skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On paper maybe but only a fraction of the gay population identifies as queer. Visit any gay bar and ask around. You'll quickly see that not everyone identifies to that label.

If Queer was a fully synonymous with gay, the acronym wouldn't be "LGBTQ+" but simply "LGBT+".
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I don't mean it in a "just the way it is" sense. but rather that there are a TON of companies that do this. get mad at all of them.

as for the OP, hope he used a credit card (not debit) and if so, dispute the charge.
Assuming that behavioral targeting does not work, which I do not know, several possible reasons:

1. They started tracking when behavioral targeting seemed like a reasonable hypothesis, and keep doing it now to build a dataset in case it might work in the future.

2. Google does lots of things that are speculative and generate no revenue, and the general attitude in the industry is "why not collect all data we can because storage is cheap in case we can somehow use or sell it later". If we applied your overall logic to every part of Google, they would probably have 500 employees.

3. If Google can persuade advertisers that it works, they still make more money from them even if Google knows that it does not. Thus BT can generate value for Google without generating any for advertisers.

4. If everyone else in the industry also makes these claims about behavioral targeting working, any company not claiming to do it too would be at a competitive disadvantage.

Also, it is possible that BT "works", say, 1% better than CA. In that case it technically "works and generates value" but most reasonable people would say in that case that it does not justify the privacy tradeoffs or general hype.
My house is on land that’s on a 999 year lease since 1870(ish) from the county that moved boundaries 40 years ago...and we have no idea who the the lease holder is... so that’s fairly perpetual
Why your 'type' might actually be your ex-partner
MySQL sort of cheats (but it's a good cheat!) by auto_increment_increment/offset which is means as long as you have a fixed amount of nodes , you are good, server #1 uses 1,4,7 etc #2 uses 2,5,8 etc and #3 uses 3,6,9 .. adding a node requires reconfiguring (but not restarting) all nodes.
But does it matter if you don’t know who they are?
because the amount of gold the government is willing to accept gives the value to the gold, not the other way around. The gold would still be denominated in some government set standard and thus subject to governmental discernment in how much it's worth.
The problem with 'end' IMO is that you have to actually read the word, with } you don't. Of course, this is all useless to argue about. I quite like that lots of languages look different.
> c) allow all employers one applicant before awarding more slots, so the body shop mills have to compete with small business who have real jobs for real people and are not just playing percentage games (100K applications with 5k actual jobs available).

Won't that just mean the body shops create 100K subsidiaries?
I've come to think that one of the other problems non-textual approaches need to solve to win at scale is that they need to somehow get rid of their coordinates. Right now, most of the non-text oriented approaches I see mean that I have to not only understand the same thing I'd have to understand in a textual representation, but I also have the additional complexity of all of my code having coordinates in a 2D space, and then if you start drawing lines on the screen for relationships, additional accidental complexity in the state of the lines too.

The more I think about it, the more I think the people who tend to make criticisms about textual representations and then argue in favor of visual representations are not just wrong, but usually have things actively backwards; almost every criticism they make about text is actually a positive aspect of it. Not having a literal line appear from a call site to what it is calling, for instance, is a net positive, not a problem. I think this is why visual stuff has been bubbling slowly for decades and just never seems to get anywhere the way its advocates hope.
It's a different commit. I was talking about introducing and then pushing new commits with different timestamps than the original, not somehow modifying timestamps on a specific commit. The commit that gets pushed can, and often does, have a different timestamp than the timestamp on the commit when the code was written.
> "has never scientifically been proven to work"

You mean like the petabytes of data generated every day by 2 of the biggest companies on the planet? Did you just make up this claim?

The industry is not dumb, its more politics and technical wars that lead to bad experiences than anything else. There's a balance between detailed targeting and context, with the major problem in the former being data quality and identification. This is why Facebook can do a great job when you're logged in, but a generic ad network will suffer with crummy ads.

You don't notice the good ads, only the bad ones, so you're skewed into thinking they never work even though that's far from the truth.
> to take useful data away from innocent webmasters.

Webmasters who are collecting data about me or my machines (excluding the data about my direct use of their site) without my permission are not "innocent webmasters".
What do you consider as "run-of-the-mill" libraries ? like data-structures/algos ? or say something like a database connector / http router ?
How would you be denying access? The block is only by the password reset system, if you know the password you can still access your account.
Maybe it's because I do most of my socializing among furries, a diverse and primarily queer crowd[1], but I had never heard anyone suggest queer didn't include gay people until your comment. Where did you hear that?

[1] https://vis.adjectivespecies.com/furrysurvey/overview/
I was certain I read a few years ago that Google would mandate that all OEMs would be forced to use a single unified certificate list, which I thought at the time was a way to pre-empt this sort of thing. But I can't find any new info about that anywhere. I only found an article about how to add new certificates on new Android versions in 2019, so I guess you can still change them.

I wonder if Google changed its mind about this once Sundar Pichai took over and then gave Project Dragonfly the greenlight.
Maybe the ability to be content is not that common and people who just cannot do it are secretly envious of and angry at those who can? For example, I've never been content in any job (barring some honeymoon periods or particularly interesting short episodes). It's pretty much always a grind to get that paycheck at the end of the month. At this point, I don't think I could be content with any job. It's possible that I've chosen a wrong career and have broken myself over years of working in it - hard to tell.
That's a good point not explained in the article: there are a huge number of use cases for OCR. In this case, the use is extracting words that can be used in full-text search, so structural extraction isn't a key criteria.

Edit: and now it's hopefully clarified in the article itself. :)
A recent interview:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-...
Programming is reasoning about complex closed systems. Mathematics is reasoning about complex open systems (like the universe). Programming has more in common with biology than it does with math!
Would never happen.

Too many people benefit from having a slave that can't leave their job without getting deported.

> shortage of skilled engineers

...at peanut pricing.
Google built their empire on contextual advertising, but it's not the only kind of advertising they do these days.

Also, Google's revenue isn't necessarily derived from what ads provide the highest ROI; it's derived from what ads people want to buy. Regardless of what anyone at Google thinks about contextual vs. behavioral ads, it's in Google's interest to go nuts with behavioral ads simply so that they aren't letting all the other adtech companies keep all the behavioral ad spend uncontested.
it is way over valued... since we know that the list of available content keeps getting smaller.
Also on top of all this drama they have a non compete clause which they are not willing to wave.
> b) set a minimum comp for the jobs that is reasonable.

Indeed. What the H1-B program should look is for workers paying taxes. I'd grant them from top to bottom until equilibrium. Except for a very small set of specific professions needed and still not making it (perhaps healthcare or education). US doesn't need QA analysts or consultants.

Note: I'm not from US.
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Serial ports are still around. I just got a Dell desktop i7 box and it has a nice little DB-9 on the back. Highly useful for embedded development.
Do you have a freezer? Do you have a car? Do you have enough income to bulk buy some items?

How much are you paying for energy? Poor people may be on prepayment meters for gas and electricity, which will charge about 25 pence per day per fuel (so about 50 pence per day, or about 60 cents a day) just to have the meter, before any gas or electricity is supplied.
The solution to that problem was invented and reinvented hundreds of years ago. It is called gunpowder.
The less developed and unsafe the applicant's home country is, the less just the H1B model is. H1B employees are worked like animals under the threat of being sent back or replaced and losing their visa. It's an awful system in general. If we want skilled workers, they should be given a green card and the ability to find work wherever they want and quit whenever they want. Holding their visa over their head via their job is evil.
Does Twitter show the same posts multiple times right next to each other? Because I’m getting a lot of that on Facebook right now. Not that I actually like either platform [1], but they are the de facto way of keeping up with everyone.

[1] I’m kinda glad Twitter doesn’t force me to have an account, no account makes it so much easier to not get sucked into the reply-rants.
I agree. The creators of Angular came from the Java world, and it shows.
This makes no sense to me. Explain where I have this wrong...

47% of electricity in California is generated from natural gas.

https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/almanac/electricity_data/total_sys...

So about 50% of the electricity in these houses is coming from a gas that gets burned to turn a turbine to make electricity (and waste heat) that gets sent down a power line (where some is invariably lost) to go into a house where the electricity is then turned back into heat (presumably for hot water and heating the home)?

How is this more efficient than just burning NG for heat directly?

I could understand banning coal burners from homes (if we had any left), as I believe China is trying to do, but this seems like it will require more energy not less (yes I realize its a tiny scale).
The ads I get from Facebook have gotten much more generic and less creepy after I started using Firefox with the Facebook container plugin.
No, mitm is not easily detected on server side. It's a transparent proxy. You could start serving these messages to whole KZ ip range, though.
> What is the true purpose of this?

I believe that from the hosting site perspective one of the principal benefit is sweet talking investors.
I wonder, how do gas cooking carbon emissions compare to your breathing and, well, other biological byproducts.
Except it's not... wallet history is public, with exact dates. If he bought it decade ago he should be able to prove it in couple of minutes.
As strawman arguments often are within their own context. That doesn't mean I'm wrong. My point that merge commits were included in the OP's article and data went unanswered by @kragen, and it's directly relevant to what I said at the top; merge commits don't represent work time, but they're being counted here. Code commits also don't necessarily represent work time either, due to squashing, stashing, and general dev practice, so I haven't heard any evidence that convinces me otherwise. Do you have any to add?
I have a friend there and they say it's pretty common to hire someone to restack them
I bet that as millenials age, they will consume more coffee at home rather then when out and about. I use to like going to Starbucks etc... but now mostly I brew at home which is a function of age and family. Just like I use to go to bars too, but that is a rare occasion these days. The other thing millenials could do would be to hedge their coffee habit.. so buy stock in Starbucks! That way when Starbucks in China takes off or Starbuck in the USA introduces boba you'll catch some of the upside.
This is exactly what I've been doing for years!
Most ads are not that targeted. That's a fallacy that seems to come up on HN but the reality is that most ads you see are generic large buys across very wide populations. Targeting costs more and the increased acquisition costs don't always pay off for every product. Also most ad systems will always fallback to show you an ad no matter how lacking the targeting is, because a filled ad slot is better than an empty one.
If a government mandates its citizens to install the government’s own root certificate, then it’s not that easy to find a long-term technological solution. The problem here is not a technical one, IMHO. The problem is that the government of Kazakhstan is not respecting the freedom of its people.

Point in case: In 2018, Kazakhstan ranked #144 in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. Countries such as China, Cuba and Belarus had a better ranking. [See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Democracy_Inde...]

IMO what’s needed is first and foremost more democracy in Kazakhstan. That’s not something that Firefox can solve.

With that said, perhaps anti-surveillance technology can assist the affected users. Maybe Tor. I’ve heard about some other, similar project but I can’t recall its name right now.

[Edit: These where the anti-censorship applications I was thinking of: https://www.psiphon3.com/ and https://getlantern.org/. Can’t vouch for their security though.]
IIIF over IPFS: storage and public service
How would the client certificates be distributed to users in Kazakhstan?
A while ago I ordered a 10TB backup drive for $80, knowing it was a pricing mistake. Amazon cancelled the order and gave me a $20 gift card. I believe whether or not the retailer has to honour pricing mistakes depends which country you live in (I'm in UK). Annoyingly, the $20 gift card wasn't applied automatically to the next purchase, as it was supposed to (maybe because it only applies to USA Amazon?)

(Funnily enough, the pricing mistake did manage to get the product to be the #1 best seller.)
There should be only one parameter that governs the eligibility to specialist visas: the ability to earn a high wage. Companies should bid directly with the salary, and the top X offers get a Visa; the candidate is free to change jobs but is required to maintain within that wage band for the duration of the visa, outside exceptional situations.

Any other mechanism affords the opportunity for arbitrage, bureaucracy, legal leeches specialized in exploiting the process etc.
Tldr; Small companies. And "earning" it.

After 6-12mo getting shit done, probably including a 12-20 hour working until "oh shit loading money" issue. And discussion with my boss. I have freedom to time shift my work. I'm consistently present for meetings. But if I'm blocked by external factors ill take Monday off so I can work on Sat (unblocked on weds) to meet following Monday deadline. Often work late at night where I can get solid block of 3-4 hour uninterupterd. I mostly work 10 to 7 to avoid traffic. I vaguely track hours and I average 36-40 or less. But they are so much more productive. Many people spend 8+ hours at work but get little done. My 6 hours are solid work. It also helps me manage burn out.

Im slightly manic depressive and partner/childless. Works great for me. YMMV.
You are free to find other sources, the facts remain the same. I can't talk about (these) political parties without being banned.

If you really think that the guy deserves an unjust sentence for being right-wing, then I'm afraid of people like you. That is exactly what this argument was about: Political opposition being silenced.
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The analogy means that Hong Kong is an enclave in one of the frontiers in this “new cold war”, not that Hong Kong is politically under PRC.

The major protests in Hong Kong (e.g., the anti-national-security-law protest in 2003, the anti-restricted-democracy Umbrella protest in 2014, the anti-extradition protest in 2019) show that Hong Kong aligns closer to the belief of rule of law and democracy in the Western world (including Taiwan), than to the authoritarian rule and Xi’s dictatorship in China.
There are more benign uses too - many organisations run an internal PKI, and installing their root CA prevents employees' browsers from displaying warnings about untrusted certificates when accessing internal web apps/sites.
If this struggle ever ended, we would just find another struggle, its in our nature.
Can't tell if serious. But just in case- ph is blocked by pretty much every corporate network in existence right. That might put a bit of a dent in which computer security experts can access the content.

I suppose getting to the content by bypassing firewalls could be part of the learning experience lol
But it's not 1961 anymore. The East and the West have very closely converged in terms of privacy violations.
> The greatest statesman of the age, he was also recognized as the most characteristic of Germans, — the type as well as hero of the nation; a combination of Luther, Goedtz von Berlichingen, and Marshal Vorwaerts

If the "Marshal Vorwaerts" bit of this seems obscure, it's a reference to a common nickname for one of the German generals who had fought against and eventually defeated Napoléon, Gebhard von Blücher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Bl%C3%BC...).

Blücher was an aggressive, the-best-defense-is-a-good-offense general, so his troops, whom he was always urging to move forwards, forwards, nicknamed him "Marshal Forwards."
> there are very specific algorithms for that, they don't look anything like a math formula

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'd describe making a 3D game (engine) with rendering, collision detection, etc as probably one of the math-heaviest areas of programming outside of scientific computing or algorithm R&D.
Because if the centrists in the Democratic party divert to Russian collusion, they don't have to take the long hard look in the mirror wrt to why they lost in 2016.
The pertinent page [1] of a local ISP, Kcell, is interesting - very devious.

> Kcell JSC informs its customers of the need to install Security Certificate on personal devices capable of connecting to the Internet

> Due to the increase of identity and personal data theft, including stealing money from bank accounts, introduced a security certificate as an effective tool to protect the country’s information space from hackers, online fraudsters and other types of cyber threats.

And some FAQs are hilarious (as in hilariously devious):

> What happens if I do not install the Security Certificate?
You may have problems accessing the Internet.

> Will installation of the Security Certificate affect the protection of my personal data?
The security certificate has no access to your personal data.

Yeah, true that, literally, but you forgot to mention something there...

[1] https://www.kcell.kz/en/product/3585/658, might have to switch to EN in top right corner
Kids don't have to be isolating. You just have to adjust your life to do things that are if not kid-friendly, kid-accepting.

Also have to get over the fear that people will judge you for taking your kids with you out into the world.
This comes up a lot with financial statements and government data as well. The government stuff is getting much better though.
There is no house in LA where you can't take an arbitrary 10 year period and make money even if you bought in 2007 on the eve of the recession. We've reached the point where even putting 5% down on the median house is unaffordable to massive swaths of the population in southern california. The median is 600k now, who the hell can afford to drop 30k in a world where the median student loan debt is 40k? Not to mention something like 40% of americans can't come up with $400 cash without selling something or taking out a loan.

Of course you save on a mortgage, in LA you profit on nearly every mortgage no matter what. But that benefit is limited to the class of people who can afford to put money down, and that class is a minority in CA.
we use razer blade at work with ubuntu 18, it is mostly ok. the battery life is a bit poor, and the trackpad is not so great, but it is the software to blame. it's upgradable, I have changed my ram from 16gb to 32gb.

https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/
You are right, I missed that. I only checked the 13" version.
I don’t think Twitter cares about “interesting” or “enjoyable”, only “attention grabbing” — and even the political troll bots can produce that by themselves.
I am not sure what you are describing is "exactly the way insurance is supposed to work." If you have an open mind about it, you might want to read about the three-legged stool[1].

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20170716081909/https://www.nytime...
It makes sense as a long term move because now you have a single point of change to switch to renewables.
Suppose there is an unprecedented improvement in solar efficiency or power storage tech in 5-10 years or a nuclear power plant gets built. Then you cut natural gas usage to zero at once, which would have been impossible if all the houses still depended on it.

You can use the same argument for electric vehicles.
Actually, a dns caa record could be of use in this scenario to at least alert the client that the traffic has been intercepted. Then again it is trivial to intercept and rewrite plain DNS requests and dns over https would also be subject to the same https mitm intercept... Maybe certificate pinning was a right idea.
> But I wonder if they intend to do what they do for ads for news stories.

I actually pay money to read the WaPo. If they started "personalizing" the news like that, I'd cancel my subscription and stop reading them at all.

There are a lot of things that I think are made worse by personalization, and what news reports I get to see is toward the top of that list.
This is bad because we don't like it when a foreign government infringes on foreign citizens' rights, but it may also be good (in a limited sense) because it might bring a whole lot more public scrutiny (from all countries and their citizens) towards the issue...
Couple of observations i had from reading about all the companies.

1)I wonder if we will begin to see more and more "billion dollar" companies have products which are more abstract in nature than previous generations, there seems to be a shift from previous "billion dollar" companies which had relatively simple to understand products (social network, search, eCommerce, taxi, housing)

2)No real relation between projected income next year and investment taken

3)Most founders seem to be veterans of the industry rather than "straight out of college" types, i wonder if this goes with point # 1, where a specialization in a domain is more and more required for founders of the next "billion dollar" company.
Why are pharmacists silent about generic drug quality?