skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How can it be that having intimate knowledge of someone would not allow you to sell them more stuff?

It allows you to sell more ads to the marketing people since it sounds very compelling. So there is your model.

The fact that I am still shown ads for items of the complete opposite (football) team that I am clearly (online visible, on FB, in my gmails, from my google search history, from my chrome browsing habits) fan of; show the targeting is still... moderate to say the least.
You seem to misunderstand how marketing works. Creating customers is how companies grow and requires advertising, so creating those channels is filling a business need. Throwing money at people doesn't change that need.

>> Literally anything not actively harmful.

"Literally" must be the most overused word in English today, but a vague description like that is completely unproductive to any discussion and doesn't even begin to get over the subjective interpretation of "harmful".
Components confused as boundaries: Win Server Containers and Admin - Kernel
...and the 'ring' ceremony was written by Rudyard Kipling! If I remember right.
Norway Celebrates 200,000 Pure Electric Cars
if it made you happier, it was a good choice. if it makes you sadder, it was a good lesson, and that should make you happy :D
Online Betting on Horse Racing Still Legal
> the EU is increasingly right-wing and neo-liberal

Yes, but Tory Britain is even more so.
Why does Steve like the BMW 3 series?

I contend it is due to untargeted ads.
> how do those first 5 websites learn that I bought a lamp?

Even Amazon's ad servering systems don't seem to be told that I bought the lamp from them never mind some other store.

Maybe they are hoping I liked it so much I'd decide that I need another lamp, so they want to remind me where I got the first one from?

> is the most visible form is mostly what drove me to use an ad blocker

My reason for blocking ads was because of the increasing incidence of malware riddled ad hosts often being used by high(ish) profile sites.

imgur.com was the final bail of hay that made me install network-wide protection at home. I also rehost any image I decide to share from there, to protect people outside my LAN. I don't want the tech support workload of cleaning other people's machines after what I'd too often seen their (obviously not sufficiently verified) ad partners try to pull.

My privacy is fairly shot already, but at least I can try to protect myself and others from other malware.
ESPN’s Ex-President Wants to Build the Netflix of Sports
I read somewhere (can’t remember the book name unfortunately) that Tesco in the UK faced this problem when they started sending out personalised coupon booklets based on loyalty card purchases. People were freaking out. Then they started adding coupons to the booklet designed to be irrelevant - say if they figured out that someone was newly pregnant, they’d send a few pages of baby stuff, but also inject lawn mower coupons and stuff only men would care about. That achieved the whole targetted effect and avoided looking creepy for just a few pennies more.
No, Evolution Did Not Make Us into Selfish Capitalists
Destin from the 'Smarter Every day' YouTube channel did something similar (in a PSA-sort of style), and it's partly funny, partly scary to watch: https://youtu.be/kUfF2MTnqAw
Absolutely. My characterization of Mongo is that it's the back end choice of front end developers. The only possible justification for it could be time to MVP (and that's being kind). It's bad for all of the reasons that back-end people make back-end choices - non-functional requirements like operability, clustering, etc.

Hopefully this is the start of it being removed from any infrastructure uses. I spun up an openstack instance the other day and was horrified to find Mongo in there.
What do you need a reputation and a personal brand for if you have two billion dollars?
Thanks. Following that, section 3 goes on to say "copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form". So it doesn't seem to preclude re-distribution of binaries, as long as you follow the terms.
I'm interested in learning how to do this.
Parimutuel wagering (French for "mutual betting") as takes place in horse racing is the fairest form of gambling ever invented because the house takes a cut of all wagers. Players play against each other. The track doesn't care who wins.

It was invented by a Frenchman who got tired of seeing people get cheated by bookies. :-)
I’m surprised this article mentions nothing about energy. Practically all desalination in existence is powered by fossil fuels, with Israel and Saudi Arabia being the worst offenders. The only reason it’s even economically viable is the externalized cost of carbon emission. It’s simply not a long term tenable solution until this is addressed.
Yeah this would be great. I started working on adding support for <hook>.d/* in addition to <hook> a couple of years ago, that got to a proof-of-concept stage, but some of the long tail is hard to handle so I dropped it, but it could be finished.

There was also a disagreement about what the semantics should be, e.g pre-receive.d/* hooks failing on the first one that failed in glob() order or not, which has implications for whether they can run in parallel.

The bit that stuck from those patches was being able to configure the the core.hooksPath variable to a hook path, which sometimes can with some stretching fulfill some of the use-cases, but most users end up with a meta-hook runner of some sort.
It might help to elaborate a little - are you asking about how your device would be connected to the computer (USB, Ethernet etc.) or how each end of those protocols is implemented, or something else? And what do you mean by "high bandwidth"? I'm not really qualified to answer you anyway, but I know you can implement things like USB and Ethernet in an FPGA, or you can use separate ICs that handle these things by exposing a serial or parallel interface to your FPGA (UART, SPI etc.).
I wonder how many people are turned off by targeted ads because they find them creepy.
You seem to misunderstand what this thread is about. This thread is not about "marketing". It is about personalised targeted ads.
I have not used any frameworks or game engines, just Direct3D 11 and a few libraries like DXTK and GTEngine. Here’s a complete list: https://github.com/Const-me/vis_avs_dx/blob/master/legal.txt

Because it’s Direct3D, the compatibility is good, runs fine inside VMWare, I’ve also tested on a couple of Windows laptops I have here. Not achievable with OpenGL: https://github.com/Const-me/GL3Windows#building-and-running

See also “Interesting Pieces” section of the readme on the front page of the repository. The project contains quite a lot of interesting stuff: compiler of a custom language, GPU profiler, etc.
Only if those SSIDs were configured as a "hidden SSID" (WifiConfiguration.hiddenSSID). AFAIK, that will only happen when you type the SSID manually, instead of selecting it from the list of scan results. And using a "hidden SSID" is a bad idea in the first place (https://superuser.com/questions/43836/automatically-connecti...).
Top Seven apps built with Python
Airbnb is nobody's friend except the CEO and stockholders. Have a problem, tough. File a lawsuit, now we're communicating. This is how Capitalism works.
Did you use any library for the visualization?. Is it open source?
Because the power source isn't the problem. It's the mechanicals in the speaker.
Apple already did a similar effect for apple pay cash https://twitter.com/panzer/status/927973389792264192?lang=en
Leaving church one day, guy in a nearby parking lot having trouble starting their motorcycle. Had a balloon tied to the seat, there'd been some goofy balloon ceremony after service so I said Hi! want a lift?

In the car we talked, I said I worked remote in CA but would like to try a local job. He said they'd been looking for a Project Lead at their startup, I'd be a shoo-in. I went over, they talked a bit and made an offer.
Thank you Sam.
> It is the upstream vendor that issues fixes.

So if you have a bug in a RedHat package, and you're paying $100k a year RedHat support contract, all they really do is open a GH issue with the upstream to ask them to fix it? And then you just wait hoping they fix it so RedHat can cherry pick it?
void 0 !== b &&
//node testability hack
(b.tcg = c);

>I'll be blunt, I can't work out what this does, but I don't believe it's significant in the browser. If a node person wants to add input here, please do.

I don't know if OP is reading this thread, but this is a minified and then beautified version of `if (b !== undefined) b.tcg = c`.
AGPL doesn't target specific users of the software, it affects all users regardless of how they use it.
Here you are disproved:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php?g=21

You're welcome.
It doesn't appear to be what this person is saying. Rather, that we can't deflect from flaws in ideology having to do with the system in place, and the issues that stem from that.

Having said that, I find it to be rather unproductive and pessimistic to assert corruption is endemic to humanity and has nothing to do with ideology. Instead I would argue that the nature of the corruption has everything to do with the ideological foundations of said system.
I don't think microplastic particles in the human digestive system are that big of a problem; most of it is fairly inert and will just pass through, the other stuff is in low enough quantities that our stomach should be able to deal with it.
The idea that the UK might somehow abolish VAT on leaving the EU sounds like wishful thinking to me. Where's the money for that hole in the budget going to come from?

The CFP is a mess, but without something to replace it I suspect fish stocks would simply have been extracted below replacement level.
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What’s wrong with that?

Somebody has to be the landlord. Maybe he could make more by renting properties to other tenants?
> The purpose of unit tests is to lock down the project's source code

I disagree slightly. If you're writing unit tests such that the code itself can't change without breaking the tests, perhaps the tests have been too tightly coupled.

The end goal of unit tests is to secure the expected functionality of the unit of code such that the tests will fail if the functionality stops working. But if changes to the code (refactoring, changing the ordering of certain lines, etc) causes the tests to break, then what was tested wasn't the functionality but the implementation. You might as well write a test that loads each source file as a string and verifies it equals what you've written.

An example: my favorite set of tests I've written lately were for some classes to handle deduplication of a large set of records. One implementation wrote to disk (for data sets too large to fit into memory) while the other did it purely in memory. Since their functionality was supposed to be identical, I wrote one set of tests that both ran on. The tests could not be specific to the code written because it had to work on two sets of code. If we wrote a third implementation, the same tests should work for it as well.

(But what you said about integration tests: 100% agree)
From a hardware perspective, I spent wayyyy too much time re-wiring breadboard circuits with perfectly measured and cut lengths of wire to make them look "beautiful," turning something like this[0] into this[1].

That was a waste of time. Both have the same result, but the ratsnest is always faster. The goal isn't beauty, it's meeting the requirements. The pretty one might be a little easier to debug and transcribe into a schematic for PCB layout and for someone else to understand, but IMO breadboarding isn't the right time for that.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Br...

[1] https://imgur.com/zlyHs
you could go Fenchurch st to chafford hundred and walk over the pedestrian bridge for I believe £5.90 return.

maybe not ideal for your circumstances but food for thought
iOS does something like this with the Apply Pay Cash card in Wallet: https://twitter.com/supcat/status/1083537384233328640
That would be a good day for everyone, but I don’t see that happening any time soon.

TypeScriot has a lot of features and the time to move those through standardization and then runtime (and browser) implementation is nontrivial.

If TS runs stalls and doesn’t innovate it _could_ happen, but like I say, subsiding all of those features into the base language would be a win for everyone.
Didn't the CEO of Sears own a hedgefund that became landlord of all Sears retail space ? My point is it is just not Silicon Valley.
Did you have to stay in a designated transit area of the airport, or were you able to roam about more freely?

(It was too much trouble to try to find the old pre-2003 regulations.)
I would imagine the technical problems and network stress of running a porn site would be big.
That is a different argument for a different set of circumstances pertaining to modification. To contrast, you could be a Canonical customer, and distribute the ubuntu DVDs and mirror their repos to your heart's content. You can't if you are a RH customer.
Custom Drawing Over Custom Theme in AnyChart Qlik Sense Charts Extension
> But ad algos don't care about conversion, they care about charging the ad buyer more.

Bingo. The users clicking the ads aren't the ones funding the advertising networks - it's the people buying the ads. If you can convince them that targeted ads are more effective (and it would certainly be a safe assumption based on most peoples' understanding) then you can charge them more.

I'm not sure why you're being so heavily downvoted for this, but the presence of so many people "in the industry" in this thread might be some indication.
The author explicitly refrains from jumping to conclusions until acquiring more conclusive proof by matching the username from the config file to the license file, and correlating that to the SSID location.

> This could be a wrong lead as usernames tend to be used by multiple people but let's just keep that name in mind.
Thank you for posting, I am not currently looking for a developer and as I mentioned I do know of potential customers which are not consumers. My questions were specifically about protecting my idea during the demo session and the program I should use to create an animation.
This made me think about code. I've long thought of incremental refactoring as "following the gradient" of good design principles, but this essay opened up new connections for me.

For example, I've heard elsewhere that great programmers possess the skill of being able to decompose large changes into smaller commits, making the code no worse as they go. Having the ability to see the small changes that get you where you want to go corresponds to finding the direction of change that gets you past the saddle point.

Random restart is a standard tool in the kit of stochastic gradient descent. But if local minima are rare, it may be overused. You don't have to rewrite your code if you can see the refactors and gradual improvements that get you where you need to go.
On Breaking Sales Records Using the Anchoring Bias
flexbasic from nationwide issues a contactless card from the get go if you don't get offered a "normal" current account. also supports apple/google/samsung pay.

https://www.nationwide.co.uk/products/current-accounts/flexb...
PD's API is superior as well.
Yea I get it. Advertising is a subset of marketing, and efficiently connecting people with a message inherently involves targeting. There's a reason 2 of the biggest companies on the planet are ad networks.
The needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people can't be whitewashed by claiming that they were expedient so an unknown quantity of people could be offered pain relief. The addictive nature of oxycontin which pharmaceutical firms were aware of and their relentless efforts market the drug through sales channels can't be overlooked.
Evil-Twin Framework: A tool for testing WiFi security
WaPo, Economist. That's it.
Academic turns city into a social experiment (2004)
No one is appreciating the effort and a different take here. Let me congratulate the author on job well done.

There are people who love illustrated explanation and for those these are perfect. This is just meant as a template which others can use to build the illustrated material and in no way a comprehensive git tutorial.
Biotech Company's Pig Vaccine Leads to New Alzheimer's Approach
You are so wrong. Your phone is constantly broadcasting ALL the SSIDs it was ever connected to (and you did not remove).

I show this live when I do general security presentations. Live on stage with nothing more then a Raspi and a Wifi USB dongle.

It freaks people out to see there home, holiday, local bar, family in law and other historic SSIDs scroll by.
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My best argument for UBI is, “I’d love to be able to work on F/OSS full time.”

Kudos for making it a reality. It may be scratching a personal itch, but the positive externalities to society are real.
A buddy of mine owns a commercial carpet cleaning business in the NYC metro. His company operates at around 20% profit after salaries, benefits, equipment repair/replace (replaced all generators this year), chemicals, garage rent for his 3 trucks, etc.

I'm not saying you can't get away with less equipment, staff, etc, but you aren't able to scale the work up.
The NSA is more interested in HVTs at a nation state level, not people selling porn passwords, drugs and cvv2 dumps.

For people attempting to pass communication privately for any purposes an intelligence agency would be interested in, they're almost certainly using things like random in-game chats (this has even been in the news for non-interest stuff like drug trade).

The handful of paranoid people using Tor to check Facebook or google search 'how to poison my lover' aren't the people the NSA is interested in.

The people in oppressive governments using Tor (where it's not blocked) to share images of crime/abuse and political statements are more of interest to agencies like the CIA.

>The NSA is one of the reasons for America's preeminent place in the world.

Hardly. America's preeminent place in the world is a result of access to natural resources, some of the best farmland in the world and a technologically advanced military with a million plus well-equipped active duty personnel and the fact that we don't share borders with a major threat (Canada is not a threat and we co-staff several military installations with Canadian personnel, in fact NORAD is a direct result of mutual-staffing from an agreement made in 1957 and is co-commanded by a USAF and RCAF generals).

Oh, and the whole part where we were the first nuclear power and the only country crazy enough to have used not one, but two, nuclear weapons in aggression.
I worked in various restaurants for about 7 years before becoming a Software Engineer.

I knew the floor cleaner of one of the larger chains I worked for. He was making $100k+ cleaning 5 or 6 restaurants and this was during the height of the recession. He put maybe 60k miles or more a year and had to get a new car often. The work required him to work 7 days a week overnight. It was extremely hard for him to hire reliable people. His marriage failed in his late 40s due to the hours and never having a vacation.

He did not like the work and it was very backbreaking. The overnight hours ruined his marriage and friendships. Once he had enough money he was going to retire to Costa Rica. One thing he did like was getting new trucks after about 80-100k mikes.
>> A model is now running in production but not producing the same results (or at
the same level of accuracy) as what was demonstrated during experimentation…
no one knows why

The simplest explanation is that the training sample (meaning the entire
dataset; not just the training partition in cross-validation) was not drawn
from the same distribution as the distribution of the data that is being
processed in production.

Machine learning is guaranteed some performance bounds under PAC learning,
assuming that the training dataset and unseen data, on which the training
model will be used, come from the same distribution. Absent this,
performance cannot be predicted. You might as well classify stuff by throwing
a bunch of dice.

Unfortunately, this assumption, that we're representing the real-world
distribution in our training dataset, cannot be justified as long as we don't
know the ground truth in the real world. Which is most of the time.

Essentially, there's no way to know for sure that a model that has performed
very well in experiments will continue to do so once it's deployed in
production.
I bought a Casper mattress around a year ago and the websites I visit are still full of ads for mattresses. How many mattresses do they think I need, anyway!?
Was at a gaming convention in Milwaukee, in the hotel room, phone rings and Mark an old client of mine was calling. "Hey we got bought, won't be doing any more contract engineering, can you take over support of one of our customers?" Thinking fast I said "Yes!"

Turns out it was Mark's biggest customer, they'd been designing their products for 25 years, and its become a multi-year contract for us for a year now and several years to come.

Glad Mark still had my phone number!
Glob() is (iirc) not sorted in any way on macos. I would prefer alphanumerical sort by name as it is stable across OSs.

Parallelization is optimization so I think «make it right, then make it fast» is sound advice.
I guess part of the check-in procedure is now to scan the local network and set up IR blinders in private spaces. Sheesh.
We're specifically talking about GPL.
targeted advertisement is not by itself inferior or superior to untargeted advertisement. Method can only be effective when used correctly.
That's a somewhat different situation: they take different levels of purity test on licensing (not to mention falling under different legal considerations depending on where the developers reside) but adding or removing Mongo has little ripple effect for anyone who doesn't use it. If they don't ship it, the people who were using it will switch to Mongo's main YUM repo and nobody else will notice.

In contrast, changing the init system affects every package which runs a daemon and systemd does more than most of the alternatives so supporting multiple init systems is a substantial amount of extra work which is unlikely to attract corresponding volunteer assistance or result in any user-visible benefits.
Shameless plug: "GIT isn't perfect, and other blasphemies."

https://blog.hackensplat.com/2018/12/git-isnt-perfect-and-ot...

(Addresses some of the points raised in this article.)
I am a master diesel engine mechanic by trade, and $100/hr is the lowest shop rate ive seen for a journeyman mechanic. I havent earned less than $150/hr since getting my ASE certs.

That having been said, it (like floor cleaning) is not easy work. Personal protection and safety is critical. Slips, trips, and falls are the #1 killer in these jobs

The video talks about de-greasers and gloves but shows the guy wandering around in a pool of degreaser with tennis shoes, no gloves and short sleeves, so im guessing he hasnt had a major accident yet. Degreaser is a base, so it is very slick. It reacts with fats to form soaps, so it only gets slicker. Do not wear keys on slick surfaces, or youll be picking them out of your leg after a fall.

The idea that any of these blue-collar jobs "print money" is laughable. We get overtime, sure, but we can also get canned quickly if we dont agree to take it on. Expect to work nothing but third shift as a floor cleaner. expect guys like me to yell at you when you move a rack or a tool chest and dont put it back exactly where it was before.

To anyone whos thinking of doing this, Scrub your driveway every day for a week and see if its still appealing.
I believe the passage was to imply that tribalism isn't simple.