skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was not "front end", that was webpages. There was no "back end" and no business, the webpage was the whole thing. And you were not paid as a "front end engineer" or even a "designer", in fact you were not paid at all, you were just some guy making a webpage.
I did not know any of this. Thank you for adding this.
Mostly because "100W/hr" doesn't really mean anything sensible? If you wanted to write "100W" like "100W·hr/hr", that would be fine.
> Again, it's not always saying an IP address is a personal identify. It just is often enough.

Well, that's not what you said or implied. I'm just thinking of all the cases in the US were the defense is you can't assume that an IP address ties to a specific person. Anyone could use the computer, or someone could attach to an open wifi.

Basically, if the legal argument is the IP address can be associated with a person, that raises legal concerns.
Way to miss the point.
I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the cameras at Walmart are for security only. I don't believe Walmart is using facial-recognition technology to identify visitors, track their behaviors (which aisles they visit, how long they look at specific products, etc.) and then using it to other retailers for them to then target those visitors with ads.
This link shows what's all wrong with the Microsoft Windows programming and command line ecosystem. Look at all the web-based Unix/Linux manual page services (such as https://linux.die.net/man/1/install or https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ls&sektion=1 etc.) around and fabolous services built on top such as https://explainshell.com/

This is what you can get from the community when you build an open, transparent infrastructure.

I say this from my personal experience: As a young child I wanted to program my Windows 95 computer but I could not find any documentation about how to do that. I switched to Linux some day in my youth and was enlightened with all the documentation about the versatile tools it brought out of the box (I used perl and bash in these days).
Sometimes, guaranteeing freedom for one party requires taking away freedom/rights from another party. For example freedom from slavery means taking away the right to have slaves. Society has to make a choice: which one is more important? In case of GDPR, the EU has chosen: the privacy of citizen is more important than business concerns.
Tools come with overhead and complexity. You're right that only the end results matter. But (eg.) loading time is one aspect of it.
It might well be that, I've run into a few people with the ability to ruthlessly focus on the problem at hand often by reframing the problem in a way that people didn't expect.

A couple of them where so far ahead of me it was like teaming up with a different species.

I don't buy the 10x developer stuff but I'd certainly put them in the 1.5x-2x category, We ended up working well together though I'd naturally take the "flesh this out, make it bullet proof, document it" side and they'd do the more creative part (it's not that I couldn't do it as well, it was just they'd do that in half the time).

I learnt a lot working with them.
This sadly sounds like a rip off of the venerable Bielefeld Conspiracy[0], just reapplied to an entire country.

I have once entertained starting a conspiracy theory saying that unix shell pipes were originally created to allow piping fortune to cowsay.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy
huh? Since when was making blinking text and displaying clip arts fun? Even back in the day, you knew web as a platform was handicapped, when compared to the awesome expressiveness of Macromedia Flash.
If you dont have money, materials, or employees flowing through Europe there is very little they could do to you even if you actively flaunted the law. They could always block access to your site, or even try to sanction your business but unless they are willing to invade your country to physically stop you they don't have very many options.

There is always the chance that your own government will enforce EU rulings against you but at that point either your own government thinks GPDR should be enforced or you're in a very weak country and are going to have to capitulate to the EUs power anyway, much like small Latin American countries were forced to follow US policies
Ameritrade is a really bad broker. excessively high fees..all sorts of shady stuff with option order fill. Tons of online complaints. I have not used Robinhood but I cannot imagine it being worse than TDAmeritrade or any broker being worse than TDAmeritrade. If you trade with sums larger than $50k, use a professional broker such as Interactive Brokers, which institutional clients use.
Needs a hit counter at the bottom of the page. Also, a webring link. Really, we should bring back webring links.
That's a good point, in general.

In this case, I think there may be a few additional factors.

In the U.S., at least, many may view $20 as a "throwaway" level purchase to improve the assembly effort of the furniture they're purchasing/assembling.

Assembly is frustrating. A power tool and appropriate bits help, but then negotiating a cord takes it back somewhat in a negative direction. Plus, it's probably difficult and expensive to made and sell such a drill with a usefully long power cord. So, the purchaser then also need to negotiate acquiring and using an extension cord. And, you don't want them using the cord they use for that lamp in the corner; the drill's potential draw likely exceeds the rating of the extension cord most users will end up plugging it into.

IKEA has some language on the cordless drill's page specifically describing it being engineered to avoid idle battery drain.

People love cordless. Cordless sells. Many of them have no clue about what you describe, and meanwhile, cordless sells. :-/
I wouldn’t call it bribery - Bing will make a donation if you get enough Bing points. I’ll be generating £3 for the Special Olympics this month (or I could have chosen a £5 voucher in the Microsoft store).
Real elections have real stakes. Eurovision is just a song contest. Who really cares who wins? You get some glory, and in exchange you have to organise the event the next year.

During the 1990s, Ireland won so much that at some point they were hoping to lose, because they couldn't afford to win again.

But win a real election and you get to set laws and make decisions worth billions of dollars, and influence the lives of millions of people. They couldn't be more different.
How can AB testing work without storing personally identifiable information?
You are begging the question.
> We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way

I know this is just some little tongue in cheek joke, but I can't help but vehemently disagree with this.

Never did we only make websites just "because it was fun" any more or less than we do now.
Surely if it was good enough for time-cube guy, it should be good enough for us.
>They haven’t “won” anything yet...a high private unicorn valuation doesn’t mean success.

We could debate what "success" means endlessly, but if you're a VC, your job is to put money in companies with low valuations that will eventually end up with high valuations.
Why are people obsessed with companies rights? Do they not have enough already?

There's an asymmetry between what a company can do politically/legally given it's resources and what an individual can do. This is why countries generally have some kind of laws protecting consumers.

Security cameras recording footage and it not being used in 99.999% of the time when no crime occurs is fine. The tapes aren't kept forever. Just as having server logs to identify malicious actors i.e. hackers or scammers is fine. What's not fine is e.g. running facial recognition on the security camera footage, or figuring out who bought what (cough Amazon Go).
That's not surprising because all the tools we had to make these horrible, ugly sites were pre-css and often browser specific items that would only work on say ie4.
Beautiful code is simple maintainable code. In C this is a simple as:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
puts("42");
return 0;
}
Although it initially seems kind of scummy, isn't this better than the majority of ad services anyway? In exchange for selling your medical data, you get a discount. It's essentially getting paid for sharing your data.

Of course if it's essential medication which people can't afford without the discount then that's another matter, but otherwise it seems kind of fair to me. And it gets a bit more complicated if you're in America where that data is going to be used by health insurance to adjust your premiums.
Reminds me of the Bloomberg tech site, which had a lot of effort put into its 'brutalist' design to look like a 1995-era web page.
The Pirating Elephant in Uncle Sam's Room
That is just beautiful :)
Cool! I like the simplicity.

If anyone wants to play, I've made a town for us.

https://residents.hypertext.town/join/hackernews
Margin trading..the real money-maker. Charge clients 8%/year for a loan that costs you 3%.
>My teeth have always been terrible, would you mind sharing a link or two to the research?

Edit: I had to redo this comment because I mis-read your comment. Here's the story including comments.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16432024
Really fun idea, playing with it now!
Were there others as high profile at the time? He might have just been the first widely known when “hacking” and the Net was new for a lot of people.
That is not the case. The "right to be forgotten" is not absolute. There are lawful bases for processing under which the right to be forgotten does not apply.

Go read GDPR article 17.3, it's easy to read. A few things for which the right to forgotten does not apply:

- exercising the right of freedom of expression and information

- for compliance with a legal obligation (e.g. keeping records for tax reporting)

- for public interest reasons related to health, science, historical research

Seriously, there is too much FUD about the GDPR.
I think you are making something like a soft-continuum fallacy. What I'm talking about is picking up girls in destitute poverty situations, in which they'd either starve and live in economic insecurity or date you. That is objectionable. It's different than being wealthy and dating someone who is economically secure but perhaps not as wealthy as you.

Personally, I think trying to buff your sexual appeal using your wealth is kind of silly, but I understand it happens and I don't judge (in a moral way) people in the latter case I pointed out in the last paragraph.
Shhhh... Or my boss will hear you
That article says that they (claim) they have fixed it. And Microsoft released Surface Book 2 a couple of months after that article, as well.
The distinction is that violating someone's rights is almost always unethical. Breaking the law is less so.
A great move for Google would be to treat notifications in Android as Google Now cards; i.e have some machine learn if it is relevant content. Observing if the user has opened the notification, and also offer more feedback options in the long press menu.

IMHO, best results would be obtained by letting the apps emit their own feature vectors to be fed to the learner. Google could aggregate these among all their users. App creators would learn to provide features that actually inform of a kind of proposed interaction. Failing to do so would boot them out of this users' "attention market".

I receive about 20 useless facebook notification for a relevant one (mainly when someone is talking to me in the fb chat). Facebook could clearly publish the following along to the learner with each notification:

* is it a chat message?

* is it from someone I have talked to recently?

* is it from a cluster of users that talks to each other frequently that I am part of

* a representation of the cited cluster above

* location of the content (with some additional feature engineering from the phone, who knows if I've been there previously)

* it is a photo/video/text?

* a doc2vec vector if it is text content

* an image embedding if it is a photo

etc.

I believe this could reduce the amount of notifications by a solid order of magnitude, while not lowering the usefulness value too much. We would suffer way less hijacking, and reduce our addiction of the mindless novelty-seeking kind.
Thanks, that's very interesting! I wasn't aware that IP address is considered personal data under GDPR... That seems exploitable...
I have tried to design a similar workflow using OmniOutliner, but miserably failed. I'm using it for basic todos and one line notes but it is nowhere close to this functionality.
When in dilemma, always choose the work which pays the most.
Except that Cook has literally said, on a public call no less, that he doesn't care what the shareholders think if the decisions they make aren't in the best interest of their customers.

I think a big issue for me, and for others on here, is that we're no longer Apple's demographic. Their machines work for me still so I'm not in the same boat as most but Apple is now making computers for everyone, not just the creative professionals or developers. The things we don't care about (Touch Bar, for example) are things that I'm constantly hearing good things about from others. In my case, I actually love the TB because it's great for Final Cut and any other media tools I use.

Apple is the one company where "shareholder value" is not a driving factor.
AB testing doesn't require personally identifiable information.
I was hoping for at least one dancing baby.
I don't think so, even if it was only stored that way the government will still have (name, dob, hospital) info for most citizens saved in some db/list making it easy to recreate the link back to the real person with pretty high accuracy I would assume.
I don't know, honestly. Likely the way he was written about more then what he did. I went by pop descriptions, uninformed irc debates, the book, etc, so I think that any answer to your question is more cultural then technical/factual.

The way hacking or lying your way somewhere seemed to be socially proof of ones superiority and something admired by others. For a time I really thought there is something aspiring and cool about hacking. And that people who do it are all definitely inherently smarter then me, but it kinda felt bad to try and my parents would be disappointed so I never tried. I had not the same impression about other types of crime. And it stopped the moment I had closer light weight contact with that culture.

Oddly, i simultaneously believed that techies are inherently more ethical them "managers" and "politicians". I did not even wanted to believe that veev could be nazi, so strong the bias toward hacker in trouble therefore cool was.
That sounds very intrusive. We should consider the privacy ramifications before tracking our users like that.
I'm not arguing against consumer protection and asking for consent. I'm arguing against stupidly burdensome regulation that practically makes ads as a monetization scheme impossible.
She is, but somehow it really came to life after I've seen Shohreh Aghdashloo character. In books there's a lot of other powerful characters Naomi, Amos, Miller, Fred Johnson, but IMHO in series Avasarala totally steals the show.
Needs more dancing hamsters.
I'm always impressed how much faster you can go compared to a naive algorithm - if you know what you are doing. This clocks in at 730x and that might not be the peak.

Compare: The original steam enginge trains went I believe 10km/h, so if it received the same level of speedup, it reaches somehere between mach 5 and 10. You can classify this algorithm as hypersonic ;-)
Cool, I think it would be nice if you could search case insensitive too.
Web pages used to be amazingly creative, with terrible usability. Now they're the exact opposite. Usability is good, but they all look the same.

I wonder what social sciences have to say about this. About public opinion swinging from one extreme to the other, never seeming to be able to land on the sane middle.
Computer vision and machine learning positions at Lyft's self driving program
It's a very indirect relationship to how much the exchange makes.
Focus groups are always made with the consent of the participants, though. You can still use tracking cookies if you also get consent.
I don't find it surprising that they can't find a correlation between GDP/growing user base/IPv4 stress and IPv6 deployment.

IPv6 deployment is a matter of politics. It depends on the opinions of the network personnel, on the hardware they have in their core network, on the hardware their customers have (CPEs), on the support contracts they have, etc. That's what decides whether they put a CGNAT in place, whether they buy more IPv4 addresses, or whether they deploy IPv6.
Ethereum proof-of-stake only has to work well enough: Worse is Better in action
> What's your source?

The ICO. I've called them up, and they've confirmed their 2011 interpretation of personal data:

https://ico.org.uk/media/for-organisations/documents/1591/pe...

An IP address is "personal data" in the same way that "lifestyle information" or a "location" is. That someone can combine an IP address with other information to personally identify someone is important, but it doesn't prevent me from logging personal data.
You're right, if a EU resident decides to visit your website and you're tracking them (Google Analytics etc) you have to comply with GDPR when handling his/her data. The IP block has a logic to it because the law applies to people in the EU rather than EU citizens.
considering how popular it is, i think the high valuation is here to stay . Regular online brokers have, for years, been charging clients too much, with arbitrary fees, almost as a form of collusion .Robinhood breaks this cartel up, much like Uber broke up the taxi cartel.
Browser Verification
London, vs the rest of the UK has always been one or two steps (depending on Bath vs Sheffield..) above in absolute terms of "class"/wealth for my entire life, this is just more of the same from that standpoint..

The entropy can only increase and nobody with any modicum of power has any incentive to fix it.

And it's a constant feedback loop because more investment goes to London and therefor it attracts more money and because there's more money it attracts more investment.

From a personal standpoint: I'm an above average earner but my quality of life in London is substantially worse than anywhere else I'd live (probably excluding San Francisco), we're coming towards a time where only the wealthy can live there, and the proles who actually do the hard work (cooking, cleaning, assistants, low-mid level employees) will need to be shuttled in from further afield.

The reason I mention that is because I was nearly paying 1.3k/mo for someones basement room in 2011, that same room is now on the market for twice that, I can't imagine how anyone can be comfortable paying that much for such a basic accommodation.
I think there is a function to "boring" website design. For the purpose of communication, it is great that we have a common dialogue, as boring as that may be.

People recognize buttons, textboxes, tabs, etc and knows how to use them. There are certain expectations of where certain elements would be on a site and that allows us to navigate quicker.

There should also be people who are pushing the boundaries of what design can look like, but I don't think that necessarily needs to be a majority.
Yeah you're right. Ranking big, faceless, multinational corporations on who does the most bad when they all do lots of it is really hard. MS does have a lot of dark pattern garbage going on.
This was nostalgic fun - thanks.
I'm not sure that's true. The internet has largely shifted away from using customizable www sites for personal expression in the way people used to. Much of this activity has now moved to Facebook et al.
I don't really enjoy programming as much as I use to. I enjoy "building systems". I've enjoyed building software departments, building network infrastructure in AWS, building autoscale systems and finding ways to avoid the drudgery of building stuff and leveraging pre existing building blocks that allow me to avoid the "undifferentiated heavy lifting". I take a perverse joy out of being able to rip out code that I wrote after finding a package on the internet that does the same thing.

I'm not saying I don't enjoy development - but as a part of building the system.

If I can find a hosted solution for a piece of infrastructure, I jump on it. I'm all in on "serverless".

I would fail any algorithm type interview these days. I'm just not interested in algorithms. I'm much more interested in leveraging libraries/frameworks/infrastructure providers to get things done.
But does Microsoft send repair techs and knowingly sell replacement parts and consumables?
Yes it's absolutely true, insofar as I do not have to obtain someone's consent to have logs of their IP address (which is what we're talking about[1])

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17060280

The GDPR requires informing of use, transmitting preference, and protecting rights, of things that can potentially identify an individual, but this is easy to accommodate by simply not being an asshole. You're not under any requirement to actually identify an individual with your IP log.
> "Shush" and "Wind Down" are already on Samsung phones, and FB is in good relations with Samsung (see oculus), so doubt this would be Facebook killer.

How are they called? (Looking at my S9 and can't find anything similar.)
Maybe still ISPs suffer poor field reports.

I was client at "Kabel Deutschland, Germany" and they offer native IPv6 for their customers, with "Dual stack lite" as the routing option to reach the IPv4 world. It performed poorly for me, perhaps due to bad load balancing of the IPv4-gateways. I switched to a buisness plan (+10EUR/month) of the same ISP and now have an own static IPv4 adress and not even native access to IPv6 any more. This is a clear statement how they think about their IPv6 support.
They charge $10 a month if you have less than $100k though.
Or you could avoid adtech and misleading clickbait, which everyone hates
Due to a dilution error, I did 3000µg once.

The point of mentioning "liquid LSD" (typically in 80% ethanol) is that it was usually the purest available. And easiest to verify purity. It should be colorless. And a sample containing 500µg should leave no visible residue when dried on glass. Common adulterants would be present at much higher concentrations. Unless some jerk added fentanyl or Botulinum toxin :(
I was just browsing Tilde Club [1] and then came here. Nice to see this on the HN homepage.

[1] http://tilde.club/
I bet it's insanely hard to get approval to build highrise luxury condos in London, especially when to do so you have to tear down historical buildings--and practically every building in Central London is historic. This seems like a sensible, if extravagant solution. I just hope they're considering how underground buildings might affect the structural stability of what's built on top.
Success generally means a future liquidity event...an IPO with a sustained share price well above what you bought in for or a sale.
I said they can be used to identify an individual in a moment in time. That's correct.

Can it always identify an individual? No. Is the standard of identification good enough for a criminal case? Certainly not. But why are you comparing these? The GDPR is a standard about privacy and data protection; a UK postcode (like a zip code in the US) is considered personal data for exactly the same reason.
Facebook believes I'm african-american (I'm not)