skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of the subtlety that I'm getting at here: what the GDPR says is you need to say how you (as a controller operating a website) are tracking people.

Because the minute you throw down a technical rule it's trivial to route around it. Case in point: say you allowed only 1st party cookies (as defined by cross domain browser behavior and cookie setting). I could setup a CNAME for analytics.my-domain.com that points to FB's ad retargeting servers and they could include in the actual cookie data my id, ip or whatever else they'd need to lookup a user's information across domains.

Same with IPs: every GDPR discussion devolves into someone saying: "Well every site uses IPs! We have them in our logs, etc.! It's stupid to say that they're personal data" Which is how I thought of them until getting a glimpse into some of the ad networks/bidding where they are treated as more or less a currency for targeting, demographics, etc.

With GDPR it's not the data it's what done with the data.
The adjustment they make on income is opaque. It's hard to judge what those values actually represent. I can't believe that the median salary in San Francisco before adjustment is anywhere near $55k.
>This graph shows you they spent money to launch the Model S, then went profitable.

The graph doesn't "show" anything. You are interpreting it in a specific (favourable) way. I don't agree. Also, free cash flow positive is not "profit".

>One sure mark of a hater is that there doesn't exist a configuration of reality that will satisfy their objections.

Oh, there it is. Any criticism means you're a hater.

I'm looking at the numbers. That's reality. You, on the other hand, are operating on future assumptions that may or may not come to pass. "Becoming profitable" isn't a given, just because Elon said so. As of right now, they are losing money at an accelerating rate. I guess we'll see.

And by the way, I'm not hater. I can see Tesla being the next Mazda, who make some of the most popular cars in my area. Great cars, great company. Do you know what its market cap is? $8BB. At Tesla's current market cap they need to build millions and millions of cars at substantial profit. You can believe that they'll achieve that and an investment today still wouldn't be worth it. Does that surprise you?
Thanks for that heartfelt message of high moral standards, 'assface
Mountain View, CA

Menlo Park, CA
That’s a small market, and most photogs I know who shoot MF/LF film are using cameras that are 50+ years old (Hasselblads mostly).

A digital back can improve workflow, but quality is still better with film at those sizes. These are studio cameras through and through; and I was able to connect a Hasselblad to some el cheapo Chinese lighting setup I bought on Amazon a year ago. That’s backwards compatibility.
A cartel just means colluding to limit supply to increase profit for cartel members. There is nothing in the definition of a cartel that requires violence or illegality.

For instance, Canada has a legal maple syrup cartel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation_of_Quebec_Maple_Syr...
At least where I work, we are painfully aware of this tradeoff, but are willing to make the sacrifice because of the severe costs of making a bad hire. We are small, and cannot afford to lose 90 days.

I realize this article refutes this point of view, but finance and HR do not see it this way.

I am more happy to devote several hours of each week interviewing than entire days/weeks mentoring and reviewing code for a bad hire, or worse, dealing with the widespread consequences of a culture misfit in a small team.

Hiring is hard.
Not at all.

N-API was specifically added to make multiple back-ends possible (by removing dependency on the V8 FFI). You can currently use either Chakra or V8. Spidermonkey could be added (there's an outdated spiderNode around) if Mozilla ever got their act together.

EDIT: I really wish Apple would add JSC support to node. It would potentially allow more standard integrations on iOS. Aside from that, JSC is very fast (faster than v8 at quite a few things) and also supports proper tail calls (as specified by the ES6, 7, and 8 specs).
How can an app block ads system wide? I would have thought that apps are sandboxed. Just less strictly then websites.

Can an app intercept the network communication at will? Can an app call any operation system function?
> NSA, SAIC, Ft Meade, NASA Goddard

Being in Washington DC and knowing I can drive to half of those places in 30 mins, I wonder which metropolitan area definition the numbers in the article are using.

Does (NSA, SAIC, Ft Meade, NASA Goddard) really pay that much more than (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrup Grumman)?

Edit: Adjusted for cost of living, Baltimore > DC makes more sense.
Canon had high-performance lenses thanks to putting the AF motor in the lense (as I said). But their AF sensors lagged Nikon in their low-light sensitivity and their intelligence with moving objects. This is why most nature photographers did not move from Nikon to Canon until the digital era. Art Wolfe was just about the only big-name nature photographer on Canon for years.

EDIT to add about auto exposure: the EOS-1N, released in 1995, had a monochrome 16-segment evaluative meter. The Nikon F5, released in 1996, had a 1,005 segment color-sensitive evaluative meter, which also incorporated focus distance from the lens. Essentially it took a 1 kilopixel digital photo in order to set the film exposure.
I am very conflicted about DNS-over-HTTPS vs. DNS-over-TLS.

Most of DNS-over-HTTPS' interesting use-cases start coming into play when you're using the same HTTPS session as the one being used to serve the site you're visiting. Otherwise, DNS-over-TLS is sufficient for the same level of privacy.

At that point though, DNS-over-HTTPS has a provenance issue that I don't fully grok how we're going to avoid. What I mean by that: if the site you're visiting supports DNS-over-HTTPS, where requests to that site for DNS records are requested, what happens when they decide to issue custom responses to DNS requests that ignore or supplement actual data in a zone? Won't that lead to a bifurcation of the DNS network, where web-sites can start issuing custom response to DNS queries?

Cloudflare, and Quad9, both offer DNS-over-TLS, this will be preferable for non-HTTP use-cases. Some of the points in the article imply that DNS when using DNS-over-HTTPS can't be used for tracking you, but really that just means you're passing that trust to Cloudflare, Quad9, or Google. I suppose the choice is open to you at that point.
Its a nice dream. It’ll never happn. All it takes is one family member acting out, and lacking complete self awareness about it, to cause everyone else to regret being arund family.

I’ve know pople to change their likes and beliefs. I’ve never known anyone to change their psychology. A narcissist is always a narcissist. Unfortunately.
You probably wouldn't want to live in a neighborhood where a house costs $35k. I used to live in Philadelphia, the median house price was around $100k, but it was skewed by neighborhoods with high crime rates.
What do you think about cryptocurrency operations magnifying, as it were, the utility of other exploits though? At what point to the dynamics of cryptocurrency security infect other disciplines?
If the downvotes are any indication, apparently pointing this out is less popular than the model itself.
It is silly - not because the question is silly, but because the article ignorantly misses the fact that there's an established and much-discussed philosophical background to these questions, and the author seems completely unaware of it.

It would be hilarious if David Chalmers is right, and science is looking through the telescope the wrong way.

Instead of there being no subjectivity, perhaps there is only subjectivity - different points of view experiencing different elements of reality, loosely constrained by probabilities, limited only by relative complexity of perception, freedom of action, and processing power.
Yes they are, and as you, I consider themselves exactly the same. An example one that I used to ask during interviews were the "traverse a matrix in inverse diagonals" or "traverse a matrix in circular way" or the typical "first duplicated number" (that one is on CodeFights and CodeWars).

Those are problems that you either know the "trick" or you don't.

The main problem with the majority of them is not the problem itself. The main problem is that originally they are meant to understand the process of problem solving of a candidate. However, as they are passed among interviewers, they become an "solved or not solved", because it is the path of least effort.

I once created a problem that I love to ask in my interviews, it deals with binary search to get the total elements from a list that is only avilable through a "broken" API. A lot of people I interviewed told me that they loved the question, however, when some colleagues started adopting it, I realized that they were basically expecting the specific answer they knew... when the real value of the exercise is to work with interviewees to "solve a problem together".
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Don't call into question whether researchers should have access to this type of data? Or don't do so in a snarky way? Is it a requirement to not have fun on Hacker News, even when contributing to the discussion in a meaningful way?
Hidden in the vast expanse of unicode.

https://sheep.horse/2012/5/blackletter_-_unicode_abuse.html
> This constraint forces an attacker to focus on the user that actually has the password.

The irony is that while the Android development team is doing this, the Google business and cloud services teams are increasingly gathering more data from the Android users, and encouraging them to put as much of their data on Google's servers as possible. And Google can give access to that data because it doesn't use end-to-end or homomorphic encryption.
Meh....a closed source language that doesn't seem to do anything more interesting than existing open source languages....good luck...
The kidney stone experiment is kinda obvious if you look at it just slightly longer. Treatment B fares worse in the overall score because it has a larger proportion of large kidney stones treated. The average outcome is worse with large stones. So treatment A picked the "easy cases".
Except politics dominate every faucet of your life and if you "get along" with your family members, your just lucky you aren't the target of their derision. This isn't even a liberal vs conservative thing. If someone's beliefs denigrate you, how can you tolerate being around them even if they try to keep that stuff quiet?
The hardest list to make is the list of people not on any list.
Disclaimer: I'm vegan

I really don't know how to help attitudes move towards a plant based life-style. I don't bother bringing it up because the second the topic is introduced, people feel attacked and that I'm just doing it to feel superior. Amusingly enough, it's usually omnivores that bring up that topic but still are obviously uneasy about the whole thing.
I have a hard time understanding why Texas as a state should expend taxpayer funds on upgrading the "colonias", the entire budget is built around local taxpayers funding their own services through property tax. They are essentially camps and were far away from services when people moved there.

That's my perspective anyway - I grew up in a rural northwest town with no paved roads or water that's still mostly like that. If you wanted water you had to dig a well, add your own septic, and pay for the electric hook up. In the greater area there are plenty of even smaller ones (commonly called "hippy camps"), with roads that become impassable to vehicles in winter.
Are you really as good at applying sunscreen as you think?
The Apple Secure Enclave cannot defend against someone who has the signing keys to the password software (or at least couldn't as of 2016)- that's why the FBI wanted Apple's "help" over the San Bernardino shooter. Apple said no, but could have done it- it was a policy choice of theirs to fight the FBI. Google has created a situation with the Pixel2 where they can't do that sort of thing even if they wanted to. And justified it without ever referencing "Search Warrants" or "Nation-state threat actors" even though that is the obvious driving force here.
I've lived in much worse growing up, I assure you.

The point is that the bay area housing market is on one extreme and Detroit's is on the other.
If nothing else, we need this acronym to mean something - anything - other than Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP.
Okay, I understand your argument but that's not at all how that works. Framing poverty in absolute numbers creates an impossible slope to climb. Sure, it would be fantastic if we could reliably shoot for reducing the amount of poverty in absolute terms and that is (sort of) the goal anyway. HOWEVER, absolute terms are meaningless for measuring population effects.

Also exponential growth is keeping poverty down. Growth creates mobility because without growth economics becomes a zero sum game and NOBODY wants to live in that environment. You think the 70s were violent, well. . . .

As for fertility rates, that's also not how that works. Lower fertility rates mean fewer working age people to provide a tax base. That's why countries who have low birthrates are all encouraging immigration. Japan, for instance, with its low birthrate now has more immigrants than it has ever taken on.

In any case I think we have an epistemological disagreement and I don't expect to convince you, just to explain my thinking. Thanks for taking the time to explain your argument, and even though I disagree I appreciate it.
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What if they’re GE and not Mazda? The world needs an incredible amount of stationary storage to use renewables alone for generation.
That's because people were desperate enough to try to cross. Here we'll just cancel our planned trips.
Fake reviews are like spam and troublemakers at a comedy club. Nobody but the assholes themselves likes it. Clubs that don't throw out hecklers or fist fighters will fail when people go elsewhere that doesn't suck. There is a clear definition of non-genuine reviews: people who have never tried the product, they are being paid for the review, or you are the seller posting under a sock puppet account.
The thing is, TCP/IP is necessary to deliver the website. From a user's point of view, a huge majority of the websites have no reason to set a cookie. Anything where I don't login, just read some news, read some blog entries, inform myself about some products, or similar doesn't actually need cookies.

It's just that in recent years the operators of the website have decided they'd like to track and/or analyze their users (best case), or even send that data of to some 3rd party ad network. So I appreciate the heads-up. (Not that it matters, I delete the cookies anyway when I leave the site.)
Any study like this will have the interesting caveat that the presence of smartphones at a formal, traditional family gathering might itself produce effects. That is: maybe family gatherings are getting shorter because so many people would rather play with their phones than listen to Uncle Joe's story about high school football. Again.

How could a researcher using smartphone location data control for that?
You may be technically correct, but what’s the point of this comment?

For as long as he is alive, he will have less range of motion in his right wrist than his left, barring advances in nanotechnology bone reconstruction or something.

Millions of years from now, when his body has broken down into petrochemicals, I suppose that yes, his wrist will then have a greater range of motion then it does now.

But that’s hardly relevant.
A strange style of writing for an analyst at Gartner. It left me more with an impression of some Reddit rant.

On another note, I am fine with him wanting to publish his data everywhere and perpetually (if his insurance premiums rise, will he still be ok with that?). But don't impose that on me; I want my data shared with as few as possible.
I don't think it addresses the core issue and creates additional ones. There are people who have valuable opinions who won't post them if connected back to them. There are people who won't bother getting verified who would otherwise leave honest reviews.

The bad players will find a way to get verified and now you're worse off than before (fewer legit reviews plus bad ones with a fraudulent stamp of approval).

Whatever the solution you have to take into account that bad players have a higher incentive to pass your test / jump through hoops than legitimate people do.
Agreed. I feel like the best thing to do is say we overcame these challenges as a team and this is the role I played. And these were my personal challenges.
Possibly coincidence, but the two times I bitched about transiting through the US on an upcoming flight on Twitter (which has my real name), I got randomly selected for SSS.
I think this would help to solve some of the quality and fake goods issues on Amazon. What it can't solve is a dishonorable seller switching out a good product for an inferior one. We should have 'verified sellers' as well tied to a real name.
Law enforcement is the only acceptable form of government welfare, according to one powerful camp.
If a site can put up a "Turn off your adblocker" message, couldn't they just not serve content to me at all if I'm using an adblocker?

In that case, it seems like adblockers are _not_ theft, but more compared to a plate of cookies with a sign that says, "donations welcome".
All the real-time location based stuff is after my time, but it definitely looks like an attempt to generate more known-good reviews. Possibly for better training data for modeling. I'm not sure that the historical location data is as useful as you might think - there's often a large temporal gap between the experience and the review writing.

Google does have a big advantage in verifying good accounts through other activity, but that advantage shrinks dramatically for new accounts. There's still some things you can do, but at the end of the day you're only willing to assign so much risk to a brand new account based on metadata.
If true, that would imply that teens will migrate back to Facebook as they get older, but right now I hear them mocking anyone that uses Facebook so much I wonder if they will not use it simply to save face.

I've noticed the same thing regarding TV. Recently we were at a hotel where some of my younger kids were watching TV for basically the first time. They were extremely confused by commercial breaks.
Nobody wants the notice, but if it's going to be required by law it could at least be useful.
I despise the removal of the 3.5 mm jack to this day... and I still do not get why Apple removed it. What exactly did it get in the way of and what was made available by its removal? Worst move ever.
That's my point: don't use Shakespeare for that. Use something simple and agreeable, even if you read it in a terrible way. Read video game news, celebrity gossip, science development, sport results, etc.
Boy, this seems like an exceptionally poor choice of project name - in the same exact industry, web development, there is already years of use of "WAMP" to mean "Windows Apache MySQL PHP". WAMP / LAMP / MAMP / etc are ubiquitous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WampServer

You know the difference, and I know the difference, but a whole lot of newbie developers who are trying to learn about websockets and while playing around on their Windows dev box could end up pretty confused.
Taking control of a cancer switch
>virtually no chance

What makes you say that?
The US does not have absolute freedom of speech. The canonical example of shouting fire in a crowded theater is illegal. You also cannot call 911 for non-emergencies, distribute child pornography, threaten or harass another person, defame an individual or organization, etc.
> What lead are you talking about?

Market share. The estimates I've seen are that between Canon, Nikon, and Sony DSLRs, Canon currently has the largest single share of the market.

Prior to Canon's work with CMOS sensors in the early 2000s, Nikon had the SLR and DSLR market share lead over Canon. (And basically no Sony bodies at all back then.)
> that does not mean that it makes no sense to assign an identity to the unique collection of memories and experiences that I call "me".

Actually, that is not disputed - at least in some buddhist schools. Identity as an epiphenomenon is quite sensible, and they understood this. Well, some of them at least.
An excellent, important product — and stellar branding! While this product is a massive technical improvement, its biggest value might be getting couples to think about fertility earlier.

I admit as a career-minded professional, I underestimated how quickly the reproductive window closes biologically and how much higher the risks are for Mom and baby as the years pass.

My wife and I went through IVF and learned quite a bit, e.g.: You may have to wait a year before an insurer will begin to cover treatments or you may have to scrounge for cash to pay for them. Once you find a clinic, there's a multi-month process to get started. Maybe you miss a dose of the IVF drugs due to an illness and have to postpone for a cycle or two. In the case of IVF, you may not get viable embryos or they may not implant. If they do implant, there's a scarily high risk of miscarriage.

And if you want to have more than one child you need to factor in the 40 weeks of pregnancy, recovery, and adjusting to sleep deprivation before you get to start the whole process again. On their own, these are small delays, but compounded they can take up years, and if you're starting in your mid-30s and working with a five-year window, they can make the difference.

It took my wife and me two years of financially and emotionally draining treatments before we had success. Our second run was smoother, but our first child was diagnosed with Leukemia (she's good now) at the start of my wife's 2nd trimester. Had we waited another quarter, it's very likely we would only have had one child. I can say unequivocally in my career there has been no bonus, promotion, or professional recognition that comes close to matching that value.

Despite our challenges, we were lucky. We met a couple that struggled with infertility. Turned out after a lot of testing, the husband was sterile. The wife wanted to carry a child from an egg of hers fertilized by a donor. The man didn't want to raise a child that wasn't his biological offspring, so they split and she had to renter the partner market in her mid-30s under extreme time pressure.

Apologies for the overly personal PSA, but I wish I had this information in my twenties. If you want children, you need to treat the process with all the seriousness you treat your career. This product is a great tool to do so.
I'm sure we're all going to become nazis if we don't shut these racists down. maybe we can put them into camps?
There is no x-ray screening of people.
I answer Stack Overflow out of mainly self interest. I don't have a portfolio of work to show people at job interviews - my work is mainly in house. I realized it isn't that hard to get a decent score on SO if you know something well.

Also because it annoys me seeing things done poorly having worked in enough maintenance programming jobs and worked with crap that could have been done so much better (this is probably a bigger motivation with certain topics).

I don't do it because I feel I owe anyone anything.

It does feel good to contribute somewhat, but that is far from my primary motivation.
> Does anyone know of a way to force all DNS queries in windows to use DoH?

I think you could use pi-hole to do this. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/
Based on the San Bernardino case, no.

It wasn't a matter of feasibility, Apple could have done it but refused to.
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