skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reality is that before ETFs, the largest beta funds were already quasi-replicating the index, trying to beat it by just enough to compensate for the high fees. This low value added funds are simply being replaced by something cheaper, not sure it is such a bad thing.
On a technical level: have a process for gathering and sending responses to requests from EU users for their data. Have a process for being able to hard delete that data, and a user's account. Dont store anything you dont need, not even in logs (IP addresses), and dont send that data to third party providers. Don't use third party monitoring, and analytics services that aren't GDPR compliant. Keep a constantly up to date document of cookies your site uses, and whether they're essential or non-essential for your product/service to operate. Lastly, learn exactly what is considered PII and not. This is a non-exhaustive list of things you should start with, and then go with common sense, and legal counsel as you can begin to afford it.

Edit: Following up, I say on a technical level, because much of this you can do yourself via having some scripts and report generation in place.
Can you include the app name? I'm blocked from both links.
And isn't the fundamental truth of investing: optimize returns based on your tolerance for risk? For the vast majority of the population, the optimal way to get the highest returns with the lowest risk is to put the money into either the S&P 500 or a total market index.

Every study has shown that people do not get rewarded appropriately for the risk they take on when they move away from diversification.
The state of open source vunerabilties management
There was a significant push at my uni for open source texts. The old guard continues to win with arguments along the lines of "students won't see value in a free book." Where I'll believe that they aren't taking bribes... at least in some cases a majority don't care about the expense that they aren't paying.
There ought to be an XKCD:

I'm working on an AI to replace 99% of programmers with very small machine-learning scripts...

yes it uses Stack Overflow, but only after it reads the relevant sources and jiggles the cord.
For me personally, as for initial contributor of «Course Design»[0] symbol set for OpenOrienteering Mapper[1] app, this news especially sad.

[0] https://github.com/OpenOrienteering/mapper/issues/718

[1] https://www.openorienteering.org/apps/mapper
I'd be all for banning alcoholic stuff too. That's of course hard to do with how socially accepted it is.
"Those companies with fewer than 250 employees are required to hold internal records of processing activities if the processing of data could risk an individual's rights or freedoms, or if it pertains to criminal activity.

For those with more than 250 employees, more detailed records need to be kept. These include the name and details of your organisation, the name of your assigned data protection officer, the reasons for processing the data, a description of the categories of data being processed, details on the recipients of the data, how long it will be retained, details on transfers outside of the EU, and an overview of the security measures your organisation has put in place." - [1]

[1] https://www.itpro.co.uk/data-protection/29123/gdpr-for-small...
Sun Dog
Let's be clear, it's not high tech to take a sharpie to a map, but the use of the results in propaganda is clearly relevant to Hacker News.
I'm not expressing an opinion either way. Just pointing out that this is not necessarily a political posting. And I didn't post it.
I see your point, but I wonder if that is just the nature of how hyper-aware most people in this community are of the problems. I don't know if that necessarily holds true for the general population. Thanks for the feedback.
If you do not enforce your copyright, any case in the future will look weak. Elastic has to sue now that they have discovered infringement or the next guy will say "they don't care that much, they let search guard get away with it".
It’s not that the story is anything special—far from it—but the storytelling is masterful done. I desperately want more games like that.

I will say, I played Vader Immortal recently and it comes closer than anything else I’ve tried, though it’s still not quite as good.
Maybe your conclusion is reasonable, maybe not.

IME, it's a good idea to withhold judgment until we've fully heard from both sides.
Signed overflow is undefined behavior in C.
SUN used to be like that in its final phase - six sigmas everywhere, people teaching how to use "neurolinguistic programming" to achieve one's goals, cool zen-buddhist priests in management, and the bottom fell out...
Why did everyone assume it would be the same on average? This seems weird to me.

Also, can you explain more about how the information density was calculated? Anything at the bit level seems crazy small to me. Words convey a lot of information. They cause your brain to create images, sounds, emotions, smells, etc. I guess we're calling language a compression of that? But even still, bits seems small.
I suspect the answer to your question is yes, if the product is big and important enough. For example, Paul Buchheit is the founder of Gmail. Sure he was an employee at Google at the time, but all things considered, Gmail would not exist today if it wasn't for Paul. When you service billions of users, the lines get blurry.
Long Island, New York.

I'm not trying to plug my channel but here's my latest public video from the other week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_khHWovl4

I do believe audio quality plays a -huge- role in this.

For comparison, here's the most recent Railscasts video from a few years ago by another screencast author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urPi4qZJeOE

I can deal with him at 2x but it's mentally taxing because his audio has a metallic wispy sound at that speed and it makes his words sound blended together. I think he also talks slightly slower than me at 1.0x as well, so it's not just base talking speed. Does anyone else notice that metallic sound too?

Here's another sample of Joe Rogan and Bill Burr on a podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS1KWv0das8

Listening to them talk at 2x feels like a joy. They are talking a little slower since it's a casual conversation but the audio is crystal clear and both of them have very good word annunciation (not surprising since they are on stage talking for a living).
Diane Rehm has spasmodic dysphonia, which affects the way she speaks. She's not just old.
I think they got deprecated by the Six Sigmas.

- Teamwork

- Insight

- Brutality

- Male Enhancement

- Handshakefulness

- Play Hard

(TY 30 Rock)
Yes, you can get tons of personally identifiable information from things like public records laws and such. That's irrelevant, though. This is a phone number tied to a facebook account, not just their name.

A major difference here is the ability - at scale - to associate people with their facebook accounts. There are people who do not want to be associated with by their facebook account, and reasonably so. Not sure why you don't think that wouldn't be a big deal.
And assassination used to be the way this was corrected?
Yes, and the painful slowness becomes even more evident if you speed it up to the 1.25/1.5x range, get comfortable with it, and then go back to 1x. IME, it sounds like the speaker is going over-the-top to enunciate, like you're a small child or have learning disabilities or something.
I think Trump is a particularly skilled con artist, who manages to sell himself as the tableflipper candidate even though he is as much a creature of the establishment as all the rest of them. So I don't think it's true that people are voting for continuity even though (so far) that's been the practical result.

As another counterpoint, Bernie Sanders consistently attracts a large share of the vote while explicitly advocating for socialism. It's very possible he would have been the Democratic candidate for POTUS in 2016 if the DNC had not kneecapped his campaign.
Highly doubtful
heh, when I slow audiobooks down to 1x it sounds like the reader is drunk. I usually go with 1.5-2x depending on the reader.
Maybe an example of good leadership, but not an example of leadership. You don't need to earn leadership these days, you can purchase it or be born into it, especially at a large corporation.
It's just that what you describe has got very little to do with how open source works. So why are they mentioning open source?

(As an aside, I'm also not sure that's as much of an issue in enforcing copyright as it is in enforcing trademark, but I'm no lawyer. But:

> Copyright is not like trademark. Copyright has a set period of time for which it is valid and, unless you take some kind of action, you do not give up those rights… However, unlike trademarks, which do have to be defended, there is nothing the precludes you from enforcing your copyrights at a later date.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/stopping-internet-plagiarism...

But I'm not sure how relevant this really is).
http://archive.is/sbaSP
Given the popularity of ad-blockers these days I'm not sure they're as interested as you think they are.
Even at that rate it would take 48 days to consume a pound.
Wait what, I was saying UBI doesn't have the major flaw but NIT does. I am pro UBI anti NIT. Are you sure you're following the conversation correctly.
>There is unfortunately no way to prevent that part.

It being technical impossible or infeasible does not give them license to not follow the law.

Either they comply with the law or they don't. I'm not a lawyer, but it certainly doesn't look like they're following the law here.
In Germany, marriage is viewed by the state as only a legal function. You must have a civil ceremony at a government office to make your marriage legal. Religious ceremonies are not legal marriages. After the civil ceremony (if you want to) you can have a separate religious ceremony.

Many people now just do the civil ceremony and skip the religious ceremony. It was interesting to see all the couples outside the government office waiting to get married on whatever day marriages were performed.
They've already announced that the Porsche Macan (their most popular model) will be going all-electric: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18240862/porsche-macan-el...
Is this just Facebook users? Or does this include people who just use say, Whatsapp?

Then rememberings this: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/faceb...

Makes you wonder.
But did he have a bully pulpit? Germany wasn't a monarchy then. Did he have any power? Or was he just some random socially prominent guy?
Looking at products can be pretty depressing, too. There are some 10+ year old items I own that I'm proud to be using through their complete useful lifetime, but it's hard not to feel a twinge of dissatisfaction and self-consciousness when confronted with reminders that the new products look and perform better. Most of my friends (like most normal people) buy new products at a pace dictated by their desire to have new stuff.

Of course they brag about their awesome expensive new gear, including how durable it is, which is ridiculous, of course, but even more ridiculously, I have to shelter myself from advertising to protect my conviction that I'm not really the ridiculous one. When I'm barraged with advertising, I can't even feel good about choices that reflect my values. More and more that yucky feeling stops me from checking Instagram, which was the last social media app I checked regularly. I'm had enough of paying for "free" services by trading away control over my own thoughts and feelings.
I've noticed the same thing recently and agree with your assessment.

Is this an HN thing or a Chrome thing?
It's a pity that's how the naming went. I would kept "Compound Bow" for the multiple materials bows and called the new bows "Pully Bow"s...
True, but could be millions more.
My jaw just dropped reading this:

> According to two members of the collaboration, the Nobel-prize winning figure of LIGO’s seminal detection was “not found using analysis algorithms” but partly done “by eye” and “hand-tuned for pedagogical purposes.” To this date, the journal that published the paper has refused to comment.

In the provided link:

> Brown, part of the LIGO collaboration at the time, explains this as an attempt to provide a visual aid. “It was hand-tuned for pedagogical purposes.” He says he regrets that the figure wasn’t labelled to point this out.
Isn't the price set by everyone, not just the active traders? It's set each time a sale happens, but the price itself is also related to how many people are holding the stock long term.

I don't really consider it possible for pricing to be "accurate". It is what it is, but accurate implies there's a correct valuation, which I don't think there is.
That's what happens to everything that management gets their hands on. Agile is slightly different though, it was corrupted as a concept and commodified long before the big guys decided to embrace it.
> Oddly enough, I go to Cadiz (California) on vacation sometimes...

What do you do there for vacation? I wasn't aware there was anything out there other than some industry like the evaporative ponds on the wikipedia page...
Why would Project Manager need to be technical? I think you’re confusing what PM’s job responsibilities are.
I've had my share of NFC at times. I was an idealistic Young Pioneer (not that different from Boy Scout). But I got disillusioned, and became an idealistic hippie immigrant.

Then I got disillusioned again, and went punk/metal. Megadeth's "Addicted To Chaos" was my favorite song for a while. Plus Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Butthole Surfers, Judas Priest, Turbonegro, Marilyn Manson, etc. But still, I did a PhD and played in academica for a while, so I was arguably just posing.

Now, it's not so much that I have NFC. I'm just not at all optimistic about the future. But not like it was during the 60s-80s, when nuclear holocaust seemed all too likely. Now it's mostly the slow slide into an ~unlivable climate. And all the social breakdowns that will come with that. And given that I'll be dead, it's not such a big deal, personally.
Vitalik on the blockchain’s problems so far and how it could yet help the world
That's a pretty creative input, I didn't think about it from the perspective of universalizing these routes.

I built it as a tongue in cheek project, but I'm starting to get pretty excited about polishing it.
There are also a lot of old boards found by archaeologists which are assumed to be game boards but might have instead (or also) been counting boards (abacuses) used for performing calculations.

I’m fairly convinced (though I’m not an expert and it’s hard to be sure about ancient artifacts without documentary corroboration) that backgammon, mancala, and chess boards were originally used as calculation tools. Maybe senet too.
Agreed. My actual USAGE of Facebook is a net positive in my life, by far. (this, of course, leaves aside all of the stuff the company does and is accused of).

I keep track of friends and family, see peoples' kids, see what vacations they're on, see nice photos, and yes, some news (some not so nice news).

Whereas twitter is a toxic cancerous cesspool of attention-seeking, all wrapped in an utterly unusably backwards UI.

Instagram's somewhere in between. Can't remember who's who anymore, bit more attention-seeking than FB, quite a bit less than Twitter.

I guess it depends on your use case. I've never found any value in following "influencers" or brands, I'm more interested in what my actual real-life friends and acquaintances are up to, and FB is far better at that. The reduction of anonymity really helps, too. It's more of a community, less of a shouting match.
Mutual funds usually redeem in cash, but they can also redeem in shares -- if some component of the index becomes untradeable, and becomes a significant enough holding, the fund should just give the shares to people who want out of the fund.
I don't know if that's contrarian really. It's just your basic "My Favorite Band was way better before they got super popular had to go mainstream".

And my take is that that argument should probably stick to fashion and cultural issues and stay out of medical discussions.
They are almost right, Microservices absolutely bring all of your IT problems to front and center.
I just wish I could listen to arbitrary audio with Overcast. As it is I have a blog set up to feed Overcast audio that I give it, but it feels super clunky.
I have no doubt that if you had a record of my browsing habits for 2-3 days you could readily identify who I am the next time you have my browsing habits for that period of time.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if 2-3 hours of active browsing was enough for this.
It isn't necessary a study to conclude that. Captain obvious!
But the problem isn't necessarily just that there are not enough qualified minority candidates, but that qualified minority candidates are often passed over by less qualified majority candidates. Often simply because they look the part.
Top N lists are just another tool for organizing thought. You're right that they aren't a silver bullet of truth.
I think the verbiage is misleading and inflammatory. "Need For Chaos" can more reasonably be understood as "desire for change" when the individuals see no actual path for that change to occur.

Calling it a "need for chaos" further alienates those whose very alienation is the cause of the phenomenon on display. Better to use more neutral language that doesn't inflame the population being observed or bias those doing the observation into further perpetuating an "us vs them" mentality.
Nowadays I'd be surprised at people having trouble setting up ReasonML tooling. It should be just:

- npm install --global bs-platform # (you need to ensure you have write access to the global install path)

- Fire up VSCode

- Install the reason-vscode extension

- Run `bsb -init my-project -theme react-hooks` (assuming you want to scaffold a new ReasonReact project)

More details at https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/editor-plugins
Or even more powerful: the other groups will learn, and the cultural practice will spread faster than genes ever could.
Some people enjoy making things look interesting or exotic, see steampunk electronics. I am guessing that such stylistic designs in electronics does not appeal to you.
Ah yes, good catch :)
Easily helps with API integration challenges thru the GraphQL layer. For example, using a simple endpoint I can translate an image with a text overlay (constructed using a Cloudinary API) from English to any language (I'm in Spain at a conference now, so it's gotta be Spanish) like:
Input: https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_500/l_text:Ar...
Output: https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/w_500/l_text:Ar...
It seems a special kind of doublethink to release some software as free and some as proprietary.

Software isn’t property, and applying property rights to it is fundamentally unjust. This is the point of free software.

To then turn around and also license proprietary software simultaneously means that you were doing free software for the wrong reasons entirely.
But a lot of comfort to the future millions of the people who would have had the same frustrating experience as the previous generation who couldn't find the comfort in those drugs due to their criminalization.
This is the entire business model of TrueCaller, and the reason they have a very accurate phone nbr lookup function
Dancing with Fear
Hmm... actually, process and outright automation (the apotheosis of process) work brilliantly for certain types of work.

Got something boring and repeatable? Process / Automate the daylights out of it. You'll be better off.

Anything that requires innovative thinking or customer focus? Requires fitting square pegs in round holes? Probably isn't going to go so well...

Speaking as someone who spends more time trying to manage the former (boring + repeatable), independent humans are generally the key point of failure in any process.
It's already known elastic made elastic search code base proprietary. So if anyone who uses their distribution without proprietary license will likely be sued.

It's very difficult in a mixed proprietary and open source code to figure out which one and which one is not proprietary. Also given the terms and conditions and license text is written broadly, it can be changed at will.

I will not side with sun guard or elastic here. Use Vespa or solr or some other software if one wants to use open source. Don't touch ELK with encumbered license.
It's an issue in enforcing copyright, not trademark. Search guard isn't pretending to be Elastic. They are pretending to have copy rights to the code beyond what the open source license says they have (hence the mention of open source).

Edit: I think you changed your comment a bit, but it's not that elastic couldn't let this one slide, it's that doing so would hurt them in the future. Their code can't be worth much if they just let people violate the license left and right.
'What is it about software development that keeps on attracting these "methodologies"?'

An unbelievably high level of interdependence between worker teams caused by the complexity of the product.

This produces chaos, the methodologies promise to tame it.
How do I get control back of an account that I lost control of years ago? During the compromise, changing my password did not remove the ability for others to use the account so I shut down the account. It was reactivated by not me and not my recovery info is currently on the account, still with access to all of my contacts and the ability to send emails as me. I have never been able to fix this. Yahoo is completely useless in this regard.
One interesting trade-off here is that modern Facebook intentionally hides posts from your friends and family, often important ones. See https://twitter.com/Hellchick/status/942863353403150336 for one big example. I can imagine this selective filtering having a big impact on mood, and it seems like they were already doing it back in 2017. Maybe it's connected with FB's previous research on how to manipulate users' moods (positively or negatively) with timeline biasing and filtering?
Yep. It's another in a long line of management consulting's flavor-of-the-month subscription to TPS reports' KoolAid (TM).

If there were such a thing as Scroob's law, it would be: An employee's worth is often inversely proportional to the number of their résumé-padding, bullsh!t certifications that they milked yee olde corp for tens of thousand$ in off-site conference$ and week$ of training.
I always found this ironic. The answer to someone who wants to watch things burn is to, in effect, give them what they want and burn things down, on a smaller scale though, I guess?
> sharing forever

Which is not necessarily good. If your marriage fails, it's 'regretting forever'.
They've switched to checking an "mei" score to see if a video is allowed to autoplay on a site:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-p...
>I’ll listen to people complain about how bad markets are, as soon as they cease exchanging what they value less, for something they value more.

Where does duress fit into your overly simplistic view of markets?
Good to know it's a law. I was discussing this yesterday as being easy and frequent to port over number between providers. Do you know if providers are allowed to charge a fee for the transfer?
From Judas Priest:

You can look to the left and look to the right
But you will live in danger tonight
When the enemy comes he will never be heard
He'll blow your mind and not say a word.
Blinding lights--flashing colors
Sleepless nights...
If the man with the power
Can't keep it under control
Some heads are gonna roll
...
The power-mad freaks who are ruling the earth
Will show how little they think you're worth
With animal lust they'll devour your life
And slice your word to bits like a knife
One last day burning hell fire
You're blown away...
If the man with the power
Can't keep it under control
Some heads are gonna roll
...
Boustrophedon, an ancient bidirectional text encoding