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ANNOUNCE: Digital Trader - java/tcl/tk web agent (1997)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.tcl/5-KIZWGY...
Brought a smile to my face.

Outside of the silly nostalgia, I do appreciate the personal blog/websites that are very minimal in their theming, while still looking modern and clean.

The silly old geocities days were fun but, it's nice to have readable text too.
Like most code, this is way too easy in Perl 6.

> perl6 -e 'say "Life, the Universe and Everything".WHY'
42
Agreed on needing to be cross-platform. Evernote with this type of functionality would almost be there.
No. It's part of the calculation for the maximum fine.

The maximum fine is defined as €20,000,000 or 4% of your global anual turnover, whichever is largest.
You can see images load line by line today, if you throttle your network (either through Chrome devtools, or some external tool). Or just get a dialup modem, you probably have a provider you can reach, and the good ones can be plugged in through ethernet.
"We used to make websites because it was fun and at a point we lost the way."

Indeed.
I just shed a tear.

God, I miss Web 1.0.
No it will only make Google and Facebook richer while pushing anyone else to the bottom or off the edge of the list. Everything else is just wishful fantasy.
This sounds like a US legal case however, so I wouldn’t extrapolate this to odds of it being illegal worldwide.
Oh man, I love stuff like this. It's too bad that the web has been taken over by bootstrap, WordPress, and squarspace. But you can do a lot with raw html, css, and JavaScript! And as a bonus, it ends up looking really unique. It's sort of weird that whenever I show friends the dumb shit I make [1], their immediate reaction is lump it in with geocities.

[1] ex. http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz
I've been anticipating something like an ad-tech bubble pop for years -- most digital ads don't seem to add much by way of tangible value and hijack the decrease to information-acquisition costs that make the Internet a value-add on society.

Oh, I'm not saying no one was ever influenced by digital ads, only that the wholesale adoption appears to be driven less by an understanding of their lift and more by "fear of missing out" by companies.
3. The Unmotivated: People who are there "because it pays well" and for no other reason.

I don't see anything wrong with that. I started programming in the 80s in the 6th grade because I was the stereotypical "short fat kid with a computer". (I got better) but after a few years in the industry, the only reason I code is for the money. The only reason I keep learning is to stay employable. It's not for a higher calling, it's not to change the world, and I don't enjoy doing it enough to learn any technology that isn't in demand in my local market.
I'm not even "why idealize hackers". I remember being a teenager too. I'm saying, why Mitnick? What about his M.O. was ever interesting?
If true, it makes a very amusing reversal from the usual story. Rather than peddling their wares to suckers, the placers of the ads have themselves been suckered into buying a product that doesn't work as advertised!
Ask HN: Am I being shortsighted?
After joining a large multinational almost a year ago, I currently work on financial applications. One of my motivations for joining was the fact that there seemed to be a lot of room for advancement, promotions and several ladders to climb. Now I'm disillusioned by the process through which those promotions happen - /that taking on a new role within the company does not change your title or your salary, just your responsibilities. The promotion process is completely separate.

Last week a recruiter reached out to me with a very good opportunity on paper. The pay offered is $160k/year (60% premium from my current $100k/year) doing senior LAMP stack work (this in a low cost of living Texas city). It's a 1 year W-2 contract with benefits (not sure what those look like yet), adds one hour to my daily commute, and it sends me back to doing LAMP stack work; two years ago I couldn't muster offers for more than $85k/year with this skillset.

Another issue is that my team recently picked up a new project, and I'm doing a significant chunk of it. I don't want to burn any bridges or make my manager look bad and potentially get blacklisted since later on I would like to rejoin the company at a more senior role.

But the way I see it, I work to provide for my family, and a place that gives me over 50% salary bump makes that easier. I've entertained the idea of doing W-2 contracts since my tenures tend to be short anyway; I'm an effective developer, communicate well and focus on delivering business value - I tend to feel that I outgrow my responsibilities quickly.

What are some things I should be asking this recruiter? Am I looking a gift horse in the mouth by questioning the tech stack and future employment prospects? Or am I being shortsighted in considering leaving a place that's currently dominating its industry for a larger paycheck?
Kind of a flyer here, but perhaps Draper has been advised to stake out this position as still being a "true believer" because it minimizes his litigation exposure in the case he sold some of shares before the SEC case/investigation became public knowledge.
> There's almost no feasible way to do this demo live: Google had to get permission of the participants to make and use the recording.

Apart from - "We'd like to call you next wednesday to demo some phone technology - it'll just be a normal booking call, but it will be recorded and go out live on stage. Is that OK?'
I have managed to achieve friendships with the best aspects of both situations you mention, by renting a large house with five of my college friends right after school. We met due to shared interests and we routinely have deep conversations in the evenings. And now we also do a lot of things together, since we're the obvious people to approach to fulfill social needs, that we're developing strong bonds.
Just throttle your router settings for download/upload - have fun!

In all seriousness though, people designing websites should be given the shittiest connections possible and old computers (between 5 and 10 years old). Maybe then we'll end up with websites that haven't got more JS than content, broken CSS and images that push the page download over several megabytes.
I swore I was going to try to not post on HN today (it's Mother's Day), and this is a little off-topic, a little.

I was watching car accident videos on youtube yesterday (I got sucked in and couldn't look away. I lost two hours.)

Almost all of them were due to someone doing something obviously stupid or wrong: turning without checking for oncoming traffic; passing unsafely; over-correcting and then losing control; mis-judging clearance with stationary obstacles; tailgating; etc...

It occurred to me, what if we program the robot cars (and can we please call them "auto-autos"!?) just so that they won't engage in dangerous behaviour? The basic idea is, if the way is not clear, slow down.

What I mean is, it may just be Too Hard to make a robot drive a car like a car; but it should be already possible to make a safety vehicle that prevents human error.
"I'm sorry, Jeff, you know I like you. I enjoy our chats, we had a great time at the game last week. I love your stories, and we are definitely on for Venezuela. I just have a lot of other friends and you just didn't make the cut."

"You called me out to lunch to tell me this?"

"No - I need you to tell Katie and Tom that they're out too, and maybe see if you can get an email address from them. I don't have any other contact for them."

"... Fuck Katie and Tom. And fuck you. Pass the syrup."

"Sorry. It's nothing personal..."

"You know you're down around #140-150 on my list too."

"Jeff I see you only have 37 friends on here. Why do you think you're out? You're making me look bad."

"You know fuck you. At least those other 36 people are ones I can count on. They're the ones who will be at my wedding"

"Actually you can't make events until you have 50 friends."

"What the fuck!!"

"Sorry. Oh. Look on the bright side, Jeff, it says your fiancee just unfriended you. You can always try living as a hermit, it's like your natural talent."
They can know how many people, as long as they don't store personal information. Keeping a counter doesn't require consent.
> And there they have remained, even after China was united under Communist rule, grinding out an existence of profound rural poverty and isolation.

I would say especially after that, knowing how that played out. I'd prefer rural poverty and isolation from the CPC over universal poverty and pragmatic social isolation from my neighbours and my own children (!) any day, I don't know about you.
Yes, it explicitly mentions it, because it's actually very often true. Of course there are plenty of examples where it would be extremely difficult to link to an individual, but there are tonnes of examples where it's extremely easy. GDPR says that because it's sometimes easy, you have to consider it personal data.

Again, it's not always saying an IP address is a personal identify. It just is often enough.
Consent isn't the only lawful basis for processing personal data.
What if Google emotionally bribed people? eg "For every month you have targeted ads enabled, we will donate 10 cents to [INSERT CHARITY]."
I'm not disagreeing with vilmosi, I just want to add that I think it's important to really talk things through, instead of just being baffled/angry that some people have different ethical views.

It has long come to my attention that the way we engineers look at ads differs a lot from what average people think. A lot of average people like ads. Many of them are actively interested in the latest deals. Example: I disabled ads in one of the apps my mother was using because "obviously" they are annoying. My mother became annoyed and wanted them back because she's always on the lookout for discounts. My wife wants me to sign up for snail mail advertisements from local businesses because she too is interested in discounts and new goods.

Don't fall into this trap of thinking that people universally hate ads, or that everybody perceive ads as brainwashing them into buying stuff they don't want.
I guess the point was that it's still not the same thing. Sure you can do a whole lot of things with emacs if you configure it properly, but configuring everything to work together takes much more time than a complete feature set that is already included.
Doesn't it just prove the parent's point? When the pound fell by 10%, everyone remembers the specific date; Bitcoin fluctuates every few days by that much, and no one cares. I certainly my wouldn't use Bitcoin for anything important.
I think that is coming back, however, as the whole fake Amazon review scandal continues to play out and demonstrate that anonymous reviews in an open digital marketplace are no replacement for a trusted brand. Not better and not worse, whether it is reviews or brands, at the end of the day its simply another way to gauge 'potential' product quality. Sometimes good brands screw you over with shitty products, sometimes bad manufacturers hire fake reviewers to shill for them.
Presumably you're spending your free time following your interests and passions, which have some overlap with your work.

Sounds like she follows the needs of her job. The tangential, part-overlap enthusiast is always going to get toasted by the person going full on what's needed.
Nevermind LN, regular tx fees are virtually zero at the moment.

https://transactionfee.info/charts/feerate/median
There are subtle differences between them. I saw one where a French contractor set up a superdome using Europe/Paris, while the server was located in Europe/Brussels.

Turns out there is a period of a few months in I think 1937 where there is a 1 hour difference between them. This messed up birth dates: People get born the day before, at 23:00.

So our software encountered an unholy trinity of bugs,legacy and the oracle SOAP stack. Unless all servers have the same time zone, these people got the birth day mangled when passing data between servers. Which means that superdome infected the time zone for every server created after it.
The rumor is that both the Cruz campaign and the Trump campaign found Cambridge Analytics' products to not work as advertised.
Ask them candidly what they thought your project was when they clicked and signed up, and what they're disappointed in and wish was part of it but isn't (yet).

GLHF!
Don't forget progressive JPGs, which loads the entire height of the image over and over with gradually increasing detail.
This is a native macOS and iOS app?
Tracking cookies gave the ability for small advertisers to understand their customers and their other consumption in ways that only the largest marketers could.

The author thinks big brands are everything and can't see how letting smaller players sell to customers could help the economy. He uses an arbitrary standard of privacy to argue on the behalf of the largest household brands. I think he's missing the forest for the trees.
Can't you start a new kind of targeting, instead of tracking and analyzing the users you use your past expertise plus your data from non EU countries and profile the content, so on cat pictures you know what ads work well, on car sites you know what ads work, it would make more sense then seeing an IDE ad on a porn site.
Also Vietnam internet is ludicrously good, it far outstrips anything America has to offer.

People bringing up Vietnam in a perjorative sense don’t understand how good Vietnam internet is.
I realize this is a late reply. GE Capital was a loan organization. Marcus also offers checking and savings accounts, which were built in-house at Goldman Sachs. I interviewed for a job to work on the project.
It's often repeated, but this is a silly slogan. It's not either-or. Subscription magazines have ads. There is nothing preventing a business from making money from users and ads, and if anything, a subscription makes it easier to know who your users are, so the ads are more valuable to advertisers.

Some business models require this; most newspapers wouldn't be in business without both subscription and ad sales.

Windows 10 is apparently a case in point: it's not free and it has ads.
>not writing pure HTML to make this
Me too: https://www.omfgdogs.com/ SSL cert WTF?

LOL, laters
It already is shit?

Web 1.0 was peak internet, when creativity was alive before normies and corporations started making every website 200MB of ad-loading javascript.
Ireland Investigates Cervical Cancer Screening Scandal
Yes but complying with that regulation is a larger up front cost, which raises the barrier to entry.
Probably depends on what the "commands" are.

You could also do it with two Node.js functions (from npm packages).

The presumption is that the available library is limited, though exactly how limited depends on the interviewer.

Plenty of times I've chosen a language because of a particular function in its standard library, only to be told that function can't be used.
In the U.S., "The Expanse" was picked up by Amazon Prime. It used to be that the Amazon Prime web page(s) heavily promoted it in both the top banner rotation of shows to check out and in the initially shown listings of shows under various categories ("Popular TV Shows", "Noteworthy...", "Trending...", whatever).

That's how I came across the show, after initially ignoring those placements for a few months because I didn't know how good it was and I wasn't in the mood for e.g. another "monsters" sci fi show (something I'd come to associate the SyFy channel with).

So, I watched season 1. Not too long after, season 2 launched. Amazon Video U.S. (integrated into the Prime video pages, or vise versa) had a "purchase" option for "day after broadcast" access. I purchased it and watched it. I don't remember how heavily it was promoted on the Amazon pages; I think there was at least some promotion.

Some time later, I revisited, wondering about that status of season 3. It turned out that U.S. Prime had picked up season 2. I was surprised as I'd seen absolutely zero promotion to that effect. Maybe because I'd already purchased season 2, but I'm far from certain about this.

Season 3 is now underway. And you can purchase "day after broadcast" access to it on U.S. Prime. Despite having watched both season 1 and 2, and actually paying Amazon for season 2, I've seen not one instance of promotion or listing of season 3, on U.S. Prime/Video web pages. Not one promotional email from them. Nada.

I was rather surprised at this. Amazon endlessly nags me to purchase things I'm not interested in (as well as a few that might interest me). And yet they make zero effort to upsell me on something I've already purchased?

Draw your own conclusion. To me, it seems as if they are for some reason actually actively hostile towards the show, now.
was gonna say this isn't mobile friendly but i guess that's the point
The subsystems, which I perceive in myself, don't have interesting goals (food) or don't have separate goals at all (motion planning). What's the point of thinking of them as real entities? I don't have independently acting models of other people in my mind, only the model of myself.

Well, language generation subsystems sometimes generates ambiguous statements, which can be perceived as condescending or offensive, but I'm weeding that out.
> It's about preserving rights of individuals.

I'm not sticking up for all the big data perverts, but what about an individuals right to speak freely and disclose information they have observed/recorded? The 'right to be forgotten' seems at odds with everyone else's right to remember and disclose occurances.
For me, it specifically brought a smile to my face, made it yellow, and put visible hearts in my eyes :).
Let me un-baffle you: It's not personal if the data is anonymous. If in the evening you leave your porch and have a list of: 5 blonde, 6 raven, 5 brunette and 2 redhead, nobody's personal rights where violated. Hair color alone is not personal data.
Reminds me of lingscars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZZ1c7diUI
Ypu can track as much as you want but let me know that you are recording my browser screen, my mouse movement, you try to fingerprint my browser using maybe bugs in the browser, so basically inform me, we can see the tracking code so is better you explain on how you use the data then the users to guess.
Al Jazeera open-sources InterviewJS, turns interviews into interactive chats
Learning org-mode plus enough emacs to use it is vastly more difficult than learning OneNote, and the macOS and iOS versions of OneNote are also quite good (it's not at all Windows-only). You may also export to various other formats and it's not text only; sometimes notes aren't only text but include images or handwriting (which can be OCRed and searched).
Isn't it mostly confusion with the Signal XSS report? The Trustwave thing doesn't come out and say any particular app is vulnerable.
I love the point the site is trying to make but I'm confused as to why this is built with a vue.js static site generator requiring node/npm/yarn and an almost 7,000 line yarn.lock file.

Shouldn't this literally be a single page, hand-built HTML file with inline CSS? Is this trying to be self-ironic or something?
Wow... that brought back memories.
I have visited a drugstore to buy some vitamins yesterday. They have handled me a touch-screen where I had to check a checkbox (saying that I agree to allow my medicines shopping history to be stored and analyzed to track my health (which I obviously don't want them to do actually)) and an electronic signature tablet with a stylus where I had to put my signature. This was a mandatory condition for continuing using a discount card that gives bonuses when you buy meds. I could opt-out but this would mean I won't be given discounts any more.
What is responsiveness?
>would be interpreted by many as some variation of "I'm a horny creep who loves tits".

Which mental sinuosities must one cross to get from OP's statement to "horny creep who loves tits". Do you think loving tits makes one a horny creep? Is it the creepiness that is not okay, or the horniness? Are non horny creeps okay? What do you have against tits? Is that not sexist? Is that not called projection or some other similar word? These are all valid questions given that to get from OP's statement to your thought would be quite a feat, even for a Tolkien's character.

>"wonderful women" is also broad and implies "many" (as opposed to "my wife", "my two amazing sisters", "my best friend Lisa").

>So an unforgiving interpretation of it leans towards "yum I love women and I love lots of em".

And whether it's his sisters or his friend Lisa our business how exactly? Would it be okay if it were his sisters? Why would it be okay for these women to be his sisters/wife? Do you have something against poly people? Would you go as to discriminate against them? If so, who else would you discriminate against because they do not conform to your view on who it is okay to spend hours and give love to and who is not good enough for love?

>Especially in this climate where saying "hi" to the wrong person at the wrong time can easily score you a "sexual harassment complaint".

Do you not think that the kind of interpretations and projections above exacerbate that climate?

And if that "climate" were a company, why would anyone want to spend the tiniest amount of time in that kind of environment, except to avoid starvation.

>If someone is looking for a job they should work to minimise those not to add on to it by saying "I like to spend wonderful hours with wonderful women to give them all my love".

If someone is about to starve, maybe. If not, it's a waste of life to spend most of one's waking hours with people who are like that.
I think we also have to be willing to push back. Answering emails provides a nice dopamine hit (check something off + people-pleasing), so it's both cultural and internal.

One of the ways I've been most successful blocking out time for focused work is booking accountability appointments on Focusmate (https://www.focusmate.com).

That reduces the amount of space in my schedule for distractions and emails to absorb.
Quite a few people believed the NSA were collecting everything, but I agree that quantifying what you don't know is challenging. Even so, you often don't need to precisely quantify each outcome so long as you can calculate a relative difference between the various outcomes you are aware of. Most questions in daily lifehave order of magnitude differences between them.
Completely oblivious and ignorant here:

If a company has no official office in Europe, how does this affect them? All advertisement and business focus is say only in the US, is it business as usual? What if an EU citizen decides to sign up?

Are US companies forced to deny customers not par of say an IP block (half assed method I know, but just speaking in general)?
There's a lot more stuff to do with ML and make money than ad targeting
Piwik has several blog post about this very topic, for example: https://matomo.org/blog/2017/09/gdpr-potential-consequences-...

You can disable the tracking parts in Piwik, or you can assume a legal stance under one of the 6 exceptions like "Legitimate interests" (https://matomo.org/blog/2018/04/lawful-basis-for-processing-...).
Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll
What is data visualization for?
I might have done this:

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html

to an entire business division for a while. Might have.