skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corruption is worse in India than China, and that's problem one. Not coincidentally, growth in India has generally been slower (until recently) and just dropped. And India may be devolving into a theocracy. Not the most attractive example.
I don't consider a 4-person office to be an "office"; that's "open", to me. Google does have lots of meeting rooms and the like, so as I understand it, most developers can find a private workspace most of the times when they might need it. So, it's probably not awful to work at Google.

If facebook is even more "open" than Google, I'm amazed anybody ever gets any work done, but obviously they do, so I may just be more reclusive than most tech people when I work.
Well A/B testing has been around for ages. We did traffic splitting to two variations in the 1990's. No fancy tools, but fundamentally same. In regards to one-liners, there probably were multiple changes occurring over long time, interleaved:

- Increasing information overload etc changed visitor behavior to prefer less text.

- Large companies who did A/B testing eventually noticed that change in visitor's preferences and evolved towards one-liners.

- Some small companies who didn't do A/B testing copied the one-liner style from large companies, when seeking "inspiration".

- Remaining small companies followed, as one-liners were the dominant trend.
Almost everything most people in here have said.

plus

They must have a strong network in the industry, so they can hire and poach the best from their network.

They must know how to hire. They are not going to be the ones that are doing the actual work so they need a competent team.

They must know enough to listen and make decisions. It's not enough to have a team if you won't listen to them. You must be competent enough to listen to them that if someone comes to you and asks for $100,000. You can gauge that it's a smart spend and authorize it quickly. Security is not one of those things you can sit on and wait on.
I can barely recall details of projects I worked on last quarter. 1989 is almost thirty years ago, and the people who developed the process were probably long gone when it was shut down.
Can't be all spoofing though? That seems a lot / too much?
> For instance, we believe there’s potential for a company to build a service that meaningfully connects schools and parents, and to charge parents for the service.

I'm sure that will play well with parents that are already straining under the load. This sort of thing is so rife with bias that it is very hard to step away from your privileged position for the 30 seconds that it takes to vet the idea that you have to wonder why this cycle repeats over and over again.

Any kind of parental contribution to the school system outside of taxes will end up as a way to differentiate between the haves and the have-nots and at best will lead to children from disadvantaged environments not being able to take part in fun stuff, at worst it will disadvantage them even further.

This kind of thinking seems to be present in more than one YC project, the misguided attempt at their version of 'basic income' which fails to take even the most basic precautions against doing damage rather than improving things is another.
I've run several unsigned apps on Sierra and previous versions with Gatekeeper, and not once have I right-clicked an app to do it.
Keep in mind that Hong Kong was a British colony for 150+ years (contiguous minus the Japanese occupation during WWII). The fact that Hong Kong represents liberal Western values should surprise nobody. While the PRC represents much of Chinese philosophy and has mandated it be taught to its citizens, the leaders of Hong Kong were never in this mindset. The British Crown was above China, and thus people learned more about Western ideals. Even today, Hong Kong is mostly autonomous and it makes sense that its people would continue supporting the ideas that they have been taught or have lived under in the past.

As for Taiwan, I think it is important to remember that, while Chiang Kai-Shek was seemingly "less Chinese" than Mao, the two had many similarities. Like Mao, Chiang Kai-Shek was a believer in socialism and nationalism, with his own cult of personality. He also was responsible for his own purges early on and was very much a dictator. While he had support from many international countries, he was only slightly more liberal than Mao (which probably had to do with a number of factors, but I think it's important to note that he was educated in Japan at one point). It was not until after his death that Taiwan became democratic, and I think one of the reasons for this was because Taiwan had aligned itself with Western countries when it was driven out of mainland China. Had the ROC won and the PRC lost, I don't think much would be different here. It's possible to say that the fact that the ROC was anti-communism contributed to these changes, but Chiang Kai-Shek was by no means a supporter of democracy. To me it seems like the deciding factor for Taiwan becoming less authoritarian was almost certainly due to their defeat, and that the PRC would very likely follow in those same footsteps had the roles been reversed.

That all is to say that, despite the differences between Hong Kong/Taiwan and mainland China, the PRC is extremely representative of Chinese culture. The modern values of Taiwan and Hong Kong are obviously very different, but had different circumstances played out (Taiwan winning/Hong Kong becoming an independent Chinese state rather than becoming a colony) I do believe that these countries would end up nearly identical to modern China.
I don't know if this exists, but I think something like a "GitHub for textbooks" would be valuable. Let people (teachers or otherwise) collaborate together on open source textbooks and create a pretty UI for reading those books (like GitBook).
+1

There is no identification that can be made that doesn't at some point reference DOB.
My ex husband was career military. Military spouses face significant challenges in getting a job at all and it is nigh impossible for them to establish a real career, in part because you move every few years, employers know this and would rather hire a local who will stick around.

Your comment comes awfully close to a personal attack. Given that you have a successful two career couple arrangement, I fail to comprehend the hostility. Your ability to make it work in no way negates the very real challenges involved in establishing a two career couple and also having children. Most people find that having one spouse with a serious career and one spouse who may work, but whose career takes a back seat to family needs, is simply much more viable.

I also have special needs kids and other personal burdens that complicated the situation. Not everyone has a situation that makes a two career couple a viable option. I wanted a career. It didn't happen. I have done a lot of reading to try to figure out where my life went wrong and how to fix it. I expected to have a career. Other people expected me to have a career and make good money. Life does not always go as we expect.
If a hostile foreign company starts getting significant market share, you can be sure that the local companies will be seen to cry out for regulation and the government will oblige
Looks like Detroit today.
In the long game we're all dead.
Bare in mind I've been often on the other side of this discussion....

None of this really matters - if you tell someone word ate a word document then they are sympathetic whereas if you tell them libreoffice ate a word document the reaction is much less favourable. I do not like this.

My solution - I just refuse to use any office software.
The bigger problem is that it would make it much harder for poor parents to keep up with the richer ones because they could not afford the service.
This talk (Rage against the weaponized AI propaganda machine) at DEF CON I attended showed research indicating that it doesn't take much to sway an election one way or the other -
just a couple percentage points and that tactics which are now being widely reported on do work towards that goal.

https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2025/DEF%20CON%2025%20pre...
Lol I appreciate your comment about the Japanese ninja-workers. Reading business books from the 90’s, it is astounding how many people feared the Japanese and thought they would be the end all be all. Of course it ended with them going into a depression much worse than even our Great Recession. Michael Crichton, who wrote “Jurassic Park”, also wrote a book called “Rising Sun” right before that about just this topic. In that book, the velociraptors were the ninja workers you describe.
Sounds like a surprisingly detailed scenario they've been able to reconstruct based on just $100k of ad spend.

It's funny the Russians didn't funnel the money through US based organizations to cover their tracks, it's almost like whoever did this wanted to be discovered. But gosh, why would that be?
That said, brian d foy is not Brian D Foy.
Do you honestly think that uniqueness is the only sensitivity regarding an SSN?
Lack of domain knowledge is a great way to kill any new company. It's a variation of the 'build it and they will come' mentality, as if you can accurately figure out what to build in the first place without relevant experience.
In France it's not seen as an altruist idea but as a favor to the company heads, risking too many unhealthy balance in the employee / employer relationships. An opportunity for more wild Uber management scheme in a way. When Germans talk about this idea in their country, it seems a good idea that I would back right away. But somehow nobody trusts French CEOs not to profit too much from the new flexibility.
I agree that we need more and better assessment - but I don't understand why we would allow a private body to do what should be a utility function of our educational system. Currently, the College Board is able to fill this niche (at great cost) due to a lack of trust in the assessments of individual instructors. Rather than further increasing the cost of assessment by expanding the use of private arbiters, we should seek to make the assessments that are already taking place (in far greater number and scope) more reliable and trustworthy.

I believe this would take the form of a dedicated assessment tool that allows teachers to create individualized assessments JIT based on - or in concert with - their planning and performance workflow. If I'm teaching a structured lesson on polynomials, I should be able to create a valid assessment simply be requesting that one is made. My students should be able to take that assessment on the spot and the results should be immediately available.

I will take assessments with 80% confidence of validity 10x/week over assessments with 100% validity once per year every. single. time.

There's more to be said here - but that's the gist.
Main questions and comments that strike me when I see the $100,000 amount is:

With Clinton spending $141.7 million and Trump spending $58.8 million on advertising, does that miniscule amount even matter?

What was even the CTR with those advertisements?

Is there even anything wrong with any country or person(s) doing that or trying to do that since we already have Super PACs and lobbyists?

I have more thoughts that aren’t worth writing about (its impact on a person’s view), but is this Facebook advertising issue blown out of proportion?
I'm not sure what you mean by overhead. It's not that hard or expensive to choose a few function pointers on program start.
New suit. Check.

Eating a cheese steak is supposed to impress us. Check.

"He's just a regular guy after all." lol. If he makes it through the first half of the primaries, I'll be amazed.
According to wikipedia, winds are pretty slow near the surface. Strong winds at high altitudes might be a problem if there's turbulence, but if there isn't it's probably okay.

> Thermal inertia and the transfer of heat by winds in the lower atmosphere mean that the temperature of Venus's surface does not vary significantly between the night and day sides, despite Venus's extremely slow rotation. Winds at the surface are slow, moving at a few kilometres per hour, but because of the high density of the atmosphere at the surface, they exert a significant amount of force against obstructions, and transport dust and small stones across the surface. This alone would make it difficult for a human to walk through, even if the heat, pressure, and lack of oxygen were not a problem.

...

> The only appreciable variation in temperature occurs with altitude. The highest point on Venus, Maxwell Montes, is therefore the coolest point on Venus, with a temperature of about 655 K (380 °C; 715 °F) and an atmospheric pressure of about 4.5 MPa (45 bar).

...

> Strong 300 km/h (185 mph) winds at the cloud tops go around Venus about every four to five Earth days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Atmosphere_and_climate

Given the thickness of the atmosphere, maybe the most sensible form of locomotion on the surface is to just let the wind carry you along...
Apparently he asked him for a Chinese name for the child, so it's more of an honorary thing than anything. The child would have a non-Chinese 'regular' name (Max in this case), and the traditional Chinese name could be sourced from him.

People phrasing it in a scandalous-sounding 'omg he asked him to name his firstborn' way are reading into it too much.
A better analogy might be that it's akin to signal flags.
Bitcoin Bootcamp at Stanford Nov 2nd-3rd
The title appears to be incorrect. The article states that Waymo is capping its damages claim at 1.8 billion dollars (not 0.8 Billion).
ICOs are the new nigerian banks
Easy way to measure the middle class with your own eyes - count the number of Uniqlo stores (or Starbucks type places) and watch how fast the products are moving in them. In major Chinese cities that has rapidly accelerated over the last few years and they are now on a par with (or even ahead of) any major Western city.
Hijacking .NET to Defend PowerShell [pdf]
Same for service sector automation: in California it is easy to say that technology will bring new jobs to displace the lost ones, but what is rarely seen is how every engineer at Google or Facebook is replacing whole offices of more traditional (and incredibly inefficient, compared to googbook) local ad media sales and administration all over the world. If progress brings efficiency, there will be less work. Zero sum competition can eat up those efficiency gains providing substitute jobs, but then what is the point of progress?
Silicon Valley’s housing situation: real estate exec deconstructs the market
Perhaps the $100k was just the Russian government experimenting, and the real dollar values were funneled through shell organizations, or more sinister--with full knowledge and support of the Trump campaign.
When we test ads on a platform, we always run a small amount first, then scale up. The $100k could be just the test size.
Most of that money was likely spent on TV ads and stuff. Nothing as targeted and intimate as FB ads.
I won't dispute this - the private sector is composed of people just as the government is, and their attachment of sensitive data to vulnerable identifying information is just as abhorrent and many times more dangerous than anything the federal government could ever do.

In my mind, the novel problem here is that the Chinese government can use such information in order to socially police people that nominally aren't under their control. Google in Europe or America has no desire other than to collect info for commercial purposes, and there is no inherent desire to turn over private information to any government.

WeChat in America constitutes a potential extension of Chinese governmental control onto American citizens. This can be something as innocuous and reasonable as the denial of visas due to certain communications, or something worse. American citizens may get their Chinese friends and relatives in trouble for something they say. A few cases of these, and suddenly half the American WeChat user base knows they have to watch what they say unless they don't care about people they know. Moving out of the platform is not an option due to network effects.

China has long maintained that foreign tech services offer an opportunity for foreign countries to subvert their information controls, and has banned thousands of domains and companies under the guise of protection from foreign influence, commercial or gubernatorial. What's to say that China won't turn around and do the same thing to other countries?

To your point about no advertising BS in China, well you'd be right if it were 20 years ago. Unfortunately, advertising has become a booming industry in China. Take a walk in most significant Chinese cities, and you'll find the constant bombardment of information to be more garish than any American counterpart. The Chinese Internet is no different.
This is where Smart Contract comes in.
Yes, they should've done what the U.S. government does when it wants to spread propaganda - fund "think tanks" to speak on their behalf.
3D XPoint has been available for several months now, just not in the DIMM form factor. E.g. the Intel P4800X:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11209/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p48...
Right. It's on the author to provide any means of communication that doesn't go through disqus—say, twitter, email, slack, github, keybase, etc etc. I can't think this would be onerous for anyone.
No one tests 3k a day...
Murder Machines: A History of Car Accidents in America (2014)
I develop against the deployment environment run in virtual machines for two reasons.

1) Too many packages/servers/etc. I've tried to install under OS X over the years just didn't quite work right. That's probably not the case so much any more, but I have experienced it recently.

2) Developing against a macOS localhost can mask problems associated with my code running in the deployment environment. So to avoid those surprises, I develop against the deployment environment.

If I need root for package install or other server deployments, I log into the VM and do it there. I rarely need to install stuff on my macOS workstation.
> a teacher "trained" in coding is not a programmer

And if the "trained teacher" is a programmer, what is stopping them from taking a $100,000 programming job over their $40,000 teaching job (That caps out at $70,000 after 20 years)?
Trump's tweets aren't enough to have an effect on business, anymore.
Burrowing through anything other than loosely packed soil by necessity creates a larger volume of tailings than the original rock which has to be constantly cleared to the surface. Packing a useful science lab into a robot small enough to burrow through loose top soil on Venus (which may or may not be very deep or even really exist since we know very little about the surface of Venus) would be difficult to impossible. Second in the case of going through hard rock via drilling, the drill teeth have a limited life span and would be extremely difficult to replace in an automated way.
Yes it does, at least in the sense that syscalls which become officially public will never be removed from Linus' tree except in rare circumstances (i.e. proof that nobody is using it), nor will the arguments change. This is Linus' famous "never break user space" ABI mantra. While distributions may deprecate and remove them (e.g. sysctl(2)) they certainly won't be assigned new IDs. A table won't help in such cases.
thats no fun.
> Doesn't the term negotiate or renegotiate imply the consensus of more than one party?

No, it implies trying to reach such a consensus, not the existence of such a consensus. The practicality of attempting to find consensus is different than that of actually finding it.

> As far as "can be done," meaning it is legally possible to renegotiate, which it is.

Then that was a stupid and pointless response to the comment about the need for consensus, which raised an issue of pragmatics, not legal possibility.
How long have you been in Seattle? Because Seattle did NOT used to be a wealthy city (at least compared to Seattle now).

There is nothing to say that a city with a better handle of its zoning issues wouldn't improve from a business bump.
This hardware is designed for running spiking neural network models? What is the current state of the art in this field? I was under the impression that training a spiking neural network was somewhat of an unsolved problem, because backprop doesn't easily apply. Anyone have information on this?
> The result is that life got worse for developers often forcing them to do less secure hacks and overall no gain in security.

But, for comparison, life got considerably better for me. I fee much safer (but not safe, there's plenty to worry about with just access to my user files) knowing when something is requesting Admin privileges, and because of the UAC prompts it's actually possible for regular users to run as non-admin and still get stuff done.

The amount of windows boxes that aren't running email clients and web browsers with full privileges by default is a huge advance for the whole world. That people aren't as careful as they should be with allowing that access sucks, but I think it's probably an order of magnitude at least better than what came before with regard to how easy it was to gain full access on Windows boxes through simple exploits. To say that there's been no overall gain in security in windows completely ignores the absolutely horrid state of security on Windows a decade or more ago. There are reasons why Windows is much better with respect to security today, and UAC is definitely one of them.
Not sure what you mean. Considering there's slightly more males than females in the US, staying single must necessarily be an even smaller "minority position" for males.
Wow! Today I learned something truly fun and interesting.

What countries is this popular in?
China's not blocking out the sharing of ideas though. Until a few months ago, Andrew Ng worked at Baidu!

They are isolating data, but hoarding data is a competitive advantage in a way that isolating knowledge isn't.
And this is why I choose not to update things that are already working exactly as I want them
Did you ever configure Gatekeeper in Security settings to allow for unsigned apps? It's plausible that updating to Sierra would preserve that setting, though I haven't tried (as I never configured my system that way).
Amazon is actually obsessed with NOT becoming Sears. Internally, companies like Sears are referred to as "Day 2 companies." Day 2 companies are trying to maintain the status quo. Day 1 companies, like Amazon, are constantly trying to be disruptive and innovative.

Being called "Day 2" is one of the worst insults within Amazon.
Rainforest QA is hiring Senior Software Engineers (int remote / sf)
Is Y Combinator for me?
Don't worry, many wouldn't think twice. They simply can't afford $100 USD meds.
> In Britain people have been sent to jail for tweeting or posting facebook statuses.

You can be sent to jail in probably any country for Twitter/Facebook posts. Just ask Martin Shkreli[1]. I worked at a smaller social media company and a girl was pissed off at the politics of the governor of her state; she make a very specific threat (time, place, and action) and my company was required by law (and ethics) to report it to the local police.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2017/09/13/m...
Should have clarified physical or virtual in the question. I’ll go with physical since that’s more fun and we don’t see it enough.

My answer is...a catalog.

The internet makes it easy to find something, but knowing what to find, having those holistic, framework-sized grasp, is hard without exposure to something as rigorously organized and easy to flip through as a catalog.

Flipping through a Uline or Demco catalog will blow your mind. Some of this stuff has been invented 50 years and you have no idea. Wish I could link to some good examples but am on mobile / trust me on this, the catalogs are free after all.