provide evidence for:

* Time and resource intensive prebiased word of mouth has a higher conversion rate.

* Conversion rates for mass advertising are very low numbers.

It is also easy to provide numbers for:

* Conversion rates for targeted advertising are significantly higher than non-targeted advertising.

* Having a non-existent marketing strategy for scale markets has a high probability of failure.

What is your position exactly?

Consider also some of what is implied throughout the article, that changes implied may price smaller companies out of the market. This doesn't bode well for competition, particularly for less funded competition. Small p&l organizations typically need to market to drive revenue, they're rarely in a position to push brand marketing strategies alone. Indeed this is a common huge difference between fine and coarse targeted platforms - when did you last see a small p&l trying to advertise on cable? What about on fine target platforms such as Facebook? Do you want such companies to become competitors to brand giants?
> You need to be a rich ISP to afford IPv6 deployment

That's not a guarantee though. Verizon are rich, yet their fiber residential network has been "in the process"[1] of deploying IPv6 for years, and nothing is anywhere in sight still.

1. https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/getting...
How much would you pay to access the ipv4 internet?

How much would you pay to access the ipv6 internet?

What are support costs for ipv6 endpoints / compatibility needs / help desk / securing / understanding / training all techs etc vs ipv4?

= ISP motivation?

ipv4 is relatively well understood, existing infrastructure to serve it, and people are willing to pay MORE to access the ipv4 internet, and basically won't pay anything to access ipv6 only internet.

If you've used ipv6 actively, plenty of stuff doesn't play well, lots of weird hangs on connections etc in deployed contexts, and even with ipv6 you can't seem to actually go endpoint to endpoint (ie, printer at work from computer at home easily). My ipv4 based vpn works great though (and doesn't support ipv6 properly). I started down path of hassling vendors, but it's not worth it. You've got your work ISP to hassle, then fix work internet gateway, then get firewall sorted, then get internal network sorted (yes, the copier runs some ancient crap), then get each employees home internet sorted, then all their machines, then all the related software. They couldn't have made the migration path harder if they had tried.
There are many sites which are topic agnostic, others which have less text and therefore are more difficult to classify by ad crawlers and target based on topic.

It's also difficult to conceive enough advertisers on the demand side for many niches. In this scenario targeted advertisement would fill in for the lack of demand
The demos from the main page works for me. Really cool.
People never stopped making fun stuff on the web, it just doesn’t have the same 90s web aesthetic or artisanal handcrafted bespoke raw HTML/CSS/JS the author is nostalgic for, and there’s so much more content now that it gets drowned out.
For the time being, yes. I'm from Algiers, Algeria. We switch between three languages at the office (Algerian, French, and English) but the documentation, issues, comments, commit messages, mails, charting/architecture/naming, data, etc. are in English.

We all understand and use the three languages (some of us use a fourth) but we still, for some reason, use English for all the above.

Slack conversations are 99% in French.
I remember when we used to just call that “data”
It's the other way around. The law protects according to point of access (EU soil), not according to nationality. So an American tourist in France would be protected, but not a French tourist in the US.

This is just like most laws, when you're a tourist in a foreign country you have to follow the local laws, not the ones from your passport country.
Tesla Solar Roof:  9.85kW for $50k
I think your example is significantly higher than average. I think £800-1000 per bedroom is standard for relatively nice places in zones 1-3 for 2+ bed places. For single beds it’s a bit higher, but not 2k+ unless you’re in a very fancy place.
The only way to eliminate all waste in advertising is to use an affiliate marketing model and that's the biggest cesspool of them all.
> Tesla does not suggest ordering an all-solar roof. Solar tiles cost $42 per square foot, while non-solar costs $11 per square foot. Tesla recommends $21.85 per square foot, based on 35 percent solar tiles. The design of the tiles, patented recently, mean the two appear the same to the untrained eye to create a single roof.

>Tobler bought a roof of around 2,000 square foot, with 40 percent of installed tiles solar. That costs around $50,000 once the federal solar Investment Tax Credit is factored in, and it produces around 9.85 kilowatts of power — which Tesla told Tobler was “the biggest system we have available.”
See author’s response in thread.
A lot of people still use jquery at work. Regardless of improvements in javascript for DOM manipulation, Jquery is not just about that.
To me this screams "justifying why I failed an interview". Maybe you're not a savant, maybe you're just terrible at working under pressure. Most people are - but it's a skill you should learn like any other.
Canada.

I should also note that anyone can assist an engineer, so it's not like Computer Scientists are cut out of the field. Many disciplines have technicians and other specialists who are just as technically capable as the engineers in their domain (often more so).

The lead engineer signs off of on releases, and they're the main person held responsible if there's a safety incident traced back to sloppy work. That was the only real difference between the engineers and non-engineers I worked with. It basically just meant, "the buck stops here."
To the moon!

From memory, it’s just CSS. You have a ‘pointer: spaceship.ico’ probably on the body.
I’m vegan. I’m confused on the actual risk for meat eaters and if they could really tell the difference.
Hit the nail on the head - and as usual when that happens around here, people reach for the down-arrow.

Upvote/downvote mechanisms always drown out unpopular truths.
Because it ends up abused by marketers, and frequently ends up facilitating crime as well. GDPR as a law came out directly from the last decade of mass surveillance economy.
This movie is known as Takedown in the rest of the world, and it is not fun to watch, nor does it cover Mitnick's side of the story: "Track Down (also known as Takedown outside the United States), is a 2000 film about computer hacker Kevin Mitnick, based on the book Takedown by John Markoff and Tsutomu Shimomura."

Watch the documentary Freedom Downtime by Eric "Emmanuel Goldstein" Corley and read Mitnick's book, Ghost in the Wires. Written by Mitnick after his probation terms were expired. Dude's got humor, and its written in a way which is both fun and suspense. Whether it is accurate, who knows, but it is from his perspective.
He served his sentence in FCI Lompoc, which is where his lawyers asked that he be incarcerated.
If you're in a '2nd tier' first world country like Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany etc, Machine Leanring is one of the only ways you can get a salary comparable to a 'normal' Software Dev in the US. Keep that in mind.
Well for starters the meat absolutely sucks in taste.
8 Tips for Performing Effective Intenet Research
By that I mean that they are registered and regulated within the EU and other countries they operate in. The people operating the service are known and comply with applicable regulation, so that I can be reasonably confident nothing shady is going on and that I can get legal recourse in case something is wrong.

And no, despite doing some research on Transferwise before using them I didn't run into horror stories of them freezing wires. Transferwise has always been very professional and helpful in interactions with me (more so than my own bank).
MAJIKTHISE:
I mean what’s the use of us sitting up all night saying there may -

VROOMFONDEL:
Or may not be

MAJIKTHISE:
…or may not be… a god, if this machine comes along the next morning and gives you ‘is telephone number?
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/404

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/500

https://www.bloomberg.com/500

Their error pages are still quite funny (and epic shit).
Although I like the GDPR and would support similar legislation in my country, I honestly don't see the gloom and doom story. The EU market is a small part of the global story, and while this change clearly makes that market harder to enter, the article doesn't make the case that the EU represents a sufficient share of the adtech market to pop a bubble.

In general it's easy to believe negative press about hated entities (for example, see liberal credulity about Trump's vulnerability in the US). I don't see the argument passing the bar for evidende, whether or not I want to believe it.

edit: the argument that adtech stinks is not evidence in support of the article's thesis. crappiness is not a predictor of a bubble, and the author makes no attempt to connect the idea that ad tech stinks (which is stated ad nauseum) with the claim that the GDPR will bring about a global sea change for adtech)
It’s not really a specific use, it’s just terminology that doesn’t overlap in a the way you want it to. Most high rise developments, at least where I am, are condos, as it tends to be more profitable or convenient for a developer to sell all the units than for a single entity to rent them all out on an ongoing basis. Lots of the units will be rented out as apartments.

“High rise condo” May sound overly specific but it’s just the most common example of a category for which we don’t have a convenient descriptor.
Progress – A Tool to Monitor Progress for Commands in Linux (2016)
This isn't all that relevant on Windows.
No interface redesign or documentation improvement will prevent all "brain-o" situations. Which is what happened to Rachel here. Nothing wrong with the document; but sometimes you stare at something completely simple (be it code and documentation) and somehow misunderstand it. Later you go back and can't figure out how you got tripped up. It's impossible to predict where this will happen to whom.

Blaming the order of the documentation is grasping at straws.

"This thing that tripped me up for an inexplicable reason wouldn't have done that if the documentation for the thing I wanted to use had appeared first in the document".
Pretty much what Mark said. The simplistic definition as most people in NA use them would be:

Condos are typically a building where all the units in it are owned by their respective tenants.

Apartments are typically a building owned by a Company that rents out all the units, so none of the tenants have any ownership of the place they reside in.
> They aren't brainwashing you, at the end of the day the one in control of the credit card is still you.

Right, because we're all perfectly rational robots with full control of all of our emotions and impulses, and the advertisers totally don't employ cutting-edge research in psychology to manipulate us.
Can anyone familiar with the market compare that price to a "normal" roof solar installation? Seems quite expensive at first glance, but I'm not sure I have a good reference point when pricing everything in (warranty, powerwall, ...)
For a historic account of US phreaking (not Mitnick-specific), check out the book "Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws who Hacked Ma Bell". Its worth as much as its long title. It even contains a historic account of the US (and international) phone system and how the monopolies came around. I read it because it was all just before my time (I'm mid 30s now). People who were blind phreaking by whistling. Insane!

(Mitnick-specific I can also recommend the docu Freedom Downtime and the book Ghost in the Wires but I've seen both already covered in other posts.)
Bitsavers
This doesn't look right on my phone.
Back in the day this would have taken 15 minutes to download - seeing this appear instantly loses some of what it conveys.
Need some setTimeouts adding on those images.....
> These are the people who are still writing bloated 500-line functions in new code, giving me blank looks when I mention refactoring at the code review, and approving said functions anyway.

The problem with these people is not that they haven't kept up to date with modern practices (half of which are probably cyclical anyway). The problem is they never learned any best practices.

People in 1998 knew not to write 500 line functions.
Oh, that does look cool. I can see how that would be pretty useful, but it does look like it's a manual process that needs to be triggered, and not automatic. Still, it looks to be more widely applicable than what I'm building.
They also have local resellers in many countries, but avoid them because the rates are higher.
Looks like you can set the cursor [1] property on some root element and it replaces the cursor with a custom image.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/cursor
The author of strftime had no idea it would be diddled with some crazy ISO C bullshit that will take up nearly every letter in the alphabet. Please, let us not drag the strftime author into this; that author provided a simple, mostly clean formatting mechanism with mostly mnemonic codes: save for a few gotchas to watch out for like %m versus %M.
Yes, I was referring to Zone 1-2 to be fair, and I understand that being more central is obviously more expensive, but as you move out to the more affordable areas you get locked into public transport. The less options there are for public transport the lower quality of life in general..
Edge has a number of deficiencies (font rendering, failure to take tabs seriously) that make it unsatisfactory.
I don't think you're making the objectively logical conclusion that you think you're making. GP quoted the linked post.
And delegate some stuff. Negotiate!
(un?)surprisingly the guy who founded juicero is now in the raw water business.
I think you're being too forgiving of a lousy joke.
Fair enough. If you're in an area where market forces are immediate enough to force you to stay current/effective, or you just prioritize being competitive, then I suppose simply being in it for the money can work. You're a rare breed though in my experience. And arguably your desire to remain competitive is an extra motivator outside of the money.

Most people I'd describe as being in it for the money are just looking for a bland, suburban middle class existence and are happy to plateau once they start making enough to be comfortable.

As for job stability, oh believe me it exists. One thing I've discovered is defense contractor work (at least at the large contractors) is only one step removed from government work in terms of non-firability. Security clearances take a minimum of 6 months, often a year or more to process, it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars per investigation, and there's no guarantee a prospective hire will pass. As a result the large contractors hoard cleared engineers, almost regardless of ability. Even if your program ends it's an unwritten rule that some other program will pick you up. We haven't had layoffs since sequestration/the financial crisis, and relative to the size of the company those were minimal.
You can add Alibaba, Baidu and Toutiao to that list. Nearly all of their revenue comes from adtech. Just three platforms used by a billion people. Yahoo was also made possible by adtech, it was / is a brand known to over a billion people.

Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat - they only exist courtesy of their adtech.

Can you imagine how difficult it would be for Twitter to sustain itself with a paid model? There's such an extreme imbalance between the people that post regularly and are power users, vs people that just occasionally consume. The median user that reads a few tweets per day - at best - is never going to pay $60 or $100 per year for that product. Even if you have five million power users on there paying $100 per year, Twitter instantly goes bankrupt, they could never charge enough.
If a site has broken email validation and I absolutely positively NEED to use it, then I'll grudgingly create an explicit alias just for that site. Otherwise, I find a competitor that doesn't screw this up. In both cases, I end up passively-aggressively tweeting about the company's email validation, though.
Doesn't have to be Bash either, Python is pretty good for this too:

sorted(set(foo.strip.split(' '))) #although we need to open the file first

just to be on the safe side

Perl's not too shabby either for this kind of stuff :)
Have they got the following mostly right:

* Your age bracket;
* The fact that your net worth is positive (not deep in debt);
* Whether you live in a city / suburb / countryside;
* Which part of country is that;
* Your gender;
* Your race / ethnicity, broadly?

If so, they still have an immensely precise focus on you, compared to TV, radio, or paper media, even if they're mistaken about your cat.
Indeed. From her twitter post: "We started making websites because it was fun because we wanted to make dumb shit and now everything is so serious and sometimes I feel like we need to go back"

Leave it to an internet forum to get all gripey about something someone did for fun.

Theodor Adorno said about philosophy that, "Philosophy is the most serious of things but then again it is not that serious".

I'm pretty sure we can say the same thing about web development.

https://twitter.com/NikkitaFTW/status/995670345624555520
The best tier is about 30bps over fed funds or libor, doesn't matter in the current environment. I've seen better from major banks.

This is on top of the other downsides that I mentioned.

It would be fine if the financing terms were worse, but everything else was better as long as your total costs are lower.
I'm saying that the strftime() format specifiers for "basic things" are not hard, since they're mnemonics, and anyone who doesn't find it the least bit unusual to use %G instead of %Y when trying to print a year is not paying attention. I do not think the documentation is "needlessly complex".

In fact, I just asked someone who doesn't know programming at all, after giving her "%m %d %H %M %S" and saying it was a way of formatting a date, to guess how to add a year in front. She guessed... %y. That's actually the two-digit year, which is close enough --- the point is she didn't say %G or some other letter. I'd almost be willing to bet that if you repeated this exercise with many other non-programmers, you'd find the same result.

Then, why would someone be perfectly fine with using %G? To rebut the first sentence of the article, "I have another tale of humans being humans, and getting into trouble when using computer systems", this is not "humans being humans"; it's closer to the "intelligent human losing all semblance of critical thought when put in front of a computer" phenomenon, which certainly deserves further investigation.
Nothing. But, you should give to them too then. And sometimes people just have too much on their plate to give and you should be the one giving.
> He seems like more or less the archetype of the modern script kid (he was using other people's exploits --- and in an era where you could exploit a lot of vulnerabilities with simple shell scripts, no less). What makes you think otherwise?

"In his 2002 book, The Art of Deception, Mitnick states that he compromised computers solely by using passwords and codes that he gained by social engineering. He claims he did not use software programs or hacking tools for cracking passwords or otherwise exploiting computer or phone security." [1]

> When talking about his sentence, it's useful to compare it to that of Lewis DePayne, his accomplice. They're both charged with essentially the same crimes. But DePayne isn't going on a hacking spree while on supervised release, and gets probation.

You mean he didn't get caught, and DePayne went screwing with Mitnick's girlfriend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
My point is that you can't just conclude a prior that the capabilities could be matched by an orbiter. You need bigger and thus heavier optics to match the performance of a camera on the ground from orbit. The extra mass for the drone might be less than that needed for the larger optics.
Execution quality matters and given enough order flow a they can still match client orders to make a profit without giving a worse price than NBBO.
> Rather, the only other scalable options are far worse.

Is it really worse than "this article is about X, Y is related, let's show some ads for Y"?

I bet from the point of view of the advertisement middlemen it is not. Because they capitalize mostly on showing ads of products that people already decided to buy or are very near deciding. But that is yet another racquet that only decreases the value of the industry. My question is, from the point of view of the real advertisers (the ones selling something), is it really worse?
I don't think Rachel is incompetent. She had a brain-slip and is trying to blame it on some external factors.

"I can't explain why I didn't understand this simple, clear piece of documentation. But, aha, if the sections weren't sorted such that it came first before the common thing I was looking for, this wouldn't have happened."

It's just grasping at straws.

There is no way for a documentation writer to predict who will have a momentary brain lapse, reading what passage.

Putting something more toward the back of the document isn't a guarantee that someone won't trip up on it.
Maybe he was wrong and oversimplified relationships.
smallest device I program in C has 20 bytes of RAM
> Business models are arbitrary and orthogonal to services provided.

that doesn't change the fact that the business model depends on that orthogonal action. Is it unlawful for gyms to charge by subscription instead of per-use knowing that most people don't use them? Should the NYTimes be forced to go pay-per article instead of subscription? Should nightclubs not be allowed to overcharge the bottle?

> GDPR literally only outlaws being a huge asshole (in context of users' data).

It goes beyond that, by forcing you to serve people that don't agree to your business model.
Tangent: There’s a square power law for velocity due to wind resistance. People aren’t impressed that a pro bicyclist is going “only” twice as fast as them but that’s four times as strong, for three times as long.

If modern train engine produced 700 times as much power that’s only 26 times faster for the same cargo (don’t they pull more now?) And we do have trains that can go 260 km/hr... just not with cargo.

progress, man.
You can quite easily. Meat from a natural-death cow will be tougher - age and movement makes muscles fibres stronger. Also a dairy cow will be much leaner than beef cattle, a consequence of much energy going to milk production instead of fat storage. The flavour is also stronger and more gamey.

Another consideration is the breed - different cattle breads are used for meat and dairy. Most beef cattle are cross-breads between dairy and beef stock. Dairy breeds are less muscular and consequently have lower meat yields.

There's nothing dangerous about it, just unpalatable to most. In the regular market most goes to pet food.
This is not really a standard; nearly any behavior which is complicated is left undefined or expressed with vague, aspirational language ("an implementation should do this somehow, I dunno"). It doesn't look like regex implementers were consulted at any time.