skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - can a company which makes money as an advertising platform and data broker really protect the privacy of its users when that is directly at odds with its fundamental mission?

Good question; but I'm not sure that's one that Facebook could answer themselves.

I do think there are ways to protect identity from wide distribution while still allowing the type of ad targeting that Facebook does; but I also think that the cat is largely out of the bag at this point. Facebook is far from the only DMP out there and most people outside of HN couldn't name a single one of them, so you could argue that Facebook has more incentive than most to be a good steward of that data because of the very public nature of their service.

> - is there value for Facebook in figuring out how to remove fake news or content from terrorists or dead users from its platform vis-a-vis continuing on with business-as-usual?

Yes; the next phase in the information revolution is going to be centered around trust. If Facebook becomes widely associated with "fake news" in the public zeitgeist, that's bad. If Facebook becomes censored by governments because it is seen to be facilitating communication between terrorists, that's bad.

I think Facebook has recognized that some form of content governance is inevitable. But given the nature of partisan politics around the world, I'm not so sure we want to hand that content governance off to partisan governments either.

> - is there actually any room for someone within the organization at Facebook to ask questions like this without violating implicit or explicit company norms about how Facebook is discussed, internally or publicly?

For question 1, I don't think so -- but only because any answer they would come up with would be inherently biased.

For question 2, I think that's the exact conversation that the original post is trying to start. And yes, I think that there is a ton of value to the customer in providing a more curated content discovery experience. Whether it's of value to society remains to be seen.
Elon Musk's Email to Tesla Employees Is a Master Class in Emotional Intelligence
The long term rewards are the ones that matter most. Congratulations!
It's like bootstrapping a fleet of Apple Stores all at once.
There's also Woot.com - a company who's culture was a strange counterpoint.

Amazon thought they understood it, messed it all around and now it's a sad parody of the former site.

https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2014/july/...

That particular bit about Bezos and the octopus sells it - You'll be fine if Amazon "gets" your company and it's culture. If not, well...
NP and PSPACE Video Games Lecture [video]
Scared of the dentist? Virtual reality might help
Reposting my other comment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA2-iMz479o

I watched this video a while ago about what Amazon Go is a precursor for. In summary, if AWS is renting out server infrastructure for people, then you can imagine that Amazon can make the infrastructure to lease out Amazon Go to other stores. They first integrate it with Whole Foods, then as customers expect no more checkout areas, they will only go to Whole Foods because it's faster and maybe cheaper. Then because customers want it everywhere, Amazon could force other stores like Walmart and Target to integrate Amazon Go infrastructure to their stores, without Amazon directly competing with these stores, and make a ton of money leasing it out without spending money on building whole new stores. Of course, the acquisition could also be like nodes for warehousing and delivery, but both avenues are not mutually exclusive.
Why teenage girl's smartphone battery breakthrough may never see daylight
Challenge often becomes an opportunity. Instacart recently landed Publix who has MUCH higher market share in the markets they serve.

Disclaimer: I'm an Instacart investor.
Last I knew (a few years ago) whole foods outsourced most of their logistics. They do have distribution centers but don't own the trucks nor related tech. In general this is a good thing, you don't want to run/own trucks unless you really have to, it's a very thin margin game that is easy to lose your shirt playing.
could you link the blog? sounds interesting
I don't think you can really equate "activist investors" with workaday people with IRAs.
Counterpoint... is Amazon Go really that difficult to build? If given three years, do you not think a different software company can build a similar system as well? Is this type of system really a winner-take-all market?
Does this mean if you used kindle unlimited you could effectively keep the books forever?
Its called "Fachinformatiker". Its basically a lower tiered version of the University CS degree. Its what is felt to be needed to be taken serious as an "IT-Person" in Germany.
That said nobody ever asked me for that Piece of paper let after 15 years and 4 companys :P

there are 2 main tracks - one is hardware oriented the other more software oriented. In practice that means slightly more electronics or programming classes.

The stuff taught is certainly more practical than the stuff you learn at university but its geared toward 16 years olds. None in my class was that age. It was very surreal being treated as a kid again. And the mandatory ethics and German courses (as well as Sports class) were are real pita.
Most of the DRM removal tools are based on Apprentice Alf's DeDRM library. Here's the Github issue related to KFX:

https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/issues/38
^ This. Quick video on what Amazon Go is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc
> Sex?

heh good one, where and how do I get it? On a serious side though I agree about finding a physical activity which make one feel positively and constructively tired and relaxed.
Without consent, without any sort of internal ethics review.

The real problem is that they probably learned just to keep their mouth shut, not to stop doing those things. I'm sure it's all kosher by the TOS. But it's still the kind of actions any university's IRB would stop or require rigorous user protections, both to protect the University's brand and to treat people with respect.
I saw Garry speak in San Francisco -- I'm convinced he's an intellectual giant, but he was very candid in admitting that for all of his trained knowledge in chess, once you take that to an adjacent challenge (the game of Go), he struggles with the basics. I think the same logic should apply with his understanding of AI.

I do think there is a general phenomenon of "smart people outside of AI saying dumb things about AI" -- I'm guessing it's because of the massive implications artificial intelligence is going to have on every part of society.
Why Is Trump Causing Chaos in Washington but Not in the Stock Market?
Carefully regulated markets can be a capitalist or non-capitalist as you like. They are orthogonal concepts.

I am a capitalist and I believe in regulated markets. After all a game of football can only be fair if it has equitable rules and both sides are held to them.
They do offer credit cards through third parties. They also have the Amazon payment service that allows third parties to process transactions through Amazon.
Like a decentralized Instacart, interesting.
A pastry chef is to WF what an AWS engineer is to Amazon.
> If I could make one invention, it would be something that swaps the brains of humans around every 5 years, completely randomly. People would sober up rather quickly I'm sure.

A variation on that is that the world where you have no control over who you will be in it is the world that you should strive to create.
I'm sorry it didn't work for you, but your hostility about it gives me the impression you became frustrated configuring advanced stuff that perhaps you don't understand or need. If you never, say, want to select a group of messages based on a regular expression, absolutely, stick with Outlook or whatever. If you never need different contextual handling (say, signing mail only from a particular account, add particular headers when sending to some address, etc.), then I'm sure the configurability looks stupid.

Put another way, you can complain that a pickup truck isn't a Prius, but you should expect people who use (not just drive) pickups to snicker.

I use mutt (and vim, but that's a different post) heavily because it saves me so much time. Sure, there's a learning curve, but there is no faster mail client out there for handling large volumes of mail.

Speed:

- It is entirely keyboard driven.

- Until you have >6 figures of mail in one mbox, every action is essentially instant. And then you only wait a bit on load/save.

- If you have to deal with automated mail systems and the occasional mail disasters caused by them, the regex manipulation is a godsend.

- I think people don't notice the little delays in GUIs, but when you're going through hundreds of messages, it adds up.

Other awesome features:

- If you ever have to deal with GPG, mutt is the place to configure it. I don't use it much, but it is part of the workflow for some open source projects. I've configured it in various GUI MUAs, and it seems like every time I do try to sign something, it broke in some annoying way. Mutt is loosely coupled enough that that doesn't happen.

- Works over ssh. Yes, this absolutely matters to me - can't live without it.

- Extremely extensible. Add a configurable MDA[1]. I've built entire little adhoc apps based on email for various purposes.

[1] I actually still use procmail, because the syntax ate by brain a long time ago, but I'd recommend something less obtuse if you're starting fresh.
They are self medicating because there is no proper treatment. We can roll the dice with treating mental illness, but it's not very consistent or reliable and often produces undesirable side effects. At least, that's what I've seen when family members have gone to psychiatrists to treat various things.
If anyone is having trouble understanding the raw code linked above, the official book[1] introduces all three of those concepts gently and intuitively. I highly recommend it!

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/type-driven-development-with-i...
they're called 10-k's. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&S...
Ask HN: Any effective online psychotherapy for founder suffering anxiety?
24 Year old solo start-up founder here, recently I started showing physiological symptoms of anxiety which I am pretty sure were triggered by these constant feeling of being in over my head that I have been having this past couple of months. I got diagnosed by a GP and was prescribed a short course of medications. I have had some degree of anxiety all my adult life but only now I feel like it's started to become a problem, I plan to see a psychiatrist at some point but I am just not ready to make the emotional and time commitment required currently. Now I have found several interactive sites/apps which provide CBT and such online.

So I was wondering if anyone here has had any positive experience with online psychotherapy and if you could point me to it. That'd be a great help. (please don't mind the throwaway, small world and all that)
Yeah, that's probably the typical invasive catfish at work. It's worse when those people get promoted after fixing a fire they created, but that happens with non-grinders too, probably more correlated with political persuasion skills to push through risky and sweeping things while forcing dependence (fire fuel) by other teams. Still there are programming gods like Carmack who embrace the grind and put out good shit. It'd be fun to work on a team full of those for a while though they might not enjoy me as much when I tire of the grind.
-$1,000's, most likely. Unless they have good contracts (which they probably don't).
DeepMind now learns from human preferences – just like a toddler
Not quite on Samsung's level in Korea, yet.
http://githubstars.com
this a really helpful site. curl project got 5k stars from it :p
>but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor. That's a completely different environment than full time employees work in.

Some positions are temporary seasonal labor, but Amazon employs people full time in their fulfillment centers as well, and they work hard trying to convert the former into the latter.

Where I am (near Austin, TX), Amazon is running a campaign to recruit UT students with the promise of "tuition assistance." The way they treat their FC employees has nothing at all to do with their relative skill level, educational background or expected tenure. They've also been pushing 60 hour mandatory overtime for over a month for some shifts and they pay well under the cost of living for the area in which they operate, and I expect that represents the general treatment of the majority of Amazon employees, because there are far more of them at the bottom of the pyramid than the top.

I don't doubt the engineers are doing well, though. They probably get chairs to sit in and everything.
I think you and parent are right...

It's just easiest to become self-made after going to business school funded by parents, receiving cars from parents, wedding funding by parents, moving into a house with a down payment in cash split by both parents, receiving daycare from 2-4 grandparents, then career advice from successful parents in the same industry.

This describes lots of people around me. Self-made... but not from the ghetto or nothing, from fans all on sides feeding the flames.

Not that I think it's wrong or should be changed overnight, but I wish there were some ways to help people without doing everything for them.

For example, one person in my family had a screwed up life. A group of us got together to buy this person a basic car. That transportation changed their whole life- it was like a keystone that got them self-sufficient. After begrudgingly paying their rent for many months, the one-time car cost wise much wiser.

I wish that could be replicated. E.g. public transport could/should have the same effect, but it's such a convenient income source, it just gets opportunistically priced upwards...
> I know that there are some stories about bad experiences in the fulfillment centers, but keep in mind that those positions are temporary seasonal work by unskilled labor.

This might be one of the more tone deaf things I've read on HN in recent memory.
The premium of rapid delivery was a sticking point going back to the dot bomb era. A lot of people want rapid delivery (though admittedly only a subset want to order groceries online). But it's a premium service and a whole lot fewer want to pay for it.
US gov’t taps the Machine to beat China to exascale supercomputing
>I'm quite guilty here; I've realized that I always check the date of the last commit on Github before testing a project. I feel like I do this more for small projects where documentation and use cases might be missing, and for which I'm expecting help from the community.

I do it because of code rot. The environment you will surround the project with (runtimes, libraries, frameworks) has often changed enough in 2-4 years to render it unusuable.

Additionally a recent commit implies regular maintenance which implies that if you report it will get fixed.

Also, projects are often abandoned because there is a clearly better version out there.
Out of interest, what is your issue with graphical vim? I quite like some of the neovim gui's since they have faster screen draw times and still allow access to terminals/repls/test results/whatever via term buffers.

Although I usually still use the terminal version because it removes the binary dependency when cloning dot files on a new pc and there aren't any major differences.
Old last commit isn't a good metric for health; particularly for projects that don't go anywhere near hardware. There's plenty of time-tested and popular C libraries that only _very_ rarely see a patch suggestion, let alone a commit.

Check the mailing lists and forums; and look around for projects that depend on it.
If you never enjoyed the experience of a lightweight editor or was never bothered by the sluggishness of heavy weight IDEs, fine but don't blame any praise you don't understand on astroturfing.

I use both VS and VSCode and I prefer using VSCode by far.
I would recommend anyone wanting to learn more about John Mackey, and how he built Whole Foods, to listen to a recent episode of the How I Built This podcast featuring him: http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=527979061:528000104
$70 is nothing compared with the performance that you get.

If you have a job (either as a freelancer or professional) you certainly should be able to afford to pay for a $70 license, if you cannot then maybe your problem is your salary. If you are a student, ask your parents for it. I have given away at least 8 single-user licenses to friends and fellow co-workers who had your mentality, and they are now happy SublimeText users.

The problem that I see with Atom IS NOT in the startup speed, which is something that many people complain about, obviously you can just open the program once in the morning and leave it running during the day... Oh wait! You cannot! Because the program is running on top of a full-feature web browser (and one of the most heavy ones) which means that during the day it will consume a significant amount of RAM. Do you want to listen to music while you write code? You got it! Atom will turn up your computer's fan for you so you can listen to the peaceful sound of air blowing at your CPU because the full-featured browser behind it is doing some crazy shit in the background.

I don't even care about the loading screen when you are opening large files, the major problem that I notice is keystroke lag, after the first hour or so I start to notice some lag between the input from my keyboard and the actual visual in the editor [1].

Some time ago I thought that GitHub would get tired about the criticism of their beloved project and deprecate it, but then they converted their Git client [2] into an Electron app. They are really invested into that technology. If I were one of their engineers I wouldn't mind to take a C++/Qt project alone just to be able to provide a resource-friendly program that people will love for its performance (as we do for SublimeText) more than for its plugin ecosystem and "beautiful" themes.

You know, the first thing that I do every time I need to install SublimeText into a new computer is to disable some settings, not because they are going to make the editor faster but because I really don't need them. But with Atom, I really-REALLY need to disable many built-in plugins because they are either tracking me or because they are genuinely slowing down the program (the GIT integration, for example). I configure SublimeText to my needs because I want to, I configure Atom to my needs because I need to.

[1] I am sure there will be someone in the replies saying that they don't notice any lag, they will even include the amount of RAM in their computer as if it was relevant (no, it is not, it's a code editor, it should be fast). The fact that it runs well in your computer doesn't means the problems don't exist.

[2] https://desktop.github.com/
Good job keeping me honest :). I usually pay attention only to what modern CPUs do and what the the oldest Linux-supported CPUs do. Which I guess means I should have known that 486 didn't have PGE.
But this isn't prohibition - tobacco products are still for sale (except to minors, where the mechanism you mention definitely is at play).

It's just building a social stigma about the use of the product - which happens to be based on facts.
That's an interesting way to view it. Apple's incredible revenue/profit per sq.ft. statistic comes to mind. This isn't a real estate investment. They're buying capital to increase profits. But it's Amazon, so don't hold your breath.
Kroger, which is probably the biggest grocery chain accounting for all of the chains under their umbrella, just started rolling out their own last month. Their price point is $14–18 for two, or just under the price of meal kit delivery services but probably still with better margins given their supply chain. I haven't tried them yet but I plan to.

http://www.produceretailer.com/article/videos-article/watch-...
Rethinking Postel's Principle: Protocol Decay and Consequences
I'm Dutch. We say "gif" with the hard Dutch "g" (yea I'm sure I'm speaking for all of us, shut up).

The point is that, unlike the English "dzj" (jif) or "gh" sounds, you can pronounce a Dutch hard "g" for as long as you want to. And therefore make it louder. And therefore we will win this argument:

ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggif!
With Backpack most of the time you would not have to think about the type of the string.

See: http://blog.ezyang.com/2016/09/the-base-of-a-string-theory-f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guo_Wengui
it is because of China cyber attack. Guowengui(郭文贵） will expose Chinese govement corruption on youtube today
>I think it shows that you can be a successful capitalist without trying to suck every ounce of productivity and profit out of your lowest-paid employees.

Another example of this is Wegmans -

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/could-this-be-the-best-company-i...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/13/why-w...

http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/why-do-so-many-people-...

http://m.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Bite/2016/0225/Why-is-We...

“Our employees are our number one asset, period,” Kevin Stickles, the company’s vice president for human resources, told Reuters in 2012. “The first question you ask is: ‘Is this the best thing for the employee?’ That’s a totally different model.”
> If you don't know, John Mackey, the CEO / founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/whole-foods-ceo-oba...

> “It’s more like fascism,” Mackey recently told NPR. “In fascism, the government doesn’t own the means of production, but they do control it — and that’s what’s happening with our health care programs and these reforms.”

> Mackey, a libertarian, compared Obamacare to “socialism” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed he penned in 2009. Obamacare would “move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system,” he proclaimed.
I worked for Palo Alto Whole Foods from 2008-2011, and I think one thing that really hurt the company was that they aggressively overexpanded.

Does Santa Cruz need two stores (Capitola is practically Santa Cruz)? A Blossom Hill store? Competing with Los Gatos and Campbell?

At the time (I was s cashier) WF culture was dead set against self checkout stands, because they really wanted someone to be there to help customers.
Amazon Fresh isn't in all markets, and - as other commenters have noted - Whole Foods is a convenient "last-mile distribution center" for food. That, along with the automatic check-out stores that Amazon has been demoing dovetail pretty nicely with their goals.
"YouTube" is so distributed I don't think it can be "down" anywhere but briefly in a single geographic area.
Hey, sent you a note. Any help would be very much appreciated. The support team keeps telling me to just create a new account.
This was posted on HN a month ago; lots of thoughtful comments here: Recovering from Burnout and Depression [1].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14320392
As someone with curly hair, married to someone with slightly curly hair, I weep for any of my future children that end up exposed to lice.
Trader Joe's is owned by Aldi Nord; Aldi US is owned by Aldi Süd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi#Geographic_distribution
Perhaps you could share your easy three year get out of poverty plan with the poor people you know and gain an informed perspective on your position.
As mentioned just up thread, if you don't purchase in the most recent KFX DRM format, you can strip the DRM. However AFAIK this is illegal to do for Kindle Unlimited ebooks. You are not supposed to keep them, just borrow.
That is true only for UK. Simply because in rest of EU there is no way to be 'old money' due to world wars and/or Communism where old money lost everything.