skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well this promises to be fun, especially for cloud providers (and those running instances on the cloud, who now potentially get to suffer through host instability)
Yeah, merely an observation, not a criticism of SaaS.

However I do wonder sometimes, even with the resources and domain knowledge, if the super crazy scale these SaaS companies have to deal with tips the scales to be about the same reliability as a solid internal ops or IT team (who only have to worry about YOUR scale).
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Life lessons from Tadahisa Sakai, the last descendant of a Japanese samurai clan
Isn't most of the mass of wood water?
Seriously, the only thing I truly gleaned from all the internal screenshots here is that Google is a horrific place to work where people are fighting about politics and the like with other coworkers. The infighting, the whole idea of blocking or blacklisting fellow employees... Who would seriously want to work in that hostile an environment?
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You can do all 4. Convince them to change, then quit anyway, change your perspective, get high and then moan about it.
Name too close to dropbox, and Dropbox became a well-known name first.
We got quite a bit of traffic , and the target group is perfect for codeowl, also the feedback has been overwhelming and mostly positive. I think Show HN is a great idea for dev tools
They don't "share" the data, and the NSA doesn't pay for it. The slides clearly show that the data requests are consumed by the FBI, which is the organization that the companies deal with.
Marriott to China: We Do Not Support Separatists
Facebook rolls out News Feed changes
"...ALLEGATIONS made by former Google employees James Damore and David Gudeman in a discrimination lawsuit filed against their former employer. Damore and Gudeman CLAIM that Google encouraged pro-diversity voices within the company and stifled conservative views. However, THE NEW DOCUMENT ILLUSTRATES that employees who spoke out in favor of diversity initiatives were reprimanded as well..." [ALL CAPS added by me]

So, the consistently left-leaning analysts at Gizmodo inform us that James Damore, whom Google themselves say they fired for the opinions expressed in a memo we can all read and see for ourselves what he was fired for, is still only alleging and claiming that the company that SAYS they fired him for expressing these views stifles conservative views.

But a MEMO written by a guy whom Google didn't fire at all, much less for expressing a pro-diversity opinion, but simply quit becomes a NEW DOCUMENT that ILLUSTRATES facts about Google not otherwise in evidence.

I lived in a country once with a state-controlled media that would begin its evening news reports with statements such as, "US President so-and-so claimed such-and-such today, but our-glorious-leader set the record straight, pointing out that blah-blah." I wondered how people in that country could hear that template and not see that it was blatantly biased at the template level. It wasn't just a biased interpretation of the issue, but was biased on the face of it, even before anything about the actual issue was inserted in the blanks.

But I discovered that people who consistently heard media talking this way couldn't detect even this blatant a bias in format, much less in the content of the actual issue, so the writers didn't have to even pretend superficially. With government-controlled media, most people lived in a bubble. Everything they were told agreed with everything else they were told, so it was just common sense, and anything I said that contradicted "the narrative" was considered utter nonsense.

What does it say about the tech audience Gizmodo is writing for that they are as confident as the state media in that small, tropical dictatorship, that they can be this blatant and their audience lives in such an ideological bubble, self-imposed in our case, that they'll approve of it and want more like it?
Most of that is on mailing lists that nobody forces you to subscribe to.
I switched from 2 Step Auth to 2 Factor Auth recently and saw the same thing. A trusted phone number is required (and verified with that code you received) but in the future you'll receive 2FA codes on your trusted devices. But to setup that first device, you've gotta setup at least one trusted phone number. More information here[0]. Relevant bits:

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With two-factor authentication, your account can only be accessed on devices you trust, like your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. When you want to sign in to a new device for the first time, you'll need to provide two pieces of information—your password and the six-digit verification code that's automatically displayed on your trusted devices.

...

A trusted device is an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch with iOS 9 and later, or Mac with OS X El Capitan and later that you've already signed in to using two-factor authentication.

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A trusted phone number is a number that can be used to receive verification codes by text message or automated phone call. You must verify at least one trusted phone number to enroll in two-factor authentication.

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In my case, I switched my iPhone to 2FA first and it sent me the SMS code. Once I started switching over my other devices to 2FA, I started seeing the code popping up (along with the location of the device being logged into, like in the photos from[0]) on my device instead of being sent via SMS.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915
> I think these people are arseholes IRL. I think they are just as abusive and prone to road rage type reactions.

Not sure about "just as abusive". The example abusive messages in that article if delivered in person, face to face, would be met with conflict and increased risk (i.e. physical or emotionally charged confrontation). These trolls are spineless and weak.
> I personally still think we are headed towards a second dot-com bust, but I’ve been saying that for so long that at this point, I’m just wrong.

As a wise man once said[1], “the market can remain irrational a lot longer than you can remain solvent”. At some point, the tech boom will end, and probably for many of the reasons that you have been telling anyone who will listen. The hard part is forecasting precisely when it will end with any range and precision.

[1]https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
How to mine Zclassic (ZCL)
Charcoal is made by burning wood in a low oxygen environment, driving off water and organics, while carbonizing lignin, cellulose, etc. Coal is a petrochemical mass formed underground from organic matter over long timescales.
I don't think anyone expects a company to hire differently than the population of their location.

Offices in Japan will be mostly Japanese, offices in England will be mostly English, offices in India will be mostly Indian, etc.
Anecdotally, the only change I've noticed is that Facebook seems to be showing more ads (almost always for something I'm not interested in) in my news feed.
Yes, let's trade one narcissist for another who is on the cover of every issue of her own magazine.
As in more reboots than they had been experiencing before applying the updates
I don't know how many people (contributors) they have in these preferred channels --maybe they have overwhelming numbers so they have to throw unspecialized bodies at the issue.

My feeling is that at some point they will manage the top tier of their premium contributors more like traditional content production. Idea people, writers, producers and someone who vets the output yay/nay and takes full responsibility for the release of the content. None of this "the views of [contributor] do not represent the values of our company" BS.

Of course, that means more money, less profit but would make things for advertisers palatable.
Bittrex has it, and that's where I've been buying it.
Google and workplaces in general are in a very tough spot here. "Diversity & Inclusion" are grenades in the current political environment and more often than not any discussion in a non monolithic setting where ideas from both sides will be argued (ie. a large multinational) will probably end up with mudslinging and fire throwing. I've seen it within my own companies forums and I have no doubt this was going on at Google. I definitely understand where HR and senior executives where coming from, I'm sure more than one post went off the fucking rails.

I'm all for diversity & inclusion within the work place but in general I would suggest companies do it in a more "covert" manner -- reach out to HBCUs, re-evaluate your interview process, talk to your employees who are "underrepresented minorities" to see how they feel about working for you. In general I think a lot of companies are simply inviting too much scrutiny by plastering diversity on the walls and screaming to high heavens.. press releases and chief diversity officers will not make you a more diverse company.
So, if you're a gamer, why be nice to people that are willingly violating an IP that you love?

Why? Because it is devoutly to be wished that you’re a human being with a brain, conscience, and at least a scrap of both empathy and perspective. If you’re so antisocial that you honestly believe that what you described merits abuse, threats, doxxing, etc... you shouldn’t be allowed online by your guardian.

Messing with your beloved IP is not cause to abuse people. An over-dependence on a given entertainment format to calm you is not their problem. Games are, and have been for a long dammed time, mass market entertainment. Mass market. That your particular gospel isn’t being played as constantly as you require it should be, is no one else’s problem, neither should your entitlement be their problem, nor is it license to be rude, cruel, or threatening to people you don’t even really know.

Besides, and this is the main point... your options are not the false dichotomy of “be nice” or “be abusive.” Try ignoring stuff you dislike, or expressing your concerns in constructive ways when it’s not hurting people. Try to remember that being a consumer of something doesn’t mean that anyone owes you more of the same. If your local decides to go vegan and alcohol free, that may suck for you, but they still didn’t owe you anything.

I’d be with you on one point: the endless lines from AAA publishers which amount to, “We released half of a broken game, haha, we already have your money and future updates will only be planned DLC and mometization...” but you’re using it to excuse inexcusable behavior.
If it's Oprah vs Trump 2020, I feel like we're rapidly approaching Fahrenheit 451 crazyland politics (just specifically the politicians, nothing else about the book).
I hope we will at some point get some diversity in the background of politicians. Seems there are way too many lawyers.
bcantrill is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Cantrill

If he is saying that Intel is giving other advice privately then you are welcome not to believe him (and note that it is you who is using the much stronger term "lying" here).

Personally I think un-sourced statements from him are worth listening to.
Okay.....but who was talking "politics"? James Damore? James Damore's co-workers? Both? Nobody?
Works pretty well on Firefox for iOS, but it blocks twitter embeds (sometimes just their images and other media content).
There are many ways of solving inconvenient 'problems'.
Wow, that's a good point. "...the exploits uncovered by Google Project Zero" would be much, much more appropriate.
It's clear that monochromatic's "quotation" was ironic.

A possible convention for ironic quotes:

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/3471/207671

> To avoid the potential for confusion between ironic quotes and direct quotations, some style guides specify single quotation marks for [irony], and double quotation marks for verbatim speech.
Doesn’t exactly reassure you, does it.
Dried wood suitable for burning is around 20% water at most, else it won't burn with much heat. It can go down to around 6% IIRC for kiln-dried wood suitable for construction.
Self-hosted vs SaaS is not a binary decision, and I hate seeing it argued like that every time there's an outage.

What the hell happened to basic risk mitigation? Offsite backups, disaster procedures, etc aren't new, or unexpected. You'd think they should be the norm, if you're a working professional...
Upvote x 1000.
It is a rather limited protocol. Really, the implementation isn't so bad... In a perfect world.

It's naive.

It imagines there was a whole different set of operating circumstances at shared web hosts than the reality exhibits.

I actually had not read the protocol specification for that challenge as I utilize http-01 and dns-01 on all my various systems. Then, when the early report without details was released, I read the protocol and realized almost immediately that there were several circumstances in the field which could yield actual vulnerability.

They also made the mistake of failing to align to a promise which the other mechanisms do make: the other mechanisms tie the validation directly to the target domain label being authorized or a known child thereof. The TLS-SNI-01 and TLS-SNI-02 don't do that. And they knew that, because they wanted to be able to perform a TLS-SNI validation without having to change server software. I believe that was a bad decision.

The proposed TLS-SNI-03 ALPN "acme" extension that Mr. Rudenberg has put forth will not be resilient to these attacks, ultimately. I think they should do a real ALPN protocol and do the validation through that. But let's assume time to market for that would exceed a year. In the mean time, people reliant on TLS-SNI-01 are likely going to need to do something else.

In short, a mechanism which would achieve much the goal of getting validation off of a single TLS port running the right software can happen, but I believe it should borrow pretty much nothing from the current TLS-SNI-0x proposals.

It should be a whole new real ALPN protocol.
Mailing lists which have a direct and immediate effect on your employment status and ability to be promoted.
this is one of the more important points that isn't being discussed enough. Why does the workplace need to be turned into a political minefield, there's something incredible presumptuous about the idea that everybody is supposed to proselytize at work.

Damore wasn't hired as an inhouse biologist but as an engineer. Same goes for everybody else. I personally have enough stuff to care about at work, I don't need to be drawn into any culture wars, if you want to discuss politics do it over a drink after work.

I partially blame Google for this because they have fostered a culture that turns the work environment into a living environment to squeeze as much brainpower out of their employees as possible. We need to go back to professional environments.

This is arguably also better for diversity in the first place. Women and minorities seem to do better in rule based environments like academia rather than summercamp like startups.
The verification codes popup on trusted devices but it's possible to have them sent to the trusted phone number instead. There's no way to remove the trusted phone number as a 2nd factor. From the FAQ :

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What if I don’t have access to a trusted device or didn't receive a verification code?

If you're signing in and don’t have a trusted device handy that can display verification codes, you can have a code sent to your trusted phone number via text message or an automated phone call instead. Click Didn't Get a Code on the sign in screen and choose to send a code to your trusted phone number. You can also get a code directly from Settings on a trusted device.

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It is there, but amongst the giant pile up of startups, it is hard to stand out. I would have paid more attention had I known it was of interest. :/

If you're at CES, it is in the bottom floor of the Sands just behind the Israel section.
They're not going to diligence the technology. They're going to vet the founders. That's what they've always done.
I would say that one very important mitigating factor is that Oprah has clearly demonstrated that she's capable of delegating tasks in order to achieve something larger than what would otherwise be possible with the force of her own personality. This is a material and important skill in a leader. People's view of trump as a success at building businesses by any reasonable measure is absurd but Oprah has been wildly successful by many metrics the right has consistently agitated for in their leaders.

To be clear I'm a pretty staunch socialist so I find little solace in the idea that she could be president, but I also think it's not quite right to say that they are steps down the same path: if I had to make this sort of a metaphor it would be that Trump yields Fahrenheit 451 and Oprah yields a cyberpunk dystopia something akin to Blade Runner.
Where to start with PHP?
2018 Jan 1-7	87% of Republicans approve of Trump, 5% of Democrats approve, 32% of independents approve

http://news.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-rat...
I mean, they had the same choice--not to work on fucking up the IP. And they have the potential to create suffering and annoyance to hundreds of thousands of people, instead of just a few people receiving grumpiness on the net.

This is a dynamic that has always existed in art and performance.

And for what it's worth, I don't think the option is "be nice" or "hurl abuse"...there is a distribution of behaviors and I'm suggesting that the more negative ones have their own reasons.
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As an engineer, I still want someone with a law degree to be president. As much as I want to see some large, overhauling change for the public good like Interstate Highways under Eisenhower, I also concede that US law is extremely nuanced and I think someone who studied law (and maybe history or political science) will best be able to think about how decisions will affect everyone.
This is so grating. And honestly, not even that bad compared to what I often see nowadays (from multiple sides).

Reading news seems to requires a very strong -- to borrow Wikipedia's term -- "weasel word" filter, and paying attention to only bare facts.
Your ambiguity implies you are indeed saying that minorities dying is feature.

> inconvenient 'problems'

Calling people dying "inconvenient" implies that at best you don't think it's serious. Putting "'problems'" in quotes, implies that you don't really think it's a problem.

Do you really want to say that deaths of people who are members of minorities is desirable, or at least not a problem?
I'm really excited by AutoML as well, it seems like one of the few next level advancements. One of the authors of AutoML is presenting in SF in Feb at the decentralized ai summit can't wait.
Two years ago? Still no issues.
Even so. It’s a strange use of branding. It would be like Beats having a line of “Apple Preferred” headphones.

In the eyes of many consumers they’re unrelated because they’ve up until now pushed very separate branding.
Based on what data? Most of the American media is privately owned, and for-profit. Someone's paying for that. If it's not the American public, who is?
I think she was always seen as centrist. I agree the Milk/Moscone tragedy helped her career but she was also elected Mayor after that in 80's. And S.F in the 1980s was very much a liberal place.
As long as you have "first past the post" and voluntary voting, you won't really get anything better. The compulsory voting and specifying the order of who want in is, somewhat better, in that there can be non-major candidates that end up getting elected.

Isn't perfect, but then again, what is?
I have been using Brave more and more. I am growing to love it.

It’s basically impossible to get an idea of global usage however because it does such a good job of not letting servers know you’re using it. It just looks like Chrome.
did they break their own record or something?
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.

Patches for both LLVM (the infrastructure behind clang) and gcc are available. You choose what you compile your kernel and applications with, and others are actively looking at retpoline and retpoline-inspired techniques for other code generators (e.g., various JIT compilers). That's why Paul and the folks made this public.
How much discussion has there been, and are you expecting, for a fleshlight add on to the suit?
The fastest object ever launched was a manhole cover
So brave
Care to expand more on the genocide remark? (Coming from a position of ignorance)
You started with:

kids who live in a hermetically sealed bubble, never share toys, and only ever interact with a couple of adults.

You now assume that I am suggesting kids never go to a park or grocery store etc. I see no means to find common ground here. Your assumptions about me are so extreme that it is impossible to engage you effectively. And there is zero reason for you to assume I am talking about such an extremely isolating lifestyle choice.

I go to public places, usually daily. I am not a hermit. I cannot fathom where you are getting this from.
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Note: Amazon, Netflix, and Tesla who have strong founders that don't let bay area extreme political ideologies interfere with their business don't have to partake in these PR nightmares. Lesson should be learned for Google. It is no coincidence the above companies are ruled as a dictatorship and Google is ruled by committee.
I more than partially blame Google. Open discussion on diversity at Google was the entire point of the Google-created forum.

(1) Lots of people say Google should be approaching diversity in one way. (2) Damore says Google ought to be approaching it another way. (3) Damore is fired. Not told "no, we're not going with your suggestion". Not told "you can't quote those studies". Fired.

If you're going to encourage this kind of discussion, you'd better be ready to hear researched opinions without firing people. But Google wasn't in a position to do that, so they shouldn't have encouraged it.
Any public docs on how you update the kernel without rebooting the guests?
The people buying the phones usually already know this.

Consumers gonna consume.
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It is possible that it is simply an attack peace but I don't think so. Opera is now a person of greater interest. That means that more people are likely to read an article about her. Therefore news sites want to write things about her.
> It's certainly not obvious to half the country

It's certainly obvious to the most of the U.S., and facts are not subject to a popularity vote regardless.

> "endless research" is tainted

Easily said, but completely unsubstantiated

> How long do you get to keep your job in academia if you point out ...

Can you substantiate that such a thing is true, and then answer your question? One thing that will lose you your job in academia is making intellectually weak, baseless claims. Academia doesn't run an affirmative action program to include all political ideologies; you have to actually have evidence and good arguments.
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It's common practice in media when dealing with court cases which have not been resolved to use language consistent with the non-resolution. So yes, they use the words "alleging" and "claiming," because it is consistent with what is going on in the courts.
> Or the population of countries where Google is not firewalled, and hence is the dominant gateway to the internet there.

I'm sure Google has many Chinese employees as well.