skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like how you say "personalised ads are now essential aside all those times it is". The fact remains, personalised ads is always going to be far more profitable than non-personalised ads. You don't need to be an insider in Google to understand this. Moreover Google didn't even invent the concept of personalised adverts to begin with.

I'm old enough to remember when we had the same arguements about supermarket loyalty cards which track your purchases and sends out personalised deals. Now people just accept that happens but there was a massive uproar about it back in the 80s or 90s (I forget precisely when but it was a good few years ago now).

I honestly don't blame Google for doing what they're doing. It makes perfect business sense. What I do object to is Google employees (assuming you are who you say you are) trying to argue that Google don't make a business from personalised ads when it's pretty easy to prove they do and nearly every single member of HN has observed that it action. For the record, I also object to people argue who "X is definitely not y" while acknowledging that there are a whole plethora of examples where their arguement isn't completely factually accurate - that kind of dumb get out clause is just insult on everyone's intelligence.
I have the dell 7310. i3 with 8gb ram. Same as me chromebox last I heard(I think he had the i5 model but it’s not really much faster) it’s about the best experience. Flashing his full firmware is super easy
This sums up Foreign-Tech companies argument and the Indian govt. response .

> Mukesh Aghi, the chief executive of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum, a policy group whose board includes top executives at Cisco, Adobe, and Mastercard, said that India risked hurting its own economy by imposing stringent rules on foreign tech companies. He said

> “It requires deep pockets. It requires world-class technologies. It requires a global supply chain,” Mr. Aghi said. “These companies are creating jobs.”

> Ajay Sawhney, the information technology secretary, who is helping to draft the regulations, said the government was keeping an open mind as it developed the final rules.

> “Our framework will be fair to all stakeholders,” he said. “We deeply appreciate the value that the tech companies and their platforms bring to our country.”
Neither. I'm saying they're completely different things with respect to network effects, in response to someone who thought they were similar in some fashion.
Does it still work?

I don't play online games any more, but my impression is they mostly moved from guild and group style like MMOs, where you got to know people and probably chatted on Teamspeak as well. Now they seem to be mostly random individual match-ups either for pvp or for a dungeon. That seems like it would take away many of the possibilities.
I see it too and agree that it looks like the wind. The movement is too fluttery to be human movement. Too much irregular back and forth.
The issue is that we don't want flamewars on HN, nor is this a place for arbitrary statements of opinion. Please post in accordance with the site guidelines or not at all.
I don't think they need to stop pirating so much as hassle people pirating sufficiently that a decent percentage still pay up.
This is the correct answer. You can hear the compression when cymbals are ringing out in a song quite clearly
SK has serious culture problem. It has always been a culture of keeping up with the Jones, where perception of wealth matters a great deal. Last year, BMW sold more 5 series in Korea than Japan, Germany, or China.

Mercedes S-class' third largest market is Korea, after China and the U.S. Naver's Q&A site is full of people in their 20s and 30s making $30-$50k inquiring about purchasing German cars that exceed their annual salary in cost.

What's more disturbing is, going into deep debt and mortgaging your future to finance this type of YOLO life style has become socially acceptable.

It's quite astounding to see such rapid transformation cycle of a country, its rise and stall in just matter of a few decades.
Horror stories aren't unique to Microsoft

So because other companies also did sucky things, Microsoft’s sucky things don’t count.

Got it.
Braid a functional language that compiles to Go
It's cliche, but "you don't know what you don't know", and that's the hardest part.
I'm fascinated by how humans are amazing classifiers. But also so easily fooled, especially in groups, into seeing things that aren't there. We are probably best served being backed up by computer classifiers that may be less susceptible to bias like that.

Not suggesting this instance is
a false positive or negative though.
Have you considered writing a guide on how you do this and what changes you make? I also own a Pixel, but kept running into problems when I tried to compile Android, eventually making me give up.
How about just avoid email signatures altogether? My email client already tells me your name, no need to repeat yourself.
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The biggest piracy threat to the music industry is my sound card. I can record any sound that comes out of the speakers.
It's true that India wants to build its own surveillance state. Every rational great power wannabe will want to do so, just as every great power wannabe has wanted a nuclear arsenal. Seems like table stakes in that rat race. And who can blame anyone for doing so - it would be stupid to let data with security implications to go through American companies with a potential backdoor after Snowden and Wikileaks, just as it would be stupid to be caught without nuclear weapons after Iraq and North Korea.

I am not as worried about the ease with which Indian citizen's privacy will be violated if these laws pass - systems such as Aadhar are far greater threats to our privacy and those come with the full force of the law and have support from every government in power, whether NDA or UPA or some third alliance. Plus, I would want foreign companies collecting data about Indian citizens to be accountable to the Indian public. The Bhopal tragedy is a good example of what happens when a foreign company isn't accountable to Indians in any manner whatsoever.

Of course, one might doubt whether Indian efforts to secure our data will withstand NSA or Chinese efforts to crack them, but we won't know until we try!
> The implication here being that you are running the clients on the email server.

That's a common scenario, but most linux/BSD distros ship with some mail server software installed and configured to run out of the box, even if also set to not allow external connections, as that's how the system delivers messages to users (e.g. cron output, etc). So almost every linux/BSD is a mail server, even if it may not be the mail server. If there's a main box that people in your company connect to as a terminal, email to local accounts on that box is essentially a internal messaging system. Hell, you could throw an IRC server on there with no outside access and use terminal IRC clients to have your own private chat channel as well. Who needs slack?
How much of that do you think is a good thing? Zend was essentially an unstructured collection of arbitrary classes which were more-or-less interoperable. Class names needed to be globally unique, and namespaces didn't exist, and there were no conventions about where third-party code should go, or a very effective class registry, and dependency management often meant PEAR, which was like CPAN, but terrible. The idea of having arbitrary files in arbitrary places is something that any framework should be able to accommodate, but having some sort of well-defined folder structure is really quite necessary (in my opinion). It was not really the norm in Zend, and the tools and libraries and conventions and language are all much improved since then, but it's still possible to write ad-hoc-structured code using Symfony, and there are developers who prefer this.
Streaming music services does not have that obscure songs one might like, some remixes, not every country has universal internet coverage and not everyone likes to waste dataplans on music etc. etc.
> Office does a lot of things their own way and without a lot of the cross-compatibility that's a feature of most Microsoft products.

That's probably because unlike most Microsoft products, Office is cross-platform and has to support multiple operating systems, including MacOS, iOS, and Android.
Netsurf can be compiled for framebuffer, and that variant can also be used in X (and imo is much easier to get compiling than the GTK UI).
The fine abstract says:

> in CCC this radiation is enormously concentrated by the conformal compression of the entire future of the black hole
Don't say it too loud or they'll replace your ports with some fancy DRM safe stuff.
This just demonstrates the Z80 love will never die ;)

Chips4Makers.io has just launched their own crowd funding campaign (seeking $22K) for the Retro-μC. A fully open-source micro-controller that runs three venerable retro CPU cores: the Zilog Z80, MOS 6502 and Motorola M68K. Yes, you read that correctly. It's like a TRS-80, Commodore-64 and Amiga on a single chip!

https://www.crowdsupply.com/chips4makers/retro-uc
>Naturally there are more men born than women

The ratio of men to women in the US is almost exactly 50/50 (with a slight bias to women!) In fact, that ratio has gone down in favor of women over the years[0], which invalidates your last point. And unless you live in a select few states[1] this holds true.

Instead of there being a secret gender imbalance cover up, it seems much more likely to me that cities with large tech industries (like NYC) are just swimming with sausage.

[0]https://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-9.pdf

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/301946/us-population-mal...
It adds up a lot. I split my time between a typical suburban car-centric city (Minneapolis), and a place just off the El in Chicago.

The weeks I am in Chicago I lose weight without really trying - simply from walking to/from the train every day and around the neighborhood running errands. Then of course lunch in the office which of course is another walk away. All those little walking trips add up to miles/day without even noticing and add up to a noticeable change in weight loss/gain.

Minneapolis it's rare to walk more than 100ft (to a car and back) to go anywhere - unless you make a concerted conscious effort to take time to walk for the sake of walking.
I always though that this "wisdom" from LRH was about as useful as the rest of Scientology itself. All I have to do to learn is look up the words I don't understand? You don't say.

Let me guess, all I have to do to walk from San Francisco to New York is take steps. All I have to do to lose weight is eat less.

Its silly reductionism dressed up to sound profound in order to sell an enormous fraud. File it under true but not especially useful.
You are responding to "IllogicalLogic" who whitters on about England, France and the US!

I'd get my fake news elsewhere:

* England is just one part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

* Germany's economy is rather bigger than either the UK or FR - why not mention them?
Research Expired Domain
How to Research Expired Domain?
I don't know. Of the major companies represented, I think Ford from 2002 [1] looks the most like modern web design.

[1] https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/ford-motor-company-2...
The Rails Doctrine (2016)
Because, unless you are an IT person, your job is to do work now, which is unrelated to the OS.
> I think blaming technology is just a cop out.

Oh, tech doesn't prevent one from seeking out social interaction. But it really does seem to reduce unplanned & opportunistic interaction.

Maybe I'd chat with people on my way to work. Problem is, they're most likely sitting in a car. Or riding a bike. Or blasting music from their headphones while staring at their phones.. actually, maybe I'm sitting in a car too. Or not, because technology enables remote work and I don't have a commute.

Same phenomenon when I go for a walk or jog. People are preoccupied with their devices.
Never said that, it's just apparent you hold a grudge because of actions so long ago that even though they have changed, you won't.

You're ignoring a massive amount of history (and current actions) to keep your jaded worldview and that sucks.
That depends on the built in help mechanism. If I was unfamiliar with linux and it was linux, maybe. It it was OpenBSD and I was unfamiliar with it, I could probably get everything I needed (for core OS stuff at least) purely from the man system, as long as I had some very basic idea of how to use the shell. OpenBSD has exceptional man pages, to the degree you probably can't understand until you've spent a few hours reading through some of them.
> Why can't a company produce more affordable laptops for casual users? Say at twice the price of Raspberry Pi, comparatively smaller hardware specs and with lightweight (light speed) distros preinstalled with all essential software.

The margin on Windows PCs are already extremely thin, and this even with the Windows license being essentially free (as it is for large OEMs; the license is a handful of bucks at most).

Doing the same with Linux also means you now have to invest hundreds of thousands solving the many issues with Linux distros, mainly usability, the disastrous user experience, etc.

And even then, assuming you solve this, what software would people run on there? There just isn't anything to install besides a web browser; and if you just want a web browser you might as well just make Chromebooks or Android tablets.

TLDR there just isn't a market for it. Most people are happy with Windows and those who aren't use Mac. The remaining 1% who needs Linux knows how to install it and doesn't need to buy your laptop.
http://www.colr.org/ does something very similar.
How about buying what they have the sole rights to sell, instead of downloading without compensating them? Or just getting something else, which is available freely?

That the artist might not get most of the money, is not an argument, since the artist already signed agreeing to that.
"Websites dedicated to “stream ripping” music from YouTube represent the biggest threat to the global music business, industry figures have warned...

... estimates suggesting that a third of 16-24-year-olds in the UK have ripped music from the Google-owned platform."

I find the "1 in 3 young people have done it" highly suspect, especially if that estimate comes from "industry figures". Even if that were true, "1 in 3 have done it" doesn't say anything about the frequency at which they do it.

I think this is mostly alarmist, and my personal opinion is that music piracy is in decline in the face of easy and cheap legal alternatives.
What companies would let me use Mutt for email? I have a long list of ideal characteristics for an employer but have decided that a simple test might be that they let me use Mutt.
The "nation" can't decide its political system if the government imprisons and kills the opposition.
It's like saying that slavery should have been left legal until the slaves decide to change the law. All humans should have human rights.
I'm not sure why the statement should be so controversial. In a cross-sectional study of the current population, every measure but crystallized intelligence peaked around 25: https://medium.com/psyc-406-2015/how-fast-does-iq-decline-ca...

The second study mentioned in the article, which is longitudinal rather than cross sectional, has more optimistic results for older ages, but as it says, there are problems with tracking the same people over time, such as them just getting better at IQ tests.

Regardless, the first, cross-sectional study gives clear answers to the current relation of age to intellectual ability.

Age shouldn't be a factor in hiring, only ability, but it's not unreasonable to say that, at least right now, you can expect people in their 20s to perform better at many tasks.

It's also hard not to just agree with the "young people are just smarter" statement based on intuition. When have you ever heard of a 20 year old needing help figuring out a television remote? Something clearly changed between the time that someone learned to drive a car and when they had to be shown for the 50th time how to upload a video from their camera to facebook.
It seems like he died recently... But it's hard to know for sure with Terry
Well, would these people still not want to pay for that product, if paying was the only way to get it?
Programming With End-Of-Data
Man, people still aren't as creative with their headings (see the simple icon overlap in the iTunes heading) as they were in the days when when you had to use images as headings to even use a unique font.

Even though such capability can be abused, it's kind of depressing to still miss this option in most projects due to time, etc. from a graphic design standpoint.
He listed a necessary attribute/problem to be overcome without mentioning the solution that already exists in one of the most prominent markets that exist. I understand what he was trying to do, but that seems pretty revealing.

And again, it wasn't his particular knowledge I was criticizing. It was the way, from my understanding, he applied it towards solving the problem of creating the incarnation of prediction market that he wants. Asking why you couldn't just convince CBOE to introduce these kinds of things would probably be far more revealing than trying to piece together all of the necessary conditions for a prediction market from recollection and anecdote.
It has always been illegal.

Both for songs and for regular videos, even vlogs. You don't have the copyright to the recording, the creator of the video (or the owner for the sync/mechanical rights for a piece of music) has.
Having a simple system that works efficiently for each use-case is a good idea, just be careful that organizing your notes doesn't become a goal [0] itself.
It is much better to just start using some system, and see where you end up, even if it turns out you made a bad choice for your initial system you can always adapt mid-way (e.g. tools like `pandoc` can convert between a variety of formats), focus on the content and linking, not on the tools themselves.

[0] http://blog.dilbert.com/2013/11/18/goals-vs-systems/
As someone with a history of loneliness, I’ve have no shortage of businesslike interactions with strangers and acquantiances. The problem has always been a lack of close relationships with emotional weight. The effect of superficial interactions on my mood is neutral at best, and sometimes negative (as a reminder that my interactions stem from business necessity and institutional circumstances rather than interest and choice).
The best way out of unconscious incompetence is having a mentor, but knowing to get a mentor is often a test of your ego, which can be the hardest part to overcome.
I mean if you can hear it on your PC you can record it regardless with plenty of free open source software.
Australia has less than 10% of the US population. We get the scraps if and when our capitalist overlords are feeling generous.
That's nonsense. They have banned the entire org in this case, not linked accounts that weren't before.
I have never worked in a job where even a single person cared about one's choice of email client.
Almost All Top 100 Cryptocurrencies Solidly in Green,Dogecoin Skyrockets 40%
Sod your employer, we are talking about the cost to the commons (planet)
Very practical approach.
Reviewing the saved info is what makes this real knowledge.

I find that any kind of knowledge search system eventually gets saturated and requires increasingly more time to scroll through partial hits to find what was asked. Our brains work the fastest in associative mode, it'd be nice to have some kind of associative storage (other than tags) that is personally biased/customized.

Reviewing the kept info is one way to refersh these associations in our organic minds.

But it'd be cool to ask your 'MindAssistant' to retrieve you the whole context of your recent or old idea, complete with your thought pathways: 'Hey, Mind, please remind me what was I thinking about the shapes of the clouds in the sky', '-Here's your Mindmap, thought-journey, and most important insights, Sir. At the conclusion of these thoughts, you read the following articles via HN...'
Sure, but rest assured if he’s human, he has other, less impressive, failures that aren’t shown. This list is carefully curated. And deliberately published. Some other options available to him, since you were wondering, would be a) refrain from posting it; b) use non-humblebrag items to make the supposed point just as effectively; c) make the point without a list; d) use known examples from history. These are all perfectly valid. If you think option a is bad, there are still options b, c, and d. And others I haven’t thought of.

However, the author gets to decide how to write their post. That’s their right, even if it annoys me. But I’m kind of surprised you think there were no other options.
I feel while a learning methodology may make it go faster, what matters more is having the intrinsic motivation to actually get started and keep going (especially when you hit roadblocks).

What works for me is having a project or goal I'm excited about. That motivates me to learn the skills and knowledge to achieve it. Back in my teens, I really wanted to customize a Neopets guild (remember those? ;) ) so I started learning HTML to be able to. After, it was "I really want my own site" so I learned PHP to customize Wordpress and so on.

When I was in school and some of the information I had to learn wasn't directly applicable, I made a game out of testing study techniques. Such as taking annotated screenshots out of Youtube videos (10x better than textbook diagrams and walls of text). This game (which was really about changing my own perception from "ugh, rote memorization" to "let's test study techniques") helped me through the denser materials.
“I’m not saying it’s unfair. I’m saying it won’t work.”

Companies exist to serve their customers. The companies that forget this tend to decline.
Stories about his negative side are likely more common because people feel more free to talk about them, now that Jobs, being dead, can no longer respond or retaliate against people with grievances, such as the daughter he disavowed [0].

I perhaps unfairly read negative connotations in your use of "revisionist", but I see nothing wrong with adding Jobs' uglier side to the historical record. It doesn't change what he accomplished, and it's something we can learn from. I do question the idea that Woz has been irrationally overemphasized. By the time the iPod was dominant, and a year before the iPhone, Woz felt so left out of the historical record that he published his autobiography to set the record straight, particularly about the misconception that Jobs himself invented/built the Apple I and ][ machine. Even then, Woz gives clear credit to Jobs for having the entrepreneurial sense and vision to make Apple a company, whereas Woz was perfectly content to work at HP for all his days.

After the iPhone, Woz became even more a part of Apple's ancient, forgotten history. He was a bit character in the Jobs' movies came out, and AFAIK, no movie yet has been made about Woz's life.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/sep/01/daughter-stev...
Terry Davis of TempleOS has died
How is that a moat?