skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And now we see the scapegoat being thrown under the bus.

Google claims Uber execs were meeting with Levandowski long before he left Google, that his entire leaving Google to form Otto (which would be soon bought by Uber) was planned alongside Uber.

Now Uber is saying "Hey, we didn't know anything about that, but I think you guys really should go after this guy here". Somehow, given Uber's reputation as a moral and ethical company, I am not shocked by this development.

Edit: And another thought- why wouldn't Levandowski now walk into the justice department and say "Give me immunity, and I'll give you all the evidence that Uber was in on this plan from the start". If Uber are going to screw him over, why wouldn't he return the favour?
Related: metafilter on needy robots that make you feel guilty.

http://www.metafilter.com/99661/But-but-is-not-Johnny-5-aliv...
A constrained internet doesn't threaten my ideologies.

It threatens its users ability to understand and interact with the rest of the world.

Facebook isn't doing internet.org for "the poor". It's doing it for itself, to get them to click on ads, and model their behavior, in a higher-walled garden than almost any we've ever seen (except maybe the Great Firewall, itself) and which they control.

So, sure. I personally repudiate the notion of "evil" as just so much post-modernist, perspective-based narrative bullshit; I completely agree with you that internet.org isn't that. But it's certainly not a philanthropic venture, by any stretch of the imagination. It serves Facebook's ends first, and its users distantly second.
We're actually spending a couple months in each of our home towns (extending trips for weddings). It's a freedom we haven't had in the past, and hopefully it will address those feelings.
Exactly. I would've thought the malware would ask a C&C server to generate a key pair and then only send the public key to the malware. But I guess perhaps that required too much processing power for the server. But then again this can also distributed: let a random victim generate an RSA keypair for another victim.
Large ad publishers such as Google and Facebook are already doing the equivalent of auctioning users' attention by proxy of views, clicks, and conversions through their existing ad delivery methods.
Makes sense, thanks. So you end up redoing most of this (parsing) work later when you want the AST, but a) you might not have to redo it at all if the method's never actually called, and b) it's not the expensive bit anyway?
that's still a loss leader...

And it's opportunity cost we're looking at here. It may only cost them a small amount to provide the resources (although that ignores the cost of developing/maintaining the services) but if they provide $300 of credit to one party that's resources they're not selling for $300 to someone else.
I've been following Levandowski since 2004, he was the crazy college kid with the autonomous motorcycle. For the past 13 years he's been at beating the heart of the development of the most disruptive new technology since, I don't know, the internet maybe? I wouldn't consider him a poster child, that would imply he's representative of some broader group of people, he's a little too much of an anomaly for that, there's no one quite like Anthony Levandowski. 'Millenial tech bro' doesn't quite summarize him, he's a force of nature, for better or for worse.
Thank you for your take on it. I won't try to argue it since I feel it unfair to make you defend a conclusion you yourself don't actually know.
The idea of exclusively using only a few applications definitely seems limiting. I understand in this case it's probably because of licensing and morals, but I can't imagine many businesses caring much about your principles on software licenses when everyone's passing around their ".sketch" files.
I think you bring up a big point that hasn't been discussed yet. If you own property and lose your job or get a job opportunity on the other side of a city with a lot of traffic or another part of the country it is a lot more difficult to shed an owned property than it is a rental.
Yep. Now we are talking.

I readily admit that I don't trust the Telegram crypto. (And in case anyone wonders what that means: I might disagree with tptacek in a lot of things but here I agree. DO NOT use Telegram to send messages that might be dangerous if leaked.)

My point is that Telegram is good enough for what I use it for. It is probably more secure than many peoples email and unlike WhatsApp you can use it without supporting Facebook.

Again: DO NOT trust Telegram with your life. I disagree with tptacek in a number of issues but I trust him when he talks about crypto.
Agreed.

A cursory glance of glassdoor suggests this as well - balance a binary tree, huffman encoding, bloom filters etc.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Triplebyte-Interview-Que...
Linux distros won’t run on Windows 10 S after all – The Verge
In most cases you have a mortgage so it isn't as simple as that. For example, you didn't pay $1 million (even if that is the cost) - maybe you put down $200,000. If it goes to $1.2 million you sell it and get $400,000 (paying off the $800,000 you borrowed). That is 100% of your $200,000 even though the price only went up 20%.

This is oversimplified for illustrative purposes. You have to pay interest, taxes, get a place to live... but the example shows why you don't need the sales price to go up by inflation to break even or make a profit even in 2007 dollars.
Social utility is not easy to define. The main problem is that it's impossible to speak for all timescales at once. Particularly when you take some sort of norm on all the individual utilities. This sounds overly technical, but I have a point.

Don't work towards maximizing the utility of everyone, it's nonsense. People aren't that cooperative, even. Work towards bounding the minimum utility. There's lots of social and physical extinction events that humanity faces. Even if you have nothing directly to contribute to these problems, perhaps you can realistically contribute to the welfare of other people who are contributing to these problems.
WannaCry Ransomware and the Case for SaaS
Wanakiwi: Unlock some PCs infected with WCry without paying ransom
What do you think about the Golem network/token? https://golem.network/
There are a lot of things missing though in this analysis for the homeowner if you want to do a true comparison.

1) The difference between the mortgage payment and equivalent rent for an equivalent place

2) Tax write offs (mortgage interest deductions)

3) Principal pay down

4) Property Maintenance costs

5) Property purchase fees (transfer tax, loan origination fees, etc)

And then for the stock holder you missed...

6) Taxes paid on cashing out stocks
And after a decade or two there would be irreversible damage, regardless of how "adjusted" your body was.
The inheritors you speak of aren't making money with money, they are spending money and will have none when they're done. I don't think I ever claimed that wasn't easy.

>"Perma-bull stock market".

Uhg. If it were only that easy.

Making money on paper is easy right? Any idiot can see through every little dip in the market over the last ten years and not get rattled and ride it all the way to the top and then have the 6th sense to see the next dip for what it is, a crash, and move all their money to another asset class just before it happens.

No, that's not what happens. People ride it all the way back down and often end up with less than they started with. Then someone who knows very little about investing tells them, at least you should make 8% on average historically as consolation.

Tell me when to yank my money out if it's so easy. It's not. A correction is coming, but when, how will I know, and what to do when it does?
Circus has been an evolving art form for a long time (starting out 250 years ago as pure equestrian shows); the contemporary circus genre of which Cirque de Soleil is one of the more popular examples is a fairly new development with circus, but certainly recognizable as an example of it that has close ties to it's immediate predecessors.
Not all Windows Store apps will run on Windows 10 S (No Linux, for example)
I've been programing for eighteen years now. In that time, I've seen smart-alec kids turn into great leaders. I've seen stupid teenagers turn into responsible adults. I've seen responsible men turn into angry old guys. But I'm still at zero on seeing a bad programmer turning into a good one.

It certainly feels intuitive that it should happen, but that's not what I've seen.

If you are wanting to improve your own skills, I'd just write programs to solve problems you are interested in. Read the Pragmatic Programer and Code Complete.
Curious that ctrl+f 'climate' doesn't have a single hit before this comment, at 234 comments.
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Cinematography on the fly
Well said. I'm certainly in favor of people being free to decide how they want to spend their time and money, but I think you could make the argument that a lot of these visible social good activities, e.g. starting a the upteenth and one non-profit to provide clean water in third world countries, could very well be doing less "social good" and wasting more resources than someone donating their salary or even engaging in regular marketplace activity.
I just moved across the country and feel the same. I also just feel as if I accomplished more by going into the office, even if I get the same work done.
We'll set up a blog at some point - for now I have my personal [1] and company [2] Instagrams.

We're using Earthclass Mail for a mailing address. Works super well. They even cash checks for us.

[1] http://instagram.com/philipithomas

[2] http://instagram.com/moonlight_work
For expats of most countries, if you spend no more than about a month per year in your native country and don't have property there, then you can declare non-residency. This way, you don't have to pay income tax to your home country, as you are not using their services. Also, if you are constantly on the move, not actually setting up shop and taking local clients, then local income taxes don't really apply either. Nomads aren't really compatible with most income tax systems, for better or worse.

It is different for Americans, though, they are on the hook for income tax regardless of where in the world they reside.
>It seems like this is a pretty positive scenario for Uber

Is it though? Google's claim is that Levandowski was meeting with Uber execs long before he left Waymo to form Otto. Now they're throwing Levandowski under the bus.

What happens if tomorrow, Levandowski turns around and says "Yes, I did everything that Google claims- and Uber told me to do it". What if he provides evidence of those meetings, all those things. This stuff has been referred to criminal courts now, and Levandowski is at risk of possible jail time.

He's no fool, and now he knows he has no one protecting him. Why not screw over Uber if they're willing to do the same to him?
I think you've made some excellent points, but you can't simultaneously deny the existence of negative societal externalities caused by individual drug use while acknowledging that the usage of drugs (including alcohol, tobacco, and excessive eating) imposes a cost onto society in the form of [just one example] increased healthcare spending.

I think my particular stance is that the war on drugs is a massive failure that props up prices, lowers quality, and destroys the lives of many young non-violent "offenders." This is probably quite similar to your position, but I think the primary difference is that I would not advocate lifting the prohibition against drugs like heroin, which can supposedly turn a person into an addict within a few sessions.

I think my position is ultimately something like this:

Should the state lock someone up for using heroin? No, it's their money and their body.

Should the state lock someone up for using heroin and then committing a crime? Yes, because of the crime.

Would the legalization of heroin cause an increase in number of people committing crimes? Yes, because of its addictive potential and the extremely difficult/potentially fatal withdrawals.

Whether or not that would actually be the case, I can't say.
This is for ethnic reasons. The government that seized power with NATO help has explicit goals of ethnic cleansing.

These are also the people that glorify Nazis and collaborators.
China is still building new coal. "65GW of new coal-fired units had started construction between January 2016 and January 2017, down 62% on the 170GW the year before. Most coal power stations are around 1GW or greater in capacity."

Consider that those coal plants could run for 40 years[3], it's probably better if those new plants were CCGT[2] rather than coal.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/coal-pow...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_cycle

3. https://qz.com/61423/coal-fired-power-plants-near-retirement...
https://imgur.com/a/RwQZm
Maybe my terminology is off, correct me if so, but when businesses fold because bigger competitors are buying all the resources needed to stay competitive, that sounds like a shortage to me.

On the labor side, getting a $120k+ job out of a 4 year/$14k investment also sounds like a labor shortage.
Donbass militias are moscow backed and funded.
Introducing zetcd
One more reason: enterprise engineers see through the "change the world" and "disrupt" bullshit that startups often attempt to sell to juniors in order to overwork them until their souls are empty, and then expect them to go home and continue working. None of that in most enterprises. "Nine to five", while should not be taken literally, means following an order where there is work and there is life, and those should overlap only very rarely and only when absolutely necessary (no, an app crash or visual glitch is not it).

I see it in my current employer vs my previous employer. While not a small startup by any means, I notice a clear attempt by many ranks to encourage working late and working from home, be it "we'll order pizzas for people that stay here until 20:00" to "we have crazy deadlines that we must!!!! finish now!!!!" nonsense to "we encourage open source but we don't give enough time to developers to handle community issues, and we implicitly expect them to do that on their own time at night or during the weekend". To me, this is very toxic for junior developers who cannot, or do not even know they should, resist it. None of that was there on my previous, enterprise job. Come to work at some hour, do what you do, go home. I try to push this "work from home during after hours" mentality as much as possible, but it's very entrenched.

Regarding sear fillers, while true to some respect for enterprise, I'd say from many conversations I've had with people in the start up world, there exist many fillers there as well, often including founders and other "C"-level executives who only had the talent and know-how to give themselves a fancy title.

Finally, this was posted here in another discussion, but I think it's interesting here as well:
https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/
So the most desirable is the child prodigy who's built actual products in a practical way?
Are your sensors spying on you?
I'm afraid that all feels very subjective to me, Microsoft were providing online services before Google even existed as a company, so I'm not sure how Google could have more operational experience of online services.

You obviously feel that Google's services are more advanced than Microsoft's and Amazon's but from a market share perspective they're clearly running third to those two.
Yes, exactly. Owning a home made a lot more sense when employment was for life and young adults had kids. But I don't have children and who knows where my next job will be? I'd take a good offer almost anywhere. Owning complicates that.
It's not as bad as it could be for Uber, but I don't think it's positive. They bought Otto for a reason - either because the talent (mainly Levandowski) was so good, or else because of the stolen documents. Either way, Uber doesn't get what they paid for. Not good when they paid $680 million.
The goal is a 'normal job' which encourages me to learn through it's end impact. Further the goal is to take skills learned through developing for impact rather than profit and build something to draw enough of a salary on which has a disproportionate impact compared to it's cost. I want to be the driving factor, not be payed by or pay the driving factor.
Who’s in Charge of Outer Space?
Hm...sounds plausible from a physics POV, but maybe there's something else? Since, in practice (at least as far as I can speak from experience), old-school ferrit 15" speakers are ~7-8kgs, while you can get similarly specced neodymium speakers that weigh about half (3-4kgs).
> forgoes its opinionated nature, even if it's at the cost of messier code

Absolutely not. Have you never worked with anyone who just can't adhere to any standards? Go forces that guy at my office to at least get spacing and braces right, even if the rest of his code is lacking.
Networking is a big one. Traveling around the world gives you a chance to uniquely expand your professional network.
IDK really, but i found this article lately:

https://www.salon.com/2016/12/14/fountainhead-of-bad-ideas-a...

Make your own conclusions.
Which proves social networks are political assets
I submitted the issue for it (https://github.com/mholt/caddy/issues/1632) and it was immediately closed. Reason (after asking): we only keep issues open that are on our TODO list.
In the current Internet culture, it's very important to constantly signal to the world that you have the correct political stance. You will often find such people espousing the notion that "everything is political" which is fairly silly, all things considered, but here we are.
when WL policy is "publish everything in the public interest we possibly can" and it looks "unamerican" to the american public, it's a clue that your government is doing some really ugly things.
Cool article!

We're planning on staying in places for 3 months at a time. It gives us the flexibility to join a gym, take time to relax, and get a routine.
And TLABs causes more memory fragmentations and which lead to more GCs and more need for memory compaction. So finally Java solved the problem it created itself by implementing compacting and generational GC.
NSA Abandons “About” Searches – Schneier on Security
This is an old post. Can moderators put 2015 in the title?
How this 23yr old makes $40,000 on Amazon
> That's an excellent point, and more of an expansion of the argument than a retort! Perhaps math syntax is simply wrong and = has no place in either setting values or comparing them.

The issue isn't math syntax; it's comparing the population of all future novice programmers with the population of current programmers. The apt comparison is all future novice programmers who might be exposed to this hypothetical language to all experienced programmers who might be exposed to this language. Note that an "experienced programmer" might be someone born in 2018 who happened to have learned JavaScript2035 before seeing our new hypothetical language. The latter likely pool dwarfs the former. And this doesn't factor in that a language is a living thing--it needs a critical mass of users in order to survive, and the largest pool of potential users is existing programmers (very, very few early language adopters are first time users, I would wager). I think this is the retort I meant to make; I don't think this is merely an expansion of the topic, with sincere respect. :)

> Java dominates CS introductions before Python did. Python would not have appealed to existing Javanauts. Yet Python now dominates CS introductions and many areas of programming. The market favoured a language that trained programmers did not.

Apologies, I don't see how Python displacing Java in CS courses supports your point (or harms mine). Please elaborate.
For people wondering where this is coming from, this is the standard Russian propaganda/info/whatever in the area. Some people actually believe that Ukrainian nationalists glorify Nazis.

There are many parallels to the disinformation campaigns that happen on places like /r/the_donald.
Beware also more subtle effects. Both intentional "nudging", and unintended emergent effects. Racial segregation of schools and neighborhoods doesn't require brute force redlining, it can emerge from surprisingly small incentives.

I intermittently work on education content to better develop a rough quantitative feel for physical size. Lots of searches mentioning "millimeters". And Google Images starts showing me pictures of guns. And bullets. Lots of guns. Even on unrelated searches. Then I work on something else for a while, and they slowly all go away. Not much liking guns, it's a disincentive to work on the topic. And while I like the concept of encouraging kids to use google searches to get rough sizes for the objects they deal with, and "OBJECT millimeters" (or "micrometers", etc) works... Google's behavior gives me pause.

> Yeah, there's definitely a sinister component to accepting a device from $MEGACORP into your home and allowing it free reign to indoctrinate and teach your child.

Yeah. "Is human evolution real?" "Is climate change real?" :) I just searched for "how old is the earth", and while the embedded answer is 4By, the top link is "A handbook for students, parents, and teachers countering the latest arguments for evolution". Can you think of any approach to answering such questions, even personalized, that won't be thought a problem?
That's pretty disappointing. I know it's 1.0, and maybe these tests aren't the greatest, but even with something that appears to be favourable for AMD specific optimisations that was only a 3% boost. Would love to see a broader test set, more stuff that AMD specific optimisations could help with.
An iOS Client app for Rollbar
Brownstone neighborhoods stress these numbers even further (e.g. much of "hot" Brooklyn).

These consist largely of 19th century buildings. And even the "modern" apartment buildings are 1920s, 1930s, etc. These are also precisely the neighborhoods that zone-limit modern construction to avoid compromising their character.

So you have a bunch of old buildings that need serious maintenance, sometimes by firms with specialized and otherwise outdated skill sets (e.g. stoop rebuilding and iron fence work).

Many of these neighborhoods are also in historic districts, meaning they're landmark-protected to preserve traditional architectural character.

Brooklyn Heights is a prime example. Essentially the whole neighborhood is one big historic district. The housing stock is ancient. And it's a highly desirable neighborhood. Maintenance fees can easily waver between $1,000 and $2,000. There are very few modern condos (which basically avoid these problems). So their very scarcity inflates their purchase prices. All in all you get a very difficult place to live in and own property.
If you took a few minutes to consider that I may be a completely different person than the one you're conjuring up, you might have something more useful to say.