skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, this doesn't sound far off from some situations I've been in and seen. It's a tragic cycle.

HR at Company X - "We don't have any women. We should hire some women. I don't really know why, I just read it in this newsletter that it's a good idea."
First female employee - "I see why you don't have any women here. I quit."
Executive at Company X - "Silly women. I told you we didn't need them after all."

I'm honestly not sure if it's that large groups of men tend to act like jerks toward women (which happens pretty often). Or that they become large groups of men when the women leave, if the men were acting like jerks to them. I rarely see a company becoming more diverse after that point, and then it seems to feed back in on itself, as part of the culture.

There's a lot you can do that isn't quite to the point of discrimination or harassment that can get people to leave, that's why it's such an insidious problem. And rarely are these places a great place to work for anyone.
I think it's just a speculative effort that probably won't go anywhere.

I googled for "google magenta", and all the top hits are actually about an entirely separate (I assume?) project about AI music: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/welcome-to-magenta. So they didn't think very hard about the name for a start.

I'm also skeptical that a big new effort like this would be done entirely in the open. The Chrome team has something of a history of doing that and then throwing stuff away (e.g. Chromium mods and hardware configuration for a Chrome tablet that never got off the ground).

The Android team, on the other hand, seems to prefer developing stuff in private before open sourcing it. And their stuff seems to have more traction (or maybe we just don't see all the aborted efforts because they're private).

I feel like the Chrome team really believes in open source, and developing in the open, whereas the rest of the company (and especially Android) doesn't care as much and prefers being secretive. But as Sundar Pichai used to run Chrome, maybe he's changing things up a bit?
> US/UK and Australia are all basically the 'same culture'

While indeed similar, a story on that: a friend at a high-end consulting firm here in Australia told of a US colleague who was over for a 6-month secondment. At the end of the visit, he apparently said "I wish I had known at the start that the people making fun of me probably liked me, and the people being perfectly polite probably didn't..."
The best answer you got was to not invest in individual stocks at all, and instead to globally diversify using index funds. For example, you can own basically every significant publicly traded company in the world by holding just VTI and VXUS (Vanguard ETFs). Or equivalent mutual funds. Much simpler and lower risk.
The future of your virtual identity
No.

The idea is interesting and there are, in fact, many firms I'd gladly pay $20 - $50 for an audience with (often in the form of buying someone lunch to network) but there's far too much potential for fraud and abuse here.

I won't pay someone $5 to add my resume to their database.

$100 for an introduction to a highly qualified prospect for my services is actually a bargain (an obscene, under priced one at that) in the B2B sales arena....

The problem, of course, is it can be hard to tell the difference between the two in advance....

And nobody will sue over $5 (so limited options to control fraud)

Finally, in the company's defense, you need a way to screen out completely unqualified applicants...
> But what would the world look like if the search engine giant had started selling capacity on its vast infrastructure back in 2005, before Amazon Web Services launched, and then shortly thereafter started selling capacity on its high level platform services?

What if Google did start selling capacity on its vast infrastructure in 2008, and we got Snapchat as a result?

> To put it bluntly, it would have been more interesting to see Google endorse CockroachDB and support it on Cloud Platform

To put it bluntly, no.

And he never even attempts to answer the question in his headline.
I think the plan has always been that Swift is the future, but Objective C will be around for a long time. Think a 30-year horizon.
Yes, it's quite sad.

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20160607-dueprocess.html
Unless executive golden parachutes get trimmed does it really make a difference? The execs that doused the company in gasoline, struck the match and then walked away won't be around to try and operate on $3.75B instead of the original $4 billion after the acquisition is complete.

This is just Verizon exploiting some leverage to get a better price, it's not actual punishment of incompetent leadership.
I used to regularly remote into a windows box (GUI mode, classic desktop) from my phone. 2560x1440 pixels of 21st century glory. Believe me when I say you do not want to use a desktop UI on a phone either. No, pinch-zooming hasn't proved to be a sustainable workaround.
Yes the most American website ever is meetup.com go search the meetups in your area and at least 95% if not 100% are what you DO at work or when not at work, and almost none exist to BE someone or to hang out with an identity. The only identity groups will be like "something area singles group". I find it typically American that all americans aspire while not wanting to appear aspirational, so lots of americans want to start a business, but none would ever be caught dead at a meetup called "we want to start our businesses" or "we want to lose weight", americans can have "gym buddies" to hang out with cool bros but never "weight loss buddies" because that sounds very aspirational. Perhaps Americans are too pessimistic to be caught sounding that optimistic, I donno. Its a pity, you'd think meetup would be a good place for "I wanna learn (some technology)" but thats as unamerican as possible because its identifying as wanting to learn something as opposed to physically doing something, and even worse its aspirational.

Also it never fails to amuse me that they'll be about one hiking group per half million people in a metro area and they all claim they're the "real group" the "fun group" the only "active group". Something to do with Dunbar's number you just can't have 1000 americans work together they have to make smaller tribes and pretend the other tribes don't exist. All a bunch of foolishness. Sometimes I think meetup.com is all an elaborate stunt by some grad student gathering anthropological data about Dunbars number.
Keep in mind that once something is accomplished, it's not too long before other companies do the same as well. I see no reason why Azure/AWS can't do the same in next few years. If that gives Google an edge, great! But it won't be for too long.
You can probably get away with a $1k PC build these days, and the HoloLens itself is pretty expensive now as a devkit ($3k IIRC).

The HoloLens is great, but it doesn't really seem to be designed for gaming. Games are cool to demo in AR, but less practical I feel, given the requirement of meshing with the real world. Meanwhile, gaming in VR is taking off decently, and the FOV in the current generation of VR devices is much better than what the HoloLens has, and that's a pretty big deal for gaming.

Also, wireless is almost here for VR headsets: http://www.roadtovr.com/tpcast-wireless-vr-htc-vive-relased-...

The wires are annoying I agree, but not really a "nightmare".
Another vote here. I prefer this book to the CLRS.
How do you embed in a mobile app?
Seems like kind of a leap to declare an article about cultural gaps and "adjustment fatigue" to be "anti-American."

Not everything is political, dude.
I don't have any detailed links handy, but it's definitely common knowledge that this is the case (or used to be, anyway). Manu Cornet's comic captures it well: http://www.bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts/
Churchill's views on the possibility of life on other planets
Yes -- which would only result in the loss of control of the amount of water above the level of the bottom of the spillway, or the bedrock under the spillway. That's maybe the top 30 feet at the most.

While that's still a lot of acre feet, and it would create a 'wall of water' situation in the first surge (hence the evacuation), it's not as significant as the dam failing and the entire reservoir emptying through it.
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The article doesn't say that no one is scheming, just that what starts as a plan devolves into a mess of reaction and counter reaction. No battle plan survives contact with the enemy and all that.

Schemes are occasionally successful, but that is because the schemer either got lucky and everyone reacted the way they wanted, or because the scheme was incredibly simple.

What the article is talking about is the mythical scheming that involves correctly predicting the behavior and reactions of the opposition through multiple iterations of attack and counter attack--the hypothetical chess master who can see 5 moves ahead.

The systems we are dealing with are generally just too complex for that.
I've always been curious how people knowing nothing manage to get good jobs. I know many guys who are smart enough and willing to learn, but can't get hired because of "knowing nothing".
Did the Apprentice kill NBC?
I'm in the AI Nanodegree now and I have a Udacity Data Analyst nanodegree.

I also hold a traditional Engineering Masters and Engineering bachelors from colleges so I have that perspective as well.

You can read my take on the AI Nanodegree and other programs here.

http://canyon289.github.io/DSGuide.html#DSGuide

In summary I think Udacity is the best value per dollar for education but you can't rely on a Nanodegree, or even a regular degree, to get you a job. Like mentioned below most people care about your practical work. Udacity helps you get there but it doesn't get you all the way. But I think it's still worth it. Plus Udacity is pretty cool and offers scholarships which is relatively unheard of in this MOOC space as far as I know
Not that far off from the life expectancy of the age, 60.
"it does advise accelerated standardization and introduction of features including automatic emergency warning, blind spot monitoring and lane departure warning systems"

If these things actually made a difference wouldn't vehicle deaths be falling unless some other change is offsetting the difference?
Because it's the company vision that they want it to succeed. Also they are partnered with HTC to make the VIVE.
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I'm the OP and I didn't editorialized the title - I never do that. Probably something out of my control happened in the mean time.
Hey johnhenry, I reposted it as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13655292 ! Cheers
The purpose isn't to inflict damage on ad networks, it's to make you more difficult to track by burying your signal in a bunch of noise.

Let's take another, more similar analogy: some secure messaging programs are designed to resist network analysis, which invariably involves sending some kind of "noise" to clients whom you are not actively communicating with, to mask your actual communication. Depending on your point of view, you could frame that as an "attack on your ISP" - after all, aren't you sending unnecessary junk traffic? This is the same thing, except for the web instead of messaging.

In general though, not picking on you in particular: I really see a lot of nerdfolk who don't understand that intent and context do matter. I see it particularly often in legal contexts where people think they've figured out one weird trick to escape the law. Like, I don't know, people who think that they can claim they forgot the password to an encrypted system they use on a daily basis, and the judge is just a computer who will say "oh no I am defeated, beep boop", instead of a human being who will think about whether that's reasonable and throw them in jail for contempt.

It would be wildly unreasonable to think that AdNausium is a click-farming scheme, or a DDOS attempt, or anything of the like. Context does matter.

Also, if some of your clients actually using your primary "features" (clicking your ads after they load a page) is a problem for you, it's hardly their fault. By all means feel free to discontinue serving them ads if you don't like it.
Similarly, I made a good number of friends who were international students by playing intramural soccer. I suppose you could say soccer is a common language.
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The HoloLens doesn't seem like a device you'd be wearing out and about on city streets. Seems more like something you'd be wearing at home in your living room by yourself or with friends, or at work as part of your business process, not something you'd wear on your face going out to a bar to meet a date.
If product A implements a small subset of the functionality of product B, but that small subset is enough for your needs, then from a security perspective (other things being roughly equal) you should never ever use product B. It brings in additional risks for no good reason. By default, extra functionality is a cost and a drawback - if it's useful it may justify that cost, but otherwise removing that functionality is a very useful thing to do.

If half of people need the 'deleted' functionality (and it seems that the proportion is much smaller, but let's assume half) then obviously they should use NTP Classic, but the other half definitely should not.
I've met several people who have moved here to New Zealand specifically to learn better English. It's immensely difficult to learn another language when you have nobody to talk to. Reading and writing proficiency are easy, but the spoken component is just so difficult.
I'm not sure, but it looks like maybe AWS already has... https://aws.amazon.com/rds/
I have consulted two of the (I guess) "big names" in AR here in Germany and I can basically confirm point 2. AR agencies struggle to get any hold in any market. While they (legitimately) try (and technically succeed) to innovate and automate, AR is far from being a thing accepted by the average consumer. People don't use QR codes anymore, they certainly won't load yet another app and scan your marker.

(Intermission: Unless "they" is Chinese. While pitching the tech in front of a Chinese delegation, the audience went quite literally wild. The enthusiasm about gimmick-y tech radiated by Chinese business (wo)men is the exact opposite of the stone-cold non-interest of Germans)

Where ARA shine however is, as you predicted, industrial tech. The implementations I witnessed were used by Airbus, Siemens, Bosch, Audi et al. for exactly two purposes:

1. Assembly line education or
2. Massive scale marketing (in a physical sense) like projecting actual buildings for architects

At least this is my experience.
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Solidity is the most widely adopted language, but there are other choices including Serpent (Python-like)and LLL (lisp-like).

A few developers I know use Serpent because it is simple and stable (meaning it has not been changed or updated for a while, unlike Solidity which they say is continually being tweaked in a manner that can be aggravating).

Interestingly, Vitalik's preferred language (say for prototyping Casper algorithms) is Python. He created Serpent and is now working on Viper, which sounds like a next-generation Serpent. Viper is being implemented in Python3.

You can see the work in progress at: https://github.com/ethereum/viper
I can't predict if it would actually be better, and I fear you'll say it can't be realistically implemented, but I would suggest the nuclear option: a Manhattan Project level of R&D into decentralization.

Problem is, those with the ability to make it happen are essentially the same people running the massive spy infrastructure while singing platitudes about privacy and security.
I'm sure this is a stupid question, but would it be possible to build essentially a large "siphon", so that the discharge of the water didn't result in erosion directly below the spillway?

Seems like it would be pissing in the ocean (or I guess that analogy in reverse?), but when I saw the newsreels of the helicopters dropping bags of rocks into the spillway hole, that also seemed like it would take a couple thousand of those drops to make a difference.
This would kill all opensource software.
Ahh, so that's why the 1.0rc docs started to 404 an hour ago. Had me cursing under my breath :)
> No battle plan survives contact with the enemy

I always (as a Vet) thought this was a misnomer - it's often best described as "no battle plan survives contact with reality" - reality being the new info you get that you didn't get or couldn't have gotten.
When you're making half a million or more each year writing vertical market software, the price tag for a Delphi/RAD Studio license each year is irrelevant. This is especially true when Delphi was the reason why you're making all that money in the first place.

It's kind of a "you had to have been there..." type of story, but if you get a chance, talk to a developer that was trying to create Windows applications for businesses back in the 90's and you will know what I mean. The really sad part is that while .NET and C# have done an okay job of providing a replacement (I think that MS has a hard time staying on-point when it comes to dev tools and make their tools too much of a moving target), you really cannot find anything exactly like Delphi/RAD Studio today. The primary reason why it's so sad is that Delphi created millions upon millions of dollars of revenue for independent software vendors all over the world, and you would think that companies would be trying to replicate that success. Alas, it's hard to contemplate even attempting such an endeavor when developer tools are not valued properly according to the money that they make the developer. If the software world finds a way to start making money from developer tools again, then you'll see another Delphi and it will be a lot cheaper.
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I found that sports and trivia knowledge is more important than language skills when interacting with the "locals".
Well there are a lot of other forces. For one, I take pride in building great things. I code for work, and when on vacation I build side projects, because I enjoy it.

Another is if I see a team trying to get something done, and they need my expertise, I enjoy the act of helping them.

Those employees are really only in it for the money will do the bare minimum. I'd say tops half of employees have this mentality. The rest care (often too much) about what we do.
Not sure if it's BB10 you love or if it's BlackBerry's security model and hardware design, but if it's the latter, I highly recommend the Android models that BB sells. I personally have a Priv and I love it. The DTEK50 and DTEK60 are newer and are supposedly even better according to a few people I know that have the DTEK models.

If it's BB10...can't help you there. But you still might want to consider the Android models anyway since, as I mentioned, you get the BB security model which includes (but it not limited to) hardware keystore, secure boot, customized kernel, and FDE enabled by default. It also supports office365, BES12, as well as all native Android apps (naturally). And it comes with BB's DTEK software to make evaluating your devices security much simpler and makes granular permissions very straightforward and includes logging and notifications for those permissions as well, if desired. The DTEK software also has continuous integrity monitoring for OS files to spot anything that might be compromised.

Battery life is also amazing on the Priv and DTEK models. And BB has been pushing monthly security updates out like clockwork.
Does anyone use Tensorflow models in C++ applications? Is it possible to build Tensorflow as static or shared lib?
I actually agree with you and any disagreement we have is solely my fault, as that's mostly what I was trying to write.
I'm not involved in climate science, so I'm hardly an expert, but this is something I've heard a bit about. It seems to be pretty popular / widely used:

http://climate.apache.org/
Don't be flippant.
'AI brain scans' reveal what happens inside machine learning
There are official posts on the blogs of Cliqz and Ghostery as well:
https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/ghostery-acquire...
https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/cliqz-und-ghostery
Well, 'knowing nothing' is a relative term. Myself and the mentioned friends all had degrees in Computer Science, just no knowledge of the particular niches we ended up in.

Also, the whole point my post is that these standards relative. New grad? They'll teach you. 10 years experience? You should probably walk in with some knowledge and prep.
If there are 750K foreign students coming in every year to the US why are there only 65K H1 visas per year available? Surely they should expect at least 10% of them to want to work in the US after their education right? With that why is everyone acting as if the Indian outsourcing companies are the problem for the H1 visa shortage?
Did they compare against American students though? Modern culture is making everyone increasingly lonely and isolated, so I wouldn't be surprised if a good portion of that number is explained by the fact that going off to college and making close friends can be difficult whether you're from Nebraska or Nanjing.

That being said, the cultural aspect can't be ignored. There's a reason that despite going to two very international schools, almost all of my close friends are European, American, or Australian.
> First off, very few very early stage startups expect you to work for free until you get funded. Exceptions being that you're a co-founder or an unpaid intern that never touches code.

Obviously this is not something I have a lot of statistically accurate data for but, me and my friends are recent graduates and collectively have applied to quite a lot of very early stage startups in Toronto and out of those, we all have experienced the bait and switch of unpaid work till funding at least 50% of the time.

> Secondly, while the startups in Toronto are probably less well funded than the ones in the US, not all require you to work for 12+ hours a day while paying you for 8 hours. It looks really shady to set these expectations especially since we have clear laws around overtime pay in Canada (describing such a work situation to friends will raise eyebrows -- definitely not the standard practice, whatever industry you work at).

I didn't say all startups are like what I've mentioned. The one I'm currently working at is awesome! That said, it's more often the case that startups use their short runaway as an excuse to make you work long hours (and just to be clear - the 12hr / day was not an estimation - I was literally asked my thoughts about it during an interview - that company is still recruiting on HN Who's hiring for more employees and a quick google search shows they have increased headcount to 35 people this year and is profitable).

> Lastly, I'd say that any place worth working at (big or small) will be insanely picky about who they hire. Current employer included.

I have 0 problems with employers being picky. I worked closely with the CEO of a previous startup and I totally understand that. What I don't understand is the point of claiming you need to hire a developer (with a start date of immediately) and then leaving the position open for months altogether, or having crappy working conditions.

BTW I've interviewed at Nulogy (if that's where you are currently working) - Since this is a throwaway I can't give too much details, While I was still disappointed for the reason I was rejected it was one of the good interviews I've had (interviewer was knowledgeable, I learnt about the company and product, the tech stack, the problems they were facing, what was expected of me, and just some personal chit-chat during the coffee walk).
And it's also the reason why throwing an immigrant in English classes won't actually assimilate them. You can't teach Levels 4 and 5 without driven students and a welcoming populace.