skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You do you, but I'm happy to get free airline tickets and other perks from using my credit card at the expense of....... having someone else know I bought a mechanical keyboard last month?

That's not why you're getting free airline tickets. You're getting them because you're a) subsidized by people who carry a balance and b) pay higher prices on goods to make up for the merchant fees, while being partially subsidized by those people who pay with cash and aren't getting free flights.
There is a serious and concerted effort to disparage the large tech companies lately on this platform and others. It isn't about anti-trust, or any benefit to the consumer either, although it may be dressed up that way. It's about forcing private companies to be platforms for radical views, and to self-censor and be disallowed from having their own political opinions and operating policies.

The government should be hands-off here. Look only to the fact that they're not investigating Microsoft, Walmart, or the ISPs, to realize that this is targeted political harassment.
To play devil's advocate: What role does a for-profit advertising company have in encouraging people to vote? And what are their motives in doing so?

Disclaimer: I haven't read the pdf (only responding to your comment) and don't really hold a strong position on this question, other than being sceptical of Google's participation in any political process.
That argument applies to any similar business though, so while I think I get where you are coming from I don't know why you would treat Lyft specially, here.
Just to be clear, I was suggesting that the metric was "repair spend / sales volume". Also a bad metric, of course.

But yes, it's perfectly possible that a company would use a bad nominal metric like "repair spend". It need not even be explicit. Typical budgeting processes encourage that sort of thing because it's seen as good to be under budget and bad to be over it.
> I assumed they displayed those for everyone.

They presumably did. If you follow the link for that [0] he extrapolitaed a bunch of numbers with "more people who use Google search lean left than right" and thus telling people to go vote influences more people who vote left.

[0]: https://m.theepochtimes.com/another-way-google-manipulates-v...
> Smell problems aside, how do you transport the compost away from the toilet?

The Night Soilman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil) or dunny man in Australia would come and collect it once a week. It really wasn't that long ago in some parts, Brisbane Australia had them until the 70's and it's still within living memory of much of the developed world. In many older cities you'll still see little lane ways between rows of houses that were used to give the carts access to the outhouse, most have been converted to footpaths/bikepaths these days.

I wouldn't want to go back because the smell in the summer heat was legendary, but flushing toilets are incredibly recent.
I agree. It's a Pandora's box I don't want to open.
Interestingly, you don't have the answer to my simple question.
That's what hyperthreading is for, which implies having the same number of threads as logical cores.

Hyperthreading and out of order execution are meant to accomplish keeping the execution units busy.
Right, and 25k is their bi weekly paycheck.
Jitter is always introduced by non-RTOS operating systems that don't have a guarantee for preemptive realtime scheduling. The kernel scheduler introduces jitter, supervisory processes introduce jitter, etc. And an easy test to see the effects of this is to try to control a servo motor with a GPIO pin without RT_PREEMPT or comparable RTOS.

Simple fix would be an RT_PREEMPT-linked Linux sound player.
> I made both comments!

Ha! I did not notice! XP

> I suppose the whole point of a static type system is moot with a fully prototype-based language. Instead maybe you can enforce compile-time checks (contracts?) on the messages an object is expected to receive.

I think if you can do the latter, you can probably do the former. By that I mean you can probably do neither.

If cloning is something you do in runtime, how can you enforce compile-time checks on the messages they're supposed to receive? Such messages are defined at runtime.
Not this argument again.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/no-section-230-does-no...
Facebook allows you to target an ad based on mobile numbers. So obviously they use them for reasons beside security.
also not compatible with modern 'advances' like fire and hygiene codes and bans on open defecation.
Whatever your purpose, you believe in it, whether thats this is a business plan that will make me a bunch of money, or it'll make an impact, you still gotta believe.
Right, rewrites are basically invest now vs spend exponentially later.

They make little sense as soon as a project is completed, even if you rewrite, the software hasn't had time to point you in a direction, a 'nice' rewrite of the same wrong solution is just as useless as a bad implementation of the wrong solution.

They may make sense after a product has matured, since the actual scope of the software will be more defined. The 'correct' schema is starting to reveal itself, but usually it's rare that business wise it's worth rewriting at this stage, adding features is the better choice.

They definitely make sense once a product is fully matured, starting to gather legacy issues - since fighting around all the cruft and incorrect schema restrictions is wasting more time than redesigning it from ground up using the existing implementation as the guide.
It's like changing a company's logo to a rainbow flag during pride month. It has basically zero cost and gains a minor increase in public perception as being a company that stands with "the people." (Telling people to vote has always been pretty popular, and I remember my friends sharing posts of their favourite celebrities telling people to vote.)
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Oh interesting, I misunderstood
Specific gut bacteria have also been implicated as a link between red meat consumption and atherosclerosis:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3650111/

I'm curious how those findings relate to this.
Seems so: "the FTC will allege Facebook misled users about its handling of their phone numbers and its use of two-factor authentication"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-ftc/facebook-to-...
Dr. Robert Epstein might very well have a valid complaint, but it seems like he has had an ax to grind with Google going back years. His site was hacked in 2012 and Google put up a warning as a result and he was not happy about it [1]. Maybe coincidentally, later that year Epstein started publicly criticizing Google and calling for them to be regulated [2]. He also started sounding the alarm about election interference years before the 2016 election [3]. If Dr Epstein is leading a conversation about Google's biases, I think it is only fair to also discuss whether Dr Epstein's himself is biased against Google.

[1] - https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/readers-and-expert...

[2] - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/google-privacy_b_1962827

[3] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/15/google-di...
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It's a marketing opportunity to encourage people to use their services to find polling stations and other related info.
The crap results I get in place of good ones are pretty spammy. I suspect it's not google that's getting worse, but spammers getting better. That's not something a google alternative will magically do better combatting.
Why isn't some big company putting its weight behind Julia considering what it has to offer in the field of data science? I just don't get why it's still playing second fiddle to Python. Tech is full of inertia, paradoxically.
> [...] Porn is to sex education as war movies are to combat training.

> If I learn what "sex is about" through porn [...]

> It seems limiting to "explore your sexuality" in the novelty of visual and auditory stimulation [...]

These arguments are all against the fictional nature of porn as a substitute for sex or sex education... which no one is suggesting, so it's a straw-man. Porn is not a replacement, it is both less and more, just like other fictions. The only time the OP suggested it as a replacement is where there is no alternative, which is perfectly reasonable.

War films are not a substitute for combat training because they are not supposed to be. The remainder of this argument is for the value of fiction, which seems a little unnecessary.
the wealthy class LOVES the aesthetics of those things. Woke is so IN right now. The middle class, on the other hand, have mortgages to pay and thin walls to block the noise with.
I had no idea about github.com/$USER.keys. That's handy as hell.
Bernie Sanders just said he would help people of 'Culla'. What is Culla?
Is it just me or are these gaps getting larger? I travel to the US a couple of times a year for 15 years and it seems that way to me.

It's disturbing that the probability is quite high that whilst searching for a vacant cubicle, your eyes may well lock with the single enlarged eye of a terrified pooper. This is not a bond I want to make.
There was a super interesting article in the New Yorker a few years ago about the smuggling of unreleased albums out of CD manufacturing plants back in the day. Your experiences remind a lot of that:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/27/the-man-who-br...
They should deliberately be leaking the whole time, some ideas being surreptitiously tested on an unassuming public. In this way any real leak gets ignored as the person making the leak is not as well connected as the posse from the PR company manufacturing fake leaks for Apple.

As part of the operation some leaks can be genuine so the press have full confidence in the PR operation, with it always providing them with tid-bits of speculation.

Who knows, Apple could have such an operation going already, unlikely though.

Microsoft did a similar thing during the early OS wars when they just announced they would be doing something without necessarily doing it. This killed off the incentive for competitors to enter the marketspace. Apple could do a similar thing with phone features.
Nearly a decade ago, then Google CEO Eric Schmidt said "The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it."

https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-googles-policy-...

The problem with such a policy is in thinking that cultural and legal boundaries are fixed and inviolate. The very process of repeatedly pressing up to a border may trigger the backlash which moves it, and can leave the fate-tempting party in deep water -- with its own culture, processes, amd institutions unable to adapt, or with goodwill so badly burnt it never recovers.

Google should have seen this coming long ago. It's a colossal failure of leadership that they've not.
They same role they have in offering free email, or a free calendar app. People wanted a vote-reminder application, so Google made one to increase engagement in its platform.

If for profit companies are Constitutionally allowed to make political donations, why would reminding people to vote be any different?
>A worldwide network of passive monitoring systems must be built to protect humanity and democracy from manipulations by today’s Google and the Googles of tomorrow.

Yeah no thanks.
Not necessarily the same alt-health people?
At least they tell you what's going on, some other websites will just throw you a "login failed" and that's it.
A large proportion of these were due to alcohol.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6089353/ns/health-addictions/t/alc...

Alcohol is probably the leading cause of preventable death.
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I work at Vimeo. We use automated detection to flag suspicious accounts. This was a clear false-positive, and the account has been unsuspended.

We don't convert urls to hyperlinks in video descriptions when the user has signed up recently, because hyperlinked urls have been used by spammers to trick visitors into visiting fraudulent sites.

This is clearly legitimate behaviour in context, but a brand-new user posting identical descriptions and urls on multiple videos is behaviour commonly seen in spam accounts, and we tend to err on the side of caution.

Edit: clarified circumstances under which urls are converted
They aren't going to release everything....but that doesn't mean they know what happened.
That name though, couldn't it just be Agent?
He also knew he was on-call and went somewhere where he didn't have reception. It sounds like he knew that might be an issue so gave his wife's number as a backup. That's basically training the person who has to escalate to use his wife's number as it's the one he responded on. I don't think he's being generous at all, it seems like an obvious outcome of being on call and not responding on his own phone.
There are many techniques and calling any of them the one solution and all others a trap is extremely myopic. Shared memory is extremely useful for IPC and fork join parallelism.
There are 5 different Greyhound buses next Monday from Chicago to Dayton (called "Dayton Trotwood"), ranging from $36 to $90, all taking about 7 hours. There are some passenger trains in the US—I've actually gone overnight from Rochester, NY, to Milwaukee, WI, via train when a flight was canceled—but bus travel is just how you get to medium-sized US cities, for better or for worse. 188 US cities are larger than Dayton, and it's only the 6th largest city in Ohio.

Of course, it's not as nice as having regular, smooth, fast trains. But the situation is not as dire as people make it out to be.
> What protection/insurance?

The protection/insurance that kicks in when you get in an accident or the driver decides after fifty miles that fuck it, they don't want to drive any more.
I see co-founder owning 30-50% of the company and taking care of IT/development. Could be 20% if there's many founders or others brought in much more initial cash. I've seen job offers asking for a co-founder offering 5%, that's an employee share in my opinion.

Then it's between the founder to decide their roles. I don't expect a non-technical person to be good at filing taxes, writing marketing text or customer acquision (great if they are of course), so I don't expect the technial person to know everything either. It's about taking the initial responsibility as part owner of the company.

If it turns out the first hire is a much better developer it won't change titles. I think somebody joining 6 months later shouldn't be called a founder (ideally by then the market fit of the product is proven, investment raised, overall less risk).

Judging others before starting a startup is hard. Naturally you want the best person in all regards. Look for generalists though, not only the tech stack, lots of assumptions about the business will change, sometimes rapidly.
I agree this isn't the time or place, but you are not stating a fact; rather you are choosing a particular framing which is neither unique nor universally accepted.

It doesn't matter whether or not I agree with you or Franklin (or neither) here - I was noting that your attempt at pointing out his "error" is itself logically flawed and does not demonstrate any such error on his part.
If I only knew back then, but it might've not been been available to me. Or it's possible that I've tried it, and might've even relied on it, as I played other games, but this one, along with few others were VGA only. Wow, now that i think of it... it was long time ago... Just trying to squeze that last bit of 640kb with QEMM... looool
You navigate these types of controls every day without realizing it. The web is now a nuclear testing range and these insanely aggressive countermeasures are necessary to operate.

My assumption here is that they have a back-end system auto-blocking injected html that makes it to the server, and some ui-level filter failed. I'd love to hear the follow up and would expect this answer.
Lasers were invented in the early 1960's. And there was a bunch of hype for half a decade. Dozen years later people were referring to lasers as a 'failed' technology.

Transistors invented more or less in 1947. Twenty years later in 1967 my parents bought a BW TV, with tubes.

LED's. First invented in 1927, practical devices 40 years later in the mid 1960's. Widespread use in lighting, not until 40 years after that.
From an article last year about new train prototypes in Tokyo:

> Chris Jackson, the editor-in-chief of Railway Gazette International, based in London, said JR East wanted to raise their maximum train speed to 224 miles per hour to achieve a journey time between Tokyo to Sapporo that rivals flying.

> Currently, the world’s fastest trains in regular service run between Beijing and Shanghai, in China, at speeds up to 217 miles an hour, he said.

Sapporo is over 500 miles from Tokyo, and the trains might be faster than a 600mph plane ride...
Or, of course, one of the numerous Expect-like tools for other languages/ecosystems, if that's more one's cup of tea.
That’s…what HTML escaping is for…?
I think a better example of this is Netflix. They make it a stated goal to pay you more than what you will be able to make anywhere else. They also are pretty straightforward about wanting a return for that pay :-) They'll milk you for all you're worth and if you aren't 100% anymore, they will replace you. They are completely above board and honest with their approach, so I think it's fair ;-)

Not saying that isn't a good strategy for some people (and I probably would have enjoyed that pace when I was younger), but it's not really what I think of when I think about respect and good culture.
I don't know the answer to that.

FWIW, my guess would be that the definition is fairly strict.

Now, I don't think that would prevent the first party using data processors, but I suspect the first party would have to exercise a lot of control over the processor. This would be in contrast to a service like Google Analytics, where the company's control and choice is simply limited to take it or leave it.
It wasn't lost on me when I was working on a contract for a very large secretive tech company that if I leaked info that I had it would affect the share price.

I didn't, but it made me realise how improbable it is that these companies actually manage to keep stuff so secret.

I bet there are hundreds of people reading HN right now who are keeping quiet about stuff that would be explosive if made public. Quite impressive really.
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So was this a UI-level filter that failed and let un-sanitized html hit the server, which triggered the auto-block?
That’s a heart warming story.

He’s a first generation aristocrat who has gone on at length about the right of the powerful to dictate the outputs of the less powerful.

He believes he’s truly unique and above the rest of us, without seemingly considering none of us will lie down and die if an early end should be his fate (I hope it isn’t, of course).

Such a smart guy, I suspect he’d agree there’s no causal link between his existence and the rest of us. He leans on convenient emotional frameworks society has carried along for years.

Oh of course he does a bit of philanthropy to point at. How gracious of him to hand pick those who should have their minds to themselves!

He thinks Elizabeth Warren is dangerous. Says nothing about the doofus in Chief, but the contender with relatively little power. Be afraid of change! It might prove I’m wrong!

The common features of an aristocrat: money and indifference of those without money.

Or at least that’s my take given his writings. Maybe have a peak and see.
Curious about the Latino citizen part. Do they offer different services or experiences as a result?
This is something I seem to be coming across a lot more often lately. People can't accept a viewpoint from someone that is mean towards a subset of people, or refuses to accept public opinion on a specific topic, while having done something amazing to progress human forwards in a specific area. If you can't appreciate the amazing work they did without compartmentalising their character, I consider that a fault.

Taking sound advice from someone who you disagree with on a philosophical/religious/etc level is vital to strengthen your character. In my opinion :)
What's with all the screenshots, videos, and PDFs? Why not simply use canvases as you describe?
At least in Julia, which is a Lisp-inspired language without s-expressions, what you have is a dual representation for all code [1] in which you can manipulate either directly on the normal infix notation with quote and unquote, which is good for code injection [2], or in the s-expression-like representation (Surface syntax AST) [3] in which you have the full control over the structure but you have to deal with a different syntax. Using the s-expression-like is more powerful, but for the function user it doesn't really matter which you use.

[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/inde...

[2] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/metaprogramming/inde...

[3] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/devdocs/ast/#Surface-syntax...
You could use this to build something like PLINQ, but this is at a lower level in the stack than PLINQ.
probably yes.

see "examples" ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_AP... ) and search for "around" key

or "around" documentation: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Overpass_QL...
This is great and fast response here.

Does Vimeo has a way for human employee to proactively (not as a result of social media shaming) look at- and unblock customer account in case it was a result of false positive?

Ban-first, handle-later is not exactly customer friendly policy.
Another one of these articles. For novelty, I'm expecting to see an article about the novel idea of there being successful developers who do have CS degrees. It can happen!

The site seems to lean pretty heavily on contradicting the remarkable idea that you might need a CS degree to slap together a website and write some lines of PHP.

But that being said, there's a lot of evidence that some people who don't have CS degrees can do great programming and even great CS, and a lot of evidence that some people with CS degrees can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.

I'm not sure why everyone feels the need to run around with their dresses over their heads every time this comes up; although it does provide a good venue for people to indulge in the harmless pleasure of praising oneself on HN.
If even a fraction of the allegations in the PDF are true, wouldn't Google be exposed to a campaign finance compliance issue?

Or, to put it in another way, since these corporations are just giant buckets of money sloshing around, wouldn't it be true that pretty much any political activism they incorporate into their business operations would have the potential to be considered an election-influencing political contribution?
The electoral system in the US has so many other gigantic flaws. It is only wracked by such controversies because it so bad at representing the interests of the voters.
"On January 31, 2009, Google blocked access
to virtually the entire internet for 40 minutes." - Please explain how Google created a denial of service attack on the entire internet for 40 minutes. Clearly, Dr. Epstein believes that the only way to access the internet is through a search engine.
A number of other people have their tickets terminated for similar reasons. Google the name of the program to find their stories
Youtube "recommendations"? Sure. Facebook? Absolutely.
You'd imagine a professor in Psychology from Harvard would not hold a grudge for seven years over Google warning users about his hacked website and "tarnishing" his reputation. Apparently not.
Not to mention that energy independence is a good thing when you remember the oil shocks of the past.