skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe I remember seeing that the average annual benefit to Facebook of a user is something like $9. I would personally be ecstatic to be given the opportunity to subscribe to Facebook in exchange for control over my data and an absence of ads.

Eventually this is inevitable. Facebook is doing itself no favors by insisting that free-plus-we-own-you is the only possible model for the future.
Killbill.io for http://killbill.io/ for SaaS subscription management. It's free and opensource.
To be fair 1.1.1.1 had been unassigned/non-routable up until April.
For years, they've had a standing active "coupon" value that reduces it from $2.99 to $0.99 / year / domain. Unfortunately, you can't apply it to automatic renewals.

This finally solves that problem.

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P.S. TO NAMECHEAP (who sometimes surfs HN, IIRC): PLEASE make sure that WhoisGuard is reliably renewed with this change in place.

Given the occasional glitches I've seen in your systems in the past, I want to emphasize this. It would be most unfortunate if a glitch exposed contact information: Once out, you can't take it back.

It took a long time for me to decide to try/trust autorenew. I'm worried I may now need to go back to manually signing in at each renewal, to make sure nothing has gone sideways.
Do you play Overwatch? Anecdotes follow from someone that's gamed for 25+ years (I'd love to see data). On PC at least, the amount of female players is astounding. Most (not all) play Mercy, which seems to be a mix of she's easy to play for new gamers, plus she's female. Followed by DVA.
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Almost. You do need an EU Designated Representative.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-27-gdpr/

There is no such thing as a 'EU resident DPO'. I think you are confusing the two roles.
I would go with tech you know. This sounds like Python + Flask and a Multi-page web app then throw in jQuery and Bootstrap.

If you're not into that, maybe try REST API on Python + Flask, React.js and Boostrap. Unless you're a DBA, you can use AWS RDS to host your db and it's super easy (one year free on your first year with AWS).
Of course, but the victim can create a new account on another instance and upload the same content again.

Note that this also makes it hard to deal with spam and DoS attacks. As adoption grows, instances might voluntarily adopt protocols for sharing abuse data.
On the strength of your recommendation, and an unwillingness to wait for the arch repos to update emacs, I went ahead and installed the master branch. So I'm now on version ... 27.0.50. Skipped 26.1. :)

As you said, the change was smooth and I got to enjoying all the new fixes and stuff. But my word, it was over a gigabyte of downloading, which I didn't expect! Still, worth it.
I gather free whois privacy is not uncommon from reading comments here. Here is one more free service:

https://www.hover.com/whoisprivacy
People like to claim that JavaScript is only about 2-4 times slower than C++. And maybe that's true for heavily optimized JavaScript that gets to run for a long time. Personally, I rewrote an ES5 parser in Rust and saw about a 16x speedup on real world JS source code (directories, not just individual files), which I suspect is closer to what you'd see in reality. People vastly overestimate how long most programs should actually run (such that V8's optimizations would really kick in) and also the extent to which V8's optimizations can actually be applied. There is a link elsewhere in here suggesting that v8 it can eventually get to about 2x faster than AOT JavaScript, but it doesn't show significant improvements until 100,000 iterations over the same 100 lines--besides that being an unrealistic microbenchmark, almost no repositories come close to 10 million lines of code, so by the time v8 is done optimizing a much faster program will have finished long ago.
America has a massive truck driver shortage. Here’s why few want an $80,000 job
The devil has plenty of advocates already.

"2. If you have 20+ years of experience you should really be at the management or architect level. if you’re still a typical engineer (even senior) it may indicate a defect."

This is absolute crap; not wanting to be in management because you don't have the skillset for it is not a defect. This idea needs to die a painful death.
This effect works in reverse though- they could all make agreements to share technology that the others develop with each other, or form alliances such that there are only one or two outfits actually doing research. Then, since that research isn’t making progress and isn’t going to give them a competitive edge, they collectively deprioritize it to a shadow of its former self, safe in the knowledge that they have research agreements.

I would watch for signs that one of the big companies deprioritizes internal research. I think it will be a lagging indicator that the self driving startup scene has cooled and they think that outside startup challengers will be underfunded and easy to buy or compete with. Right now it is accelerating in the opposite direction, but I don’t see why it has to if we don’t see progress in the next couple of years.
"Musk was indignant at comparisons to Donald Trump—another infamous journalist-hater of the moment—but he has clearly invited such comparisons through his behavior. Both men lack restraint in self-publishing. Both appear to be thin-skinned beyond reason. "
This is a direct quote from the article. Need anyone say more?
Thank you. I was just typing out a similar response, and would add that while sure, sometimes technology is hard for them to grok, it's incumbent upon the lawyers to make the necessary analogies to the court for them to nit pick.

Sometimes they get things right, as I feel they did in Kyllo. Sometimes they get things wrong, as I feel they did in Grokster. But more often than not, I can read both the majority and minority opinions, and see that both sides are arguing from rational positions based on sound legal theory and precedent.

Of course judicial philosophy can tilt which way a justice finds, but again, most of the time it's well supported, and I think where most people see "technophobia" amongst the justices, they should see lawyers doing a poor job of making their cases plain.
Lawmakers have no obligation to preserve flawed business models.
that's why judging a book by one page is basically impossible and will never actually become popular aside from a fun little project
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I _do_ want advancement to come more quickly - but I also want to have access to those benefits.

Hopefully both can be achieved.
I wasn't going for metaphorical. I've been to actual parties for e.g. startup people, and just showing up and talking with appropriate individuals won me an unexpected invitation to an expensive Quantified Self event. I didn't go, but I suspect that beyond the conference, there was a party planned too.
Have you had the same thought about why purses, hand bags, dresses, and floral scents are exclusively marketed to women?
The bad news: Experts estimate 35% chance of civil war in America in the next 10 to 15 years.

The good news: "Civil war" includes something where you have to call out the National Guard to deal with it. That's a pretty low bar for a civil war. By that standard, integrating Little Rock High School was a civil war.

But they are right that the conditions are ripe...
There will be so much stuff left over from our civilization that it should be pretty easy to scrounge and scrape together stuff, Mad Max-style. Access to a landfill, steel, copper, other metals and some working electric motors/generators, and you're off and running. Heck, to make a generator all you need is a permanent magnet, some copper wire, and some mechanical energy, like maybe hydro or a bike crank.
It gets thrown around a lot, but truly, I don’t think that word “copyright” means what the plaintiffs here think it means. Now I realize that some lawyers will happily cash their hourly and represent a client with no standing, but this is sad. PUBG didn’t invent the concept in or out of gaming of the Battle Royale, and most of their assets weren’t their creation. They made a ton of money from an alpha product, good for them, it doesn’t entitle them to prevent competition from more competent companies.

The bottom line is that you can’t copyright broad gameplay mechanics, that’s not how it works.

Disclaimer: I don’t care for PUBG, or Fortnite, and can’t wsit for this latest “make everything Battle Royale!” fad to die.
considering that a simple IP+timestamp can be PII, if you have ever seen anything from facebook's cdns , then maybe yes.
For US users FB seems to make an average of around 20-25 USD per quarter[1], aka 80-100 USD per year or 6-8 USD per month. I wonder how much they make on users that say they are willing to pay to use it. My guess is that those customers probably are above average, since they (at least say they) have the disposable income to pay for FB, and hence are more valuable to show ads for [2].

It wouldn't surprise me if it would cost me 10-15 USD per month to cover the ad revenue FB is getting for me and my data, and the question is if I really would be willing to pay that.

[1]: https://medium.com/@mlvb_at/facebook-earnings-q1-2018-a-real...
[2]: I'm not sure if this reasoning is sound, but it seems resonable. I wonder if there is data/estimations on the distribution of ad revenue per user.
It wasn't necessary when I registered a .uk domain ~3 years ago; you could just set your email etc to be private with Nominet (the UK registry).
I like the name and idea, but I agree that the ads are way too big - especially on mobile.
I would say the most useful thing when we get close to it is a general purpose robot capable of jumpstarting civilization.

We need a few of those in bunkers around the solar system.
> So Facebook's ad algorithm's are going to target younger people because it's more cost effective

Because there is a technical explanation doesn't means that it is not discrimination. Actually discrimination had a lot to do about getting an individual differently because he/she is part of a group. We didn't baked a law, the machine did. It is not a good defense in a trial, or at least I hope it is not.

A good read on this topic http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/qa-should-artificial-...
> [...] website but instead of existing books it will have new book ideas. Authors will just write the first page [...]

I'd prefer an outline as the first page isn't enough. Maybe with some parts of the outline marked as spoiler. I just started keeping a couple story ideas as issues in a repo[0], but they don't come to me as often as software ideas.

0 - https://github.com/cretz/stories/issues
+1 for httpstat; I'd not seen this utility before, quite nice!
When it reality what it actually means is "your experience suggests you are worth more than what we're paying, and we'd rather not spend the time onboarding you just to have you leave in 6 months when you a job more commensurate with your experience and skills."

I've been on the employer side of taking a chance on overqualified folks and it's a waste of a lot of time and a lot of money.
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But there isn't any objective data suggesting any of these technlogies is even half as good as people.
Fortnite is harder than Overwatch, especially when considering characters like Mercy. In Fortnite you must be able to build while playing a hitscan character. It crossed into the mainsteam because of distribution. It's free and available on mobile devices.
You would want to avoid using a git-like data structure for data you have to delete. But the example was data that's part of making the copyright license function, and you can keep it for legal purposes.
I don’t understand the concept. I go the the recipe for pancakes, and it says the ingredients are pancakes? Is there a joke here I’m missing?
That's not at all what the post said.
The GP said "older devs" but what they are talking about isn't age, they are talking about skills and experience level.

Everything is discrimination - if you're seeking to hire a software engineer you're probably going to discriminate against people who don't know how to code, people with low IQs, people who can't get along with the team, etc.

The question becomes, is the discrimination legal and/or ethical and based on actual business needs? If the GP noticed they can get a seasoned developer for only slightly above the price of a jr developer (who sees themselves as "senior") , that doesn't really seem like immoral discrimination to me, especially if they are more than willing to also hire jr engineers at jr engineer prices. Most places cant, for business reasons, survive alone solely on senior engineers.

(Interestingly enough, in the US, discrimination based on age because "old people are stupid" is illegal whereas discrimination on age based on "young people are stupid" is not.)
Linus or RMS tend to have very logical responses, if not always level headed.
I think this might already happen. This is just anecdata but I often get turned off from books by overwrought first page(s). Eventually someone convines me to go back and the rest of the novel is good.

I'd love to hear an author's perspective on this, if any of them notice it. My guess is that they stew on opening passages for years before writing, causing them to get a little neurotic about them, then eventually they settle down and write in a way that comes more naturally to them for the rest of the book.
Are you talking about personal data belonging to EU subjects that is contained in backups and archives?
Something similar has happened in pop music - because on Spotify (and probably other streaming services, too) a play counts if you listen to at least 30 seconds, there's been a definite shift towards songs that start off with a pared down version of the main hook, or at least start their build much more obviously early on. There's fewer long, drawn out intros (which are normally saved just for videos now).
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You must be new, three years is senior, practically architect-level!
> Make the pancakes
> Go and buy it.

Would it be too much to add an actual recipe for the pancakes?
I agree that what consumers want!=what corporations want.

The implicit point in my post above is that consumers are voting with their wallets for the low-cost fares, that are complicated and convoluted. So in this instance of airline tickets, there is large consumer demand for cheap tickets, simplicity be damned.

Southwest is the option for those who want simple and are willing to pay for it.

Amazon gave consumers simple and cheap.
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Yes. Pretty much exactly the same way a web page can be taken down by the web server being shut down.
Imho people can spend all the time they want discussing this.

The only way to sort this out is someone suing Microsoft and then let a judge declare whether telemetry not being opt-in is a GDPR violation or not.
It is astonishing how much trash there is in the literature market that still sells.
The large map when compared to a CS or OW map provides a large variety of environments in which to battle. How many times can you run Dust_2 before you are bored, battle royale you just land in a different part of the map.
Server seems down, but I guess it refers to this? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lost-circles-socia...

I did something similar many years ago, exporting my Facebook data and plotting a simple force-directed graph [1] of my network, it was quite interesting how meaningful groups and connections emerge: https://wechoosethemoon.es/assets/img/posts/colores.png

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force-directed_graph_drawing?o...
China just invited the world to its space station
Paddle has hilariously bad security for downloadable products, so I wouldn't trust them very far. FastSpring seems decent, and what I finally went with for "I don't want to think about taxes please".
I've probably spent $50K on media over the past 9 years on media that was targeted using BlueKai data, and worked on the publisher side where their pixel fired billions of times. I remember the early days when its founder Omar was running around the globe selling this data as "Stamps" because they were charging so much for it reaching a single person cost as much as direct mail, printed and delivered.

AFAIK, a web request is sent from a consumer's browser with some form of identity, ie cookie ID, fingerprint etc. The hash of it gets sent to BlueKai when there is a bid request, and it then queries for keys associated with that hashed ID. The bidder (a service that makes purchase decisions on bid requests) returns a value for that data, and if its the highest value among all advertisers bidding on that slot the ad is shown.

The advertiser never sees any of the underlying data. They are able to see how many bids they won against the pool of data. Say you wanted to sell some organic sausages via banner ads- you would purchase impressions from a publisher, ad network, or agency, and pay an extra $2 CPM (mind you most media clears around $1) to BlueKai to show ads against an Organic Food Buyers audience. That audience is most likely derived from grocery store club card data which include things like recent purchases, brand preferences and more. I'm amazed that more people don't care about that form of data collection...

How often do you have to buy organic products to be entered into the targeting pool? 50% of your shopping cart, or 1 item ever? Literally nobody except for BlueKai knows. There is no oversight, and as such the data is almost certainly low quality.

I came to the conclusion after all of that spend against at least 100 different audiences that its almost universally more efficient to buy cheaper banner ads in bulk. It was often the case that media targeted with 3rd party data would perform twice as well as untargeted media, but for 5 times the cost.

Still, I think the concept of audiences, not raw pii, has been a decent compromise for the sake of privacy, and the net effect of all of it is that some marketing budgets got blown on ads that could have been otherwise targeted.

That is one hell of a security risk though to have all of that data sitting out there.

I got so fed up with the inequity of digital marketing I've done my best to move myself away from it. If I were building an advertising business today, the consumer would be an equal partner in all data transactions, for two reasons: 1. Fairness 2. Data quality.
Why does not a single link on https://joinmastodon.org/ (scroll a bit for the example sites) work?

I tried 10 of them but none of them work?
move the "available time" slider

it switches from "1 minute: buy pancakes in store" to "50 weeks: Let your seawater sit in the sun"
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I exist as a pseudonymous individual online. Nobody has any right to know my phone number or name just because I wish to have a website. Nobody has any right to be able to contact me just because I own a domain. If I wanted to be contacted I would list methods on how to do so. Coincidentally, I do just that on my website and without doxxing myself in the process. There is no justification or purpose for that information being public. I shouldn't need to buy a burner phone or a PO box to remain anonymous.

Not to mention the chilling effect on speech it would have.
Try moving the slider that specifies your time limit.
Click on "Pancakes" in the ingredient list to expand it.
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Reviews are opinions. Some of them are lies. Some of them are fake. It is almost never a good idea for a business to try a detailed rebuttal to a negative review, no different for doctors.
One of the points everyone ignores is agriculture.

If you're going to have a bunch of humans in a small area (civilization), it's going to be a requirement. Until you have mechanized/highly productive agriculture, more than half of your population's job will be food production.
Hey everyone! This is one of those things that’s already been done, but I feel like none of the existing solutions have nailed down an ergonomic API or feature set for storing key-value pairs, especially numerical data. I built this over the weekend to help me store auto-expiring counters for metrics collection for different apps and devices. Hope it’s useful for someone :)
Alright, in that case I can’t honestly disagree with your point, my bad.
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> It's much more likely that your skills are out of date or you've gained some bad interviewing habits that you should examine.

Do you have any suggestions on how one could find out if we have bad interviewing habits? I'm sure I have them, though I don't know what they are.
I would like a Facebook-like service with a subscription model and without the large-scale data harvesting, but in the current market such a service cannot exist, even if it does everything right. Social networks have extremely strong network effect going on: the value of a social network to me is strongly dependent on who I can communicate with on that social network (i.e. how many of my friends or acquaintances have an account on the service).

The size of the network trumps all other factors. A service that is technically inferior in every way may still be more successful if it got to market a month earlier. More importantly, although barrier to entry is an important factor in the adoption of any technology, I don't think there's a sector where its effect is as extreme as in the social network sector. Even requiring a payment of 1 cent per year would probably turn away enough users to make your service unviable (because of the barrier of setting up an online payment).

So a paid-for competitor cannot exist. But in the meantime, Facebook has become the de facto standard for informal communication, much like e-mail is the standard for formal communication. And unlike e-mail, Facebook is not an open protocol where different vendors can provide their own implementation. You can avoid Facebook out of principle but you cannot replace it. Opting out of Facebook often means opting out of a significant chunk of social life. If you are not willing to make this sacrifice, this means that essentially you have no negotiating power over Facebook and will accept its terms and conditions no matter what they are.

We already view access to electricity and a telephone as basic rights in developed nations, and we increasingly view an internet connection as a basic right. I think access to social network services (which are actually used by other people) also belong in that list, which is why I think the request of the complainant is reasonable (even if I'm not sure how the social network market should be organized to support this).
I doubt it is, and this might as well be extortion, or maybe in some cases, actively aiding and abetting a crime.
>Imo, money up front is much bigger barrier of entry for new people then instalation ot other things you mentioned.

True, they properly are never going to spend money buying a game.

>Also, if the game is marketed "for guy" many girls will not try for the same reason why men avoid pink or cute games no matter what mechanics - it feels like there is something odd or weird about you when you do that.

I think part of that as well. There are now many Girls playing "Chicken Dinner" in Asia and live-streaming, it seems their circle has also caught on to this, as everyone in their circle are talking about it.
Sarcasm in general is not a desirable trait. You can explain the pros and cons of different technology choices without being sarcastic.

A green developer who wants to rewrite everything is $LANGUAGE is just as bad as the self-important greybeard rolling his eyes and scoffing at anything that isn't $OTHER_LANGUAGE.