skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little bit of corporate newspeak (and digging):

Ad URL: https://static.adsafeprotected.com/sca.17.4.95.js

JS Domain: adsafeprotected.com

Domain Owner: Integral Ad Science, Inc[0]

Google's recent stance on the matter of fingerprinting[2]:

>Chrome also announced that it will more aggressively restrict fingerprinting across the web. When a user opts out of third-party tracking, that choice is not an invitation for companies to work around this preference using methods like fingerprinting, which is an opaque tracking technique. Google doesn’t use fingerprinting for ads personalization because it doesn't allow reasonable user control and transparency. Nor do we let others bring fingerprinting data into our advertising products.

The important part being: _Nor do we let others bring fingerprinting data into our advertising products._

The same company advertises their fingerprinting capabilities:

>Browser and Device Analysis: We analyze the technological fingerprints of browsers and devices in order to uncover bots fraudulently posing as human users. We can validate what type of mobile or desktop device a browser is running on, providing additional context with which to identify fraud.

And it is this fingerprinting that gets them selected as a Google Brand Safety and Viewability Preferred Measurement Partner[1]

>New York, NY – Integral Ad Science (IAS) has been selected as a preferred partner in Google’s Measurement Program for both brand safety and viewability. Partners were selected after meeting rigorous standards for accuracy and using reliable methodologies to measure KPIs that matter for marketers. The program is designed to make it easier for advertisers to source trusted, third-party measurement providers.

The gist of it being that Google has heavy cognitive dissonance, with their advertising wing rewarding partners that fingerprint users (against their own policies), and the Chrome team barely managing to introduce some anti-fingerprint measures, which are clearly not enough.

[0]: https://integralads.com/capabilities/ad-fraud/

[1]: https://integralads.com/news/google-selects-ias-brand-safety...

[2]: https://blog.google/products/ads/transparency-choice-and-con...
Changing the resolution sounds like it would break a lot of websites, though.
YouTube recommendations are terrible.

Is there some service somewhere that does a better job with YouTube videos?

Google has historically been unfriendly towards third party API use, but here's hoping.
I stopped using them completely after the second time buying plane tickets only to find they were unavailable in the middle of the checkout process.

I now go directly to the airline website.
If you have a significant amount of cryptocurrency, get a hardware wallet.
But for code that's supposed to be so smart in trying to fingerprint people without them knowing, calling an API that throws a warning in the browser seems like a really stupid move. Especially since that can be checked through feature detection, which is literally what this code is doing...
Let’s not even mention how they always try to justify these monstrosities by saying they’re better for the environment. Insult to injury.
Benchmarking the Experimental Bcachefs Against Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, XFS and ZFS
MIDI-Controlled Solenoids [video]
I hope "relevant parties" includes "browser vendors" and not "adtech companies" :)
All the investigator sees is that someone went to a website with your name on it, bought product X, and received a counterfeit of product X instead. It doesn't matter how that happened; all that matters is that your business enables counterfeit goods to find a market. Of course if you run a business that sells via Amazon you have to specifically opt out of this inventory mixing, even though it increases your costs. Either that or you shouldn't do business via Amazon at all, or you should gang together with other businesses and force Amazon to change it's operations. But no matter what you do it's likely to increase your costs.
Our Illiberal Empire of Rights
Are you disagreeing with the person you replied to? Your tone suggests that you are, but the content of your post seems to being agreeing.
Key locations of a 3000+ km border? Please realize the wall is just a political slogan. It will never be seriously built because it's insanely expensive, and no matter how many km you manage to save, it will be very big and very hard to guard.

Ironically, you might not need it since Trump and AMLO (the Mexican president) agreed for Mexico to stop the influx of migrants with its own resources. In a sense, we built the wall and are paying for it, by becoming the wall itself.
Do you have a title or a link to the case study - just searching for TPS on HBR returns an awful lot of results!
Care to share an example?
It's a shame that now when I see Cambridge as a news source I think of their shabby treatment of Jordan Peterson and Noah Carl and discount it somewhat before reading it ... because there are still many fine scholars there.
Why is it more acceptable when a business does it than when a government does it?
I didn't vote for Trump, don't support him, and think he is a worthless human being. That being said, its become crystal clear that a large part of our "cultural elite" at the pinnacle of most big tech companies, media outlets and universities in this country have taken it upon themselves to decide what social and political opinions are acceptable, and are working hard to erase and/or silence anyone who doesn't adhere to their cultural/political ideology. Given the largely centralized nature of modern society and modern communication, this gives tremendous power to those at the top to decide what views are acceptable to disseminate (or hold at all). This is extremely troubling to those of us who believe in the concept of free speech and free expression as being the bedrock of a free society (which is distinct from the legal mechanism of the 1st Amendment). The results of this lockdown on free speech are not necessarily the results being sought or desired by our tech/corporate censors. Ideas and philosophies that are deemed taboo and banned don't simply disappear, they go underground and find alternative communication networks, often becoming even more radical in the process. Those who prefer to keep their heads buried in the sand and suggest that monopolistic behemoths like Google are simply exercising their right as a private company to decide who to silence and who to promote are simply ignoring reality.
Again, I disagree. Twitter came up with a way to make some posts more widely shown, and you're trying to tell me they don't have a way to make some posts less widely shown? As someone else said, if there are a lot of comments and few likes, don't put it in the trending feed. That's one solution for free, and I don't even work for Twitter. If it's two people having a conversation back and forth, the broader Twitter audience doesn't need to see it. It's not censored, it's not hidden, it's just not broadcast either.

People have become millionaires, billionaires even, for the exact opposite of what you say. You become rich by making sure controversial content is spread as far and wide as possible, because hatred and fear sell as entertainment. People get addicted to it. You don't become rich by filtering out hateful content, you become rich by enabling it and spreading it because that's what people want (as long as they're not the target).
I think its the case that the spammers have won the battle against google. If you read google's last earnings report, they list internet spam as a risk to their business. As far as I am concerned, google is already borderline useless, the search results are all generic articles that provide no value. I find myself using reddit for information much more often.
But HN would never do such a thing, right?
Excellent insights and a well written article. One suggestion - it would be helpful if you explained how someone can tell if they have each of the SEO features enabled.
If websites had to ask permission to enable responsive features like screen size detection, then nobody would use them
Life as a Contractor
I'm not sure that it can be called "the Web" if it doesn't have directly accessible pages linked by hypertext, instead having a single page/app for instance (even if it runs on the top of the HyperText Protocol...)
We're getting into non-Web Internet territory here...
My pleasure.

Thank you for pointing out where I can end up confusing a reader. I write occasionally. Example: https://www.quora.com/Do-all-citizens-have-a-right-to-afford...
There's been a few mentions of the PageRank algorithm already...FWIW, Google's patent just expired. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6285999B1/en
تحميل متجر باندا للايفون Panda Helper بدون جلبريك برنامج الباندا مجانا
You don't understand what oversampling means in the context of that email.

They were oversampling to get larger than necessary sub groups so that they could get statistically meaningful results of those subsamples.

As for your first comment swing state polling was more mixed. The RCP polling average gave Trump a lead in Florida. Which he won. It gave him a lead in Ohio which he won, it gave him a lead in Nevada, which he lost.

The polling failure was in the rust belt. Where similar demographics met similar flawed turnout model and result in identical polling failure across the States.

But the irony was the polling failure was over estimating Clinton support not under estimating Trump. Trump got less votes than Romney in Wisconsin yet still won because the Democrats vote collapsed spectacularly.
> Of course there also was a reason why try! was replaced with `?`: awkward nesting and chaining. Go would have the same problem.

Thanks to tuple returns being a bolted-on afterthought on the language, Go already features awkward and cumbersome nesting and chaining!
>I had the brake fully depressed with around 100kg of force, and the engine was revving to attempt to overcome the brake

No, it wasn't. An engine's speed (RPM / "revs") is directly proportional to the drivetrain speed -- the RPMs literally cannot increase unless you are 1) accelerating (actual drivetrain speed going up), 2) shift to a lower gear then slip torque converter to rev match (I assume you're driving automatic), or 3) disengaged from the drivetrain (in neutral gear) and hitting the gas.

There's no way for an engine to be "revving" to overcome braking. Hop in a manual car, get up to a normal speed in any gear, then try hitting both the brake and gas.
Yeah, I would be more surprised if one of the big 3 was compromised.

Not saying it couldn't happen, it just seems unlikely.
Lol, another game that can help people.

They will 'play' it why?

I can name the amount of games people will play that are helpful or educational to a topic on my hand (ie The old version of WITWICS and ....... I've actually seen another, but it was in a forced setting)

I also doubt the study, but it's a moot point, it's another lets create a "game" to stop "fake news" lingo for more funding from suckers rort.
Do you pay for Youtube (Red)?
Do you have a data source showing this? Can we compare the amount of admin intervention across subreddits?
The "nudge" in the title of this article is drawing from the book "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" [1] which cites one of the best nudges ever introduced - automatic enrollment in retirement savings plans. You can also learn more about true nudges from the Freakonomics Radio recordings. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happ...
[2] http://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/nudge/
Help to Try Crypto
On the contrary, bay area companies want right wing politics on their platforms (it generates a lot of content and thus a lot of money, after all) but some conservatives tend to break code of conduct rules regarding hate speech and calls to violence, and for whatever reason when they do it makes the news, even though it is a minority of conservatives.

There are still going to be lots of conservative people on reddit even if /r/The_Donald gets banned, and there are still tons of conservative people on youtube, facebook, etc. Just because a few highly controversial right wing personalities have been removed from these platforms (usually for hate speech) doesn't mean the platforms are biased against conservatives in general
HTTP is the web, not HTML.
Yes! It’s about semantic HTML. For example, starting a Vue component with a <section> or <ul> as root element.
"How are you going to beat Joe's numbers from last quarter?"

I think this is all emergent behavior coming from the self-interests of the many participants.
Patrick is brilliant, as always. This piece is particularly brilliant, and I wish he will elaborate more on it in the future:

> Some people get mad about the financial industry for taking advantage of customers. I find it hard to get mad about a deal between willing counterparties, but if you think that Wall Street is soaking the US middle class, you should be monomanically focused on the interest spread between cash balances in brokerage accounts and high-interest bank accounts or money market funds. That is the cost that does not call itself a cost.
Daily reminder that the internet doesn't absolve you of actually parenting your kids, and keeping and eye on what they browse on the internet. This isn't unique to Youtube, there are all sorts of bad places kids can end up if left alone on the web.
Mike’s a really sharp guy.
Just because you can, it does not mean that you should.

Toyota cars are very successful, I don't know how do they react to a market change because AFAIK, they recently didn't have to.
TLDR: A case of invasive fingerprinting triggered by a Microsoft ad delivered by Google.
You might enjoy “The Hyperglot” which stars Michael Levi Harris, a true polyglot, in a cute short film involving the Maltese language.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKahZwqZjWg

https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-hyperglot/id992386797
I don't follow your argument. Existence of the things you mention are not really the main distinguishing features of different socio-professional classes.

A programmer is still more like a lawyer in almost every conceivable way than they are like a bricklayer: level of education, social circles, work environment, pay, cultural values, etc.

(This has nothing to do with "self-flattery" unless you think I'm making some sort of value judgment about these different classes, as opposed to just describing them).
I thought that would have happened too when other subreddits were quarantined or banned (and it briefly did when fatpeoplehate was banned) but honestly the banned discourse does not show up on the front page or /r/all, as they intended.

However, because of this, Reddit is becoming increasingly sterile, single-minded, and most importantly ad-friendly to the point where its fairly difficult to have an honest discussion about anything remotely controversial.

Unfortunately their selective banning of communities that I would associate with the "far-right" has seriously hurt any attempt to migrate away from Reddit (specifically Voat.co is unbearable for me trying to participate).

I don't know if there will ever be a straw to break the camels back, but I have been actively searching for reddit alternatives for years and have not found a truly viable replacement.
Are all fingerprinting techniques used in the wild pretty generally well-known? Do any browsers have an option to blindly return a standard set of values regardless of actual client capabilities/metrics? (i.e. make it difficult to achieve more granular results than browser agent).

I know Mozilla made an anti-fingerprinting announcement recently but IIRC all it does is check scripts against a blacklist: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...
I hadn't considered this angle, but it does make a lot of sense. If a bouncer wasn't going to give a site ad revenue, the site doesn't want that bouncer in the first place.

This is a horrible state to be in. I mean, I get that advertising is the only way to make regular money on the web, but dear god, we are in a sad situation where people who don't want to be blasted with advertising aren't made welcome.
I'm only mildly bothered by the tracking, since it seems so inaccurate, but the ads themselves always drive me to adblockers. Taboola were running pictures of rotten teeth for a while which was intolerable; Youtube ads are often louder than the videos.
I wonder if disabling ads disabled tracking?
That's not how it works. The brakes are more powerful than the engine, sure, but only at full braking power. Ask anyone who owns a rear-wheel-drive sports car what happens when you push both pedals at the same time and they will literally leave you in a cloud of smoke.
How does this work?

By binomial theorem, the expectation at time t is ((1.5 + 0.6)^n)/2^n) = 1.05^n
so the "annualized" return per unit time is 1.05, exactly the same as the expectation.

What is "time average growth rate"? Web search turns up lots of references do it by Peters, but no definitions.
Sort of off topic. I still remember this project we inherited from DLI ages ago. Folks there were having difficulty with storing UTF-8 strings in JavaScript. Whenever a character gets truncated (due to db length limit), Netscape would complain and die. Someone apparently discovered that you wouldn't get the error if the broken UTF-8 text was in a JavaScript comment. So every text string in the program was a function that parses its own source code for a comment. It was a hilarious hack.
Was there a "not interested in this channel"? I though there was only a button for videos.
I tend to think that Google is rather bigger than any one nation-states ability to contain it, at this point, which makes comparisons to Apple somewhat funny.
Amazon appears to be desperately seeking to connect with the funding channels this article highlights.

Overall reaction: meh, the entire tech sector has always played this role in any society since inception.
Silicon Valley, ARPA, and later, DARPA seem to seamlessly fit with such a vision as outlined.

No disputing anything here, it's simply that we aren't in any position to assess what Google wants, really, are we?
your reply made me question myself so I got Skin in the Game off the shelf and whadddayknow he _does_ give a definition:

"Perfect ergodicity means that each one of us, should he live forever, would spend a proportion of the time in the economic conditions of the entire cross-section[of the U.S. population]: out of, say, a century, an average of sixty years in the lower middle class, twenty years in the blue-collar class, and perhaps one single year in the one percent"
Except when it doesn't and you click on it again later only to realize "wait, I watched this."
I programmed the blue little button on my thinkpad to change i3 layout to/from external monitor. Works great for me, as it allows me to have the monitor connected to several machines.
B&H did this to me for a monitor. Said there was a sale, I put it in my cart, got to the checkout page still on sale, was putting in my info and going to the final confirmation page and it was suddenly $50 more?...
If you don’t use an ad blocker you should expect your browser to behave in strange ways.

If you don’t use an ad blocker you should consider your computer compromised.
Youtube Premium * .

(Is there no way to end a line with an escaped asterisk?)
It's actually fairly common, try searching for "brake override".
I always chime into these articles with the exact same sentiment: this is a business problem, not a developer problem.

Developers love simplicity and semantics. But when a UI gets to a certain level of complexity (I say 10 interactions per page) then semantics get hard to maintain or translate.

I'm building a recommendation engine for a client right now. Lots of wooshes, whirring and moving parts, a good amount of items don't directly translate to semantic HTML elements. It's not clear if my app should have <section> tags, <article> tags or <aside> tags.

And again, when a developer has to manage that much complexity, then it's a-ok to breakdown or lose semantics in exchange for comprehensibility. Pretty much any trade-off is ok for comprehensibility. And making my users pay the 500kb React tax is a-ok with me, because I'm not superman and it's only 500kb. One un-optimized image can be that size. It's worth it for the project to be maintainable and reasonable by the next person.

And one day when the business stakeholder decides that people on your education site don't need badges, or that quality content matters more than gamification, then we can dial these interactions back and make the web sane again.
I wonder if the top brass at alphabet ever worry that their trillion dollar empire is based on fragile foundations like web audio fingerprinting, etc.

that sure would keep me up at night.

obviously, i know google does more, but it seems like a large chunk of their revenue must be dependent on shady technical tricks like these working.
The situation in Canada is that you cannot legally call yourself an "Engineer" unless you have a P.Eng license. While you do not need an engineering degree to undertake this, if you don't have one you will have to ask the licensing body to adjudicate on "equivalent experience" - not sure what happens if they don't agree but I expect you'd have to take some courses. The licensing itself requires at least a professional practice exam (and possibly technical ones) and work experience overseen by a P.Eng. Software developers can take this certification but it is not particularly useful to their career except in narrow circumstances.
Bonus points for not being on Medium!
Ah right, American democrats, the "extreme left"
You do understand the concept of shorthand, yes?
intriguing to suggest that Steve Jobs/Apple considered themselves a fairy tale "Wicked Queen" who sat in a throne and had the power to apply judgment to others.

i don't know if that was actually true about Apple, but some other large corporations seem to view themselves in exactly that way. they treat their potential business partners and vendors as if they were beastly suitors of infinite patience invested with nothing but a powerful lust for a signed contract.
The magical step is the final step in the argument. The algorithm does seemt to increase engagement altogether, but people's negativity bias will give more weight in ones' mind to the harrassing comments. The algo does incentivize replies it seems, which could potentially be negative, given people don't reply to positive things beyond to like or RT them, so that's an argument in their favor.

Of course, most people don't notice this. I've never had a post with more than 100 replies for example, so I would have never been aware of this.
TFA starts off with a piece of actual news and then veers off into rumors and unsubstantiated BS which is presented as facts.

>Apple is in the process of migrating its Mac line to ARM processors as it looks to reduce its reliance on Intel.
Can't find it - it was a long time ago. I was getting strong headaches while traveling, it was a caffeine withdrawal, but I didn't know it until someone here mentioned the possibility. I started drinking caffeinated beverages while traveling, and the problem was gone.
I think this is a great point and perhaps if developers thoughts of it that way more they would take more initiative to create those things. If we don’t, they will and by they I mean people who will have limited understanding of the impact of those codes.
Also before someone mentions it, I am using SSR where possible so at least something displays, it doesn't make one of these websites function well without js though.
Just don’t work for a startup. I did it for 8 years. I know it’s not compared to some but I never made it rich from any of my ventures. Won’t ever do it again now that I’m in a Fortune 500 company. At first it can feel like I’m a number and I can get as passionately involved in a project but I like money. And now I have it and a solid work/life balance.
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