skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the best approach to informational self-determination is to define that any information concerning you as a person belongs to yourself. Any diversion needs active consent. This is what this think tank (a name for every sweaty office) allegedly wants to get rid off.

I doubt this clear definition is impractical or utopian and could very well be implemented, so I doubt effective privacy legislation needs to be extensive. People consent to share information all the time. That would of course cost an industry that has stakes in information about you, even if that is not their primary business.

Furthermore it is worth to think about if there is any information about you which you are not eligible to share.

It is not trivial to determine if information is personal. Perhaps there should be a formal process to determine that.
I find it useful to point out in situations like this that we have already spent more time discussing the issue, or often "how not do to the thing" than it would take to simply do it.
I got interested in ESP about a year ago, from personal daily experience. I then answered this question for me personally, mostly from Jeffrey Mishlove podcasts. My short summary is that there is a focus on a handful of "protocols" (methods) which each individually validate ESP scientifically. There's a lot of confidence that because of this ESP will break out of the fringe category soon. It seems psychology is taking note (and that it must). The field is in need of a new generation as the founders are aging. ESP appears to not be constrained by time or space. There is no theoretical basis for the phenomenon.
Thanks, I tried to be clever. The post now links to the media page instead of the picture.
I don't really have a company but I've been in the industry for 5 years, my advice isn't much personal experience as it is insider knowledge. Hope it's ok.

The answer: it really depends on your audience and your goal with the blog post.

- 1. If you just want people to find you on Google with certain keywords, you really don't have to post it anywhere. This is very common for non-technical audiences, and they will mostly find it by themselves. Tell them in the end of the blogpost to follow you on social media and add an option to get their e-mail, if this is the kind of audience that does it.

- 2. If it's something that might interest to your current followers and further engage them (such as long form content), post on your own social media accounts and send to your newsletter subscribers. Avoid posting the things from #1 on social media unless it is interesting to your followers, because people will get fatigued.

- 3. If it's really high-quality content that will bring brand awareness, then post on aggregators. Hackers News and Reddit doesn't work for traditional marketing, keep that in mind. Examples: don't use marketing language ("by the way, did you know we make..."), never push readers to follow you on social media or subscribe to the newsletter (icons and a form at the end are more than enough) and don't even talk about your product unless it's absolutely necessary. People are smart enough to find about it by themselves.

- 4. Technical tutorials and wiki-like content, like Digital Ocean and Cloudflare do, work great for technical audiences. You only have to post the REALLY good ones into HN. People will find out about the others by looking into your blog sidebar, or archives, or by searching Google. There are aggregators and subreddits that allow other kinds of tutorials.

- 5. Try making tutorials and "behind-the-scenes" content for things related to features you release. Example: I just noticed that your company released a Google Cloud DB Migration service. Try to find out what kind of tutorial people need related to Google Cloud and put make a blog post. Then post them on aggregators related to Google Cloud. Make them easy to find via Google. Make specific mailing lists related to Google Cloud. Oh, and since your company is working with multiple cloud providers, comparison posts work wonders too ;)

A tip: take a cue from sociology/psychology and forget about your "target audience" for a moment. Instead, focus on two or three very specific "personas" that make sense for you business. Imagine a person and set a gender, an age, job, location, salary, everything. This will inform you where you need to post, how often, the language you have to use, sometimes even which platform you have to use.

TL;DR: Know your audience.
was pointing the private/company donations [0] which seems to hit 600m. so much money which could be helpful elsewhere.

[0] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/notre-dame-billionaire...
Note that this article is assuming, for purposes of argument, that photons actually have mass, equal to the current upper limit for possible photon mass based on experiments. But the experiments are all consistent with the current theoretical belief that photons have zero mass; and if they have zero mass, the concept of "lifetime" for a photon (and indeed the concept of "photons frame of reference") is not even well-defined.
Speak for yourself. With my grandfathered unlimited data play from Verizon, I basically stream YouTube all day long.
There's a difference, even in the "Protestant Work Ethic" though. You're expected to work for yourself, to get what needs to be done, done. That "work" includes living righteously, starting a/serving a family, contributing to and propping up your community, and making yourself a better person.

Nowhere in that is a blanket "Thou shalt do and ask no questions, lest you be punished."

There isn't Japan. Blind obedience went out of style in 1945, and should stay gone. We all know where that leads.

"A son who does not admonish an unreasonable father leads his family to ruin.", Confucius [paraphrased] again.

The 40 hour work week isn't even a luxury. It's required if you want some semblance of social stability. Industrialization was revolutionary in that tooling, factories, and infrastructure created an environment where work could happen 24/7/365. That doesn't mean it should, especially to the benefit of a few, at the cost of the livability of life for everyone else. Industry is meant to cure societal ills, not to act as a building block for exponential manufacture of new societal ills to be fixed by the very root cause of the original malaise.

I may not be Chinese, and may not fully understand current pan-Asian culture, but I weep at the tragedy I see unfolding whereby a culture seems to be cannibalizing itself into something nigh-unrecognizable from what it once was.

It seems to be happening everywhere nowadays.
I agree with you, but I don't have too much more to add. From birth non-blacks (and blacks alike) are classically conditioned by numerous socio-environmental stimuli to believe that blacks are inferior. I believe that all other issues discussed in this thread are based that unfortunate foundation. And that foundation is, of course, based on the tragic history of our country with respect to race relations.
The chief way by which google and the rest of the adweb companies sabotage Mozilla's stated mission is through executive incentive alignment, everything else is mostly irrelevant details (he said momentarily forgetting who the audience on this site was).
I believe jajag was using the "Scotch origin myth" to refer to the Scottish people/culture, as opposed to the drink.
Fundamentally, I think we need two key concepts:

- US equivalent of GDPR: A law that would guarantee us the right to control data about us, be informed of data collected on us, and request a copy or delete that data. The critical impact here is to protect our privacy with regards to corporations.

- A generally-defined right to privacy: The EU enshrines privacy as a fundamental human right, the US equivalent would be for us to define a general right to privacy as an amendment to the Constitution. Much like the original Bill of Rights, I would like a right to privacy which is more solidified than the implied one built on other existing rights, but open to interpretation enough to allow for it to adapt to changing situations in the future. The core concept here is to protect our privacy with regards to the government.
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> I remember being delighted by all the weird stuff it came with, including a small packet of fuzz, and other artifacts from the story.

I had no idea that the beach sand joke in the Look Around You satire segment about computer games was based on something that once happened in reality.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn82s7KAHvo
"3G" also encompasses HSPA which supports real-world speeds in the 10s of megabits.

The original 3G UMTS (384kbps) was indeed dreadfully slow by today's standards.
This isn't necessarily the case. Bringing that cable an extra ~300m and providing the ONT hardware for each house is quite expensive for the small number of customers that might benefit in a rural area. Terminating at fast wireless and providing radios is much more cost effective from the telco's perspective.
I think it's kinda like an intermittent bug in some application.

Like a "stable" civilization?

Sometimes I wonder if clouds of autonomous self replicators, such as our planet and our civilization, aren't viewed as atavistic exponential pests by godlike alien beings who control the entire resources of a civilization in one entity.
Especially online in 2019, apparently... Suffice it to say that the spire wasn't added as was claimed and leave it at that.
To differentiate themselves I think. I didn't like them at first either but they grew on me.

Car design is tricky - you have to design for peoples tastes 5+ years in the future.

(I know nothing about car design)
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I mean, honestly that's almost a drop in the bucket amount, but I get where you're coming from. What's even more interesting is that the church might be almost uniquely positioned to "lead" the fight against climate change, given their enormous pocketbook and international reach. However, Christians, and Catholics in particular, don't seem to be one of the most concerned groups regarding "earth-centric" things in an ironic twist of fate.
Modern techniques certainly can be used to build crap, but that is hardly a requirement. I bet they built plenty of crap a thousand years ago, too. I am very confident that we can build structures today that are better than anything ever built, when we choose to. Thing is, for most utility structures there is no particular benefit to building for that kind of longevity.
PS3 games are still only available through streaming though, and PS Now is also available on PC where cloud streaming is the only option supplied.
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Late art historian's work and 'Assassin's Creed' could help rebuild Notre Dame
Completely missed that on previous watches of the film. 27b-6 is a reference to George Orwell's address; Apartment 6, 27B Canonbury Square, Islington London.

It's also the website of David Thorne, who is always amusing if you're looking for some vicious sarcasm: http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html
Yeah, that's what The Verge is quoting from. It's in the opening sentence.
Not a simulation, but I have observed that some of the intersections around UCLA are set up like this, so it makes sense to at least one traffic engineer in the world.
I know I'm dreaming, Stephen is rather on the opposite side, but if he would open source it all/most of it, he'd be one of the most famous people around. I wonder how he'd move financially wise with that kind of bold move?
Prime spot right in the middle of Paris? (though, with maximum height regulations in Paris, a skycraper there wouldn't be very tall)
When I read the title, I got excited thinking that there would be a discussion about how the law of averages tends to fail to represent a diverse population of humans. It turns out that if you build around a set of average (statistical mean) measurement, you'll end up building a product that fits _nobody_.

Here's a great article from the Star that does a terrific job of discussing this idea. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...
It's important to realize that the workplace often involves being subjected to what is really a kind of psychological abuse. It is not, I think, a coincidence that we are learning that many "stellar managers" turn out to be abusers, e.g. guilty of sexual harassment. What you're describing is in psychological terms thought of as "maintaining boundaries" against a person who is intent on transgressing those boundaries for their own gain or amusement.

If you validate the invalid assertions of these abusers (e.g. that some unclear task can be estimated with certainty) then you're enabling the abuse.
I think it is pretty well understood that they weren't successful.

At least to me as far as if he deserves protection as a journalist, I don't think it matters if he was successful. You can help someone try to commit a crime and even if they're not successful, that can be a crime.

If a journalist is given information that is one thing, offering or even helping someone commit a crime and their role has changed dramatically IMO.

I also wonder what might have happened to that other user whose account they tried to access had hey been successful. What would have come of that person's life / career had they used that as cover for Manning?
>Windows Mobile was a vastly superior operating system, but it was dropped because it was only in third place

Putting aside the claim that Windows Phone was a superior operating system...Windows Phone PEAKED at 3% of market, that was prior to spending $7 billion on Nokia in a desperate attempt to keep going. They dropped to 0.1% of the market at the beginning of the 2017 when they terminated it. It's ludicrous to suggest they could rebound from that. As for superior OS, they shipped Windows Phone 7 in 2010 without the ability to cut and paste text.

https://www.recode.net/2017/7/17/15984222/microsoft-windows-...

From the manager of Windows Phone, paying and even writing the apps for companies wasn't enough for them to want a Windows Phone app...

>“We have tried VERY HARD to incent app devs. Paid money. wrote apps 4 them.. but volume of users is too low for most companies to invest,”
> We don't really have projects like that anymore.

We strive for Mars, knowing full well neither us nor our children will ever see the cities to come.
The ability to put in a disk and play a game without checking DRM or doing anything other than pressing start. That, and the massive advantage of not having to mess around with tuning graphics settings.
> Taller landing gear is not an option

Why?
That quiz has an unintentionally apt question.

> Total length of the coastline of the Pacific Ocean

Coastlines are fractal. If your measuring stick is 1 km long, you'll get one number. If it's 1 m long, you'll get a much larger result. And if it's 1 cm long, you'll get an even larger result.

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

The actual length of a coastline is infinite when measured with an infinitesimally small measuring stick.

Software development effort also increases, unbounded, as discovery proceeds and the precision of requirements increases.
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I only recently watched python for the first time this year and really enjoyed most of it, but you’re right. Almost any scene that featured a “Chinese” person made me cringe.
> you were at positive AoA, reduced thrust would impart a negative AoA moment

I don't think that is correct. I think you're still thinking of the angle of the plane with respect to the horizon, not the AoA.

If reducing thrust reduced AoA, then you could recover from a stall by reducing thrust. In reality, the opposite is the case. The only way to recover from a stall by manipulating engine thrust is to increase it (though this won't always be sufficient by itself).
I love his livestreams because of how normal he is. His meetings sound like any other meeting I've been. It's really a great watch.
I had more success switching them over to Telegram.

I'd prefer Signal, obviously, but I'll take what I can.
>but it does not mean one is willing to take advantage of them

He had already taken advantage of them and collected their data at that point...
As we grow older we realize that nothing lasts forever but change. Gone is your childhood home, gone your school, gone the people who defined it.
it's nice to have something around that seemingly lasts forever like the earth and sky. Makes us feel home, when home is long lost too time.
>other than artificial reasons like exclusive titles - I'd like to hear it

That is literally the reason for the tech inclined, and it's not artificial. The politics behind it don't matter; if I want to play X and I can only play it on console Y, guess what I'm going to buy?

Other than that, consoles are still cheaper than building a comparable gaming rig. Not by a huge margin, but still cheaper, and people already ha e nice TVs to play on (so don't ignore the cost of a monitor.) Beyond price, the fact is that building a rig is harder than plugging in a console. I know it's not _hard_, but most people just don't want to deal with it.
I could see this as a prompter to get folks to police themselves, like to rat each other out over the articles 11/13 crap, similar to how the Americans were offering terrorist bounties in Afghanistan, prompting folks to falsely accuse annoying neighbors and the like.

But I really want to see it as a political fail-safe against multinational corporations.
This is kind of why SpaceX is so efficient. That kind of dead wood doesn't really exist there, plus their actual aerospace/mechanical engineers are cream of the crop from the best universities.
I'm pretty sure that you can park a certain number of trucks on the parvis in front of the cathedral.
Humor was one of the things that needed breaking.
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It's a moderately offensive term to use for people, though.
> Is there any law/legal mechanism which could put automatic expiration on new laws?

It can be (and has been for some laws) done. In the past, it's been done by including "sunset provisions" in the law itself, where the law must be periodically confirmed by a new vote or it automatically ceases to have force of law.

It would also be legally possible to create a law that places sunset provisions on all subsequent laws. I have been in favor of this approach for a very long time. Practically, it's not going to happen, though.
It has been perfectly representative of how the company functions. Collecting and monetizing data from the "dumb fucks" with little to no regard for anything other than profits and getting people addicted to their apps

edit1: Guess I made some facebook engineers upset as I'm being downvoted. Looks like dymk is likely a facebook engineer, as his comment history has lots of comments seemingly supporting facebook, data collection, and ads, or at the very least arguing against those that oppose them. Reframe it however you want, Zuckerberg, Facebook, and its engineers are immoral and not concerned with the privacy or security of anyone's data. The people that knowingly continue to work their are complicit in the net negative impact facebook has on society

edit2: dymk is no longer a software engineer at facebook, but he was until early this year
Obviously we've banned this account.
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Being solved the in the other direction, soon all unencrypted traffic will be marked as dangerous.

FWIW the trend has been ongoing for a long time. I remember 10 years ago being frustrated I couldn't scp with the NULL cipher on my own local LAN unless I built from source.
>What about formal agreements between Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page? Documented, litigated, proved in court. http://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/

What about it? That certainly happened, but like you said, it was documented, litigated, and the offending parties paid big fines.

Where is the rest of the market collusion keeping wages down?

>your assertion that a few weeks of coding bootcamp can land a good job is highly suspect.

There are some numbers out there. Here's one: https://www.switchup.org/rankings/coding-bootcamp-survey

Half of bootcamp attendees had less than 50 hours of experience. On average bootcamp alumni saw a $20k salary increase in their first job after completing the bootcamp.

So now your assertion holds less water than mine.
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There was a Tex Murphy game (Tesla Effect) released in the last couple of years (and was Kickstarter backed), and Her Story made a big splash slightly more recently than that. Several Her Story inspired productions since have been in the works or released. They'll probably never be mainstream/"AAA" again, but there likely will continue to be some people building them so long as they can find their audience.

Plus, AAA game mo-capping has gotten to the point where some of them such as Uncharted and Quantum Break feel very close to classic FMV, with the benefits of a full 3D environment. Quantum Break even had entire "TV episodes" in the middle, making it perhaps the wildest "FMV" game of the last few years.
What are you quoting? This text is not on the linked page.
We have variable speed signs in the US, but where I live, they aren't followed, to the point that it seems unsafe to obey them and go 30mph when the flow of traffic is 60mph
Micah Elizabeth Scott (scanlime) talks about using a similar trick as a first step into reverse engineering firmware: https://youtu.be/UTUYl-2g-r4?t=328
"The this is why we have Trump" blame keeps shifting as long as Liberals are unable to acknowledge their own lack of empathy for their compatriots and their own failures to provide solutions that work for what ails their country.
Standing out for the sake of standing out is the biggest problem with the design of electric cars.

I don't see why they have to be made "unusual" or atypical looking just because it doesn't have a gas-fuelled engine.
This piece is dated November 2018, please update title with a year tag "(2018)".
> If 5G uses almost the same frequency where microwaves detect water vapour (around 24 GHz), won't the weather have a great impact on it?

There's a general misunderstanding about the technology that leads people down this road of thought.

5G is broken up into two frequency ranges, FR1 and FR2. FR1 is everything below 6Ghz and encompasses the same spectrum as traditional cellular technologies. FR2 is everything over 24Ghz and that's the bit everyone is confused about.

FR1 is like traditional cellular and will be slapped on cell towers to provide broad coverage over a wide area with performance characteristics similar to what we have today with LTE. It's not very exciting but it's 5G and this is what everyone is currently rolling out.

FR2 is meant to be absorbed, otherwise you'd have a big problem. Unlike FR1 which limits you to 100mhz bandwidth per channel, FR2 mandates that channel bandwidth be between 50-400mhz. So at a minimum, an FR2 channel will have half the maximum allowable bandwidth of FR1. If FR2 propagated more than a very short distance the airwaves would be quickly saturated by a small number of users.

FR2 is intended to be deployed in very dense areas like indoors. You'd be able to deploy many cell sites without worrying about overlap or signal propagation because everything from walls to moisture in the air will absorb the signals.

It might also be possible to slap an FR2 cell site on top of every lamp post going down a street.
Tiktok – Getting Banned Trying to Hack the Tiktok API
This seemed like good open source project.
That actually looks like a fun product, but given that all I saw for finding the price was essentially "contact us", cost is likely very high, and discouraging for just playing around.

I wonder why a "SimRoads" hasn't been created?

A mashup of this road microsimulation and something like TORCS might be a fun thing to play with, both from the "design" and "simulation" perspectives.