skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What if the ads are required for the operation of the website, because without them the site has to close?

That's why you ask people. If enough people agree to paying for your content with their data, your site lives on.

If too many opt to not pay for your content with their data, your site dies unless it can find another way of making money, such as subscriptions.

Yes, it absolutely can mean that the giants will expand and lots of small sites that use ad networks will die.
But it is really slow in comparison to lets say Germany or Austria where 80%+ votes are counted after 2 hours.
Even if you upload a photo, FB will block the account if the photo doesn’t show your entire face. I set up a Facebook account where, after a holiday in Morocco, my profile photo was me in a turban where my mouth was obscured by part of the turban. I got a message from FB saying that this was not sufficient and I would have to upload another photo where no part of my face was covered.
I didn't notice.
BA went up a lot in last couple years because there weren't any competition left and the demand for air travel has skyrocketed. They got 5000+ backorder for 737Max alone for regional. Then Airbus bowed out of the long distance market, leaving it to Boeing's 787.

The current fiasco certainly will put a damper to their stock，but there's simply no other choice for new planes. They will bounce back.

Disclosure: I shorted/put BA yesterday morning
In addition to the practicality of choosing the big, obvious violators first, one or two actions against well-known targets should hopefully convince a lot of the secondary and tertiary potential enforcement targets that the EU is serious about enforcing these regulations. Some[1] companies might even decide that complying with the regulations be a better business plan than abusing their user's ignorance to undermine democracy[2].

[1] Unfortunately, experience suggests many will prefer bullheaded clinging to their surveillance capitalism business models to the bitter end.

[2] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and...
It kind of feels like Prop 65 here in California. So many things have a 'this could cause cancer' tag that it is ignored 100% of the time, the exact opposite of its intent.
Amazon is similar. Listing your products on there does not lead to sales. So, in addition to the 15% cut, I pay Amazon roughly 5-10% more to advertise my products as sponsored listings. But I can tell you that Amazon has resulted in way more sales than advertising on Goole and sending customers directly to our site. There is tremendous value to being on Amazon. Despite the constant declarations of Amazon having a counterfeit product epidemic, customers are comfortable buying on Amazon. They know that Amazon will have their back if we rip them off. As a result, there are lots of consumers who only buy certain classes of goods from Amazon. And it is Amazon, not me, who has cultivated that relationship. It makes sense that they charge me a significant amount to participate.
Agreed. I don't think they're unsalvageable, but they're definitely unsafe in their current state, and trust will need to be rebuilt (a slow process). Boeing is to blame for most of this because of their design decisions, too.
> I hated that in order to do a loop in a lambda, you had to implement a y-combinator, but they fixed that.

Heh, I see what you did there.
Again. iOS is not a monopoly.

Having a monopoly over their own product is what every company has.
Oh yes, of course there are many motorized processes, but the point is there's no inherent logic to them. A myosin grabs onto a filament and goes to the plus end of the actin filament (usually, not some of them, again it gets complicated :) but it doesn't know where that tube is going. It'll just happily move to the end and fall off/get blocked. If the destination "wants" or "needs" supra-diffusion transport, it needs to recruit the tubes to come to it. Every entity in the cell essentially acts as its own agent, and it's only through interactions that it does one thing or another.

EDIT: probably more accurate to call actin "filaments" not tubes, typo
What does the expression "adds more smoke to the fire" mean
Is this a buying opportunity for Boeing stock?

NYSE: BA $373.96

Seems to be 'discounted'.
David from Hackernoon here. We've actually been using Medium as our content management system for so long there was no fee at all. They wanted to cover the fee to recruit more publications. While we haven't paid for hosting, it has come at a tremendous cost (to name a few: medium has our reader data, our subscribers email addresses, and runs many pop up create an account ads that very much hurt our bounce rate). Tradeoff was our own little version of this https://twitter.com/JulienVallini/status/1060177021953806342 Although we also wont be paying for hosting for the next year or so b/c we got a grant from GCP https://hackernoon.com/google-cloud-platform-hacker-noon-2ba... But ultimately, high traffic sites need to be smart about hosting fees, and I think our upcoming setup will be a good balance between calling the app and surfacing content from CDN. Personally, I don't think domains and people can be classified as containers, but word choice is an art and I certainly feel dehumanized by that one.
Drones that perch like birds could go on much longer flights
At first I didn't agree with your "too late now" remark but now that the US grounded them, you were spot on.

Now it feels more like a calculated reaction based on profits (ie. enough people cancelled MAX flights or asked for a flight change that grounding the plane is now a better decision financially).

In any case, it's a good result that they are grounded until everyone knows what happened during the crash and have an iron clad solution to prevent the same thing from happening in the future.
Short answer: Capitalism, lobbying, and putting profits over everything.
I read it that way as well :)
Hi did however manage to push his people towards achieving what they did so far with Tesla and Space X. I guess that's also a big thing? Not genius but definitely something, although I'm sure everything came at a huge cost for the people involved. You just have to ask yourself if the result justifies it.
It's amazing what's personally identifiable though. Browser fingerprinting combined with ever present analytics scripts gets you most of the way there.
If you want to bet your life on something dangerous, go ahead, but don't ask others to do the same. Every major civil air authority is now grounding this plane, including the US.
At least the Kindle and Kindle app can read books from other sources, they don't force you to buy from Amazon.
Lion, maybe, (I don't know anything about them to say), but Ethiopian Air is a top-rated airliner.
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I haven’t looked at their annual report recently, but back in 2016, advertisement made up a majority of their revenues and profits — around 90% if I recall correctly. I’d be willing to bet that keyword advertisements on search make up a larger portion of that traffic than that through YouTube videos.
Probably would be deemed to violate the Guidline that "You must not directly or indirectly target iOS users to use a purchasing method other than in-app purchase, and your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase."
If a sites business model depends on using their users' data without their consent/knowledge then why would we want regulation to protect it from being eaten and their seat at the table taken by facebook?
ideal for clickjacking
Well they say hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard...

DF is definitely an admirable and awe-inspiring project, regardless of the beauty of its innards
Eh this is just one big company trying to get more profits by complaining against another.

Spotify is not the good guy here.

Spotify works just fine on apple products (I use it), who cares about using Apples payment processing system (which they have a right to charge for), it's a Spotify service, so i should pay through Spotify which i do.
it really goes to show how different all of our feeds are based on who we are friends with (and of those, who we interact with the most). Anecdotally, I have 3 people who will share any "conservative" attack meme (at this point, I don't even know if it counts as conservative so much as just outright attacking Democrats. Sometimes it reads more like an attack for the sake of attacking than a statement of belief in something different. Kind of weird. Part of me wonders if maybe some of these accounts do conservative attacks and some do liberal attacks in an attempt to get shares and what not with no political interest whatsoever: effectively acting as an arms dealer of the meme variety.) they can get their hands on and of my friends of a more liberal view, it is mostly policy things they share (pro-choice, anti-rape, etc.). There's one dude that is pretty anti-Trump, but his for the most part stand out as an exception. Most of the ones I see referencing Trump directly (if it isn't during a period where he did something that Democrats felt was highly suspect) are more in support of him than anything.

Which is why I have to refrain from taking an "over the top much?" slant when people post the pro-Trump/victim of the left type memes as I don't see a ton of attacks on him directly, but then again, their feed could be totally different from mine so who knows?
Never catch a falling knife.

Source: Career spent as a Wall Street Trader
I was a massive admirer of Musk (though not a vocal one) but his behaviour over the last year or two has been pretty shit.

The whole calling someone a paedophile without cause thing was the final straw.

Now I just think he's a talented narcissistic arsehole.
I mean it's kinda true. But they still had to figure out that these were the projects/companies worth buying and afterwards pursuing and advancing them such that they would become the cash-cows they are today.

IMHO the Google Home devices and Chromecast are quite successful.

I admit these are probably not powerhouses on the level of Android, Chrome or YouTube. However it's just not possible to create a powerhouse every 1 or 2 years.
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It's all there on the official Youtube channel too : https://www.youtube.com/user/BobRossInc/playlists
It's more than a monthly salary in many places.
> Can you imagine if Twitter and Google went down at the same time?

Google sure, but what people in the real world cares about twitter?

Twitter could be down for days and only the technocracy would notice.
USA has at least 4 systems to support people who don't do anything of utility.
Wellfare, bureaucracy, prison system, army.
It's not even clear to me how they actually work. Usually what I do when there's no "Deny" button (which is most of the time) is just leave the dialog open in hopes that that qualifies as "not accepting". But then some of them say "by continuing to use this site you agree". But, what does that even mean? Do they wait for a scroll event before setting the cookie, or is it there already before I even click "Agree", and the dialog does nothing whatsoever?
There's a difference between personnel changed and commanding actions to be taken, though.
> The barrier to entry is still pretty high, and I don't think the announced additions are going to change that.

This would be a problem for a new game, especially in Steam's early access program - but at this point DF has a huge "brand", and people know what they're getting into. I think it could even be argued that the difficult UI is part of the experience, as weird as that sounds.
True, though the GP's example was somewhat unique in that UTF-16 created the possibility of invalid combinations at the code point level, rather than only the byte level.
Show HN: Better New Tab – Chrome Extension That Suggests Pages in New Tab [OS]
Hi, i just released my weekend project called "Better New Tab". It is Chrome Extension which overrides your 'New Tab' page to suggest pages that you are usually visiting at this time (e.g. it's Monday, 9:00AM -> it shows websites that are most visited on Mondays between 8:30 and 9:30 AM).

The idea was simple and to be honest i am still surprised that Google cannot find out that depending on time i usually visit different websites. My chrome browser life looks probably like for a lot of other developers:

at work (Mon-Fri 9am - 5pm) i usually visit websites related to my projects, github, stackoverflow etc.
at home (Mon-Fri 6pm - 10pm) i usually read news, check social media, watch yt

It's really easy to notice a pattern here, but still, my new tab in chrome looks the same all the time. It doesn't matter if it's Monday morning or Saturday evening, it constantly looks the same.

I thought that it cannot be so hard to write something better, so i did it, feel free to test, ask or even just inform me that it sucks ;)

source code: https://github.com/tombaranowicz/BetterNewTab

extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-new-tab/kep...
Boeing 737 Max 8 Pilot Report (2018)
Pick up a bunch of paints / brushes and whatnot and just play with them, then focus more on the ones you like. Maybe you wont like it.
There was so much more than that, too... Mac IE5 had full support for transparent PNGs, a download manager, an auction manager (!), and a bunch of different color themes to match Apple's product line. It was easily better than even MSIE6, and it's a shame that Microsoft essentially abandoned the product after release, along with the Tasman rendering engine it used.
Curious to know whether someone has made a website to compare DDG and Google search results side by side. Anyone on HN want to take up that challenge? This story is definitely not the first DDG against Google story in the last few months.
Why would you want such a header?

Would be much nicer if the - already existing! - do not track header was interpreted to mean "Allow-Cookies: HELL_NO_WHY_ARE_YOU_EVEN_ASKING_FUCK_OFF".

Thanks to GDPR, the provider does NOT have to ask for consent for necessary cookies - only for the tracking stuff to which you have no incentive to agree. Every time a page pops up one of those "we value your privacy" screens, they're lying in your face - if they did, they wouldn't have to ask.
> Maybe it's the expectation that open source should be a massive fountain of wealth that is the real problem.

Maybe. But I also think that kind of funding for open source you talk about is not there for high-complexity projects in the present time.

It's not that I don't like that traditional model. I am legitimately worried it is no longer feasible.
Thank you for your feedback. That’s a good idea. I’ll open an issue for it. :)
Let's be clear about what is happening here. This is simply a 'not on my watch' and 'CYA' philosophy that is what society has become today with so many news hungry sources and social media. Anyone in a position of power is so worried about getting blamed by irrational people for a bad outcome that they will simply make a choice to prevent that from happening at any cost. This doesn't mean that it's the wrong choice. But the fact is all anyone has to think is 'wow if this happens a third time I will get blamed'. [1] The old 'abundance of caution'.

The fact is at what point do you do this? What about an extreme. Like every time there is any crash just ground every single plane until the extensive investigation is done?

[1] And it should be irrelevant what has happened in other countries as far as grounding as well. Assumes they have concluded something and have more facts which of course they don't.

Edit: I love when people who comment on HN based on what they read feel that they know more about the actual risk than the people (per my reply to a comment) at Boeing.
4 seasons, the 4 corners of the world, the 4 cardinal directions, the 4 bodily humors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humorism), you can find a ton of 4's in the West.
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Google+ Communities Won’t Go Down Without a Fight
The caption indicates it's real, and I'd imagine listing key identifying characteristics is quite standard for a security department's "don't let this disgruntled employee in" notices.
> Third world aircraft maintenance combined with poor pilot training and non-idiot proof software made these disasters happen. It's not something that would happen in the US or any other first world country.

We're nowhere near having gathered enough facts to put forward claims like that.
The alternatives of such integrated platform is chat app, which ironically, the most popular chat app is Whatsapp owned by Facebook. So if someone built a event management software based on Whatsapp's new API and start gaining traction, facebook would steal the idea and launch their own.
I wonder if they publish their drive failure rates like BackBlaze? 5 Eyes tax payers and all.
I checked your screenshots before replying to you (and regardless of jgrahamc apologizing with a convenient "we don't do that anymore"). It seems like the second screenshot came after you told them you were thinking about leaving the service. At least that's the way the screenshots are linked in your post. I think your english skills (from two years ago) failed you here. You told them you were possibly going to leave the service, and in their follow-up they asked you to notify them if/when you moved off the service. I don't see any threat here.

You told them "If you have nothing cheaper, I'm going to have to leave" and they replied with "We have nothing cheaper. Let us know when you leave". That's not a threat, that's calling you out on >your< threat.
This is by far the most interesting aspect of this story. I expected that the US would ground these planes soon. There was too much pressure to follow the rest of the world. But having the order come from the President rather than the FAA is highly unusual. Seems like something very strange must be going on behind the scenes. Maybe the FAA is reluctant and he’s forcing their hand, or maybe he’s trying to take credit for their decision.
Hacker News might just have a "Major Internet Services" status board.
Let's ignore this new information and just carry on our existing arguments - it's the only appropriate thing to do without a general regulatory theory.
I mean, he also claimed that newer airplanes are less safe than older airplanes. Which seems pretty absurd given that crashes have been trending down for sometime.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/828609/trump-claims-old-simpl...
It's not really blindness... it's a trade-off I'd be willing to make to still own & have full control over the hardware I buy. Unless we can find a better middle way to achieve this.

Also, is Android as malware infected as GP describes? He singles out desktops, but Android does allow side-loading apps and people still near exclusively download apps though the play store. Adding a few other stores of big&trusted companies to painlessly load apps doesn't seem that risky to me. But would certainly add competition. I really don't understand why I must have a Google account to download Microsoft office.
On macOS at least, opening a PWA .app also launches Chrome, and quitting Chrome also quits any PWAs you have open. That's not a stellar experience.
We could further optimize by just assuming that people are OK with it if they didn't send the header, and then have them opt in to sending it.

Maybe we could call it something like "DoNotTrack", to get the idea across.

DNT was mostly ignored, but if it had the weight of law behind it, it could still be great.
> I mean.. the guy did own and operate an airline at one point. So it's a little silly to say he knows nothing about it

Given the way that worked out, his having owned and operated an airline is certainly evidence that he had money, but not evidence that he knows much about even the business side, much less any other aspect other than the "being a passenger" side, of aviation.
+1 it seems like to combat FB events here, you don't need a service in the first instance. You need a standard that's accepted and used by significant parties. Likely someone like Fastmail could push this forward, but you'd want Gmail to be a first adopter to make this work.
Some handsets might have an unlocked boot loader but that’s only half the battle. It doesn’t mean there will be a working port of Android available, that any proprietary hardware will be supported nor that you’d get the full features of Android (at least not legally since the Google Play is only available for licensed OEMs).

Also I’d already acknowledged that it was easier and cheaper to sideload apps on Android.

Before you jump in and say something like “why should OEMs / Google offer you all this stuff for free etc”, I do completely agree. This isn’t a rant at Google (nor Apple) specifically but just at the state of technology these days. It’s not just an issue about geeks like us having ownership of our devices, it’s also creating a problem for environmental waste since it’s becoming increasingly hard to upgrade or replace parts. Laptops have components soldered in and old phones often end up in landfills. It’s such a shame to see.

Anyhow, I’ve drifted way off topic. Sorry for that
I couldn't find anywhere what was actually asked to the "professional" programmers on freelancers.com, but I suspect that a compensation of €100-€200 for what is seemingly a two-three days work somehow didn't actually attract the top programmers around.

It seems to me that there is a lot of bias deriving from a "you pay peanuts..." approach.
By allowing JIT at all, a small ROP chain can call VirtualProtect to make a larger payload executable.

Sure you can do everything with ROP, but it is less convenient (and Intel CET might eventually make ROP attacks actually hard).
> civil disobedience

What do you mean civil disobedience? It’s not like there is a law forcing you to board the plane if you don’t want to.
An interesting point was made by an airline pilot in one of the plane forums. It appears that Max 8 with full trim deflection down doesn't have enough controls authority to recover (at least in the syms). Thus, the trim issues followed by disabling the trim can lead into a situation when pilots can not recover the plan from steep descend. Of course, this is not necessarily what have happened in real life and we need to see the data.
TIL "casuistry". Thanks!

casuistry: n: the use of clever but unsound reasoning, especially in relation to moral questions; sophistry
That is quite generous but I don't know that it'd sit well having someone else pay for me for what I consider too much to use. I suppose it's all just my principles since I could just use it in an unregistered state as many personal users likely do. I like supporting software like this... I just can't justify the cost, particularly since it's just for my own use.
The only account of the decision making I've seen

Well, it does seem to spend a lot of time on Twitter. Perhaps he saw something convincing there.
Yeah, I think a lot of people here are just naive to how much dirty dealing goes on in the world. This stuff is just more public.

Musk was never some wonderful person that should have been looked up to for his own merit. But I generally don't pick cars based on how much we like or dislike their CEO, and I suspect that most others don't either.
Not sure if you know how enterprises work.

But it is standard practice for divisions to bill other divisions for work. I would be almost certain that Apple Music is already paying the 30% tax however since it’s internal it doesn’t really make a difference. Likewise splitting into a new entity does not change anything.