skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment to which I was replying claimed that it was necessary for publishers to adopt RSS. I'm pretty sure they were thinking that, if RSS had some kind of standard way to increase the probability of ads being seen, publishers would adopt it more widely (and that's probably true).

My point is that feed content can already include ads as regular text or images or whatever. Feed readers and aggregators complicate ad-tracking, but not ads themselves (like what newspapers and magazines have used for decades [or centuries]). Some of my favorite feeds are sites with plain ads and the advertisers seem to be targeting the site's audience instead of individuals. That seems to work well enough given that it's existed in its current form for several years now at least.

> And if users need to spend considerable effort to distinguish ads from actual content, the tech-platform will soon die due to angry mobs.

We're probably writing past each other. I think you're imagining a much more widespread adoption of RSS in which this would be a real problem. Or maybe I'm just weird. But I don't see the problem with, e.g. following a feed of someone's Twitter activity that includes an (obvious) ad every n feed items for some suitable value of n. And my imagined world wouldn't require any changes to RSS.
That wasn't the EU's fault; that was purely and 1000% the fault of the websites that implemented them and chose to do a half-assed job of it.
They did the demo behind closed doors, and the actual demo itself was not rendered with the Sega CD, though they made it seem that way by placing a CD in the machine and starting it up.

The actual demo was full-motion full-screen video about a time travelling kid from the future going back in time to get a Sega CD because it was so advanced.

It was amusing, but when the device actually hit with much inferior video quality all of us who saw it realized it was fake.

Sad really - I wanted that system to succeed at the time.
Looks like this book heavily intersects with "Probability and Computing: Randomization and Probabilistic Techniques in Algorithms and Data Analysis" by Mitzenmacher/Upfal [0].

[0] https://books.google.com/books?id=E9UlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1&source...
Many of the great old East Coast fortunes were built
on opium smuggling.

Very interesting indeed. Could you please list a few or point to a link that does?
You've never explained what your criteria is. Just that you didn't want to include D.
> If he is basically immune to most lawsuits

He's not (barring reversal on appeal) immune, or this case would never have reached a judgement.

> On the other hand, if the judge wanted to see this change, requiring Twitter to both remove (his) block button and unblock all existing users (from his account only) would more likely happen.

Judges don't have unlimited freedom to arbitrarily issue orders directing labor of nonparties to a case just because they suspect s party might not respect the judgement. There are, in any case, processes for addressing failure of a party to respect a judgement, which Trump is no more immune to regarding this judgement than he is to the case resulting in the judgement.
You are focusing on the wrong things. You are so lucky to feel "empty". If you take some time to think about how hard people work just for a pittance, how they work physically demanding and mentally-stressing jobs that pay little to nothing, you can't help but be grateful for your situation.

And with the inevitable AI revolution just around the corner, many non-tech jobs (mostly all) will be obsolete. You will still have a job.
Yes, Apple gets most of the parts for their devices from 3rd parties but they work hard to obfuscate everything. They get their own part numbers for everything and often times even special firmware images for controllers that cause those parts to behave differently.
Once a Thief? On the Vyne Ring (2017)
This is incredibly impressive.

You also built one of my favorite unique sites (share latex).

I’m curious and have a few questions:

- how did you manage 5 prospects per day? That seems like an incredible amount of work that would break up my flow. Is this more like one day a week of hitting up 30 leads? Where did you find all of these prospects?

- why did you choose a 3 pronged approach of blog post, personal site AND consulting site? What’s the incremental value of the other two given one?

- can you describe, or give any links about value based fixed cost pricing?
I want to know how this court plans to enforce this ruling. Or are we just going to accept that the president is above the law when he declines to follow the ruling and keeps blocking people? I bet it'll be the latter.
> Depending on the organization

We're talking about a school here.

If a school has to say, "We can't appoint our IT-person, because they're also the one aggregating and profiling the data-profiles of our students for advertisers, so it would be a conflict of interest," that school has bigger problems than GDPR compliance.
+1 For Charles. One damn fine piece of software.
Isn't it mentioned? If you're looking at the plans page just click until you get to "Choose a License" and it's listed as a feature ("Broadcast: TV, Radio & Online") under the premium licenses.
> "you can love your country and hate your government"

Reminds me of Russia very much. Self-proclaimed "patriots" standard response to any critics of government is "you just hate everything Russian".
His official communications are in fact required to comply with federal records law. Obviously that’s not the same as being public now but they would need to be given to the National Archives at the end of his term and eventually released following the standard process for handling secrecy concerns.
Has there ever been a UUID collision? (2016)
Most banks are using Zelle now, all but instant in my experience
> Most people aren't you.

And there's at least one order of magnitude more subreddits catering to those people who aren't them.
Calgary to Toronto is 1675 miles. [0]

Calgary to Reykjavík is 3211 miles. [1]

It's often cheaper for me to fly 3211 miles than 1675 miles.

0 - http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=yyc-yyz

1 - http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=yyc-rkv
Who gets the seller fees?

In the US, you only get a piece of the action if you use a credit card. Otherwise you still pay the higher, transaction-fee-included price, but you don't get any part of the transaction fee.
The author associates his conservatism with a stable two-parent family and upbringing and the virtue of personal responsibility.

Those two values might not always be the most talked about topics on a liberal university campus but they're certainly as American as apple pie and largely unrelated to modern political conservatism as a movement.
Is Centrifuge going to be open source?
"After about 40, you'll wake up on Saturday thinking, "oh my gosh, it must be nearly noon!" and realize it's only 8:30 and you're wide awake."

Good news: if you maintain your exercise regimen - especially your resistance/weight training - you can maintain the ability to sleep 8 or 9 or 10 hours in a night.
You are speaking like you are an outsider, but you have "fread" in your username? A 3 month account but you don't have any comments until today?
Have you liked Brain.fm? I used to use it, but started to think it wasn't really worth it/much more useful than regular whitenoise
I don't know much about that case, but a cursory read on Wikipedia (which could itself be biased and/or misinformed) is a bit more convincing than the Skripal case.

Nonetheless we're getting pretty far afield. Select two incidents where any nation has killed its double-agents or whistleblowers (and I doubt there are any nations that lavish fond treatment on their double-agents in particular), and you now have evidence against that country equivalent to that upon which you declared Russia the only possible country brazen enough to carry out these two embassy attacks (assuming they were attacks).
Thanks! I agree, it seems they are trying to handle it the same way as the cookie law. I hope they do a proactive audit and fix the most blatant violations.
I have a dedicated machine from online.net that hosts a few services that would incur a monthly cost but self hosting helps save a bit of cash there. These are: GitLab for private projects (because I work with a team and per-seat costs multiply fast), Confluence and Jira for project management (again, team size scales the cost and a self-hosting license is only $20/yr).

As for actual SaaS: Backblaze personal, Adobe full suite ($400 per year I think, gives me everything I need for art/video projects), A password manager, and... that's it actually! No netflix, no google, no dropbox, I'll probably keep it this way.
> This judgement makes perfect sense and is completely reasonable when you remember that technology is a mere tool designed to serve humans. Just cause you can do something in a tool doesn't make it right.

Put more plainly:

The judgement makes perfect sense once you understand that government officials' actions are regulated in ways that private citizens' actions are not. If a government official uses a tool designed for private citizens, his actions may still be restricted compared to what private citizens can legally do.
If you think about it more than 20% of the Zelda games for set-top consoles came out on CD-I.
Use a third-party application while they still work?
Gene-edited crops to be grown in the UK for the first time
If you disagree that fakers are a problem, then all you need to do is turn on the fire hose until your resume bucket is full, then turn it off. There will be a suitable candidate for you in there. You don't need to filter by any specific criterion, and you can rely on the random confluence of people that are looking for work just as you happen to be taking resumes.

If you don't believe the fire hose is full of unsuitable candidates, and you can't evaluate more than 100 resumes, then don't take 10000 resumes and try to filter it down to 100 with outside resources. Just take 100 resumes to start with, and go from there.

The assumption that the fire hose is filled with low-quality resumes is intrinsic in your suggestion to get resumes from other sources. Everyone has pumped their resume into the big reservoir at one time or another. Not everyone has supplied--or even known about--all the various garden hoses.

If the fire hose isn't full of junk, why would anyone intentionally not use it?

Even if you can only evaluate 10 resumes at a time, spin the valve on the fire hose until 10 squirt out, and evaluate them. It's okay to have your search fail, because you can always spin the valve again to get 10 more. Even if your search succeeds, you can still get another 10 resumes from the fire hose. That's the whole point of having it. If people stop tapping that reservoir, the candidates go somewhere else. They stop putting resumes on Monster and go to Indeed. They stop using job sites and go to LinkedIn. They get tired of the recruiter spam on LinkedIn and go to Facebook groups. You're relying on the candidates you want to be surfing the same wave of signal-to-noise that you are, and to be fighting the same arms race of eminently-suitable-for-the-job versus oh-yeah-prove-it.

By the way, you may have misunderstood my use of masquerade. When you ask the job-seeker community for a specialist in X, then a generalist, or a specialist in Y may adjust themselves to appear to have more skill with X than they actually have. It isn't that they can't do X, but they aren't what you specifically asked for. The specifics in the job advertisement are themselves a type of filter that some people will work to defeat in order to get past the arbitrary filtering layer to the human evaluation layer.
Older people objectively know more.
I hate it because I know three restaurant owners who've told me their personal experiences with Yelp. TL;DR: Yelp is an extortion racket.
Being banned still prevents you from interacting in more ways. Trump retweets and tags people/organizations all the time.
As someone new to JS I find vanilla JS tedious for FP, what library(ies) do you use to ease this?
"You really don't think it's possible that one of the 28 member nations of the EU will pass down an absurdly large fine for some minor infraction?"

For the infraction of having a guestbook? Absolutely not.

"The fact is, if I am not GDPR compliant in any way there is no mechanism built into the law to limit the amount I am fined"

I don't see that as a problem.

" some judge that is in a bad mood or hates the idea of my business can simply fine me 20 million to kill my business and still be abiding by the letter of the law."

Then you appeal. You're acting like there's no recourse or appeals mechanism for you.
People are digitally tarred and feathered every day in the US, even if they don't take part in social media. Reddit alone has dozens of "bullying" communities, where random people are subjected to ridicule. 4Chan is a whole other level.

When people take part in social media, they only make themselves a more likely subject of the bullying (e.g. twitter's ability to pile onto someone, like a teenager wearing a chinese-style dress).
I have a separate credit card that I put all recurring charges on - it keeps it so much easier from some of them getting lost in the mix of your regular transactions - also let’s you get a sense of just how much you’re spending on that stuff
Probably because it's possible for people to implement these sort of weapons, and they don't want terrible people inflicting somewhat untraceable brain damage on unsuspecting victims, seemingly out of the blue.

If they're leaving out explicit (or even the vaguest) details, it probably means that's the only thing keeping this out of the hands of weirdos.

Also, other layers of secrecy are likely in play. It's probably already known that such weapons do exactly these things, but how would people even know, without published research? Top secret military experiments? Private research performed by military contractors? (in other words, takes one to know one)
Sorry, I should have clarified: The Game Boy is very simple in concept and on a sufficiently high level. But this is exactly what allows you to get payoff quickly, and why I like it for educational and experimental projects. Especially earlier games like Tetris don't significantly rely on many edge cases and implementation details, so even a quick and dirty implementation runs them reasonably well.

Once you want to do "serious" emulation that runs a wide variety of games and accurately reproduces them in every spect, things become much less simple and might also lead you to completely abandon initial approaches, e.g. because your straightforward but non-cycle accurate CPU main loop doesn't cut it anymore.

Compare this however with a more modern system that has an MMU, where you have a long, long road of busywork ahead before you can even get past any reasonable definition of "booting", whereas for the Game Boy even a shoddy first draft implementation might at least get you into a game's initial menu screen, completely with working buttons and all.

And strictly spoken, a conceptually more complex system will have more edge cases and implementation details to deal with, albeit I think that it often also means that those implementation details are less exploited, as developers stay on a higher level and are less trying to squeeze out every last bit of the "simplistic" hardware.
More importantly, blocking someone on Twitter prevents them from evoking your Twitter handle or retweeting you.

So, in the President's case, if someone is retweeting him and criticizing his words, or calling him out by his Twitter handle in a way that he doesn't like, he can block them and literally prevent them from posting certain content about him.

This is mindbogglingly unethical.
> This is also probably moot since verified accounts reportedly have even better options for filtering out messages than normal users.

Verified accounts don't. We have an extra tab to view only notifications from other verified users, but that's it.

If you have a large volume of notifications (e.g. a tweet goes viral), they give you a modal to prompt you to set up filters, but AFAIK those filters aren't limited to verified users. A non-verified user would still get that modal, which is just pointing you towards features already in the Settings page.

Source: am verified on Twitter, and also have had tweets popular enough to trigger that modal.
> But is it his personal account anymore?

Yes. For example one of his tweets from earlier today isn't a matter of public policy, it's his opinion on the current state of affairs: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/99928232531686604...

> It's a verified account with the description of "45th President of the United States of America".

Many people on Twitter have "Works @company" or "$TITLE as Company" on their verified accounts. That doesn't make their account the property of their employer. It's purely a declarative, factual, statement.

> When he speaks (tweets) he speaks as the POTUS. Doesn't matter if it's from the @potus account or @realdonaldtrump account.

I'm saying it does. Whether it's in a personal capacity or public capacity matters. In this case there's a clear separation too as he's got access to the @potus and he seems to use that for official business.
Articles like this annoy me. A person's political views are part of their personality, it's not something they "chose." [0] It's especially ironic to read an article with this flaw written by a person who literally just graduated with a degree in Psychology from an ivy league institution.

Being a foster child did not make him conservative. He was born that way. The tone of the article is that he's very angry that he's "different" and he feels that people look down on him for it (by calling him a victim). Which is understandable. But I think this article serves as therapy for the author. It's certainly not saying anything new or insightful.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness#Political_at...

As an aside, the fact that Conscientiousness negatively correlates with intelligence also explains why only 12% of the student body is conservative. He's a rare combination.
No, it doesn't, since I don't think it's disrespectful either.
Native American communities have indeed been affected severely, but it's not clear how much is due to this particular type of Fentanyl:

AP news reported recently that: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures indicate the increase [in opioid overdose deaths from 1999 to 2015] was higher for Native Americans than any other group ..."

https://www.apnews.com/81eb3ae96c2b4f6aae272ec50f0672d2
He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people from them on political grounds.
Doesn't it though, isn't this a forum hosted by one of the most influential funds out there.
He can send messages at his discretion. With Twitter, however, tweets are (in this case) considered public announcements, with blocked people being exceptions on a personal level, and the ruling is that he is not allowed to make those exceptions. He still has access to direct messages, AFAIK. With Slack and Facebook, I can imagine comparable situations arising with similar principles.
Trump has multiple twitter accounts. His primary one is @realDonaldTrump, which he's been using since 2009, long before he was a government figure. This is his private citizen Twitter account, as far as I'm concerned, and he can do whatever he damn well pleases there.

If he were to block people from his @POTUS President Donald Trump account, then I might take issue with that.
I wouldn't use the word "defrauding," but there is a serious principal-agent problem. The localities that attract an Amazon or an Apple are likely to have winner's curse. That is, the highest bid (in terms of tax breaks and other concessions) for the new headquarters is likely to be from a place that incidentally overvalued the new HQ. The politicians usually know this, but don't care. They get a flashy, public "victory" to campaign on, even if the real value to the local economy is questionable.
If someone referred to a "great black male" writer would you be equally offended? Or do you object to mention of his race? His sex? These details help paint a picture. They are not mentioned to offend.
Funny you ask. Jacq on our team is planning our next retreat. Earlier this year we brought everyone to SF. The year prior shortly after the acquisition, the entire team (including AngelList) went to Mexico which was a great opportunity to get to know the broader team.

This time we may do an offsite elsewhere, which might be more fun and affordable.
was just reading about one of the companies mentioned, Evelo, this morning. their IPO prospectus mentions a few other potential benefits of using "bugs as drugs", rather than traditional biologics or small molecules, including 1) can alter multiple biological pathways, as opposed to one target per drug w small or large molecules, 2) cheaper to optimize the product (don't have to do extensive medicinal chem or antibody optimization, just need to pick the right naturally occurring bug) and 3) potential for microbes to be safer (ppl have been eating these for a long time). a nice side effect of a safer treatment is that you can use them in less sick patients, thus increasing your market size

i can see 1) being true. 2) potentially is true, though i don't have the expertise to evaluate this. however, some companeis are genetically engineering microbes to increase effectiveness, which would add to the time requried to "optimize" the microbe. for 3), ive heard differing opinions. "the tox is in the dose", so even if ppl have ingested a microbe without harm, if you increase the amount of microbe who knows what will happen.

nonetheless, their approach is interesting. the idea is that circulating immune cells (dendritic cells and macrophages) "sample" the gut microbiome by sticking tendrils through the intestinal wall. they collect antigens from the gut and then migrate to regional lymph nodes (basins with a bunch of immune cells) and interact with t cells and other immune cells, changing how they function. they have a platform where they screen a bunch of different microbe strains in culture with dendritic cells (and maybe other cells) and then measure what cytokines and other chemicals the dendritic cells secrete / express. they select microbes that have the ideal "immunophenotype" to use as therapies. they then validate these in animal models of disease, and have some really impressive preliminary results (summary of data in the IPO prospectus)

of course, as the article states, the big question is whether this will work in people. there's conflicting evidence as to what particular strain is most implicated in a particular cancer. and we also don't really know if just hitting one strain is enough to do anything. part of what makes evelo interesting is that they think theyve found a specific immunological mechanism for their microbes role in disease, which makes it easier to measure whether its working in early studies (ie you can measure circulating cytokine and immune cell populations as a proxy for whether the cancer is getting better). however, theres no way to know without doing the human studies. this phenomenon applies to all types of drugs however, and is the reason why drug r&d is so expensive: you never know if something works until you test in humans, and thats really expensive
Wow. Didn't see that coming.
> The fact is, if I am not GDPR compliant in any way there is no mechanism built into the law to limit the amount I am fined

The law specifies the maximum fine, so you can't go over that. It also specifies that fines have to be proportionate. If you think the fine is disproportionate you have the right to appeal - that is also built into the law. If you think the appeal erred in law you get further rights of appeal. If your country hasn't made these legal routes available to you then you can take your country to the European courts.