skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I agree it's definitely a good security practice of Chrome. On the developer side of this, though, it definitely can lose you a lot of users pretty quickly if you add new permissions at any point, so I think it's important to carefully consider permissions before launching an extension.

For my Chrome extension[1], a change[2] in the Airbnb URLs that it runs on caused a significant spike in uninstalls[3] just because it probably scared people a bit. Not a huge deal or anything. Just wanted to share my experience with this stuff.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/airbnb-price-per-n...

[2] https://github.com/davidsawyer/airbnb-price-per-night-correc...

[3] https://i.imgur.com/JBBolM1.png
This isn’t really surprising at all for anyone that competes at a high strategic level. However it is interesting how vivid and persistent these memories are compared to many other things.
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Yep. You do not have an account on each, you have a Google account that allows you to access all of google's services. And once it is closed, it is game over.

Most people didn't notice this until G+ hit the net, and some kids used their gmail account (set up with parental knowledge and support) got closed because G+ found out they were under 13.

Others have discovered that if their app on Google Play gets into trouble, bye bye gmail etc.

It is a downright hamfisted system, and likely an outcome of Google's drive to automate all the tings...
Why not use electrical propulsion and charge batteries from wind and solar? At first, as a fuel saving measure in optimal conditions (rely on internal combustion engines most of the time). Seems better than pure sail power, even though that is more efficient (due to direct wind to motion conversion).
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How is Udemy supposed to review 'the content itself'?

It is not possible unless you plan to hire or pay professionals from every subject or specialism, to do this.

How it works is good - allow the market decide if the content is worthy.
It's called a toll-road and France is full of them.
Looks like promising research. I will have to read the actual paper later as opposed to just the blog post. One thing I would like to say is my qualm with the obsession with unsupervised learning as the quintessential technique. Unsupervised != no human input. Having the benefit of knowing about word embeddings is something inherently built into this system by the human designers and something that supervised learning does not have the benefit of when given original-translated pairs.
Do you have a link for more information about their proxy server? I've struggled to find anything. Thanks!
Until the paragraph you had just written, you hadn't put forward any argument addressing anything I had said. First you dismissed me as judgmental. Then you dismissed me as having a myopic view of the world. Those are ad hominem arguments.

Regarding what you just wrote, here's me acknowledging that there is meaning to be found outside of children (which, logically, implies that childless people can find meaning):

> I can think of many people in my life who could probably find a lot of meaning without children.

My argument is about playing the odds. Children are the most meaningful thing in most people's lives. Most people do not find many of the other things they spend time on meaningful (their career and, proxied through their spending, consumption of goods and services). As a result, I think it's a pretty good default strategy to have children. Which is why I promote that strategy whenever somebody is on the fence (OP sounded like they were on the fence, after all).

But if you've thought seriously about it and decide that there's something else you'd rather do with your life, then by all means, follow your heart.
Very nice. It might be worth worth weighting each data point in proportion to the population it represents.
TO all I.T . members reading here is a take home lesson to hold close to you, status is not a measue of validity.

...Alaska has a problem with technology, and that problem is muti rooted, not only that, the [sic] problem is a symptom of a much bigger problem.
corruption alaska has a problem with porkbarreling, and when the porkbarreling wasnt enough to continue the sushi lunches in the legislature, the peoples money was raided and this is a big issue that has become histrionic...
not very many people in alaska qualify for high security clearances , or positions of trust...not many people in alaska want to cooperate with the man
getting to the point, many institutions in alaska were warned repeatedly about security of computer systems, and the prompt response was akin [who fuck are you ? we got this, now go away ]
Clearly alaska , in general does not "Got this" when it comes to IT security, or connectivity. Alaskans are born into a fiercly independent spirit, and this has a negative side leading to egotism, and xenophobia, passing the buck of blame. Matanuska susitna borough is a most recent and extreme example, thier IT team is incompetent to the nth degree,
and deaf to advice or physically demonstrated evidence...
Alaskan computer systems are being attacked and hacked because its thier own damn fault for being so cocky and ignorant regarding thier abilities, or any attempt to help [rant off]...

...so the next time a janitor gives some advice, remember what goodwill hunting was...
Whiteboard interviews are as useless as baptizing a rattlesnake... but that doesn't mean contributed code is relevant indicator of future performance. It might be ... but as always "it just depends"
One similar hypothesis that comes to mind is that perhaps ethnic/cultural homogeneity predicts voting outcomes. That might synthesize the effects of population density (since denser areas might tend to be more diverse) as well as skin color (since homogenous areas might tend to be homogeneously white).
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The previous paper they mention explains the core insight that makes unsupervised translation possible: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.04087

The original paper didn't receive the attention I thought it would, but I continue to think this is a fascinating result which has deep implications for machine learning and for linguistics.
Their customers dumped them on the sidewalks, and it seems to be a San Francisco thing - if you go to other cities with active scooter sharing, you don't see this behavior. Of course you also don't see peopel dfecating on the street in most other cities either, so San Francisco is a special kind of special.
>The truth is, most of the sponsorship money that funds these events comes from recruiters.

So that's the thing, right? These events used to be fueled by passion about hacking. Then, at some point, MLH or a similar org says "Hey, we'll give you support and more money for bigger events, you just have to adopt our culture." Then otherwise interesting local and unique events, with local and unique buy-in and community participation (actual community participation, not the "community" bandied about by folks like you looking to astroturf what you're doing), are scrubbed out because they aren't economically viable.

Orgs that sponsor hackathons for recruiting partnerships ruin these things, and that's why hackathons are full of kids looking to win prizes and build resumes instead of make cool things.

>It's up to organizations like MLH to help preserve the good parts of hacker culture while enabling it to naturally evolve over time.

It's up to the hackers. Orgs are just profiting off of it.

EDIT: Slightly less inflammatory tone.
Sitting in an office from the morning I couldn't give a toss when the sun rises. But I would like the sun to be up when I leave, so I could actually enjoy the sunlight.

But this does seem to be a pretty polarizing issue.
The problem was that the decision to adopt DST or not, or even what time zone to be on, was made at the county level, so you ended up with this patchwork. It was never a problem in Marion County, but the areas around Chicago and Evansville were pretty confusing.

My major problem is less about DST than the fact that all of Indiana should be on Chicago time all year. Mean solar noon is waaaaay off from clock noon, all year long. I got really f'ing sick of waiting at the school bus stop in the dark for 10 years.

The cow milking argument has always been pure idiocy. Let's make the "kids starting school before the cows even wake up" argument for once.
Microsoft is known to cooperate with governments. I'm sure that they'll stop domain fronting if asked.
Guidelines for law enforcement seeking info about users of Apple’s products. [pdf]
Notably, wind turbine OEM Enercon already used it on one of its transport ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1
The larger a codebase the bigger the value of a crash 'close' to the root cause of the error. Assertions help you to get - sometimes substantially - closer to the root cause of a problem and any assertion that does not hold would lead to a crash - or worse, silent data corruption - any way, so by all means, leave them on.
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Someone must have the moral courage to force the issue regardless of consequences. The situation will have to get worse before it can get better.
Interesting. I'll probably add some form of github and/or reddit support in the future, and I don't feel comfortable adding those URLs unnecessarily, so at somepoint there will be permissions updates anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I agree with all of this. QMC is more relevant to Monte Carlo, but MCMC is its own thing as far as I know. There is some work on combining the two, but it doesn’t seem mature.

If you don’t mind: what’s the general application domain for your MCMC‘s? For me, it’s inference of (usually) spatial fields for various science data sets, like Earth or solar imagery or atmospheric composition.
I believe the author, Wendy Liu, is currently working to try to find those points. She's working on a masters thesis on this subject, taking notes from a number of books on labor, tech, culture (see http://bookmarker.dellsystem.me/complete )
Whenever you use YouTube, you're already watching videos on dozens of different websites. YouTube is made up of thousands of servers, if not hundreds of thousands, spread all over the world. You just use a user interface that hides the difference from you. Similarly, whenever you use BitTorrent, the different pieces of your file come from dozens or hundreds of different machines, operated by different people, none of whom have the ability to take the file down.
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Where did it come from? Any stats? Pure interest.

By the way, how do you exactly know where the user got to know about your service, and, specifically, that this spread didn't involve VK?
I don't. I would if I were at least paid to, but I focus on writing software for myself to generate income instead of generating some multiple of my salary for an employer.

There was an article on HN about an open source developer who is the sole maintainer of some complex, common tool (I can't recall what) who barely scrapes along. He's created many millions of dollars in value for others yet he can barely keep food on the table.

IMO, open source is great for consumers and middle-men, but takes advantage of and devalues software creators.
Most of us are on CET, from westernmost Spain to Poland if my memory serves me correctly.
Update to v2.3.1 and there's an option to show only the keybase badge :)

A popup will happen eventually, but that'll take a bit more development effort.
So, this thread is actually addressed in the article. The article is not about discovering this phenomena, but about why it's still happening. Just a bit of a poor title that doesn't quite summarise what the article's actually about.

From the article:

Yet despite our understanding of this phenomenon, and the guidelines in place to prevent it occurring, it is still causing ships to sink and taking their crew with them.

...

The International Maritime Organisation have codes governing how much moisture is allowed in solid bulk cargo in order to prevent liquefaction. So why does it still happen?

The technical answer is that the existing guidance on stowing and shipping solid bulk cargoes is too simplistic. Liquefaction potential depends not just on how much moisture is in a bulk cargo but also other material characteristics, such as the particle size distribution, the ratio of the volume of solid particles to water and the relative density of the cargo, as well as the method of loading and the motions of the vessel during the voyage.
As long as we are here: that book by Jesse Schell is wonderful, I highly recommend it!
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about whether the world would be substantively different today if the 2016 election had had a different outcome.
It’s nice to have a personal man page folder on different subjects. I personally use a binding in Emacs to bring up a helm buffer to select it quickly. Also, a tab completion function tied to an alias for it called “mm” so you can access it from the command line too is useful.
Not really. I'm too far north for DST to make a difference. Summer nights are light enough I can easily read outside without other illumination. December days are 4 hours or something. The only real reason to be on DST here is make international stuff easier.
... and yet DST changes this twice a year.
It's not like saying that at all.

Live in a non-DST timezone, and nothings bad.

Live in a timezone observing DST and you get the time shift twice a year, without fail.

I'd say it's more like saying - "Travelling is terrible because I hate jet lag".

I agree that it's not a very good argument. I'd say a better one that it's a weaker version of is: DST kills people:

https://www.businessinsider.com/daylight-saving-time-is-dead...
It's not. Based on this page it looks like it was only for a short period last March unfortunately.

https://www.nypl.org/loureed
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You can also just stick video on your own blog using <video> tags. It's super easy these days! No Javascript libraries or Flash required.

Here's an example on my own site: https://www.brainonfire.net/blog/2018/03/23/oxalis-leaf-open...

And here's the source code:

<video src="https://www.brainonfire.net/hotlink/20180323-oxalis-timelapse/oxalis-160x.mp4"
poster="https://www.brainonfire.net/hotlink/20180323-oxalis-timelapse/oxalis-poster.jpg"
width="640" height="360" controls muted="true" preload="metadata">
Video element not supported in your browser.
Try this link! <a href="https://www.brainonfire.net/hotlink/20180323-oxalis-timelapse/oxalis-160x.mp4">oxalis-160x.mp4</a>
</video>

(The fallback content is totally optional, but a nice touch for curmudgeons like me who don't have A/V enabled in their main browser.)
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I think we agree on that. We disagree about the preferred frame of reference.
One company I worked for, we hired a Chinese DBA contractor. His initial move while onboarding was an attempt to burn an export of the entire customer database to a DVD. He got caught in the act and fired.
Having got used to 2560x1440, anything much less than that seems pretty cramped. I'm currently using a (now pretty old) Dell U2711, and it's... adequate.

The best I've used to date is one of the more recent 27" iMacs. Stunningly crisp. Depending on exactly what happens work-wise over the next few months (currently unsure whether I'm going to need mobility or not), my next purchase will either be a new iMac or a laptop that can drive a 5K display...
Put your phone in do not disturb mode forever
Finally we don't need a bios change to switch the fn and ctrl keys, right?
Us car enthusiasts are pretty upset we are not getting the next Focus/Fiesta ST's. First time with a true mechanical differential and twin-scroll turbos. What a shame.
Yes, so this is ultimately a UI problem. What we need is not a monolithic website to compete with YouTube, what we need is a decentralized, federated 'video site' protocol.

Really, what we need is the web back. That is, the web as I remember it in the 90s, before Google came along, when groups of people who shared similar interests would link to each other and form webrings. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
I'd guess (no real evidence) it could be because a lot (most?) software runs on timescales where 10% isn't that significant. Also, maybe something to do with Amdahl's law, where speeding up one part by 10% rarely speeds up the whole thing by the same amount?
> This is just elitism with a little bit of "back in my day" thrown in.

That wasn't my intention and I apologize if it came off that way. Also, I'm not that old and I certainly didn't start programming with assembly. My programming experience began with OOPs ( Java, C#, C++ ). Didn't really touch assembly until I went to college. Also, compilers is a basic core course you have to take to get a CS degree. How is something everyone has to learn elitist?

> I can assure you that I fully understood the concepts of pointers, variables, and references without knowing anything about assembly language or compilers. The concepts are not that difficult to grasp.

The concepts were fairly difficult for me. Especially pointers. I thought I understood it but then later on realized I didn't. Maybe other people have their eureka moments sooner. For me it happened when I built a compiler and did some assembly programming.

I just think knowing how things work under the hood will make you are better programmer. Especially something like assembly since all programming languages gets translated to assembly whether you are using C# or Haskell or Lisp or ML. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. But I'm sorry if others were offended by my comment. That was not my intention.
Or large parts of SF during an earthquake.
The process Google has set up is an outcome of DCMA, because Youtube can only operate as long as they can claim DCMA "safe harbor" status.
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The piece's conclusion seems to be unions are a panacea which I am highly skeptical of.
>and in Miami he was able to develop a low post game.

After he couldn't post up 97 year old Shawn Marion, and 146 year old Jason Kidd.
DNS requests only give the hostname. Google/Facebook's analytics services get them pretty much everything about the users' interactions with sites that include them.

I'm not arguing that ISPs aren't a privacy risk or that they shouldn't be fought. I'm pointing out that Masnick damages his own credibility by making stupid claims that, in order to be believed, would require either a technically unskilled reader or one who is willing to pretend the modern web/internet works differently than it does.

Masnick attempts to frame this debate in a way where everyone who doesn't join him in ignoring/defending the privacy violations of Silicon Valley tech companies is "on the other side". It's a dishonest and shitty way to frame things, and doesn't reflect reality in any way.

ISPs have plenty of black marks against them. Lying in order to pretend ISPs are the only ones we should be fighting isn't helping anything.
If your job requires no interaction with the rest of society, that would work. As it is, people's lives ironically revolve around the clock and not the sun, so you're expected to be available from a certain hour of the day to a certain hour of the day regardless of the position of the sun.
They would if it provided more censorship avoidance.
The one time that it's actually a good idea to intentionally crash an app in production is if failing the assert could e.g. cause irreversible corruption of important data or worse, lead to a security vulnerability/exploit.

e.g. situations where you're writing to a buffer/disk, dealing with raw pointers, etc. (which should hopefully shouldn't happen with good design, but sometimes unavoidable)
No they don't sell your data they just sell "access" to your data. The bits don't leave Google servers.

Your assertion and supporting link are nothing more than semantics though. But if those semantics make you personally feel better then fine. But I think there's very few people who think that such a semantic distinction matters.
I live in Portland, OR. I don't think there's a granted monopoly to Comcast here.

There is actually a small independent WISP here I would love to use, but they don't serve my particular location currently.
Awesome! And again, thanks for this project. It's great, and exposes a somewhat hidden aspect of this community - a slow Keybase infiltration :). I haven't seen any other project requiring you to put something in your HN profile that would get so much traction.
> It's terrible for scheduling conference calls. Instead of just converting timezones, you have to remember what a reasonable time of day is in each locality.

Sure, you still have to remember a time difference or negotiate back and forth. That part is the same amount of work. But you avoid a bunch of failure cases:

* Person from a large country with one official timezone (e.g. China) assumes that when the guy in New York says "10AM my time" that means the same as when the guy in San Francisco does.
* Weekly call at 10AM New York time, person from elsewhere in the world assumes it's going to be at the same time this week as last week, but it isn't because US DST changed on a different week from everyone else's.
* Both people misremember what the offset between their timezones is, think they've agreed on a time, neither notices until the call happens.
AskHistorians is surely one of the great jewels of Reddit.

Fantastically moderated, and filled with an array of helpful experts happy to research and write up answers to all sorts of interesting questions and topics.
I grew up in Kansas and up until about 15 years ago it bounced back and forth between Democrats and Republicans frequently. And in my dad's era, post war, pretty much everyone was a Democrat, whether urban or rural. And then the parties have flipped ideologies substantially (Southern Democrats, and then Nixon-Atwater Southern Strategy Republicans), and even arguably in 2016 you get a rather substantial 180 degrees with Trump Republicans who suddenly became anti-globalism (domestic capitalism, global mercantilism).

So on the one hand, you need more data over more elections to see if there's correlation, but then that adds noise. At a national level, the parties have sub-parties within them where in consensual democracies they'd be separate parties, it's not a strictly two party system like you see in majoritarian democracies. And this is always in flux.

Another source of noise is just the nature of the 2016 presidential election. Possibly a better source to reduce noise? U.S. senate races. They're statewide like a presidential race, the term is 6 years, but the lack of national media hype involved in the campaigns makes them less emotional and the data might be more stable. The incumbency problem might make it useless.