skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd want to do this loudly enough that other dissidents hear and are afraid but not so loudly that other citizens get word and potentially join the dissidents' side. You don't want a public lawsuit. You want Twitter to silently hand over the data and for the last tweet from the account to be "Got fired today :(".
Because the title frames Twitter as the defenders of free speech. Something they clearly have given up on a long time ago.
"Federated Learning enables mobile phones to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping all the training data on device, decoupling the ability to do machine learning from the need to store the data in the cloud."

So I assume this would help with privacy in a sense that you can train model on user data without transmitting it to the server. Is this in any way similar to something Apple calls 'Differential Privacy' [0] ?

"The key idea is to use the powerful processors in modern mobile devices to compute higher quality updates than simple gradient steps."

"Careful scheduling ensures training happens only when the device is idle, plugged in, and on a free wireless connection, so there is no impact on the phone's performance."

It's crazy what the phones of near future will be doing while 'idle'.

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[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/06/apples-differential-privacy-co...
Google Maps Spam [pdf]
Streams can be implemented with functions as well, no need for async generators. See `flyd` or `mithril-stream`...
Correct. Assuming senior still means someone who leads/mentors; then yes, I have a hard time seeing a 25yo having the kind of perspective needed. I'm turning 40 any day now; not the Travis Boober kind of 40, the real one; and imagining me leading anything at 25 is a scary thought.
They should have gone all the way- and revolutionize the whole laptop-keyboard away, with an additional touch screen,
with synthetic haptic keys on demand and a background illuminated e-ink display.

Add a GUI designed just for this to the whole Setup, and let it be executed by Perfectionists like apples- and they would rule the HW-Valley till kingdom come.

Haptic Display by Bosch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiCqlYKRlAA

10C-Gui:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWz1KbknIZk

If anyone could get this done - its apple.
A cycle left on it's own it more likely to be stolen. You park it next to other, nicer, less well-secured bikes in the hope that they will steal those instead.
> somebody who opposes the president.

What disturbs me even more, is how the media is able to shape the narrative that this is about president Trump's hurt feelings, and has nothing to do with anything else.

Like the whole Muslim ban story [that was really a list of countries numerating all the death sentence destinations to Americans].

Or kind of like the narrative that Assad likes to gas random civilians whenever the US peaks in its interest in having an intervention over there.

Even though none of this makes sense, people just don't look any further into what really is going on, and happily degenerate into the narrative.

But the real irony here, is that the people at the top, that made and control your side, aren't really on your side... They just want division (and sides) - so you lose even when you think you are winning.
Not sure if you're trying to be ironic but that's exactly how it worked for many hundreds of years: remember that historically speaking, outside the Church most people couldn't read. One source estimates that in 1300 CE only 6% of England's population was literate! "Bible counselors", aka priests, were indeed the only way for most people to get information from the bible.
Is there a list of genetic services and what data they provide somewhere, maybe a comparison of sorts? My father recently passed away of arryhtmia and I'm looking for a way to determine if said condition is hereditary or not.
OMSCS. The TAs refuse to answer questions because it could help cheating. They won't review homework because it could help cheating. They've created an environment so full of fear that it's impossible to learn from mistakes. I'm surprised the slack channel is allowed.
Does the USB C cable not disconnect? From the ones that I've played with, it seems fine. The force required to disconnect USB C cables from a port is less than Magsafe, and the results are the same.

Also, remember Apple designed USB C, with half the engineering talent that worked on the standard coming from Cupertino. They've specifically thought all these use cases and issues through, to build a solid connector for the next decade.
is it recyclable?
The conflation between the two is happening throughout the comments for this story. It would take such a complete misunderstanding that I can't help but think these people aren't actually confusing two fundamentally different things and are just biased to the point that they can't think critically and are reaching for anything no matter how ridiculous to paint Twitter in a bad light. But perhaps I'm missing something that's obvious from their perspective.
I have a similar problem, so you're not alone. I've been in the game professionally since late 2007. But those 10 years to now are only calendar years. In reality, my experience is closer to 7 years, because I have unemployment gaps in between, and every job hunt is longer than the last.

I am also STILL carpet bombing resumes, but I also know this doesn't feel right. It may be okay for looking for your first job but I know that it's bad to rely mainly on this brute-force job application strategy if you've already worked at past jobs. You are expected to have built a professional network that will enable you to find jobs more easily.

My network exists, but it's rather disappointing. With a stronger network you would not need to blindly apply to so many companies.

So with that said, how is your network? I have been starting to build a new one from scratch, by going to local meetups. Progress would feel slow at first, but eventually I started seeing some of the same people from past meetups, talk to them, and exchange contact info. They could give you an "in" for getting priority in the hiring process.
I have literally never knocked a laptop off anything because of its power cord, or for any other reason. I have, however, had MagSafe disconnect itself against my will from the slightest touch.

You know what's even cooler though? I'm a happy USB-C MacBook Pro user, and so I've put MacBook USB-C power supplies all over my house, wherever I might find myself working. Recently I picked up a Nintendo Switch. It charges via USB-C. This means I effectively have 4 charging points for this gadget, automatically, just because of my MacBook Pro. That is awesome.
One of my responsibilities on a medium-sized Scala team was managing the builds. Naturally, this meant learning the
wonderful world of SBT. SBT is the "Simple Build Tool", but it's misnamed; in a way, I think SBT is the quintessential
Scala program:

* SBT features its own DSL (Scala is, after all, the Scalable Language), which also includes infuriating operators such
as "<++="

* There's a affinity towards elegance at the expense of basic understandability. A good example to illustrate this is
the design of SBT is recursive; that is, your SBT build is an SBT program that must be built before your program is
built. Then you may write a meta-SBT-build program to build your SBT build, and so on. I'm very sure SBT developers
are quite proud of this architecture, but my team members universally thought this was pointless and confusing.

* It's slow, and trying to speed it up is an engineering spike in and of itself.

* As Scala doesn't bother to maintain binary compatibility across point releases, the SBT and plugin ecosystem has to
use an older version of Scala. So now your SBT plugin code is probably using a different compiler than your
Scala application code.

* In exchange for the steep learning curve, you are rewarded with a powerful feature set that was definitely
innovative: incremental, parallel, and continuous builds, a REPL, a great SBT plugin community, etc.

After learning and using Make, Maven, and now Gradle, I have mainly learned one lesson: never write a build system.
> suicide rates for transgender individuals are around 45%.

If that were true, it would be alarming and possibly grounds for involuntary commitment based on someone being trans.

Fortunately it is not true.
Are you implying that the terms 'Nazi' and 'White Supremacist' isn't throw around by left-wing more sensitive idealists as a pejorative for people that hold conservative values? 'SJW' is a synonym for far-left ideologues, just as 'Nazi' has been used to describe the opposite end of the spectrum.
Show HN: Patent Search as an Alexa Skill
Yes, there's something about the workplace that creates the sort of bonds that make you think twice before doing or saying something stupid.
Well, at least it's somewhat better than the iPad.

"Here's the new iPad. It's newer than the old one, but good luck trying to tell the difference. So to clear things up, we've named it the "iPad". You can thank us later.".
Nobody "admitted it was all BS". All was said was that the reaction was poor.
What has convinced you of natural law? I'm interested in your view.
This is a pretty good summary of Hayek's argument. I wonder how he would think about the discoveries of behavioral economics and information economics
It's happened before:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welchia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-worm
Fuck you and die: An oral history of Something Awful
This is one of those announcements that seems unremarkable on read-through but could be industry-changing in a decade. The driving force between consolidation & monopoly in the tech industry is that bigger firms with more data have an advantage over smaller firms because they can deliver features (often using machine-learning) that users want and small startups or individuals simply cannot implement. This, in theory, provides a way for users to maintain control of their data while granting permission for machine-learning algorithms to inspect it and "phone home" with an improved model, without revealing the individual data. Couple it with a P2P protocol and a good on-device UI platform and you could in theory construct something similar to the WWW, with data stored locally, but with all the convenience features of centralized cloud-based servers.
> If personal issues create problems in a corporate project, people get fired.

Or promoted, or anything inbetween. Some corporate projects live for years because a certain manager can't be seen to have wasted so much money on a failed one. Personal/political issues are everywhere in the corporate world.
He denies doing these things. Black Lives Matter has called for violence against the police on Twitter, but their account keeps chugging along.
...right as the Republicans want to remove some of the protections afforded by GINA. [1]

While I'm sure this helps 23andMe's business case, it's a seriously scary time to consider getting your genome sequenced right now.

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/0...
In my house 0 people and one cattle dog. With a four foot fall from the breakfast nook below I assume it wouldn't of been pretty.
Internal analytics, may accidentally become a B2B at some point (who knows), but for now, non business-critical with no availability requirements. About 30+ GB per day, but that's uncompressed and unprocessed.

Thanks for the pointers! Manual sharding sounds like an option.
A commenter here said, [this only measured a small chemical effect and did not make any claims about real fear]

Let me add some color for you, it's absolutely real. I predict the drug will eventually be validated as one of the most powerful and useful therapeutic substances discovered to date.

>>impaired recognition of fearful faces, while it did not significantly affect recognition of neutral, happy and angry faces

This characterization is a bit misleading. Recognition of faces is not impaired at all, recognition is also not impaired of some of your most terrifying inner thoughts. Instead, you recognize them fine and are simply not bothered because you perceive them in an unbiased, rational context.

>>exhibits some ‘empathogenic’ effects (such as increased openness and trust)

Some? I know, good medical science has to be conservative. However empathy, emotional connection and understanding, can become almost savant like. I won't give an example - too hard to offer an anecdote and not sound hyperbolic or like an exaggerated account. How's this: I believe it to be significantly understated.

>>positive long-term effects outlast acute pharmacological effects

Let that sink in. Who would believe taking an anti-depressant once could change your life years later? They would not believe it, because like every other mental health drug, anti-depressants can easily stop working (to the degree they work at all) as soon as you stop taking them. This is not like that. It's some kind of unusual mechanism that for reasons not yet entirely clear, is just very different from other drugs.

I would ask that no one act on my opinion by using illegal drugs. I'm not worried about liability, or even legality. The problem is simply that self-administering street drugs comes with quite a bit of risk that for some reason, a lot of people don't mind ignoring. Worst case you could be intentionally poisoned as part of a scam and die. You could get the wrong substance, for example fentanyl is unknowingly taken all the time, and again easily die. You might somehow get the real thing, but precise dosing is difficult enough that overdosing LSD is very common. Having the wrong dose will not kill you, but the results can be bad enough many people feel like death would have been an easier option. Some people believe that impurities and imprecise dosing are responsible for a lot of what people describe as "bad trips".
I've owned a MacBook Pro 2016 for about 4 months now and here is my touch bar utilization:

70% Escape key

20% Audio slider

10% Brightness slider

I use Final Cut Pro X a lot too, but its touch bar enhancements are inefficient compared to just using your mouse or hot keys, so I never use them.

Yes, touch bar is a flop (to me). Otherwise, I absolutely love my MacBook Pro.
Newest build is for 7.1.2...
I don't see that defending the right to free/unpopular/hate speech is the same as providing a platform for it.

A grocery store owner might not want anyone to stand in their store screaming epithets about black people, or ranting about Trump, or Clinton, or whatever. That doesn't mean the store owner believes these things should be blocked, just that they should be done somewhere else.
Atmosphere found around Earth-like planet GJ 1132b
Ranking and firing should both occur at review time, but "Should we fire somebody" is an independent metric from ranking.

The lazy are the easiest. Fire them. They are also the rarest.

The malicious are also easy. Fire them NOW. If I catch you sabotaging somebody or gaming metrics in a way that causes problems, you're gone immediately. I will invoke "at will employment", get rid of you immediately, and I won't tell anybody why so I can avoid the legal nightmare. Fortunately, they are also quite rare.

The next layer are the underperformers. The question here is generally: "Why are they underperforming?" This generally requires a good look in the mirror as well as a look at the employee.

It may be employee issues: divorce, health, etc. At which point you have to judge some level of future expectation with past expectation to balance current performance. You may not decide to get rid of someone like this right away.

However, a LOT of the time, the issue is on the company side. Did this person get hired too high in the chain and now sticks out? (Happens when hiring goes from scarcity to glut) Does this person need extra training? (Got moved to somewhere they don't really belong because of "reasons"). Does this person need extra resources? Are you simply expecting something too far out of line? At this point you need to come to grips with the fact that you are dismissing this person because the COMPANY doesn't wish to expend the money/time/effort to fix the problem. And too many people underestimate the amount of resource they're going to lose to try to get a replacement. Having chosen to train certain employees rather than fire them and hire a replacement has given me some of my best performers and most faithful workers over the years. It's also given me a couple of my biggest bombs--but I'll take the ratio for now. If I really decide I can't expend the resource, I will fire you, but I'll probably give you a nice recommendation as well as some extra time and help to find your next job.

I have also recommended firing people who were above average performers simply because I judged them to be too much of a drag on everybody else. I'm happy to take criticism all day long--I've got a really thick skin. But other people don't necessarily, and I do have to think of the other members of my team. Too much friction, and I'm going to get rid of the abrasive. Sorry, that's life.
they are. If something unexpected comes up (say a high volume of traffic due to a sudden accident), then uber will have to pay the driver the higher amount.
Another aspect of this is who wants to head up a project like Libreboot? Its a large time sink for minimal returns, as x86-64 is very locked down and likely unusable for future Libreboot targets, with ARM chips bypassing Coreboot (which Libreboot is a build environment for) entirely, instead using uboot.
Analogizing to a 20-year-old quote about the Internet is not really proving anything. Even about the Internet, really; the loss of Net Neutrality and allowing ISP datamining may have significant effects.

But it definitely doesn't prove anything about software. If you want to claim that the currently slipping slope will stop at some point, you'll have to name that point and defend it.
I thought the same about IoT, but of course after some searching it's already been made. All of those "IoT compromised" things you read, the compromising party also changes the default password so they are the only ones.
Any culture that can't accept different is no culture at all. I once got fired from a startup for opting out of mandatory weekly surfing lessons, thank god in retrospect.
No. Clickhouse is actual column-store. Cassandra just stores every column of a row as an actual separate row. Cassandra is for oltp, column-stores for olap.
I bought the touchbarless model even though I would of rather had the more powerful machine.

I like the physical buttons more.
Check the comments:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1041610927/znaps-the-9-...

It's too good an idea to not be implemented eventually. In fact, a low profile, magnetic data/power form factor should probably be the next iteration of USB-C.
The chilling effect seems only true for toxic environments. Yet most workplaces are not toxic in the way that you might imagine Uber to be. There are many tech companies (large and small) that are pro-active about creating a good environment. Also, the workplace makes you think twice about bad behavior, because it has real consequences like losing your job, unlike on the internet. See also cookiecaper's comment.
The most bullshit filled design document of all time [pdf]
>really just LTV, but you can't really take that one out, can you

Marx wasn't a proponent of the LTV, he critiqued previous formulations of it and then made his own contributions to the theory that some aspect of the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of socially-necessary labour time applied to create it. Although I'm still learning myself, I haven't rejected it outright.

If I recall correctly, some work conducted by Cockshott showed validity of the LTV as a good indicator for the prices about which changes in supply and demand cause fluctuations of the UK market. I can't find it at the moment though unfortunately.

I think it's a real shame that sometimes points I make are downvoted without explanation. I try to be civil, though many people feel the need to downvote and not explain. I'm not going to refer to specific comments I've made, but I'm noticing that even bringing up the theory of exploitation or alienation is enough to gather downvotes.

Is HN a libertarian forum? I didn't think so.
Well -- do AMD chips have it or something like it?
> They've specifically thought all these use cases and issues through, to build a solid connector for the next decade.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

It's a decent connector, but it still has a limited lifespan (all connectors with mechanical pieces or interference fits do), and isn't going to release from shear force applied to the connector. Even if it does release, it will be after wrenching both the computer and connector inside the computer, neither of which is great for long life.
Counting the syllables I get something like

Turkish: 16
English: 26

Given the inherent loss in efficiency in trying to accurately translate very specific phrases out of context, that doesn't seem like such a big difference. (And I'm sure you could further condense the translation maybe like "Are you one of them we failed to get to take better care of themselves?" at 18.)

I think the OP's assertion is generally assumed to hold for natural languages.
Touch Bar Meh... I would agree its a flop for an Apple innovation. I've had the new MBP for three months and i could count the times ive used it on my fingers..

Touch ID is nice but its like a button next to the touchbar so i dont really count that.

Was a bit worried that id miss the esc key but its works ok on the Touch Bar. Else i just use it to adjust the sound. But its too damn sensitive its enough if one cell of your finger touches it to toggle something...

Other than that I feel the overall quality of MBP is way lower then it used to be.

Never ever had Any issues with my previous 2011 and 2013 mpb but the new one bugs and acts weird in all kinds of ways (freezing, sounds stops working etc) and needs Restart every few days. Feels a bit sloppy and rushed for an Apple product.

Love the design though...:-/
Working with the DCSS maintainers is great though. I recently contributed some code to put FreeBSD support into DCSS, and it was great working with them!
Word by word would require adding prior knowledge of words into the system, and they're trying to "start from scratch" as much as possible.
This article seems to conflate the recent Mac Pro teaser announcement, with the low acceptance of the MacBOOK Pro. They are two entirely different products with different histories and different problems. Then there's a quote that makes an obscure reference to "problems surrounding the LG UltraFine 5K display", which could be used with either machine.
Ah, I see. Thanks! Seems like it outperforms all other column stores, too. The feature list sounds amazing.

Will definitely include it in the next benchmarking round.
In addition to this, I would add a "proof is in the pudding" argument if the arguee is still not convinced:

Microsoft got rid of stack ranking in 2013. Their stock has almost doubled since then and now everyone's talking about the "Microsoft renaissance". Correlation isn't causation, but it's hard to argue that stack ranking is a good thing after a turnaround like that.
I keep a keychain usb-c to usb-a adapter on me. I've only used it once in the past 6 months.

It's not as big of a deal as I thought it would be.
No, doctors, pharmacies and labs do not sell data; it's illegal under HIPAA regulations and you do not want to be caught liable under those laws.
I think it's important to remember the context in which the USA created its laws about free speech. In that time, it was your right to buy a printing press, paper, ink, movable type, and print your own pamphlets. The government was not to stop you from doing that. The government was not going to force you to print your neighbors pamphlets.

Your neighbor is Milo. Your printing press is Twitter.