skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it'd be possible... (i know it'd be extremely challenging) - to have some sort of open-source-ai search engine that runs on the blockchain... -- something that anyone could use the API to make a frontend interface ala google, but all the rankings/etc... are controlled by the blockchain, and people using the sites could maybe thumbs up/down if it was a good search and then the AI could use those indicators to hone it's algorithms.
I just brought up his use of the nazi slogan "blood and soil".

Also, listen to this. It's Jeff Deist's take on Richard Spencer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6kJNHZvanI&t=1s

Within the video Deist advocates for what he calls a "Benedict Option" whereby a white ethnostate would secede from the US.

Overall the tone of the video is that Deist disagrees with Richard Spencer's economic stance, but that he doesn't take issue with Spencer's views on race.
Flickering in an LCD is usually caused by a bad inverter, which is an inexpensive part ($20 range) you can generally replace yourself.
Your examples are cherry-picked UGC from Reddit (not a good brush to tar any viewpoint with).

Are there specific WSWS examples, or is the the concept of advocating socialism which is false to you?
I'd say we're certainly going to see crazy advanced cheese strats - ones that humans wouldn't be able to hope to pull off. This could definitely be done with computer micro and wouldn't be defendable with human micro.

An example would be moving probes around in such a way to maximize their shield regen - or switching the top clickable unit while stacked - who knows...
It depends on how it's funded.

If it's funded by taxing personal or company income, then yes, it's pretty close to communism (or socialism really).

If it's funded by land and resources taxes - i.e. taxes on unearned rents - then it isn't communism, it's justice.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
I wouldn't be able to program in the 80s and I don't want to go back to the 90s. I'm sorry but having my IDE on one half of one screen, debug console on the second half then browser on the other monitor is a big convenience that I have gotten used to.

Its like saying, oh you like your power steering, and automatic transmissions? Well then you couldn't drive a Model-T.

That viewpoint that progress makes you weak is a very bad way to view the world. Progress makes us all better at what we do by making us more efficient.
> Nobody uses it

The few times I've used it, the train was pretty full (with people standing). Maybe I got seriously lucky.
So WSWS is a known dishonest and/or inaccurate website?
The Science article:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/vitamin-b3-could-help...

is less breathless, with the comment:

"Of course, more human studies are needed before doctors could recommend B3 supplements for pregnant women, says Matthew Vander Heiden, who studies the role of NAD in cancer biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. But the work opens a potentially exciting new area of research for developmental biologists: Trying to understand how cell metabolism affects development. Few people would have guessed that NAD deficiency causes birth defects, he says, “but it fits in with what we’ve been finding” about how NAD can influence cell growth."

I too was surprised by the breathless tone of the press release. The Victor Chang Institute is well respected in Australia, so here's hoping that there is reason for their effusing, even if it is over the top.

Edit: A further article with some more reasonable words from the lead researcher:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/breakthrough-discovery...

"Some 80 per cent of birth defects had no known cause. NAD levels could explain a significant proportion of these malformations, Professor Dunwoodie said."

The "complete" claim refers to the mouse population in their experiment and shouldn't be applied to all human births.

Further Edit: Source for Vander Heiden's comment: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1707487
> I asked for empirical evidence that these initiatives had led to bad results at Google.

Where is the empirical evidence that these initiatives had led to good results at Google?

And assuming we can measure both the good and bad side effects of such initiatives, does the good outweigh the bad?

The biggest piece of empirical evidence that these initiatives have led to bad results at Google is everything that has happened in the aftermath of the memo being published and found considerable support both in and outside the company.

Had the initiatives been universally good and whose goodness is easy to defend empirically, I would likely have no or at most very few bad results to present to you in response to your question.
Richard S has a great appreciation of self deprecating humor. Which is why he does silly things.

Being able to criticize each other and crack jokes about each other is essential to open source and it helps to build community. We can criticize and crack jokes at each others expense because we learn to trust each other. That's how you build real community.

When people are two afraid to criticize each other or crack jokes about each other then you really can not have a healthy community where people have a true respect and admiration for one another. And you certainly can not build a community that has to have critique about code quality, architecture and so forth to sustain itself.
Something that can work well on a limited scale is if you have access to ssh into company/edu servers around the world - then you can use sshuttle and your traffic looks like it coming from a company/university campus.
>Stop this censorship! Stop undermining democracy!

it's a private company they can do what they please.
you mean a group of people socialized away from something from the day they are born are socialized away from it?
But you could disable it. The multi-window thing was something Delphi lifted directly from Visual Basic, and even VB dropped it (well, more like it got swallowed by VB.NET and Visual Studio.)
Has it? it looks like someone posted the link, and a bunch of random people with no real information (who dont work at google) said "I dont believe it.."
Even a thin doctor who stays thin with a terrible diet?
Sometimes sites are "punished" for aggressive / misleading "SEO" tactics.
I can only hope so. Ever since I played with a Virtual Boy Headset in the mid-late 90s, I have wanted a VR world that would replace my physical desk.
That's true. But this isn't about Google releasing a whole class of information by policy. It's about them responding, or not, to a specific question of the form, "We run a legitimate website on the topic that the American government has censored more often, and more harshly, than any other topic. Could you please confirm that our recent drop in search rankings is not the result of deliberate action by Google employees?"
I don't have any particular say on this issue in particular, but what about the fact that Google can silently remove replies without telling you (which gives the image of non-bias) and further that people may be biased in favour of Google without actually being affiliated with Google?
They support OpenVPN.
You're on HN, please don't assume only you understand the complexities of the world. Everything is more complicated than one simple thing, but you don't get to level that critique after claiming the value comes from oil. We're obviously talking about primary driver of value and for every fiat currency its primary value is in its tax base, not in any commodity backing.

The values between currencies fluctuate short term because capital moves around, but that doesn't drive the value of a currency, it merely alters it a very tiny amount. Fundamental forces, i.e. government policies, control exchange rates long term as any currency trader will tell you however this isn't relevant to the topic as bringing up exchange rates is simply a deflection to avoid admitting or accepting that oil isn't why the dollar has value which was the point you made that is being refuted.
Also his one example:

> For example placing an opening curly bracket on a new line causes the compiler to emit a syntax error.

That's actually part of the syntax, not the style. The compiler adds an implicit semicolon at the end of every line, and if there is one before the block of a switch, if, for, etc, then it looks like it's missing (and the next line's curly braces is just a new block.
If you're behind a VPN, any cookies along with your browser fingerprint will still be bright red: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ If what you're doing is really sensitive, do it in a clean VM + Tor. If you're posting, you also need to consider keystroke fingerprinting although with language profiling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics

Most threat models don't require considering these things.
NetworkManager is OK.
At first glance, this looks extremely ironic. Don't Socialists advocate for a centralization of economic capital (among others like political and news) or do I misunderstand? If purist socialists had there way, wouldn't there only be one search engine?

Obviously it would be great if others could compete, but I think it's simply a market gap (innovation, capital investment, etc) at this point and not for lack of competitors trying. Many died out (Yahoo!, Excite, Altavista), some survive as niche (DuckDuckGo), some still exist (Bing, Ask/Jeebs), and some are still massive but serve other markets (Baidu, Yandex).

Google has become so successful that their search is very advanced compared to upstarts. The more Google learns from their massive index corpus and userbase, the further ahead they get. Baidu might have a comparable dataset and userbase, but they specialize in different markets with different languages and cultures.
App Annie acquired Mobidia https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/06/app-annie-acquires-mobile-... in 2015 which has an app called "My Data Manager" that is similar to Onavo Count.
Apple are super slipshod about their documentation in general. Hardly a day goes by that I don't get a Stack Overflow comment telling me that some link to Apple's docs is broken.
So you were fine with Brendan Eich being against gay marriage because he was CEO? Because he's CEO do you think everyone at mozilla should have been prevented from supporting gay marriage?
Do you have evidence that this website in question is a "tankie" website? Or does it offer a different viewpoint, or a range of viewpoints?
Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking
You're right. They can also hand you a check.
Take a deep breath.

I understand you would like to live somewhere that context does not matter and documents are self-contained.

Until you live in that world, please consider that there is an external world relevant to what an author's intentions are, whether they are lying or exaggerating, whether they are deliberately misleading or naively misinformed.

Does he have good intentions or bad intentions? Well, you would want to look at the other opportunities available to him to reason about that.

"This is what he believes about his co-workers"
You: He did not write this

If he did not think that the performance of the women around him was holding back Google, then he wouldn't write the memo.

Can you give an explanation of how this was the best choice available to him if he did not think this was the case?

"He is unwilling to learn from others"
You: He did not write this

Is it your position that he did not have any options for taking his opinions to others inside the company and getting feedback before circulating broadly?

He knows that this is sensitive - that definitely gets mentioned in the document - but there is no indication that he has gone to the people responsible for diversity policy to discuss the intentions, metrics or organisational concerns that shaped the policy.

If you don't know the functional and non-functional requirements for a system, you should find them out and if you disagree go to the stakeholders. Choosing not to do so is not high-performing employee behaviour in any organisation.
Since the entries on the site are ordered top-to-bottom based entirely on his subjective rating, ignoring the objective criteria, the list absolutely rates Vype higher, in both a figurative and literal sense, and in a way that implies that his 5-star ratings are far more important than the objective criteria.
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For example:

Salon/AlterNet: Fighting fake news: Google’s new fact-check tool attempts to combat a global issue

http://www.salon.com/2017/04/23/fighting-fake-news-googles-n...

Salon/AlterNet's main concern was apparently that it didn't do enough.

> this doesn’t do anything to directly combat the use of Google’s platform to spread false or offensive stories.”
A 9.999% boost wouldn't be worth it though, so I appreciated the extra precision.
Netlify is wonderful. I never thought to check if they dogfood their product, though. Sometimes, resources are allocated to new features and site redesign/restructuring work gets pushed to the back burner.
If you're close to the Silicon Valley tech community you know the Salesforce datacenter organization and recently security organization has been taken over by many ex-Microsoft executives who are fairly clueless when it comes to security.

This has left the security organization mired in internal political turmoil and has triggered the exodus of most intelligent security professionals from the organization.

This situation appears to be a case of the new and confused security executive mentioned in comments on this thread over reacting.

I say "confused" because for the presenters to get this far they obviously has gone through levels of approval for the talk and presented material internally. This talk was indeed presented before at the Chatham House Red Team Summit in SF where many tech company Red teams were present and code released to some collaborating parties. If you don't know what is going on in your own organization with your directors you are confused.

I say "over reacting" because any decent security executive knows you can't ask a team member to pull a Defcon talk on extremely short notice as it would be damaging to their personal reputation in the community. Firing them for not pulling the talk is completely idiotic as it's likely burn the organizational reputation with the security community. It was likely just a snap decision by said confused executive who did not understand the ramifications of his decision. If you fire someone after they get off the stage at Defcon you more than likely have overreacted.

Sadly these are the types of this that happen when you have poor leadership at high levels. I feel bad for the good security folks still left at Salesforce who have to tolerate this garbage. Luckily there is a massive demand for good security professionals so they should have no trouble finding other employment, hopefully with competent leadership.
-swift-version 3 really just turns on some different paths through the parser and type checker to allow previously-valid Swift 3 code to survive to code generation time.

They're both compatible
I'm not op but I can think of a few reasons why hiring older talent poses a risk to political control.

1) More capable of starting their own, competing business. Even if the old guys won't be eating google's lunch, they have money and connections to defect and start a consulting business with their expert insider knowledge of SEO/self-driving cars/whatever they were working on.

2) The greater breadth of knowledge they have about industry and their personal preferences means they're less likely to be shuffled quietly into a menial role that makes the company the best ROI.

3) Stronger personal definitions of morality. Need a morally questionable piece of code written? If you ask a young enough person they likely won't question the morality but if you ask an old enough person I could imagine them refusing.

I think hiring young people has it's own risks, but they seem to be generally further down the line.

Losing control can happen at many scales and to many degrees.

I would expect many hiring managers at large companies to be intimately familiar with the different risks associated with different age employees, consequently discriminating in their profession. Short of some damning leaked documents or conversations however, I can't imagine how any would ever get convicted.
I think they meant the only people that use it are the screaming children.
Ask HN: What tech jobs are good for therapists to transition into
My partner has been working as a mental health therapist for the past 5 years. Although she loves helping people and her job can be rewarding at times, she is starting to burn out completely. This is mostly due to intense case loads, long hours, lack of support, costly training for licensing, and of course low salaries.

She is highly considering a career change but is hesitant because she has no idea what she wants to do. She is incredibly an incredibly brilliant person. So being a software developer, I of course suggested she learns how to code and maybe go from there. She's not opposed to the idea of learning to code, but it's important to her that she can still use the skills that she already has as a therapist and apply it to her next role. After some discussion, we concluded that no matter what she goes into, the next career move would have to meet the following criteria:

1. Easy-ish transition from therapy
2. A position that is interpersonal and involves helping people
3. Little to no cost training. Learn on the job would be ideal.

If anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. I would also love to hear from former mental health workers, social workers, therapists, etc. who may have experienced a similar transition.

PS. We live in Chicago if you have any ideas or know of any opportunities available in the area :)

Thanks!
I'm an anti-censorship extremist, but this doesn't feel to me like censorship. After all, the site is being discussed here on HN, and I'm sure it could also be found through many other search engines, portals, or whatever.

Even if we get to the point that certain pages are only likely to be found via 10-20 year old technologies, so what? Those technologies were invented for text articles and still work well for them, and text articles are what matter most. Similar things are also true about the runners-up in "matter most", which in some order are straightforward image, sound and video files.
I mean, we can snark about recruiters being bad at what they do and not understanding people's qualifications, but this is different. Recruiters being merely bad isn't illegal. Until the point where they ask "hey, before we proceed, can you tell us if you're a member of a protected class?"
Which is more likely? That someone wanted this cancelled in the last 30 minutes. As you said, this was a company funded trip. There is no way this wasn't known. Multiple people were on the trip that knew of the talk well before it started. And if you knew something was going to be released that shouldn't be released, why wouldn't you go to the place where the talk was being held and stop it? Especially without confirmation.
Interesting, is there anywhere I can read about this aside from the book you've linked? Although I am a Communist, I am critical of the Bolsheviks and I have an open mind.
Just because women are the ones who birth children doesn't mean that I brought up "an example that's a biological function primarily to do with women".

64% of practicing gynecologists are men, but only women have vaginas.

You don't have to give birth to children to be a pediatrician or a gynecologist.
Searching on duckduckgo, "russian revolution" shows wsws.org on 80th place. Didn't show up for "proletariat".

The irony: they prefer to cry wolf instead of doing SEO and don't want to be called a conspiracy theory site.
Be aware that the way most seller's agent contracts are written, if the buyer has no agent, then the seller agents gets both (e.g. 6%). The reason is, they technically transfer the full commission for both agents to the sellers firm, then they kick back half to the buyer agent.

It's hard to avoid paying agents when buying a house.
Hyper.sh: Container-native Cloud
Trots != huffpo reading liberals.

Most people on the actual left weren't caught up in the "fake news/Russia/Russian fake news stole the election" hysteria because none of them supported Clinton in the first place.
Non free software is too. Especially when you start dealing with licensing. Where I work we have people assigned to licensing & other people assigned to actual install. Of course the licensing goes through a third party provider... for which we're a third party provider to our clients
>1. I can host time-machine backups for my entire family on my home server, allow them to have off-site backups.

What upstream speed do your family have? I've got the equipment and the bandwidth to do this, but my family have <1 megabit upstream available.
Sure, new historical discoveries (based on evidence!) deserve to be published.

But do you believe Google should keep search results that deny the Holocaust? I personally see no value in that trash and if I was Google, I'd blacklist that stuff too.
Statistical Seats at the Table
There are tons of amazingly-smart people working on Swift at Apple right now
True that, as a person who grew up outside of Houston, I have only been to Austin a handful of times, and hated every time I went. Its too "weird" for me. I love the Texas History Museum, and Barton Springs, though, and made a point to visit both every time (if I could find parking).
> That's unacceptable for a privacy company.

Why?

The fact of a connection being established in port 80 is to do with how TCP/IP works. You aren't even claiming to understand what protocol is in use on port 80, not to mention whether the data is in the clear, what it is for, etc. This isn't analysis, it's... something far short of analysis that I can't think of a kind name for.
How many socialist googlers do you think there are? I imagine the number is really, really small. I have plenty of friends who work at google and a disproportionate number of socialist friends, and neither group would be able to tolerate each other at a party. Not saying that none exist, but it's way outside of my experience if it's the case.
Errr, I helped my therapist gf get a promotion to run her program by helping her identify the programmatic week points of the way her organization runs.

Maybe a UX interaction designer that specializes in Invision? Therapy and UX would go well and help her learn the game while she builds skills.
Yes, though I haven't tried that yet (I'm just going to wait for the API)
In what universe is taking 10,000 actions per minute an easier problem for a neural net than 100 such actions?
Another masterpiece by the guardian
Let's say this talk was never approved by PR and the employees went rogue.
Firing someone in public right after they give a talk is still terrible optics. Even if salesforce is in the right, this executive looks totally incompetent, which in turn reflects poorly on the company.
Unless it was an extended salesforce trash talk, that is.
Thanks, enjoyed reading that. I thought in similar lines, but never wrote it down.
> That inner city population skews much poorer than the metro area as a whole, with a quarter of households making under $25,000 annually. That notwithstanding the city itself is very well wired. If you live in Anacostia (one of the poorest neighborhoods) you can choose from two gigabit fiber providers and two gigabit cable providers.

Ah so the internet is good in theory, it's only in practice that internet connectivity is poor.
DNS should be encrypted to prevent this kind of blocking. Were still using DNS technology from the 80s.
I used to work at a company in a similar vertical as BR also linked off CNN frequently and also running Rails. I understand the scalability challenges that might lead someone to something like Erlang and Elixir.

Curious, what’s your take on why this hasn’t caught on?
I'd rather build hybrid apps. Fix your IDE.