skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell her that if she's worried about Google spying on her, it's probably best not buy a Google-made device with Google-owned software on it transmitting usage data back to Google.
I thought the majority opinion of the New Yorkers were in favor of Amazon's headquarter coming to the city.
Yeah it's really smooth!!
Paypal and iCloud have 2 step logins as well. It doesn't seem likely that they would need to support federated logins.
yeah.. it's on the TODO.. porting it to the web now specifically for this use case.
This was quite a popular media thing among conservatives who were torqued about the evils of the 10% luxury tax in the early nineties. It was always about the yachts and yacht industry, too. It was the opposite of persuasive because in reference to the luxury tax, they were always going on about the freaking yachts. I imagine in the end, it did little more than make most normal people conscious of how little they cared about the yacht industry.

The way the repeated messaging was effective in getting everybody talking about the same (ridiculous) thing was an early taste of what was to come in right-wing media.

The yacht costs $2,995,000, but, thanks to the current luxury tax that kicks in at $100,000, you have to fork over another $289,500. Rich people aren't happy about paying this extra money. Even if they can afford it, they think it's unfair. And in some cases, they're refusing to pay it -- simply by refusing to buy new boats and planes.

Funny stuff.
> If Google will fight that fight I'll happily enjoy the benefits.

Evidently, they are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...
Doesn't sound like it is barista quality.

"As for flavor, it tasted like a blend of Nescafé and shelf-stabilized milk. Convenient, serviceable, like coffee from an office vending machine."
I think the main takeaway from this is really conception. There was a problem that a team set about to solve. They were left on their own to operate because solving search wasn't really what the company was interested in, as much as showing how powerful their computers were.

Left to their own devices Altavista became a successful search engine because it was able to focus on what users really wanted from search and do tremendous pioneering in that area.

It was my default search engine of choice before google gained steam.

However, from there, once value was created corporate entities began to try and extract more value. Now the user was no longer front and center, and unless the business decisions coincided with what the user wanted you would obviously begin to move the product further and further away from it's core user benefits.

This is a very typical processes in most businesses. Businesses till think that their needs come first, rather than their customers/users. This happens so frequently that it really is a just insane that no one addresses it. Eventually those business people get enough things wrong that they are left no choice but to return to the core of what made them successful and just hope that the market hasn't moved away to a competitor.

In Altavista's case the market had already shifted.

Doesn't matter how many books you write on this subject this continues to occur and really highlights the need for a strong product focused CEO so that they can ensure that the customer comes first and the business second.
And the card holder pays with their privacy as well, that data stream is also monetized.
Evernote is better for notes.

Polar is better for creating notes from what you're reading.

I'm working on making Polar better for just plain notes. Getting there.
ELeven Exabytes and Constant TRashing Of Nodes
Arguments about the merits of something should probably be more in depth than just witty quotes.
Working on it... need to build out a new reader though.
C++ has string streams which actually work more like string interpolation than like sprintf just without adding custom syntax.
This is not about technical consent, or misleading people. It is about a dialog that pops up when a page wants to access a specific Bluetooth device, and it has to know what kind of device beforehand. Webpages don't just get free reign to scan and access devices.

I'm sure a lot of people also don't realize that Google Chrome has had, for many years, an extension API for accessing USB devices. Has it been a problem? No.

This is just another communication protocol. It's reasonable for browsers to provide a strictly controlled environment to utilize it.
>gaping blind spot when it comes to the distinction between "anyone could do this" and "everyone can do this"

Agree. These are exactly the enormously important subtleties that are lost when education omits training in the humanities.
are you internally masquerading 8.8.8.8 to 1.1.1.1?
>NYC has easily 10x the number of high-earning jobs as SF, no matter how you define high-earning.

Well it does have 10x the population so you'd expect around 10x the number of high paying jobs.
The Internet Smog Descends
People don't care about their privacy. Apple can change that
The SQRL protocol "fixes" all of these password issues, by effectively cutting out the middleman of a password manager. Ie, it gives you everything that a user/pass + password-manager setup does, identity and security-wise, without the need for any forms beyond whatever you might want for eg registering a username with a new site. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Cheers! It's a difficult thing to quantify anyway, so agreeing to disagree sounds good to me. Do enjoy your weekend!
just use cash. can’t be tracked and it works everywhere (however i’ve run into one cashless shop recently). it’s unweildy for large transactions though, so checks or (reluctantly) cards are useful there.
> Most of the tax breaks Amazon was going to get are, in fact, offered to all businesses.

And some weren't. Which proponents seem to conveniently ignore...
> He gets to have the added insecurity if putting it on his clipboard for other programs to see on the way by.

If the local system is trustworthy, then none of the other programs are sniffing the clipboard looking to harvest passwords. And therefore there is no issue here.

If the local system is untrustworthy and contains malware sniffing the clipboard looking to harvest passwords, then using or not using a password manager is irrelevant [1]. Instead there is a bigger issue needing cleaning up, that of returning the local system to a trustworthy state.

[1] because an untrustworthy local system running clipboard sniffing malware is also likely running key logging malware, so even if the passwords were only ever memorized they will still get captured whenever they are typed in.
What reasons are there to avoid doing this asynchronously?

(Please note that I’m opposed to requiring user agent javascript to access something claiming to be a website, but let’s assume we’re talking about something behaving like a single-page application post-authentication anyway.)
What motivates people to invent phrases like "perceptual binarization" when googling "audio binary mask" literally gives you citations in the field that have been doing this for years?

For example, 2009 musical sound separation based on binary time frequency masking.

Or more recent stuff using deep learning. Also the field generally prefers ratio masks because they lead to better sounding output.
For this reason, I don't understand how Amex keeps attracting customers - you can't count on it being accepted everywhere, so you need to carry a MC/Visa backup card.

I used to tell myself that it was superior customer service, but I once disputed a charge at an overseas hotel and was sure it would be a fast/easy process - I paid for the room through Expedia and the merchant charged me for the room after I checked out. I contacted the merchant and they agreed and said they'd refund the charge. They never did.

I sent all of the information to Amex including the Expedia booking and the email from the merchant saying they'd refund me. It took them 3 weeks to "investigate" the charge and then they came back and determined that the charge was legitimate and I was not due any refund.

I spend an hour on the phone with them and got escalated to a supervisor who said she would re-open the investigation and 20 days later, they decided that I was due a refund and a week later they refunded it.

That's when I realized that there's no reason to have an Amex, so I replaced my Amex Gold Card with a Chase Sapphire card - I had to dispute one charge on the Sapphire and I didn't even have to talk to anyone, just did an online dispute and had my money back in less than a week.
Wow, sounds like a clearly anti-growth policy. I wonder if they have some expensive accounting in the backend or something.
> The teams that build from scratch and actually contribute discover or learn anything at all are intentionally blocked from winning

This is ridiculous, and I'm saying it is from the perspective of having been a student whose team finished fourth in FRC in a recent year (and won multiple events per year), and having volunteered and assisted multiple teams.

While it is true that a lot of lower resources teams may be better off going with commerical off the shelf (COTS) components, such as the Greyt Elevator and Greyt Intake, teams that perform at a higher level will build everything from scratch. Whether this means utilizing gussets or welding, building your own drive train or using the AndyMark prebuilt chassis.

While it is true that some kids may be better off doing research projects, there is nothing wrong with participating in a team. From my three years as a student, I was exposed to developing solutions to split messages up and verify data integrity when communicating over serial with external microprocessors, utilizing version control, setting up Continuous Integration on our repositories, first deploying apps from Cordova to developing Progressive Web Apps, which forced me to learn to use a VPS on Digital Ocean, running a docker swam on hyper.sh, and storing files on S3 and using RDS.

FIRST is what you make of it, and I'm personally glad that someone holding your opinions towards the program is no longer actively interacting with kids in the program.
At Microsoft, I worked on a popular Web app that for various reasons had to resort to using the # to enable deep linking. If you put anything in the hash it will break things. We assumed an empty hash unless it was something we set.
Oooh, this looks promising indeed!
Remember Xerox PARC's map viewer, developed by Steve Putz in June 1993, running on a SparcStation 2?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC_Map_Viewer

There was a way to embed maps in a web page and provide a bunch of points of interest to overlay on the map.

Metricom was using it to provide coverage maps of their pole top box locations, for their spread spectrum wireless mesh radio network (it was rolled out in the Bay Area around 1994-1996 or so).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_(Internet_service)

I remember being impressed by how cool and powerful (and generous) it was for one web site like Xerox PARC's map viewer to provide dynamic map rendering services for other web sites like Ricochet's network coverage map!

Then a decade later, along came Google Maps in 2005.

Also:

http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/www94/mapviewer.html

A particularly innovative use of the map service is the U.S. Gazeteer WWW service created by Brandon Plewe [Plew1]. It integrates an existing Geographic Name Server with the PARC Map Viewer. A user simply enters a search query (e.g. the name of a city, county, lake, state or zip code) and a list of matching places is returned as a formatted HTML document. Selecting from the list generates another HTML document consisting of two maps (small and large scale) with the location highlighted (using the Map Viewer's mark option). The server in New York does not generate or retrieve the map images, since they are references directly to the HTTP server at Xerox PARC. The user's WWW browser retrieves the map images from the server in California and displays the complete document to the user.

Documentation:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080621011940/http://www2.parc....

FAQ:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080420130346/http://www2.parc....

Details:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080608142726/http://www2.parc....

/mark=latitude,longitude,mark_type,mark_size
place a mark on the map. ",mark_type" (1..7) and ",mark_size" (in pixels) are optional. multiple marks can be separated by ";" (see example below).

/map/color/mark=37.40,-122.14;21.35,-157.97
Specifies marks for Palo Alto, California and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
> (This is totally unrelated but another thing I apply this question to is a page's/websites ability to support reading mode. You have straightforward pages that you can read wholly in something like Firefox's Reader View or Instapeper/Pocket. Then there are those pages that rely too much on some javascript library (sliders, read more, etc.) to display properly that gets broken when seen through reading mode.)

Sites that want to display readable pages don't have to work on compatibility with Reader View; they can just provide readable pages. I use Reader View mostly to work around sites' intentionally user-unfriendly design patterns (articles unnecessarily split across multiple pages), and only occasionally to work around presumably unintentionally bad design (Kill Sticky does most of that work for me). To the extent that that's true, sites are likely to be interested in being less, not more, compatible with Reader View.
> the only thing you can do that you can't normally is dereference raw pointers.

The type checker still runs by default, but unsafe allows you to opt out of it selectively (with std::mem::transmute[0]). The same way that borrows are still checked, but unsafe allows you to opt out by using raw pointers (as you mentioned).

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.transmute.html
Obsolete username/passwords with SQRL protocol
69 is actually the sexiest prime
> Not React compatible due to the differences listed below, so you can't use existing React components/libraries with Purview.

Existing components/libraries is the only reason I use react.

A good alternative that provides a nice setup for SSR on the initial page load as well as code splitting is nextjs https://github.com/zeit/next.js/
> This kind of argument applies first of all to time and possibly to something else by analogy.

I think you'll find that your argument that time does not exist also applies to literally everything else. Space does not exist. Matter does not exist. People do not exist. There is no clearly defined moment of birth or death, or boundary between a person and the rest of the world; thus "people" don't exist. To use your words:

If you say that you experience seeing distinct people. Well. That's how neural networks work - they categorize the events/impulses which happened to the network into distinct objects that didn't exist in the events/impulses themselves.

> But if in some hypothetical universe, you realise by arguments, that nothing exists - what's the reason of "giving back the word" which in this hypothetical universe has no meaning? I don't follow this logic.

If you define a word such that it never applies, you're communicating badly. By the above arguments, nothing exists. And by the definition of the word "exists" that you're using, that's correct: nothing exists.

But that's a dumb way to define "exists". It's a perfectly useful word. And you should give it a more reasonable definition such that time, space, and people exist.
That's coming out of taxes paid by normal people.

No it's not. If Amazon doesn't come the city/state collects zero tax.
Why's that garbage? Sometimes a full SPA is not needed.
How long before big media companies become big sports-gambling companies?
Although the quote doesn't mention and I don't know for sure, I bet this was via the internal Facebook employee app, not the production Facebook product app. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they did read production messages afterwards (at least when I worked there it was quite explicit that FB reserved the right to review employee-to-employee conversations on messenger).
> One company should not have bargaining power over an entire city, and they certainly should not get special economic treatment over others.

Depends on which city. NYC is an established city, with unique value proposition over the globe. I actually don't think losing Amazon would be a big problem for it overall, for certain region maybe, despite the drama. But that can't be said for any other city in US.

And you and I all know people get discounts when they buy in the same stuff for a larger amount. I see no difference in this case.
DEC was based in Maynard, MA not CA. We had a couple excellent teams in the Bay area that were acquired from Xerox as I recall. The Systems Research Center in Palo Alto and WRL.

AltaVista was not the only business that DEC failed to capitalize on. We had an $800M networking business when Cisco was just starting. DEC defunded that business to invest more in other projects. We had a storage server business that we sold to a little company call EMC too. It's quite sad...
I am always hesitant on valuing redemptions for the price that would've been paid for the ticket, primarily because no one in their right mind would pay that price in the first place.
> If Southern California Edison's residential rates continue to rise annually by 2.2 percent, as they have on average over the last decade, Jug's total electricity outlay having gone solar would have cost about $6,000 more over 20 years.

Isn't the math that came to that conclusion completely fucked up?

$115(1.022 ^ 20) = $177

$75(1.029 ^ 20) + $17 * (1.022 ^ 20) = $159

In fact, I'm about 100% sure that that $6000 figure is the amount of additional money that is payed to sunrun due to the increase costs (difference between $75/month for 20 years and the cost with 2.9% increase). It looks like the journalist then went and misinterpreted that data and made up a completely fake chart below it to fit their interpretation of the data. In that chart, clearly the socal edison side should start with a higher cost than the sunrun side and the socal edison cost at 20 years should actually be above the $2k line.
Yes std::vector owns the underlying continuous array of memory and will free it on the destructor call of vector.

" img = std::vector<uint32_t>(w*h, color); "

What is more interesting if you have been away from c++ is that the assignment is not a copy! The vector in this case is a temporary and it dies on assignment. Thus img takes the guts of this new vector.
>There are jobs that Americans don't want to do.*

*At the currently offered price.

If illegal immigrants had the same opportunities and rights as American citizens I suspect that they wouldn't want to do them for that price either after long. It may just be that we will have to deal with paying an extra dollar for a head of lettuce or an extra few dollars an hour for a housekeeper.
Discussing not showing up to work on Facebook using Facebook requires a level of retardation whose existence I wasn't aware of.
New York didn't lose anything by not having Amazon here. New York is a city built on diversity, and ensuring resources are available to maintain that diversity is important to the citizens. It's a matter of giving one huge handout to the most valuable company in the world that will destroy a community and drive up wages (bad for small businesses) and housing costs (bad for Queens), versus giving $5M to 100 small businesses who can create jobs and maintain diversity while keeping wages / housing in check. That not to mention, there are other infrastructural things in NYC that need attention / money. People here want money going back into the soul of the city, not to an outsider traipsing around to various cities looking for who will give the biggest handout. Amazon's big misstep here is that they acted like they were a gift to NYC, and didn't sell the dream of what value they'd bring to the city. New Yorkers will immediately tell people to fuck off with that approach.

Amazon's other missed opportunity is not intentionally choosing a smaller city like Austin or Denver, which would not only have amazing talent, schools, transportation, and culture, but would be far less costly. They would save more money in the long run and achieve the same results. But that's beside the point.

New York doesn't need Amazon, and I'm glad Amazon caved when the people pushed back. It shows that Amazon never cared about the people here and would bring nothing to the community.

edit: If you're going to downvote please comment why you disagree.
When David Wetherell, of CMGI fame, bought Alta Vista and was driving it to the IPO, I remember telling him urgently that Google was eating AV lunch. He just brushed me off, as if I was telling him nonsense. Same fate with Lycos and if you will Yahoo.
Five years ago when I worked there, the Messenger interface had a "recording" icon with a tooltip saying "All employee:employee conversation is recorded". You can argue that it's scummy, but they are very up-front about it.
> LastPass fills out my username and password on modals just
fine. Tested it out on Hertz just now. If other password managers don't... then they should be improved, no?

Yes, it works if you visit the site, bring up the login model, and then tell the password manager to fill it in (or are configured to auto populate).

However, many password managers have a feature where you find the site in the password manager, and click to visit it, at which point it loads the site and automatically logs you in. When you get used to it, it is a convenient workflow basically merging bookmarks and passwords management into one tool. This is the feature that modals break.
> But if the past and future already exist, and time travel is possible, then all possible futures have ready happened and all possible pasts have already happened which would mean you have infinite timelines of every possible outcome of time itself. Because any change to the past in a given timeline only splits time to another outcome for the timeline, we would never know if our future changed or not making the entire event pointless.

Not necessarily disagreeing, but does something being pointless mean that it's not actually possible?
Note that excludability was added as a late edit. The original comment just said something like "In my preferred world, no single person would be able to afford a large yacht, but yacht enthusiast clubs could own one."

I agree on the excludability issue, but I'm not sure where it ends. I'd also add beautiful mountain valleys, etc. Forests? Interesting deserts? Waterfalls? Intellectual techniques? (at least patents have limited time) Cultural stories? cultural clothing? Foods?

I'm not sure how to balance "my family earned money/had power a long time ago, so I can exclude anyone else from this forever" with "I want to work hard and save to provide for my family".

I wonder if there will need to be a change in what can be passed on to future generations (we no longer allow political power to be inherited, does it make sense for economic power?). Can eminent domain play a role in the public re-acquiring assets? Both of those have really scary implications, though...
> just that someone is paid to appear in a photo.

In other words, the difference between a livelihood and a pastime. Like I (and the dictionary) said. A "professional model" is someone who makes their living at it, and I challenge you to find an instance of a non-idiot using it to mean someone who only got paid a modest amount one time.

> it requires finding voices you trust and agree with.

Ideally, it also means those voices are trustworthy. Among other things, that means being honest about whether they're professionals or amateurs. That precludes "influencers" pretending to have genuine passion about something when in fact they're being paid to fake that passion. Encouraging and rewarding deceptive behavior is not a good thing, even in marketing.