skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this is the real rub; even if you yourself do not give Facebook information, it's been proven that they collect profiles on you. Anyone who has messaged you, has you in their contacts, sent you invites, added you to groups, all this gets added to a hidden profile. You are being tracked whether you gave out info or not.
Yep. I haven't worked there but got an offer from them and work with a number of ex-amzn people. I forget the exact numbers but it was something like ~20% in total vest over the first two years and then something like 40% a year in years three and four. It's heavily back-loaded and, what a surprise, they have a lot of attrition in the first two years of every cohort. There is a bonus to offset this in the first couple of years, to be fair, but iirc there's a clawback clause on that as well as relo. Everything I've heard and seen about their work culture makes them seem like the 21st century wal-mart.
people not wanting to here intros killed them.
Like it's hard to get a bunch of photos of real faces?
Ya the camera is the biggest issue, and I'll admit I do rely on my wife having her smartphone handy for capturing those unexpected moments. I do carry a small point and shoot (older model from 2009), but I am looking at upgrading it to a newer model. I find that because it isn't always handy, my photos of kids, events, etc. are more purposeful (some would say posed I guess), which depending on your point of view could be a plus.
... and the new iphone also wants to "set up FaceID", and Samsung's S8+ literally says "Face Recognition: Register your face." / "Fingerprint Scanner: Add your fingerprints." / "Iris Scanner: Register your irises".
Contracting scales only with the hours you work, so you can’t earn more than a day rate x number of days you work.

You have to leverage capital and/or people to go beyond that.
Awesome surprise to see the embargo lifted -- sounds like I can now say the Graphistry team will be doing a follow-up talk at Amazon Re:Invent tomorrow (Thursday) on Amazon Neptune + Graphistry. We've been incorporating this into visual investigation workflows for security, fraud, health records, etc. They've been doing cool bits on the managed graph layer, and were early to graph GPU tech (Blazegraph team members), and our side starts bringing that kind of thinking to visual GPU analytics & workflow automation tech.

If you're in town and into this stuff, ping me at leo [at] graphistry, and would love to catch up Th/F for coffee+drinks. Also here + email, of course!
Is that infrastructure, EC2 instances?
The quality of many GM products has been questionable for ~20+ years. Remember how poorly they handled the ignition switch recall[1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...
You can also download Simple Menu [1] and Tiled Menu [2] with a right-click on the panel, then Add Widgets -> Get New Widgets.

I think, they'll be available in that Alternatives-menu then. If not, you can add them through Add Widgets.

Plasma treats everything as either a widget(/"Plasmoid") or as a panel.
So, you also have to have your widgets unlocked for all of this to work (including the Alternatives-menu).

[1]: https://store.kde.org/p/1169537/
[2]: https://store.kde.org/p/1160672
To be fair, Intel's old x86 ISA is kind of a mess, so microcoding everything back down to an internal RISC may have been the only way for them to even keep the thing manageable.

As CISC goes, 680x0 seemed a little saner to me, and it had more registers so you didn't have to go to memory as much. Back when I did MIPS programming, I remember getting more of a boost out of having more registers to work with than I did from the shorter instruction cycles.

So the variables are all very entangled... is the edge due to RISC? register count? 40 years of cruft (in Intel's case)? better compiler support? something else? I just feel like the whole thing deserves a little more investigation...
You forgot "Elastic".
> In France

> The country seems to work fine.

I hope you realize the joy you have brought to many people's day by writing this.

I would pay a large sum of money to see all of the replies that will go unwritten.
I've actually had the opposite experience: I've found way more silver-tounged developers outside of the Bay. It's hard to bullshit in SV because most worthwhile companies have at least a few people who have been around the block a few times. The smaller the market the easier it is to hype yourself up. I've even noticed it in NYC -- a lot of developers who are able to talk a big game because many of the finance/ad-tech firms are relatively easy to fool.
You'd think an entity as large as they are would understand the complexities around names. It always seems to prudent to re-read http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... when something like this happens.
That's the reverse of Mercedes' previous robot delivery scheme. They did a test with Starship Technologies delivery robots, where a van was filled up with the robots, it went somewhere, and the robots fanned out to deliver things. That would make sense for dense areas like apartment buildings and offices, once you get doors and elevators to cooperate.

This new test delivers stuff by drone from a distribution center to the vans, which then make local deliveries with humans. That seems backwards. The drones are doing the heavy lifting, something trucks do very well.
I was recently locked out of my FB account. The only way to unlock it was to identify my friends' pictures. Apparently sending me an e-mail was too much trouble ...

Haven't been able to log in since, as I refuse to partake in that sort of bullshit. Can't say I miss it.
Automatic pilot for a flying drone from A to B is much easier than one that moves on streets or sidewalks, but I hope we don't let these flying drones cover our cities with noise. If automatic cars work out, maybe a system of quiet, electric trucks that stop at your house/apartment and then a flying drone from truck to the front/back porch (or open widow? That would be cool for condos/apts) would not add much more noise to the urban environment.
I own Pixelmator but I find the UI to not be great.

If I really need to get something done, I use Acorn (https://flyingmeat.com), which I like a lot. The support and documentation is top-notch.
You can't just tell every person to "get a car with better proximity detection systems". The product should fit as seamlessly into the world as possible, without forcing less wealthy people to deal with a higher chance of collisions.
Thanks for posting it! It's unfortunate that the entry doesn't include the ISBN number [0], and that it consequently doesn't turn up when searching for that number

[0] I consider "ISBN number" to be a reasonable expression, with the interpretation "the number that goes by the name _ISBN_".
What recovery? You're uploading your pic via your account. It is already associated with you.
Bosnian Croat war crimes convict dies after taking poison in U.N. court
These trends aren't really all that meaningful in practice.
Apparently this forced update breaks file-sharing(!): https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/security-update-2017-00...

(SMB still works)
Agreed. I don't mind the requirement of root, just as I'm glad my desktop has a root account that's not the default account. That said, the effort required to obtain root on my own device is silly. It should simply be a switch in the "Dev Tools" settings screen, which is already hidden from plain consumers.
Fingerprinting a photo to detect copies is much easier than accurately classify what is and isn't 'pornographic' content.

Classification is a harder problem to begin with, and 'pornographic' is a subjective judgement.
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Yeah.... Quick Mask mode is still listed as "coming soon". That's going to make good selections difficult
I'm telling you how it is because I just did it myself, in App Store -> Software Update the update was there asking me to install it. There are options in App Store system prefs panel that let you change the default behaviour.

That being said, there's no reason why this shouldn't be applied automatically.
Canadians have a TN visa option which is much simpler to get than H1B. There is no quota limit.
We have global SWE footprint and, as a hiring manager/executive, I can tell you that cost is a factor, but it's not the only one for us.

If you can't do top work, I don't care how cheap you are. If you can, I don't need to chisel out the last penny that you're willing to take to show up to work.
Yes, I guess it depends on what "picture" covers legally. Is a bijectively transformed version of your picture the same "picture"? How about a degraded version? How about a 3D model of your face?
> I think of it like going to a library and instead of freely browsing through the books without being watched, instead being spied on and every book I look at and even where my gaze travels through each book's pages being monitored.

I totally agree and empathize with the increasingly privacy hostile place the internet is. But, that analogy seems a little hyperbolic to me. The library currently does track which books you check out, and maybe fine you when you’re late to return them. They do track which books are popular, in order to figure out what to stock. Some libraries track how their building is being used, and my local library does have cameras. These are all the same kinds of things web sites are doing. It may be more aggressive on a site, and more focused on selling you something, but it’s not fundamentally different. First party sites (not ads) aren’t tracking your gaze or invading your privacy, they’re responding to what you ask for, and using some of the breadcrumbs you leave to improve conversions if they can.

Talking to a person face to face has exactly the same issues. If I buy a car, for example, the sales guy will definitely watch my gaze and listen to what I say with an ear toward exploiting anything I share with him to increase his odds of selling me a car. We wouldn’t call what the sales guy does a privacy issue, and what “first party” web site tracking directly (without third party services) is doing is no more creepy and no less private than what car sales guys do.

If the direct tracking is sold or shared or handled by a third party, then absolutely, huge privacy concerns. But for the direct communication, if you don’t want someone to infer anything about you at all, your only choice is and always has been to not use the service.
I had a similar experience, but submitted a picture of my congressman (who was standing in front of a billowing American flag) which was accepted without comment by Facebook.
But if we all do demand that, then they won't have a choice.
Once you put everyone under oath, unless everyone agrees to the same story, it's not too difficult to make the truth come out.
So how does a SV salary compare to the rest of the world?

I.e. what is the conversion factor for a salary in e.g. NY, Canada, UK, Germany, France, etc.
Back before i had my kid i remember reading (and really enjoying) Benatar's book, "Better Never to Have Been." I also remember it being a downer, unsurprisingly, and picking up Christine Overall's "Why Have Children" to get another perspective. She offered a somewhat more clinical — but readable — argument and got into the ethics of procreation. Both recommended.
I might do that when I can buy a reliable one used for less than $5000. Personally I don't have enough money where financing vehicles is a negligible expense. Did it once...not planning on doing it again.
You hit the nail on the head, but it's not limited to (but is concentrated in) Silicon Valley:

>I would go out on a limb and say that there are more smooth talkers with silver tongues in Silicon Valley, who will talk their way through an interview and only provide the perception of talent.

And smooth bloggers with silver cursors, who will type their way through a posting only to provide the perception of talent. People famous for being famous, cheerleaders who fancy themselves the authority on this or that because they have a lot of followers, but have no technical skills whatsoever, and have never done any of the difficult tedious shit work and midnight oil combustion required to ship a real product, like Scoble and his emulators.

I think a big wave of incompetent developers started with the "Ruby on Rails in 10 minutes" screencast that anyone could watch and easily duplicate the exact same CRUD web site with lots of pretty frosting and absolutely no cake. So many "dot com" startup web sites since then have the same level of out-of-the-box polish and spray-on tan, yet absolutely nothing tangible behind them, in terms of skilled thorough execution or original tractable ideas.

The shoddy buggy thrown-together quality, carelessly flagrant and criminal privacy violations in the naked pursuit of virality, and total lack of maintenance and customer support of sites like AngelList.com, where the lights are on but nobody's home, exemplify what I mean. It's got about as much depth and execution as "Hot or Not", and explicitly caters and appeals to the Silicon Valley charlatan crowd.

Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326011

diskcat: "This is damage control. You clearly want to make people update their profiles or whatever by pretending to be somebody else they know.
You went with an immoral strategy to grow your business and that now it has finally hit you in the face on a very visible website you are here to be all apologetics. It's the "easier to ask for forgiveness rather than permission" strategy and it is deliberate thus I must conclude that your apology is insincere and is only an attempt at limiting the backlash against you."

AngelList acquires Product Hunt (techcrunch.com):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13080283

exogeny: "Why are we applauding Ryan again?
This is a saving face bailout from one of their own investors and a particularly embarrassing one at that given his statements of "I wouldn't consider anything under $100mm" and the pedigree of his investors.
They raised a shit ton of money and built nothing. No real technology, no significant additions to their platform, no development of community. And now the result is an all-stock acquihire from AL, which will amount of a purchase of their users and a one year rental of the same engineers and team that failed to build anything worthwhile.
Raising money at a $22m val from A16Z and selling for less than that - all stock no less - is a failure, and we need to stop lauding it as if it's somehow notable or impressive to take money and waste it."
What do you have against identifying friends' profile images, of all things? Facebook already has them.
This was my experience - after removing apps / block there would be an initial period where I would stick to it, but eventually would fall back to the same old routine. Changing engrained habits is extremely difficult.
Apparently there is no value to that novel unless resources are spent protecting it.

That is a non-sequitor.
Recently Patched #Dnsmasq Still Affect #Siemens Industrial Devices
> Then I can decide as a user if I want to hold my currency in a "bank" that loans out 70% of their assets, or one that loans out 10% of their assets.

But but both of them are by the definition a fractional reserve bank. And I am (honestly...) not trying to be pejorative here, but it is delusional to think that customers would be better regulators of a fractional reserve bank (or a straight out scam that is just dressed up like a fractional reserve bank...) than separate independent bank regulator.

(It may be time to call quits on this discussion as the HN pending comment algorithm seems to think that this is too dep:) Anyway, thanks, at least I think I have learned a lot (even if I haven't changed my mind on the future of BTC...))
So is the "alpha" he talks about a bunch of rexx scripts that run on top of an xedit clone?
RISC-V is the new Rust
Bitcoin differs from commodities like gold in that it's something which can be trivially transferred electronically. It doesn't make much sense to 'buy' cash instruments when you can just get the real thing.
Last mile is best served on foot, not by vehicle.
Most RSS readers support this already.
I make less than $100K and despite my 10+ years experience I'm by no means underpaid, and I'm in Denmark, a rather expensive country to live in.
I'm not saying it's a good responsible thing to do, I'm just saying it's possible and a new type of vandalism that hasn't existed before. Your solution doesn't sound like it will scale well. If the police need to get involved for this every time, they're going to be very busy.
If text editors slowed down by 3x, I'd be happy. The latency I am complaining about is orders of magnitude higher than 3x. This is the most rigorous benchmarking that I am aware of:

https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/

Each of those tables show that the difference in performance is not 3x but at least an order of magnitude, if not more. I think this is where our disagreement stems from.

Your next point is valid, it would not make sense to develop such an application from scratch. However, I'm not talking about rebuilding from scratch merely prioritizing performance. This can be done by learning from Data Oriented Design where developers give a lot of importance to performance critical issues such as cache locality. This can be done without rewriting our tools from scratch, it just means that the developer will have to understand how memory works. It's not a tools issue, it's a knowledge issue.

Your last point on Visual Studio makes me want to re-iterate the core of my argument: Performance and developer time optimizations need not be mutually exclusive.
But software programmers don't qualify for TN visa. System analyst is the closes I think.
Not even just less wealthy people, but anyone who tends to be financially conservative. I don't think there's an economically sensible option to purchase a car like this right now.
While this totally blows my mind, I can see how those a decade younger might not bat an eye, they might have sent digital nudes in the past, or even have one on the phone. A decade younger than that (late teens), and they might be so impatient about having to upload a digital nude, they just wonder why you can't just use one of the ones they sent last week. The difference in how the generations view technology and digital exposure in vast. "Sexting" came into the public consciousness as a common term almost a decade ago, but that's just when it was publicly popularized.

I mean, I consciously think about every time I actually give a close approximation on my age in a public forum (like I did above), and make a call on whether it's needed or not. I feel like a dinosaur because of it sometimes, but I also feel like there's only so much privacy you're allotted, and once it's lost, there's really no getting it back. :/
Wow. I normally let a lot slide, but this article is embarrassing for Amazon. Please hire a writer or at least a proofreader.
Yeah coming from NYC these numbers seem pretty high especially considering everyone here is saying they're low for being biased towards startups.
‘We Never Thought We'd Be Believed’ the Fight to Expose Morgan Marquis-Boire
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Supreme Court considers if your privacy rights include location data
You have just described traditional publishing.
The conclusion of the article seems a bit of a stretch. I'd guess long intros existed at least partly for radio DJs to talk over.

But maybe it's still right: the structure of music is dictated by who spins the media.
It's, like, been over 50 years since "the medium is the message" popped out loud and clear out of Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message - not bad, but the original short book also delved in classifying media as 'hot' or 'cold', which is an interesting idea in itself. Not sure I buy it, but interesting.)

Is it out of fashion at media studies joints?
Those are in the top subset I was referring to. Most engineers working for established companies are not working for that subset. I'm not aware of Oracle, Cisco, or similar-tier companies giving stock grants to engineers.

Cash bonuses are a different animal. I agree with your range (at least if you exclude defense contractors). Those alone are well short of doubling compensation, though.
How did you source the items?
Troy: HUGE kudos for how you managed such an open and transparent process. Don’t recall any other examples of such inclusiveness and openness for a senate testimony. Bruce Schnier did a good job sharing his testimony after the fact but you went all in.
In context of Zuckerberg’s “They trust me, dumb fucks” comments, the invitation to upload nude photos seems especially alarming.
Do you have any evidence for this? Or at least how much this underestimation is?

Salaries in London are certainly higher than the rest of the country (by a comfortable margin), but anywhere from £40-80k seems to be the norm. £80k being at the high end of senior. Six figures is possible, but fairly unlikely outside of finance or senior positions at the megacorps. If you don't live in London (or the South East), £40k alone would be considered a very comfortable salary.

This is corroborated by Glassdoor, various sites which claim to have surveyed salaries and actual job adverts (e.g. via StackOverflow Jobs or recruiters).
That is in line with our vision for Batch; to be the engine for systems where you essentially describe a DAG and we run and hyperoptimize the execution for you. We do some of what you’re asking for but that’s great feedback around what you’d like to do.
I doubt he meant it literally, probably more like he had to slow uncomfortably fast because the self driving car behaved in a somewhat jerky manner. Think about what you might do if you had to slow down in this situation -- you'd try to balance leaving room ahead of you as you did it with not stopping so quickly as to startle the driver behind you. There's a lot of nuance to that, and it wouldn't surprise me if computers weren't very good at it yet.
NFS is still working for me. I thought "file sharing" was SMB. AFP is deprecated. What other kind of file sharing is there?
>There is no such things as neutral news.

That's a big statement, can you elaborate?

Surely there can be objective reporting on events. So do you mean that filtration that a news organization must perform (i.e. it's impossible to report on every event) will have some bias?
The "government backing" portion is why PBS should not exist. They have the biggest conflict of interest in the world, because they are backed by a highly corrupt 3 trillion Dollar organization
If one of my friends identified me in a photo to facebook, I would not be happy about it.

I generally ask everyone who knows me not to upload photos I'm in to facebook at all beyond what's already there.
Random people in your country are not the target audience for this.
An 84-year-old doctor who refuses to use a computer has lost her medical license
Cryptocurrencies and the Blockchain (and how to build one with Python)
Yep, I agree completely. I work on a relatively well known app, and we use Crashlytics to monitor crashes (duh), and other tracking software to reduce friction in the app.

We don't care who tapped button A instead of button B, we just want to know how many people tapped button A instead of button B.
I think it is a bad thing because it encourages the company to treat people like shit.
[I didn't read the article, but] I think the move to buying songs one-at-a-time has hurt the whole 'album' concept, including long intros, long interludes, and the idea of a body of work that builds on a theme.