skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We did fork debian, and here are a TON of people who say they do not care, but still insist that we are doing it wrong for some reason.
Well, Uber uses the Internet to communicate. I know which one would be more useful overall to me.

I think not using a few websites who use scummy ad practices (of which there are sometimes ethically reasonable alternatives, like this site) is a lot easier than never driving again, though.
A lot of the western world has devolved into tribalism and identitarianism. People of similar views on anything are lumped in en-masse and presumed to hold all of the same values, opinions and support all actions of the collective whole.

It's a shame that a lot of core values are lost in favor of these viewpoints.
I don't believe this argument but I'll make it.

The very concept that this is 'your' data is in error. It is demographic data collected by third parties 'about' you. You've entered into consensual relationships to provide all of this data with those third parties, for the express purpose of using it for advertising. There is no expectation that it then would not be used for that purpose, quite the opposite thats why it is collected.

Conversely, your relationship with the data your doctor collects has had a long expectation of privacy. Reinforcing that expectation with explicit laws doesn't change the basic relationship.
I came to say basically the same thing. The article sounded interesting but TechCrunch has such a bad consent form / use of data that I always just nope out of there and close the page.
Slightly better implementation:

javascript:(function(){(function(){var%20i,elements=document.querySelectorAll('body%20*');for(i=0;i<elements.length;i++){var%20p=getComputedStyle(elements[i]).position;if(p==='fixed'||p==='sticky'||p==='-webkit-sticky'){elements[i].parentNode.removeChild(elements[i]);}}})()})()

It's basically the same but it also catches `sticky` and `-webkit-sticky`, which some sites use instead of `fixed`.
Strong Primes
I currently use Debian on everything except my R-PIs, where I use Raspbian.
No problem, I get why people use it, it's just grown.. less than a desirable place to read things.
Global Learning xPrize finalists open sourced
Relativity Space is also working on this, but with rockets:

https://www.relativityspace.com/
it has one major impact: every site I visit I have to click an annoying box acknowledging how the internet works.
Well said, Michael. It has been my good luck to work with Sam for years. He has an incredible combination of big ideas and the ability to get them done. Sam's power of intellect and his ability to communicate his thoughts clearly and concisely make him a great leader.

Sam has done so much for YC and I know is doing and will do amazing things with OpenAI.

I will continue to lean on him for his insight and advice.
So what's missing is the same charts showing median instead of mean.
Is that what we are calling Rockefeller this century
Is revenge porn protected by the constitution? Some states might say yes
Can AI Destroy Humanity?
Pharmacies will constantly negotiate and change drug distributors that may use a different manufacturer of generics.
Ask HN: Would you back out on a poor product after a significant investment?
The business I work for, has decided to invest in a complicated solution to meet our ever demanding customer requirements.
We took advise from our ERP provider as the solution that we need must integrate tightly and we still need to use our ERP support for issues.
We did look elsewhere but we felt a solution with backing from our ERP provider would be beneficial.

For the project to succeed, the business required to invest in two different types of semi-bespoke software, new hardware and a complete Wi-Fi infastructure change.

7 months into the project, a significant cost and many man hours of myself and consultants we have found the solution advised to us is not meeting our requirements.
Some of this is because the way the business runs and some of this is because the company making of of the pieces of software is doing a really poor job.

The last consultant that arrived had an unbiased opinion on a different company who could do exactly what we required.

Would backing away and looking elsewhere for a solution be a wise idea?

The working software solution and the Wi-Fi could be carried forward, but the troublesome software and it's hardware would essentially be lost.

For the record, I have recommended to stay with the problematic software. The company developing it has promised they can deliver and I really can't tell the business owners that their money has gone to waste
This API call is RAW. Come on, what are you doing man.
100%. I fly out of DCA/IAD, and each time weigh the options of parking at the airport and taking a rideshare service. Last time I used Uber from DCA it was much more expensive than I expected, and have been parking there since.
Too many people have too much of Google as part of their lives to do more than the OP did and eat the $70 instead of dropping out of Android development.

And that's got to be how Google can, intentionally or not, get away with such blatant fraud, the pool of people able to escalate is kept very small.
Tesorio (YC S15) Is Hiring Engineering Managers, Senior ML and Python Engineers
I don’t think google understood (understands?) the intended case much either.
No. Companies have a legally defensible narrative:

1. People were using Rhinna's songs without permission in large numbers.

2. The company wrote a program to automatically send out a takedown notice to violators

3. Whoops, the program made a mistake. We didn't mean to.

If you, dalore, write a takedown bot, it's obvious from the start you are acting in bad faith because there is no epidemic of people pirating dalore songs.

I do think that companies here are "acting in good faith" in so much as I do not think they are misrepresenting their intentions. I don't think Sony has a conspiracy to increase it's revenue by monetizing Minecraft gamer channels.

However, the law is written in such a way that there is no penalty for companies that write low precision, high recall, dumpster-fire grade take-down bot software.
Dijkstra used the concept of program statements as "predicate transformers". The idea is that a program has a series of predicates (think "assert()" on steroids).

A predicate is a formula (usually in first order predicate logic) that characterizes the allowable states of the program at the point where the predicate appears in the program text. I.e., "N == A * k + B".

Unlike assert statements, a predicate may not be executable, but rather serves as an aid to reasoning about your code.

A statement (i.e., "if", "assign", "case" etc.) modifies the allowable states of the program. Hence the phrase "predicate transformer".

The initial state when the program starts has a predicate that characterizes any required assumptions about the inputs. The final state has a predicate that characterizes the required output of the program upon completion.

Dijkstra, Gries, Hoare, and others created formal rules of inference describing exactly how a given statement modifies the predicates.

This approach worked brilliantly for the normal "structured" statements ("if", "do", etc.)

(To me, the most helpful idea from their system was the idea of invariants for iterative statements.)

However, their approach was impossible to do for arbitrary "goto" statements.

I believe Dijkstra was of the opinion that localized, static reasoning about program correctness was (is) the best way to get code correct and error-free.

The fact that arbitrary "goto" statements destroyed the ability to reason about programs in this manner was why he forcefully advocated against them.

(An alternative framework, denotational semantics, includes the idea of continuations, which among other things provides a mathematically rigorous characterization of arbitrary "goto" statements.)

FWIW, as a programmer I have found over the years that the predicate/"invariant" approach of Hoare-Gries-Dijkstra gives me a useful handle on reasoning through my code and getting it right.
I initially upvoted this for the first sentence, but then I decided I disagreed with the rest of it.

First, there was the web, and there weren't any ads, and that was just the way things were. Then there were ads on the web, and it got to be unpleasant. Then there were adblockers, and things were good again. Then there were adblocker-blockers, and I stopped visiting sites that used them.

I honestly don't know how you're going to make money out there, but it's not my problem.
Although I would pay serious $$$ to see Gordon Ramsey do a code review.
I let Prime expire a few months ago and, wow, was it shocking just how bad non-Prime customers are treated. Like you said, random items unavailable, constant nags to buy Prime and dark patterns during checkout trying to trick me into opting back in.

My reason for leaving Prime was that I was buying more stuff from 3rd parties who had free shipping for all than from Amazon or Prime 3rd-party sellers.

Also it started costing me a lot to just click the default buy option and I was having to do CSI-level due diligence on every order if I didn't want to end up with a counterfeit and/or pure scam. Several items I ordered were just straight up fraud that required annoying customer service interactions.

Losing the 5% credit card discount seemed painful until I realized that I buy 30-50% less stuff I don't really need now. Or that buying elsewhere I save much more than 5%. I'm surprised to be saying it, but I've returned to eBay for a lot of purchases and been pleasantly surprised.
You don't go to websites in order to give your data to them, you go to websites to consume the content they're displaying. The role is more similar to this:

1. go to a restaurant, eat, give wait(ress|er) credit card to pay for food

2. wait(ress|er) uses it to pay for the food, but also takes a picture of credit card front and back, then later uses it to buy an expensive TV

3. complain to the authorities (or your bank) about the fraud
But websites are on the internet, they're not the internet.
There was a mistake with acceptance/rejection emails for Startup School (not YC core) and so they accepted everyone. We were one of those that was meant to be rejected.
> The average cost of a WB-MRI scan for NSCLC patients was £317

Wow!
$3000+ here in the US.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
Well, saying "some people are stupid" is definitely politically incorrect (even though factually correct - as happens in most cases where PC is involved). "Some people might need help" is perfectly safe though.
Facebook?! John Carmack doesn't have a blog? :(
Overcoming Technical Roadblocks to Achieve $1M ARR
Terrorists can use any radio technology to evade cellphone jammers: 6LowPAN, Zigbee, Lora, even plain FM radio modulation. There is no substance in this article.
What happens when you have 15 billion people eating a non-meat diet?
I feel like this needs examples. What exactly is he recommending as a gold standard?
I learned today that Terry died. There is mist in my eyes and pain in my heart. I wish I could have helped him.

Sorry Terry, you were born with a loaded gun. I wish we could have healed you. I wish we could have taken care of you. I wish you were still here to share your gift with the world.

I’ll install Temple OS on a Raspi in your honor and memory.

edit: https://youtu.be/bQlE2C7K7Kc
Somewhat off-topic, but I would like to see regulations around non-opiate drugs changed to the point where I can buy my BP drugs off the shelf. I can see no reason this can't happen. It can't be a safety issue. I can show you hundreds of supplements significantly more dangerous than BP drugs.

I want to be able to stock up on BP meds, so that there is an emergency, I am not 100% dependent on the pharmacy being open and reachable. Currently, I am at greater risk than someone who is addicted to heroin. You can stop heroin without risk of death.
You will have noticed that the "B story" during the midcentury modern project is other projects they did in old episodes.

The unrealistic element in TOH is possibly down to sponsors or donations. One house will be done with cast-off-site foundation walls and another house will be done with poured-in-place foundation walls and it is not clear why.

I watch the show religiously obviously.
I basically agree, but it’s the current cost of storage (or, equivalently, global high-tension interconnects) that’s keeping it from being a no-brainer. I’m confident solar will take over in the next decade.
I’d happily accept ads for things on the internet as long as they were relevant to the topic and non-intrusive. These sites do need to earn some money for the work they do and I can decide if that work is valuable or not by reading their articles or watching their videos. Just make the ad experience sensible instead of throwing shitty dark patterns and other things that interrupt the experience. Let me subscribe to a pure RSS feed or other lightweight experience I can pull into a reader.

At least then I’m actually choosing to receive ads. In return it would be nice to have a say in the sheer amount of attention grabbing advertising we’re subjected to in the physical realm. There is no consent there, and this advertising only serves the purpose of businesses selling stuff. Why can’t I charge a cost per view for everything shoved in my face on the way to work, or at the cinema, or on the train, or in any other situation where I’ve already handed over cash? My attention is a scarce resource that holds a lot of value to my friends, family, colleagues, and any other human being in my life. I’d love to paywall access to that.

In short though I believe there has to be a fundamental shift from the belief that ads, tracking, and shadow profiles are the path to profit in an increasingly connected world. Something about the relationship needs to change, maybe towards business-2-citizen instead of business-2-consumer.
The OP is an Android developer, eating the $70 dollars was part of the cost of continuing to do that business.

But it's not going to help their brand or encourage others who are too tied to Google to sign on to services like Fi, and if not with this guy, in general it'll encourage people to find other lines of work.

I suspect so many people are sufficiently tied more or less to Google that the pool able to do chargebacks is small enough it won't prompt Visa/Mastercard on down to take action.
Ok, given the ads hate on HN this will be a pretty unpopular opinion here but... RTB is a good thing. It ensures that Google and FB don't become even more monopolies. Open ad exchanges ensure better efficiency of offer and demand and a somewhat middle ground between publishers and advertisers. In theory, it also ensures an alignment of incentives: higher quality ads (because advertisers want ads that perform better whereas publishers don't care as much on average, as long as they get paid)... Which of course comes at a privacy cost.
Remove or erode RTB (as it has been the case over the years with FB closing its ad exchange, Youtube not even offering an exchange etc) and you'll see the nightmarish closed web we all dread: all the long tail of websites won't be able to monetize anymore, and everyone will be at the mercy of Google and FB for any content to be published (AMP etc.). I'm sure Google and FB lawyers are super happy about GDPR: EU is helping them entrench their monopolies.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that in the current state of things, you cannot complain about "ads are evil and don't work", "Google and FB are monopolies" and "I want privacy" at the same time. The three are linked. If you push for privacy, you'll hurt open web (because you'll consolidate advertising to Google and Facebook which are on the publishers side so have less incentives to make ads work because they fully control inventory).

Patreon, Brave BAT and crypto etc. are good ideas to change the fundamental economics of the web. But in the status quo, we cannot have everything: privacy AND free services like Google and Facebook AND these companies not being monopolies interested in data collection.

[Disclosure: I've built a lot of ads targeting models in the past for a living]
Your hard work now might pay off more socially later in life. Also social skills and lifestyle are not fixed in stone
Consider that the alternative, is expensive drugs that only the ultra wealthy can afford.

What is better? A situation where the poor sometimes get ineffective drugs, or a situation where the poor get no drugs?

If you picked G.) Other. You don't understand how the world works. It's the "cheap, fast, good", you picked 3 instead of 2.

Edit, would love to hear solutions.
Seems like they could just force a delay of [x] time between individual driver logins. Call it a server side issue or something and make it so each driver can only re-login once every 15 minutes. Then by the time the surge worked the drivers instigating it would be locked out of participating.
If you don’t howl with the wolves, the wolves will howl for you.“ On René Girard
What's illegal about it? It's their service. If they don't want to provide it then they don't have to, including ads if necessary to offset costs. Your choice is to not use it. You can't demand it in whatever way you want if it costs them to serve you.
I love the fact that we are finding ways to work with more and more founders around the world, both in our core accelerator and with programs like Startup School. I believe the more entrepreneurship becomes a viable career option the more exciting the world gets.
No, that's the article's key conclusion. Read to the end next time.
Why not just show adds not targeted for a particular user, but rather for the audience targeted by the media outlet in the first place?

If the NYT or whatever started advertising for its audience, I wouldn't have shoes ads all over the place as soon as I buy a pair of shoes on amazon.

The big lie of adtech is that it can advertise better than conventional methods. Yet I've yet to see a relevant ad online - when I see them in paper magazines and metro stations that don't aggressively target me individually.

I'm not against advertising online, I don't like ads because I think they're too good and leverage our vices too much, yet I understand their necessity in the "econo-societal" context we live in. Therefore I am for ads in the metro, TV, magazines, billboards and websites. But I sure as fuck am against individually targeted ads, because even if they worked better I think that'd be going too far, but mostly because they don't work whatsoesver? In my circle of friends I've never heard someone going "yo, I saw this sick ad for [whatever], I'm sold, I'm gonna order one of those". I have however heard some (and myself) say "I saw this concert ad in the metro on my way here, wanna go ?" (The malade imaginaire with Daniel Auteuil ad in the Parisian metro worked on me for instance.)

I could go on and on about this, but I've recently switched to dvorak and I'm pretty slow at typing. My thesis is as follows though: use ads on me, but don't follow me everywhere and try to find out what I might buy again. Use conventional pre ad tech means, they work better anyway.

P.S. google sponsored links are such a dark pattern. I didn't realize it until I saw a very good friend of mine use google (peer googling if you will). He'd wouldn't even notice the sponsored links and click on them as if they were the first non-paid google link - only to click the back button and the second sponsored link again and again, until finally hitting the first non-paid link and being satisfied with its content. He's an architect and therefore very attentive to details and yet, he'd automatically click on them as we were googling after I repeatably explained him what was going on. I bet you most non techies are this way.

P.S.S I haven't even had the time to discuss about the gdpr popups that show iphone style toggles but that are so evily designed that you cannot tell if they are "on" or "off". Or all the sites that check them all by default when they should be off. And all those sites that you just cannot even find where the hell to set these things even after navigating on all the nested links in the popup.
> from a commercial perspective

Nailed it. The hobbyists are revolting. Anyone interested in making their system do something odd and clever is having problems, and the people running linux systems 9-5 are busy calling us morons for trying or even caring...
I don't understand what aspect of this you think is unenforceable. Companies can be legally required to perform certain actions, and then subject to sanctions if they do not perform them.
Well now, you say that.

Do you really think the most skeptical business owners and politicians in the US are going to keep ignoring it and emitting when it's their business, family, state or home that's impacted?

I don't know what it is, I don't know when it will be, but there will be a Pearl Harbor equivalent moment. After which inaction will be as impossible as action today. The moment the crash is apparent and inevitable.

By then it'll cost a fuck load more, and have far harder impacts on everyone's economy and lifestyle, but unless it turns out to be a bad dream, it seems pretty damn certain. Pretty damn certainly in our lifetimes.

You don't prefer the easier option?
"I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras."

- Alan Kay

With Alan Kay putting it into context here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11796926
There is no "forced" here. For most news sites, you can just not read them, and it's fine, really.
I wonder why the opposite is legal. If users are willing to pay more, Uber/Lyft will not automatically offer more to the drivers. Seems like the free-market works only when it is in favour of the company arbitraging.
It has been my experience that doctors are not that knowledgeable about specific pharmaceuticals, particularly compared to a pharmacist.
It's very early days, legally speaking, right? I imagine they are still mostly sending out warning notices, and collecting evidence of violations for the most part. In a few years, if a few stonking fines are handed out (which I think there will be) we'll see what's what.
That's not a memory-safe error.
People see it as more acceptable to make passionate employees do extra: study
> So, if an opportunity ever comes up when one of your advisors wants to reach out to me, I'd enjoy talking with them

I would not expect a YC partner to reach out to you just to chat, unless you are one of a handful of startups likely to blow up and they want to invest early. I think you should reach out to them directly instead of hoping they will find you.
I also keep thinking about doing this on my Pocophone (F1) but how do I know what works and what doesn't? I really like the face unlock feature and I don't want to lose the good camera. It's not immediately obvious from their website what state everything is in.
> Glass Enterprise Edition has helped workers in a variety of industries—from logistics, to manufacturing, to field services—do their jobs more efficiently by providing hands-free access to the information and tools they need to complete their work.

Seems fairly straightforward.
I feel like this is something most people know internally but haven't thought about yet. For example, even hololens UI elements are anchored to 2D planes. GearVR UI is clearly a cylindrical surface.
The problem, as with the first Glass V1, which failed miserably, was that it has no actual use case. The display is too small and as too low resolution to provide enough useful information to "logistics, to manufacturing, to field services" workers.

As with Glass V1, the only adoption outside of a very small set of Silicon Valley techies, was driven by tech executives, and it was immediately abandoned by workers once the executives stopped forcing them to use it.
John currently works for Facebook as CTO of Oculus.
Baltimore ransomware nightmare could last weeks more, with big consequences