skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing, right. SV global surveillance gets us better ads.

Meanwhile, governments ("An ISP is local" - you've GOT to be joking) actually systematically damage people based on surveillance data. Try visiting Pakistan and then see how governments react to that country's stamp being in your passport.

But it's hardly just that. Credit reports (are government mandated, and a monopoly, they are therefore government) really damage people. Police actions, "random" searches, ...

And of course, heavy handed copyright enforcement.

So we would be transfering DNS authority from entities, the SV companies, that have a VERY long history of not abusing that data, to entities, the governments that not only have a long history of abusing this data, but haven't even stopped doing so when caught with their hands in some cases literally torturing people.

Governments' accountability is a JOKE, a sad, distasteful joke. I will not be counting on that, sorry. And there is nothing local about those local ISPs in any of the countries I use them.

So: no thanks, given those choices, I'll take the Google/Cloudflare option, thank you very much.
And she’ll get even more millions if she waits. She can also develop apartments, collect rent, and maintain ownership. And she can wait as long as she wants to do either.

EDIT: of course she needs to pay property taxes but that’s her choice isn’t it
Anyone who has written a few scrappers knows how brutally ineffective this is. Yelp tried to pull the same thing and it took me about 3 minutes to rectify my "for fun" scraper. It's also really not that difficult to write a smart scraper that you say, "Look for these things in this post. However you find them, replicate it for the others". Which is ultimately what I made my Yelp scraper do.

If there's a pattern, I will find it, and I will exploit it. <3
While dense writing makes it harder for the presenter to gloss over details, it makes it that much harder for the audience to grasp the idea. PowerPoint is designed for the audience.

Maybe a presentation for a live audience, and a dense paper for offline consumption is the optimal setting. The audience can remain engaged, and if an idea seems worthy, a deeper dive into the dense paper format occurs
This is not proposing abolishing the private option. It is just establishing a distinction between private and public providers, so you don't constantly get pestered for topup fees.
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$0.99 any size at Cumberland Farms (Northeast US). And from the looks of the morning traffic, it's quite popular (even with a Dunkin' right across the street). Some people just don't way to pay extra for coffee.
Please don't straw man my post.

"Conflict of interest" and "complete lack of evidence that so-called practitioners even practice their diet" don't mean that their report is automatically false, it just calls into question their integrity and their report's basis in reality.
"The most effective parents, according to the authors, are “authoritative.” They use reasoning to persuade kids to do things that are good for them. Instead of strict obedience, they emphasize adaptability, problem-solving and independence — skills that will help their offspring in future workplaces that we can’t even imagine yet."

Aside: Knowing nothing about theoretical parenting styles, this doesn't sound "authoritative". Authoritative <anything> wouldn't give you sound reasoning. Authoritative sounds like strict obedience, given that they are practically synonyms but the article says the opposite.
The easiest option is via the Telegram bot. You message it the name of a paper and it sends you a PDF back! And it's unblockable.

If you can afford it everyone should send a few bucks to the bitcoin address donation jar on the Sci-Hub site (1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM - but don't take my word for it) so that Elbakyan can keep developing cool stuff like that.
If I'm talking to colleagues or making notes I just use the English words. I mean all my notes about computer related topics are in English. When I write a documentation or an e-mail for or to customers I translate everything to German. I feel this helps me to keep things simpler and makes it easier to understand.

I have to say I hate mixing languages. It makes me feel uneducated and a bit like a loss of identity. Especially German is really expressive and it shouldn't be a problem to make up the words needed to express yourself.
okay so second richest man? third? tenth? how does that change the calculus?
No, the SEC did not just say it’s approving a Bitcoin ETF
Article starts out well and then veers off into strange and scattershot coverage of unrelated Amazon factoids.

It doesn't fully cover the communication principles of the 6-pager. The missing parts are:

- 6 pages is the upper limit; the memo can be shorter

- The format is designed to drive the meeting structure by requiring attendees to read the memo in the first 10 minutes of a meeting, followed by discussion

- You can push extra information into the appendix if needed to convince those looking for more evidence

- The memo is self-sufficient as a unit of information, unlike a Powerpoint that relies on the presenter (or a video of them) to contextualize and connect the information

The basic thrust is to bring the discipline of scientific style article writing into office communications (and avoid Powerpoint anti-patterns in the process).
I highly disagree with this advice. I understand the intent of the advice, I just think the proposed rule (in the body of the post) is a bad implementation of the intent because it is overly general.

Name your variable in a way that makes as clear as possible what the variable is used for.

He uses the example of "userMap". I think its mistake is not saying what the mapping is for. Names to users? Phone numbers to users? Emails to users? Its mistake is not calling it a map, which tells the reader that a variable behaves as a mapping. (And if it's not actually a map, then don't call it a map.)
This is not a fair argument. Why should you assume that condos is the 'correct' thing for this land and factory is the 'wrong' thing? Isn't that for the market to decide? What if I told you someone was offering to buy the property to replace it with an orphanage, would you say this woman is denying poor, helpless children a place of refuge?

Isn't this woman exercising her property rights in a perfectly fair way within the market economy that we have, in exactly the same way that so many developers have exercised their rights to tear down X and replace it with Y, where many people might have preferred to keep X?
> People are acting all shocked like this is a new state of affairs.

Wait, they are? Who?
I just tested it, it does not.

Most of the nonsense is "Display: None" so screen readers ignore it entirely. These elements seem to exist to stop simplistic HTML element matching, screen readers obey CSS.
No, that's authoritarian, which the article contrasts.
There are really 2 major makers of insulin Norvo and Elli and another that isnt near as popular, Apidra. Each insurance company has a 'preferred' where you only have 1 choice.

So, with that I dont feel like there really is any competition. A good step forward might be to disallow insurance companies from having 'preferred' brands.
All we need is for the EU to pass a law that says paid content must be clearly laid out in the HTML not just final presentation.
What's the difference between an ad and a recommendation? I'm not sure but this certainly feels like suggested music to me.
How about F/OSS communities, programming blogs, and forums like HN stop allowing Google, Fb et al to index and link to their pages? Soon Google and co will find out there's not much content of value left in their garden. I for one can get along well with a couple sites such as github, stackoverflow, arstechnica, some EU quality journalism sites, etc. Most other stuff turns out to be self-promotion or ad-ladden feedbuzz for the digital precariat anyway (the kind of which you see on the subway and who can't stop fumbling with their smartphone for a even a second).
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> $9-10 I can buy 10-12 CDs per year

This is good in other ways! One of the problems with Spotify is that the musicians don't really get paid a realistically useful amount. I say this as someone who has both a Spotify subscription and musician friends whose music is on Spotify.

That said, I personally find the subscription price surprisingly low for what I get, but I wouldn't try to tell you what to do with your money.
Agreed. I think the article is wrong to imply that the type adds no value. Even if you have typechecking, the names of variables help you understand code. Also, why should we compare variables to pets versus the many other things in our life that we do refer to by their type? I don't have proper names for my filing cabinet or office chair.
The US is a big ass country with a relatively small population. When you get a data plan from t-mobile, they promise it will work well even in many remote rural areas. That increased coverage has a cost.
ICE as an organization was created in 2003, many people literally want to abolish it. The equivalence you are trying to draw here in no way exists.
I don't buy the sense of duty argument. It's good for the career.

Until the appearance of the notion of open peer-review, the reviews were not public and thrown away by the editor after the publishing decision.

Concerning the sense of duty, nobody stops anybody to review a work and post it somewhere publicly accessible. However, that's rare to see.
Yeah, sounds cool
> Dropping Do-not-track from Safari is another.

I’m not sure what you are referring to since Safari on desktop still has a DNT option in settings and while mobile safari doesn’t have a setting specifically labeled DNT it has a setting that appears to be the same thing with a more friendly name.
Introduction to Ionic 4
Wittens' posts on culture in tech and the rise of postmodernism are especially important. Storms and Teacups is excellent, and I'm pleased to see he has a more recent one too.

http://acko.net/blog/storms-and-teacups/

http://acko.net/blog/falling-into-faith/
> costs labor

Neglegible marginal impact. Nevermind that most of this manpower seems to be wasted on adtech and bullshit redesigns. Their service sure hasn't improved recently.

> resources

This was completely self-inflicted. They used to run a p2p network, they chose to shut that down. That's fine, but they can't blame that on their users.

> licensing

Spotify's licensing budget is a fixed percentage of their revenue. A user that doesn't bring in any revenue won't increase their licensing costs.

I guess artists could opt out if they thought their licensing slice was too small, but that's effectively career suicide. Just look at Prince.
I need something pushing me. Usually it's a demand placed upon me that requires I learn it to meet some kind of deadline. It's got to be something time-bound. If it's just a general request, for example, from a higher up that I learn something or look into something for some unknown reason or for some theoretical future project, odds are I'm not going to actually do it. But if I know that if I fail to do it and there is actually a consequence like me not being able to fulfill a goal that has been set for me, then I'm going to make sure that it gets done if for no other reason than not wanting to fail or be embarrassed.

If this is not for work where you are accountable to others and instead this is for a personal project it becomes more difficult. If possible, work with someone on your side project because then you will be accountable to them like you would be on a team at work. If it's just yourself and you are taking the approach of "well it doesn't matter if I don't meet my made up deadline for myself", then things tend to never get done. I had this issue. When trying to balance side projects with life and family, the projects kept getting pushed. Once I had a business partner, I'm far more productive because I have a real reason to get stuff done - no one wants to fail the person they are in business with.
I like when someone's primary motivation is not personal greed. It is a rare and beautiful thing.
It’s also not like we’re told the federation has had complete access to everything about the society. There could be more traditional stories shared with their children as a basis for the language, but unshared with the federation.

All language lives within a culture, and words only convey meaning through a mutually shared understanding. They’ve made allegories first class parts of language, the equivalent to our individual words.
Does this meet the required standard for accessibility users? Do they have any such obligations?
Windows 10 actually moved to the test in production model. That's why consumers get the releases first. That way if it brick's granny's laptop she won't be able to complain to anyone about it online.
A worse offender might be government apps. The radar loop on the National Weather Service STILL requires Adobe Flash. Example: https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?product=NCR&rid=EAX&loop...
Ask HN: Career advice for people not on engineering tracks?
Hi HN,

Recently I’ve had friends in non-technical tracks(scrum master, business analysts, project management) ask for advice on their job search.

I’ve personally had success finding new roles as a SWE but I think the process has been a lot easier for me in general due to recruiters being more proactive in seeking me out/soliciting new opportunities for software engineering roles.

Could anyone suggest good resources on jobs in tech for non-programmers, or share experience on what a job search looks like as a person with people skills? I found cracking the product manager interview as a sister book to cracking the coding interview, but I’m looking for a variety of resources beyond just PM roles.
That might have been true a while back, but Netflix' US catalogue seems seriously small these days due to the fragmentation of video streaming in the US, and them focussing on their own original material (at least some of it is good).

Assuming you have Netflix and Prime Video, these days I'm finding more and more occasions when the selection in the UK is bigger (!).
> it doesn't sound like it would necessarily host low-income or middle-class families

So what? An increase in housing supply results in lower prices for everyone. If the "rich" are buying a condo in location A, that means they're likely not buying that condo in location B. That means the price has to be lowered since now A and B are competing. If A and B are competing for rich people, that means less "rich people" demand in location C.

In a place like Sunnyvale, houses are exceeding $1.5 million for essentially starter homes. If there were a larger supply in, say, Palo Alto, that would mean less demand in Sunnyvale, which means more people could afford to live there even if they couldn't afford Palo Alto. There just aren't enough places for sale in the area, so even if someone wanted to buy at the higher-end, the supply is constricted which means they have a lot of money to spend elsewhere. Increasing high-end housing in Palo Alto necessarily decreases demand in lower cost neighborhoods in the area. In short, building more housing for "rich" people frees up more housing for everyone.
A better way to measure cell survival
It's pretty damn hard to slip down a slope that requires 2/3 of the senate to agree with each other.
Illinois Supreme Court Affirms Biometric Privacy Law, Clearing Way for Lawsuits
It's pretty easy to learn to recognize mp3 pre-echo and no amount of good encoding will eliminate it.
I don’t disagree, although I wish movies would ship with a professional audio mix with lower dynamic range, since that would be a lot better than the often noticeable compression built into receivers and playback devices.
No one cares about accessibility when ad dollars are at stake.
Yep, seems like a total waste of time. The people scraping will spend the necessary time to get around this (and then distribute that knowledge to the masses) so it seems like a pointless arms race. Facebook employees could better use their time on developing actual features that bring value.
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I don't think cheating in multiplayer games is comparable. Doing so harms the experience of other players.
I don't have an adblocker per se, but I do have a great deal of ad domains rerouted to localhost in my hosts files (not intended for Spotify but for the web in general). This occasionally causes issues with Spotify, like the playlist not continuing because an ad can't be loaded properly, but I still do get some ads (which I don't really mind). I wonder if this will affect my account or not.
Came here to say the same thing. Having to click back and forth in history to see the changes is time consuming. Function over flash please
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We’re taking about rendering UI... If I render a div with width=375px and height=667px it will fill the screen on an iPhone 8 because it renders @2x.
If you don't mind getting rid of every post in the timeline, there's News Feed Eradicator for Facebook:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat...
There are worse jobs at Facebook....

https://www.revealnews.org/article/facebook-knowingly-duped-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19002596

Imagine being part of the gaggle of fuckheads who decided to not implement simple preventative measures that made it harder for children to accidentally spend thousands of dollars in manipulative games.

Or their peers who who helped strategize more effective tricks for game developers to use so children would be more likely to need a multi-thousand dollar refund Facebook could refuse.
AFAIK Spotify gets paid for those banners. If they don't then of course they aren't ads.
> but if the institution is a public-funded one then they don’t get to offer different levels of care for different people.

This is incorrect. Many NHS hospitals have private wings, and since Lansley there's no laws or regulations to stop hospital trusts providing basic service for all and better service for paying customers.
Pandora and Google Play Music (and maybe Spotify too I don't know) put ads in the audio stream (and video, if you are looking at the app screen while listening to music for some reason).

Seems simpler to do this than get into a technical arms race with users.
>Serious question: Do you trust the government to "efficiently allocate resources"?

Not really. But I trust them to fuck it up in a way that sucks less than the status quo and when they fuck it up we have more recourse than we do with the status quo.

It's the classic choice between the devil you know an the devil you don't except that most other countries have chosen a different devil than we have and are doing better for it so I think it's worth a shot.
Lease it?

Also, modern building techniques could probably make it feasible to erect a high-rise that straddles the original factory without displacing it (maybe carve out a small area for an entrance/small lobby depending on how much of the lot the existing building takes up).

Though having to avoid damaging or obstructing an existing structure might make construction extra-challenging and add to the expense.
meanwhile https://text.npr.org/

ps: thanks for the comments below, I was curious about similar websites
The experimental outcome is actually indirect evidence against the view that traditional unemployment insurance makes people a lot less likely to get a job, at least in this specific experimental population. This is interesting news - it suggests that unemployment benefits works so well already that incentive effects just aren't hugely important, at least not to the extent that you'd find a statistically-detectable difference by giving UBI instead.
Sure, but the argument was that newer C++ standards make the language less safe.
Audio and video ads are super annoying and I'm reminded of that every time I listen to radio or watch TV, which is why I gave up on both.
No thanks.

The issue isn't one of arbitrary code execution. Lets not be hypocrites.

AdBlock Plus has over 200 million installs on the desktop alone. Are you going to tell me that those 200+ million users of AdBlock Plus are concerned with arbitrary code execution? What percentage of those users do even know what that even means?

Between 10% and 20% of Internet users are using ad-blockers. Lets do an imagination exercise and say that Spotify would only serve images for ads. How many of those 10 to 20% of Internet users would whitelist Spotify?

"None" would be my guess.
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I think your proposals are still missing some sort of indication or description on what type of configurations those variables might hold. After all, we don't want to have any unnecessary confusion, do we?

Yeah, just 'original' and 'updated' are probably a better choice.
Hypothesis is the key word. It's not a law, or a tested theory.

Also, it's predicated on all participants having perfect info, which doesn't happen in the real world.

Is it useful? Mostly no, in my opinion, other than realizing that when my own idea of valuation differs from the market's, it's usually because I'm missing something.
Is this with their current pricing? We had huge bills for a while but their last pricing change ended up saving us a ton. Our bill went from about $2k/mo to about $300/mo. Before that we had implemented a custom job that kept our user count down, but we don't need to run that anymore.
Thanks very much! I've heard the name mentioned positively before, but never really kept track of him. That's definitely grounds for me to check it out.
The bad news about linkbait headlines: they work.
For me it usually does what you describe. When opening the application it shows me the new release of an artist I follow if it finds one.
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I think he's right in general about capturing the detail. You must be able to write down succinctly what you're selling before you talk about it to an audience. It's analogous to writing down your design for software before you actually code it. If you can't then something doesn't add up.

If you want to produce a bullet point powerpoint from the document then it should be possible to do it in a few hours. But the reverse isn't true.
Value doesn't keep the lights on.
Did they not have an identical cohort serving as a control to compare employment rates at the end of the trial?
That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depressing." (https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/5344jz/are-dentists-rea...)
Not precisely, no.

Her taxes will still be assessed on the market value of the property - meaning she's got to have enough revenue from the business (or just general personal wealth) to pay taxes on what the government will assess as incredibly valuable land, for a factory.

She can easily end up with a net loss. Or draining all her resources until she ends up having to sell anyway.
its only for public files.
Piracy!?
Perish the though..

Is it piracy if I buy cable tv and timeshift with a torrent my dvr missed?
The factory has been closed for two years according to the article. I wouldn’t modernize that shop, bridgeports are workhorses. Tools like that aren’t made anymore.
Unity itself (the engine) is written in C++. Game scripts are written in either C# or UnityScript iirc.
Dont see your point. What does this have to do with blackmail?
no they did not.