skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I couldn’t find answers. I would sort of disappear, and I would hide, and I would make YouTube videos for my channel because at least I would be able yield something,” Neistat said. “I don’t think I’m giving CNN what I want to give them, and I don’t think they’re getting value from me.”

Sounds like things went poorly. Anyone know if this affected his earn-out (if there was one) or if they're just calling this whole thing a bust?
I'm having a hard time finding the link, but there was an article posted here on HN a while back (which the author deleted because of the underhanded nature of the endeavor) about a marketer whose ad campaign for getting a government initiative passed was failing even though they were using all the traditional methods.

Then they decided to spend ~$100 on buying fake reddit upvotes for their initiative and it received millions of views and ended up being highly successful.

It's interesting how far a little money and technological finesse can have such far reaching effects.
Good idea, but it'd need way lower prices for mobile data to be economically viable.
I'm a big fan in the surge in online courses. I've purchased several on Udemy. I recently discovered Patreon. I've been subscribed to this design one for almost month:

https://www.patreon.com/yesimadesigner/posts

I've been using the author's 365 Days of Creativity to help me learn design and use it as content on a new blog:

http://h4labs.org/category/design/
As a tall person, I tell myself that the small person in front of me is just trying to use the camera as an improvised periscope to get a glimpse at the stage.

I always thought that was just a private joke I had with myself, but now that I think of it I can't remember ever seeing a fellow tall person doing the camera thing. There might be a grain of truth to it.

(Now I hope nobody starts calling out Jack White as a sizeist for not allowing electric periscopes)
Bux? Allows trading a bunch of European and US CFDs. Also allows buying CFDs on Bitcoin. Unfortunately not on any other cryp currencies.
[Googler, I like to run with these examples].

Who manages the hardware and infra in this situation? Do all of these systems continue using the Google account you have with their tools running in Google's datacenters? Or do you now have 10 datacenters with 10 identity management tools and 10 different backend storage solutions that all need to be globally distributed and managed by teams of 5 or 10x as many total SREs to maintain the same level up uptime guarantee?
That's actually incorrect: according to his obituary[0], he died of heart failure.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120205104310/http://www.isil.o...
I put money down on a blackjack table, play a hand, win, and cash out with more money than I put in. How is that not an investment?
Excellent, I haven't tried this one. I'll give it a shot, thanks!
I'd pay at least 2x the Muni fare if they would guarantee I wouldn't be mugged or spat on by a mentally disturbed homeless person.
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That's where I'm 100% with you. That's what they're there for.
The same way betting on a coin flip is not an investment. Too much risk.
Also what's shocking is that you see plenty of young able people in those tents that could get a job yet decide to stay there. That baffles me. If you have arms, and legs, and you're doing ok in the membrane, then you can find a job in this country.
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Yep. Maybe the observation is (1) data has gravity -- it was originally in another non-graph-specific DB -- and (2) the graph structure part is normally small. So we indeed see a lot of extraction into easier-to-use systems.

The nuance being... with stuff like data science notebooks and pandas, the people skilled enough to do extraction are also skilled enough that it's easier to just use pandas. The exception is repeat work or when it is for regular analysts. Friendly query languages like Neo4j's Cypher helps there. Not sure what Arango supports... Gremlin? Proprietary?

Graphistry's environment is agnostic, and _not_ a database, so it'd be wrong of me to advocate teams drop their system of record and use just us ;-) We ended up building a visual "playbook" investigation environment to help teams streamline these scenarios. They run visual playbooks against their legacy db (splunk, elastic, sql, ...) for faux-graph queries, or their new graph db for deeper ones (e.g., path queries). So we're more of the system of record + superpowers for your investigations, kind of like a smarter version of what Tableau/Looker do for SQL.
The web page reads: "Invest in Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies".

Can someone change the title to better match the web page? "Crypto" is a bit confusing without "currency".
This makes sense and is an unfortunate loss for those individuals that would've gotten something out of the video. However, it seems like phone presence is still doing more harm than good.

Sometimes, the best memories you have are the ones that you can't perfectly recall. You get to keep it as perfect as you'd like to remember it.
I have read some, yes. He was a complicated person with complicated opinions and many decades to shift his worldviews. Early in life he was an open admirer of the Social Credit Party, the turn of last century Universal Basic Income party, so he was an open socialist for some years.

It's easy to chalk his early socialist inclinations as youthful vigor that maybe he regretted later in life, but that isn't the only way to read it. Despite what modern political in-fighting and team-formations may wish us to believe, socialist and libertarian are not mutually exclusive constructs (one is socioeconomic and the other sociopolitical, and there can be and is an intersection; UBI is very libertarian as an ideal/project). Up until the Red Scare and McCarthyism there were American socialists on both sides of the aisle. After the Red Scare there were still socialists on both sides of the aisle, but yes, most of them at that point were forced into the closet and out of mainstream discussion for many decades in the later part of the twentieth century.
In an alternative universe, Chad is a poor white boy who lives at home with his single mother and three siblings. He's studious but attends a bad public school, he works after school to help out at home, he takes care of his little brothers and sisters. In this universe Keycia is a black girl from an upper middle class family. She's also studious and also attends a public school but a good one with AP/IB classes, dual credit and so on. She doesn't work but she does play on one of the best lacrosse teams in the state and also swims.

Now, with diversity initiatives that are geared against Chad and in Keycia's favour, who's got a better chance of getting into Stanford?
It depends whether you see Waze as a transportation service or not. Many European regulators would see this as a paid transportation service. And then Google has to deal with customers who were not satisfied with any part of the service.

From the site:

"Make a little money" - paid service, maybe even considered a part-time employment

"Get there quicker" - transportation service.
Had this experience recently, got a call about a startup producing cash register software. The idea the founder was pitching sounded interesting, but I feel the delivery of his pitch and showed he lacked the confidence and leadership to persuade the level of talent he wanted to leave their well paying, stable jobs.
Are you suggesting that Google did not innovate at all with regard to Android? That the product they purchased in 2005 was essentially the same as the one they began offering in 2008, or the one today? (just as an example, android was redesigned in response to the iPhone)

Waymo appears to be on track to a business?

Are you suggesting that, with tensorflow, innovation doesn't count if its infrastructural and not consumer-facing?
I agree, the safety aspects of this are shocking and the 'be free of phones' puritanism is a bit dull.

A _very_ strict code of conduct for attendees is something that can (and does) work.

Jazz pianist, Keith Jarrett has been known to stop his 4-hour long improvisation sessions in some of the world's most prestigous venues mid-flow to dress down an attendee trying to film him. People don't make that mistake twice. https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2007/aug/09/keit...

Unrelated, but I'd be way more on board with this if the DVD of the show wasn't £30 afterwards.
But this policy hurts both.
> I think the most telling bit of the whole article is where the author is described as "a man who was eventually killed while trying to create his own region in Somalia"...

As I noted elsethread, that's not true: he died of heart failure[0].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120205104310/http://www.isil.o...
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Actually the bafflement set in a couple of paragraphs down. Did anyone else find this overdone?
Chatbots in questions and answers
There's also:

- cloud storage

- shared document editing

- translate

- instant messaging

- calendar

- maps

Not that any of those have no non-Google alternative, but they're all things that Google offers.
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A coworker uses DDG and each time we are talking about a problem at work (software development) and need to search something, I am disappointed by the lack of good results and make him use Google instead. It is currently 5 - 0 for Google if I recall correctly.

I would switch in a heartbeat if the results were comparable. Every time I’ve given it (or Bing) a shot for a few weeks, Google was simply better.
Related, kinda:

Robinhood seems to be pulling in a lot of different directions and there's all these "early access" features that never seem to actually, well, launch.

I've now signed up for:

* Web access (otherwise it's mobile-only)

* Options trading

* And now, cryptocurrency trading (because why not)

and I haven't gotten access to any of them yet, even though Robinhood for web has been in "early access" for quite awhile now.

So I signed up for this, but I have very little faith that I'll get access any time soon (even with the vague promise of early February).
Wow, no droids allowed!

I guess Star Wars was right.
People have more time to write after they quit ;)
Went to a concert this summer where the woman in front of me was taking pictures/videos and posting them during the concert to Facebook. It was a blacked out arena and she had the brightness near full. Saying it was distracting is an understatement and thankfully someone told her to quit the shit after a few songs.
> Which is why they also have ushers whose job it is to move those conversations out of the concert hall.

I've been to triple-digit number of gigs and that has never happened. Not once. Perhaps it's peculiar to the UK but still.
Does Elasticbeam only do API security? Because there's a lot more to security than API security.

If you're in a large enterprise you can easily be generating hundreds of thousands of events per second (both in terms of network actions and system events) and you need something to make that manageable and able to generate alerts so that your Incident Response team can respond to actual problems.

No idea really, since all the articles about Chronicle are really vague, but it reads more like a Threat Intelligence Platform + a Threat Analytics Platform.
Or the reasons for joining are obvious and not interesting.
1 hour of commuting could cost something like 30$ in gas (Europe), vechile depreciation and tolls. Sharing that cost 50-50 or 33-33-33 for a 5-10 minutes delay would yield a 120-180$ / hour rate for the delay period. Very few people could afford to turn that down, it's the average income of an whole hour of work compressed into 5 minutes.
As zcoyle said, it's bash. Why did you think it was Ruby when you correctly guessed it was a shell?

AFAIK, the closest in Ruby would be something like:

for i in 1..10 do
puts "This works too! Number " + i.to_s
end

As for passwords, I boot directly into single-user mode and start the network manually. It's the only way to be sure.
>Reading crap about market psychology and fractals and fibonacci this and wave theory that is all trash and does not make you a trader.

reads crap about Tether propping up bitcoin price, without audits despite claims of USDT backed by USD

immediately realize you're regular people and invest nothing in cryptocurrencies
The domain is crypto.robinhood.com and the website title is "Robinhood Crypto".

Title is perfectly accurate.
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"Just" funding public transport wouldn't actually make commute times to tech company headquarters reasonable.
I think this is approaching the problem from the wrong direction.

My issue with IoT stuff isn't that it's on my WiFi network. That's great, that means I can interact with it easily.

My issue is that it's communicating with (and often, ultimately, controlled by) a mothership that is somewhere out there on the internet, that I'm not in control of and can't interact with easily.

Having the devices communicating with the mothership using mobile data just takes even more control away from the device owner, which is a step backwards IMO.

The way to make these things secure is to have them on the WiFi network but not speaking to the outside internet, except where explicitly enabled by the owner.
Because it is not luck that determines the outcome. However speculative Bitcoin is, it isn't based on luck
Is this something new? Or is it old news? If nothing has changed, it's unusable for much of the United States. I live in rural Oregon, and it could be a helpful service. Last I checked, it was restricted and not available.
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As a very happy user of Robinhood financial, this really does look exciting. If you’ve not used robinhood, and have a little interest in investing, I’ve found their simple interface to be very nice to use relative to the more heavy weight options I’ve had experience with (etrade, schwab, fidelity).

I didn’t see how their crypto offering would allow me to transfer my wallet from Coinbase to them, do I create a new wallet, and then send money from one to another? If so it’s unfortunate that I’d need to incur transaction fees to onboard.
It doesn't (although I don't agree with the phone ban anyway) but GP specifically made a point of claiming there was hardly anything more annoying and, in my experience, that's just not true. Consider it an Anecdata Pebble.
When Yegge made his infamous platforms rant, he was clearly hoping to convey (internally, to other Googlers) important criticism on Google's mistakes, which is a productive conversation to have. I have seen a lot of tweets in particular from Google employees that can only be described as 'butthurt' regarding this blog post... but if, with any luck, the right Googlers read his post, with a little self-reflection, "slamming" Google might be good for Google. Because like any other company, Google could change, and could improve.

And this is hardly a slam, he still specifies that he believes it is basically the best place to work, and his follow-up post provides a bit more context to the main quote from the previous blog.
By the way, given sufficient demonstrated counting ability and savvy, I would be willing to invest in a blackjack team.

And it's worth noting that people do invest in currency. It is not merely an exchange vehicle.
> Consequently, Apple Pay will not be available tonight.

I hadn't thought of that aspect, but that presents an interesting problem. As more things get centralized on phones, this will become less & less feasible.
I'm really confused about why web access hasn't launched yet? Would think that is the easiest of them all and entirely in their own fate. Options and crypto seem like much more complicated endeavors but a website, ffs.
If you asked that question to Warren Buffett, he would probably point you to Benjamin Graham's distinction between investment and speculation:

"An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative."

http://buffettpedia.com/2017/08/investment-versus-speculatio...
Depends on what stage of learning curve one is in. For somebody new - strive to be good at data structures, design patterns and consistent code style.

- -

Also as we get into programming in multiple languages over the course of our careers - we can better harness the power of code templates (live templates in Intellij or code snippets in VS === kind of meta programming).

eg: I can spend couple of weeks to learn a new framework/language (which sometimes can involve lot of syntax) or Just few days to learn concepts well - then an hour to make handy live templates in editor. Latter I've found - boosts productivity really well.
DDG requires a shift in habits to get good results. Google gives you better results because it knows you and you can be less specific. Search for "django framework" instead of "django", for example.
I don't think it's fascistic at all. Think about it this way - I would like to trade my right to bring a cell phone into group event in exchange for the benefits I receive from participating in a group event without cell phones.

If you don't like that trade, don't make it! But don't deny those who wish to engage in that transaction the right to do so by forcing them to have a "cell phones are welcome" policy.

This is a rock concert. There is no coercion to attend whatsoever. You are absolutely, 100% free to decline this transaction.
So where is the github link that let's us play with this?
Because Robin Hood gave back the money the rich stole from the poor. It is just a way to level the playing field
A few month ago I would have read your comment and thought that bus can't really compete for the fine grained point to point transportation.

Then I went to Sydney in December. The public transportation system there is super impressive. You have a location-based app where you can tell you want to go from point A to point B (from an address, a click on the map, your favorites), it will instantly provide you with many options, with time, duration and price, showing you where to take it from.

It seems there are buses every 5 minutes. During the route the app will buzz you 2 and 1 stop before your actual stop. Oh, and the bus card allow you to take the light train and the ferry. You can also check your credits directly in the app, even recharge it I think.

It changed my perspective on how to use public transportation. In Los Angeles for example I would check which bus/train I should take, download the timetable to see the frequency and where to stop. In Sydney, I got confident in a way that I would just stop caring about planning first. Just open the app and it'll tell you how to go where you want to go.
A lot of places do not have a competent public transportation system or one at all. Public transportation also doesn't satisfy everyone's needs the same way ridesharing does (access to stops, time in transit, etc.). Even though ridesharing competes with public transpo, it does not eliminate it's need.
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I remember this issue with S3 files and being unable to configure certificate correctly. What's the correct steps to get that to work?

Also, clever find that there's a side channel on left vs right swipe. What caused these payload differences?
If you have to evangelize about how awesome it is to work there, that sounds like a cult and not culture.

It also sounds like Microsoft in the 90’s, when they were stepping on necks and didn’t give a shit about anybody else. Because they were better than everybody else and why should you worry about inferior people?

Although in MS’s case they took it a step further: we are the best people in the world.
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I was expecting a new cryptographic library and/or algorithm, and was looking forward to 33 highly technical comments about how it compared to ECDSA or something.

I suppose I should've known better.
I agree with your point, but ML is even more over-hyped word IMO.
Hmm why?
> Yes, one needs a reason for leaving a company. But at the same time, one leaves a company or a religion or a relationship for a reason. The argument and reasoning necessitate the departure; they're not developed post hoc.

It actually seems like this is frequently the case to me. A lot of people get to the point where they simply don't like coming into work everyday, and have to come up for a reason why they feel that way.
I for one would love to see something like this happen, but I think ultimately this will always be limited to niche applications.

A developer recently built a 20 story apartment building next to my office window using entirely a reinforced concrete frame. I was incensed to find out that because of "concrete cancer" [1], the lifespan of that building may be less than 70 years. But the more I thought about it, the more I began to believe that maybe the additional lifespan is not an asset. The building is attractive today, but might not (probably won't) appeal to people 40 years from now. Furthermore, buyers are going to want different things from their homes (look at the popularity of open kitchens 40 years ago vs now). And I began to realize that it would be
quite difficult to design and build a building that would be useful beyond 70 years from now.

Another way to look at it is that the marginal value of 10 years of longevity is not that large out 80-90 years. I think you'd have a difficult time finding a developer who would pay 10% extra to get a building that lasts 100 years instead of 90.

This line of reasoning leads to an icky "planned obsolescence" approach, but I think these are the economic realities.

[1] http://www.remedial.com.au/structural-repairs/concrete-cance...
IMO the only way to learn is to make a quick Wordpress site on one of those easy 1 click install hosts and start writing content and marketing it. (It's easy to get lost playing with the backend of websites so don't even give yourself the ability to do it)
I think a lot of people imagine leaving GMail as being very difficult but in my experience, not really. Get Fastmail and set it up with a custom domain. Not free, but suuuper cheap. Then go through all your accounts and update your email address. Forward GMail to your new email for a while. Done.
Well it's a chicken and egg thing. If rules are never enforced at concerts, people will continue to break the rules thinking nothing will happen to them. If rules tend to be consistently enforced and people know they run the risk of being ejected from a concert, people might be more likely to behave a little more.
Yes, I wish more companies took this approach. It can easily be planned for and scheduled appropriately - you know how much time everyone has remaining.

And disabling system access is good - they should not be on
"vacation" and still responding to emails on their phone, etc.
Use the code: pigletbeta3 for 6 months free access, provided you give feedback at least once a month.

It doesn't have that same issue you describe.
Optimal route or optimized route? I was under the impression that calculating an optimal route was NP-Hard and not feasible to do at scale.
Then it should be, "Our project failed because we hired developers who didn't know how to use source control in a team environment, we never noticed, and we never established processes or expectations."

CI is more than just source control, it's ticketing and associating tickets with branches, and automated deployment, automated unit testing, yadda yadda.
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And you'd complain if an artist insisted on ushers doing that? I get the feeling you're just trying to drop how many non-mainstream music events you go to.
Similar to BlahBlahCar? Seems to be very popular in Europe.
You just literally defined subjective by using a "story" rather than an objective measure.