skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>culture being produced by professionals for money. //

There are a couple of other steps beyond the actors/producers usually, particularly for mass media -- there are the owners, or funders who ultimately choose what becomes mainstream; and there's the use of psychological manipulation (advertising, marketing) to direct them to "want" (or accept) what is offered.

There has to be accounting for vagaries and fashions of the time but with those constraints those deciding the parameters for which productions are funded wield immense power.
The nextmuni predictions are pretty good for buses that are already running on the route. The predictions break down as soon as it has to estimate when the next driver is going to actually start the route.
That's the best advice I can see, and it's how I've always done it. I'll never loan family anything, but I'm glad to gift things if I can afford it.
Apple doesn’t do that?

You enjoy using iMessages on your android phone and Linux laptop do you?

Yeah, yeah, it’s different. Except that it’s the same in the areas in which each competes. There’s plenty of examples of Apple freezing out others from a market.
But it is in german, and i believe that a native will not fully understand it if he did not work in the field in germany.

I'm french and studied in the UK. I'm sometimes lost when my colleague use french technical terms, i have to ask the concept behind it to be able to identify the english term which i learnt during my studies.
It's not for everyone, but it sounds like you know what you want, and you are in the position to do it. Go for it!
Aye, I spent some time in TEST and ended up working on a whole bunch of projects before canning the lot. There was a market system that was managed by Goons, IIRC, but they pulled it from TEST so I built a similar system which was actually pretty involved. Had it working for a couple of systems and with the success of it, GS and TEST leadership came to some sort of agreement, and my system was dropped in favour of the old one. Well, that was enough for me. Lot of wasted time, so I dropped that and stopped working on the other tools – membership management tools not unlike employee management tools, resource management not unlike typical ERP systems, the lot. This was 2012/13 IIRC.
Yeah, for sure. I'm in the fortunate position of having picked (and contributed to, of course) what I believe is a winner. Part of this strategy has to be a willingness to constantly reevaluate the leadership team, progress, and strategy of the organization, and get out fast if it's no longer looking good.

I can definitely picture that there'd be a high vulnerability to sunk-cost thinking.
Damn, thanks for that write up.
That will screw the life of big platforms under theirdomain.com

its time for users to go back to the roots of the internet and have your stuff under yourdomain.com

that way you will be liable for your stuff in yourdomain.com

back to the roots we go
At my 18th CES tech show, I felt unwelcome
So many people are saying "this is just further evidence of Google doing evil".

Unpopular opinion: I feel like this is further evidence of Google being good stewards of user data.

There are many reasons Google may want to protect this data: They don't want user backlash from revelations like this, they don't want to have to be legislated, they don't want the PR spend of having to recover from such reporting. Or it could be that it is a company built of people who find such protection to be important.
Audiobooks for dense non-fiction material is usually a bad idea.

I'd recommend audio for fiction, or non-fiction with an engaging storyline (ex: Bad Blood), which this is not.

Nonetheless, I'd still recommend the book.
Sorry, I'm a bit confused - are you trying to lay out the faulty reasoning, or are you saying that vaccines COULD cause autism?
Also adding libsodium directly into PHP core as of 7.2 was a big step in the right direction IMO.
Unlike EE, though, any user can propose an edit to that now-incorrect answer (or just edit it outright, if they have 2k rep).

A nice big "this answer is outdated, see [other answer]" note does wonders.
I just assumed they had a ton of websites so they probably have certificates expiring all the time.
There's a rabbinical art to being tactful that unfortunately eludes me. The effort is usually wasted on internet discussions.

In more controlled, personal settings my favorite response along that vein is "what factors did you consider that led to your conclusion?" It's a less offensive, more roundabout way of telling someone that their assertion is questionable that also betrays their thought process.
>We use a wide range of technologies to ensure heigh levels of security thought the whole site.

heigh? Spelling....

This does not tell me WHAT protocols you're using or have implemented to be secure. How are your services secure? Are you using encryption on the disk? SSL? etc??

>All data is stored in highly secure AWS data centers.

Huh? This is not secure because its aws. How many times have we heard about open servers from aws exposing data? Please don't state this as a fact.

>Where do you store our data?
>All data is stored on password protected databases on AWS (Amazon Web Services). And we have strict rules and protocols to keep it safe. Your data is always safe with us.

Only password protected? What about encrypted and YOU dont have the keys..?

>Why do you use Stripe?
Are you paying the processing fee, or does the user?
https://stripe.com/us/pricing
Netflix Sued by Choose Your Own Adventure for Bandersnatch
Oh, Apple does when it is required to make money, like in China. They handed over all iCloud data to the government.

Companies are companies, they don't "care" about privacy, or anything at all. Google, Apple, Facebook, they're all in this for the money. And that is fine.

The sooner we realize that, the better.
As far as the advertising is concerned Google is no different(and so FB etc). Anyone with few bucks will know your location or better said will target you with ads. With Google they won't target only by location because as you said Google makes the OS so it knows pretty much everything about you.
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Please do - what kind of services are we talking about and how much data is involved? Bear in mind I have no experience with the game itself.
Which one of the top 50 are scams? I can't think of one. I think it would be more accurate to say that there is a lot of unsubstantiated marketing hype about cryptocurrencies that produces inflated valuations.
Really outliers have more need to communicate from an information theory standpoint alone. There is no need to preface every post with "I am posting from earth." If it is the norm there is less to say and it is less interesting. Upvotes can have a similar "collapsing" function - just upvoting instead of posting the exact same thing.
The net contribution is consumer surplus.
$100M - that is the level at which an IPO becomes feasible. This implies that whatever idea you are pursuing needs to have a potential scale far beyond $100M if things go right, because you can’t IPO at $100M if investors don’t believe that $200M is around the corner.
The ability to organize into large groups is one of the greatest social innovations in history, and is a fundamental aspect of civil society.

I worked at a company that had an 'individual' service, and a 'business' service.In Spain, Italy and Greece and S. America - our customers were 'individuals'. In Germany, France and UK, they were 'business' accounts. Those economies with more 'business' accounts have somewhat more advanced industrial basis than those with 'individual' accounts.

There are many things that can only be developed at scale, and certain kinds of specialization that only become available at scale.

Only a company with X people can start to invest in Y kinds of things, which is a huge part of their competitive advantage.

Yes, big cos are seemingly more inefficient at the individual level, but their scale actually might imply greater efficiency.

Put another way - someone at only 50% individual efficiency at a big corp, may be 'creating more value' than otherwise.
I have no idea. Perhaps they want to avoid discussions form derailing? Reddit routinely has long sub-threads, but they're hidden behind a link by default.
I'd agree with this. As an engineer you'll find yourself spending more time building tools than playing the game, sat in a station most of the time, and easily spend longer on that then on your actual job. To play is to lose.
> What's to stop intelligent people from getting funded, paying themselves large salaries, and then not really caring if it fails or not because you're a couple hundred thousand dollars richer?

The same thing that many VC-backed companies like to ignore (Airbnb, Uber as the most egregious): laws and courts. This kind of behavior can be classified as fraud, intentional bankruptcy or securities law violations.
"Boggles the mind to think that Mother Nature is the foundation for such significant technology."

As best I can tell Mother Nature is the foundation of ALL technology...
I've always felt that it takes a unique form of psychopath to enjoy playing Eve, and the constant drumbeat of stories like this one just confirm it.

But I'm glad Eve exists. As long as the griefers are playing Eve and griefing each other, they aren't playing (or at least aren't focusing on) all the other games.
It also eliminates a whole lot of uncertainty in the timing.

If you're running in an automotive environment, you're probably real time; that is, you have to finish your processing before, for example, the next cylinder comes into firing position. You have to hit that, for every cylinder of every rotation of the engine, for any rotation rate that the engine is capable of reaching. You can't be late even once.

Now in the processing you have a malloc call. How long will the call take? Depends on the state of the heap. And what is that state? Depends on the exact sequence of other calls to the heap since boot time. That's really hard to analyze.

Yes, you can get a memory allocator that has a bounded-worst-case response time, but you also need one that absolutely guaranteed always returns you a valid block. And the same on calls to free: there must be a guaranteed hard upper bound on how long it takes, and it must always leave the heap in a state where future allocations are guaranteed to work and guaranteed to have bounded time.

And, after all of that, you still have a bunch of embedded engineers scratching their heads, and asking "explain to me again how allocating memory at all is making my life easier?"

So embedded systems that care about meeting their timings often allocate the buffers they need at startup, and never after startup. Instead, the just re-use their buffers.
A Worldwide Hacking Spree Uses DNS Trickery to Nab Data
I've been way too close to 300 pounds for all of my adult life. This article really hits home hard. I can completely empathize with every statement the author made. I have realized his same struggles with weight loss and how hard it is to keep the weight off. I've had some success with Keto, but I seem to love eating carbs way too much to stick to it for longer than 3 months. I've told myself I'm trying a similar approach to the author: trying to do just enough to reduce slowly, but honestly to me it feels like a cop out. A way I can say that if I mess up then it's OK because most days I'm doing right. Hopefully some day I can finally snap myself into a life-changing mindset.
> In other words, we had to ask and get a small statement because being open, upfront, honest, etc is not their approach.

You don't seem to understand how the press works. When you write an article about a company (or a public figure), you reach out to them for comment.
Your link indicates that in 2016 (most recent year with full data, although seems fairly constant since 2000) the tax revenue of Denmark (45.51% of GDP), Sweden (42.57%), Finland (42.68%) and Norway (41.46%) were almost double that of the US (24.07%).

(Although I don't like including Norway in such comparisons, as it's tiny population and huge oil wealth makes it a big outlier.)
GDPR has a very worthy purpose though: companies were taking far too many liberties with people's personal data. I don't see analogous problems with copyrighted material (there is some infringement, but it doesn't really seem problematic to society).
I'd say this shows how much of an effect 'outliers' can have. I'm not generally a proponent of the 'great man/woman' perspective on history, but I do think that the 'right' outlier at the 'right' time can have a huge effect simply because a large number of people can be affected significantly if they're compatible with this outlier, whether this outlier is out to run a cult/new religion, conquer the world, maintain some paradigm in whatever field they're kings of, and so on.

I think this is less because most of us are 'sheeple' and more to do with how we have some (huge) low-level bugs that can be exploited in particular configurations. We care, but our heuristics can steer us wrong. Marketing/PR/propaganda as a way to exploit these things, and the scientific study of these things really kind of scare the crap out of me when it comes to my hope for the future of humanity.
Anecdotally, I worked as a software engineer at a very small (10-15 person) startup that just got acquired by FANG, and I, as well as almost everyone else there, generally worked 40 hour weeks. My relationships were fine, I went to the gym most days, and I worked on a masters in AI on the side, and I also learned a lot more than I would have at large companies since I got to own way more complex and interesting projects than I would have if I had just taken a job at FANG.

I feel like a lot of it comes down to how strong your management team and market position are. Our CEO had a pretty crazy track record, and drove the company into a really interesting, strong position, and then wanted himself to have a good, sustainable family life, and would constantly reiterate that he wanted everyone else to do the same.

I have other friends who have had roughly the same experiences, again, anecdotally.
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I would also like to point out that corporations are made of people, many people, with diverse opinions, beliefs and motivations, and that corporate actions frequently arise from multiple decision-makers within a company.

So we could come up with a hundred explanations for why Google took this action in this thread, some cynical, some conspiratorial, some altruistic and idealistic. And frankly, half of them would probably be sort-of correct, in that one or more of the decision-makers and their advisers might have considered that point or used it as a basis of their decision.

Occasionally you can state cleanly, "Company X did Y because Z", but it's usually more complicated than that. And when it is a case of "Company X did Y because A, B and C and despite I, J, K", you rarely have the information to reason out all of the variables that went into a decision, unless the matter is of such historical importance that you get the 27 books written after the fact based on years of investigation and interviews.
> You need a good grasp of who owns what in a program so you can free and close things when they aren't needed (and not before). Less so in C++ these days of course, but definitely in C

You absolutely need to know in C++ too. Modern C++ just gives you tools to express ownership in code. Rust goes way further and gives you compile time correctness of your lifetime handling
Exactly. It's the emergent events that makes it. This book by Tynan (RimWorld) is a great read, you /really/ delve into the psychology of games. Even if you're not a game designer, I recommend reading it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Designing-Games-Guide-Engineering-E...
Peter is a man child looking for controversy.
No, the risk is created by abusing customer data. If the cost was less than revenue then it’d be a toothless law.
Knowing the city that someone clicked your ad in because you targeted the ad in that city isn't 'leaking' location data.

These advertiser websites know your city already by the act of you visiting their website.
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That's just not true. There's a reason the bounty hunters don't use Google Ads to locate individuals but they do use AT&T.
Unfortunately, the data underlying both use cases is the same.

In order to target adds "at people in a narrow geographical area" I need to know when those people are in that "narrow geographical area". I.e., I need to know their location to an accuracy good enough to say they are in that "narrow geographical area" (or in this case, their phones location, which is a good proxy for their location).

Once I can know "the phones location" to a level of accuracy to make "narrow geographical area" targeted ads profitable, all I have to do is average several overnight readings of 'location' together to get a very good estimate of "where someone lives".
No, you're absolutely incorrect that most cancer is down to lifestyle. As someone with cancer, I don't smoke, I never really drank, there's no history in my family for my type of cancer, and I haven't eaten meat in years. I've exercised more than the average person. Most cancer is due to dumb luck. The only cancers we know of that are attributable to lifestyle are basically lung cancers. Breast, Colon, Pancreatic, Stomach, Leukemia, etc. are all just dumb luck or family history. You obviously didn't read the article. We're only better at things we know how to screen for. Survival rates in Asia for Stomach cancer are significantly better than the US because they have regular screenings for it. The typical cases are salty diets, but Americans still get this even though we've changed our diets.

There's no "cure" for cancer as of yet, you can't even guarantee prevention. It's a combination of genetic damage and an immune system that gets prevented from stopping the proliferation of cancer cells because the cells mask themselves as healthy cells. In effect cancer is an immune disease, but that's not fully accurate. Saying it's down to lifestyle is like telling people who got the plague they should have just moved. We have barely more understanding about cancer causes than doctors at the time did about disease.
I have a 12 year reddit account and finally hit 700 post karma this week.
Raising money does indicate failure. Was Google failing when they raised $25M in 1998? No. They raised because in order to build out their product, they needed capital up front. Several years later, the bet paid off massively.

Companies should always be raising capital to match their expected growth trajectory. If you expect to grow by 10% a year - a lifestyle outcome - then get a bank loan because you are probably profitable. If you can grow by 100% a year then go get VC because that kind of growth would be adequate to reward the VC for the risk that naturally comes along with that rate of growth. Somewhere in the middle? Maybe revenue financing is appropriate.

But you should always be financing your growth.
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Using the same criteria all what we read, period, it is written by insane people.

Plato -> Insane
Proust -> Insane
Joyce, Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, the Torah writers... and so on and so forth.
Nope, not confused about keyword concept.

Normally keywords are reserved words that can't be used as identifiers because they'd make the grammar ambiguous. C typedef names aren't like this; by definition, you use them as an identifier, it's how they come into being.

Fortran is an oddball example, though: whitespace is optional (Fortan77), and keywords can be used as identifiers, making parsing difficult. There are reasons more modern languages make different choices in design.
If you think you only need that first round of funding ($1m-$3m seed round) and would never need to raise again, then $25m+/year would be reasonable. A company like that could exit for $150m-$250m in 10 years, and if the seed investor is getting 20x or 30x on their investment, they'll be happy.

However, 1) a lot of seed stage companies predict that "this is the last round of funding we'll ever need" and that's rarely the case, and 2) because of #1 it's hard to convince investors that you'll never need to raise more money.

For most VC-backed companies -- the ones that raise multiple rounds before an exit -- $100m+/year in revenue is a good 10-year goal. That's about the level required to go public or exit for $1b+.

Investors won't be unhappy if you shoot for $100m in annual revenue but "only" hit $40m or $6m. The nature of startups is that most don't end up going public. But it's hard to see any path where you could end up with $100m+/year in revenue within a decade, then most VCs will pass.
Please show me where I can buy thefounder's location data from Google. Which service is that, and how much do I need to pay? I can't find it at https://www.google.com/about/products/

> better said will target you with ads.

The difference between selling location data, and selling ad targeting, is the difference between actively stalking someone, and sending unsolicited spam to "Current resident" at "Every address in a city block".

What harm can I inflict to you, via targeted ads? Some. You can think of some creative ways to do so, but it's not a very effective way to inflict harm.

What harm can I inflict to you, via buying your location data? A hell of a lot.

If you don't trust Google to be a good steward of your data, that's one thing. But let's not conflate selling your data, with selling the ability to mass-advertise to a demographic that includes you.
sounds like master-slave/sub-dom relationship.

it could be related to sex trafficking,
or more likely just had some fetishes with willing participants.
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Not all coral species need light. There are "coral forests" adapted to cold waters. Lophelia builds "deep-water briars" there. They are super-mega-slow growing.

And of course there are comercial species of very expensive yummy crustaceans living there. A couple of trawls and all is lost for the next thousands of years.
Note that the technical problems made it more complicated and messy to reproduce the build, but didn't outright prevent it. Mainly the executable binaries were reproducible, but other metadata in the disk image changed each time. https://github.com/zcash/mpc/issues/2
These observations that <1% of the users of sharing sites contribute content begins to muddy the claim that these sites are aggregating user-generated content and have no editorial responsibility.

When Jason Knapp produces some very high percent of content on Wikipedia, at some point he's simply an unpaid contractor, and we've seen how that distinction has gotten other companies in trouble in the past.
"We keep him on our family insurance and we can until he is 26."

You really buried the lede. Will you also pay the health insurance for all the other hypothetical Atlanteans that you're claiming can get by on 30k?
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One day our sun will solidify into a giant crystal orb