skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can buy the "eventual consistency" argument, and maaaybe even the desktop/mobile argument, but location and language are part of what people mean by "personalization" (even if not technically correct), and frankly, they're the most annoying part.

I suppose that Google wants to optimize for people typing "football" in their search engine, at the expense of those trying to type "football results $countryname", or something more precise. But this seems ultra-annoying for anything more substantial than random trivia searches.

As for language, well, years ago I set my default search engine in Chrome to explicit "https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%s", because language optimization made 80+% of my searches return wrong answers. I admit I might be in a minority here, insofar as English-speaking people with work to do are a minority.
Let's call intellectual property what it really is in this context: rich countries demanding that less rich countries give them money.

That fact that expropriation of wealth from countries and regions that already have less is the status quo economically, doesn't make it any less obscene or immoral.
The developers of EarTrumpet figured it out, see https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet . Their solution is based on WPF and quite complex, however there are APIs to get the current mode, and all the modern UI colors.

I myself implemented the modern black menu style for a tray icon, so that the menu looks like the native tray icons. It's "just" a matter of owner drawing everything. Unfortunately, there is no secret "make my app dark" api in WinForms / WPF.
A good raincoat is pretty expensive. At least $200. So the guy submits an expense report with a $200 line item, gets rejected and splits the $200 into probably 7 or 8 incidentals which usually have a $25 limit, probably on different expense reports.
I think this is the correct answer.

State sponsored theft of highly secret commercial/military information is one issue, rampant intellectual property abuse is another (eg. in fashion or entertainment industries).

However potentially larger problems are the 100% legal barriers to entry for foreign companies - censorship, onerous and expensive company formation, trademark registration, inability to operate in a hopelessly corrupt political environment, opaque legal system, legal requirements to have CCP ‘agents’ operating inside your company, local government fiefdoms that often operate beyond the law etc etc.
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You're right. I mistakenly conflated the goals of wpf with dotnetcore.
Yes, USSR invented stealth, internet, iphone, google and whatnot.

Ok, on the serious side - US obtained that design in joint agreement with a huge financial boon for YAK bureau to develop another plane for Russia.

Guess what - nothing from Yak design went into F-35 and nothing was produced in Russia by Yak.

Coincidence? I think not(c).
Also covered in that paper
We would and should expect that it is be possible: unless Firefox signs configuration changes per-user, server-side (violating their privacy intentions), the whole configuration code is open source, and can easily be easily used or reverse engineered to make an external editor.

This doesn't change that a sanctioned API invites abuse far more readily than reverse-engineering, especially when spyware is less frequently updated than Firefox itself. That there isn't a sanctioned API, and that the de facto API can and does change every version, is an advantage for Firefox against potential attackers.

If this is something you are sorely lacking, Firefox has also been straightforward to modify and compile, in my experience. You can always share a patch and enjoy these features as part of a smaller community, without compromising the userbase as a whole.
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I don't turn them down - bridge burning is for pyromaniacs - I just make non-committal noises and don't usually get back to them.

I should clarify that I was thinking more of outfits that respond to my enquiry with "Hi $candidate, please do this generic exercise after which we'll deign to look at your CV". Bonus points awarded/deducted if the requested exercise is for something already available on my github profile.

And 4-6 hours is typically my free time (not free computer time, total free time) for a week.
Which wasn't possible 10-15 years ago before ubiquitous smartphones and cellular data.
This definitely requires someone that was lazy independently doing this. This definitely does not reflect a common practice that Samsung does. Someone high up will be heavily punished for this.
Equating "NSFW content" with CP and degeneracy doesn't make you very appealing to normal people.
Yah I am sure hardcore hackers are giving up the gig b/c they need a PHOTO of an ID! And now the ones who are legitimate have to trust a company with their IDs? This seems like a VERY weak stop-gap measure to a very difficult problem.
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Conflating NULL with NUL terminated strings seems a stretch... both have problems, but separate problems. I suppose they're both related in that they provide a "special" value rather than separating that information though.
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can they ask if their data was compromised on the question&answer site?
I've been using Sublime since I started and have no complaints. That being said I always hear about emacs referred to as the OG. I know there's positives and negatives to both, but is there any pressing reason to switch from one to the other?
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Honestly, Google is almost certainly using canvas fingerprinting to track you across accounts, webpages, and more regardless of incognito.

There should be zero expectation of privacy when using a Google service. I've switched to searx.me, which wraps Google and (optionally) a bunch of other search engines.
I noticed the CGI cars in this clip don't have drivers in them.

How would they add a driver for an actual ad? I think cars are much easier than humans to do photo-realistically in CGI. Or do they just show the car in a way such that you can't see that there's no driver?
Visited a lawyer friend in Hong Kong (pre takeover) where client entertaining frequently required visits to hostelries of ill repute - all claimable and signed off.

Knew someone who sold his company and agreed to stay on for X months handover period. The new owners tried to go back and prove from previous expense claims that fraudulent activity had occurred and that they shouldn't pay some amount previously agreed. You need to be careful.

A long time ago, a project manager was paid 3X per month for a flat in Germany because at their level that was what they were entitled to. Then new junior person on same project came in, and happened to take over same flat and claimed X (with receipts). At the time this was just ignored - different folks different rules.
That clarification is appreciated, but it seems to contradict or ignore several of the results listed?

In particular, DuckDuckGo attempted to check for the effects of fresh browser windows, changes from localization, and A/B testing or incomplete rollouts.

- The study results found that the 'distance' between two people's incognito results was 2.8 times larger than the distance between one person's normal and incognito results. If this is correct, the tweet's claim that you can use Incognito to see the impact of personalization for yourself is seriously misleading.

- The study attempted to control for localization by tokenizing all local results, so that two result sets which each had a local story in the same spot would be treated as identical.

- The study attempted to control for rollout and testing effects by running all searches at the same time and assuming that those forces would lead to most users seeing similar results, with a few differing. Instead, they found substantial variance across all users.

I can certainly come up with explanations for how each of these changes could be non-personalized. Incognito variance could be a consequence of region and device effects which are user-independent. Tests might be scaled up near 50/50, and rollouts may not hit all datacenters at once, invalidating the "changes for a few users" assumption. And most significantly, DuckDuckGo's localization control looks completely inadequate to me. It would completely fail the given "football" example, and might fail for the given search terms: 'vaccine' produced highly-localized results they adjusted for, but 'gun control' could produce pseudo-local results like a preference for national stories with the user's state as a keyword, and that wouldn't have been identified.

A better version of this study would presumably try to alter its variables separately, for instance by using multiple devices in one location and one device in multiple locations via VPN. As is, the controls seem seriously lacking.

But I'm just making up reasons, and frankly they don't seem likely to explain the sheer size of the differences. When I run those searches, I don't get "football" and "Paris" level customization, I get a bunch of national-scope results that have no obvious reason to vary between incognito users. I wish the tweets here had touched on any of that. As is, they explain general search mechanics while frustratingly bypassing the most significant claims.
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Reminds me of a time I worked in a company that reimbursed us for coffee expenses on business travels. In their system, I had to itemize every receipt, so my expense report ended up being 50% made of morning espressos. The secretary handling expenses came back to me pretty annoyed and told me that next time, I should buy a pre-paid Starbucks card instead.
Licensing is the easy part.

The hard part is discovery (there is always money for someone who can do a marginally better job matching games to gamers), marketing, financial infrastructure (dealing with returns, credit card fraud, beta keys, review keys, DLC, crowdfunding campaigns, microtransactions), social matchmaking, mod management, etc.

Those are mostly not distributed problems. They are services problems. Steam is all of those things. The core licensing component is only the most obvious part.

Torrents only cover distribution. Ethereum only covers cash exchange.
Moral relativism deals with the idea that there is no fact in morality.
Actually, why can't they? Could someone explain the executive thinking behind this hesitation?
Yup. Pretty much. Sometimes you WANT one to fit so much that you buy it anyway...

I'll never quite understand why, despite the fact that women's bodies vary more, women's clothing is tolerates any variation way less than men's.
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> Accesses to unallocated global data is the type of errors that you typically hit on the first test run.

Depends what conditions cause it; the hard part is being sure that every possible code path through the first stage will initialise the data, even the rare ones like cases where some things time out but not others.

> I don't think type systems help all that much. Type + instead of -, and you're out of luck.

Not my experience at all - what do you mean? If you declare a type as covariant instead of contravariant or vice versa, you'll almost certainly get errors when you come to use it.
Very simply, it removes the possibility of keys showing up in config in source control or in server backups.
I also expect to make half my income in most cities in the US.
Out of curiosity, how did you find out about the IP theft?

Also, what are some actions (if there are any) that one can take if one learns of such IP theft? Are there any legal protections or is it simply a lost cause at that point?
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As a real world example, the fashion industry in China is hopelessly awash with fakes and copies. There’s very little enforcement of that kind of intellectual property, and also such high barriers to entry for say small/medium European fashion brands that they have no options. Chinese counterfeiters make money hand over fist ripping off US/EU designers, often working with the same factories producing the legitimate products for export.

When a small/medium EU clothing company can setup their own Taobao store easily and cheaply, sell online without overwhelming competition from counterfeiters, repatriate their earnings without significant issues, then perhaps we can consider the playing field levelled somewhat.
Great post guys! Sounds like a good approach. Looking forward to reading the paper to see how you modeled your training inputs (sequence of intents vs actions?). Also reminded me of an RL problem where you can consider your intents as states and the utterances as actions, where you can model a reward function based on the least amount of steps taken to reaching a fulfillment action.
Lawyer'd.

Or at least let's not pretend that this 21st century version of status symbol nonsense is really any different than what kids have always been doing. Some kid has a SNES and you only have a NES... Who's got Air Jordans? Who's got the best lunch? The best toys. Whatever. It's all the same. It's always been the same.

Hell I remember 1990 my elementary school installed a pencil machine. And you got like two random pencils with whatever graphics on them for a quarter (or maybe two quarters) and people were dumping money into that thing like they were going to hit the jackpot and become pencil barons of the midwest.

It's always been the same song and dance, kids are morons, and they are subject to the whims of whatever fad.
digital property should not work under exclusive principles (unlike physical property which has to).

to force exclusionary constrains upon digital property means we choose to abandon one of the key advantages of digital information.

it means we favor owning things over being free.
You just have to find out the one unique website a particular user always goes to and you can identify that the person is using a computer.

Or it is 20 bits of entropy when you go to a website only a thousand other people in the world visit.
> One of the challenges that React Native developers face, or have reported in the past — one challenge is that native React Native code is written in JavaScript, which means that it’s run using the browser’s JavaScript engine, which immediately kind of move this a little bit away from the native model of the platform.

Calling React Native “not native” while eschewing platform UI widgets is a bit thick. I’d actually of the opinion that React Native is “more native” than Flutter is; it might be a bit slower but it is much easier to build apps that could pass as actual “native” apps because the React Native team doesn’t need to try to emulate system controls.
I actually think the act of metaphorically picking out the best cereal for the best commercial is also dishonest; It's not displaying the product in the best light, because I can't ever realistically buy that.
Let me clarify, proxmox (or the vsphere web ui for example), would be a fantastic management ui on top of the smartos engine that would bring some gravity to accrete userbase. Some organizations are just more comfortable with UI tools. Sure, your hairy-knuckled sa's and programmers will favor maintaining version controlled manifests for zones, and keeping things highly automated, using terraform, etc, but there's a huge base out there that will download smartos, stare at the console prompt, and lose interest unless they can treat it like a vsphere or proxmox machine, like they're used to, and are trained on. Project fifo...frankly, needs some good natured competition to breed better product in this space.
I guess someone is very outdated on their information.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/articles/aot-or-interpreter...

Air supports native compilation since 2012!
Sounds like the Chinese are only selling defective products that westerners won’t accept.
It shows a placeholder if no image is available, so i too thought at first it were repeatedly showing the same result.
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In my limited experience of being in Tbilisi just a few days, nearly everyone we encountered was able to speak Russian. Keep in mind, this was in the capital city of the country and in restaurants and other major sight-seeing locations. I was with a group of people who could speak Russian and that was more useful than English in nearly every situation we were in.

A more knowledgeable stackexchange user says:

If you know Russian, use it. Despite the political situation, Georgians are smart and open minded. They may not like the Russian government but they love Russian people and they love the Russian language.

I'm pretty convinced after seven months in Georgia that people learn Russian there for just the same reason foreigners everywhere learn English: it's cool and it's useful.

English is spoken, but I wouldn't say "widely". It's spoken by people aged in their 20s and younger, moreso if they're in a big city and moreso depending on their level of education.

Source: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/10640/what-langua... (the full answer is worth the short read)

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Also, another point of interest for US citizens is that Georgia gives you a 1 year visa-free stay. Could be a great option if you're traveling Europe and need to be out of the Schengen zone when your 90 days are expired.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-tra...

https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/us-citizens/
"I've got a Samsung washer/dryer. They're fine. But the advertised smart features don't work without the app ..."

Lucky you!

Very high end (or commercial) appliances are the only ones left that don't have spyware/crapware/IoT so you really lucked out there ...
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> Apple asks developer to send an ID card photo

Is this something specific to Safari extensions? I have never heard of anyone having to do this.
You would choose anything, anything at all. Curious are you an active developer?
As someone who lives in the SV suburbs, life is freaking AWESOME. My wife and I both work and we have a small kid. We make a lot of money so that I never have to check my bank account. And we are just mid level managers. We own two houses that have appreciated beyond our wildest dreams. I basically have my retirement savings after working here for only 7 years. Monetary benefits aside:
- Both of us work in exciting mega unicorns in growth mode and with amazing benefits and work culture
- The weather in SV is awesome year round
- We can be outdoors 11 of 12 months - great for my daughter
- SV is majority minority - so you can imagine the diversity along with all the food options
- We love nature and it is virtually unlimited
- SF has the best food scene in the US now (check latest Michelin reports)
- I like the tech monoculture
- Career choices are unlimited
- CA government is very inclusive and responds to voter needs
- I like the Ocean and also like Mountains - can be off to Tahoe every weekend in the winters
- Amazing small towns in short distances - Napa, Sonoma, Healdsberg, Carmel, Big Sur etc.
- Los Angeles is only 6 hrs away
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- Many more
Someone needs to give Microsoft some Ritalin.
> The real gripe for me about emacs is that it is single threaded. So a long grep launched off will freeze the entire editor.

Are you running grep with `shell-command` (M-!)? Using M-x grep, `async-shell-command` (M-&), and invoking grep directly in shell, eshell, term and ansi-term all leave emacs as responsive as normal for me. shell-command is the only one that seems to hang.

I'll also add ivy[1] and helm[2] as alternatives to Ido which are very popular completion systems with integrations that span the package ecosystem.

[1]: https://github.com/abo-abo/swiper

[2]: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm
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They do not discourage is, but there promotion system encourages "authorship" and pair-programming does not produce that.
The entire idea of a "main numeric type" is sort of silly - know what data you're dealing with and pick the length accordingly!
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EDIT: as a followup, I should mention that circa 2018 there aren't really any commercial/signage displays that have 4k resolution. There are lots of "4k signage solutions" but they are all groups of quad monitors. It appears there is not yet demand (or sufficient product dev) in 2018 for 4k signage monitors. It sort of makes sense given that a departures/arrivals screen doesn't really need 4k ...
> I don't know why this post has been flagged.

NYT is a competitor to Facebook, so it's kind of tacky. (I didn't flag the post though.)
Doesn’t the average woman own something like 10 bras? Sounds like a couple thousand to outfit yourself in these, and that’s definitely super niche.
> I don't care about your telemetry. All I care about is if the software works

Newsflash: The latter requires the former, especially in large-userbase installations with tons of features.

I say this as a huge defender of privacy: Telemetry is not evil in and of itself and I wish people would give it a rest when it comes to yelling about opt-in telemetry, because it seriously harms the cause in cases where it matters, such as actual transmission of personal data.

Seriously, things like "Do you click the Edit menu a lot" is not useful data to anyone but the devs of the software, for development reasons.
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Oh, they do. Just look at the response given to terrorism: endless wars.
I don't care. java.lang.Optional is a PITA in a way null never is.