skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is gross.

Uber - all the recent examples - it must be truly exceptional environment.

Stellar growth, massive burn rate... I would imagine they are profitable, cashing 25% of the total fee?
as a scientist, i wouldn't trust a single iota of "evidence" that passes through a private corporation with a financial interest in the results reading a certain way.

they won't outright fabricate, usually. but they'll repeat experiments with various perversions until they get the result they want. and this is commonplace elsewhere in science, too, but it's typically disclosed in the methods section and people can put the pieces together for themselves.
So tracing the the computer, hacking the webcam, getting the face, getting into the persons back account, following the money trail to FSB is more of a Hollywood hack and not reality than?
I ask because I no longer have a feel for what is possible and what is fantasy. Especially how machine learning and what not comes into play if it does. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ghK6yUJv4
I apologize for the very late delay on this response.

Of course someone should be unhappy that their CEO and Board of Directors has made a decision to lay them off in the USA explicitly because of salary costs, instead of performance or some important cause.

The reality is that this is the right of a private company- all you can do is attempt to navigate the deeply illogical and political system that we call the private sector.

Deciding that you should hate someone you've never met, because of their skin color, national origin, etc, because you think that THEY PERSONALLY took your job, is not logical or enjoyable in my opinion.

One should always blame the company, an artificial and greedy machine, not a fellow human, which is an organism driven by self preservation no matter the country of origin
Ask HN: Should I quit Uber?
I'm a software engineer at Uber. I've been there for under a year. I left my previous job because an Uber recruiter offered a large pay increase. I had been there for under a year as well.

Is it worse to have the job hopping on my resume or a very unpopular company on there?

Staying for a while wouldn't be hard on me. My team and the ones around me aren't toxic (yet). I'm strictly concerned with the impact on my career.
Are the others manipulating science and politics, and driving farmers out of business with spurious lawsuits? If so, i'm happy to throw them under the bus too.
What could you grow in your area that isn't corn and soybeans [c&s]?

How does the profitability of c&s compare to, say, silage? I was friends with a grass fed beef farmer in teh college, and learned from him that many weeds are actually a pretty good source of protein for cattle.

Have you thought about farming fruit or trees? My grandmother was going to devote some of her acres (Illinois) to black walnut trees (iirc), but she'd moved away from her parents' farm in the 1940's and just managed it from afar after her parents passed away.
It similar to how nations employ different tactics to create peace and prospect. No single solution is perfect in every situation, and different nations will default to one method over an other. In specific situations it might be the best method to have no rules, while in others it might be best to have common rules, shared by everyone, and have those enforced by police.
I don't think that's true, actually. I've been both interviewer and interviewee, almost all my friends do interviews, and in every case I've seen, the interviewer is earnestly trying to make her best determination of whether you can succeed at the company. Most interviewers - both ones I know as friends and ones that have interviewed me - get very, very happy when they find a candidate that they know will meet the hiring bar, because it's such a rare occurrence.

I think that the perception that it's just a hazing process comes from a failure to look at it from the company's perspective. Most people know that they're good programmers (whether it's true or not...), and so they're like "This is bullshit...why do I need to prove my worth at the whiteboard when I know that I'm a good programmer." But the cost of a bad hire is really, really high (both for the company and for the employee), and the applicant pool is skewed through adverse selection, and a company knows nothing about you when you come in to the interview. Many people with stellar resumes can't actually code; some that can code don't actually want to work with you and would be bad cultural fits; and some outright lie on their resume. They're trying to figure out, in a 50-minute hour, whether you'll be productive on the particular problems that that employer faces.
I won't comment for software developers, as I'm sure there are plenty of options other than JavaScript for that type of work. This comment is specifically for designers and web developers who work on websites and web apps:

Five years ago I would have said: "There is enough room in web development for designers who don't know code at all, people who only know HTML/CSS, and people who can use JavaScript to find work" but I'm not sure that's as true today as it was then. When I look at the market today, what I see is that if you're doing anything in browser, you need to be familiar with JavaScript.

JavaScript is the language of the browser. It was designed to work in the browser, and it does some pretty amazing things there. I think it will be increasingly hard for anybody who doesn't know JavaScript to keep finding work in web design & development, even if previously you only used Photoshop, or previously you only did HTML/CSS. It's not going to be enough in the market of today and tomorrow.

Personally I've been taking this advice to heart. 3 years ago I couldn't really do much with JavaScript on my own, but I've been focusing a lot of energy on trying to learn enough JavaScript to stay employed. Workers who don't pick up JavaScript soon may find their work options disappearing in the near future.

On the plus side, JavaScript is an easy language to learn, even if it's your first real programming language, and because you can write and test it in any browser, any time you have your smartphone, a tablet, a computer - basically anything with a web browser, you can be coding and testing JavaScript.
It's interesting that you bring that up as Adobe is another one fighting to keep their trademark versus an increasing generic usage of it. Their own press kit requires that they do require the press to exclusively write "Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) software":

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressmaterials/pdf...

I don't know why their own website is more lax on the subject and not held to same standards (as opposed to Kleenex's site, for example, which is). I suppose that is a question for Adobe's lawyers. (I further suppose that is an ongoing battle between Adobe's marketing department and its lawyers and probably the lawyers are shaking their heads in disgust sometimes at their own marketing website.)

«Shouldn't following industry standards be safe enough?»

Maybe? We seem to be a pendulum swing where marketing copy is more relaxed/conversational and drops TM and (R) marks and is more lax with their restrictions. This seems to me probably because there hasn't been a very high profile trademark dispute in recent internet memory, so the risk seems low and the trade-off of being more friendly/approachable/conversational in marketing copy seems worth the risk.

That pendulum swings with your competition. You need to know your competition and assuage the risk that they might want to genericize your trademark for their own competitive advantage. How much you need to do to protect your marks is probably some complicated formula of what you expect from your competition, what it is you are actually protecting, and how much effort you think may be needed to defend it in a court of law. Particularly to that last part, you likely want to defer to the risk aversion of your lawyer, presuming that lawyer is going to be the one helping you defend the trademarks in the court.

Adobe (and Microsoft and some of the other "conversational marketing" trademarks) have a fair number of lawyers on staff and a "war chest" of one sort or another in assets they can deploy to defend their trademarks. As a startup you likely don't have anywhere near those resources, so having a long conversation with your lawyer about what marks you may need to defend, against whom, and deeply assess the risk. There may be a compromise position where a conversational marketing site is accompanied by a more formal press/PR site, which may be more than enough proof that you are using the mark in commerce.

There's also a case that your competition doesn't care about your trademarks at all and there isn't any risk and you don't need to play it safe (or even have registered trademarks at all). You are in the best position to determine your risk and your lawyer is your best professional asset to work with on figuring that out.

If you think that your lawyer is being too risk-adverse you might seek other lawyers' opinions, especially a specialist in trademark disputes, but be prepared to pay for that. In that case you probably also need to be prepared to pay for that specialist's time in the case of a defense of your marks, too.
Oh, fair enough. I was thinking about this article very specifically, where Monsanto is deeply tied to what looks like clear regulatory capture - a problem even at small scale.

On Monstanto coverage writ large, I completely agree. The amount of excess attention and paranoia paid there is ridiculous, especially on topics where they have clear competitors like Archer Daniels Midland that people haven't even heard of.
It's tough to read this article because it's trying to support a particular point, and not really exploring an idea. Like all psychological diagnoses, psychopathy is a set of traits/behaviors that are on a scale between "all people some of the time" and "some people all of the time".

So if you skip the article's agenda, and explore the idea, it's kind of interesting. Psycopathic traits are "persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, egotistical traits." (thanks wikipedia)

It isn't surprising at all that successful CEOs exhibit some of those traits more than most people. I'm not sure you could fire people without "impaired empathy and remorse", even if those feelings are temporary. Firing people is terrible, and if _I_ felt the full weight of that horribleness while it was happening I'd never be able to do it.

And yeah, "bold, disinhibited, egotistical" traits are almost required to run a company at all.

What's more interesting than recognizing these, though, is the difference in how they're applied. Execs who are decent people and execs who aren't apply them differently (and decent people who aren't capable of being CEOs might not apply them at all).

I've spent a lot of time worried about my own traits. Am I decent person if I can fire people? Am I a decent person if I can't work for someone else? Am I a decent person if I'm so worried about my own work-happiness that I risk my family's well being by quitting objectively good jobs? Hopefully!
what about bioaccumulation, rate of degradation, toxic metabolites, ph changing properties, etc etc etc.

i bet they haven't even done the research on these things.
This is not the YouTube comments section.
I can't disagree with what you said. It's certainly not just Monsanto. I think the original article focused on Monsanto because of their potential role in manipulating research and investigations into a chemical used widely by many companies.
Both are bad non-medical constructs so they have that in common.
This is covered in the post, no?

> There is a fundamental difference between these two kinds of content: the user comments are stored in our databases, which means their Markdown syntax can be normalized (e.g. by adding or removing whitespace, fixing the indentation, or inserting missing Markdown specifiers until they render properly). The Markdown documents stored in Git repositories, however, cannot be touched at all, as their contents are hashed as part of Git’s storage model.
JSON and reflection, you know you gonna get a value once you'll have instantiated your object from a JSON description. So my var are lateninit because I don't need a ? or !!
a couple of examples in RA mode involving constructors and final fields look unnecessary to me. I thought the java memory model already guaranteed a release/acquire fence at the end of constructor for final fields. Basically if a thread sees an object post-construction, it is already guaranteed to see the correct values for the object's final fields. Am I mistaken here?
I haven't used Kotlin, so...

Why are nullable types a pain in the ass? If I recall correctly, isn't a nullable something you have to opt into? Basically you can't get null on accident, but you can opt into it when null makes sense?
It does not help you get a job, ie survive. In my experience companies are not looking for unicorns, they want you to be very good at a specific thing (startups under 5 people are maybe the exception).
yet moments before we got this https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/15/0521225/hacking-vict...

> a court of appeals in Washington D.C. ruled that an American citizen can't sue the Ethiopian government for hacking into his computer and monitoring him with spyware. "The decision on Tuesday is a blow to anti-surveillance and digital rights activists who were hoping to establish an important precedent in a widely documented case of illegitimate government-sponsored hacking."
Bonsai Kitten was really good. I also remember the Stinky Meat project at around the same time. Fun times. :-)
U.S. Files Charges Over Yahoo Hack and Details Links to Moscow
The parts it does add are small and orthogonal. They can be combined to make surprising things, but that's the mark of a good language - it lets people write very complex libraries, but by combining simple features in ways that make sense.

Specifically, call by name is highlighted in the IDE these days (though I agree we would be better off without it), implicit parameters are really important and it's not hard to ensure consistency, for comprehension is the opposite of what that site is saying (dealing with multiple monads is a lot harder without it, and it's not like ignoring monads as Kotlin does makes the problems you need monads for go away), and the rule about operators is incredibly simple (your method name is just your method name, if you want to write a "" operator you call it "" rather than having to remember what the magic name for overloading that is).

Meanwhile your link ignores the many complex features in Kotlin e.g. delegation, platform types. Maybe they were added since it was written - Kotlin seems to add a lot of ad-hoc features very quickly.
Pruning can be implemented by just not computing a part of a stream based on some predicate.

If you want some kind of global state of the current results then you just pass around the current calculated states. Pure FP has many simple solutions for passing around state.
also "what we talk about whwn we talk about...", "the unreasonable effectiveness of ..."
Your last paragraph here implies that a developers work is either A) able to be shared and not owned by their employer, or B) they spend their free time coding after doing it at work all day, instead of having other hobbies. If thats the bar an employer wants to set, thats perfectly reasonable. They shouldn't ever complain about not being able to find employees however, if they are going to artificially limit their prospective employee pool to people who have no interests outside of programming
Compiling Julia to the GPU
JavaScript Trends to Watch in 2017
Ya, depends on the country. In the USA, self employed kind of sucks because group health insurance is way cheaper than individual market insurance.
The impact on your career should not be much.

As an employer, I would not turn down any ex-Uber, as long as he or she did not trigger warning lights during the interviews.

Just focus on the technichal side and the money. If you feel good every morning when you wake up to go working for them, then stay.

If not, then that would make a great explanation to your next employer for him/her not to consider you a job hopper. Along the lines of "I quit at Uber because, as you very well know, the culture there was toxic and yours looks much more interesting, blah blah...".

Good luck!
I thought The Smoking Gun was more of a dox drop/gossip site, if I'm remembering correctly. I always thought Rotten like efukt and some of those other sites were more into gore and various paraphilias.
Don't forget maintenance! Old cars needed far more maintenance far more often. This 6-7k miles every 6 months thing is just absurd.

Cars got oil changes every 1k miles, not 3k or 7k. Just for starters.
Maybe instead of being cynical about people's motives you should try to go through what they are saying and see if it makes sense or not, or if the evidence its based upon is correct.

"The first red flag that there are corporate interests behind any "debunking" effort is that an actually serious finding is not discussed openly"

So which finding was not discussed properly in the link i posted?
It should be noted that China also plays the "US double-standard" card, especially when it comes to human rights. They practically emulate Russia as well when it comes to cyberspace.

What interests me is how the public is somehow more inclined to specifically confront Russia when both effectively undermine the effectiveness and legitimacy of liberal democracies.
Json-git (A pure JavaScript local Git to versionize any JSON) 0.2.0 is out
Private Space Gateway launched
I read about a guy who had a similar experience in (I think) RadioShack many years ago. The cashier asked for his address, and they guy questioned why it was needed, and would they be sending him junk mail? The cashier made an excuse for what it was needed for and said that "no, they wouldn't be using the address to send junk mail to".

The customer wrote on the back of the cheque (I said it was a long time ago) a minimal contract that said something like "By accepting this cheque RadioShack agrees that they won't send any junk mail to the provided address, if any is sent a fee of $100 will be payable" (paraphrasing).

RadioShack ultimately sent the guy junk mail, and the guy asked for his $100 which I think they ultimately gave him.
Looking at the kinds of projects they have show on the page, it seems that a GPU is not useful for most of those.

For the projects where you would benefit from a GPU, you could perhaps commicate with a bigger computer that does the calculations? Too much latency for some applications of course but not for others.

If your project really needs a GPU and it needs it on the device that is controlling the robotics components, I think probably something other than the BB Blue would be more appropriate.
I believe if you read the article again you'll see it mentions presidents as well as CEOs.

As for civil servants - what evidence can offer to support the suggestion that civil servants (and I presume you mean public employees of all kinds, including those in agencies like NASA and NOAA) are more likely to be sociopaths than ordinary people?
Well they could be President..
I generally agree with you, but I would say if the tech industry as a whole was like a muscle that appeared empathetic and understanding of cultural differences, there would be a thin nerve of xenophobia that controls some of the major movements of said muscle.

Why do I say this? It is a bit inherent for Americans to believe their job is theirs alone if they are performing adequately. If you are laid off, especially in sales, and then the company goes and spends money to hire someone in India or Romania, a xenophobic person would blame that new employee for existing. They wouldn't blame the company for making an unprofitable and often unethical move.
Which version of iOS? As far as I can tell you can tap or swipe/slide the switches.
even this is less clear - for some dbs it's normal to use a sequence for rowid's (vs some sort of autoincrement) and i don't think sqlite offers all the same behavior there.
Free monads and tests
You've convinced me that "Why" in this title is a form of a clickbait—perhaps to appeal to our craving for causality—so we've removed it. Thanks!
Back when I was reading those e/n sites I knew it as everything/nothing, the sites themselves would call it that too. As in, talking about anything they want, doesn't even have to be important.
If they decide to charge the same price as other first-tier games, they're asking to be compared to other first-tier games.
Why not just drive out to the expensive zip code, and rob the first house that looks empty? Why rob the guy who just bought a thing at the store you're at? What makes him a better target then his neighbor? Or any random house in the area? Who actually burgles when they know people are home?

Are you really surrounded by thieves and killers, and the only thing keeping you safe is that they don't know that you live in a rich part of town?

They know where the rich part of town is... Right?
They've increased the cost of the cars to offset the 0% rate.

You should get a bigger cash discount to buy the car outright, instead of financing through them.
Ooh, my apologies wrt 'kind-of-a-lie'.

I think all the parsers I've used inflate 1 to an int and 1.0 to a float ... that or they don't, and I just thought they did.

Either way, many thanks for the correction.
DevOps: Log Analysis Using AI
Kale juice is potable too; I'll still never touch the stuff.
> Remember, FISA court proceedings are secret, and at least as of 2013 (I'm getting this info from Wikipedia), a massive 12 out of 35,529 FISA warrent requests were rejected.

Yeah, that's a much higher rejection rate since 2003 than in the 24 previous years the court existed, when zero were denied. So, if the rate of rejections is a valid metric for how good the court is, with fewer rejections being worse, the process got better during the "War on Terror".
A robot-operated 3D printer cluster [video]
While I agree that if the names are too long, it becomes difficult to discern the "shape" of the function types, in my mind it's more important to be able to tell what the symbols mean. One-letter names are the bane of my existence...

I agree that a good compromise is to shorten the names as long as they are still easily understandable, exactly like `SendCap` and `RecvCap`.
Hmm, I'm not sure that's accurate. What would you be converting to if your company was already a C-Corp?
Was Einstein actually considered and describes by his peers/comrades as disheveled? Or is that just a cultural archetype we tell ourselves?
I raise you graduate level work in Philosophy and simply add some basic negative freedoms that is clearly missing. Liberty is one where the rules are common to everyone, and a government granted monopoly of limited time (a patent) is the opposite of such rule. A patent is no more "yours" than radio frequency (which is part of nature) can be "yours".
Russian officials hired criminals to hack 500M Yahoo accounts, according to feds
Imagine a Silicon Valley of the Sea
why not both? (they do both)
This seems like an over reaction. Poor people aren't all after your money. This isn't Dickens.
> This is 2017, and when we look forward to 2020, we still dont have anything to replace gif, jpeg, apng, png.

> How about supporting bpg for a start?

There’s FLIF ( http://flif.info/ ) with very promising compression results when compared against WebP, BPG, PNG and lossless JPEG. It also supports animations, which I linked to elsewhere in this thread. Seems like the format is also nearly complete.