skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), a government agency that is primarily concerned with the protection of consumer rights, was directed in 2017 to conduct an inquiry into online platforms for news and entertainment. “[...] The inquiry will look at the effect that digital search engines, social media platforms and other digital content aggregation platforms have on competition in media and advertising services markets. In particular, the inquiry will look at the impact of digital platforms on the supply of news and journalistic content and the implications of this for media content creators, advertisers and consumers.” [1]

A number of different companies, peak bodies and special interest groups have submitted documents to the ACCC (as one would expect for any sort of government enquiry into an area that is relevant to those groups) but I was surprised to see that Oracle had made a submission to the enquiry given that they don’t seem to have any specific ties to any news or entertainment platforms. Upon reading it, I found that it seems to have been primarily written to criticise Google, their market power and behaviour.

Is this sort of thing common among large companies whenever there’s any sort of government enquiry or investigation?

[1] https://www.accc.gov.au/focus-areas/inquiries/digital-platfo...
I still remember how all the people who made decisions or got hired in Washington during that time had an investment banking background, ideally Goldman Sachs. It was infuriating.
Quietish
When ipv6 is popular, it is the time of centralization and death.
> For me torrenting is mostly just about its stigma for being illegal on the one side

There are still legitimate reasons to use torrents apart from piracy. I particularly like the physibles section of TPB https://thepiratebay.org/browse/605 which are not inherently illegal (well apart from the 3D printable guns which are a bit iffy and in a legal gray area).
I'm Marcus, founder of Didyougogo and author of the software behind it. For the past ten years I've been trying to improve my programming and math skills to get to a level where I could write a proper web search engine for the written word using absolute cutting-edge IR methods. The final result is something I have not seen or read about: a language represented as a 65K wide vector-space, serialized into a binary tree that is balanced according to node's cosine angle between them and their closest neighbours. Querying is very fast, even for long phrases. Fuzzy, prefix, suffix and wildcard type queries comes for free with the vector-space model. The system uses relatively little resources and can run on as little as 1 CPU and 1GB RAM.

Is there any further technical documentation than this (besides the source code)?

I tried searching some of the terms in this description on Google, but found little specific information. One search turned up k-d trees. Is this related?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-d_tree
> How should people know how to invest sensibly if none of their parents or grand parents ever were able to own any such assets (because of poverty ...)

Many study Finance for this education. At least in America, Europe, Africa, Japan, Korea, etc.
The landing page emphasizes the word "focussed", with double S's, which didn't look right to me. Apparently both "focused" and "focussed" are acceptable, with the single S version "focused" being highly preferred [0].

[0] http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammar-tip/is-it-focussed-o...
>> always goes to busy restaurants on the assumption that a lot of customers means they have good food.

It is actually good heuristic, I would just modify it ever slightly.. lot of customers means that they will not serve "stale" or yesterday's food.
What’s the Right Number of Taxis (or Uber or Lyft Cars) in a City?
They would if they could.
Russell grew up in Alaska. More people there than might be commonly imagined have experience flying (small) planes from an early age without licenses or formal lessons. I don't know that this was the case with him, but I would not be at all surprised.
#DNS #Hijacking targets Brazilian financial institutions
You have been deeply disconnected from beginners if you believe this. I absolutely assure you, someone new to programming will have no idea what in the name of god this is, and will struggle with it.
Why not? It's the same legal entity committing both crimes.
> Pocket is also experimenting with personalizing recommendations for certain users based partly on each person’s Firefox browsing history.

Why does an open-source web browser have a proprietary cloud synchronization service installed by default?

EDIT: I know that Pocket is owned by Mozilla. It doesn't change anything.
Edited that. I add seeds to as many meals and snacks as I can (both healthy and unhealthy) to add fiber and use the seeds as a sort of prebiotic.
The "show full history" menu option in History menu they mentioned is Mac only. On Windows, you can see the "show full history" option by holding the Go Back button at top left (hover your mouse on it you'll see a tooltip suggesting this).

The sad part is, that option just opens the built-in History page, just like pressing Ctrl + H, which I believe that's not what we wanted at all.

I think Chrome just redefined "full" while it regularly deletes history entries older than three months.
BTC was trading at nearly $20K just a few months ago. Now it is trading at $6K. How is going from $20K to $6K "only been rising"?

A lot of people are underwater when it comes to bitcoin.
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But you could just as well read it another way: the pressure built up and eventually he snapped, or he was just waiting for an opportunity and finally one presented itself, or he was just spontaneously overcome (not that we'll likely ever know).

That's what I meant by the inanity: it's just a random trivial fact jammed in there without context nor explanation of why it should be relevant. Writing a story is selecting the relevant facts and dropping the rest: if there was a bank robbery I wouldn't expect to see "the robber wore a blue baseball hat" unless it were explained why it was worth mentioning.

It could of course be poor editing, but it reminds me more of one of those high school essays where you just jam a few extra things in there to get the word count up. Admittedly, this isn't the most important article in the world and could easily have been assigned to a junior reporter -- and reporters write a lot so I don't mean to harsh on this one.
Yup. There's also the cost of inventory -- of software costs tied up in feattures that are not (yet) useful. Check out this article by Joel Spolsky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2012/07/09/software-inventory...
It's hard to assess your situation but I would rather look for a better job (or better-paying job). If you still want to try it keep in mind that:

* You need to be extremely careful with IP and legal: are you going to use your work machine for a side project? Are you going to do any side work from your current company offices? Is there conflict of interest? All those things need to be carefully planned.

* You're going to get distracted, so your performance on both jobs will be lower.

* If your management is going to figure it out, you'll lose trust. If I'd figure that one of my employees does contracting on the side, I wouldn't be happy.
If you really need more money for a serious reason, I'd prefer people to chat with me about that during 1:1.
We've had an employee couple years ago who had a brain tumor and we covered his medical expenses on the company, with no obligations, which was more than his annual salary. He recovered successfully since.

* Having two jobs will impact on your quality of life and your family. Maybe not instantly but at some point it will. Be careful not to burn out.
That's not what your link says however

We don't correlate or combine information from our temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that you have provided Google for other services.

Emphasis on personal information and provided. It does not say anything about non personal or inferred personal information imo.
The question for me isn't the nm size. It's "are the hardware fixes for Meltdown/Spectre in there?
Why not using javascript?
This just doesn’t make sense. Google/Amazon employees basically are some random DevOps “dudes”. Whereas your own people would be...whoever you decided to hire to work on your infrastructure.
How do you know you've found them all? More than one person has told me that they've found them all, only later to discover that they'd missed (at least) one.
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That's actually a very useful heuristic because, unlike perhaps in the US, in many parts of the world food standards even in higher quality restaurants are rather lax.
What would really help torrenting would be to build it into browsers as an alternative http(s) transport for large files (instead of/to augment CDNs). If Warner and Sony found themselves automatically torrenting their content and their bandwidth bills falling would they change their attitude?
The problem I've seen when yagni is applied is not building something now leads to a costly data migration down the road when you actually do need it.

I run a site that stores audio files. For the first half of its life, it simply stored the URL of the file on S3. I could have used objects representing audio assets with metadata to store the reference, but I didn't think I'd need it. When I was building another feature that _did_ need that functionality, the migration took far longer to write, test, and run than the process of building the asset objects feature and the feature I needed them for combined.

Additionally, the new system made it easier to debug customer issues. I didn't know that I actually needed this feature the whole time.
perhaps I've been unfortunate but everyone I've met who markets themselves as UX are people whose job seems to be to say how will the customer understand this design, how is the customer workflow, and do not give a damn about performance at the level needed to achieve the improvements being discussed here.
I've been experimenting with calorie restriction, water fasting, and intermittent fasting for 2 1/2 years and you don't need to go as extreme as one meal per day to see results. The hunger gets much easier to manage. I don't think that people should do it without also adopting a high-nutrient diet (vegetables, legumes, whole foods, nuts, seeds, fruits, etc.), because there isn't much room for empty calories.
i was just pointing that the price of oakwood is triple the normal price that is why they dont ask you 6 months upfront because ull pay those in two month timeframe LOL
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This has in fact been known for a long time; Leslie Lamport’s famous 1982 paper “The Byzantine Generals Problem” (link here) contains a description of the algorithm. The following will be my attempt to describe and reformulate the algorithm in a simplified form.

https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/07/99_fault_tolerant.html

The link points to Lamport's original formulation of the Byzantine Generals Problem:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs174/byzantine.pdf

Vitalik's explainer doesn't address Sybil attacks at all. Deploying a constellation of nodes all controlled by the same attacker seems like a way to defeat even this protocol.

This was the line of thinking that lead to proof-of-work as described in the Bitcoin white paper.
> In a highly complex paper, Ethereum’s co-founder Vitalik Buterin has proposed a new kind of consensus algorithm which requires just 1% of nodes to be “honest”.

You know, it's probably not a good sign if the authors of a site literally called blockchain mania consider a paper summarizing a classic on consensus algorithms "highly complex".
Solitude and loneliness are not the same thing. Solitude is normally something you choose while loneliness is a product of circumstance. Some of us aggravate our loneliness by being difficult but it's still not the same as solitude.
Some of the most incredible astronomy shots I've seen are of close(r) ups of the sun - I can't wait to see what Parker sends back as it closing in on the Sun.
Looks like wunderground.com is down too. If you're wondering, high chance of thunderstorms this evening in New York, NY.
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"Why would you eat an orange when you could drink a coffee instead?"

Yes there are heavy mathematics behind the structure of both types of network, and it's true that without centralization the network itself can't reach a certain limit.
But this is a double-edged sword, this is only true to the whole system's perspective and it's completely different on the node (user) level graph-theoritically.
Also, the article forces certain needs on the users. There are lots of us who DON'T want to magically find anyone or be found magically with a keyword, nor interested in "trends" - this is heavily misleading for we still don't have proper metrics for it and won't have one for a while because the problem implies building fault-tolerant reputation networks (that are decentralized by the way)
Seems appropriate for most Internet content.
> They introduced it as ISPs were starting to inject advertising via their own DNS

cough OpenDNS cough
Excellent advice! I would also advise creating a couple of scripts that upload to S3 and run the update-stack commands automagically. Every advice in the article is gold though.
> Racial equality and assimilation are attractive but only underline the loss, since to accept assimilation is in a way to accept permanent inferiority.

Interesting. Anyone got details (background and context) on this quote?
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how do you solve the problem of banning / not a robot captchas after to many requests to a site while indexing?
I'm doing those who don't care about javascript a favor by not serving them code to run on their client even though their browser is set to willfully do this. Because I'm sure they didn't ask for me to drain their battery. I'm trying to save energy. It's not free yet.
not "Chrome extension" but a "WebExtension"
It's like an insurance. You wouldn't be able to hire as many and as highly paid random DevOps on your own. So you and others pay a 3th person to do it, just in case you need a competent person.
Yeah, sure: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-12/saudi-fun...
Infrastructure (ops, software, hiring, social) matters.

Hiring some dude won't give you that.
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Strange design. That looks like an official Dropbox blog post.
Retaliation would make sense, but I haven't dug deep in Turkeys APT crews lately. Most of the stuff I hear/read about is talking about Iranian, Russian, Chinese and roaming APT groups doing attacks. It also would make attacks from Turkish AS's more logical as the government would not likely do something about 'their own' for free.
Last time I checked ARM did not have any support for custom resources. The first thing mentioned in the article. Also last time I checked it was JSON only, while CloudFormation moved to YAML which is shorter and allows for proper comments.
The culture was always toxic, if you wanted it to be.

You must use the comment filters on /.
I find it fascinating how difficult it is to find geological data. The combined datasets of oil and mining companies plus government data has a huge amount of Earth mapped. And yet, this data is extremely hard to find in a computer-consmable way. Most of it is locked up in pdf or image scans of maps, or locked in proprietary MapInfo/Autodesk formats. It seems to me that a large dataset of all human knowledge of Earth would be massively valuable to humanity. Unfortunately, oil/mineral maps are a cornerstone of a lot of very powerful companies. So I don't think we'll see them any time soon.

Organizing this data would also be a hell of an effort because the maps use different projections, are from a huge variety of times, and are often inconsistent (overlapping areas with different mineral deposit analyses).

I suppose I can dream, though.
Yes, This is it.
Thank you.
Not necessarily...

x = 0
y = (x or 42)

isn't the same as

x = None
y = (x or 42)
Needs more edge-lord.
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It seems like this is an effect of many things that are a byproduct of modernity and progress. We continue to move away from rural distributed multigenerational living arrangements to individualized quarters in cities.

I'm not sure this trend can be extricated given family units have become smaller over time as access to medicine and education has increased.

It's not a product of capitalism or democracy, (or communism or authoritarianism); it’s a product progress --how we deal with this modern phenomenon remains to be seen, given this is a pretty recent development (a 20th century development).
I am sure this must be handled somewhere, but why can't malicious observers in this scheme flag honest behavior, creating a vector for denial of service. I suspect that observers must report something that is actually true, but my gut is still saying am missing something more fundamental here.
The current Finder has both a spacial mode and a browser mode. Unfortunately, the two modes step on each other's toes, making both modes worse. It's been a problem since OS X 10.0, and it persists today.

E.g.:

Navigating around in browser mode clobbers the existing folder view state (window size and position, view mode, etc.). So your folders always seem to lose their view state.

And there's no way to set a preferred browser window size. Instead, it always uses the spacial mode window size and if there is none it uses the hard coded default window size, which is way too small. And, again, as you browse around it clobbers the existing window sizes of other folders.

Create a new folder on the desktop, then double click. You'll get that tiny default browser window. Now navigate up to your home folder. You just clobbered your preferred home folder window size.

The end result is that when you open a Finder window, you never know what you're going to get.
It's worth noting the author of this piece keeps getting kicked off of twitter for talking about his personal experiences in Communist Romania.
You really are out of touch with the end users of most software then. You're not living in the corporate world dealing with them, and troubleshooting their issues. Most people come into work, click on the same exact shortcut on their desktop, type in the same exact data all day, and then leave. If that shortcut is missing for some reason, they can not do their job. If ANYTHING deviates from the norm, they can not do their job. Full stop. Could they type in the address of that web app without the shortcut? Of course, but they have NO clue what that even means. Copy and paste with the keyboard? That's a revelation to most. Many can't even type without looking at the keyboard.

This is clearly a foreign world to you. Which is fine, but please don't act like you and your peers are anywhere near the other 99% of computer users. This is EXACTLY what people talk about when a discussion comes up about developers creating things for themselves, and not their end users.
decentralised != distributed.

People could argue that Facebook effectively has a monopoly on social media so that is a "centralised" source since you have to go to Facebook to access it.

Yet pockets exist (e.g. HN) outside of Facebook, ergo decentralised.

I do agree though, it is not distributed which has a different meaning.

Checkout dat project, ipfs et al for that.
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Probably can't. You can try obfuscating your behavior with services like Adnauseam or Noiszy?
There were a lot of trackers where you had rating, which would depend on the range of titles available from you and your prowess at disseminating them. But really, torrents work just fine even without those measures, even for niche content.
Have you even read the article?

Using exported resources and avoiding nested stacks makes it impossible to reach these numbers.
Fad diets here, fad diets there, fad diets everywhere.
Don't eat this, only eat that, don't eat at these times, only eat at these times, fast, don't fast.

It's been going on for decades, and it's both silly and counterproductive.

You start off complaining about fad diets and now you link to your diet which is the very epitome of a fad diet. Is there any medical research behind this diet?
Some people’s primary representation of numbers is visual and concrete, like configurations of abacus beads or the like. I guess you can decide whether you consider a direct representation like that to be “language”.
I think it’s a trade off. I think I’d rather have all my searches and traffic visible than all of my searches and traffic only visible to the company best in the world capable of storing forever and marketing to me.

I’m not quite sure the exact privacy trade-off but for things that I consider non-sensitive, I certainly prefer non-https web.
Hiring the right dude will. The trouble is, most of them are happily employed elsewhere.
or you can utilize exported resources, like the article describes, and append your API endpoints to the "master" API Gateway resource that is not even in the same stack.
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> You're writing it wrong

Adding a comma would be non-standard (“incorrect” if you ask a pedantic grammarian) in conventional English prose. Commas don’t always match verbal pauses 1:1.

> The part before the pause should be spoken with tone going up, and the part after with tone going down.

This is a learned cultural convention, not inherently known at birth. I am sure that within another few months my kid will figure it out.

It’s also hard for me to tell sometimes whether he is repeating both because he doesn’t understand that a choice is being offered, or because he wants to repeat strings of words, or because he hasn’t made a choice, or ....

He doesn’t know how to say e.g. “neither one; give me the green shirt” or “you decide for me”.
The mindset necessary for proofs is very different from how most people learn mathematics. So long as you can get a small preview of that mindset, you'll be ahead of the game.
I'd suggest choosing a source which seems "too easy", or a curriculum which is "too short". It will be enough.

Additionally, as when learning anything mathematical, don't expect too much help from Wikipedia. Pedagogy often involves telling small lies to students at first, then clearing them up later. Wikipedia has a bias towards being correct, which means that the articles can't tell those small lies and the explanations are difficult for non-experts to understand.