skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds good, but I think people are quite sensible when they refuse to accept it.

Broadly, people right now are sustaining themselves via their own efforts - if your boss quits paying you, you can take your work elsewhere. It's a mutually beneficial exchange, so there's no reason to think anyone is going to cancel it unless they get a better alternative. (The situation for capital is a bit more complex, but the argument carries.)

The utopian logic of automation suggests that people will be provided benefits without mutually-beneficial exchange - which threatens the outcome where someone else can say "you know, I'd be wealthier if I quit supplying you with food".

For someone currently limited to working 28 hours per week so that their employer can avoid giving them health care, this is a terrifying proposition. They're painfully aware that the people most likely to own the robots have a track record of choosing personal wealth over the well-being of employees (or even the companies they own - Sears is not explainable by pointing to ruthlessly efficient capitalism). That person might not be comfortable right now, but they're not living on charity either, and precedent suggests that living on charity is a terrible place to be.

Obviously none of this is inevitable; even the existing logic requires support and agreements. Labor and capital can't be exercised freely without someone around preventing slavery, robbery, and appropriation - reliable systems can be built. But right now I think its unfair to suggest that people are valuing themselves by their careers as an emotional matter. The reality is that the emotional reaction to unemployment is largely driven by the practical fear of being rendered optional.
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Can you elaborate on the API that you need? To create checks?
I'm fairly certain that was a programming/music joke.
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1984 here we come. Was nice playing with you, humans - until next time! Oh, there is no next time? Well...
It was back in the 50's and 60's when much of Asia and Europe was still rebuilding from being destroyed in World War II and the US had a huge advantage in industry and exporting.
> Does he really think a large and growing percentage of the planet uses his website?

Yes. Because it's true. Facebook has more than a BILLION active users. Let that sink in for a minute.
In my opinion a lot of comments here are too hung up on the fact that the researchers used data collected by Buzzfeed. I'm not a fan of clickbait either, but their corpus is publicly available here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ysnzawW6pDGBEqbXqeYu...

So as far as I'm concerned, so long as the authors acknowledge their source (which they did) then there's nothing wrong here. Even FiveThirtyEight builds most of their models from datasets obtained from third parties. A lot of data science research is carried out using public datasets because collection is often an expensive or time-consuming endeavor, especially for social science research. The authors even say in their acknowledgement "We thank Craig Silverman, Lauren Strapagiel, Hamza Shaban, Ellie Hall, and Jeremy Singer-Vine from BuzzFeed for making their data available, enabling our research".
Social Security has one of the most powerful lobbies in the country defending it. Politicians who eagerly take on the NRA won't even mention cutting SS.
Surprised the docker iptables doesn't block this already. I do see rules disallowing traffic to and from docker0 (172.17.0.1).
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> How did we get to this ? How come all these young and enthusiastic dreams morphed into dystopia ?

Greed and naivety. Really changing the world for the better is hard and isn't as profitable as investing in the next FB, Snapchat, WhatsApp etc. Some people might buy the rhetoric, but most stick around for the paycheck.
That's a nice thought, and Keynes had the same one almost 80 years ago[1].

Unfortunately, capitalism disagrees. As long as we have capitalism + greed, the owners of the automation will reap the benefits while everyone else struggles to make a living.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we-...
I've seen some of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh architectural plans (for the Glasgow School of Art), and he made his own stylistically distinct variant: https://www.myfonts.com/person/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh/
> were manually fact-checked by professional journalists from BuzzFeed.

Anyone else stopped reading there? Because I did.
I just ran my local go project in WSL. And I can confirm it works just like it does in Linux. This is huge for everyone!
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> It's just a way of getting a machine to identify partizan stories that are statistically likely to contain a higher proportion of lies, especially if they are from right-wing sources (Table 1).

So, anything from the right should be a lie by default? Then google or whoever can just unrank the article to oblivion, since it statistically contains "lies" according to a biased majority? Do you see how dangerous this is?
> wondering what makes him a quotable authority on the topic

His wealth.

The obsession with cyber-malthusianism among the owners of tech informs me more about their valuation of humanity than about the future of tech. Fortunately there's a more level headed analysis that was published by the NYT recently for those of us that aren't consciously or subconsciiously all-in about the idea of making Snow Crash non-fiction https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/no-robots-arent-k...
Think of the poor and how much they have been helped by the globalization of the world is how they were won over. See how many people we've lifted out of poverty because of globalization.
Well part of the argument that Google/Mozilla are putting forward is that some software does their man in the middle attack in bad ways that compromise user security.

The picture in the article states:

Avast 11.7: Advertises DES as a cipher (It's been vulnerable for more than a decade)

AVG and Bit Defender: Vulnerable to Logjam and POODLE

Kaspersky: Vulnerable to CRIME

Net Nanny, KinderGate, CYBERsitter, NOD32, Kaspersky Internet Security (Mac): Doesn't validate certificates.
* a local unRaid machine as, among other things, a backup destination

* a local Synology DS216+II as secondary backup of the essential data

* run backups for both above using Bvckup

* essentials are also backed up to Crashplan

* OneDrive for non-private things that I'd like to have easy access to
Maybe. In the US I think the more partisan media operations are pandering at least as much as they are influencing (I guess probably quite a bit more). The opinion bubble exists whether they sell ad space on it or not, they have some effect of making it bigger.

There's also the fun problem where the sorting and other display choices of a news aggregator are speech. Why should that speech be suppressed?
I have experienced reduced night vision to a degree while driving at night. I now take cod liver oil capsules (for other reasons), and have no trouble at all now.
The most damning part of Fowler's statement is how unlike her experience is to that of the author:

1. The sexual incident was verbally communicated, took place off site and after hours versus using corporate communication at work during work hours.

2. The corporate standards for behavior were higher and independent of what a particular woman might or might not find out of line.

3. Human resources uncovered and acted upon the violation of behavioral standards without the women filing a complaint.
I saw the movie yesterday and I would say the total sensory experience of the film is worth a lot more than just the plot! Still see it, it's really great even knowing what will happen. You might even get a more authentic experience, per the discussion here...
I did take a look at Azure, but it looks complicated. Probably for someone who has more experience and actually have used it, it's not, but I couldn't easily find how I can get a simple VM, and when I used the calculator for the VM, the price was almost two times more expensive comparing to DigitalOcean or Linode.
I see that there are many people using Azure and probably it's a great ecosystem, but I wanted to focus on easier to use tools, that will be more friendly to beginner web developers.
I might think of a section for more advanced options (not a single hosting, but a whole service that includes multiple tools) where Azure would be a great fit.
It's called "due diligence", and people do it all the time.

He didn't change his own personal go-to software, we're not talking about a trial of a video game here. He changed the software for thousands of his users. He put thousands of people on a free trial for something that was not obviously going to work.

You do have the option to investigate before you make that kind of move. If you choose not to exercise it, you don't have that much ground to stand on when things don't work out.
If that could be answered satisfactorily on a message board...we'd have had a very different human history for the last 5,000 years ;)

I mean, there's no provable source for the value of a human. Nothing in nature you can point to and say "that's it, that's why a human has value".

I say, and my politics reflect this, that all people have intrinsic value. They're born with it, they have it til they die. Because of that, they should have access to food, shelter, medical care. No matter how much work they do or how much stuff they make.

Other people say a person is only as valuable as how much they work. (and I respond, screw that, it leads to a lot of suffering!)
All those you listed are Saints compared to Mark who is one of the most dangerous men in the world.

facebook needs to be torn down. It is a toxic apparatus, being used against the population.

Just saying.
> In my experience, the stuff you do in this kind of interview has very little relation with the stuff you do in the actual job. (I wish it did! I love those algorithmic puzzles.)

This is what confuses me. I tend to take the problems I get during an interview as representative of the work I would be doing, and then get turned off by the job immediately.

At least at the PhD level, you'd expect that the job would be using more of my unique expertise, I'm not a BST expert (though I can write one when I need to, it definitely isn't "warm" in my brain).
They should just live without HTTPS and not break it for everyone else.
The EU's interest in this sphere is bizarre to say the least. It's very much a fan of surveillance. It pays lipservice to privacy, while actively engaging in dragnet surveillance.
One local one, one external one.

In the external case, it's just a Nextcloud instance, constantly syncing the most important files.

In the local one, there's an external hard drive connected to Raspberry and cronjobs that scp into it.

So, three constant copies of everything out of any importance. I "test" the backups regularly because I'm playing files from a backup on a Raspberry connected to my sound system and constantly downloading files on my phone from Nextcloud.
"how much you make" i.e. disclosing current or previous salary, not how much you want to make.
Masses don't do anything. If you want to do something you need a different set of elite with a different set of ideas and/or ideology. That usually leads to conflict and wars though. So be warned. But we do I think need a different way to run society in an automated world rather than strap on the new technological reality to the old paradigm of shareholders and owners of capital who get people to work. We honestly will soon not need owners of capital/shareholders.
Personally, my biggest issue with interviewing at large companies like these by people whom you aren't necessarily going to be working with, is that not everyone is in a position to interview people. I personally hate interviewing other people and having to be responsible for their futures. I was never trained for it, and I don't want to ever deal with it. I just want to code and make sure the product I'm working on is coming along smoothly.

I've had countless interviews where I could immediately tell upon entering the room that the interviewer does not want to be there at all. It's a lose lose situation. For me, because I get demoralized instantly, and he's already got a chip on his shoulder for having had to do this in the first place. Everything I say going forward from that point on is an uphill battle.

I think only managers/very few people who are truly trained should interview people as that is kind of the essence of a manager's job--making sure they have happy, solid team. I don't even mind the technical questions. I just want to be in a room with someone who is actually potentially excited having me there. Not grilling me in a depressed fashion
TLS interception is not the problem. Improper implementation of the protocol is. AV / Appliance vendors need to configure their MITM proxies correctly so that they utilize the same protocols and verifications that the browsers have.
An extra network call may not be a problem. The question is your own application's performance and how and how often your feature flags are checked. You'll have to try a spike and figure out what your own performance needs may be.

Optimizing that is like optimizing any other database/network calls: find a caching strategy that makes sense for your application; avoid checks where you already know the answer or the answer doesn't matter anymore; find ways to bulk retrieve/cache a bunch of checks at the same time instead of one-at-a-time; etc.
Can you name your IRC network and elaborate on how you are planning to integrate Matrix into it?
Can it run apps inside Wine? Windows emulating Linux syscalls so that Wine can emulate Windows syscalls.
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It seems that this particular mistake (a 'target' attribute in strict mode) is so common that it's the example the validator uses:

> This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute)
This could be the "first to go" website for beginners when launching a new project :). However it misses some services such as Azure, CloudFare etc.
ImageNet, GoogleNet, etc. are all image datasets for precisely this purpose. There's also the recently announced YouTube dataset and Kaggle challenge [1] and Google Research's datasets [2].

I agree though, the kind of artificial / play-against-yourself datasets that the folks at DeepMind created for say Alpha Go are an entirely different beast.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/02/google-cloud-...

[2] https://research.google.com/research-outreach.html#/research...
If you read and understood the article, this comment is really disingenuous. It does not in any way reflect the sentiment of the writer.
If everyone stopped using FB (not saying they should), what do you think would happen? As individuals we have a choice in certain actions and their impacts. I agree with you that having an opinion on everything and boycotting this and that can lead down a rabbit hole ... but we did bring this upon 'ourselves'. (I am not a FB user, but I do respect peoples use of it)
I like how every week one of these posts comes up.

So many posts telling the world that they don't want to be the algorithm guy--the world doesn't care. Forgetting the Maxim: "Not everyone gets to be an astronaut when they grow up."

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0535/6917/products/potenti...
Just wait until those private armies start to fight each other.
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> isn't it more readable concise and beautiful than python version?

No.
You mean like the famous inverting tree whiteboard exercise that the Homebrew author failed?

Which lead them to refuse to give a job to the guy that actually developed a software used by those with higher IQ to come up with tree inversion algorithms?
Isn't that quite pricey to keep a 1Tb volume in google cloud?
It's not clear that these are "watch lists" in the sense that the parent or grandparent poster referred to, which would probably refer to something that automatically gets the individuals on it ongoing further attention or disparate treatment by the government. We still don't really know exactly what XKS is used for; some people seem to have interpreted the "scores" that are generated as though they were akin to the Chinese social credit score scheme (something that stays with an identified individual persistently), but I haven't seen evidence that this is true. It seems to me that XKS is a language and system for defining packet capture "scores" that search and capture Internet traffic meeting certain criteria, including arbitrary analyst-defined relatively-high-level criteria. Although an analyst using XKS to spy on particular people may know or learn their identities in many ways (and something bad could happen to them as a result), I don't see an indication that XKS is, or is linked to, a database that automatically "scores" or "watchlists" people.

In a traditional "watch list", those listed can expect to automatically encounter more scrutiny or problems from government officials in some kinds of interaction, like trying to board a plane, trying to enter the country, or maybe interacting with law enforcement or trying to file taxes. The XKS rules have in common with this that some people get more and different attention than others (which I can readily agree implicates their rights), but maybe in a particular moment as part of an analyst's activity, rather than in a way associated permanently with their identities.

While I certainly don't think anyone should have the power to perform searches like these, I feel like different senses of "list" are being conflated here, especially in the grandparent post's notion of "several watchlists". (I've been a part of the Tor community for a long time and have never heard of a report of anybody receiving adverse treatment from a government that could be attributed to Tor use this way... though it's certainly plausible that Tor users do get singled out in various ways by various governments for further spying.)
Some sort of community around a browser extension you say?

Check out https://hypothes.is/ it's a project to allow universal annotation of web content, which could conceivably enable just such a process of decentralized, community-moderated fact checking. Wouldn't that be nice! Of course, given what's happening on Wikipedia lately, I'm not totally convinced it could work, but hey, at least someone's trying.
I've stopped talking to recruiters in general. I've never had someone reach out because I'm a good fit for the role/company, but I've had a lot where it's obvious that I just ticked enough boxes on their hiring checklist to push me through the pipe.

Once I got messaged by a recruiter who was very enthusiastic about meeting "expert Rails devs" and wanted to hop on a call to see if I had any interest in their company. I've never touched Ruby in my life though.

I also just started my first machine learning job recently. Before I was even a month into it I started getting messages from recruiters from companies like Microsoft who were looking for "top ML talent" like me.

Unless there's an actual genuine interest from the recruiter, I don't think you gain any advantage by responding to them.
Why I don't talk to Google recruiters: they never call.
> filtering is very cheap: the time it takes to reply back.

See, I see that time as very expensive.
From what I see around me, there are only 2 ways to get hired by Google.
Either you are a fresh CS graduate, or you need to take 2-3 months off for fulltime study.
> You aren't going to interview with your future manager because they don't know who your future manager is.

I generally agree when it comes to cold resumes. However, in this case, OP is talking about being actively recruited. In that case there ought to be a specific manager that was looking for a specific type of person. Otherwise the recruiter is just wasting everyone's time.
The UI looks decent and easy to use. Two suggestions though:
1) The auto-complete search widget could do with keyboard navigation.
2) I think the Icon Generator logo shouldn't link away from the app. There's no "Reset to defaults" button so I assumed clicking the logo would achieve the same thing.
This is a great summary - China has quite a bit of immigration (in an odd, internal sense) and engages in massive amounts of trade regardless of the tariff and dumping questions people bring up.

On the flourishing point, I'd just add that China is struggling with flourishing not just on an individual wealth level but on a structural macroeconomic level. The move from state-sponsored heavy industries to consumer goods is still in huge jeopardy, and while its growing rapidly China is working hard to circumvent economic crisis.
> (Zuckerberg already has a small private army protecting him with heavy weaponry)

Source? I agree with your ideas overall but I'm genuinely interested in this aspect.
Trying to add keywords `react` / `python` and others fail with...

> That keyword is too common. Please enter a more uncommon keyword or phrase.

So some product names could fall under the `common` namespace.
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This is really excellent! I've been hoping for a while now that someone would build something like this :-)

A direction that'd be interesting to explore is a guided query writer. Perhaps have a floating query input box and if you click on a type, it adds a query. Then you could edit the query and as you add/remove fields & connections, it highlights the equivalent areas of the visualization.
How about "Slack for Teams is a single workspace for your small- to medium-sized company or team."? https://limnu.slack.com/pricing

But your question presumes that the word "team" isn't enough, and that the implied team size that comes with a 10k message limit also isn't enough. Why?
I basicly do the same, except I sync to google drive using rclone.
I also sync to a USB drive about once a week.
It basically is a backup of my home dir. the rest of my data already lives in google drive (pictures etc)
> I disagree. There is no value in shifting through fake news. To me it makes sense to have filters in the same way as my email client has a spam filter, namely as a convenience for me not to have to navigate through crappy spam messages.

I understand the metaphor you're going for - and yeah, it's a huge slog to have to comb through all the garbage sometimes. However, there is a pitfall in doing this for too long without re-checking yourself: The trustworthiness of organizations changes, and new ones pop up all the time. If you aren't careful, you can end up in a massive echo chamber.

That is, if you're going to filter out what you feel is "fake news," you'd better have an ironclad definition for the term, and a way to easily tell what does and doesn't match it, and the only way to do that is to be aware as possible of what's out there. After all, how many times a day/week/month do people actually look in their spam folders?
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Fake news was abundant enough that it became a meme in 2005 as "truthiness".

That you took offense to it only after November 10, 2016 is inconsequential.
Better than my emails from new clients:

"Head office called last week. We need X but have no idea what X means. We asked Bill to look into it but after a day his eyes started bleeding. Help!"

( Im an attorney doing privacy and compliance work. I've never been given a night in a 5-star by any current or potential client. )