skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the number that is being kicked around.

Facebook will yield more than $100 per active user in the US and Canada for fiscal 2018. That's going to $200 from here over the next six or seven years (it doubled from 2015 to 2017). No meaningful number of users are paying $15 per month out of pocket for Facebook.

Google search is similarly worth a lot per user in the US. People would be irate if they had to pay $10 or $20 per month to use search engines after commonly enjoying the free utility of that for the last two decades.
I subscribed to Time around then and tend to agree... it shifted from news to entertainment in my mind. I remember being puzzled why they gave ink to Joel Stein (?) writing an odd mix of comedy/irony as a news magazine feature. It seemed like an odd desperate grasp for new young readership but it alienated their base, even the younger ones of us. It wasn't what I signed up for and I let my subscription lapse.
That is playing dice while dealing with potentially personal information though right?

It depends on Bob using DHCP, that his DHCP switches often enough, and there are enough people on the same network that the link can not be made.

The above is not always true, other mitigating factors are not always true. Which seems to make some of IP logs personal information. Or at least you are safest if you treat it that way.

I am basing some of my reasoning off an article that I was pointed to earlier:
https://www.whitecase.com/publications/alert/court-confirms-...

Where, to my understanding, IP address are considered personal information only if you can link it to some other identifying info.

I think a regulator is unlikely to go after a company for not deleting IP logs in the current climate. As far as I can tell GDPR gives them the power to however.

Until there is some case/enforcement history it is understandable if people are cautious.
Yep. Shoot me an email and I'll let you beta the demographics pre-screening requirements. support@userinsights.com!
You do realize Solaris implemented a service management system (which is also superior to systemd; and was also created prior to systemd's conception), right ? They switched away from legacy SysV init scripts BEFORE systemd existed.
Having 200 million users to "Report this site as fake news" and a moderation team should overcome that
Once upon a day, twenty years ago, site feature selection were exactly what cookies were used for.
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In my house, there is a design flaw in Alexa which encourages this failure mode: there is a single volume level for the system, instead of separate volume levels for Alexa voice vs. music/application audio.

I keep my Alexa's volume at 2-3, because otherwise the music / podcasts are too loud for me. However at volume 2-3 the Alexa system voice is fairly quiet and I often miss things Alexa says- requested or accidental. I'd prefer to keep Alexa system voice at volume 5, but music at 2-3.

I requested this feature of a distinct Alexa voice volume years ago. I would be interested if anyone has a solution for this.
>But the converse is not true; when europeans go to Germany they can't pay with cards that are normally accepted elsewhere. That is a major nuisance.

Are you talking about niche cards like Amex?

My Visa was widely accepted in Germany, except at places that don't take cards at all. (Kebab stand, bar, etc)
That fact along with any reason to believe that 84% of suicides are caused by SAD might help explain things. But that "fact" isn't remotely true.
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>2.) guard the IT infrastructure according to the PCI rules (have you ever needed to implement those, especially for small shop owners with no IT know-how)

is this really necessary? AFAIK it's only necessary if you handle credit card numbers, which you don't, and can be outsourced to the payment processor so you're not seeing credit card numbers at all.

>3.) every day/week/month accounting of the payments to the corresponding receipts

this can't be handled by the POS software?

>4.) hope that the customer doesn't initiate a reimbursement

probably not a big issue with card present purchases
This is a terrible use case for cookies. Any browser reset or change, new computer, your phone, etc, and you need to redo the whole experience every time. I'd rather login and customize once.

Cookies get sent with most requests as headers so you're unnecessarily bogging down requests with data unrelated to the session.
"and presumably other BSDs"

That is indeed correct in the case of OpenBSD. Halfway rolling my eyes at the article's assertion that it's better to write a new tool than actually bother to maintain the existing one when it's very possible for ifconfig to be a one-stop shop for, you know, interface configuration.
Part of the reason for the failure of those other models is their need to compete with an exploitative ad driven model. When you remove the lowest common denominator, you make it is easier for the market to accomplish something better.
No, philosophy as a academic field has failed. It's common knowledge for those in the field to know that none of the primary problems of philosophy has been solved despite being worked on for 2000 years. What every academic tries to do now is work on the secondary problems.
I got so many emails from services someone accidentally used my email to sign me up for. Very eye opening.
Contradicted more recently by

> The substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification for holding an evidentiary hearing.

Courts and laws change slowly, and changing them requires sustained, steady pressure. But they do change and adapt as their shortcomings are identified.
> whereas a card can withdraw...whatever your limit

Cards also have a dispute process.

> much quicker than card transactions around here

That's because German vendors are hopeless at processing cards.

Australia/HK/Singapore/China/most of Europe: the reader prompts you with the sale amount. You tap your card. It adds zero time to the transaction.

Germany: the vendor asks to hold the card. They insert the card. They ask the terminal to do a credit transaction. They give the reader back to you for the PIN. You hand it back. They ask for your ID because you're a foreigner. Blah blah blah.

> having to sign on EC payments has become a thing recently

So you're actively going backwards, then?

I'm also going to point out three other annoyances with the German banking system:

- Cash machines are rare (kilometres apart)

- To avoid fees, you have to use machines in your network

- The fees on out-of-network withdrawals are huge (3-5 EUR, but apparently unrestricted; I paid 10 EUR for a temporary ATM at an event once).

So you carry a lot of cash.
What is this built on? I had a quick look at the source without luck!

https://github.com/drawpile/Drawpile
Ok, just update the ToS. No ability needed to provide opt out of that IP collection? No ability needed to go, upon request, and delete all these IP+timestamp logs that I could use to correlate with their name? Handwaving all of this stuff away as clear and easy is at the least ignorant to real people's concerns and at most willfully dishonest.
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I don't think so. Seriously think about it. How many active users does AirBnB have? How many put their home up for rent, and how many rent in a year? I reckon you get more tweets in a day than AirBnB rentals in a year. That's how big Twitter is or small AirBnB is. :D
I noticed this is very weird but I'm young (in my early 20s) and I only use my card to withdraw money from the ATM. Wherever I go, if it is in a restaurant, a store or the pharmacy I only pay in cash.

For me personally it has not just something to do with privacy, for me cash is more real than my debit card. When I shop with cash I spend less money, I know how much money I have to spend the next X days etc. I can never imagine myself not using cash
i think this is a good idea, but it would require a lot of thought to ensure that the wallet linking requirement does not deanonymize paid users. i assume youre aware that BTC is not actually anonymous without taking some nontrivial steps.
I'm just a follower of the project (I have my own instance), it looked to me worth sharing it there, so I did.

It didn't seem to me that I should tag it as Show HN, but maybe I was wrong.
Why do you think that previous ToS was outdated and no longer legally valid? Why do you think consent given x years earlyer would not be valid?
> You could have a website that's in violation of GDPR, travel to Europe on vacation or business, and get arrested.

No, you can't. This still requires a warrant.
Question of free will as a fundamental philosophical question is settled in a sense that it made only sense together with dualism and soul (there are still people who are dualists and believe in individual entity called soul. For them the question remains).

Albert Einstein:

>I do not believe we can have any freedom at all in the philosophical
sense, for we act not only under external compulsion but also by inner
necessity. Schopenhauer’s saying— “A man can surely do what he wills
to do, but he cannot determine what he wills”—impressed itself upon me
in youth and has always consoled me when I have witnessed or suffered
life’s hardships. This conviction is a perpetual breeder of tolerance,
for it does not allow us to take ourselves or others too seriously; it
makes rather for a sense of humor.

Modern version of free will has degenerated into question of deterministic vs randomness and few other more vague branches. If human makes random decision, he is making random decision not free decision. Calling it "free will" is just a way to make the question sound more important.
I've been saying this for years. There needs to be big scary button with lots of warnings that allows the users to download and run whatever binary they want. That should be guaranteed by law for any turing machine.

Curated stores are a great idea but there has to be an alternative.
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There's no info yet partly because I've been trying a variety of approaches, and I'm not sure yet which approach will work out best. The core of the tool is a scanner which extracts an audio feature vector for each track in your library. Armed with this feature matrix, we can apply clustering algorithms - the most successful so far has been a Gaussian mixture model. I'm currently working on a system which will hopefully improve accuracy by bootstrapping a feature selection model, using metadata tags as an initial ground truth for music similarity, thereby allowing us to reduce the actual number of features which need to be compared.

I started out imagining that this tool would continuously update the contents of my crates, but now I think I want it to be more of a manual process. I'm imagining it as an analysis and reporting tool more than an organizer; I'll ask it to identify the outliers in a given crate, or ask for suggested additions, then choose how to arrange things myself. This way, I can use the manually-curated organization of my library as additional training data for the similarity model.
Google was fined for $2 billions in Europe for promoting their own services in search results. You could argue that Google search is theirs and they can do whatever they want with it, but luckily since they are a big player (close to being the only one in search) there are antitrust laws that prevent that.

Apple is in a similar positon. A lot customers depend on iOS devices and I am not sure Apple should be allowed to exclude competitors from the App Store at its discretion.
Have you completely missed all the advances on Chrome OS lately?
for europe it would be around $20 i believe.
You don't need to be remembered to be significant.
I'm trying to see if the OP knows the difference.

I think it's great your a scout leader. It will help shape the lives of children who will outlive you. And you're doing it out of a healthy desire to help others, and not a vain quest to secure your fame after your death.
For language-agnostic do you mean just tutorials on the mathematics? Or do you mean pseudocode? (which would be hard since a lot of the implementations have to make assumptions about things in the language, like how arrays work, or mutability, etc.)

Or do you mean just a resource that had implementations in multiple languages from the start that spanned a wide range of practically used tools? (this would be great, but seems like it would require a huge additional amount of effort, both to create and also to maintain if a given example needs to change)
Americans for the most part hates being told what to do by the government. For me, I hate it because government intervention tends to cripple economic growth. I value economic growth > social welfare (used in the non derogatory way, in America "welfare" has an immediate negative connotation). I am also aware of this and can understand why other cultures would reverse that equation
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This seems to be an odd case.

At one place we get to hear about "GDPR" and how it's "delayed gratification", "society first".

Then there is this obsession with cash. Where "society first" does not apply.

Cashless society can easily track terrorist funding, corruption, illegitimate cash dealings used in trafficking, drug deals etc...

This kinda seems hypocritical to me.

No wonder Germany is the largest human trafficking country.
Sure, but the skimmers target the consumers, not the company. Having a lot of cash for places like Home Depot and so on is a real problem. It also enables all kinds of fraud and embezzlement.
I doubt it, considering the strategy Google followed with Chrome OS.

Time will tell.
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>> no bank will lend you money to pay rent

>I'm pretty sure every bank will do this, in the form of a credit card.

I’ve never seen an option to pay rent with a credit card. Cash, check, money order, or cashier check have been options I’ve seen.
In math, don't proofs only show whether something is consistent, not that something is 'better?' I'd wager the credit you are assigning math is based more on its utility when applied rather than to anything inherent to proofs. So, maybe the question to ask is 'Have there been changes in how philosophy is usefully applied?' Seems like there could be. For example, I'm wagering that there's plenty of applied philosophical work to be done in the ethics of automated machinery like, say, automobile braking systems.
A more charitable way of putting it is that naive understandings of free will are incoherent but if we're going to have to make up a definition of free will we might as well do so while maintaining as much of traditional distinctions between free will and non-free will as possible.

For instance if I decide hit someone and do so that might be considered blameworthy. If someone else decides to pick me up and throw me at that person then that wouldn't be blameworthy of me. Traditionally you'd distinguish between these by invoking free will and I think that's a useful distinction to make.
This has become a really crowded space. UserTesting.com, Validately, Loop11, userzoom, userlytics, etc. As other commenters have alluded to, it really comes down to participant demographic granularity. If I can't specify my target audience very easily and you can't deliver them at the number of participants I need, then the best user testing tool in the world will be pretty useless. This is why usertesting.com can command a premium. I can get extremely granular with my screening criteria and start getting results within an hour.

Also, it's worth noting that it's much more difficult to do native app testing, especially on iOS. That's another competitive advantage the bigger players have that is much more difficult for newer entrants to match.

Fwiw, the best user testing insights I've been able to get come from live, in person contextual intercepts (e.g. at the bank after customers have just wrapped up their business with the teller..."Wanna give our new mobile banking app a spin and get a $20 Amazon card?") and online intercepts using ethnio for screening and lookback.io to handle recording the actual test sessions.
If I'm understanding correctly, it seems similar to saying that there's been progress in math because there's been progress in physics [1] and economics, both of which are largely based on math.

I think it would be more accurate to differentiate between "progress in other fields that utilize well-known, age-old x" and "progress in x."

[1] Some progress in physics has been as a result of new discoveries in math, such as the strong cosmic censorship conjecture being disproved recently
The same is true of credit cards by design. People don't see what can end up as 25% of vending machines costs etc.
A phone is a special purpose computer.

For it to be general, I should be allowed to do everything I can do with a PC, without any kind of constraints or workarounds.

Exactly because most people pay more than $300 for an unconstrained device, there is little value to pay more than that for a constrained device.
Almost none and it’s not (Only) because of the construction method.

Today buildings are cheap which means that there is no incentive to keep them around until they become historically significant.

That 1000 year old abbey on a hill somewhere likely used to be the only masonry building for 100s of miles for a good chunk of its history and by the time masonry buildings became cheap enough to be mass produced to be considered a commodity it has gained sufficient historical value to be preserved for it.

It’s also interesting to think about historic property laws.

Land ownership is relatively a new concept and in many places you still cannot wholly own the land.

In the past you often couldn’t tear down a building and build a new one as you would lose well essentially your squatting rights.

Today however land is just as much of a commodity as ahytbing else which adds another factor that can against the value of the building.
Or simply detect when piped and leave the color out, as just about every sane cli tool does it.
I don’t think the view is that they are incompatible with each other, but rather that cash is incompatible with the motives of payment processors and banks.
> They're not tracking you because they hate privacy

They're tracking you because they're indifferent to your privacy, and they can make money by violating it.

The writing has been on the walls for a while ever since ad blockers took off.

Media companies that are still trying to make money by selling their users are deprecated.
I noticed there's no mac version. Linux and windows only, is that correct? Is there a version planned for Mac OS? Most electron apps seem to target Mac OS and Windows primarily with Linux as an after thought, so I would imagine this would be a deal breaker for them.

It's a great project though, thanks for building it!
Put simply: Americans prefer corporate overreach to government overreach. The latter is seen as only needed in extreme circumstances because there is often no going back. It's why you see hate for things like the cloud act and GDPR... it doesn't matter where they are enacted, some people don't want the government involved on these things at this point.
But if you've paid for Amazon Prime then Amazon has become a platform similar your iPhone.

Just like you can buy a cheap secondary phone for Steam Link, you can join another company's "free shipping membership program" to buy your Nest (or just pay shipping or get it locally, like you said).

Regardless, I think the distinction is less clear than you make out.
Disneyland with the Death Penalty (1993) https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gibson-2/

It's illegal to buy gum in Singapore without a prescription. You may like Singapore - here's a more positive take by Dan Sivers https://sivers.org/sg14 - but I've never heard it described as "free market" let alone anything that would appeal to a libertarian as such.
But avoid "Pay payment processor ~30 cents per transaction AND ~3%."

Many businesses can't afford to offer credit card transactions because they would be extremely expensive.
The moderation team is key. Too often I see techies say a problem is impossible because computers can’t do it. Humans are also an acceptable solution, even if companies like Google try to pretend otherwise.

I anticipate replies along the lines of “Facebook has a billion users, they’d need a gigantic team to handle their volume.” To preemptively respond: yes they would. That’s the nature of business. Sometimes you have to put substantial resources into it. Not all problems scale infinitely with just data centers. If you really want to scale with just data centers, stick to services where that’s appropriate.
You're probably very aware of the fact not all EU law makers are elected... and that "protecting the privacy of their constituents" is probably not really their intentions either.

Arranging laws so they can fine US companies Billions for succeeding where EU companies fail? that's probably more like their goal.

The EU is full of countries (I can speak for France, "my" country) who show no respect for privacy (France has installed black boxes at every ISP to monitor everybody, and nobody cares). And now we're trying to "protect" EU citizens? Seriously?

People are so brain washed to accept limits to their own freedom... GDPR will not give you more freedom if it's used to prevent sane competition from outside the EU... GDPR will harm Europeans. Restrictions never make you more free.
Google and the manufacturer had 2 years to ensure this wouldn't be an issue.
An old site for tracking where your dollar came from and where it has been since it left your hands.

https://www.wheresgeorge.com

Example:
https://www.wheresgeorge.com/b:QZHjxdYnJ&entry=16
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697436#c14

"GA also doesn't track IPs or store PII within the tool."
I agree with a lot of people here that there's a distinction between doing something significant and being remembered for it. Addressing the latter, though, I think it's kind of a waste of time. Many here are pointing out certain inventions or innovations or constructions or whatever from 1000 years ago that people today appreciate. But I would venture to guess that 1000 years ago those people wouldn't have thought the same of those accomplishments. My point being that people 1000 years from now will value things differently than we do, so it's really impossible to say what "thing" you could do today that people would give a crap about in 1000 years.
doesn't it seem like hubris to assume that philosophy has stopped producing "successful" fields? Computer science broke off less than 100 years ago...
> N shops + 1 bank

Only by 1/N. And since there are ATMs near my shops and it's mostly about trips, not about # of shops, it's both negligible and certainly well worth it for the benefits. And if that epsilon of effort is too much for you, you can get cash-back at most grocery shops, though the amount will typically be smaller, one reason I prefer the bank ATM.

> That's not my liability - it's the card company's

Not around here it ain't. And of course if the card company "takes on" the liability, it just redistributes it to its customers. So you are paying for it.

> Don't you have contactless in Germany?

Rarely if at all. Also I don't see how contactless (you just swipe? No PIN?) manages security.

So: tangibility, security and data protection are clear benefits. Convenience as well around here, and can only be improved by making the entire thing less secure.
Studies show that you tend to be more frugle when you spend in cash. There is a reason why casinos give you chips. I always try to use cash when I can.