skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is what really makes me mad. You can't argue that alternatives to tracking don't exist when no one is actually trying the alternatives. You can't choose between paying and getting tracked; it's get tracked regardless and hear them nag you to pay them for the privilege.
Multiple for loops in list comprehensions (if that's what's meant by "multi-level") are pretty straightforward once you realise the simple rule that translates them into loops: write everything to the right of the expression in the same order with nesting. For example this:

l = [f(x, y) for x in X for y in Y if x > y]

is the same as this:

l = []
for x in X:
for y in Y:
if x > y:
l.append(f(x,y))

If a list comprehension doesn't fit on one line I try to highlight this to any future reader by using one line per thing that would get nested:

l = [
f(x, y)
for x in X
for y in Y
if x > y
]

Needless to say, there are still list comprehensions that are complex enough that they ought to be broken out into loops. But being nested isn't enough by itself.
Yeah... No. This doesn't solve anything.
What are you hoping to achieve?
If it’s to screw them for as much money as possible speak to a lawyer who can advise you on the best strategy for that.

If you want a small/reasonable amount of compensation and failing that, you want them to cease using your code, I would just talk to them. Put together what your licensing terms are and then simple case of pay or stop using. This the path I would recommend, and as long as the fee is reasonable, I (as someone who has to deal with this sort of thing in my current role) would simply pay, as it the normal cost of doing business.

The reality is that this is likely the fault of a nieve developer, not the deliberate action of the organisation. Aggressively threatening to sue etc is typically overkill and the sort of behaviour that causes legal teams then to restrict developers and prevent them sharing their code etc.
A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs
The problem with traditional advertising is that everyone sees it, regardless of their interest in the subject matter or lack thereof.

This is false. The internet ad tech companies didn't invent marketing demographics. Advertisers who want to sell things to old people advertise on TV shows and in magazines that appeal to old people. Advertisers who want to sell Product X advertise in places where people who want to buy Product X might see it.

No, traditional media doesn't have the granularity or seemingly instant feedback of online ads. But there's a reason that an ad in print has more gravitas and impact on the reader than an online ad. Digital ads are ephemeral, and are forgotten as quickly as they are seen. With the exception of writing an ad in the sand on a wave-washed beach, every single other advertising method has more impact than online ads.

What Google and Facebook brought to the game was targeting.

I wish that was true. If it was, then I wouldn't be bombarded by ads for things I have no interest in from companies in places I can't buy from.

Right now on my Facebook feed:

- Ad for a concert by a band I don't like in a city 600 miles away.

- Ad for homeowners insurance for a house I don't own from an insurance company that doesn't operate in my state.

- Ad for an Xbox video game. I don't own an Xbox, and don't play video games.

- Ad for a business credit card for a business I don't own.

Tell me again about how Silicon Valley's ad tech industry is benefiting both me, and the advertisers.
I really wish there was a legal limit to how long you can squat, say 5 years, before it goes to a lottery system for a pool of people who applied to be apart of the lottery and can show legitimate use for it.
7B Humans
Lack of inflation is not easily understood through the lens of individuals.

Better to look at the fractional reserve system. The Fed creates money (M0), a lot of it in the shape of quantitative easing. But it was offsetting the deleveraging banks (reduction in M, M2 and M3). M0 = cash, M1= M0+ short-term instruments, M2= M1 + medium-term, M3 = M2 + long-term stuff /mortgages.

Even now, banks are less leveraged due to more stringent capital requirements (think Basel accords).

Translation to inflation is tricky. It's about demans vs. supply at its fundamentals - too much supply them you introduce inflation. Since banks can create money, supply is governed by M1,M2,M3 depending on the horizon. Demand is the economy which looks to be booming. Plus in the case of the US, the dollar is still the global reserve currency. So we have China, developing countries wanting more dollars. And the world still uses it as a vehicle currency, trade in brent oil is in dollars.

And we have inflation expectations - which is why the Fed is independent. And Trump should be quiet. The Fed will target 2%, thus we expect it to be 2%.
Every time I help a customer with anything I ask if they want free help with adblocker install. This helps them and also our internet bandwidth in the long run.

Personally I can't stand all attention grabbing moving things so have been using all sorts of adblockers since they first showed up. Before then I played around with custom css in netscape and blocking in the hosts file, running a local webserver for faster blocking instead of blackholing stuff. uBlock is so much easier to use :-)
Edit to add: your main points are spot on, IMO, but:

Original:
I'm not even sure I agree that 'comments' are good, particularly if they're going to be intentionally ignored by GUI s/s apps.

If you have meaningful information, put it in the furthest right-column, so it appears in spreadsheet editors on the right of the data.

If it's not meaningful to the person who will open the file, why include it?
They still track you if you pay though
Do you interact with them only in a business setting, or in social settings as well? And are they mostly older men? I am wondering if they also dress in formal attire in social situations, and if age/gender has something to do with it.
It's perfectly clear and unambiguous. For some reason everyone loves it when functional languages are 'pithy' but hates it when C-like languages are equally terse.
Reminds me of old IBM punch card fixed-column-aligned tables... Still in use in many systems (such as the US ACH wire system...)

Everything old is new again.
Yes very recently they stopped providing homeopathic treatment but were doing so for many years. The well known practitioner was the national health service of a country that was spending tax payers money on a treatment that provably doesn’t work. Plenty of Doctors well known and not want to and do continue to provide homeopathic practice. Likewise there is plenty of provably without medical benefit “complementary medicine” still funded by the NHS. This is very much due to Doctors pushing to provide these treatments because despite evidence they think they have merit. Which is worse than doing so with no or unequivocal evidence as in the programming practices case.
> One of the weird things about the NBN roll-out was rural areas getting more attention than city suburbs.

In some ways that makes the possibility of getting out and working remote better, you could buy a much cheaper house and have it paid off much sooner in a nice town, if that's your bag.
The integrity lies in the people and connections between same none of that lies in the building or the dead weight.
Orkut was a massive hit in my college from about 2002 (? I think), till facebook arrived in 2008. Everything was in communities, similar to facebook groups, & personal profile pages were great too. You could even see who visited your profile page, so people used to control themselves from visiting their crush's profile too often. Obviously no smartphones then, so most of the time it was on computers only.

Communities were for favorite quotes, singers, feelings, persons, subjects etc.
How much money and time goes into hiring more female septic tank cleaners? Garbage men? Construction workers? Truck drivers? If sexism isn't symmetric then feminism isnt about equality.
Not even close. You can have 1 millisecond latencies with a well configured kernel (PREEMPT), directly talking to ALSA.
I'm talking both Qualcomm and Exynos CPUs.

It just takes a SCHED_FIFO task with forced CPU affinity.
Android does not make it easy to get one.

There are some other hardware issues, like audio input and output using separate clocks on Qualcomms, but that's at most one extra buffer.

Speaking of this, you can have sub-millisecond latencies on Beagleboard. These devices in phones are vastly more powerful.
I wish there was a spreadsheet version of this.
No, you're like 0.01% done.
Well, they are simply put - a better people, the chosen ones to guide the unwashed masses out of darkness.
journalism is the colonialism of the intellectual sphere.
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Your plug is ineffective, because after reading this comment I still have no idea what your app does.
Hard to admit: people like Bob Pease and Hans Camenzind would not find any much employment in today's industry even if they were back in their prime.

Work culture in America has changed since sixties.
based on whether they appear on the list.

It's alphabetical, so no help there.
Living billboard here:

While ars technica is not a newspaper they often have posts that some of us find interesting.

They turn off ads and tracking for all but the lowest tiers.
Also, that's just for the basic wallet with 0.1 BTC in it.
Ask HN: Has the WWW become a lie?
I assume most people here know how webpages work these days. They run code, they save data, etc. But in this increasingly interactive web, who is responsible for telling people about all of this? I'm pretty sure back in school the internet was presented to us as this mechanism for transferring information; you "open" a website, and get a "document". I am sure this is still how many if not most people imagine the internet, without really being aware of what happens, largely due to metaphors like "documents" that are still widely being used today.

But aren't we, who make these websites, actually just lying to people about what's going on? If we talk to them in terms of "documents" and "opening" links, etc., aren't we presenting an image that is factually wrong? And if so, who is responsible for communicating to users that they aren't viewing "documents", but in fact, running "programs" on their PCs, that they downloaded from the internet?

I'm also very interested if somebody knows of any research on this topic; that is, how "most people" imagine these things work.

TL;DR Websites have turned from documents into programs and too many users didn't get the memo
Hey OP, did you find any resources on this topic? I have the same question, unfortunately didn't seem like hn picked this post
Perhaps the consumer wouldn't have to, and what the consumer gives out is a public key that lets the org request a unique to them access key. The consumer then gets a notification that Org X has requested an SSN access key and the user confirms or denies they get access. If a company is breached they get their keys revoked. A customer can log into a gov site to manage them.
Is that a real theory? Seems to totally fit how I work!
Please try and live in a developing country. 5% is huge for a family that can't make ends meet. I don't want to generalize but utopian ideas seem to be propped up on HN without counting billions of other people and their circumstances.
Commission grants 22 cities with funding for innovative projects
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895

740+ points
I didn't get it until I read the page. 4043 bytes, 8086 nibbles!
Do you mean a brand new google voice number can/should be used for all 2fa smses?
FWIW, those 3 show up together worldwide because those 3 brands are all owned by "Yum Brands." In the US the trucks that deliver generally show branding for all 3 brands + Yum.
I'm not sure compulsary payment a la GEZ and culture flat rates is the way forward, to say the least. With the recent cut-backs, public TV broadcasters have become outlets for low-quality pseudo-scandinavian crime series and similar palliative care. Also, they've lost any public opinion leadership they had with their media blackout towards the new populist parties. The only asset left are their talk-radio pearls.
I'm not sure you could cover up a data breach that easily. Those data dumps are going to be sold on the black market eventually, and I speculate that in many cases government agencies will be able to identify unannounced breaches.

Slap a 10x (or even 100x) fine on companies whose data breaches are discovered independently and covering stuff up won't look like such a good idea anymore.
It is actually voluntary to use these sites. I would understand your argument if it was illegal to use ad blocker. But it is not. Ad model works for publishers just fine, it is fully up to them what to show on their site to people with ad blockers.
(edited: english grammar)
I am just wondering about the countries which are NOT on that list.
10-15$ is what it costs to glue a rubber sole over the leather one, I believe it's calle a topy in English. It's mainly used so you don't fall in slippery floors but can also be added for durability. A quality sole replacement for a goodyear welted shoe costs around 100$.

You're not buying an 800$ shoe for durability but for aesthetics and comfort. There isn't much difference in durability between a 200$ shoe and an 800$ one. There is a great deal of difference between a 55$ and a 200$ shoe.

I have 200$ shoes with dainite soles that have been worn three or four hundred times over the last 4 years and are completely new.

We can't evaluate how much a sole lasts objectively because we should:

- Specify the sole that is being used.

- The construction of the shoe.

- How the wearer walks.

- How many kms does he walk.

- Where he walks.

- The weather.

- ...

In my experience a dainite sole is perfectly fine after one year of usage. Some of my days have 30-50k steps. I don't wear shoes daily though because it's bad for them and I have 22 pair of shoes.

My reply wasn't stating that an 800$ shoe lasts 14.5 times longer that a 55$ shoe but the notion that a 55$ shoe will last around the same time. A 200$ will last 5 times more easily. An 800$ shoe will look better than a 55$ shoe 30 years later at a cost of a 100$ resole every 5 years. We should take into account the environmental costs of buying new low quality shoes every year instead of having 3 pairs of good value quality shoes (200$) and taking good care of them.
Google's new phone software aims to end telemarketer calls for good
Just had a look, looks amazing.

WebAssembly is on our radar and is coming soon. But we just wanted to release a super early version of what we build so far.
They have significant geopolitical power. The entire Sunni realm is essentially under their rule. They blockaded Qatar and every Sunni nation followed suit. They don’t have nukes but technically can call on Pakistan for their nukes anytime they want. The avg Saudi lives like an upper class westerner and by upper class I don’t mean upper middle class like the majority of us tech guys. The poor in KSA are all foreign workers, the Saudis barely work at all and are rich with servants and cushy govt jobs.

They have the most influence in OPEC and they are now diversifying. KSA is invested all over SV. Uber, Tesla, Snapchat, biotech firms, SoftBank. Probably only 2nd to Russian oligarchs in terms of SV money. A bunch of princes are multibillionaires exclusively from American and British assets.
Yes, hard to believe, the guy who was making molds for internal plastic parts up to ifone 4 had a shop in garage few kilometres away from my workplace in downtown Shenzhen.

It is 2018 now, and Shanzhai garage factories are no more.

>Then you come across something truly extraordinary with virtually zero information on the internet besides their website: Catcher

:)

Were you living under a rock?
No, choosing "free" prompts the agreement to track prompt. And you must agree in order to proceed.
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You could totally make the same argument. And so you go with whichever rules lead to the best societal outcomes. It may be different per crime.
China's Transsion Beats Apple to Africa
But where do you live?
Viewpoint: Nouriel Roubini Hammers Blockchain and Crypto’s Failings
"Scams" is too strong, but I don't think "undesirable" would be. Think about it: ads are nearly always unwanted. You can tell because advertisers have to pay to put their content in front of users. If consumers wanted to see ads, media would put in ads paid or not to better compete for viewers. Instead, "premium" sources are often ad-free (see Spotify, HBO, better movie theaters, etc).

I think the reason for this is that ads don't exist to inform consumers about things they might want to purchase. Instead, advertisers have learned to manipulate viewers to create desire for their products. The effectiveness of ads is almost entirely non-rational. Watching ads is effectively watching corporate propaganda, in many different degrees of harmfulness.

I'm admittedly an idealist. But something seems amiss to me when the supposed only way to pay for journalism (which exists to inform the public) is to embed advertisements (which exist to misinform the public).
Great ending. But not all are like this: think divorce or even murder after finding out that husband has kids all over the place :). And that's just one angle
Yes. Plenty.
1,000 are offered package... wasn’t it something like 40K being layed off?
Nonono, the “otherwise there are no newspapers” is not an excuse.

Let’s analyze the right-wing. They’ve been let down by the press (literally 95% donations of journalists went to Hillary during the 2016 campaign), so they’ve built an entire parallel world of reporters.

The right-wing reporting is comprised of individuals, who make 5-to-60-minutes analyses of, say, the lies of the wage gap or the newsbending of CNN, put it up on Youtube, and collect funding via Patreon. We don’t have nice cameras but we’re efficient enough that we can win an election.

We don’t necessarily have to fund the huge assets of legacy journalism. If a journal’s costs soared high and quality was altered by entrenched political opinions of their teachers, we can let it die. The press and TV are typically medias that made themselves irrelevant by forcing an analysis on the reader, leaving the “reporting” or “unbiased reporting” some 20 years behind, and they’ve entrenched enough that there are no right-wing journalists anymore in the sector. Given the political realignment of the population that’s occurring, the sector will die off together with the sponsor party.

Journalism is now so tied to an outdated way of life and a political opinion that a new form of reporting and new sectors will appear, and the TV/press form will die.
Just FYI, using Tor browser, you just get access, with no prompts to agree with tracking, or whatever.
An anti-corruption drive is nearly always just a power shift. Look at the various ones in China, it's never about corruption and more about one branch of the political elite taking out another.
>virtually zero information

Considering it's a Taiwanese company, you probably should search in Chinese.

They even have a Wikipedia article: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%AF%E6%88%90%E7%A7%91%E6...

Also, this is a public company (TWSE: 2474), it's far from "virtually zero information" even in English.
It used to be for performance reasons, the way python runs comprehension is faster than plain loops, so the more you could cram in a single comprehension, the faster it ran.

These days though, you can split it in generator expressions and make it run at the end inside a comprehension, and you get best of both worlds: splitting helps readability, running it all at once in a single comprehension at the end keeps it performing.
I've done this too. There have been many situations where I kinda bypass the HR stuff - kinda don't acknowledge it happened or whatever, and just continue my discussions with the people interested in getting me employed. works great. HR doesn't win those.
Yes, I typoed 625.
THe very first circuit I built as a hobbyist was with the 555 and even managed to sell a fake car alarm, I think that was round 1990?
The problem is picking those points.

At about 30c, I was pretty sure bitcoin would crash, wiping out several hundred dollars which would recover the sunk cost of the GPU.

At $7 was another point I was pretty sure it would crash (and hey, getting $10k out to pay down a car seems like a heck of a lot of money for an internet peculiarity I did no work for).

After $30 when it dropped and Mt. Gox was dying, I was pretty sure it would be dead for good, as were many others.

I don't think your amendment really helps because of two facts:

1. "Fearing it will crash" is something that is difficult to gauge, and I felt since day 1 of bitcoin it was likely to crash and wipe out enough money to pay for a few months of rent or more.

2. Your assumption about that working still fails if it simply doubles more, e.g. if bitcoin goes to $1M/btc, we now have a similar "less than a percent" of possible profit, so you still don't get a significant fraction... And in fact if BTC takes off like that, it likely means the USD will have crashed and thus your previous gains are even less useful.

It's easy to look in hindsight and say "selling fractions from the 10s or 100s would have been a good strategy if we knew bitcoin would stabilize in the 1000s", but such hindsight didn't exist back then, and we still can't be sure it's fully stabilized.

I'm not saying it's a bad strategy; it does seem pretty reasonable. I'm just claiming that it won't guarantee that you end up with a significant fraction of the maximum possible gains, and in fact I don't think any such strategy exists.
Thanks, aldoushuxley001
Allowing class action lawsuits of unlimited scope would encourage whistle-blowers and incentivize investigators. Not to mention scare the living daylights out of would be violators.
Yes, you are correct. That's how I found out about their market cap. I was searching the wrong term - "Catcher Taiwan" or "Catcher Manufacturing" returns many results.
Would love to hear you're planning to put up video and/or slides -- that way I don't have to drive up from Los Angeles. Or get around the waitlist of 30 people for a full event. :)
It replaces the SMS 2FA with a Google prompt app on the phone for Gmail verification.

So it doesn't make the SIM more secure but the SIM get hacked it doesn't allow the attacker to gain access to Gmail.
I'm glad you asked this.

So here is the thing with our DataModel. Every time you perform an ops on DataModel it create another instance. Now performing multiple such actions create a DAG where each node is an instance of DataModel and each edge is an operation.

We have auto interactivity, which propagates data (dimensions) pulse along the network. Any node which is attached to visualiztion receives those pulses and changes the visual.

So far I have not found any relational interface which exposes this DAG graph and api to user. Hence we though of building this.

Having said that, we might use some established relational interface and do the propagation ourself.