skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure that this take is accurate.

I would agree that programming search results tend to be quite good, but I think this is likely in large part because the average person attracted to programming both has a high IQ and has experience building some part of the web stack. Thus the sites that are quite manipulative in nature would have a hard time trying to fake it until they make it in such a vertical where people are hard to monetize and are very good at distinguishing real from fake. And even if a fake site started to rank for a bit it would quickly fall off as discerning users gave it negative engagement signals.

This is also perhaps part of the reason sites like Stack Overflow monetize indirectly with employment related ads targeted to high value candidates versus say a set of contextually targeted ads on a typical forum page or teeth whitening gizmo ads on the Facebook ad feed.

The lack of filtering of "trash" probably comes from a bunch of different areas

- I think there was a quote that people are most alike in their base instincts and most refined in areas where they are unique. some of the most common queries are related to celebrity gossip & such. There are also flaws in human nature where inferior experiences win based on those flaws. For example, try to buy flowers online and see how many layers of junk fees are pushed on top of the advertised upfront low price. shipping, handling, care, weekend delivery, holiday delivery, etc etc etc

- some efforts to filter trash based on folding in end user data may promote low quality stuff that people believe in. a neutral & objective political report is less appealing than one which confirms a person's political biases. and in many areas people are less likely to share or consider paying for something neutral versus something slanted toward their worldview.

- as the barrier to entry on the web has increased some of the companies that grew confident they had a dominant position in a market may have decided to buy out other smaller players in the vertical & then degrade the user experience as real competition faded. there was a Facebook exec email mentioning they were buying Instagram to eliminate a competitor. Facebook's ad load is now much higher than it was when they were smaller. But the same sort of behavior is true in other verticals too. Expedia & Booking own most the top travel portals.

There has also been a ton of collateral damage in filtering all the trash. So many quirky niche blogs & tiny ecommerce businesses were essentially scrubbed from the web between Panda, Penguin & other related algo updates.
>The actors I've seen taking advantage of it are highly unlikely to front up with a credit card and provide what amounts to personally identifiable data (i.e. make a credit card payment) in order to mass enumerate the API.

Unless they just steal a credit card. Not unlikely, given who we're talking about here.
This is definitely to most grateful comment I have seen on HN this far... Time out.
Block cookies and JS? I obviously don't count how many Medium articles I've read, but I've read quite a few and never encountered that, unless they've only started doing it within the past few days.
Nielsen claimed to be able to track Netflix efficiently two years ago.
It is largely conspiracy theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_co...
It's interesting to ponder the feats in technological advancement that were made in short periods of time in the 20th century. For example, in 1948 when the transistor was first revealed by Bell Labs to 1969 when mankind landed on the moon. Around 20 years. That's pretty amazing.
We use ElasticSearch version 1.7 at postjobfree.com

The reason to use version 1.7 -- is faster percolation (reverse search).
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I'm confused why that would have anything to do with it.

If you cause $100 in damages, you pay $100 (plus any punitive awards). Doesn't matter what your shares happen to be trading at that day.
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And Equifax ISN'T?
It's ridiculous that birth control even requires a prescription in the US but it's not an issue you ever hear debated or discussed. The reason? If it were OTC (and no longer covered by health insurance) it would be prohibitively expensive for many of the young women who need it the most. So instead we end up getting annual pap screening even though it's only necessary every 3-5 years. Quite a corner we've painted ourselves into with this whole health insurance mess.
Because you want to teach them a lesson, not put them out of business.
It really is not. If you want to set the current color you have to assemble a css color string from your color values. There is no way to make this fast. When you ship production 2D games using canvas, stuff like this shows up in your profiles and there's no way to optimize it out other than not using canvas. (Many people switch to using WebGL to do 2D themselves for this reason - it's faster.)
I grew up in the 80s in Washington eating them, and man, I remember the Red Delicious being my favorite apple of all time. Something has happened to the quality, or I just had no taste when I was younger, because I am mostly disappointed when I get them nowadays.

My current favorite is the Pacific Rose, which has a similar skin and is delightfully sweet. Call me a Philistine, but there is something about the Red Delicious that appeals to me still.
> it starts autoplaying videos at you in obnoxious attempt to grab your interest and attention.

at LEAST make this something that the users can disable. I'm not always using Netflix for loud action movies. Sometimes I want something quiet and chill. the obnoxious previews are too much.

sensory overload. they're almost startling sometimes.
I read something semi-recently where the author explained his interpretation of the microbiome findings as a part of a cascade: an initial stressor (every case is unique) -> cultivation of the autistic microbiome -> inability to relax -> symptoms. I'm not qualified to re-explain it in my own way, so please take this as my statement that I find an alternate explanation than 'bad genes' for all cases of ASD diagnosis to be more plausible.

While Genetics are good explanations for some things, using 'bad genes' as an explanation is frequently a distraction from a person's actual problems. See my reply to your other comment about the streetlight effect.
The Church itself is where one can find the money that they should be relying on. They're clearly less reliable than the billionaires who probably readily note that the Church has more than enough money to fix it back up themselves.
So when will I be able to opt out of their tracking me?
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This is my philosophy with most software. I expect to get 80-90% of the way with zero configuration and then maybe for some advanced features I’ll touch the config and personalize some things.

The added benefit to becoming proficient with default configuration is that it is really easy to upgrade to a new computer and start from scratch.

And of course with vim, the benefit is the ubiquity when using ssh or docker or VMs which typically use the defaults.
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>>You are what you consume - People, music, news, etc.

Real life > HN > tech news > political news >= crazy uncles on antisocial media
That can be a helpful part of the writeup. I'm sure it would motivate a bunch of us to actually do that.
Yeah, these people post live video too and their bodies are the same. No one looks great from every angle, but some people look great from hundreds of angles.
What is the "bad stuff"? What do you mean by that?
> Genes are useful because they are far more fixed and they are far easier to measure than many other things that could be measured. [...] It is especially useful to look at genetics because it is (relatively) cheap to get a person's genetics and painless - whereas studying the microbiome is much more difficult and expensive.

This reminds me of the joke about the drunk looking for his keys:

>> [...] Noam Chomsky has a characteristically dry and precise version of the story: “Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that’s where the light is. It has no other choice.”

>> So historians, mystics, scientists and drunks have something in common: they all tend to seek the truth where the process of seeking is easy, rather than where truth is.

- https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/03/the-street...
It's incredibly weird that there's a war on drugs at exactly the same times as the corporations legally feed and profit from an opioid drug epidemic.

Only in America could such a contradiction be possible.
Maybe, but there won't be much left. The Boomers have been running the whole show for a very long time now. Every lever of power and every single thing around me was created by and for Boomers. The house I live in is a Boomer cast-off. It feels like nearly nothing was ever made for me.

A major thing I resent about all of it is how I was treated when I first entered the workforce. My generation was looked down upon and were only there to be exploited as needed, otherwise ignored. We were not "part of the team" but rather dangerous youths who weren't to be trusted with important matters. I never had a mentor, I never got any good advice from a single Boomer-age manager, I only got indifference. My fortunes didn't change until my contemporaries started to take over those management roles. At that point it was too late in my career to do much good, though.

Today, my managers are mostly younger than me. It's a Catch-22. It's like my generation was cursed.

I love those memes that describe Boomers having
worked all summer to afford college" and "first car" with a picture of a Corvette. Yeah, pretty much true.
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A fairly precise raw Python translation for the interested:

T = range(1, R)[1:] # T←1↓ιR
u = [[t*u for u in T] for t in T] # T∘.×T
v = [t for ei, t in
zip([any(t in ui for ui in u) for t in T], T)
if not ei] # (~T∈u)/T

As the standard poem on the subject by Dave Touretzky and Don Libes says:

I wrote some hacks in APL,
each on a single line.
They're mutually recursive,
and run in n-squared time!

In this case, of course, it runs in R-cubed time, not n-squared time. There's a perhaps more common, but slightly longer, APL one-liner for finding primes that does run in O(R²) time instead; from https://aplwiki.com/SieveOfEratosthenes †:

(2=+⌿0=(⍳X)∘.|⍳X)/⍳X

Or, eliminating the inessential variations from the above version:

(2=+⌿0=T∘.|T)/T←⍳R

If you want APL and are stuck with Python, you can probably get most of the APL you want in Numpy. A slightly looser translation of the first algorithm into Numpy:

import numpy

T = numpy.arange(2, R)
print T[~numpy.equal.outer(T, numpy.multiply.outer(T, T)
).any(axis=1).any(axis=1)]

Recent versions of Numpy have numpy.isin, which works like APL ∈, which would save you the .outer.any.any nonsense.

A much more compelling demonstration of APL is, in my mind, the interactive development process leading up the the one-liner Game of Life in this livecoding video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

† This is not the Sieve of Eratosthenes, despite the article title; the Sieve is an immensely more efficient algorithm than trial division, producing the same results in near-linear time.
There are a few widespread scaled publishing operations like IAC which seems to be doing well with the split up of About.com & relaunching it as vertically focused branded sites, but the content farm business model died with the Panda update.

Some of the sites that were hit like Suite101.com went offline. eHow is still off well over 90%. ArticlesBase sold on Flippa for like $10k or some such. One of the few wins hiding in all the rubble was HubPages, but even they had to rebrand and split out sites & merged into a company with a market cap of about $26 million ... and the CEO of Hubpages is brilliant.

Even with IAC on some sites they are suggesting ad revenues won't be enough
http://www.tearsheet.co/culture-and-talent/investopedia-laun... "As Investopedia charts its course as a media brand, it’s coming up against the roadblock all publishers eventually hit — the reality that display revenue alone won’t be enough. ... Siegel said he expects course revenue to exceed what’s generated from the site’s free content. While he wouldn’t say what the company’s annual revenue was, Siegel said it grew an average of around 30 percent for each of the last three years."

There is also other factors which parallel the panda update that further diminish the quick-n-thin rehash publishing business model
- Google's featured snippets & knowledge graph pulling content into the SERPs so there is no outbound click on many searches
- programmatic advertising redirecting advertiser ad spend away from content targeting to retargeting & other forms of behavioral targeting (an advertiser can use a URL as a custom audience for AdWords ad targeting even if that site does not carry any Google ads on it)
- mobile search results have a smaller screen space where if there is any commercial intent whatsoever the ads push the organic results below the fold
I'm interested to see how this plays out. Netflix will either figure it out and survive or they'll continue to shed subscribers and get acquired by Apple to augment AppleTV. I say that partly in jest.

My Netflix was cancelled about 6 months ago. It felt like it was another version of Facebook... great for mindless scrolling but nothing that made me want to stop scrolling and watch. Part of it was the loss of several favorite shows making the service not worth the price plus the price of other subscriptions. I would say the same about Prime Video if it wasn't free with Amazon Prime.
I’ve heard folks in Minnesota say that it is because it doesn’t get cold enough in places (like Washington) that started growing them in larger amounts.
Again, why? The lesson is for the industry as a whole to learn, not for an individual company.
Putting them out of business would teach them a lesson, one perhaps other companies might actually learn as well.
This sounds like nonsense.
JSON was created as the lowest common denominator between multiple ancient javascript engines. At one time, at least one browser couldn't handle keywords being used as unquoted object keys, so JSON just has all keys quoted for simplicity. It's the same deal with trailing commas.
That's one way of looking at it. The other way is that companies should feel about equal pain relative to their sizes. Otherwise, big companies are able to gain an unfair advantage by just ignoring laws for which they can afford the fines.
> The data breached in the Equifax case seems to cause far more direct harm

Facebook breached a consent decree with the FTC [1]. Demonstrating harm was simple—they breached a settlement.

Equifax’s harm is potentially great. But demonstrating damages is difficult.

TL; DR Facebook is a repeat offender.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2011/11/faceb...
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Worth mentioning a couple factors related to this. You couldn't turn location data on for any service external to Google without also having it turned on for Google & even when you had location services turned off for Google sometimes they still had it turned on anyhow.
Newspapers may have a big carbon footprint, but printed news is important in local communities for many people who don't have easy access to smart phones or computers. There's plenty other things that I think can be dropped before the paper.
I haven't had any problems with gitgutter so far, but I'll give it a look! I think gitgutter can also be configured to only update on save, though I actually like the live updating and have never had issues with it (IIRC I set it to wait a second before updating to keep it from constantly running git commands).
Their discovery algorithm is hideous and on most of their TV streaming apps the search is shit.
Why? Breaches like Equifax happen when companies treat data, especially personal data, as an asset rather than a liability. Treat their database as the toxic asset that it is, and delete it as part of the bankruptcy.
Yes it's mostly about resource costs. ES is a generic search that can handle logs but isn't focused on it, and indexing everything can be costly. There are major efficiencies gained in creating your own log-focused storage and access methods with object storage, columnar formats, and zone mapping, etc.
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I personally own a /24 block predating ARIN, registered back in 1993. I am not planning on selling it, and never signed their RSA agreements and probably never will as long as reverse DNS remains delegated.
Disclaimer: Not a moon landing denier or anything of that sort, I’ve just educated myself on why people think this.

My understanding is that people believe that they did indeed launch a rocket but that the landing on the moon was faked. Some claim they were in orbit around the earth the whole time, some others claim they went around the moon but staged the landing. There are even some who believe that we did land on the moon but there was a tape that was staged in the event of an accident. The level of moon landing denial varies by each and every person.
I have a purism, and it has been great.

One wonderful thing was really standard hardware. Like standard screws, standard power adapter with normal barrel jack, standard memory, standard flash slot, standard 2.5" hard drive bay and standard screws.

All the hardware was chosen so no binary blobs were required.

Later I installed arch linux on it (which I like immensely)

One challenge was trying to figure out exactly what hardware I really had, but I muddled through. It would have been nice to have a table from day one showing every detail, such as screen resolution, touchpad model, exact wireless chipset, etc. It would also have been nice to have sane defaults for things like the touchpad. Apple trackpads really spoil you - they are by default very well tuned, and you get precise control without glitches like movements during typing.
Right, it feels like things are optimising purely for “next click”, i.e, what will keep you mindlessly in flow, forgetting the time and consuming more content.

So if I’m watching a video about TIG welding say, to optimise “next click” I suppose I should be recommended mostly more welding videos, with a smattering of engineering and finally a bit of clickbait mixed in case I’m starting to get distracted.

If services are optimising for “keep going right now”, they might be modelling as something like a markov chain of “clicked on next” and that’s how we get stuck in this kind of short-sighted local optimum.
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What does their ability to pay fines have to do with their share price? A % of profits or revenue would be more fair.
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I think that’s the case with most new technology. The first steps are very fast but then innovation goes much slower. You can see that for example in computing. PCs made a lot of fast progress until sometime in the 90s and then things stagnated. The same probably for cell phones. The last five years or more saw only incremental improvement. Nothing revolutionary.
I think streaming is incredibly worth it. if you watch anything with advertisements, that's typically 1/3 of your time watching commercials, thus if you make 50 an hour, you pay for your streaming service in just 1 hour. 10 hours if you make a 10th that, which its still paid for in a week for most people. its a fair argument that I spent about a year of my childhood watching commercials. thats 3240$ in netflix subscriptions to get that back.

I think streaming has incredible value, and broadcast television's value proposition is extremely poor. I hope once people start doing the math, tv commercials is a thing of the past, or at least there is 1 commercial per break.

that being said, netflix does have some deep concerns for me if I were to invest in it. its still never made a profit, subscribers are maxing out, and competition is just getting started.

Netflix has also been extremely liberal politically, and that's a recipe to divide your customer base by 2, something with their extreme debt loads is problematic.
This is partly a matter of taste, and since I don't find it distracting at all, there's no downside for me. But as far as value added, I find it super convenient. I like that gitgutter gives a quick indication of what chunks I've been working on and lets me quickly navigate between them (without having to remember to mark them/hit ^O) by hitting ]c or [c (I think these are defaults, but I might have overridden them). I also like that it lets you effortlessly interactively stage changes (in case you have a good hunk you want to commit before trying something more experimental out) as well as previews that show you diffs of specific hunks as well as the ability to selectively undo hunks. It also is a great way to immediately verify that a file is unchanged without hitting ^Z and running `git diff FILE` for the file I was editing. It's also an easy confirmation that I didn't accidentally change or break something accidentally. Obviously I run a `git diff` and tests before a commit, but for me, nothing beats seeing my diffs in the full context of the file to confirm that, yes, those were all things I did on purpose.
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It's my number one negative experience with the site. I might get an answer downvoted once a year. I see the mod cabal shut down proven useful content several times a week. It's like a politician who insists on doing highly publicized bank bailouts instead of backroom deals. It's not smart to rub it in people's face that you run things and their opinion doesn't matter.
Sure, I don't really have any opinion on the best way to measure the size of a company. I'm just espousing the principle of scaling the fine to their ability to pay.
Google takes 45% revshare on YouTube. Some videos that were demonetized still show ads, so on those Google is taking 100%.

I've seen mid-roll ads on songs on YouTube.

Hosting costs & delivery costs (per byte) drop every year. Every year their compression gets better. Every year their ad revenues goes up. YouTube ad revenues have been growing at something like 30% a year for many years.

I think one reason Google doesn't break out YouTube profitability is because as soon as they show they are profitable they end up getting some of their biggest partners (like music labels) using those profits to readjust revshares.

Also if Google claims YouTube is not profitable they can be painted as the victim for extremist content or hate content they host, whereas if they show they were making a couple billion year a year in profits these narratives would be significantly less effective.

Core search ad prices haven't really been falling yet Google blended click prices keep falling about 20% a year while ad click volume is growing about 60% a year. This is driven primarily by increasing watch time on YouTube and increasing ad load on YouTube. Google blends video ad views in with their "clicks" count.
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