skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I'd like to prove myself wrong in less than one minute: gcp's pricing change on maps services.
Path-dependency.

Urban rankings are quite surprisingly durable, with the US being among the worse examples of this, given, say, the rise and fall of numerous formerly-great cities, say St. Louis or Detroit, or to a lesser extent Boston or Philadelphia.

Globally, Rome, London, Paris, Tokyo, and other major metropolises have sustained themselves for centuries. In cases, millennia.

The Bay Area's biggest risk is likely its high cost of living given induced housing constraints. If an alternative centre emergess, as Los Angeles did in the 11920s, following the 1906 fire and earthquake, plus San Francisco's transport and water limitations (neither the bridges nor Hetch Hetchy existed at the time), as well as LA as a resource hub (oil). That advantage remained until the 1990s defence contraction, which hammered Los Angeles.

If you really want to see durability of prestige, though, look to universities. Virtually all the great mediaeval European universities remain notable, and several (Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, Leipzig) remain world-class. In the US, Harvard and Yale (among others) pre-date the country itself. Even in California's public university system, founding campuses Berkeley ("Cal") and UCLA, founded in 1868 and 1919, respectively, greatly out-rank subsequent expansion campuses.

(UCSB, 1944, Riverside; 1954, Davis, 1959; San Diego, 1960; Irvine, 1965; Santa Cruz, 1965; Merced, 2005. UCSF medical school, 1873, is not a general-education campus.)
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You can try a google search with:

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Isn't this an ethics problem ? And then isn't the question whether this contract as reported is fundamentally unethical, or at least considered to be unethical by the majority of the current UK populace. I would argue the answers to these questions are 'yes' and 'yes'. Just because previously newspapers have behaved unethically, doesn't change the matter. Newspapers often preach from the high moral ground/ 'courageously representing the views of the people' and the Standard is no exception.

If the Evening Standard wanted to change what it called itself to e.g. a 'hand-out' that may be ok, but if it is claiming to be a newspaper written by journalists then this is not. I am not a journalist, but don't journalism ethics include the concepts of truthfulness, accountability, openness and independence amongst others.
And Russians are using products produced by Google, the same Google that has deep relationship with government and military contracts. With your reasoning, every countriy should ban products of GAFA.
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* travel suggestions for other places you might like

* ad targeting based on specific locations you've been to

Sounds useful enough to keep the data and there might be more uses in the future.
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Video: https://youtu.be/7xoRe2OFNnI
Disagree. mmWave on generic CMOS is very impressive. Sure, you can take a SiGe or III-V front end, and marry that up to CMOS back ends, but then you don’t meet the price point. Put in an FPGA, then you are way over price.

The baseband bandwidth for FMCW RADAR is not that much, so they are able to pull this off with a DSP. It’s the RF integration that impressed me. I’m presently using some ADI SiGe mmWave ICs (impressive themselves), and those are close to $300 for the TX/RX pair, and that’s only the RF to analog baseband. The TI part is $55 for a fully integrated chip. Just need a PCB/antenna and supply regulators.

Short white paper here:

http://www.ti.com/lit/an/swra592/swra592.pdf
You should definitely use HSTS, but I think this is about catching those people entering "website.com" in their browser, where the default behaviour (having never visited the site before) is connecting via HTTP. You want those redirected to a HSTS enabled HTTPS connection immediately, and this seems to be a good place to put this functionality?
By that logic though, all foreign software should be banned. Heck, all non-source-code-audited software, even domestic should be banned. I mean, if they believe Russia interfered with US elections, what's the stop them from interfering with a US software company or getting enough influence to do so?
You’d be surprised. Jets bleed a lot of altitude in a bank unless it’s compensated for.

That said, I find it highly suspect that a jet is banking at 500ft altitude in the first place, unless it’s at an air show. It’s highly dangerous doing maneuvers like that at that altitude.
If you have to pay royalties to use a digital font, it stands to reason you have to pay royalties to the keepers of information. Why that's elsevier et al all I don't know, but they are is the only logical conclusion.
What is curious is that the tech industry has been very conservative about rethinking these 6 things that you just listed. Why rows in a relational database? Why objects? Why Javascript? And why HTML? We'd surely be in a better place if we got rid of these things and rethought our approach from first principles.

I've written about these issues many times before.

Regarding the problem with objects, I wrote "Object Oriented Programming Is An Expensive Disaster Which Must End":

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/object-oriented-progr...

Regarding the problems of HTML, I wrote "The problem with HTML":

http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/the-problem-with-html

To answer the question "Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable?" the answer is surely, in part, the fact that we refuse to build technologies that are designed to be great front-end technologies.
This guy has collected all the data on it, and answers a lot of your questions:

https://randomcriticalanalysis.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/unde...
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Know what's worse? Of these three, Lotus Notes is probably the most productive to use nowadays. Reason being that its development has mostly stalled, i.e. they've stopped making it worse.

But I'm talking Lotus Notes here, so that's saying something...
All I can think of is people who eat meat, but find animal slaughter abhorrent. They can find another nice valley office to work in, put their fingers in their ears, and refuse to think about how America was built on the back of war and an effective defence force.
And that is how we get #if defined(_THIS_THING_SOME_COMPILER_DEFINES) && !defined(__BUT_NOT_THIS_ONE_THAT_COMPILER_X_DEFINES) soup ;)
I do like thttpd too, but chroot() is no replacement for pledge().
Agreed. When I read the above article, it was one OMFG followed by another. How much more complicated do we want to make hiring? How much more complicated does hiring have to get before non-existent “training” or “probation” practices would become a more efficient use of resources?

IMO we’re already there. Everyone’s doubling down on hiring complexity instead of thinking of other solutions to create a great team.
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> moths

I think I spotted your problem with bugs.
Depends how superior you want to make yourself feel.
No.

The mouse introduced in 1984 was philosophically incompatible with Anglebarts mouse like device. Watch the mother of all demos and see the difference.

Apple: https://youtu.be/S7AL7tkQ7d0?t=13m8s

Mother of all demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
Of course you can. You can control for the factor/variable you said was the "single most important", which is done through the design of the study, by your own admission. And then look at results from the other factors.

Whether your factor is important or not doesn't even enter the picture.
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Looks interesting. Although the example has a TTL of 7 days for the session cookie, which contains an identifier used by the service provider to uniquely fingerprint an individual user. Under GDPR, does all trace of a user have to be removed immediately on demand, even if this has been effectively delegated to something like the ALB?
> Having to learn a new library every 3-4 years (because of a new job, generally) is it really a big deal?

_If_ frontend development is all you do, then no, it isn't.

One of the good things about the internet is that it's possible for a lone wolf to build and ship something amazing. One person can understand enough of the full stack, from HTML/CSS through JS to a serverside language and basic server administration, to build something great, unfunded.

The constant churn in frontend development makes that increasingly difficult. If you find a useful library for your backend code, great, just 'gem install' it (or pip or whatever). Useful JS library for your frontend code? You've got to learn the packaging technology du jour just to be able to install it. In two years' time this'll be different, and you'll have to get to grips with another complex web of tiny little components that fit together in ways you don't fully understand. Whereas your backend (for me, Ruby+Postgres) is still essentially the same it's always been, and just as great.

Indie full-stack developers can no longer keep up with frontend development, and I think that's a great loss.
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Wasn't the ordering thing in C for stack push order in calling conventions? At least that's one theory I've heard.
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Because those numbers are thrown out by journalists who don't understand finances. Uber is, and has always been, very financially sound and no where near the "collapse" that the media likes to tout. They're hated (by a small and fervent population) for a good reason, but it has no impact on math
Weather really is last refuge of scoundrels.
Good for you for acting on your values. Too few people do.

One question - under what circumstances would you entertain the idea of supporting the military with your labour?

I mean, imagine you lived somewhere like Switzerland. Neutral, with a military that genuinely exists as a "defence force". Would that be okay?
You don't need to disable JS entirely; disabling JS by default from third party origins (i.e. uMatrix) is entirely sufficient to block almost all of these things.
Ask HN: What would have stopped you starting your company?
For those of us that have started a company, what would have prevented you choosing to start in the first place?

Maybe it's resources?
Maybe it's a mentor?
Maybe it's support?
Maybe it's your parents or the school you went to?

I wouldn't have started my previous company if I hadn't had support from my Mum "Your only young once, go do it", if I hadn't had a computer scince degree "Hey, do you think you could build our app?".
The head of our department was rightfully sceptical as well.

Here's how they did it: they had a few decent cameras zoomed and focused so that their fields of view formed a skewed line crossing the path the subjects walked.

You only need a 300x150 image of the whole eye to perform decent iris recognition, so an eye covering 10% of a given camera's field of view was usually large enough.

But that was in 2012 - I imagine they've made some improvements.
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If it makes you anxious whether or not you are compliant, you're probably not. As a rule of thumb this goes pretty well with a lot of legislation.
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That kind of black and white thinking implies that the only moral way to live is as a monk, if you're ever spending money on say, a vacation or a new TV or eating out, well why don't you give that money to charity you monster??

You can believe that people have a moral obligation to do good, without believing that people have a moral obligation to maximize good in every aspect of their lives.
hehe .. indeed, the Linus you were expecting would have been a mailing list post.
Don't think it states anywhere that all trace of a user have to be removed immediately on demand.

Generally speaking you have 30 days to remove personal data (But there is a bit more to it than that).

A good overview is from the UK ICO:
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...
On the off chance that you're not just trolling, this is one of the main points of the GDPR. If this is news to you, I invite you to read up on the subject.
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With good optics and fast tracking, I don't see why not. Even if your video is lower-resolution, you could use a video feed for movement tracking to direct a high-res still camera with decent optics and have a high-resolution capture of the face and eyes, maybe enough to distinguish iris details. 6 metres doesn't look hard for my off-the-shelf optical-zoom camera.

If you are rich and can afford custom optics and a large-ish array of sensors (think of Kepler's camera back, more rectangular and much smaller), you could capture different sensors independently to get different sections of a larger panorama separately, identify which ones hold high-enough res irises and pipe them through your recognition plumbing. Knowing all irises are within a certain range of heights make the problem a lot simpler WRT positioning the camera, the optics and the sensor array.
Ah, thanks, though yes, unclear ;-)
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This is brilliant.

Especially:

Q: Why don't you care about my feelings?
We are not a support group for human emotion. We are a community that strives to focus around our topics. Anything else takes away from that.
Betteridge's law of headlines at its best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
IBM seems expert at stealth layoffs. Possibly to avoid lawsuits?

https://www.propublica.org/article/federal-watchdog-launches...
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> Doing it is not risky - especially if you're teaching something that's been taught a million times before. Most well educated people I think could teach at least one subject

I think this is something that many well educated people think, right up until they are placed alone in a class-room of 30 children who aren't desperately interested in what they have to say.
If you can flip through the book and learn to a particular level on your own then you don't need less schooling, you need schooling at a more appropriate level (in order to fulfill your intellectual drive/curiosity/etc.).
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From repo activity Shio seems dead. And here is for gotham https://gotham.rs/blog/2018/05/31/the-state-of-gotham.html
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I'm a googler and don't really see anything particularly objectionable about selling ads against a user's personal info. That's how the service is funded, and realistically almost nobody's gonna pay a monthly sub just to search the internet or get driving directions. I certainly wouldn't. So, ads it is.

Now, giving that personal info to third parties, that'd be a different story, but that's not what Google does.
Some anecdata from early 90s:

I had a seemingly reputable newspaper(Santa Barbara News-Press) offer to write a human interest story (NOT marked as advertorial) about my small business in return for placing some regular advertising with them.

Being young and foolish I thought that was an ethical no no and declined.

From then on I noticed how often there was a link between advertising and coverage in media.

In Eastern Europe this is ridiculously apparent even in localized versions of US media such as Forbes/Nat Geo/etc etc.

Conclusion: this happens all the time everywhere, if you spend money at some media, you get some say.

Sure on occasion your money will be no good if your business becomes a hot potatoe issue.
The air quality in China is objectively terrible, but I do think that the government are serious about fixing it. China is now the biggest market for electric vehicles and photovoltaic panels by a considerable margin. The issue is being talked about quite openly on Chinese social media, which suggests that the Party have a great deal of confidence.
Had a similar experience. I find it fades quite quickly. If you can't triangulate with what you're already doing (or thinking of) it's going to be tough.

I think getting to a productive level would require a lot of dedication and consistency.
Is it possible Apple is considering a legal challenge? I know the system in Russia is horribly corrupt, but at least they seem to care about pretending to have a functioning legal system.
Sometimes functioning air conditioning :/
If there are microbenchmarks, I didn’t write them. And I’ll acknowledge that my instruction-counting approach has limits, especially since I don’t really know the details of the platform. And my approach also doesn’t account for pipelining.

But I would expect someone complaining about this optimization to do more than simply hand wave with a “supposedly.” They could instead say that the optimization can be applied when the compiler can prove x < x + 1, which it can show when both the beginning and end of the loop are known at compile time. In fact, I think it’s better to say “omit the pessimization that applies when the compiler has to allow for overflow.”

But going no farther than labeling it a “supposed optimization” turns the complaint into a standard rant.
>subsidizing the reproduction of high achievers.

[Western] Capitalism does this by concentrating wealth with higher "achievers".
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Doesn't seem very strange, and I work at Google. Tracking personal info to sell better ads, vs interpreting data to imprison or kill people? Those seem pretty hugely different to me.
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Stamp collectors.
... are you kidding me?

Yes, Western governments have their problems. But honestly what alternative is there?

Chinese "communism" (really Fascism)?

Russian dictatorship / oligarchy?

African tribalism and anarchy?

Middle Eastern theocracies?

There are a lot of things I'd change about Western states. Making them truer to the Western values of reason, individualism, justice, peace and voluntarism would be a good start :)

But really, the only reason we're not living in the dark ages is those same Western principles. (Which we might now refer to as Eastern, had not Ibn Battuta and others rolled back the Islamic renaissance, plunging the world back into darkness until the Europeans caught up. What might have been, etc.)
> I'm an aerospace engineer and I specialize in rockets. I understand that the nature of my work will almost always 100% benefit the weapons industry because there's just no avoiding it.

Those people are software engineers. Unlike you, they could have easily found equivalent jobs elsewhere (almost anywhere) that did not contribute to building a worldwide surveillance network in the name of serving better ads.

I agree with GP that it takes a wacky moral compass to willingly engage in mass surveillance but feel strongly enough about weapons to quit over them. It's either very naive, hypocritical, or both.
The interesting thing about Lotus Notes is that it started out as something that wasn't that far from Engelbart's vision of a collaborative UI. Unfortunately, it ended up being predominantly used as a makeshift email client but it had a lot of potential.
> Not likely. My sister teaches in a magnate school in a poor urban U.S. district.

Couldn't we draw the conclusion then that wealth plays an important role? Which in turn also affects the pay of the teachers in the area, also affecting the quality of said teachers?

> It's very depressing, and it has left many teachers bitter, burned out, and I suspect more racist.

I'm not disagreeing with what you're saying, but what I think is depressing is that it leads to racism, instead of anger over systemic inequality.
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Two years ago I became curious as to how much time is spent play video games, a few Google queries later I was confident I had a decent estimate. I was shocked at the figure and wanted to see what those man hours could translate to. Recently I revisited this post and have decided to share it here.
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Well designed site!

I used something similar: 750words.com for a year

within few months the streak turned to torture.

There was no noticeable improvement in my adult writing skills yet I felt obliged to keep the chain going.

The happiest day of that year was when I mixed up time zones and missed one day.

Have not written anything seriously since.
Uber has a great MOAT and they were having a financial crisis a few months ago. This is Buffett's wheelhouse.

He wasn't just trying to buy equity, it was convertible debt which is has a stronger guarantee.
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> catching those people entering "website.com"

When the domain is registered to use HSTS their browser will use a TLS connection the first time they ever connect to your website.

> You want those redirected to a HSTS enabled HTTPS connection immediately

Websites that depend on advertising probably do as they often want to support very old browsers. Otherwise there's no real need for a redirect/connection upgrade IMO.
Eh. Reddit's userbase is increasingly younger (have you seen the home page while logged out lately?) and they can't really monetize them. Sure, they have contracts with pizza and soda companies in the US, but that's it.

Recently they've been trying to "Facebook-ize" their UX, they gather a lot more data, implement affiliate links and a lot more logging, but it's still not going far because the last of their adult users are leaving the site. At least this was my experience with Reddit in the past 2 years or so.

I only go back to look for very specific things and leave afterwards.
> It is possible that, as a result, the app is not GDPR compliant

As a result of what? And this is between Russia/USA which has nothing to do with GDPR.

And moreover, company has to be GDPR compliant and not an app. An app may include stuff that helps to be GDPR compliant, but is only a subset of what is required to be compliant.
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Also, it has to be technically feasible to remove the user data. So I don't think data stored on the client's own device is data that you necessarily should remove (though IANAL).
It's a loan so he'd probably be in the 1st tier to get paid back if Uber went bankrupt. The equity would just be a bonus.

Uber is currently positioned to win when they can get self-driving cars. Drivers are Uber's biggest expense.
I don't see many serious people advocating for normalizing obesity. I also don't think there's a clear productive outcome to obesity issues.

Telling fat people to burn more calories than they eat is like telling poor people to save more dollars than they spend. Yeah, it's the outcome we want, but it's not a mechanism to solve the problem.

A government program to influence calorie consumption is as distasteful as a government program to closely monitor home economics.
I forgot to do this last night. I think the compiler is able to apply the optimization in many cases even if the loop variable is unsigned, so it’s more accurate to say that a pessimization is added when the compiler has to account for overflow.

If the rant had said the pessimization wasn’t all that common, or that a decent programmer should ask “how can I go through this loop fewer times?” before asking “how can I speed up each time through the loop?” I wouldn’t consider it a rant. As it is, the writer acknowledges that the other side has an argument, and then he dismisses it with a hand wave and a “supposedly.”
You mean realistic.

NDAs are there for a reason.
I think the problem is, that's absolutely against the specific interests of university departments, individual researchers, and newspapers - even if it's in the interest of the field as a whole.