skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the issue is not that we leak data, but that in the last 10 years, it's exponentially more accessible. There was a time when finding out who I interacted with would have required many man hours and probably some court orders. Now a carelessly adding a friend on Facebook can do so. Even if I choose not to do business with large companies, so many other people can leak my data (pictures on Facebook, emails on Google servers, etc). And, of course, the ability to algorithmicly correlate it. The only answer here is strong legal protections across borders, and I'm afraid I don't see that on the horizon.
NousRandom.net just served the one millionth random number/password
http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/406bio_alchemy....
"it's not clear whether people are happier or even healthier in an industrial economy than an agrarian one."

Plague, famine, et al, sure sounds happier and healthier than compared to modern (First World) living.

Even if you look back at hunter-gatherer societies where it's been claimed that leisure time was substantially greater than today, things like infant mortality make that seem like hell.

I take these type of historical deconstructions with a large grain of salt; it used to be the idea of the Noble Savage, now it's moving on to medieval times.
Color of band matching color of company
indicates direction of flow of candidates
The Economist explains: How to get rich in America
Thanks guys. In old days I knew that ... meant that something is being omitted but I forgot :)

Anyway, I wanted to say that the title is not as it is on the original site. I edited it thanks to your advice
FWIW, this is definitely not what I hear from my network. Amazon has a reputation as a high-variance but usually bad place to be as a tech worker, while people love Walmart Labs.
Oh, sorry... in editing I forgot the bit about where promises fit in the framework/app paradigm. Added a paragraph.
That's a fair point: you can take advantage of multiple CPUs with Python, but you have to eat the overhead of multi-processing vs multi-threading.

Multi-processing breaks down when you have to communicate with high frequency between various logical runners.

I think there are vastly more problems that can be solved with multi-processing than those that require multi-threading but they do exist.

There is also another layer of simulated parallelism via coroutines...but I was just trying to point out that there was potential for confusion in this piece.
There is a contradiction in your line of thinking between:

> data isn't easily accessible in any meaningful way

and

> no meaningful way to contain their spread

If A is not readable then there is no need to contain it.
Wow, looks and feels great! Better than Google!
A similar thing happened to 91 Cuban refugees that were in transit to the US when Obama ended the policy of granting residency to any who reached the US.
All the lists in this thread are insular. There was a time when officers across nations were expected to have read certain works. Things like the classics, shakespeare and The Art of War were universal even across languages. The books on military reading lists today may be inspirational stories, but the language is nothing in comparison. If they want officers able to speak and write well they need to assign books of a higher calibre.

Now perhaps it is TV that forms the common basis for communication between officers. Blackadder references are common in the UK armed forces. In the US TheSimpsons now forms a basis for shorthand expressions. I was at talk by an RCAF officer a while ago where Firefly and Wash were referenced in regards to information flows and workload. Perhaps today's officers are expected to be versed more in television than books.
I'm currently encountering customer support nightmare where Amazon charged my credit card for 13k after someone hacked my Seller Central account and sold a bunch of fake products. What a nightmare!
Again, like I said, many groups have been labeled terrorist.

That's irrelevant though.
For its seventh quarter in a row, Amazon was profitable. Net income was $749 million, up 55% form the year-ago quarter.
Your private mode searches may not be ones that have ads for them, those sites may not use Google's re-marketing offers, the re-marketing may be offered via cookies or if they fall into an 'adult' category then you are going to see them in less locations anyway.

Despite that a search engine is still able to see what you search in private browsing modes as none of it's protection change, hide or obscure your identity.

If you perform a search from your IP address (or any other information that can be fingerprinted from your browser) and then do the same in private browsing mode, Google would know that it is the same user committing both searches.
common now? ; )
But if you ask someone in the poor country to have more performance compared to colleague from the rich country, assuming they are on the same level/position, you still differentiate by country/region...
I agree. With the exception of TVs with Roku built in. One remote that was intended to control the TV and the Roku functionality.
Yup! I think we were pretty clear about that from the get-go. Giant duck at the top and everything.

It's part of our overall mission to raise the standard of trust online. We're nothing if not transparent on this!
I don't think moving people from one version of Windows to another counts as an increase in market share.

And since they gave away a free upgrade for the life of the device, at a considerable cost in terms of servers and bandwidth, it wasn't profiteering either.
> Is it actually a misconception that private browsing prevents search engines from knowing my searches?

Of course the search engine knows what you searched for! You sent the search string from your computer to one of their servers.

You'd need a way to prevent the search engine from knowing your IP address, like a proxy or Tor, in order to hide your identity.
I had forgotten how much I hate reading scripts. It is 2017 and we still have such awful formatting for scripts? Why?!
Would love to deploy some solar panels, but, alas, the Home Owners Taliban does not permit solar or wind power to homes on pain of a mechanical lien on the offending houses.

It is my goal, however, to downgrade my home size, an already modest 1890 sq. feet to about 1200 in the next year or so--and on my own land, so I can do what I want.

I also want to have goats for milk and cheese as well as to sell the offspring off for BBQ. By having a donkey and a few goats, I also get my land zoned "agriculture" and my tax burden is decreased by a fair margin. The goats will ensure my 10 acres never needs mowing. The donkeys are better watchdogs than actual dogs.
Show HN: An easy way to integrate audio/video(screen) to iOS apps via Tokbox
It's a bit early to divine the impact of drone delivery. There's a large gulf between novelty prototype and widespread adoption. If anything I see Amazon winning due to better tech R&D. The fact they're experimenting with drone delivery points to them being able to identify opportunity before their competitors. That's a competitive advantage that can translate to real growth.
I use Github email notifications to keep on top of issues. GH lets you use different email addresses for each organization you belong to, and then you can use an email filter rule to separate issue traffic from the rest of your inbox. Admittedly far less powerful than this desktop app, but also simple, free, and native (via my native mail app). It handles a lot of my needs.
Bracketed ellipses are often used in quoted material to mark elisions to make clear that the ellipses are inserted by the party relaying the quote to mark a elision, not ellipses present in the original text.

Most (maybe even all) formal sources that I've encountered use this style, not unbracketed ellipses.
I'm generalizing something fierce here, but generally speaking, friendship in Germanic countries is highly non-linear. Either you're friends or you're not. My theory is that it's about geographical mobility. When people move around a lot a sliding scale of friendship makes sense. When you and everyone around you are mostly stationary you know who you want to spend time with and everyone else is just noise. Doesn't really explain the Irish, I think, though I don't know much about their geographical mobility.
I used this module for a fractal rendering program, years ago. The APIS are (were?) a little annoying - last I checked, the relevant code had to be picklable. But it used all my CPUs and scaled just fine.
I did not attack you or ignore you. I directly addressed one of your arguments and attempted to determine whether the other argument is your "true rejection" [1].

On the contrary, the only person ignoring the other's points and making anything close to an attack is you. You've accused me of being disrespectful, called me lazy and accused me of intentional misunderstanding, while simultaneously NOT addressing any of my core arguments.

Quite entertaining, I must admit.

[1] Specifically, I think even if that argument could be proven false, it would not change your conclusion at all. So bringing it up is merely a distraction. See also: http://lesswrong.com/lw/wj/is_that_your_true_rejection/
Competition between every one of those projects have made each of them better.
Developers also very often go where the system is convenient and open and developer-friendly, see: the rise of linux, php, rails, node, mysql, wordpress, git; and android vs windows phone/mobile.
Well, it's certainly a deal than neither of us would take, but if the person bought intelligently and drove conservatively, it could be a win for them.

Certainly to the point where I don't want to forbid them making that contract if they see fit. And the fact that Uber profits as well doesn't change the driver's rights in dealing with them. If the driver got a separate loan from the bank we wouldn't be having this discussion. Smart or not, it's their right.

The issue is all in the one company having too much control - like miners in a company town being under the thumb of a landlord and boss who were the same and shared information about the employee. That does bother me and I might want to pass a law to forbid that, to ensure there's a wall between those roles.
Show HN: An easy way to integrate audio/video(screen) to web apps via Tokbox
Well Data studio runs on bigquery, among other things. Bigquery is soc,hipaa, PCI compliant, and is a part of the larger security strategy for Google. See [0].

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
There was no sort of feminism 200 years ago, so of course they were his sons and it was his duty. Most of the autobiographies of the 19th century were written by men who did not mention their wives, not because they did not love and honor their wives, but because it was understood that women did not have a public role, and scrutiny of the private business of great men was not welcome.
the hidden option?
The catch with the green revolution in agriculture is that many foods have fewer minerals than they used to. Basically plants have been bred to grow fast and have more mass (more carbs than minerals).
That's probably why the "Muslim ban" wasn't a ban on Muslim immigration, but a ban on immigration from particular Middle East countries.
‘Become a suicide bomber’: whistleblower says artist’s Navy ads are accurate
There is not a shortage of STEM graduates. However, from an employer's point of view, there is a shortage of cheap STEM graduates. Hence the recent tech company uproar over the skilled visa changes.
I'm gonna have to challenge you on that 100x number because I think you may have plucked it from thin air. Obviously contributor numbers are a) hard to define and b) hard to capture, but for an order-of-magnitude estimation, I give you two sources, both of which have incentive and access to maximise the number counted:

1. Linux. "Over 13,500 developers", https://www.linuxfoundation.org/announcements/linux-foundati...

2. FreeBSD. I make this a little over 2,300 names: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/contributors/article...

So I suggest it is a only a 6x difference, or at least in that vicinity.

I imagine that the column inches go overwhelmingly to Linux, but tech journalists are moths to a flame.
Most Don't distinguish walmart labs from walmart and walmart treats its employees pretty terribly.

It wasn't that long ago that a regional manager forced people to work off the clock and walmart lost a major suit against minimum wage employees. Even though other store managers and walmart executives scrambled to tighten rules, enforce already present rules and denounce that one manager, their image was already tainted. Stuff like that sticks with the public consciousness for decades.
They better have ARM laptops done or nearly so. If they didn't, I would conclude that they have no idea what the fuck they're doing anymore.

Although if the software is through the Mac App Store only, then... well, it won't be a very useful device. I hope that they're looking to replace the Macbook with an ARM device, not create a new Chromebook.
In relation to programming specifically, I once saw someone on Quora put it perfectly. It effecticly stated that we don't need more programmers. We need more senior developers with 10+ years of experience.
Looks like it was added in January[0], but this is the first I'm hearing about/seeing it as well.

Edit: Here's the repo[1] they show in the screenshot.

[0] https://github.com/blog/2300-visualize-your-project-s-commun...
[1] https://github.com/rmosolgo/graphql-ruby/network/dependents
Similar experience. I ordered twice from Walmart.Com with store pickup twice in 2 years. Both times it took 20 plus minutes to get my item. One of those times I had to dig through the pile of boxes to find mine myself... I suspect the core problem is they pay so little they can't attract anyone to work there that gives a crap.
The RNA->protein translation process is pretty awesome. Here's a very informative video:
https://youtu.be/TfYf_rPWUdY

Also Wikipedia page on the ribosome has a good description if you're patient enough to read through.
That was my immediate thought, as well. It even behaves similarly: If you allow the system time to garbage-collect before it's absolutely needed, it's less intrusive. If you go too long, you'll end up doing a garbage collection cycle without advance warning.
True, many don't appreciate the power of a US Visa. Think of "FU money" in USA, only to find out that the stock you had your money in has crashed.
> the problem is that there aren't enough

By what measure?

> just look at how oversubscribed the H1B visa is

What is your interpretation of this? Who would turn down the chance of cheap labor even without a shortage?

> I can't believe how common this idea that "free market will fix everything!" is on HN

This is an exaggerated characterisation; but to some degree it is necessary to rely on market principles, given how complex the economy is.

> even in a nation of 300M+ people, they aren't graduating in large enough numbers.

Demand is high. Why is the population count relevant? People are choosing other career paths, which means there isn't enough incentive to choose IT.

> One could argue why a country with 16000M+ people, India, won not a single gold medal at the last olympics

You could, and why not? Are you implying India is incapable of producing gold-medal winning athletes?

> Simply changing lowest salary to $130k wont magically fix it

Not overnight, might it might in the long run. Why wouldn't it?

> But the solutions offered so far DO NOT, WILL NOT solve those problems

You mean the bodyshop abuse? Won't a minimum wage requirement fix it?
App.net tried this, though it was $50/year. Unfortunately they couldn't make a go of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723
How is it that Canonical is accused of NIH, but literally NO ONE ELSE IS?
That seems like the opposite of the argument you're making, so not only is it relevant, but it also seems like a non-sequitur rebuttal. What am I missing?
Yes, it would remove a lot of complexity for us if we could use the same data store for both our mobile apps and websites, and with the node.js version of realm it seems almost possible (except we need sync to be able to access the same data on our webservers).
That works in Windows 10 too.
The first statement you quoted refers to the data you constantly generate, its accessibility being predicated on the level of technology available to humans. The second one refers to the PII - stuff like name, address, SSN, credit card number, etc. - all of which you constantly give away to random parties.
Alexa isn’t the future of AI–it’s a glorified radio clock, and stupid otherwise
I'm from Romania and we kind of do the same thing as they do.

The people you mention are not friends, they're people you know ("cunoștințe" in Romanian). We might casually call them "friends" occasionally but most people only truly call "friends" a handful of people.
Snap Inc purchases $2B in cloud services from Goog
This was a really helpful explanation, thankyou :)
> When your whole brain is going haywire due to neuron loss, attributing death to sleeplessness seems premature.

Or it could be another way around, as its not easy to have experiments like this I guess we can never know.

But yes, that is certainly possible that in FFI you die due to some other reason. I didn't see that info you provided but I remember reading in NGeo many years back that FFI people seem healthy in other aspects.

There was 1 experiment with mices tho - after 32 days they all died witout sleep:

[1] http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/sleep/basics/d...
Israeli Cronus “Imitates the way computer hackers think”
It is a ban on immigration exclusively from Muslim-majority countries with a bypass for Christians from those countries.
There's a big difference between the current situation and the one you point out: the current immigrants were known in advance and traveling legally between their home country and ours. The Cubans were not known until they arrived. That is, Obama had no way to know they were in transit. Trump could have known he was stranding people, had he asked and if the INS has the data accessible.
The Irish aren't Germanic. There's your explanation.
I assume a non-clean-room design -- looking at the code and reinterpreting it to be different enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
"I wouldn't be so sure that Boltzmann machines were designed without how the brain operated in mind."

Sure, actually it seems highly unlikely to me that they were designed without considering at all how they brain works. Let me clarify what I meant: given the definition of how a Boltzmann machine infers (i.e. how to determine which neurons are on or off), the training algorithm can be derived from purely mathematical considerations.
This article is garbage, read the introduction of the lawsuit itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3438631/EDVA-Amen...
Given other comments in this thread, it means (1) viewing the original work (in this case, the source code), (2) making superfluous changes to avoid literal copying (changing variable names, find-replace company name, etc), and (3) passing this off as original.

It sounds like it's not "You made a knockoff, that's 'non-literal copying,'", it's "You made a literal copy, changed a couple of things, and called it yours."
I think Walmart has a good shot at competing effectively, and I hope it does so, because Amazon having a monopoly on online retail is not in my long-term best interests.

That said, I don't think they have any sort of clear advantage, for two particular reasons:

First, from a technical perspective, they have some serious catching up to do before they can provide the same service level at the same scale. It is not clear from available information that they actually have the required technical competence as an organization.

Second, they have to deal with a reputation that's going to keep them out of many consideration sets: from my perspective, at least, Walmart merchandise is universally cheap crap whose low utility and/or high failure rate will end up costing me more in the long run. I don't trust them to quickly and painlessly make things right if an order is broken, disappointing, or missing. In contrast, Amazon has spent years building trust (on the assumption that the short-term cost of this quality of experience is a profitable investment in securing future business).

I have yet to encounter an adequate answer to "Why should I bother looking at walmart.com?", which I suspect is true for many others, and which I think is a serious threat to Walmart.
Besides Walmart laid off 200 people from their E-commerce division. At best they hire for some off-the-shelf IT skills.
It's not just about hardware and data centers. Google cloud offers a global secure high performance sdn, scalability, manageability, things like versioning and deployment tools, code debugging, world class security, and high speed of innovation, all out of the box, or even as intrinsic qualities transparent to customer.

By the time you build your infra (5 years was mentioned), Google would have iterated on their offering and their own network and data centers for 5 years.

(Work on Google cloud)
Nothing stopping you from installing Blink Shell or Prompt on your iPad-like device and connecting to a GCE instance or your own linux server to work on those things.
except he was specifically being pedantic. You can't combat pedantic criticism with "But grammar is just conventions". Grammatical pedantry deals with exactly those conventional nuances.
Honest question, how do you work on 55" display?
IMO Flatpak has a pretty "brought to you by GNOME/Fedora" feeling.
I always wonder why this never gets discussed much. We seem to have tons of solutions for storing large files outside the repo, but so what? OK, so I don't deny that storage still isn't cheap enough to just say "oh well" to the idea of a multi-TByte repo, so it's certainly solving a problem. But there's still another major problem left!

Don't their artists and designers use version control too? Maybe they just have one such person per team, or each person owns one file, or something like that. Hard to say.

Maybe it's like how I used to work on teams that never used branches - you have various problems that you figure there's probably a solution for, but there's never time to (a) figure out what the solution looks like, (b) shift the whole team over to a brand new workflow and set of tools, and (c) clean up the inevitable mess. So you just work around the problems the same way you always have - because at least that's a known quantity.
This pales in comparison to the much more detailed, beautiful, featured, older visualization at https://earth.nullschool.net
Maybe you have a box full of transistors and diodes in the closet, because they're kinda needed for everything or at least very useful to have around. You can start building yesterday.

If you want that special bridge chip, you start looking through online stores and datasheets (what a chore, why do they have to suck so hard?), trying to find the chip that has the availability, a reasonable price, the right specs and appropriate package for your use. Then you pay the shipping cost on top of the component, which might be more than the component itself. Then you wait a week or two for the thing to arrive. Then you pray it is intact and you can maybe start building. Hope you ordered the right part and didn't make a mistake in reading the specs.
I found some of the books on the Marine Corps lists somewhat propaganda, so one has to be careful to not follow their lists blindly.

Source: I was a reserve Marine grunt and have read some of the books
Nice, Greenville does seem to have some industry, but it's like a 2-3 hour commute for me.