skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual report is worth looking at for more detail, and at least for its cover page:

http://www.cnas.org/sites/default/files/publications-pdf/CNA...
Because they forced people to "link" an account with their real name to accounts that had always previously used pseudonyms (Gmail, YouTube). And the penalty for not doing it, or putting a fake name in Google+, was deletion of all your accounts. Because while you were perfectly fine for years before, suddenly your "Google Account" (a thing nobody asked for or wanted) was in violation of the Google+ terms of service you didn't have the option not to agree to.

Even worse, particularly for YouTube users, the first version of this "integration" didn't respect at all that a YouTube channel is not a person, and a person is not a YouTube channel. (It's a many-to-many relationship, morons.) And when they forced Google+ comments on YouTube channels, the damned thing didn't even slightly work correctly.

Basically, they unforgivably fucked-up their own product and made all of their most engaged users hate them with a passion. Honestly, it's a miracle they didn't get more bad press for that shitstorm.

Apparently, it's now possible to once again have a YouTube or Gmail account without associating it with a Google+ account. But of course for people who lived through that campaign of awfulness, there's no way to undo the damage and get my Gmail and YouTube accounts back the way they were before Google+ fucked them over in the first place.

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For what it's worth, I'm not a Facebook user. I wasn't prior to Google+ and I'm not now. So maybe I'm the freak. But I don't think I'm alone in my opinion of Google+ or the sheer incompetence of its rollout.
That's over twice as fast as my first modem was. Plenty of speed to get sensitive information out.
Indeed, and my question, having lived the tail end of Route 128's boom years and then its hard and final death, is why those other places got eclipsed by SV, with no clear sign that's going to change (modulo it looking to be harder and harder to make it work economically).

The only unique thing about SV is the unenforceability of non-competes, that was clearly absolutely critical in the original silicon days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight) and probably sped things up by decades, I've also experienced two good pieced of technology killed by them outside of California, and I'm frankly left without a better explanation.
GOAT's Pivot
That's like saying they tried building internet businesses in the late '90s and it didn't work out. Strategies can become more feasible as circumstances change.
> I recommend that we all add the office number of a health care professional we don't need to our phone book.

Also the contacts of lots of recruiters.
Out of curiousity, where do you feel that Docker has less of a focus on stability than rkt, is it just in releasing swarm or in other areas?

Whilst I'm more familiar with Docker than rkt it seems that both projects are still changing quite quickly and have a lot of movement in terms of features being added & changed...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2016/08/11/welcome-to...

It is summed up in the last line: "Of the 70 large metro areas we studied, only three have lost financial jobs since 2010."
Everywhere? No. But Walmarts are practically everywhere, and you can generally crash in their lots as long as you ask.

http://www.walmartlocator.com/rv-parking-at-walmart/
Captain401 is hiring a front end UI Engineer, biz dev representative, and more
Which is the more likely way to end up owning a house in the Bay Area?

1) Work in Silicon Valley. You earn 30% more but pay 200% more in rent. It takes you 10 years to save a $200k down payment, and in the meantime you have lost 100s of 1000s of dollars on rent.

2) Work in the Midwest. You earn less but pay a third for rent. It takes you 5 years to save a $200k down payment. You then lateral to SV.

Ok, I'm biasing the question. But personally I'd prefer to delay gratification rather than delay homeownership.
> I absolutely detest Facebook ...

https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674/
I wish Google had stuck to their guns, called Google+ a social network, and earned users over time.

Instead, they decided that 2nd place was not enough, said "just kidding, it was actually an identity service, no, wait, a content discovery platform, yes!", and turned into... whatever it is they are doing today.

They could have been the Facebook that is not Facebook, or in Randall Munroe's words, "all I really wanted"[1]. Too bad.

[1] https://www.xkcd.com/918/
The drinks industry in Ireland employs over 92,000 people and pays taxes on those wages.
I've started seeing a lot more very obvious paid "ads" from people I follow on Snapchat.

"I'll just print it out using my awesome $brandname $modelnumber printer"

Every day for a few weeks in a row. -_-
The "it" in the quote meant, "if you're going to commit a crime, don't tell Google about it. If you tell a big company all about your plans to commit crimes, don't be surprised when the cops come knocking."

Schmidt has a way of saying reasonable things using the most offensive and misinterpreted language ever.
Ow man.. I saw the Object.assign example and thought i don't like it because it requires an extra polyfill. I can just use a spread and let babel handle it.

If anything it should be `var email = {...document.createElement('input'), type: 'email'}`

But that would result in `Object.assign({}, document.createElement('input'), { type: 'email' })`

Got 4 up votes though..
I'd pass entirely on the name.
I can see a bunch of college students angry and complaining that their college feels like high school and that their money/time is wasted in such classes.
I don't know, but I am curious about how many people, in percentages, outside Google and Facebook and the likes, need to scale their models to more than 8 GPUS?
Does this have the ability to mirror to an encrypted remote? I'm looking for something like this for a simple home storage server, but emphasis on being able to replicate to something like B2 Storage for cheap backup.

Currently Infinit.sh has my attention the most, but it's quite young still.

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12125344 this thread seems to be talking about what i want. With that said, i'm not yet sure if `mc mirror` supports Backblaze, as that (per price point) is my prime need
Yea, starve the skinny students!
Senior devs are cracking $150k in Chicago, and it's even higher if you work for a financial firm.
Practical use case:

- Spin up a bunch of droplets on DigitalOcean, because I want reliability, etc.

- What's the best way to share drive space across these to create a single Minio storage volume, so if one DO node goes away I don't lose my stuff?
Should I be using Sublime Text 2 or 3?
I realized that after reading the comments on HN, but the web page doesn't contain the word Ethereum. I think it should go into the very first line of the instructions.

Ether is a pretty generic term and I was setting up some IP addresses when I checked that site. I was primed for a different context :-)
I've read that the transplant can be defined through what part has to be kept alive during the procedure. So when you're transplanting a heart, there is a brief period where the heart is without a body to support it - ergo heart transplant.

I think the same applies here.
Ask HN: How do you know when it is time to leave a job that you like?
I currently have a great position: a senior software engineer working at a small, satellite office (completely software focused) of a much larger company (not completely software focussed). As a tech lead I get to work with teams of talented, interesting folks, working in interesting and challenging domains. But there are some downsides, much of the tools and technologies that we develop with are home grown and developed in house. I'm not totally doing what I want to do either as I'm doing more management of others rather than development than I care for. But all in all it is a rather safe job where I can put 40 hours in a week and go home and forget about it. Not totally fulfilling, but clearly great from a work/life balance perspective (which is important as I'm married with young children).

I have an opportunity to leave to go to work for a former work colleague and friend. It is an exciting opportunity where I would lead a very small team and be responsible for building a system - nearly from the ground up - that would be used by tens of thousands of users in a domain that clearly matters. The development project(s) related to this work would mostly be open source and I would be leading and growing that community. The only negative I see is that this position could throw a wrench into my work/life balance. Overall I think that it clearly has much more upside when I consider the longer arc of my career.

I've been wrestling back and forth on this decision and I'm curious to see what others think about in this type or similar situations. Have others left jobs that they were happy in to take a riskier but higher upside position? How did you make the decision? What factors did you weight and consider?
Yup Airbnb only owns 5% of home sharing industry
I mean, NYSE is owned by an Atlanta company now.
Google has been one of the biggest contributors to Tesseract – has that changed? My understanding – which could be years out of date – was that Google Books used Tesseract but that most of their effort had gone into either advanced image preprocessing or large-scale training.
I use Swift at work, and while it is a great tool, it is a bitch to set up.
I would be curious to learn how Minio works more technically on a distributed level:
how is object replication handled?
are downloads automatically routed to the closest server?
can I make downloads temporarily available (think Swift tempURLs)?
Both points are true: TF is obviously designed for scalable, distributed training, but it also heavily tied to Google's compute infrastructure (less so all the time, of course, but now it's also being closely tied to Google Cloud). So while I disagree with my colleague* that TF is "slow" or "not designed for distributed training," I support the slightly different (and implicit) argument that there are some settings (often in enterprise, I am learning) where it might not be as good a fit as other frameworks (e.g., DL4J, Caffe, whatever).

* Disclosure: I work with Skymind and contribute to DL4J, and I also use TensorFlow/Theano/keras heavily in my PhD research. I am an equal opportunity framework guy. ;)
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. Are you saying that usefulness trumps ethics in medicine but not in warfare? If so, why do you think that?
Jessica Livingston: How to Build the Future
time to action is a byproduct of awareness. if i run my own server by myself and am asleep, my reaction time to a security incident is severely limited by my sleepfulness.
That case could indeed be made. It has been in the past, many times, with results whose nature I do not find an endorsement. But perhaps you feel differently. If so, I would urge you to consider the possibility that immoral actions, in response to immoral actions, do not themselves become more moral. There's also the more utilitarian concern that to threaten people in this fashion is not likely to engender sympathy among the undecided, or those who have simply not considered the question, and it most certainly will not engender sympathy among those whom you choose to target.

I might also counsel a certain restraint in your rhetoric, such that you fight shy of hyperbole such as likening Facebook to the NSDAP; ideally that would be your lookout and no one else's, but since we're arguing at least nominally on the same side of the issue, your statements reflect somewhat on mine, and I would prefer they not do so negatively.
I run OpenStack Swift at work, currently working on deploying it on Kubernetes. Swift is a very fine piece of software, with a pleasant operations experience, but it will take a lot of time to set up initially. Plan at least half a man-year until you have it all up and running.
As they should, if you're looking for fitness you can get a personal trainer and then some for that kind of money. And focus on self-improvement instead of checking some box to graduate. We're talking about adults here, after all.
So far the best option I've found has been GlusterFS
Aren't they? How common do you imagine it to be, among Facebook employees, not to have a Facebook account?
Little Big Details for Your Mobile App Design
> unixtime is an integer, it has no concept of some seconds being different to other seconds - leap seconds only matter when converting this integer into a "human readable" format :)

Except that's not how UNIX timestamps work (incidentally that'd be TAI time, which some non-conformant systems use for UNIX timestamps, and which DJB advocated for a few years ago, issue being TAI isn't really human-friendly).

A UNIX timestamps is UTC, it's defined as 86400 * days since epoch[0] + seconds since midnight[2]. Since UTC takes leap seconds in account, so does a unix timestamp, which in most implementations means a repeated second (and if you have sub-second timestamps, lots of repeated timestamp). Which has lead to the invention of stuff like "leap second smearing" as lots of software doesn't deal well with repeated timestamps, or more generally non-monotonic clocks.

By the by, because UNIX timestamps are now defined based on UTC and UTC didn't exist before January 1st, 1972, timestamps below +63072000 are imprecisely defined and not-entirely-specified approximations of GMT.

[1] 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

[2] UTC
Function and Object, instances of each other
Maybe ads? But I got adblock, so I don't know
Ok, assuming the original poster agrees, I see the point now. Thanks.
Heh. Good point.
China Advances Film Industry Law, Cracks Down on “Western Values”
Spark comparison: AWS vs. GCP
> Use the singular 'they' instead. If you find that too grammatically egregious to be borne

Then you've bought into the bizarre, quixotic, and increasingly-being-rejected effort by Victorian elites to try to pretend that English is some strange constructed Latinate language and not, well, English.

And you should give up.

OTOH, if you really need to refer to a gender neutral abstract person in English, and really can't bring yourself to use "they", learn to use "one" properly. This can require restructuring sentence and not just dropping a different pronoun in, e.g., this:

the human should have total control over "how important" a given technology is to it.

might become:

one should have total control over "how important" a given technology is to oneself.
I'll only be interested in Monero when the black hats are demanding it to uncrypt my drive.
Minio is object-storage server. You can use https://github.com/restic/restic to encrypt and mirror to remote minio server. For more help https://docs.minio.io/docs/restic-with-minio
BitTorrent Client Transmission Again Victimized by OS X Malware
US is big and sparsely populated. Also, telecoms there are heavily regulated. Contrary to common claims, there isn't a huge difference between the European and American models (both are free markets with heavy state involvement in pretty much all industries).
I agree. Network-wise we start at 10GbE. It's a lot more complicated than simple file storage on network though. Many needs and solutions. And I mean MANY.
Necessary by who's definition? Sure, I like the way adverts allow me not to pay for content directly (or ask people to pay for things I produce directly). That's great. However, some things I value more than that. Misleading advertising is too far, I won't accept it.

If advertising isn't effective enough to be worth doing, fine. We'll find other ways. Yeah, micropayments have never caught on, but maybe there is an alternative, or maybe they won't be so bad once we accept we need a replacement for adverts.

I'm willing to bet non-misleading ads will still be worth enough the whole ecosystem won't collapse.
Use Genetic Programming to Generate File Converters
I want to know if anyone did NOT find it disturbing. So, yes, I found it disturbing.
Related -> a cool synchronicity happened to me while reading this article. The Roky Erikson song Two-Headed Dog came on and I realized it must be referencing that experiment!
London can build affordable homes if there is the political will to do it
UTC.

You can use TAI as the base for your system, but it'll be non-conformant (and you'll drift out of sync with the rest of the world obviously).
what exactly is the differentiation between the frameworks?
The only relationship between slavery and corporate profit tax is that both should be abolished.

There are hundreds of different ways to tax. Taxing corporate profit is controversial because it's very hard to determine what exactly constitutes profit and for multinational firms like Apple deciding in what jurisdiction profit occurs is highly arbitrary (your iPhone has parts from half a dozen countries). The most logical conclusion is to simply get rid of corporate tax and make up the shortfall by increasing other taxes. Several countries already do this, countries like the US that stubbornly persist in trying to levy such arbitrary taxes will simply chase away international business.
> the bizarre, quixotic, and increasingly-being-rejected effort by Victorian elites

I'd be curious to see this perspective detailed at greater length.
After 100 generations thay actually have learned to move correctly, that's impresive. But they move very slowly.
But for 100 nodes in a single hidden layer it takes them only around 10-20 generations to learn for me (not 80), and they race really fast.
Little bit of both.
> I won't lie, it really bothers me that code I've helped write is being used in proprietary software.

Then you better don't contribute to anything that's not exactly GPL.
> They can only micromanage your policies if you specifically allow it beforehand.

A formerly sovereign state can choose to give up its sovereignty to join a larger union, as the U.S. states did and as EU member countries have done.

> your home state is not sovereign, because its administration ordered some paper clips from a supplier and is now bound to pay for them, without the senators being asked if they really want to pay

They're not obligated to pay for the paperclips. E.g. if the U.S. government fails to pay for paperclips you sell it, you can file a claim in the Court of Federal Claims, but only because the government has chosen to waive its sovereign immunity as to such claims.
Unification is counter-productive if you think that the goals of the group are bad.
My meaning was that hand transplants would (probably) be unethical if the result provided no function. The technique is good enough that the benefits outweigh the costs.

Obviously they must also consider the other aspects of it ethical.
My favorite is this chrome extension : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-notes-alph...
I'm not really sure what you want for a single post. On the left with the comments being blocks that scroll out to the right?
I have a serious question: why can't bridges be rebuilt instantaneously, similar to a reset in the diplomatic sphere? If it is within the best interest of all parties involved, it can and should happen... Westphalia comes to mind.

We should keep in mind that fates don't have to be sealed, that redemption is always possible. After all, the goal is peace.

I like the party idea.
IMO it doesn't matter how much the person loves the product it's still an advert if they're compensated in some way for promoting it. "I loved it so much I bought the company", well then it's not an ad?? Of course it's advertising. If there's a causal link between the placement and [the paying of] a consideration then it's an ad.

>they only do adverts for products they personally use & recommend //

Is that a legally binding statement in the relevant jurisdiction, sounds just like the sort of thing a person who'd never used something but was only concerned about the money would say.
No, we're talking about students, and institutions intended to prepare them for the world after graduation. Fitness is a critical element of mental and physical well-being. Consequently, it's entirely reasonable to place physical education within the scope of a university.
This link is confusing because it describes the proposal to add "Confidential Transactions" to Bitcoin. Some concepts are related/similar to Monero's but it's not the same.
Apple tax: US treasury says £11bn EU penalty could hurt foreign investment
If there is one thing our world does not lack, it's amoral people. Would you prefer that Facebook only hire them?
No, if you have mega corporations build entities outside your tax code, you have a case of countries having designed very attractive tax codes for corporations. Small countries especially have an incentive to do so, as a smaller percentage of tax of a larger percentage of capital going through their country counts for a lot per capita.

As companies benefit from this incentive, they lobby to keep it around. Very successfully.

So no, revamping the US tax code is (quite obviously) not an answer to Apple not paying tax in the EU. Having enforced taxation rules that prevent the race to the bottom is. Unfortunately taxation is not in the remit of the EU at the moment. Hence the back door approach through "unfair tax benefits".

We don't need trade deals that harmonize things so countries can, we really need tax deals that harmonize, or at least put minimum standards on taxes.

Why wouldn't something like that fly? Well because if the impression European observers have gotten over the last years is correct, then Apple et.al. basically own US policy on that point, to such a degree that the US actually threatened the Commission against ruling as it did.

So no, Apple did nothing illegal, but what is happening is clearly wrong, and Apple is lobbying to keep it that way. Heavily and successfully. And that is wrong.

For an example of an ethical stance a corporation could take here: IBM was, at least for a while, lobbying for abolishing software patents while at the same time owning a massive amount of them and registering new ones.

A structural fix would be to work towards making the US (and the EU, and all other) political system more resilient to lobbying pressure from powerful corporations.

But that is about as hard a problem as you are likely to find.
If they did so, there would be tariffs from their client nations. Then they'd bribe the tariff countries... which is what they're doing now, anyways. So why go through all the trouble of owning a country?
> The problem with finding someone to like your product is that it's much more efficient to get support from people who don't like your product but are popular, then it is get support from people who like your product, but don't reach a large audience. Business-wise, it's smarter to attempt the former than the latter.

But not if the user knows they are being mislead.

By that logic, we should allow loan sharks to not show their rates - after all, it's much easier to get a couple of customers paying 9000% than many customers paying 10%. If you show people 9000%, they stop borrowing!
"We trade an order of magnitude reduction in the number of gaps for a roughly 5% decrease in the average meeting score."

I wonder if the investors would make this tradeoff if given the choice. Was this an instinctive call or is there data behind it?
That's obviously not what the parent post meant and you know it
Opportunity risk. How many major software engineering companies are there in the area? If I lose my job in Silicon Valley, I'm in for maybe a 1-3 month job search among hundreds of companies out here. If I lose my job in Nowheresville, USA (I know this because I have lived there), I'm likely to be in for a 4+ month search and it's likely my next job will be out of the state.
Minio is by ex-GlusterFS developers!
We’ve been wrong about the origins of life for 90 years
Well, yeah I know some in KC making 150k+ w2 in health care here, 110-120 is what I percieve as being common here, from switching jobs a few months ago.