skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's many reasons not to trust the CPC. (ip theft, surveillance, etc.)

That's pretty much the summary of US attacks on our EU government as well (remember the backdoor direct attack on Belgacom?), soo... why does it make a difference? If anything, routing things through China denies our data to NSA and makes it less concentrated and useful. Similarly how spreading data over multiple cloud providers gives less power to Google et. al.
No, Wikipedia is not set up for whimsy. This kind of thing has to come from a single author with a point of view, not from a crowdsourced article with conflicting points of view.
Photoshop is the defacto-standard in image editing, yet clones which are free and copy the photoshop UI are rapidly catching up for a segment of the userbase, eg. photopea.com

If someone set up a Scroogle Analoytics which had a simple code snippet, was free, and had near-identical looking dashboard, I'd use it.
Iirc only people who would be eligible for the presidency can be elected as VP, which would disqualify Obama. This is the same reason Bernie couldn't have chosen AOC as his running mate
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I think "analytics" and "traffic stats" are different things.
Yes for this to work you are going to have to screen a lot of people with mild cases to find the very rare mutant that is attenuated. The chance this rare mutating just happens to infect an immune compromised person is low. Just looking through the entire population of mild cases will be much quicker as the limiting factor is not the genome sequencing of the viral strains.
Works quite well on my Debian box, as well as the Windows machine I use for work. I was able to use the virtual camera the Windows client creates to share with MS Teams.

Between that and OBS Studio [0] which makes it easy to do green screen work, I'm having some real fun with our team meetings. Just make sure you get the virtual camera driver [1].

[0] https://obsproject.com/

[1] https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/
WHO and the CDC also count as organizations that were more ideologically neutral that have lost their neutrality over time.

My understanding is that it was the CDC's partisan scope creep that put it in the crosshairs when the new administration came in. Instead of sticking strictly to infectious bacteria and viruses, they started quixotic quests to classify gun violence and obesity as epidemics. Those distractions allegedly cost them their edge in this pandemic.
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And on April 8th 2020 Trump was reelected.
You really don’t need to know that. I mean, it’s often (but not always: see the perils of optimizing for “clicks”) nice if you could, but you are actively trading the privacy of your visitors for that information.
I think he already committed to having a woman VP, so extra unlikely.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/nyc-doctor-says-coronavirus-ve...
Find a good laugh in 40 minutes of the YouTube about people in the old days do not have -ve no. and 0. Also, the surprise way to do algebra by geometry is fun. Studying pre-socrates at the moment and there is a speculation whether the "unbounded" guy is also a geometric guy.
Disclosure: Google Analytics consultant. Not a Google employee, but my bread is very clearly buttered on one side here.

The article's use of that verbiage is deceptive. I think it's not actually a lie, but it's misleading.

When you use the Google Analytics product, Google is a Processor under GDPR and a Service Provider under CCPA. They are contractually bound not to process that data beyond providing the service to you, which is dashboards. It is illegal for them to dip into this data for their own purposes without additional authorization from the customer. (Note that in contrast, when you include a Facebook share button, Facebook is a Joint Controller and not a Processor.)

Sharing Google Analytics data with Google is possible but optional. It's fairly easy to do and encouraged (it enables certain features), but those checkboxes have big legal terms next to them that tends to give people pause.

In particular, the Advertising Features setting allows Google to make a connection between Google Analytics data and Google Ads or DoubleClick data.
And you can determine all that from regular web-server logs.

No need to snitch on your visitors to big G.
>The major achievement of Maxwell's equations is that you can predict velocity of light

This is true, but the other major achievement of Maxwell's equations was his formulation of the displacement current:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement_current

which underlies the wave equation and which "symmetrizes" the loop laws for electric and magnetic fields. This was the "missing link" between the previously known laws of electromagnetism (Ampere's law, Gauss's law, and Faraday's law) and the full theory given in Maxwell's equations.
Apple has proven with previous actions and non-investments in the web platform that they are not interested in contributing to something like that and would rather focus on their own proprietary services/applications. Right now, they seem to be doing the bare minimum to not receive too much criticism from developers who are stuck on Apple devices.
I really dislike the user experience of GA. I literally know 1% of the functionality it offers and I only _need_ 1% of what it offers. But I do like that it's free. Was planning to one day give https://simpleanalytics.com/ a shot.
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for a webcam. Check Aliexpress, banggood and other chinese sites for much more affordable options.
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Show HN: Zappy, a fast, free screen capture tool for macOS from Zapier
Hey HN! I'm Mike, co-founder at Zapier and head of Zapier Labs. Today our Labs team is launching a public version of Zappy (download it here: https://zapier.com/zappy): a fast, free screen capture tool that we built for our remote team.

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We wanted a tool for screenshots/GIFs to supplement apps like Slack, but nothing on the market had the mix of speed and features we were looking for. So, we built it ourselves. Zappy is a cornerstone of how we work at Zapier, nearly everyone at Zapier uses Zappy every week (voluntarily)! And we want to share it.

Why now? People around the world just experienced a sudden shift to remote work—and we know life sans-office comes with unique challenges. We want to share our experience and make that transition a little easier.

Our goal with Zappy was to provide a screen capture experience that was so fast, people would actually want to use it to communicate. To capture something, you hit a keyboard shortcut, draw a square, and press enter. Zappy copies the image to your clipboard so you can paste it anywhere (or provides a path to your GIF/video).

You can draw annotations, record a selfie view, and stitch shots together. Captures support image, GIF, and MP4 formats. One of my favorite features is being able to grab past captures from the Mac menu bar, instead of digging through folders.

We're working on more features, too, like self-hosted captures on S3, sharing permissions, and a Zapier integration. :-)

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You are right. I stand corrected. I always used Google Analytics for remarketing audiences because you can use any existing Google Analytics data to build audiences. You can't do the same with Google Ads remarketing tag according to the comparison table here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2611268?hl=en

As a marketer you would want as much data as possible available for remarketing. The wider your audience the better your conversion rate. Without Google Analytics you will be remarketing only to the remarketing list created in Google Ads but not any and every audience that is being tracked by your Analytics property.
However you can do a local blockchain (or hash chain, or whatever you want to call it) and distribute just the hashes. If you have a local git repo and regularly tell me your commit IDs I can testify that the code existed at that point in time, and can later verify it wasn't changed if you choose to expose the full commit to me. And because it's a chain, you only need to communicate one commit ID for every external timestamp you care about, not for every commit you care about.
This is a super valid observation that deserves more attention.
Assuming this treatment is viable, hospitals should be sending discharged patients home with the website and number to call for donating after recovery. I think most people will not see this or even know about it.
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I recently picked up game development again as a hobby and was pleasantly surprised that SDL still is around and hasn’t changed much in 10 years (which is a long time in game development).

Browser-based JavaScript is also very stable if you stay away from the frameworks in the sense that stuff which worked 20 years ago mostly still works today (although much stuff has been added of course).

Frameworks like Flask are also an anchor of stability and thankfully haven’t changed much, at least in terms of API stability.
They have two app versions, a free with fewer features and a paid with full features. I personally tried first the free to make sure it works, and then I paid for the full version.
Oh, nice. I didn't think of this. But good idea. I'll look into their analytics.
I pulled my old Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 out of storage, to find that the video feed functions only when plugged in to a USB 2 port, and my current home desktop just has USB 3 ports.

I haven't yet tried fixing it, because honestly, nobody really needs to see any of... this. As I gesture vaguely at myself.

Video conferencing is vastly overrated. I'd rather share an image of my desktop or a drawing canvas.
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I think you underestimate people
I didn't know that rule. Thank you for telling me.

The font is EB Garamond. It's the only free font I found with historical alternates. At first sight I do think the font should be smart enough to apply those rules for me (contextual features I think, like in "frac"), but it seems, at least on CSS, one must do it themselves.

I'll fix this :D
If you want high quality blog posts, you need to know which ones are popular and bring in new readers.

Without that, you'll loose a really strong signal for self improvement, and your blog might become write-only...
GA is also widely supported by other tools marketers know, understand, and use daily. Its appeal is definitely not limited to developers - would-be alternatives might stand to benefit by considering other users.
Download link, since it's a bit buried: https://zapier.com/zappy
> Anecdotally, if you put your email at the bottom of the page you’ll get a pretty good idea just from the number of people who send you one.

You can't be serious. Who in this day and age reads an article and thinks "Hmm, that was useful, I'll send the author a note of thanks"?

This might have been the case in 1995 when there were only a few websites around, and Internet use was considered leisure time and not part and parcel of everyday life.
Odds on Trump reelection is 1/1 on most betting site. Maybe the safest bet ever with a good return
That is not an option if you are a profit driven enterprise. There is no alternative that is as good/optimized as Google Ads is. You are literally bidding on search intent.
GA can't really be replaced easily.

There is an army of web consultants ready to help you set up and track your marketing with GA, and just as many marketing consultants that can only work with GA.

While it's nice that someone works on alternatives—although I don't really see anything wrong with GA—it's here to stay.

Reminds me of Excel, people have been trying to replace Excel for 20 years now.
any equivalent for android?
You ignored the humanitarian issues.

Also, please give me examples of a US or European country stealing IP, because that's the main threat w/ Zoom (spying on businesses & stealing tech)

Yes, most countries spy, China goes much much further and has no accountability because it's an authoritarian regime, not a democracy.

You can talk shit about Trump all you want, but try to call Xi Jinping a cartoon bear.

Ask Hong Kong, they'd love to have the freedoms that they once had as UK citizens.
Care to explain why? You have no evidence as to why that would be, I assume.

The viability of Sanders' campaign is a serious question and is why he wasn't nominated. If there had been resounding support for him as a candidate, he would have been nominated...

I understand that his campaign and supporters will make some argument about how it's the DNC holding him down, or some conspiracy, or whatever, but the reality is that he isn't/wasn't/won't be viable in a general election against Trump.

Socialism, or whatever Bernie wants to sell himself as does not sell to the broader electorate that is going to have to be captured in November.
Also, unlike many smaller analytics providers, Google Analytics doesn't have glaring CSRF vulnerabilities and doesn't have creepy features that let you spy on individual users (no idea if this applies to Plausible or not).
Another kinda related website: The Incredible Proof Machine http://incredible.pm/
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In another news, Qt pretend to keep all releases for the next 12 months, comercial only:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22812050
Have you looked into my background? I know all about how the how the system works. I am not looking to avoid hard work.

As for why Bill Gates I specifically said I am looking for people with the clout to make this happens - while I am sure Bill would understand my proposal so would lots of other smart people.

I don’t wish to be snarky, but yes you have misunderstood my proposal.
Neat!

I've been doing this manually by adding my signature in GIMP and taking a photo of my laptop screen.
Awesome new feature! That's exactly what I'm going to use it for, though I am just a tad sad that it happened before my setup game night, as I felt like a wizard using pulseaudio to route the game audio through as a microphone...
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I have found exactly the opposite. I mostly wear a mask because it stops me touching my face.
A fair number of people, surprisingly. Some will also send emails with questions or comments.
I would say that 99.99% of businesses do give a damn about their customers. And particularly they care about their customers' preferences as demonstrated by their economic behavior. Very few customers care whether a business uses GA enough to change their purchasing decisions. Businesses therefore rightly view the decision as neutral with respect to customer preferences.
Dialup modems speak the protocol, or at least they used to, so it was possible to send or receive a fax without a physical copy of the document. Just by "printing" from word to the modem and entering a phone number. I remember writing an excel macro to iterate over a list of customers and send a personalized word document to them. (This was 20 years ago I think and not all of our customers had an email)
this aligns with the story as well. I cannot fathom why, when lives are on the line and the medical community does not have a sure-fire solution, that anyone would be so crass to shut down civil questions and speech. If you disagree, disagree, but don't downvote reasonable responses.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/06/nyc-doctor-says-coronavirus-ve...

https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/220301/c...
What alerted me at that time was the discrepancy between their HR site at U.S of the Chinese opening (only one), and their job postings in Chinese job sites.
> This would explain some of the more puzzling positive / negative / positive test sequences.

It seems far more likely to me that both of these phenomena are explained by higher-than-usual false positive and false negative test rates.
See the thread above about DroidCam (also on the Play Store). The Windows client loads a virtual camera driver that connects to the stream. You may be able to use it with other IP cameras, I haven't tried that yet.
Let's be honest, many things in life (especially quantitatively measured) are done to feed the ego. There's no need single out website views.
Is this somehow different than what you get from hosting on Cloudflare Dash? I have my GitHub pages DNS through Dash and the only additional thing I wish I had was referrer analytics.

Nice site, too. Bookmarked :)
A cursory search of the top couple of betting sites proves this statement to be complete BS.
I can only assume CISO is Chief Information Security Officer? I hadn't seen the acronym before. Bad Zoom for not writing it out in full on the first instance.
GA is complete overkill for hobby websites that get ~100s of visits/day. If you have a commercial website selling stuff, or conduct A/B testing, or have marketing channels funnelling traffic to the site, then you pretty much have to use something like GA or Adobe Analytics.
It kind of reminds me of Pon Farr from Star Trek, a regularly occurring period of increased aggression experienced by male Vulcans every 7 years.
Apologies for not understanding the differences between various types of gun and misusing the term.

Still, the point remains - what situation could possibly arise from a pandemic that would require a <insert any type of gun here>?
I remember that version of Skype and flawless wasn't the word I'd use for it. Buggy and insecure as hell are what come to my mind.
This isn't a whole company thing, this is just an observation he is seeing.

He clarifies what he means more here:
https://lobste.rs/s/mc3k1c/at_uber_we_re_moving_many_our#c_f...
On the other hand, take a look at this:

https://privacy.google.com/businesses/rdp/

Google's usage of Analytics data is restricted unless GA is integrated with Google Ads.

I think section 6 may actually be referring to collecting data about the Google Analytics user's usage of analytics, not data about the website visitor. I.e. if Bob puts GA on his website and Alice visits the website, then the sentence you quoted is about Google tracking Bob's usage of GA, not about Alice's visit. But I am very unsure about that.
Why do you think it doesn't make a difference? At a minimum, one country shares a mutual defense pact with most of Europe. The other doesn't (to say the least).
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> Who in this day and age reads an article and thinks "Hmm, that was useful, I'll send the author a note of thanks"?

I do. Maybe you should, too?
How can anything be better than a pin... unless im tortured or futuristically brain hacked?
If you strip out the proof-of-work algorithm you're basically left with a chain of Merkle trees, and the payloads hashed by the Merkle trees. Calling it a blockchain is just a way to make it sound more familiar to potential investors.
There is no such restriction. Article II never specified any limit on how long someone could serve.

The 22nd Amendment limits only who can be elected to the office of President. Since a VP becomes President through devolution, not election, it doesn't limit who may serve as VP.
Hi Tyler! :)
I've seen what happens when the electricity goes out and stores are forced to close - people are really nice to each other and help each other out whenever they can.

Let me put it another way: if you owned a gun, would "the electricity is out" be a reason to shoot someone?
And some of them (especially within those fields) may be forced by their employer to work part-time and not be eligible for employer sponsored health insurance.
https://securitytrails.com/domain/pussy4all.dashboard-produc...
Zoom is fully aware that associating themselves with China considering the latest developments would be catastrophic for them, whether its job listings or some of its servers being in China.
By technical audiences maybe. By the general public, Verge readers, etc, not so much. Half of the population doesn't know who the vice president is, much less Vint Cerf.
I feel this is off-topic to HackerNews, even if it's important to the people the view this site.
I've found these apps:

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dreamdroid...

- http://www.dev47apps.com/

- http://ip-webcam.appspot.com/

Any opinion on which one is best?
Both C and SQL are ancient on a tech-time scale and are still widely used.
Posthog.com is another solid option for privacy-focused analytics. They too have a self-hosted version
I ran into that the other week as well.

Get a UVC industrial camera with a M12 or CS mount lens to use as a webcam, most are better cameras than the "webcam" models and not everyone has noticed UVC cameras _are_ webcams so the prices are normal.

I grabbed one with an OV2710 sensor (does 1920x1080@30fps, 1280×720@60, and so on) and a 2.8-12mm CS lens for $65 that took a little over a week to arrive (I paid a slight premium from Amazon instead of Aliexpress because it looked like there was US stock... turned out to be the same seller shipping from the same place in China. Oh well).

I'm trying to limp the hands-on portion of some sophomore-level EE courses to the end of the semester, so I've got mine mounted as an overhead camera for drawing/demonstrating/etc. the crap laptop built-in is plenty for facecam.

The major problem is getting the video conferencing apps not to drop cameras to super-low quality, Zoom usually won't even use the full resolution mode of my built-in (except occasionally and apparently at random it decides to and changes the frame by selecting a 16x9 mode instead of the 4:3 it usually picks), and offers no real camera settings that I can find.
No. Hacker News does not use GA. Yet it ranks at the top for many searches.
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If customers need it, then it's a requirement. Nothing I said indicates you should leave out customer requirements. In fact, I specifically alluded to including separate names in cases where it's needed.

Sometimes the customer is you or your org, and in those cases it may not be a requirement.
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> Just to offer a counter point: this crisis feels mostly manufactured. Zoom is under a microscope that almost all other comm software would fail just as horribly, if not worse

I fail to see why this matters; let's assume this is true and everything else is just as bad (and a lot of stuff is just as bad, so this may be a fair assumption): the answer is that they should be put under the microscope too and forced to clean up their act and stop lying to users or putting them at risk unnecessarily with bad development processes. The answer is not to just say "meh, everyone else is just as bad" and keep using Zoom.
Isn't there a 10 year limit as well though? Especially for this case where someone serves as president without being elected?

That being said, I'm not sure either if the restriction in the parent exists.

Edit: a reference I found afterwards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_office#Federal
https://posthog.com is another good one
Who cares about the general user? Most people in the world use macos/windows/ios/android and they're fine with it.

The kind of folks who run linux on their desktop will be overjoyed.

And over time it will acquire polish.
Thank you :D

As a matter of fact, I also discovered many notes regarding software support/compatible. I think at some time I will put it on for reference. It's may be a problem as we deliver things digitally more and more now. No more the safeness of a printed paper.
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