skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the original post he was replying to was a hatchet job to begin with. The author did an admirable job of not getting down in the mud, I'm sure it was difficult not to take the original post personally and respond in kind.
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Actually, we went public one week ago and started from European countries. But Canada, New Zealand, Asia are already in our minds as prospective locations. Our ambitious goal is to make an open platform for any country of the world and let them fight for great IT talent at the country level.
A FST seems like a good fit for this problem. I believe it will be much more compact than the Aho-Corasick algorithm trie structure. Depends on the size of the dictionary.
Also an ASL (in Scotland) and can confirm that it is incredibly rewarding helping to shape young people's approach to leadership and teamwork.

It's very hard and can consume A LOT of time (to a detrimental effect on my career no doubt) but I love the sense of community and fun that the young people get from it.
A very important part of a good apology is, in no unclear terms, acknowledging what you did wrong - they do not do that, it's extremely vague and only hints at "we weren’t explicit enough." Explicit about what? Why were people upset? It also gives a mild air of "sorry you were upset" non-apology. Not quite, but definitely has gives off that vibe.

Basically, bad apology

So, I'm totally unfamiliar with this and the CEO doesn't elaborate on what happened at all so can someone give some context? Reading this thread I can see it is something to do with GMail...

What is/was unroll.me? What service did they claim to provide? What did they get caught doing? How did they get caught? What did their private policy not say?

BTW, if you are interested in the art of the apology and apology analysis check out http://www.sorrywatch.com particularly http://www.sorrywatch.com/2012/12/11/the-parts-of-a-good-apo... and http://www.sorrywatch.com/2012/12/12/parts-of-a-bad-apology/
> so it doesn't look like we have the full story here

I omitted so many details writing this -- otherwise the main story would have dragged on way too long. My comment here [1] gives some context.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14184148
Still working on explaining to people how we can save half their eating money/carbon and keep them comfortable. What are we missing here?

(Yes, I know that HN readers are not normal in a good way, but cluebat gratefully received anyhow!)
Boy you misinterpreted that one.

He's saying it's dangerous as fuck to let anyone determine what is appropriate to say and what is not appropriate to say.

When you're talking about infrastructure fundamental to everyone's life determining what can be communicated you're talking about building 95% of the infrastructure of tyranny in one fell swoop.

Do you think the government or the officers of Alphabet will always be Good people that you agree with? History is rife with examples of awful people taking over once-benevolent powerful institutions.
That's exactly what it sounds like. The same old mediocre TTS with voices modified to mimic specific well-known voices.

It's impressive for what it is, but a lot of people here seem way too excited. This isn't any kind of breakthrough, and only the shortest hand-picked snippet would fool anyone.
Well, GitS is a much larger franchise. And most of it is quite good so it deserves its praise.

But I am checking out Serial Experiments Lain right now, thanks for the recommendation! I love GitS to death and it might be my favorite anime/manga franchise but it still feels a little bit too corny every time someone gets called a Super Wizard Class Hacker
That's your interpretation of what the workshop actually is. Read what I quoted again, it focuses on the technical side of things: how to flag, how to moderate comments, and how to deal with hate speech. Talking about an issues doesn't immediately mean you're pushing an agenda. The only one assuming people can't think for themselves is you.
A rich white person being given preferential treatment = affirmative action?

Hottest take of all time
I was talking mostly about FOSS.

I've actually never heard of ExtremeDB. It's only in-memory though, so it can it even handle the huge datasets that timeseries/column dbs handle? I don't see any performance tests for it either.
Devops was never a profession. But I think it's dead anyway.

The problem devops intended to solve was the lack of proper communication and mutual understanding between developers and systems administrators. It has failed to solve this problem and, by the current definition, is getting farther and farther away from doing so.

Two main reasons contribute to this conclusion:

1. For startups, trying to make due with the least number of people possible, the term has been taken to mean you need no systems administrators whatsoever. This is no different than startups have always done - have developers do everything - but now it's disguised as a good practice.

2. Developers and system administrators have different goals. These need not be opposing, but having people wearing two hats means sacrificing one goal for the other. Usually, reliability and long term maintainability suffers as developers (as a profession) are much more vulnerable to hype.

Where startups are concerned, this may be irrelevant, as most go bust before this becomes a (culture) problem.

But for established organizations, this can lead to disaster. Every organization needs people that care about staying ahead of the curve and people that care about keeping the service at its highest levels of reliability (=quality). Both kinds of people must participate in the process from the start, as peers, and keep each other in check. This is (should be) devops.

PS: In the corporate scene devops is also dead, but because it now means "systems administrator" with no change in mentality, just to be cool.
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..then they'll finally be able to play audio of republicans contradicting themselves! :p
So "do as I say, not as I do"
To me, DevOps is quickly configuring a Google Compute Engine instance with Python/Go app using (PubSub or RabbitMQ) to communicate Firebase for iOS application messages, with a DigitalOcean.com and AWS instances. DigitalOcean will often be used for Postfix Email, which requires DNS (SPF configuration and filtering).

These are usually quick configurations outside the main development, to quickly test a new concept, or maybe to troubleshoot an issue. You're using Python Pandas, TensorFlow, scikit-learn.org to model/prove verify the issue.

I would say the traditional DevOps (if there was one), has expanded... you've added System Admin, DBA, Developer and a Machine Learning to your toolkit. Of course, we all have smartphones, so we leverage that too...
> Few people read privacy policies.

People have free will and that's their choice. I'm not surprised that most don't. I rarely do. But it doesn't make sense that the people who have strong feelings about privacy aren't reading them. You can't give up what's clearly your own personal responsibility and then blame someone else for the consequences.
For the unknowing, the Lancet was at the time this paper was published considered to be a top-tier medical journal; the equivalent of Nature or Science for medicine.

I cannot speak to its prestige now, however. I'm sure that its reputation was somewhat damaged by publishing this paper but I imagine it's still considered a "good" journal.
> news sites can be quite processor-intensive

Have you compared battery usage with and without adblocker? (A good adblocker on mobile is uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android.)
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Dev = write code

Ops = run servers

DevOps = write code and run servers

> I keep reading about AWS killing the DevOps profession

The articles I read are actually about AWS killing ops in favour of more devops, because apparently AWS makes ops so easy your devs can do it during their lunch breaks.

The technical term for this idea is "nonsense".

> Is DevOps dying as a profession ?

No, but it isn't much of a profession. Large complicated systems will need both teams of devs and ops. Simple ones can work fine with overlap. Good tools can (very slightly) decrease the need for ops and increase the need for devops I suppose.

A better question might be: "Is devops dying as a buzzword?"

To which I can only reply "I hope so, because it confuses more than it enlightens."
Indeed, he doesn't like other voices and has always fallen back to using the same voice:

> "The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986," he said. "I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-06-15-hawkin...
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I volunteered through high school and some college, roughly 5 years, as a firefighter. It really changed me, I learned so much about responsibility and teamwork. It was and still is the only job I would do for free and put 100s of hours into for free.
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This is extremely expensive.
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Not OP but, in the UK ASL is the lower position. This https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A17719527 is a good summary of all the structures.

Some groups have "adult helpers" but generally that's avoided as it suggests the parent will only be there fleetingly in which case spending the training resources (mainly time) is not efficient.
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Adopting data-driven decision making requires cultural change. I understand cultural change in large organisations is difficult, you don't need to explain this.

Difficulty of changing culture is, however, no excuse. The BBC is competing with Buzzfeed who've been doing data-driven decision making since inception.

I'm fine with being downmodded by people who disagree, but it's worrying "get data on it" is being flagged on HN.
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I'm on the React team and momentarily read this the same way you did. It probably could have been clearer, but I think I don't think number of components here is meant to be an accomplishment. Rather, it just means that we've done the work of testing compatibility already on a gigantic codebase so there's a good chance that most other apps will work out of the box.
Basically they are reading your emails and this data is/was used by Uber to keep track of their competition.
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"Poor"? Seriously? They offer more than any startup as an engineer, and less than Google and Facebook. Any engineer is in the top 20% of wage earners.

Plenty of valid complaints about Amazon. Pay isn't one of them.
Until the sham articles start citing each other to game that approach
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Say you a are researcher leading a group. Then your name is going to appear on all papers published by your group (mentioned last). I don't think it should count the same as being the first mentioned author. Simple citation count is not good enough.

Another situation: say you are the author of a dataset. Then all papers using your dataset are going to mention you, but such mentions are qualitatively different. They should not be counted in the same category.
<Find value in them?

This. Probably the most important single thing in my biz life.

They are anchors that are easily measureable. I used and constantly use them to prioritize work, provide constructive criticism, and most importantly know that I am right.

It has cut through next level bosses hard-to-understand decisions;

Even in my now easy life in retail it becomes the foundation for supervision; makes terminations easy (a task I now don't get upset at);

Plus i get great feedback when I personally live up to our values

But it's most useful at interpersonal conflicts about work.
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That does not apply here. That's obtuse. It would be hypocritical for me to criticize not reading terms and then complaining about those terms if I was doing both those things. Everyone's free to do as I say and do, accept terms and then accept their consequences.
Most of the work would be essentially quick and one-off: no one blinks at minifying JS or CSS and I bet that 50% of this would be entirely the same and at low dev cost.

I entirely see your point, but disagree that it's not worth doing any of it, given an almost certain quick small win + saving CPU time and bandwidth and a bit of planet while we're at it!
YMMV on how anonymous anonymized data actually is considering that most people are uniquely identified by the combination of date of birth, zip code and gender[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967
RIP Dan Castellaneta.
I find a lot of arrogance in this Principles, at some point of view it is even evil. Have anybody knows of another company that throws their leadership principles to your face?
The title is pretty clear for the target audience as it is using the standard jargon.
Open source development, editing public wikis, and making useful Youtube videos don't ever seem ever seem to be mentioned or recognized as volunteering, even though its beneficial impacts on society can be much larger per time spent.

Why isn't this form of volunteering recognized or promoted as such? Are the people who trumpet the benefits of volunteering (often teachers, academic administrators) simply behind the times, or is this simply not the kind of volunteering that these kinds of people themselves enjoy?

I am led to believe that it's not just that they're behind the times, but that it can be explained by a personality preference. After all, publishing research papers that provide a public benefit has been around a long time, but this is never mentioned as a form of volunteering.

Is volunteering in the visible social sense simply more tangible and understandable, hence its broader adoption than behind-the-scenes volunteering that can provide a greater benefit? Society's tendency to pressure smart people to undergo visible demonstrations of virtue rather than undertake activities that provide a net greater good has bothered me for a long time.
I was a user of unroll.me (one off cleanups of spam here and there). It automatically unsubscribes emails for you based on your preferences, etc. To do this, you give them access to your GMail account. Apparently they were scraping your GMail account for information and selling it to third parties.
I was a volunteer firefighter from about 1992-2002 or so. During that time I attained my NC Fire and Rescue Commission certification as Fire Instructor II with qualifications to teach Firefighter I&II certification classes, LP Gas Firefighting and Incident Command. I held ranks from probie to Assistant Chief and was acting Fire Chief for a few months at one point.

So, how did I grow from all that? Well, I got a lot more comfortable operating in front of crowds, teaching and delivering content, as a result of teaching FF classes.

I also became generally more stoic and mentally "tough" if you want to call it that, since on the fireground you don't really have the luxury of freaking out and being super reactive to things. You learn to become very pragmatic and adopt a mindset of "this is the situation as it is, now let's figure out what to do about it".

And on a related note, it taught me the importance of what firefighters call "size up" which basically just means doing a quick, but reasonably thorough, assessment of a situation at the earliest possible moment, in order to avoid surprises. Example: on a house fire, if a crew go in on an attack line to do interior attack, and nobody does a 360° sizeup, you may miss the 500 gallon propane tank next to the back wall, which is being impinged on by fire. Result: BLEVE and possibly injured or killed firefighters.

And while in the business world you're not usually dealing with anything where people's lives are on the line, sizeup and those kinds of things are still important.

Anyway, I did that for about a decade, but then I moved and got into the meat of my "proper" career and don't really have time for firefighting anymore. I haven't been doing a lot of volunteering lately, but the one thing I'd like to find time to get involved with is the Literacy Council. My mom was a volunteer tutor when I was a kid and I kinda always wanted to do that.
Why should users be concerned about this? The real issue here is that Apple removed the UDID API, so developers now have great difficulty identifying persistent abusers/trolls.

In terms of things to be concerned about regarding Uber, this one is pretty far down the list...
Thanks. I know that there has been an ongoing effort to backup environmental data. My curiosity was whether or not the blog post is credible, exaggerated, or misleading.
> "potentially suspicious"

History is now doomed. Crackly recordings are obviously fakeable. Children will listen to JFK's "We shall not go to the moon" speech, proof that the moon landings are a liberal conspiracy and all that grainy footage is just CGI with a noise filter.
I spend my Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at a parrot rescue/sanctuary. It's a lot of work, but it's great de-stressor and counterbalance to staring at computers all week.

A couple weeks ago a guy accidentally drove his car into the side of our building. He hit and collapsed a couple cages, and hit a gas line, but by some miracle none of the birds were seriously injured. Things have been pretty hectic lately, there's been no shortage of work to be done since the accident.

http://www.twincities.com/2017/04/05/avian-sanctuary-trying-...

I'm not sure how it's helped me grow, aside from the common things like making some friends and helping me feel a sense of meaning and service. Mostly I do it because I love birds and hanging out with birds.

Lately I've been really interested in https://techsolidarity.org and wondering how to get involved in that (or something like it). If anyone in the Twin Cities area is also interested in such a thing and wants to team up, send me an email at nated at posteo dot net.
Have you looked at the Linux source? It is full of linked lists everywhere.
Oh I love GitS, I just think it's the only anime that gets discussed in these circles, while others go unnoticed.

Another recommendation (though completely unrelated to the discussion) is Berserk, quite possibly the best anime/manga I have seen/read, and the manga really is a must-read after you finish the anime.
> akin to asking for my social security number

In many countries this is public information. Why is it sacred in the US? What can you do with it?
I am bachelor student now and I have started volunteering with food raising for homeless in my home city, but the thing that learned me the most was student union - i was chair of student union at my department - (i'm not sure if it counts as volunteering - in my country -Poland- student unions do a lot, too much in my opinion).
What I have learned: leadership, how to motivate others, how to negotiate with authorities, how long it takes and how many rooms you have to visit to get funding for some event, how to run events, promotion, even some graphics (or rather - where to find cheap tools to create fancy leaflets or posters ). Before I was quite shy and of course at some point I still am , but I have really exceeded my interpersonal and time management skills, I got some experience in law issues- stipends, for example ( at my uni it was student union who was responsible for that ).

Though it's not as rewarding as helping homeless or children, and in my opinion we were doing the donkey work , I am glad I have spent this time there, because it have me experience , contacts and sometimes satisfaction of organising something that other student enjoyed.

Also, I was volunteering at international classical music festival in my city - it was really great - you get tickets for free for almost every concert, the atmosphere is amazing and it's also experience for interpersonal skills. Once I was a pilot for small orchestra and I had amazing time going there and back by bus talking with musicians about their experience and basically everything, we even had a little party on the way back. In the bus ;) these types of events lets you get into fancy banquets, meet some famous people (i talked to really great director ) and also - contacts.

Now I am volunteering in hospital to get some experience as patient assistant - we help patients find themselves in our big and messy hospital.

To sum up - it is really rewarding, but it costs time. A lot of it. I think you might learn most of these things somewhere else, where you are paid, but also you have more responsibilities and it is harder in the beginning. And of course - poeple you volunteer with are usually really interesting and become good friends !
Ok. So why doesn't voting offline work?
I loved volunteering at an overnight shelter for homeless men, which I did for about 5 years. After the very first night, I realized that I had done more to address my anxiety about homelessness in this single gesture than I had achieved in the prior 30 years of giving spare change to panhandlers. Most homeless people are not panhandlers, and lots of panhandlers aren't homeless. A lot of homeless people were injured on the job an can no longer work, and a large portion of them are veterans, and of course there are a huge number of severely mentally ill people. Maybe the thing that left the biggest impression on me was the loneliness of the homeless.
You mean anyone whom you have interacted with can. If you visit India, I can introduce you to people who spend many hours a day on YouTube without knowing how to read. It's not complicated to imagine if you have been around kids. Kids these days do all kinds of things with devices before they have learnt to read or write. The big difference here being there is no parental figure keeping an eye on the kids and what they are consuming.
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I've started a company to build a mobile, consumer robot to do your laundry. The vision is that you'll be able to put your dirty clothes in a hamper, and when you get back from work, the robot will have washed, folded, and put your clothes away.

My parents have provided seed funding. At my current burn rate, I should have an additional 12 months to build out the prototype. I'll obviously need more cash at that point to either (1) continue prototype development or (2) start manufacturing.

Is there an ideal time for crowdfunding a product like this? I'd hate to waste time on a crowdfunding campaign if my chances of funding an unfinished prototype are slim, but even just a handful of preorders would add months of runway. Or should I wait until the prototype is complete?
Are you talking about the salaries these companies pay in India or in the US?
There's no way they can pay $4800 per annum in the US.
Reminds me of that one time I watched a playthrough of an old video game that is now obscure. 3 years later, torrents of wannabe pewdiepies are all that is suggested to me. The related videos are now mostly useless even.

Autocuration is cancer.
In most cases, no real harm. However, it does give away some information about you which can be used to fingerprint you. This data is also, I'm 99% sure, transmitted in plaintext, so a passive adversary can gather this information as well. For most uses I wouldn't worry about it. But, if you're an attacker, say forcing your way onto an SSH server with a weak password, it can be a valuable source of information for identifying you.
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