skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“What’s an ad sidebar?”

Ok, tongue-in-cheek remark. I left Facebook, block ads aggressively, use DuckDuckGo, and live in the weak sauce privacy of the Apple ecosystem.

Since I block ads, I also block a bunch of trackers. But given that I can’t see most ads, I have no idea whether people are trying to sell me mattresses after I discuss beds.

For all I know, I don’t live in a house with the shades drawn, maybe I live in a house with one-way shades such that the advertisers can watch me, but I can’t see anything they’re trying to show me.

——

If the above is the case, I will still be vulnerable to micro-targeted astroturf stuff. Like bots posing as Members of whatever social media I participate in, dropping brand names in their conversations.

Is everyone on Swedespeed really a Volvo enthusiast? If one of them posts a picture of a Trek mountian bike on their roof rack, how do I know this is “organic,” and not an ad campaign?

For how long will the above be a pleasant chuckle about a dystopian possible future, and not everyone’s daily “reality?”

This is already happening with political discourse, it must be inevitable for commerce.
>socially acceptable

what you fail to realize is that this is manifestly a contradiction: by definition if it were more socially acceptable to discriminate against "white males" then white males would be the marginalized class. that's why claims like this are farcical; of course more people are fine discriminating against black people and women!
I really like reading hand curated changelogs. In a weird way, sometimes reading a changelog can be more satisfying than using the new version.
>Language would not be neutral, something like 'Do you want to help stop this cancer?'

this more or less violates 100% of the informed consent laws which are the standard for all investigations using people's genetic information in a clinical trial.

even with peoples' consent, this is egregiously bad. there is an established ethical standard which 23andme has decided to throw into the faces of their customers.
I wonder if that is even legal according to the GDPR. Does anyone know?
What are those connotations? As someone who has had the misfortune of drinking Stella, I speculate that Europeans challenged themselves to make something even nastier than Budweiser, and they succeeded.
An update on uBlock
I could care less what the big companies are doing, eventually the world will move on from them and they will no longer define the course of society, or even our little sector of it.
There is a toggle on the demo page that flips to vector.

I also found that if I hold ctrl I can rotate at random and even go "3d" and see some of the building's heights (in London anyway).

I've got no interest or relation in this (apart from being a OSM contributor years ago), but this is one of the most convincing alternatives to google maps I've seen. The free-rotate on the vector tiles really makes a difference.
That guy in California who got arrested recently for all those murders from decades back was detected because a distant relative signed up to one of these services.
ublock in browsers, a PiHole at home, ad blockers on your phone, and duckduckgo as your search engine.

I'm basically free from seeing online ads and from sharing too much of my life away.
Looks quite interesting, and the FAQ also seems comprehensive (I skimmed through it). The fact that it’s been around since 1999 gives some additional comfort.

For my usage and needs, where I need a few mailboxes as well as more than just a couple of aliases per mailbox, I’d consider trying it and moving to a paid subscription if/when the following are done:

1. Make IMAP and SMTP available for the free tier so that people can test it well before upgrading. Plus, providing a way to easily move out is something I consider an important requirement.

2. Bring in a new low price tier at EUR 1 per month with a slightly lower storage, alias and other quotas. This would make it competitive with Posteo.de, which is my current favorite paid email service. Fastmail becomes expensive very quickly for someone who needs multiple mailboxes.

3. Bonus: The automated import tool for Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail mentioned as coming in the future would be very nice to have.
Plenty of other chocolates have used that shape for decades.

It’s a functional not a pure asthetic choice putting it outside the realm of trademarks.
It worked just now, just sure what i did wrong earlier.

Maybe it had to fully load the feed before the proper dialog showed up.
So, basically, if they don't have the breadth of literary genres that English does, they're not as good. That's a horrible metric to judge literature and literary value by.
I don't see how it's unrealistic. People are paid to participate in studies all of the time.
I disagree with a number of points in this article.

"Now, we live in an age in which the intangible haze of soft-sell is no longer necessary, and the battle for market share comes down to the raw strength of your product. “The sun has passed midday on brand,” he says."

I don't think this is remotely true - as an example, take a look at the insurance industry (GEICO, AFLAC, AllState, etc). These guys are spending on massively on brand advertising. Now, obviously, the LTV of these customers is huge so they can afford the high CAC that comes with brand advertising. This advertising is pure Don Draper imho.

"The brand getting the most buzz in the car industry is Tesla. “What’s different about them? No advertising. Innovation in the car industry is not about putting Cindy Crawford in a TV ad. It’s about building a better battery.”"

Yes they have a great product - and, at the moment, they have that differentiation and, most importantly, buzz. That will change as the market for electric cars matures - and then you'll see Tesla start to advertise. It doesn't make any sense for them to spend on advertising right now given that they are in the press literally every day (right now for some stuff that isn't necessarily positive). Maturity of market matters.

"Clients have even started to question the ad business’s claim to efficiency. The model I described above is a simplified version of a dizzyingly complex system whose details few can fathom, involving multiple companies taking multiple fees. Unsurprisingly, fraud is rampant."

If this is true we'll likely see a pullback in digital advertising - or at least a movement to direct buys only on specific websites (vs. network buys).

My opinion: digital advertising is proving to be less and less efficacious, with costs going up and results going down. At the same time, we have less and less product differentiation. The result should be more spending on traditional brand advertising. Digital advertising is a channel - and spend to that channel will ebb and flow.

In my small world of advertising (B2B SaaS), I've seen digital advertising becoming largely ineffective. Too many companies marketing similar products and services. I would argue, in this world, brand advertising therefore becomes more important. That is, developing a brand is as or more important than product because all the products (in the eyes of prospects) are largely the same. Note that I am not saying product doesn't matter, or that a product cannot differentiate in a specific market (e.g. Slack), but that companies need a distribution advantage to succeed over every other company - and that either comes from the product or brand (e.g. Drift).

Now, having said all this, do I think the Ad Tech industry is a mess and that a major shakeout is needed? Yes. Do I think that digital advertising is largely too consolidated with a handful of players (Google, Facebook and now Amazon) - yes. Advertising can be still be great and useful - but Ad Tech needs some help.
Jacob Quinn has a translation to Julia here: https://github.com/quinnj/Ryu.jl
>businesses have little room to maneuver when an economic downturn hits

sure they do. they just underpay their workers the whole time.

oh yeah, and most places don't offer pensions anymore.
Not deleted, but confusing behavior.

For several months Facebook would _always_ ask for my password twice. Never accepted the first time even when I copy-pasted the exact same password in both boxes it would only work the second time. This was the same across different computers and browsers.

My account is empty (no friends/messages) just used for administering an FB page. I wonder if it looked suspicious.
What's to stop a special interest group from buying the data to build a catalog of undesirables?
I wasn't able to find an interactive simulator online, but this video has a nice visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5O77OV9_ek
Yes, but patents expire. A patent on the KitKat would have expired long ago.
When I toured the Las Vegas Switch data center a month ago, I asked what all the AR-15s were for. The response was that it is required by their all ex-military security team as a requirement to host highly classified government servers.
English has so many idioms that are nearly impossible to translate elegantly. "go to town on somebody", for example; a good part of learning English is not just learning grammar and vocabulary (although those are necessary), but learning all these idioms (which is kind of an open-ended process).
Kit Kat prints their name on the bars so you really can’t.

They even use Kit Kat for other shapes meaning the Kit Kat brand is devorced from that shape.

PS: Have you ever seen people remove the bars at a party? That’s unsanitary.
> the "Online marketplace offering" mentioned. I can see it now,

Generals who bought this item also bought...
How I Joined GitLab from Nothing [video]
It will be interesting to see how this plays out considering the huge controversy around project maven & google. I fully expect the HN moral outrage machine to kick into overdrive when this is signed.

I would suspect that the major providers would be better off to work with a third party on this, rather than run it themselves. E.g. had Project Maven been done through some random contractor who used GCP just like any other customer does, I dont imagine it would have got the same level of hysteria that it did with Google being the main contractor.
HA! those government requirements
India: Draft of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 [PDF]
While he was apprehended through familial DNA, it's important to note that it was through a website that allows uploading of DNA samples, as opposed to 23andMe which requires a live saliva sample.
Question: I am a student in germany and in my early 20s.

When I look back, for example at my summer holidays, we were biking for miles to spend the afternoon at a public swimming pool in a neighbouring village (approx. 40 min bike ride, maybe more). Or we were filming a lord of the rings-type movie deep in the woods, complete with building a small "castle". We also had a river in the woods my parents were always warning me that I can't get in there because I might drown, since it was more rapid than it looked like. So in elementary school I had nightmares for a few weeks of drowning inside the river, but that was all. I was still allowed to play there with my friends. For example, we once were building paper boats and see which one makes it the farthest.

Friends in the city were allowed to use the public transport (it's how every got to school...) to move around freely in the city.

Also, i clearly remember waiting in the car for my mom to get something.

I can't imagine growing up without being allowed to explore the world, be it nature or man-made.

Is this really different in the US?
Each person could have their own 'city' and being geographically-based, you could call it something like geocities. Or, if everyone has their own 'space' that they think of as 'my'...
Relevant blog post: https://medium.com/@shinya_55783/how-i-joined-gitlab-and-wen...
We have 4 sections to every changlog release: New, Improved, Fixed, and Internal

We maintain a CURRENT_CHANGES.md with those sections. When we do a release, we move the contents of CURRENT_CHANGES to a new entry in RELEASE_NOTES.md.

One of these days, I will get around to writing something that displays RELEASE_NOTES in the app, without the Internal section
Agreed. I stopped reading after two (which I knew anyway) due to the annoyance factor. Hopefully author can fix and republish article.
Tolerance for loud noise decreases with age for physiological reasons.

It seems likely that this would explain a good bit of the anecdotal evidence supporting this.
That gist links back to the actual original article, which shows code inline:

https://www.codementor.io/citizen428/git-tutorial-10-common-...
Ask HN: What are you working on this weekend?
Aulerion: Infrastructure as a Service Provider Opened Los Angeles and Promotion
> From a legal standpoint, this is broadly true, but I'd say from a user's perspective, this is only very narrowly true.

Oh, please. Of the two, the former is the only one that really matters here.
> an eke-name

I'm not buying this. "eke" as "also" may give the sense "by-name", alright. What irks me is the lack of explanation of the rebracketing, which would appear like a mistake. But "nick of time" and the like would make a reanalysis as "short name" plausible, so not a mistake but a funny play of words.
That debt is the reason the US has a trade deficit with China. China has no economic interest in holding US debt with the exception of funding purchases of its own goods. This is also in line with the twin deficits hypothesis.
Secure Boot and the 2018 MacBook Pro
auk: Micro-package for compiling s-expressions into predicate functions (Python)
Yes. Andorra and Luxemburg are both tiny, landlocked nations that are pretty modest when it comes to taxation, bordering on what I'd call tax havens.
If you are curious about the history of open offices Planet Money did an interesting piece on their creation - https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/06/03/480625378/epis...

Tldr - famous architect plus famous ad agency started trend
One of my favorite cooking videos is "Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Kit Kats" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nqJiBRNQuw

It's a perfect example of hacking without a computer. There is a whole series of these videos trying to recreate mass produced junk food in a test kitchen, and it's incredible how difficult it can be for even a very experienced chef. It makes you wonder how these products were ever created.
The Chinese government already uses facial recognition, DNA, and biometrics to corral muslim minorities and monitor them around the clock. If a traffic camera picks up someone outside their village, authorities are immediately notified so that they can be followed or arrested.

Source:
https://theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/18/china-testing-faci...

I know most people in tech don't care too much about privacy nowadays, but if anyone wants to see some real world examples of how disastrous that mindset could be, they can just take a look at modern day China.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some anti-privacy bill got passed one of these days under the promise that it would allow the government to spy on all those evil minorities ruining the country to deport them faster, and turning the US into a surveillance state. That shit is scary.
I shouldn't feed the troll. But since you made me chuckle, did you mistake hckrnews for reddit maybe? :P
I didn’t say it was specific to English.
You cannot prove the results of decades of physics and mathematical debate wrong with a few paragraphs of emotional arguments about dogma or some cheap mockery of a TV show.
I saw a post online talking about a guy who helped a lady got proofs from her cheating partners phone,with out any physical touch which means it was done remotely,i then tried it out and to my surprise he blew me off with the very type of results i needed i was able to see my spouse snapchat messages and vidoe facebooks messages and see is call logs and listen to in coming calls as well you should give him a try also contact him on Hackrita321dot HACK at GMAIL dot COM for any type of hack
Researchers have become so scared of being ridiculed by peers, I believe, that they are afraid to admit this candidly. One perceived bad paper could be career ending.
> Host at home, relay via an IP address owned by a hosting provider.

As I said, "You could still use the remote host as a mere relay, but it's still not ideal". And by the way, as much as I'd like to host my email at home, I still gave in somewhat and use a remote virtual machine (at https://gandi.net).

> my flat is too small for a rack anyway. Also the noise, electricity bills and waste heat play a part.

You need less than 5W, a small shoe box worth of space, and no fan at all to host your email at home. R-Pi, Sheeva plug… A web site with moderate traffic might be more problematic. But we're nowhere near a rack. For remote hosting, you don't need more than a fraction of a CPU core.

Reliability, though, that can be a real problem. And a big reason why I still use my virtual hosting provider. I'd love a redundant setup, where if something goes down, the backup takes over, and notifies you about needing to replace a piece of hardware. (Of course, it should be plug & play so my grandma could do it… one can dream.)
Sending Your First Webmention from Scratch
Other than printing out the numbers, what are the practical applications?
That requires GNU Make; neither $(shell) nor ifeq are in POSIX Make.
WebReplay – Time Travel Debugging for Firefox
How hard would it be to embed this into an other app?
Do we want to speed up war? Some dev accidentally merges the "launch the nukes" PR, and nuclear apocalypse commences.
Have you tried data damming a data stream?
Amazing work I take for granted. Thank you to all the maintainers and contributors!
" A complete solution for a particular three-body problem would provide the positions for all three particles for all time, given three initial positions and initial velocities. In general, no closed-form solution for such a problem exists, and the time evolution of the system is believed to be chaotic. " from wikipedia [1]. Not a fool-proof source, but it seems to disagree with you.

It does seem the case that whether the system is chaotic isn't yet determined.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem#Gravitation...
Web developers everywhere: PLEASE use the accept-language header's highest priority language.

Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.9,es;q=0.8,pt-BR;q=0.7,pt;q=0.6

Also don't cookie a locale. It is provided on every request to the server. Not only did I have to delete my languages, but then all of my cookies for that site in order to view it in English.
Change your actions, not yourself
Javascript was mentioned in the talk; because of its weak typing and plenty of APIs that take strings, floating point printing is pretty common.
It is not, however it's not worse than the other GDPR-walls that let you know you are being tracked but still don't allow you to opt-out (it's funny that they implement GDPR-walls to not be in breach of the GDPR, except their solution is still non-compliant).

What's bad here is that not only is this breaching GDPR, but it's also false advertising. Granted, maybe not in the legal sense (they do tell you you're still tracked on the signup confirmation page & privacy policy), but definitely in the ethical sense. They are a bunch of pricks.
I always thought they designed them to be loud so that they could turn tables over faster. More table turnover means more revenue with little increase in cost.
I started reading The Economist last year for this reason. Their Special Reports are similar to what you're looking for. The New Yorker also puts out minibook-length articles.

Nautilus is another mag that I've been happy with for more science-oriented stuff. They put out monthly issues with a cohesive theme.
One of my favorite surprising corners of the internet is the tz mailing list, where updates to the tz database are actively discussed:

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-July/thread.html

The amount of effort and detail that goes into this database is astonishing - every few days there's a new twist introduced by timezone legislation somewhere around the world.

Even more impressive is their dedication to building a correct database of historic timezone changes - here's a post where someone submitted further details on the history of time in Macau for example: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-May/026467.html
Clearly opaque: privacy risks of the Internet of Things [pdf]
Yep, and in a lot of other Indo-European languages as well. However, it's not a constant trend across languages as Finnish and Estonian both have more cases than their ancestor language did. It's likely that English will circle back around and start becoming less analytic as time goes on due to various things such as grammaticalization.
Related question on Math Stack Exchange:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2864794/the-scutoid...
Selfie: new book explores how we became so self-obsessed
Amazon already provides the IC's main cloud. I'd imagine they're expected to win this one as well.
iWithdrawal: A Self-Help Aid Designed to Curb Compulsive Screen Time
'Why x is so damn hard' can be written for any other language. All language are equally complex. chinese writing might be hard but it makes up in other area.
I guess that works if you don't intend to hold a conversation. Maybe an even better however unrealistic solution is for people that want their dinner accompanied by loud music to bring headphones.
But most people don't want that, sadly.

Instant mass media has shown us that people want to consume media about other real people -- that they admire in some fashion -- going through life. Not reporting, explanation, facts, or science.

So reporters have responded with tweets and instant feedback on anything that's happening. Many times even when nothing is happening, they know they have to put out some kind of personal emotional response to keep the audience.

Newspaper and in-depth reporting worked for the most part because nobody really cared about the author. They cared about the material. That's flipped upside down now. The material doesn't matter as much as the author. Even the reall good occasional long-form material you might find is all geared to get you into a personal, minute-by-minute "relationship" with the author. To become part of the tribe.
What we call "justice" in the US is really just ritual sacrifice to purge the community of the bad juju created when a crime happens. The more aspirational the victim, the worse the juju.

Traditionally, the person sacrificed should have plausibly committed the crime. But this is not strictly necessary, especially if they are not considered aspirational.

The worst thing that can happen is to have the sacrifice thwarted. This multiplies the juju. But it sometimes happens due to technicalities, like innocence.
> Personally I don't trust telegram because of their funding source.

You could say the same for Signal (before Signal Foundation was created this year) or Wire (created by the people who created Skype) too.

> Lastly, to my knowledge, end-to-end encryption is not enabled by default, neither for private messaging or groups. That's just a no-go for any chat application for me.

The “secret chats” are always end-to-end encrypted. The normal chats are encrypted only in transit and not end-to-end. But secret chats are also tied to a single device (currently only phones), unlike Wire, which offers end-to-end encryption and synchronized conversations across devices.
How do you pay?
A lot of the early demo scene was based over here, especially in Northern Europe. Lots of those had music, and I guess that kind of low level programming lured people into doing low level programming for things like DAWs.
Ask HN: What is more reliable, a DVD or an Hard drive?
For long term backups, how do you (if you do) handle them?