skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increasing Ad Transparency Ahead of India’s General Elections
Perhaps this is going the away of Amazon Prime - which started off as subscription for faster shipping but grew to be a one-stop subscription for various things?
I agree, Strang's Linear Algebra course is excellent. I worked through the entire course in March/April this year.

I just completed my final exam at CMU in their graduate intro to ML class (10-601). Having gone through the LA course was essential to my success. But equally important (if not more) to ML is a solid foundation in probability.
Of course. It's Google.
Theoretically, once you're high enough that you reach terminal velocity, any additional altitude does not increase your speed but does increase your time in the air, potentially giving you more time to navigate towards a more favorable landing site (evergreen grove, mountainside covered in deep snow, pile of 45 mattresses that happens to be outside, etc).
Hah, I think "Trust CA" deserves just as much of a "(lol)" as "Trust DMV" given the shit some CAs have done in recent years, how many vulnerabilities they've swept under the rug and how many of them are run by governmental agencies in less than scrupulous places.
We are in the east of Poland and most of the farming scenes are still quite common. A lot of the clothing has hardly changed too for some older folks. It can be a real shock compared to the city.
Determine whether security is important (protip: it is important). If so, then file bug reports to the originators of your missing mail.

It's far better to force them to upgrade than to allow them to force you to be insecure.
Microsoft also likes to add 365 and Live to their product names, and (to me) seems to be moving away from using One in new products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software
Fair enough, some risk exists, and how much probably depends on the position ... although in my country as far as I'm aware, there is no requirement to give notice (it's just a courtesy) and, of course, no such requirement exists on the part of employers.

In the linked article, it's mentioned that Elon felt a constant need to fire people that he sometimes had to be talked down from, so if the employer risk exists, it doesn't seem to be particularly high in most cases. If the risk for employers was significant, then at-will employment laws wouldn't even exist, because the entire purpose of such laws is to make it arbitrarily easy to fire employees.

The only way at-will employment could truly be symmetrical is if I could walk into work and literally fire any of my managers or the CEO with the same ease with which they could fire me.

But of course, actually applying the power dynamic of at-will employment both ways would just be insane wouldn't it?
I’m guessing they haven’t because lots of designers love the Figma web app and it beats even the fully native experience Sketch bet on.
No, they killed Google Plus ;-)
Kids Shouldn’t Have to Sacrifice Privacy for Education
really? for every breaking story, you're going to get a drone out to the location for a quick 10 sec fly by shot?

Then you'll overlay some street routing graphics over that in after effects?

All before the breaking new intro is queued up?

No concept of how videos are made huh?
Hi there - sorry for the delayed response. I'm still working on getting an answer here, but I didn't want to give the impression that I was ignoring the question. My suspicion is that we'll either work with the original authors or publish on the GCP blog, but I can't confirm any of those options at this time.
Bicycle Helmet Ratings
It can be both a buzzword and a concrete description of technology. It makes the jump into buzzword when people who don't really understand what the technology is start espousing it's benefits, and using the word to signal to each other that they're in the know.

If you've ever heard a middle manager at a big company talk about the tech stack their teams use then you should understand.
Nope.

The equivalent argument is that if one branch of a bank gets robbed they should be fined to near bankruptcy, which would almost certainly cause a drop in shareholder value.
Key man insurance policies explicitly exclude parachute jumps.

I know because one of the founders of the company I work for used to jump, and he had to give up his hobby for that reason.
I assume you are being sarcastic.
You'd think an advertising company would be better at, well, advertising. All of the listed benefits at the top of the page are either things everyone has already been using with the exception of full-quality photos, which was previously available as a paid option with the same pricing, and unspecified additional promotional features.

It seems like the main improvements are adding family plans to match Apple and having presumably not-chatbot support but that requires scrolling a long way down the page.
Unless somethings changed sense like the law not on google side.

The assignment length issue became a serious topic of conversation in the late 1980s when the IRS announced their intent to re-class Microsoft contractors as common law employees and ultimately make them eligible for the same stock option and retirement benefits offered to regular MS employees. The length of time Microsoft’s temporary and contract employees had been on assignment was part of that argument. The employees in question had all surpassed the ERISA “year of service” rule, which requires that once an” employee” works 1000 hours they are automatically eligible for ERISA governed benefits.
at least they didn't go from Google (v1) -> Google 360 -> Google One -> Google X
Homogeneous coordinates allow for affine transformations to be represented and performed with a matrix multiply. This includes perspective projection and translation.

One of the use cases for homogeneous coordinates is certainly to be able to achieve translation.
Author here. Definitely agree. The intent was to write the simplest possible to VM that could run real programs. VMs are obviously a deep field of research and there are plenty more projects to learn from.
I do too, but I'm probably going to do less research into it. I may spend a little more on a single item instead of buying two less expensive "diamonds in the rough" like I would for myself.

When buying for someone else, my biggest concern is to not look cheap. When buying for myself, my biggest concern is getting the best value. When using someone else's money, I'd be less cost conscious because I'm not feeling the hit.

I definitely care about what I give someone, but I care about different things than when buying for myself. You can see this in politics. Politicians have the best benefits in government, and when they pass a bill, they want to significantly affect the most people, even if the impact isn't as good as a better thought out system. Case in point: the ACA impacts most Americans, but prices for medical care overall have gone up. For those 87%, it sure seems like a good deal because they don't see the true cost (lots of deficit spending and worse care than a single payer system).
Is there an equivalent for skiing?
Don't forget that the filthy rich waged literal wars using hired thugs armed with guns against unions and their leaders around the turn of the century.

There's precious little mention of this in history lessons.
Apple Music Connect to Shut Down, Suffering Same Fate as iTunes Ping
I read in another article couple years ago thag a lot of people taking the CBP polygraph actually admit to very serious illegal/disqualifying behaviours during the polygraph.

Here's the article: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/23/16511732/border-patrol-p...

>Polygraph results are of questionable scientific value, but the interviews have an unexpected benefit apart from their dubious powers of detection: under pressure from interviewers, applicants frequently admit to wrongdoing. The Verge obtained a document under the Freedom of Information Act that lists cases where CBP polygraph interviews were “referred” for further investigation. When a polygraph interviewer determines an applicant has done something potentially disqualifying, the information is referred to an “adjudicator.” The adjudicator is vested with the power to stop the applicant from being offered a job. The list of referrals for further investigation, produced by CBP’s Credibility Assessment Division, includes 205 cases over the course of last year, and highlight stunning admissions of crimes flagged by the division.
Musk is a great marketer and communicator, he convinces people that making luxury cars is saving the world because they are electric. The people buying them also feel like they are heroes saving the world. Humans have a need to feel like they are a part of something bigger than themselves and Musk provides it.

Steve jobs did the same thing, their marketing was all about pushing how apple users think different and are changing the world by being mindless consumers
Thanks! I was not familiar with this technique. What do you think about the C++ table of function pointers towards the end? I imagine that would be slower with the additional level of indirection, but I haven't profiled or examined the assembly.
>Do people really use .NET core, and if so, why?

>.NET isn’t the best at that, at least not for us.

You're comparing apples and oranges, djanjo is a web framework, for creating websites, .Net core is a cross platform compiler and the standard library that goes with the C# programming language, which includes some stuff for creating websites (along with desktop, CLI, services etc). Django might work best for you but I want to create a bunch of micro services I'm not going to use it, am I? Not to mention Django works well as a general purpose solution for general purpose websites, If you're building anysort of heavyweight, enterprises level web architecture you're going to want a hell of a lot more control that what django provides for you.
Thank you for responding on my behalf, ksangeelee. That is indeed the source from Stallman that I was thinking of.

Ideally, we need to stay off these platforms. But I believe these are a good middle-ground to retain a presence when we have a need to be there. But we need to corral these useds so they end up getting away from the para-sites :)
Doesn’t hold up? What other company is there is making a bigger impact pushing us to electrify?

And the “Mars is a conspiracy” is just not true. Musk can be sincere in his motivations while still not being pleasant to work with.
Yes. In some cases it feels as government procurement agencies exist specifically NOT to procure things, there are so many checks and balances.
Moving Beyond Self-Doubt to Write a Handbook Grossing Over $50k
Apple Activates Mac App Store Analytics in App Store Connect
My experience has been the opposite. Skiing is easier at slow speeds and has a shorter learning curve, but takes a lot longer to get good. Snow boarding has a higher learning curve and is harder at slow speeds, but once it clicks you can do most anything on the mountain in a couple of days.

Skiing was intuitive and my body wanted to do enough of the right thing to get me down most of the beginner slope with little "learning". Snowboarding felt unnatural so i had to fight my bodies natural instincts. The trick with snowboarding is to go faster than feels comfortable at first because it is much easier when you have momentum.
Ask HN: This year’s best papers?
What were some of your favorite papers published this year?
I have tackled a similar problem with Hyper Plan ( https://www.hyperplan.com ) but it:

-uses coloured cards as the main metaphor

-has pivot table functionality built-in

-is desktop based (Windows and Mac)

I think the card approach is very intuitive and is a good fit for where:

-the problem is 'chunky' and there are not more than a few hundred 'chunks'

-there are less than 20 dimensions

For example assigning resources to tasks.
Probably! Yahoo had a lot of social networking features early on, before it was really even called that: games, chat, personals, message boards (for stocks/finance, etc.)

Yahoo was so great in the 90's! It was hard finding things on the early Internet. What they were doing with directories and search seems primitive now, but it really ground breaking. I still remember the first time I discovered it. Probably late '94 (before it was called Yahoo) or '95...
This essay is just wrong.

Just because a person ends up on an advertiser's site after clicking on an add targeted to [whatever] doesn't mean the advertiser has the data. It doesn't know the identity of the person that clicked on the ad.
In case anyone else got curious about parachuting injury statistics, Google found me this (also cited by the article):

"Parachuting injuries: a study of 110,000 sports jumps", 1987, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1478603/

All 6 deaths they observed, were either failures to activate the parachute (4 cases), or parachute malfunction (2 cases).
The Linux terminal is no one-trick pony
I am missing an important part in this discussion: The absolute lack of a stable API for GUIs.

Command line tools, web servers, ... are easy: Take POSIX and be a bit conservative with the edge cases. It will work with a recompile for most linux distros,BSDs, OSX and if you're willing to look at e.g. cygwin, even windows. I had to compile an ancient linux 1.x program last month, and it works.

The GUI world however is a different beast. There is X11 which only offers the most basic of primitives for drawing and pointing, nothing decent for text, and the API designers want to take away even that with wayland. There is GTK that actively does not want to provide any form of stability. There is QT which has a hard-to-interop C++ API and every major version breaks everything once more. And i haven't said anything of the licenses

This means no community investment can be made in Linux GUI's: Every year or so, you have to do serious upgrades or a GUI application simply perishes. Which is basically insane. It means that whatever Linux GUI exists today is temporary for everything but the biggest applications.

Ironically, win32 is the only reasonable option on Linux: wine will provide a good enough environment, and as they are anchored API-wise to microsoft, they can guarantee they'r there for the long term.

But how I dream for a posix-like API that both GTK and QT could provide.
Well, yea. SIPC only covers cash deposited with a broker for the purpose of purchasing securities. I suppose the "purpose" of depositing cash in these accounts is to purchase T-bills for the 3% but I'm not sure that's immediately apparent to their customers.

This isn't a checking account. This is a brokerage account with a cash sweep that comes with a visa card.
Lucky you. My experience ended with

> There has been an unrecoverable error connecting to IPFS. Please retry again later.
https://closure-compiler.appspot.com/ shaves off 9% w/ no errors
> way you have to lean with snowboarding felt unnatural so i had to fight my bodies natural instincts.

I had the same feeling with skiing.

1. Lean forward to stop and get control when ur instinct is to lean back to stop the glide.

2. lean on the opposite side of where you want to go, you want to lean in the same direction.

etc
> I always wondered why there wasn't a secure way to prevent rogue CAs from creating valid certs, but your explanation pretty much sums it up: this is about enforcing corporate policies and making someone's job easier, not so much security.

Pretty much the best attempt at this I've seen is the Certificate Transparency thing designed by Google and implemented in Let's Encrypt and a few other CAs. Having a public, auditable log of every certificate officially issued could can be used to validate certs, Chrome enforces this with new EV certs and Symantec certs.
Ah I am having flashbacks to BT (aka the Laundry), I know some one who spent a year wall clock time and 14-15 FTE years redeveloping an intranet site in oracle because it was cooperate standard :-)

Still they got to tick a lot of boxes for their promotion - wasted a lot of share holder £ though.
Why, because the facts don't conveniently align with your world view? Because you completely misunderstood my comment?

Here, take a moment to read: https://www.bizjournals.com/prnewswire/press_releases/2017/0...
Just a reminder. You are the product Google sells. This is a premium service to make you a more premium product that Google will sell to advertisers. We should all be looking at different (non advertising) models for the services they are offering. Hyper-targeted advertising and all the risks associated with it is not good for society.
Do You have a source for that number, that sounds way too high.
I work at Google, and there's a lot of them (both S and 3 and a few Xs) in the parking lot here, but that's because of Google salary. They're bloody expensive. The "$35,000" model is nowhere to be seen, and even when it comes, it'll be stupidly expensive still here in Canada.

Working class people buy used cars, below $15k at least.
License Changes for Confluent Platform
So he did things that were illegal but not wrong?
I don’t think it actually is easier, from my experience based on learning years ago on a school trip, where a lot of people skied and about a dozen of us boarded. It seemed that the beginner skiers were able to navigate more of the resort faster than us boarders over the first two or so days. But after about three days with a lesson in the morning and riding on our own all afternoon, the difference had pretty much disappeared, and the more adventurous of us of either type were doing intermediate difficulty runs pretty easily.

So apart from the first couple of days, I don’t think it really makes that much difference.

The biggest difference to me, I have to admit, is that once you get the hang of it, snowboarding feels cooler and more fun than skiing looks (to me), but I’m sure skiing is a lot of fun too (especially if you want to go very fast, which is a lot easier on skis)! But for the first day or two of boarding, you spend a lot of time on your butt and falling over!
Or anywhere else, right? Perhaps you could just use the term like most people, including those in power in Poland at the time, do.
This sentence is a lie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox
It depends. Browsers that care about user privacy and tracking are moving to first-party-isolated caching. So GA will be cached for a user on your site only if the user has visited _your_ site before.
>"The sense that government takes our money and gives it to someone else"

If something else was going on, then taxes would be voluntary...
Riding hardboots since the 90's. Lots of gear tweakers in that scene. People treating their clothing with certain kinds of stuff they treat sails with to not rip them to shreds when doing continuous laid down linked turns, boots modifications for extra flexibility, experimenting with all kinds of shapes and materials and hours and hours of talk about edge pressure.

I tried Driver X boots for example. Way to rigid compared to the forward flex of my hardboots!
I am probably very uninformed, but I was hoping we might see the kernel + userland running entirely from a secure enclave. As I understood, this would make cold boot attacks more difficult? I'm sure it's like using a sledgehammer to close a narrow attack surface, though. From a performance point of view it's probably not a great exchange.

At minimum I'd want full-disk encryption programs (veracrypt) and biometric authentication services running from an enclave. Lenovo does this for their fingerprint reader.

It would be cool to have the facilities to say "everything run by this user runs in the enclave", but I think the argument is the same as FDE - don't invite the possibility of a leak by selective encryption. All or nothing.
I have thought about this as well and I think the problem is that this is a tautology. To be a dominant figure requires that you dominate. There could never be such a thing as a Good King because monarchic structure requires oppression. The question that we have for ourselves is Do we need kings?
How is ad matching performed exactly? Is a users data profile basically matched against some set of ad network defined properties and then served to the end user?
https://compilerbook.com/ is a good read ..
> Generally in order for unions to exist at all they need a certain amount of protection from reprisals; union organising needs to be a protected activity.

Could you please explain why, in the age of e-mail and Facebook? People in my country have zero problem organising political events on Facebook, attracting several tens of thousands of visitors to their demonstrations.
>but was told that Snowboarding is easier than Skiing for absolute beginners.

I think the "easier" depends on the target skill level.

Skiiing is easier to achieve a beginner skill level. Absolute beginners can point their toes inward and ski "pizza wedges" down easy hills rated as "green" within a few hours. Indeed, many skiiers including adults never leave this stage. But upgrading the skills to intermediate level requires changing the technique to shift the body weight to the edges of the skis. This shift can take weeks.

Snowboarding learning curve is the opposite. It's harder to get going as a beginner because you must balance on alternating edges of the board to even make the simplest basic turns. But the payoff is that you can graduate to intermediate and advanced slopes (the blues and black rated trails) much faster.
> For example, it takes about a second to calculate the mean of a column in regular bins even when the dataset contains a billion rows (yes, 1 billion rows per second!).

A billion 32 bit floating point numbers are 4 Gigabytes. How can that be processed in one second unless there was any preprocessing?
I can't say i know a lot about Yahoo. ( Too young and European ). But i'm not sure they could have been Google or Facebook. I've always perceived Yahoo as arrogant without a vision. An analog IT company if you will.

Most support seems to be nostalgia. But if somehow Yahoo did buy Google or Facebook I doubt Yahoo would have been up to the task to make it as successful as they are now.
While true, that doesn't explain why the CBP polygraph fail rate is twice that of other police departments. (The CBP itself is a police department)

https://apnews.com/7e5bc0d98dd849a88043d8c40a74e56f
This is pretty awesome to see.
Ask HN: What have you done to make sure that your app never goes down?
Their deal (and subsequent lawsuit) with Mozilla doesn’t help:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/12/05/mozilla-files-cross...
Yes, I'm always open to new tools and ways of doing things.

I give it a try every time there's a major update, hoping that this time it'll be good. There's always something which makes me go 'not today'.

For example the recent voice prototyping features are an interesting gimmick, but I'd rather they solve some of the basic stuff first.
Jeez. I sure hope they will keep Yahoo Finanace running.
How is adsense able to complete this? I assume Google is the broker and thus completes on the match on their servers.
Just a warning, snowboarding is traditionally considered more difficult for beginners than skiing. This is mostly because your legs are in fixed positions, so you have fewer independent points of contact with the ground (so balance is worse).
I'd argue there's a big difference between my company paying for dinner and a friend or family member taking me out to dinner. In the latter case I'm definitely not going to run up a huge bill. Looking back to the quote, I suppose the definition of "someone else" can mean a lot.
The boy's backpacks in the photo with them by the fisherman at the lake: they look like $500 backpacks. It's funny how some things have changed in price perspective.