skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of question is hard, because ... is he under-rated (or "forgotten", as the original article had it)? I would have said he was both well-respected and still remembered.

Personally, I don't think I've read more than a novel's worth from any of the authors in the article -- hadn't even heard of half of them -- whereas I've read maybe ten of Vance's? He's maybe more remembered for his fantasy than SF, but I'd say he's frequently mentioned and reprinted.
Unmortgage scores £10M seed round to offer ‘part-own, part-rental’ housing
So it's "okay" to screw over your fellow citizens, but when you get screwed over, itsa "big deal".
It's funny how different backgrounds bring you to having different ideas of what is easy and hard. As a mathematician, to me the easy problem is finding the minimum of the functional (where "easy" means "we can at least try", certainly not "trivial"; some minimum problems are actually relatively easy, some others are very difficult and open), while proving existence of PDEs is exactly why calculus of variations (and many other theories) were invented in the first place.
Maps of Psychological Characteristics in the U.S. (2008) [pdf]
Sounds good! I'll hopefully have something interesting by the end of the weekend.
That’s genius! Using trackers to research not using trackers.. so why don’t you use more privacy oriented analytics instead of google analytics? Matomo (formerly known as Piwik) seems like a better choice, unless that option is exactly what you’re researching.

I don’t mean to be so snarky. Your comment seems so hypocritical to me, though.
One large component is the inability of these companies to calculate the cost of the adtech on their pages.

They simply don’t have anyone who can measure the negative impact of slowing page speed, obscuring articles, increasing comics rate, scrolling jankiness, etc.

The adtech providers optimize around ease of install (one line of JavaScript!) over any costs that will entail for customers.
> Personally, I'd rather be the one guiding the ship, because I do ask myself the same questions you're asking.

I'm not necessarily the one guiding the ship, but I'd like to be (by being the largest on the market), and I'm just working to launch this as a business (called Metacortex). Fact is, I've spent years building this out for my trading platform. Most of the research is my own, with some contributions from open source and academia as it relates to NLP. That's why I submitted a patent on it, I want to corner this particular (and seemingly highly effective) method.

That being said, I've worked on products with similar goals, and have done technical reviews of WAY creepier products. Luckily, those other products rarely work at all. IMO the technology isn't quite there yet (outside of some of what I demoed), however, it's uncomfortably close.

Snowden told us this was happening, years ago. I'm sure they've improved since.
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I would really love to see what happened since the article, since I, personally, stopped using Julia around the same time (unrelated to the article) and only followed the announcements (e.g., of hitting the 1.0 milestone). I would love to know if the outside view ("it improved / matured a lot") is the true story.
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How unmortgage will get profit by in investing with people's to buy house?
Most Americans feel this way to. Most aren't working for NASA or doing meaningful work. They just need a paycheck, to pay for all the crap they bought on credit.
Anyone knows about a team shifting saas around there?

A tool that could help me to design and automatize a shift schedule for security guards for instance.

Basically I am looking at the following assumptions:
- 24/7 coverage
- 8 hours shift
- 40 annual leaves days per year
- 14 days of certified sick and uncertified sick leaves per year.
- need for 52 periods of 2 consecutive days off (week ends).
- team composed of 3 personnel.
- 15 working days of training in the year.
- teams of 3 personnel for each shift.

So I could easily answer how many teams of 3 personnel do I need and what type of shift schedule works for that?

Would you have any idea about that? Thanks.
My favourite goal of yours is the third one. The first two will come after you achieve that :)

I'd say do whatever you do already with some extra curiosity and long-term view thrown in. You're probably using a text editor in your current job. Why not take time to learn some shortcuts in it during the next couple of tasks (and do them slower).

You're probably also using Unix. You could learn what actually happens when you do, say, `ls`, if you don't know yet.

Reflect on what you're doing and what you just did, what was inefficient or bad, and whether you could have done it better - that's always good for learning stuff.
On the other hand they could allow access to the app store only for free apps
Worries arise about security of new WebAuthn protocol
True, he just uses a power board. I went full hog and got the ArduPilot board plus the telemetry transceiver so I can have the plane fly from the computer with waypoints. Now if only I knew how to connect everything!
People migrating from GCM to FCM need to be aware that in FCM analytics are turned on by default: https://github.com/siacs/Conversations/issues/3041
> my preferences include food

How long do you go without eating? I find that fasting increases mental clarity.
I’m wondering if the weed smoking (that no one ought to care about practically/medically) will cause his security clearance to be reviewed/revoked, what impact that may have on Space-X, and what impact that overall distraction will have on Tesla.

Also not sure if Tesla has government contracts of significance where a security clearance would be relevant.
I don't use an adblocker -- I just use Firefox with tracking protection on. I'm okay with ads, just not track-y heavy ads, and Tracking Protection does the trick.

You may want to look into why Tracking Protection doesn't like your ads.
Americans (and probably many Europeans) might not realise how strange the idea of emptiness is to many Brits - especially those of us who grew up in the South East. For me Dungeness feels like a remote wilderness... (tries hard to avoid making a joke about Croydon)
I'm not worried
The previous article was about bikeshedding. This one is just about getting distracted.
I visit the library often. Two libraries in fact as I used to live in two counties and each had their own and now both share resources. They give me information on things I would not know because I didn't want to buy a book I was worried wasn't what I was looking for. It helped me learn about FreeBSD which helped me start a business I've been running for 15 years now along with the programming languages. Libraries helped me cook and build things for my home.

I own most of those books I borrowed from the library now and they still sit on my bookshelf next to me.

And I'm pretty darned good at all that.
Could you please point to some newer reviews that you trust? I'm trying to get a sense for myself whether I should invest my time learning Python or Julia.
That's very interesting. Could you share more of how you envision this system working?
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Yeah, but how about not there being a case, and not having to argue (and pay laywers and such) at all?
Go 1.11 added "modules" support.

https://golang.org/doc/go1.11#modules
I worked for a media conglomerate for several years on several high volume media sites. The GMs and POs that I came across often had a great sense for what made user experiences great, but those would take a back seat every single time for revenue opportunities. A company wants to do an ad takeover for the sites and slather sidebars/banners/popups everywhere, Ad Ops wants to sell a new module in the right rail, Outbrain/Taboola/whatever wants to pay you to throw their script and "suggested" stories at the bottom of the page - of course you jump at the chance to do any of these because the revenue can easily be in the hundreds of thousands or even millions.

Every time an AMP thread comes up, there is a minority being positive and trying to find a way to make it work, and it's for the reasons mentioned above. Apple and Facebook want walled gardens where they control the content and give the providers whatever revenue they consider "fair", with the huge benefit that the stories would be fast to load and provide a friendly, uniform interface. AMP is the only reasonable alternative I've seen pitched since RSS has essentially died.
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I’ve been contributing to the privacy-first design of Fathom. https://usefathom.com/ I don’t use if myself as its not all that useful at this time. There is actually a second tracking system in place that records things like the number of people who block ads and analytics.

Google Analytics (GA) on the site is configured to delete data as early as possible and it’s configured to not store IPs or link activities. However, its the only way to get any page-level reporting (like which pages are profitable) out of AdSense.
If you're arguing fair user, you've already lost. That's a matter of opinion so it has to go all the way to a jury verdict. That means there's no guarantee and even if you win, you have to pay a couple million for the billable hours. You want a defense that's so obvious, the judge will throw out any case against you on the first day.
> Python or Julia

...replace that "or" with an "and". Python is unavoidable, and it makes no sense not to become proficient at it unless you already know another language usable also as a "systems scripting language" (eg. Ruby or Perl).
Beyond the state of the Julia Language (which I am excited to try out since 1.0), the core community comes off really badly in this post, and the previous follow-up discussion on HN [1], and julia-users group [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809422
[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/GyH8nhEx...
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The best response for the investor who loses confidence in the CEO of a company they’ve invested in where the CEO is personally a large part of the valuation of the company is to salvage as much value as they can and GTFO.

The investor isn’t interested in what’s best for the CEO or company further than the extent to which that’s good for the investor.
Interesting. I actually dictated that to Siri and that’s how she chose to spell it. I see now it’s not a word.

I thought it looked off but I figured she knew better than I did. It’s not exactly word I use all the time.
Yea, I saw a few in there that I didn't think required anything special. Maybe it's a hangover from the last recession when employers could be choosy like that.

A lot of the others fell along the same category. No, you don't need a degree to be a developer, and you never did. But now you can get a job because employers have no choice but to acknowledge that fact.

Overall, it's a good thing, but it shouldn't have taken this much pressure for it to happen.
Stupid "security" questions, I've started answering them like "what's your favourite colour?" - "colour" or "what was your first pet's name" - "pet".

There are a few things that make me wonder if I can trust a company. Security questions, stupid password restrictions, sending me a password in plain text via email.
This is more of a societal problem and to fix that requires some re-education of people that are coming into and only have been that society for a while, namely:

- Be open to strangers

- Be open to chance conversations (ie: remove your damn headphones once in a while)

- Introduce yourself to your neighbours and help them
It's more that Haskell is so powerful and expressive that it let's you see and quickly wxploret ever more powerful and related abstractions, where most other languages would bog you down in syntax or semantic cul-de-sacs that force you to stop (or drain your energy for) expanding the program's power.
Thanks. I'm also a fan of umatrix.

I'n curious why you disable CSS, obviously I understand why you would want to turn of JS. Is this part of the override for Stylus to work? It didn't look like it from the link.
It came up on my suggestions few hours ago.
Matomo has completely unacceptable impact on client-side page loading performance. The way it stores data also makes it difficult to do anything useful with the data.
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> And this is the most hilarious aspect of Haskell community. You assume that the only reason people might not like the approach is due to their sheer ignorance of the wonders of the type system.

No, I don’t, and when I happen upon somebody who is competent in Haskell and still prefers Clojure/Erlang/whatever then genuinely interesting conversations tend to happen.

This is not the case here though.
My decade+ old Hotmail account, plus two more newer ones, began prompting me for a # "for security" back around 2014. After a couple weeks of "not right now" all three of them locked me out simultaneously. Yahoo still asks for a # to this day(AFAIK... stopped using it after Oauth prompts appeared). Security IS one benefit, but it does not seem to be the most heavily weighted reason. Most don't change phone #s often, if ever. Seems like a super data tracking metric.
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We are all on the library now.
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IMHO, one of the worst things Julia had done was to unnecessarily break so many backward compatibilities (e.g. renaming shift!() to popfirst!() – who cares? and how many user code this will break!). As a result, a great portion, if not the majority, of Julia tutorials online are not applicable to the latest version any more. This leads to a lot of headaches when you learn Julia. I know v1.0 is supposed to be stable, but their track of record makes me doubt. I will see what they do to v1.1 and then decide if it is worth learning.
Marking up a rare find like this seems like a good way to perceivable ruin a rarity. But in time it turned out to be invaluable and became a part of their story.
Meh. This sort of thing happens all the time. It gets hushed up pretty well. What's unique here is author came forward with his story.

Academia is in sore need of reform. Especially elite academia has learned branding matters more than scientific truth.
It’s because tracking protection blocks ads based on domains. It doesn’t recognize that AdSense can serve non-personalized ads that don’t track you. Privacy Badger has the same design limitation.

Firefox and Privacy Badger should want to promote the use of non-personalized non-tracking ads, but allowing well-behaved ads isn’t really a priority.
There are likely many short-sellers of Tesla who wish Musk would succeed.

I’m in that camp. I want viable, cost-effective on their own merits, electric cars. I want a vibrant, accessible space industry. I want extra-terrestrial coloNization planning.

I’m short TSLA (about 25% of my liquid investment balance) since the summer not because I hate Musk, but because I believe it’s personally profitable to be so due to the utterly insane valuation. Near flawless execution is baked in on a manufacturing company likely less than 15 months from being out of cash.

I wish Musk well. I hope he navigates through the challenges ahead for the good of humankind. Even if he does so fairly successfully, I like the expected value of my short position.
It's funny how they scream "free media", "support us", "internet is dying", while the core content of an article is perhaps 2-4kb of text. That's how they react when being cut off from income from tracking and advertising providers. They monetize the 2kb of text till the last drop of blood at the cost of privacy of their visitors.
There is quite a bit there, you're just missing it because it's written to cause someone not interested in people to tune it out (the stereotype of a tech bro).

While being very interesting to someone interested in people. Complete with Khan's current work, her past work, other people she's working with now, examples of her reputation (almost a ninth district clerk), previous examples where her reasoning was used, and the outcomes of the examples. All very interesting to someone who is writing policy (or the stereotype of a hyper social ladder climbing politician).

The examples used are actually pretty brilliant if you want to take Amazon down a peg. The worst case Rockefeller example (which was nightmarish), and a grocery store that slowly failed after it was regulated (and let's be honest grocery stores are an industry where every company eventually fails, since even small decisions can change which side of red/black you're on). Biased, but stills fill the requisite we showed two sided of the story slot.
There's no longer any sexual liberation. Instead you are told that you need to be controlled from outside in order to not be taken advantage of. It's 50s once again?
Nobody is claiming (2). IMO (1) is plain wrong, I believe there is positive utility in pursuit and subsequent discovery of the truth, even if such truth is "purely hurtful" - it still allows us to structure our society and plan our future better (i.e. readjust our goals so that they are realistic (not impossible / in conflict with reality) and figure out better ways to achieve them), taking strictly more (and better) information into account.
How I Built a Personal Knowledge Base for Myself
Advance Local Media owns a lot of newspaper companies online presence. Their software is terrible, there are so many ads the content doesn’t load half the time.... plus with all the cutbacks over the last few years the actual articles are garbage. No details, bad writing, spelling errors, street names that are wrong, nobody proofread a these days.
ISTR that Matomo also has a log-analysis mode where you don't insert anything into your content, and therefore does not affect performance at all.
>you can say "please make a reservation at restaurant X for 7:45 for two people, and have flowers delivered to this address by tomorrow". They will call you back with a price and if you confirm then BMW just sends you an invoice for it.

... at cost with only 30 to 50% surcharge, I believe ...

While it is true that probably most buyers of new BMW's and Mercedes can afford it, I don't think it is a service most customers will be using, those with the real money surely already have a secretary/personal assistant for these chores.
This is the same argument that was used when Microsoft launched Typescript. As it turns out, their strategy of extending an existing language to make it safer worked great, while brand new languages that are safer than Typescript are now miles behind it in terms of adoption. So it seems to be a pretty solid strategy, and if it brings people closer to a safe language, even if not 100% safe, it's still an improvement on the status quo.
For one and a half year, I built and used a personal knowledge base that works in my terminal and a web browser. I have found some interesting things:

* if we go overboard, organizing, not learning, often becomes the goal in itself.

* searching is far more effective than organizing. My knowledge base became a buffer for my web search.

* a knowledge base needs to be local first and open source because learning is for life, and services and software come and go.

* we will never one day sit down and read our knowledge base.

* a personal knowledge base enables us to simply share a piece of knowledge with others. Doing so saves time when complex ideas need to be conveyed.

* adding ideas to a knowledge base is like committing to a source control, reducing my cognitive overhead.

Ultimately, having a personal repository of knowledge has helped me learn and save time.
I don't either :) I just happened to have read those earlier threads because of interest in the topics, so thought of sharing the info that I did.
Well done !

How secure is this EdgeRouter lite? Is it open source? For what it's worth, I found one blog with VPNFilter botnet and Ubiquiti on the same page :)
Since BSD's system compiler is now LLVM, I think it's only a matter of time some enlightened BSD variant (OpenBSD maybe?) tries something like Checked C.
Ah. Log analysis hasn’t been useful for years. Browsers pre-fetch and pre-render documents that are never viewed by anyone. You need client-side scripting to know whether a request is for a human or just browsers trying to preemptively load things in expectation of user interaction.
Where higher is still a ridiculously cheap $25/yr
Likely a defense against DDOS.
Win 10 fees will probably come in the future, after these upcoming Win 7 fees have caused a decent percentage of current users to "upgrade" to 10. </cynic>
> They wanted the website to "feel" more like a real newspaper, including things like incorporating custom layout, design and other elements on the website. Explaining the limitations of HTML, CSS and Javascript was a bit ... frustrating for both sides.

Did they demand "page turning animation" each time user clicks "next page" in the pagination?
It's easy to spend "absurd amounts of time in solipsistic media consumption" is you're weighted down after a 10+-hour work day, or an 8-hour work day + a couple hours of commute, and all others you know are in similar schedules...
Julia uses semantic versioning now, so there's a guarantee there will be no breaking changes.
Ah, ok thanks. Anyways I got it installed, was just wondering about certain actions that cargo took. I found I could copy the resulting binary and delete my entire .cargo directory and it continues to work, so it seems cargo did some unnecessary things for `install`, but no worries.
DNS (used to be?) is a great amplifier for DDOS attacks. Because the 'source' address is user supplied, and there are DNS responses that are much larger than the requests.
So you can use 1Mb/s of data to send DNS queries with your targets IP as the source address to get e.g. a 10Mb/s stream of data to your target.

Maybe the rate-limiting is an attempt to subvert being used in this kind of DDOS.
So you want to make a TUI
The new way also makes for weak societies easily seizable by capitalistic interests.
Why use Vim: Forget easy-to-use design. Choose something hard instead
> May I suggest

Perhaps your suggestion could be valid.

Since you pointed that out, what set me off primarily is similar sentiment when parent hinted that op might be arguing in bad faith with "so it comes off as a bit of a complaint for the sake of it". General dismissive attitude of HN to anything privacy related (like this thread getting downvoted) only exacerbates things further.
Only in countries where they have been conditioned to think so (because it makes for better servants)

And even there, not for the huge majority of the people not doing anything creative. http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

Not to mention, even for creative people who love their job, nobody stops you from working on things on your own free time (e.g. if you're a programmer you can do open source, build stuff you like as side projects, etc, the most "meaningful work" does not have to be your pointy-haired bosses mandated projects at work).
My own anecdotal experience working with corporate recruiters and hiring managers is that, no one really cares about education compared to experience (outside of maybe a "wow, nice" when seeing a PhD), but they are all scared to not put the typical boilerplate "Bachelors degree or related experience" line at the top of the job post. I've noticed a trend lately for more progressive companies to leave this bit out in the name of diversity, hopefully this catches enough that it just becomes the norm.

Note that I'm a software engineer who dropped out of college, so you can take what I say with a few grains of salt. :)