skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“What we learned from the 2016 election is that all the bad things we were told NSA was doing, Facebook was actually the one doing them.”

There are three kinds of groups collecting data on individuals today:

- Democratic governments

- Autocratic governments

- Surveillance-capitalism private firms

Of those three groups, only democratic countries have rules and laws in place to protect individuals. NSA has strict rules about data collection on US citizens; autocratic countries and Facebook do not. NSA has caught a few employees looking at data they should not have; those employees were disciplined.

I’d much rather have agencies of a democratic government doing this than anyone else. I’m a US citizen, but I trust the U.K., Canada, etc to do this right.
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“Black briar is a program that we thought showed a lot of promise, but didn’t pan out so we’re shutting it down. This next project Treadstone is something we think really has some legs...”
That's part of it. The core difficulties here are the definition of "inverse" and knowing when it's applicable to use the transformations. The former is difficult to pin down in a totally formal yet useful form. The latter will in practice depend upon intuition; no one is going to back-compute invariants ("d = ab/c" is always legitimate in the larger context of "given b = ac*d ...")
>>It leveled the playing field and states will have to adapt and lower their taxes, otherwise risk losing residents to states where tax money is better managed.

The assumption that the tax money is poorly managed is a misrepresentation. They aren't just lowering taxes, they're also going to be cutting services (or finding new revenue streams). Assuming the states lower their taxes to bring residents in line with their previous combined tax bill, is it realistic to expect that these states are going to get the same funding for the same types of projects from the Feds? No. So while it's "leveling the playing field" it's also a kick in the dick to states with higher State/Local tax levels and forces them to scramble.

But hey, look at all those Florida billionaires flush with cash that they're going to trickle down on us now...
I'd love to read some good experimental work on it as well. Off the top of my head, I can guess that there's some benefit to retargeting ads up to a point -- if you can show an ad sequence over time, there's probably an argument to be made that the spaced repetition is more effective than just showing the same ad over and over again, for certain kinds of ads. Then again, that gets back to ad design in and of itself -- a clever campaign could go viral and/or engage in a way an A/B optimized campaign with a poor concept probably never will. With something that's part art/game theory/design and part data, I'm really curious as to how you could even design a reasonably lossless experiment to accomplish this.
The Ford/GM 10 speed is a heck of a transmission. Porsche has TDM. Anything with dual-clutch can be automatic. Auto transmissions aren't as bad as they used to be.
It still is money not out of your own pocket, at least
Henk: A typed intermediate language (1997) [pdf]
“Real World Java 9” with Trisha Gee (58min Talk from Goto Amsterdam 2017)
I used it for a while as it came bundled with Prime. It has good collection of tracks, international, mainstream and regional. But the interface is clunky and curation and discovery is almost non-existent.
Linus Torvalds on Oracle Java API Copyright Claims Against Android (2012)
> Now they are removing lifetime incoming calling as well

Don't you wonder why this happened even after the launch of cheap Reliance Communication INR 501 phones back in 2002/03? They also gave people cheap plans and phones so, we should have been in better place. Then why is it that years later people have to struggle even for free lifetime incoming calls?

The reason is simple - Other telecos had to reduce prices to fight against customer migration to RCom. And then years later they were eating losses left and right thanks to RCom. They had to remove incentives to get back into profitability. Meanwhile, Reliance Communication is nearly bankrupt.
I never hear anything about C#, never mind anyone bashing it. Java is out there absorbing the bashing. C# is well inside Java's bash shadow.
It’s more like there’s no ‘driving to the airport’ industry. There’s a taxi industry that also drives to the airport.
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On the following url you can see the final result after an article is processed:

https://www.reddit.com/user/huachibot/comments/

The good part is that the summary algorithm is independent from the bot logic. It processes the text no matter how you obtained it.
I'm not aware of a formal definition of rectangle which excludes zero height. Sounds like an intuitive leap :)
The Chinese government is doing all this and more. So is Iran, No Ko, Russia, to the greatest extent they can.

Credibility score:

US government agencies: 0.52

UK, Aus, Canada govts: 0.6

Chinese government: 0.01
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Yeah, I really hope we're getting beyond the terrorist fear mongering. It only existed as a way to win elections and funnel money away from tax payers to corporations.
I am leaving it up to the person wearing the dress. She was looking at used, but I do ultimately want her to be happy with it too. Thank you for the suggestion though!

We considered the restaurant option as well. But I think we are going to work with one event space that is actually very reasonable and fairly inclusive with everything.

The pricing variance between venues was insane (some charged to rent the space, come charged a price minimum, some charged for things other did not, some just had some different requirements).
Git tutorials for civil engineering professionals and complete novices
It’s quite common in AskReddit threads especially if the target of the question is too specific. If it’s asking for people of type X, comments will often start: “I’m not X, but...” or the self-aware version: “Obligatory ‘not X but’...”

Checking AskReddit for a specific one that is there at the moment: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ax7cfl/folks_wit...

2nd top comment (sorted by best), starts “I don't have a blind parent, but I taught a child who did.“ There are a lot of responses that fit the wording of the question but a lot of others that have specific examples addressing the general topic.

Sounds like you’re thinking the question must have an agenda. I think it’s just opening up the topic of what is it like to work on a technical product that gets bad reviews.
I guess a more appropriate title would be "Japanese police arrested a 13yo girl for posting a link to a joke site showing infinite alert dialogs."
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> everyone

No, just the actively bad ones.

The ones who bobble along regardless because their individual tasks are not evil would bobble along just the same in a regime that does care more about doing the right thing (or, at least, doing the wrong thing less).

Unfortunately the actively bad ones are probably good at hiding behind the more apathetic, throwing a few of them under the proverbial bus every now and then.
> further strengthening management's choices

I think people are forgetting that each of those Google (former) employees have shares and are also shareholders and shareholders will start to get pissed when management is screwing up and will call for a new CEO or new execs or a new board to be put into place that will get Google back on track: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/technology/tech-workers-c...

> I doubt the employee protests will win out here in the long run.

If they lose more employees it can be argued that they're ignoring their fiduciary duty to the shareholders by tarnishing the brand of Google which makes hiring more difficult which leads to less profits.

There's already activist shareholders asking for more gender diversity data for example: https://www.fastcompany.com/40474369/activist-investor-deman...
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That is, as well as what the couple ends up wanting for the wedding too.
Or it could simply be that no one is paying attention. HN comments are not exactly the most important thing to which a person can devote their time and attention.
Many good musicians can do that, especially if they have a reference pitch (I have A-440 pretty much memorized from years playing in orchestra). The chord would take more time to reason out, but a standard chord (like the B-minor one you mention) would be quite quick.

I sing with someone that has perfect pitch (not just good relative pitch like I have). He can immediately identify a note at random, but has a very hard time when we want to transpose a piece—he's never really had to learn how to figure out intervals.
> ... because it helps Chinese people to educate themselves better...

This was the idea years ago when we allowed it enter WTO. We were wrong on that. Now we are debating whether we should allow China export censorship?!
The analysis (unless a whole lot of correction factors are added/introduced) makes little sense.

Besides the fact that in the US there is a level of specialization and limitations in the workers that is unheard of in the used comparison term Spain (which might cause an increase of workers in a "same" project in the US), an average construction worker in New York is likely to cost twice, maybe even more than what an average construction worker costs in Madrid, and this difference might well increase when we are talking specialized or high-skill workers (such as those employed in large infrastructures/tunneling, particularly if TBM driven).

A couple data points:

https://www.careerexplorer.com/careers/construction-worker/s...

https://www.constructionworkers.eu/en/es/country

And then there is different cost of materials, access to the sites, traffic and what not, and differences in the rock/terrain to be bored, etc., etc., the idea that the way bids/contracts are made and carried on, and the following litigations are the cause of an increase in costs/prices on may have some merits but the Author will need to provide much more data than what is in the article to be credible.
I'm not one to define what makes a gamer "hardcore" (much as I despise the term), but surely someone who follows the industry and takes risks on unknown indies and genres is more "hardcore" than someone who will blindly buy the new AAA shooter-of-the-moment every year?
I'm following this story more to see how countries answer the question of...

How do you punish a big firm that your country deeply depends on?

Canada is going through this now with a major construction company SNC Lavlin, that seems to be guilty of using bribes in Lybia.

The Canadian government seems to have interfered with their court case for what could be seen as "good intentions". If proven guilty SNC could n o longer bid on Canadian government contracts and this would hurt alot of large infrastructure projects in Canada, as well as the 8000+ jobs in Canada that had nothing to do with the bribes.

Germany is doing something some what with Deutsche Bank, a bank plagued by scandal and fines but one that is a critical part of the German financial infrastructure.

So how do you punish these banks and not hurt the 10,000+ workers who had no part in this while or harming your economy?

Seems like one answer is to go after the C-Suite executives.
Is Angular's zone.js any different?

I've used it to do essentially the same thing. Create a new zone for every request that comes in and all async functions within that zone can utilize the id assigned to it's zone for request tracking.

https://github.com/angular/zone.js/
you still feeling the sting of publicly misunderstanding rust in your video? lol
There was a more recent article in the NYTimes that offers a more flattering coverage (possibly as Paul Watson had stood down after a number of costly court cases)

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/a-renegade-trawler-...
I hadn't heard of Fauna before. What's the use case?

Looks like it's not open source, and the pricing isn't very clear if I want to host it locally. The "Download" page requires you to provide your contact info first.

Why should I go through all those hoops?
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Because weddings are based on emotions, not based on money or logic. The average wedding in San Francisco is $80,000, which is fucking insane. But it's just how it is, and you won't get someone to change that with "facts". Many things can get disrupted, but when the entire industry is based on emotions, you can't change people's minds.
Woa, have people started stealing top comments and crossposting them to farm karma?
Good service should be the norm. They don't get the same minimum wage and service levels are arbitrary. You don't actually seem to understand some things about waiting.

Higher wages only occur in places with higher food prices. Diners and the like often don't make much over minimum wage. Try making a decent wage at a place like a Waffle House. Great greasy diner food a a low cost, which means the waitstaff make nil in tips unless they make it up in volume. Some places also force waiters to pay for dine and dashers. The legality of this is questionable but it definitely happens.

The solution is to remove the tipping minimum wage. If customers then want to provide a tip above and beyond that wage level for exceptional service, fine, but removing the tipping minimum wage would allow for more stable wages, would improve the bottom end of the wages, help with lower hours, etc. This way it removes the arbitrary lower wages that might come from discrimination, foreign eaters, management issues, etc. Prices would go up everywhere, normalizing the costs.
I am not from the game industry or anywhere near software mecha. Can you tell me why a company would want to pay you to work on your own pet project with their money without them owning the end result? I am just confused how this is a stipulation at any job. The place I work, if I designed a model for their products on their time, with their money, it is only acceptable that they own said product. Why would they allow me to go off an compete with them?
Exactly. That's the point. Just pricing information (be it salary or car prices) makes little sense.

Market transparency that you mentioned earlier makes sense only for standardized goods/services. Software jobs are not standardized and many people don't want their colleagues to know how much their earn.
I don't know whether many mathematical objects are defined to defy intuition per se, but counterintuitive results often occur through an effort to prove a statement along the lines of "Not all objects X have property Y" (see the sibling comment's counterexamples in topology).

One nice example of "pathological" behaviour came out of Cantor's study of the continuum [0]: he gave an example of a function that is continuous and has zero derivative almost everywhere (i.e. everywhere except at a set of isolated points), but that manages to increase from 0 to 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor_function
You say it looks optimistic, but you don't know about the Android situation and the only thing you have to go on otherwise is a web player that is "coming up" (and therefore does not exist). I don't see how you can come to this conclusion based on this data - you may as well say you are feeling positive for no reason at all.
Is that why people freeze and save their stem cells? Would it help in this case?
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I have written an obfuscated cryptographically secure random password generator:

https://github.com/samboy/rg32hash/blob/master/C/tinyrg32.c

The file has test cases, documentation:

https://github.com/samboy/rg32hash/blob/master/C/tinyrg32.md

and I even have a 12-page de-obfuscation of an earlier version of this program:

https://github.com/samboy/rg32hash/blob/master/C/nanorg32.md

(I have since then come up more size optimizations)
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Yes, funerals are perhaps the most extreme example, because in many cases you have very little time in which to make the decisions, plus you're in a state of shock or grief and maybe aren't making the most rational decisions.

One possible way to disrupt such an industry is by encouraging pre-planning, which helps eliminate the tight time constraints.

But while we all know we're going to die, and our preferences around our funerals tend to be based on our individual wishes, it's not certain that we're going to get married, and our preferences around our weddings tend to based on the joint wishes of the couple, so you can only go so far with pre-planning. It would make little sense for you to start pre-planning before you start dating the person who will become your future husband or wife.
Small and indie companies have their own problems and can also have games that aren't received well. In those cases it tends to put the company out of business entirely, as opposed to just some people being laid off. I've worked for three small game companies, two of which shut down after a poorly received game and one that laid off 90% of its people and limped along for a few more years before shutting down.

I'm no longer in the game industry (I am working on games in my spare time, though, but progress is pretty slow).
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Yup we worked in a bunch of old colonials and attics and other ridiculous tight spaces that could compete I think. Also count the fact that American housing might be bigger, but so is all our stuff! There were a few times where a whole team of experienced guys could not for the life us figure out how a piece of furniture got into a room or how to get it back out.

The difference is that we would pad up the furniture itself if need be before humping it out, rather than the walls. We'd always eventually pad up the furniture but it's easier to do it on the truck. There are also techniques for literally using your fingers/hands/arms as padding between the wall and the piece you're moving. You can also always have a third guy holding some cardboard or padding against a wall or doorframe too for a tight squeeze. I didn't consider the cultural differences with the noise or shoes though, thanks for that!
The airport shuttle businesses might disagree on that. The fact that there's a larger more-generic group doesn't mean that a specialty isn't real.
Your comment doesnt seem fair at all. The blog post is from after they worked hard to fix everything. The comment from Jepsen that you are quoting is from before any of that fix work was done.

You are comparing two very different situations.
a complex often unconsidered security issue well described in a well written article.
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Google Play Music costs Rs. 99 (~ 1.4 USD) per month in India.
Who exactly is generalizing it to all Tesla owners? You seem to be making up a strawman. The discussion here is about "Tesla owners protest over drastic price cuts", the title of the article. The title and article say nothing about all Tesla owners, only the ones who are protesting over price cuts.
TLDR: FaunaDB is a distributed database that offers multi-partition ACID transactions and is optimized for cloud / multi-cloud deployment. This is a big deal because there aren't many other options with this level of data integrity at worldwide scale.

Use cases include financial services, retail, user identity, game world state, etc. Basically anything you'd put in an operational database.

In addition to the download (free for one node), you can get started with FaunaDB Serverless Cloud for free in moments. It's a fully managed version that is used in production by some major sites and many smaller apps.
Dammed*.though i'm pretty sure they also partly damned the river's ecosystem with millennia human presence.
Netflix defends its impact on the movie business ahead of Oscars debate
So much bandwith wasted with this project, is it dead yet? Unless you look like Windows 10, you are dead. DOES IT Support AD? if not I cant use it.
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the key is on their time. Parent explicitly mentions everything while employed there, in your free time as well.
Why is it that rich white guys are always the ones who want to ignore “politics”?

Edit: Why downvote this?
regarding your comment:

>// Probably plus means a locked door, and single quote means unlocked, or the other way around.

http://angband.oook.cz/stuff/manual.txt gives

' An open /broken door

+ A closed door

$ Gold or gems

A Angelic being

~ Light sources, Tools, Chests, Junk, Sticks, Skeletons, etc
The implementation for promises is currently a pretty heavy performance hit:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y4lF-iQhhuSOgzlPIBbfCT4I...

The node and v8 teams are working to improve that, but the work hasn't all landed yet
I think your statement sounds controversial but I’d be willing to argue that. I.e the opposite of formal is indeed intuitive.

I’d start like this : if you’re explaining something in English then you’re invoking and reliant on the readers common sense and intuition to do the work in your explanation. E.g a pipe is used to smoke tobacco. Pipe. Usage. Smoking. Tobacco. It’s left to the reader to define, disambiguate and on that basis accept. Contrast to: a pipe is used for transporting water.
IDK, perhaps it's cos we're 31 and 32 so a bit more mature and had been warned and been able to talk to friends who've done it. But once we got enough info to get an idea of cost per head for food, venue hire fee, we then put together a spreadsheet and were bang on. YMMV, but it's really not that hard to anticipate most of the costs.
As someone who personally makes high seven figures and who's met dozens of people of 9, 10-figure net worth -- I think it's ridiculous that anyone thinks becoming phenomenally wealthy is not overwhelmingly determined by luck. None of the rich people I've met have any notable characteristics that explain their "success" -- although certainly, some have convinced themselves it was due to some quality of theirs that they could control (and not just that, for example, they were lucky to get into the right team, at the right firm, at the right time, etc.).

I assume people who believe wealth and success of individuals can be explained by predictable qualities or behaviors of that person have simply never met a rich person in their life.
I spent some time researching this mostly because I was curious, but basically the answer to "why are weddings so expensive" and also "why is it so hard to disrupt the wedding industry" are largely the same in my opinion:

Because people have extremely high expectations for the major expenses of a wedding (venue, flowers, band, etc.).

The joke (and I even see it here) is that you can go to a baker and say "I want a cake" and they'll say "$20" but if you say "it's for a wedding" the price becomes $100. Why? Because if one iota of that cake is decorated incorrectly, the baker will hear hell about it - maybe not from your wedding party, but for every reasonable wedding party there are 99 expecting perfection.

So, it's not a huge surprise to me that wedding vendors have been hard to disrupt - it seems logical to assume that mass market usually comes with a reduction in quality compared to bespoke (or at least a bespoke-like experience), and people mostly refuse that and are willing to pay a huge premium for weddings (begrudgingly, admittedly).
You can't put a website in front of it and call it disruption. Every one of those things you mentioned gets bought after you have physically spoken with someone to give yourself the confidence they are legit.

It's such an important day, people want to make sure they'll be taken care of as special, unlike say, a cleaning service.
There’s a misconception underlying this comment. A “personal project” is something you do on your own time, with your own resources.