skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This book probably doesn't mention that he's given away over 71% to charity since Y2K. Or that it's really cold and windy and snowy in Omaha; which makes for lots of reading time.

"Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage" (2008) [1], "Buffetology" (1999) [2], and "The Intelligent Investor" (1949, 2009) [3] are more investment-strategy-focused texts.

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Warren-Buffett-Interpretation-Finan...

[2] https://smile.amazon.com/Buffettology-Previously-Unexplained...

[3] https://smile.amazon.com/Intelligent-Investor-Definitive-Inv...

Value Investing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_investing
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/valueinvesting.asp
I’ve seen enough posts like this that end with the developers being reinstated to doubt google here. They need to provide actual humans as resources to developers and companies. They take a huge cut, they should provide the service.

But really we should move away from these app stores.
The problem is that: a, there are over a thousand random bits to fill, and you'll need a significantly more sophisticated mechanism to fill them; b, if you need more than a dozen significant digits, 64-bits floats probably aren't what you want anyway; and c, clever tricks aren't the place for rigorous correctness when "correct to within rounding errors" will do just as well.

If you really want you could tack on:

ret += (entropy >> 63) * 0x1.0p-53; // 1.110223024625156540e-16;
OR
ret += (entropy >> 52) * 0x1.0p-64; // 5.421010862427522170e-20;

right before the return to pack in some extra bits.
A Toothless FAANG
If the page is not cached, where is the browser going to get it except by redownloading?
There are varios ways a ToS may be not applicable depending on the jurisdiction. In this case considering the monopoly position of Google here I doubt they can terminate an account that is equivalent to market access for any reason in the EU
You are asking people, possibly non-technical people, to do thorough background check on each prospective associates and past associates of prospective associates. The not feasible nor reasonable.
I don't feel Warcraft is a fair comparison at all because with an MMO you have significantly more invested in your character than anything in fortnite. We are talking thousands of hours of invested. Many players have hundreds of days played (meaning a full 24 hours per day).
I think having 100 players play one actual realtime game well is unprecendented technical achievement and Fortnight in relation to it is similar for me as iPhone is in relation to actually working capacitive touch screen.

In the world of games, being free (legally or otherwise) is pretty much requirement of exorbitant organic popularity.
Usually it's two groups: 1. regular usage as seen now or expected in the future, 2. exercising all existing error paths. I'm pretty confident that it's both a reasonable coverage and that there are going to be some missed patterns. It's "good enough"
>You think the CCP would be making investments into foreign social networks that they block?

No, that's why they are allowing Tencent to do it for them.

You think this deal doesn't have CCP approval? Tencent has an executive Party Committee who's explicit purpose is to make sure the company is advancing the Party's goals.
This one "reform" made me go from being pro-EU to anti-EU. And if this passes then I don't think there's anything the EU could ever do that would change my mind on the EU project.
I've never heard of such a case in gaming resulting in the person being unbanned, but maybe it's a newer development?
It would somewhat apply. Profile pics of users and uploaded pictures for playlist coverart.
Google Play is not a monopoly! It takes one checkbox in Settings to open the floodgates to any app (or app store) you want, and device manufacturers (such as Amazon) can ship their own app stores pre-enabled if they want.
Well Donald Trump wants more immigrants from EU and most tech companies are always hiring. So I guess on to the US because no more internet companies will be created here for sure.
What if OP made a new company, and did an arms-length asset sale at fair market value of the old company's IP?
Complaints about the ads are not complaints about the app.
This is why the EU rules on state aid ban this practice.
All the other platforms I listed are already supported either by Allegro or SDL (which I can also use via Allegro's SDL backend), while it doesn't seem to be a case with PS4. Also, so far I've used GLSL and relied on Allegro's OpenGL (ES) renderer. In case of UWP I can use ANGLE, but PS4 seems to require more effort there (most likely renderer implementation and separate shaders). Nothing impossible, but it moves it out of "I'll eventually do it when bored" status to "I'll only do it when there's strong business case behind it".
For most of my family and friends, their smart phones may as well be designated Facebook portals. As sick as that makes me, that is the world we live in.
Wyden seems like he's been on top of the ball recently.
Antitrust covers market manipulation and coercion though, which you could easily argue these companies have (monopoly over certain platforms such as the iPhone; magically identical pricing).
I've been a claimant from time to time but am not a solicitor, so you'd need to ask a proper lawyer.

Nobody has even tried anything like that in any of my claims, it's deliberately a very high bar, but as far as I know, it'd be a decision you'd ask the judge to make at the end, in the same way you ask for your court fee when the respondent refused your offer to settle in the notice-before-action.
There’s a qualitative difference between a general threat that’s part of the play and singling someone out for a threat based on their behavior.

If he had, say, climbed off stage and walked towards them menacingly, that too would be acceptable as part of the scripted play yet more disturbing if done impromptu as a response to the audience members’ behavior.

I think what he did is fine, but I don’t think your analogy is a strong one.

Edit: minor wording
Anonymity has its good points and bad points. In my imagination, there are people who can't speak truth to power, and anonymity gives them a place to do that. But in reality, what we get is 99% Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Not sure how you can get one without the other.
It is pretty annoying when you find that thread with the exact knowledge to solve that exact question you've been struggling with only to find that everything has been wiped from the record. It harkens back to "BANDWIDTH EXCEEDED" messages that crippled the usefulness of old forum threads. It doesn't even benefit whoever deleted the comment, it isn't all that difficult to find a cached version of the site with the comment. If we value internet discussion as something beyond just spouting into the void, and as something useful to other people, then we wouldn't be erasing public facing comments after the fact like an anti-intellectual despot.
I hate the concept of money. It needs to die a painful death. Business-as-usual is killing the planet and all future generations. Starting up a planet-saving model of business-as-unusual is why I started hacking on "Linux on the Web" [1] over 6 years ago. It is now quietly starting to take over. I think we all knew Linux was going to eventually do that anyway.

[1] Online now at https://linuxontheweb.org/desk.os
My experience comes from a specific niche: MMORPG botting which using an automation script to train/goldfarm for the account while the player is not at the computer. This is coupled with a large amount of account scamming/hacking such that it is fairly reasonable that someone might have stolen your account and botted on it for their own gains.
Hmm, I wonder: if the user isn't asked to authorise the action whether it technically breaches the Computer Misuse Act (UK).

If you send a requested page, that's obviously fine. Normal use of websites is expected, but unilaterally instructing your site visitor's browser to download further unrequested content that's not part of a requested resource ...?
And then we add the calls to set a minimum corporate tax rate to the mix and realize that the EU does this because Germany and France don't want businesses to go to Ireland instead of them.
Any account they can connect with you also gets banned.
You are quite right about that. I guess the question is, can they very publicly offer a review process which is essentially a functionless placebo button or is that misleading enough to subject them to any liability at all?
Seems you read neither the link, nor my comment.

The author of the story said he doesn’t know what the third party may or may not have done and Google didn’t provide an explanation. And I never said my account was shut down.
I think there's a couple solutions to this. First, "trust" should depend on your own evaluation of the developer, based on metrics like how long their app has existed, customer reviews, what protections they have around handling data, etc. You have the ability to do a much better job evaluating trust than Apple or Google are likely to. But even beyond that, sandboxing needs to be made effective enough that even if you do install a malicious app, it doesn't matter. iOS actually does a really good job of this - apps are contained in their own sandbox, and have to get your permission to access any sensitive data, which you can easily choose to accept or deny. There are also limits on resources, and apps can't do much to your system unless you actively open them, which makes it really easy to escape from a bad app.

I know you mentioned disabling javascript, but browsers are also a really good example of this. Browsers run your code in a sandbox, and the rendering engine itself is sandboxed in case of bugs. As a result, you can pretty much visit any random website and know that it won't compromise your system - as far as I know, there haven't been any widespread attacks using browser vulnerabilities since sandoxing was introduced (except maybe Internet Explorer, which doesn't really count). The worst that can happen is that a browser tab starts using too many resources or doing something annoying (like autoplaying a video), and you can just close the tab and make it go away.
What's the point? wayback machine exists...
Do you have tips on drawing things out? I feel like I need to draw some things out, but haven't yet found a good system for it.
CODE: The hidden language of computer hardware and software. It was one of the first books I read encompassing the flow to a NC/NO circuit up to logic then to assembly. Great read and highly informative.
>I get the impression that you have in mind hiring a prostitute, in a well functioning society with no poverty, and with a well fare system that people can fall back on.

OK, fair. I might be assuming the best, but is that really unreasonable? We don't have any details, but I think it's most likely that the guy used protection, wasn't violent and paid properly. My issue in these discussions is just that everyone seems to go on a moral panic and assume the worst whenever sex is involved. Informal jobs in a poverty-stricken country with no legal oversight are an issue I agree, but there's nothing special about the ones that are sexual in nature. Now do you think people would be talking about it at all if what the guy had done was pay someone to carry his luggage for a couple hours?
Assume they win with probability 1

I would not assign that probability at all. The small claims system is actually designed to be fair! Going in all lawyered up is more likely to raise eyebrows and could be counter productive. The whole point is a quick and easy process with the minimum of fuss. You present your argument and they present theirs and a general test of reasonableness is applied. More Judge {Rinder|Judy} and less Rumpole of the Bailey.
Realistically speaking a hacker has more incentives to attack GMail than any domainer. I'm not saying that Gandi or whoever is more secure than GMail, just that there are more chances that something goes south with the latter rather than the former.
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They kinda do - I mean thats the whole point of a Gallagher performance, isn't it?
This is also what I find most infuriating. One should at least be able to receive compelling evidence of what lead to the banning decision, and get a fair chance to dispute it.

I understand Google doesn't want to give bad actors information that could help them avoid the counter-measures, but the side effects on people who are innocent or make minor errors are too severe. They could make the whole process lengthy, and require proper, detailed authentication to make sure it's different persons & companies each time - that adds enough cost to deter bad actors from using the "appeals" process, but it would save honest people from the frustration.
spot 1 on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19124324

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Yes and people block those for privacy reason.
More Taxpayers Will Owe the IRS in April Because of Underwithholding (Aug 2018)
I'd advise you to listen to Cant Hurt Me by David Goggins. Lots of people, me included, explain away uncommon behavior with science but we are all capable of lots more than we think. The problem is we see others do incredible things and think we cant achieve something similar so we assume they're something fundamentally different from us.
"unsolicited" being the operative word that you omitted.
I briefly thought about the beginnings of this after looking at KVC. I pondered the dots vs slashes question, what a query would look like, and whether every object in a process could have a name. Fun to think about, but that is as far as I got. You have taken this much further.
avip actually responded similarly below actually citing the relevant section of the TOS but got downvoted? Don't know why, this is perfectly valid.

I'd simply ask, can they very publicly offer a review process which is essentially a functionless placebo button or is that misleading enough to subject them to any liability at all?
Yes, sorry, that was badly written: it was intended as "this is what happens in the worst case" rather than "this is guaranteed to happen".
Yes, all rents will rise, but most rents will rise less than the rise in income until rental vacancies hit 0%.
Or prevent law enforcement, or other "overseers" from believing you visited a page.

I can see children getting punkd by drive-by prefetch and reporting to teaching staff that X visited a neo-nazi site or, Y downloaded porn during class, etc..

"Prefetch did it" is probably not going to be apparent to most, and is going to sound like a weaksauce excuse.
>Google has the burden of proof

no they don't; this is not a trial.
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My opinion is that people reach for whatever stick is handy when they want to be cruel to someone. Often it's gender, race, appearance, etc. But that's not racism--it's being an asshole.

Racism is "I won't watch your show because you're Japanese."
https://youtu.be/A48AJ_5nWsc?t=231
The parallels are strong:

- Lazily creates an appearance of addressing a problem by going after a sometimes-associated activity

- Collateral damage to activities that aren't necessarily wrong, but that upset some group

- Only affects the little guy (to the major players, it's just a cost of doing business)

- Creates a purportedly-neutral cover on what is essentially political persecution

- Based on the God delusion that assumes some ambient authority is capable of passing correct judgment on every situation
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> Article 11 of the proposal, which would force companies like Google and Microsoft Corp to pay publishers for displaying news snippets

Who are these retards? Do they not realize that's a valid marketing strategy for online business?

> Article 13, which requires online platforms such as YouTube and Instagram to install filters to prevent users from uploading copyrighted materials

Burn in Hell, fucking cunts.
Belgium newspapers tried to ask Google news for money for mentioning their articles. Google then unreferenced them. The newspapers gave up after a few days, as they had lost most of their trafic.

It will happen again.
The original Starseige:TRIBES let you play with up to 128 players. It was okay on dialup but my 10down/1up cable connection gave me consistent pings under 30. That was in 1999.
Ask HN: What internal tools are Facebook engineers building nowadays?
Unless its a sensitive question. An example would be a distributed refactoring tool, enabling developers to refactor hundreds of repo's simultaneously in order to get rid of anti-patterns or upgrade libraries
This is awful and I feel terrible for them, but a lot of alarm bells went off when I read this:

I then attempted to login to my ‘Google Developer Account’ for
the first time. Previous to this our app developers were the
only ones to access our account to upload and update our app for us

It sounds like they violated probably one of the first requirements of the ToS not to share account credentials. From there ... really anything goes as to what that developer could have done with those credentials intentionally or otherwise.

Google definitely needs to up their game here. Lifetime bans that are completely irrevocable are a completely unacceptable system for the #2 or #1 app distribution platform in the world. Such a ban should be a last resort after many, many transgressions and a result of extensive manual review, not handed out on an automatic basis. Nonetheless, developers need to do their part and also read and take serious the ToS of the developer agreements too.
Hi,

Few months ago I've encountered the issue with Zendesk online customer support service that they are not allowing receiving files and attachments larger than 10 megabytes. Gmail is also limited to 25 mb per attachments. So along with a developer I've made this small web app prototype that works like this:

- user signs up and configures a branded "inbox" page by uploading a logo, setting colors, customizing mesages. Here is the live example for Cats Photo Company

- user shares the link to the "file inbox" to her clients inviting them to send files through this form

- clients then can send common files and super large files (like 6 gb or more per file) through this page. The page resumes if connection is lost, also uses multithreaded uploads to speed up the process.

- Once files are submitted, notification about new "ticket" is sent to the user and user may then download files submitted by a client

- (not yet working) tickets are synced to Zendesk and similar customer support services if any

Screenshot of the branded page customized by a user: https://imgur.com/K28fhwt

Screenshot of the view of submitted files ticket: https://imgur.com/JEgVgeX

Prototype online (for testing only): https://file-inbox.herokuapp.com/

What do you think? Would you pay $19/month for such a service? Any comments or suggestions are appreciated, thank you in advance!
> trusted 25-year-old community member

FTFY
Duopoly, then ogliopoly after that.
Saves over 50% of bandwidth ... "it's a small improvement".
^_^
What about cases where "good enough" is not enough? code that handles money comes to mind.
I don't understand why anyone has to do with Google in 2019, with all that's come to light. The only trace of them I have left is my Chromebook, which admittedly is hard to match. (Any suggestions?)
> because we've been led to think that using Google is akin to running software under our control

I would imagine most people arguing about this have no illusions about how under their control Google is. They're arguing the same reason people argue about other policy questions: because it will affect them, either positively or negatively, and because it's fun.

> lack of Internet champions, but plenty of Web champions

Pedantry. A web champion is a subtype of an internet champion. The US has plenty of both.
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ding ding ding.

It seems to be the issue to me as well.

The analogy given in the article is wrong. It has nothing to do with incriminating you for your neighbors crimes.

I do realize it sucks for Mark but if the reason is indeed that these devs are suspended, the suspension of his app is perfectly understandable.
Ah screw this. I think for the tech industry this tips the balance in favor of UK. I hope some Europeans come back so there's space for the tech people here.
I don't think I'm all that well-known. :-)

Staying away from streaming is a good idea for a lot of designs. We all lost a lot of our hair making streaming work in Hyperscan, and it was often the thing suppressing easier optimizations. Or at least we would have to have a separate approach for streaming and block mode; not exactly great s/w engineering.

Word-based approaches are interesting. So is large scale. Hyperscan does embarrassingly badly on natural language stuff at scale due to some baked in assumptions about relative frequencies of literal factors and the literal matchers tend to fall apart on really huge literal sets in this domain. So there's definitely an opportunity here.

I would strongly encourage you to produce some repeatable benchmarks (at least, things where we can see what the task is for something like RE2 or Hyperscan). We spent many years in stealth mode with a lot of superlatives and NDA-only Powerpoint decks and I don't think it did ourselves any favors. It means that you wind up being the only guardian of your own honesty, which is ... tricky ("What the hell is a medium-complexity pattern, anyhow?").
Is that sales tax thing still a major problem? All you need to do is determine location (through IP, credit card etc) then do a lookup in a library, then add the relevant amount to the price.

In principle it’s an important idea, otherwise all online retailers will set themselves up in a zero tax domicile and get an unjustified 5-20% advantage over local retailers.