skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, and thanks for posting that here.

This points to a deeper problem, one not trivially solved via technology, of credibility. There've been several instances of technical solutions to problems for which I had a great deal of initial skepticism, some warranted, some less so.

I was aware of both wireless networking and VOIP in the late 1990s, though neither broke through to mainstream for some years. Trust in the integrity of the underlying protocols being a chief concern (not entirely unwarranted).

Challenge-response email anti-spam systems have a similar problem -- your CR system may be entirely legit, but other peoples' might well be spam-harvesting engines or otherwise bogus.

Sponsored tiles requires a great deal of buy-in before it can gain mainstream acceptance.

If there's a good description of the whole thing, might make for a good HN submission.
> no subjunctive tenses
> no tones
etc.

According to this view a perfect language would have... what? So are we in the same game as in computer language, with this discussion about how many features should we allow?

My view on this may be uncommon: Less features for computer language migth be better in some cases, but more features in human languages is always better, because the human brain will make the best out of it.

Taking a simple case: two idioms with the same meaning is bad in python, should be removed if possible. Two words with the same meaning in English (e.g. to use/to utilise, tired/fatigued) is good, because both words will fork away and each carry subtle differences that will be powerful.

English is highly unsuitable, but not for this reason.
From what I know, all the blue collar labor is imported, and the Saudis don't work that much (or at all?). So, there is no worry of generations of workers getting trained etc.
What exactly is so bad about their software?
Do you have young children? It's far more noticeable in children under 10... but I see it at times in adults too. Just little points of perception that a little shift can mean significant gains to advertisers.
This kind of makes a great case for why signed/unsigned ought to be a feature independent of overflow.
you're only seeing half the issue, i'm guessing that you only took a one way trip to jiufen? the driver's probably charging you for roundtrip because that's actually what he has to do, he'll have an empty cab on the trip back to taipei.
I'm with you, but the general market for mobile apps has spoken and most consumers are much more willing to use a "free" app packed to the gills with interstitial advertising (aka an ad before every round) than to pay even $1.
English isn't elegant, but it is very expressive, with plenty of scope for nuance.

But relatively rigid ("strongly typed"?) languages like Latin and ancient Greek were also very expressive, so I'm not sure that's a convincing argument.

As for Unix - it's the Java of operating systems.

I'd love to see the Haskell or the Lisp of operating systems, but we seem stuck around 1975 as far as OS research goes.
Why not put Google on your resume and try applying for five or 10 jobs to see how it goes? I bet that having Google there will be a very positive thing, and that many people would understand the situation.

If someone came to me with that story, the vetting by Google would heavily outweigh the story.
"I was in the UK rather than the US, but I'm not sure that makes any difference."

Not really. In contrast to Talia, I'll wager you weren't trying to live in Kensington or Knightsbridge while making those wages, correct?
You can still back up your data on your computer encrypted. Something the article failed to mention.
Brother, son, it's all the same with inbreeding to maintain Saudi Royal heredity.
> Here is a hint to people in US. Look at a nation where there is "Universal Basic Income", or all those freebies and welfare benefit your guys ask for. Do you want your country, which is an example for remainder of the world for progress to turn into a nation like this?

Firstly I having UBI does not make 'a nation like this'. There are a bunch of other variable like religion and tribalism that separate western to Middle Eastern nations. Secondly, what wrong with humans producing 'low output' if the UBI is sustainable? The problem in SA is the oil is running out. IF UBI is built from automation and efficiency its an entirely different story. Thirdly UBI is, as it says in the name, is a 'basic income'. People then work for privileges to afford nicer cars, holidays etc which is likely IMO that a high proportion will. In the case of SA, this is not UBI, it is/was high paid salaries for jobs that dont really exist. 2 very different things.
> No universities

You have KAUST there, which is a decent place.
Being off contract, you save the most money by the fact that you aren't forced to continually upgrade your phone to get your subsidy. I'm on a ~$25 USD/month plan with unlimited talk/text + 2.5GB LTE, and I typically keep my phones ~3 years. Having said that, as you stated, even if I needed to have new phones every year, it'd still be cheaper than a contract :).
There still needs to be a breach, and intent. The video simplifies everything down to the equivalent of shouting your private message across a room when encryption is absent, which it certainly isn't.

If you want to sell encryption, please keep it real. A hand written letter to your mother in the post is private unless intentionally and illegally intercepted. By the logic of the video, the letter is passed along and read by your neighbors before reaching its true destination.
But then whose phonology would we use? There isn't really an English, even if you restrict yourself to England itself. It's not just a matter of minor and systematic variations in vowels, either; laboratory (to pick an arbitrary example) has a different number of syllables and completely different vowels depending on who is saying it where.
Yeah, but can I run Linux on it?
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The story seems appealing at first but it has many holes. Saudi royal family wouldn't really care about OBL. The team wouldn't dump his body over a mountain and then also have a cover story that falls apart the moment the body is found. Pakistan is a huge country, the aid is fraction of its gdp so US couldn't really threaten Pakistan. Nor would Pakistan likely host OBL and risk becoming a pariah state if not everything rolled out according to their plans. Pakistanis wouldn't hold him prisoner in an urban center and the exchange wouldn't happen there either.
The hardest part of the weekend was getting real-time data through OSC. It's been done in Python and node before, but none of us were super proficient in getting data from the local server the scripts pushed to. This is the matlab library we eventually settled on: https://github.com/MuSAELab/muse_osc

I'd say it was pretty easy compared to Myo, but I wouldn't pay $300 for one. I'd use it again though if it was available for a weekend.
Are you doing peer reviewed reproductible research, with both open source code and data and tyying to disprobe your hypothesis? 


Even researchers don't agree what are "acceptable" research findings [0].

I think that priming[1] would be an important factor to consider when doing "lot of" research. And, were someone going to dimiss it, they would need "extrordinary evidence" as the say goes.

Here is a testimonial of one of these "ideas" supporter:

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Attrib. Richard Feynman (|p| < 0.05)

The fact that "[you] can't see how it would influence [you] much" is one of the features of biases.

Regards

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_%28psychology%29
I believe taste/preference as the differentiator is missing.

The "intense + focus" music on brain.fm puts me to sleep. My coding music is ASOT weekly series, it's usually couple of hours of house and trance music where I get immersed into coding zone and once finished i take a 10-15min break, repeat.

When I concentrate I don't hear anything that's when I know I'm in the zone. It's my preference and it's surely different from yours, hence why the differentiator is missing.

ASOT Episode 751: https://www.mixcloud.com/dancecontrol/armin-van-buuren-a-sta...
Buck the fuck up, dude. Like nobody else in the world has been fired before. Seriously, it's the fiber of someone is made not by what they are, but what they do when adverse conditions occur to them. You have a wife (and kids?) to support, provide for, and be capable of taking a situation like this and getting on with it. This world is unforgiving. Google is not the only game in town and if you have talent, you will find another job. Also, finish your degree so you so you can at least show you've moved past this part of your life with conviction. Make things whole, not rip them apart.
Cost of the hyped holiday party was $150/head
Exactly, and why android desperately needs ad blocking ability... So many sites are downright unusable on mobile phones. I'm not a big apple fan, and definitely not into walled gardens... that said, I avoided even considering apple early on because I didn't like AT&T... not I'm considering an iPhone for my next phone, just so I can have ad blocking.
Cannot stop listening to that Gas album. Also Ryuichi Sakamoto has a golden touch. See Loscil, Lawrence English, Nest for more of this kind of music
> How much are you really worried by this?

It's a very serious ethical issue. You might not have any exploitable weaknesses given the current technology, but other people do: alcoholism, pain medication, financial distress, loneliness, straight-up boredom...
I don't know if we have all the details here. If you removed Google from your resume is the rest still good enough to find another job - or is the whole thing just kind of - meh? And do you have any stuff up on Github?

I feel like your post might be a case where most people here can't relate to your situation because of their privileged background (no offense HN) - on the other hand maybe I'm just over-thinking it and you're really just depressed. In any case - a lot of bad stuff happens at big companies like this and you're really not alone in losing your job over something trivial. People have even lost their jobs before over social blunders on Twitter so at least your career isn't ruined.
Fair enough, no worries even if you were!
English sucks like javascript. But, it is everywhere!
I have a background in music composition, so ANY music I listen to...no matter what, distracts me, since part of me is decomposing it.

It's taken several years, but I've conditioned myself to enter high focus mode by listening to white noise. Self conditioning is, I think, the key part for me at least.
I suggest putting Google on your resume, too. Being Google-y is a highly desirable line item on a resums. If you really have to, just explain what happened. Maybe even show the hiring manager this thread on HN. There is a reasonable chance the next employer won't even bother checking your references.
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Like you said, the sun is 1 AU away, we're getting a fraction of its energy. Actually that fraction is still way beyond what were able to generate, and will remain that way for quite some time. However, we only need to illuminate the part of the earth with humans in it, which is a more manageable scale.

What we consider sunlight is essentially the light emitted by any object at 6000K, which is reasonably easy to achieve but somewhat difficult to contain. And actually mimicking the sun is usually not the best method (for one, the unfiltered UV would be very unhealthy). It's possible to approximate the visible part of that light though, and we're gradually getting better at it.
I've hired, at several places, more than a few people who were fooling me with their sales skills. More often I work at a place where we do multiple interviews -- some "technical" in the sense that it's talking about tech, and some "technical" in the specific sense of asking a programming question with a verifiable answer (i.e. run the program, see if it works.)

Frequently people do well on the technical-not-actually-coding portions and very badly on the please-write-code portions. That is, if we didn't ask the specific coding questions, we'd be hiring people they disqualify.

At those places we less frequently hire people that just can't code -- though I've been around for that too, usually when we look at a resume and say, "oh, we don't need a coding test for him, he's been writing important code for years in a way where he couldn't hide lack of ability."

It would appear that a resume is a poor way to verify that.
Look ... here's the thing. No job is worth killing yourself over. I don't know your family, but I can assume if you're close enough to send them shirts, they probably care enough about you to want you in this world. Learn from what happened, and carry on. My contact info is in my profile. Feel free to reach-out if you'd like to email or talk about this sometime.
You're underestimating the general underhandedness of people. If I can sell all my website's ads once, why not try to sell them twice? Double my income.

If Samsung's marketing people are in Korea, I'll show all Asian IP addresses their ad, and then show some other ad (or ads) to the rest of the world.

Of course, Samsung may notice the low volume, so a better scheme is to also load their ad elsewhere, but placed on the page so it's not visible.

If you look at the Javascript that gets served with the ads, there is generally a hunk of logic that tries to confirm the ad is genuinely visible, to try to deal with that last bit.
Yeah i recall reading about how they would attempt to roll telegraph wire out as they advanced, only to have it snag on something or get cut by artillery blasts.
Thinking it over, the end result if this arms-race is a death of sandboxing as advertisers will require back-end access to the service you're hosting so it's completely indistinguishable from your content. Any other proper isolation of ad content will be detected as ads.
uMatrix isn't an ad-blocker. It uses ... a matrix ... of domains/hosts and content types to determine what is or isn't allowed to be presented/fetched by a client.

Dedicated ad-blockers, such as uBlock Origin, apply heuristics which are specifically tuned to advertising signals -- hosts, domains, and, as noted in parent to your post, various HTML and other entity clues to advertising content.
I say fuck the ad services... yesterday I made the mistake of researching something on my phone, half the results were content stuffed, worthless and so many ads it brought my phone to a crawl.

If websites weren't putting 6+ ads on a page, each with iframes in iframes several layers deep, it wouldn't be so bad... and you know what else... if the ads were delivered first party, then the ad blockers wouldn't be able to know the difference.
Your sensitivity about cultural value of integrity is right on.

I noticed some foreign engineering students (Qatar if it matters) cheating on an exam at school in the US and asked them about it. They thought we were fools for not doing everything we could to get ahead, seizing every opportunity.

Personally, I'd rather work with people I can trust to act in the group's interest. Is that not the same everywhere?
I like this a lot but, in my opinion, the pricing is way too high and keeps me from giving you money.

I'd buy it as a $5 app, for sure.
I don't speak as many languages as you (chapeau btw.) but I do think there are differences in precision between languages. By far the most imprecise language I know, and I suspect this is by design (politeness), is Japanese. It basically has no subject and most of what we'd call grammar is derived from context. I suspect this language must be amazing for poetry, but I'm not good enough to be able to tell.

The most precise language I know is German, although this is also my native tongue, so I could be biased here. German has most of the grammar of Latin (4 out of 5 cases) and together with always distinct subjects (no you singular/you plural confusion) and compound words (need a new word? go wild!) it allows for very succinct communication. Great for technical specs, essays etc. Describing feelings can get tough, on the other hand - anything that you can't define exactly tends to sound lazy. That's where the Romance languages with their Subjunctive have the upper hand...

So my point is, IMO there are some profound differences in what languages are good at. All of them are able to communicate any piece of information, but how natural it will sound, depends on the language. Just like programming languages are usually Turing complete, yet (so far) have their strenghts and weaknesses depending on the field of application.
I subscribe to https://www.focusatwill.com/ I would like to see a comparison of the two to understand the pros and cons of each.
In some developing countries credentials fraud is rampant. That means employers in the US will cut you no slack for errors, simply because errors are far less common than lies.
A Linguistic Contribution of GOTO-Less Programming
The big problem I have with IoT is that none of this requires online AI. What part of having an authorized list or identifying you requires internet access?

The IoT will take off when services are run on site. When the processing power is available from a small appliance box and companies advertise security and reliability associated with local processing it will catch on.

What happens to your smart lock of your internet connection goes out? What about if the server that holds your whitelist is compromised?
The man who made 'the worst video game in history'
The impact of self driving cars
Too bad. You got caught, and you probably are not as knowledgeable, valuable, or as skilled as you and your friends think you are. Kudos to Google for doing background checks. They should start doing retroactive background checks as all companies should. Yahoo is a good example of what can happen. They were scammed through and through with the CEO even lying about having a CS degree. Obviously Google doesn't want to become like Yahoo.
Fourteen hour shifts? Fourteen hour shifts!? In my day we'd work from 1AM until 3AM the following morning, go to sleep for -2 hours, wake up and do it all over again! We were paid in 19th century New Zealand shillings and had to pay all of it back for living on the boss's premises!

(Sorry, had to throw a Monty Python reference there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo)

I don't believe just because something was done one way before, means it should affect how things are now. If we believe the way "something is" is fundamentally wrong - just because it has been that way (or worse) should not provide be a valid argument against said "something".

Kind of fits in to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
et al Sony.
No, it means that pastebin just wants credit (ads etc) for serving up the page.

Use http://pastebin.com/nxYG07xk (it's the original, no mirror required).
If you're having suicidal thoughts, I'd suggest you concentrate on sorting that out before moving on to career planning. Give this a read and give the nice folks a call on 1-800-273-8255 and they can put you in touch with local resources.

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/learn/warningsigns....
So there are already tons of apps on App Store or Play store featuring auto-generated beats for working and sleeping. Is there any clinical studies saying that this service is better than any of those? If the effects are the same, why choosing this over others?
Wow, I had forgotten that series (X-Files spinoff).

Vince Gilligan was an Executive Producer.

The actor playing the father, George Coe, was one of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players on SNL, then later played Ben Cheviot on "Max Headroom".
uBlock Origin runs just fine on Firefox Android.
When you say you can 'see the movie' does this mean hear also?

Is the movie detail to the extent where you could answer something like 'in the scene with x character there is a vase in the background, what color is it?'

Apologies if you get bored of these type of questions but I find this fascinating. I'm interested in the parameters of what is remembered vs not.
I meaned to chrismoos/hpack but not your standard library.......
Well, my kids simply don't watch commercial TV. Everything used to be DVD based and now its all streamed, so they never see ads. I remember the first time they actually saw and advertisement - my son screamed! "Where did my show go??" "It's OK .. it's just an ad". A few seconds of silence passed and then he asked:"What's an ad?"
I know and I'm not mad at Google honestly. I'm mad at myself for my sloppiness. It wasn't even like I was trying to cheat. I thought having enough units is equal to having a degree. I had enough units to get an "equal to B.S. degree".

I just didn't care enough to be very precise with my information.
I would actually strongly recommend that he not list google on his resume. Unless Google has a policy against sharing whether a candidate was fired or left on good terms, it might not be beneficial for him to have potential employers calling Google for prior employment verification.

Also, for a throwaway account, you're pretty active here on HN :).
American government involvement began after WWII (marked by Roosevelt's meeting with Ibn Saud), but American industrial involvement began earlier, essentially bankrolling the fledgling state in the 1930's when Major Frank Holmes, under direction from Ibn Saud, offered an oil concession to Standard Oil of California only after extracting a large upfront payment from Socal.
Maybe this is a blessing in disguise? A small but steady stream of articles crop up here from people who worked at google saying how horrible it is. They are a huge corporation and, generally speaking, working for one is soul destroying for an intelligent creative person.

Also you did reach your goal! You were hired by and worked for google (however briefly) Well done! Now just come up with a better goal and start working towards that! :)
Gas is one of my favorite artists of all time. While I think Pop is a fantastic album, his best is Zauberberg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKsLvEkefTc

This album breathes warmth into my soul. So hauntingly beautiful that I think about these soundscapes on a daily basis.
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> It also had a viewing platform and restaurant open to the public for 15 years while it was still an official secret...

I am fairly certain I remember the BBC broadcasting the christmas morning special of the Multi Coloured Swap Shop[0] from the BT Tower at least once during the "secret" period.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Coloured_Swap_Shop