skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct from a cross-channel standpoint, FB traffic would typically be called "Social" or even "Referral" in some cases.

In this case, I'd guess they are referring to their organic reach within FB that in turn drove traffic to their site. I could also see it impacting actual organic traffic though. To the degree search algorithms may factor in social relevance, any backlinks gained from things shared on social and then posted to websites, etc., I could see plummeting social reach ripple out to organic traffic to Google potentially.
You're assuming it's being used to "predict terrorist activity" and not for general population control.
For the uninitiated, it's an amazing movie starring Tom Cruise which talks about "precrime" - although no big data involved. Highly recommend that one watch it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)
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It _is_ a crisis if there are not enough faculty to handle the number of students. The solutions are simple (admit fewer students or hire more faculty) but not easy (students could go somewhere else so as to be admitted to their preferred major; it might be difficult to hire faculty at current pay rates).
I don't know about the real numbers but I did have a similar experience. I needed somebody to do manual labor (yea, I know, I am lazy) and was having a hard time finding any in a high unemployment country.

I told my friend about how there is no single guy despite the unemployment. His reaction was "oh, really? They are in that coffeeshop just around all day waiting for jobs".

Turns out sitting there all day was their way to advertise. You just talk to the waiter about what you need and if it requires some speciality (painting, plumbing, etc...) and he points you right to the few guys who do it.

I'm not sure if Facebook will help them since my country has a low gdp/hdi but this might be otherwise for the developed and more connected world.
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I always knew Google incentivizes the launch of "new" products, but the breadth and depth of the extent wasn't apparent. I now understand why Google Talk has so many short-lived reincarnations. On the flipside, this also disincentivizes maintenance/up-keep of old products - Reader never had a chance.

It ironic that Google's share class/structure relieves its C-level management from short-term/quarter-by-quarter thinking, but at the same time it pressures the rank-and-file to have short horizons.
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Wow, I didn't know there was poverty like that still around that recently. I did read about these people recently that went out and scrounged around in the forest to get different kinds of fungus and tree roots, and they'd spend hours and only get $20. We really need universal basic income for those people. It would make a huge difference. I'm convinced, just give everyone 1500 a month. Those kids would be so much better.
You are grossly misinterpreting how this is applied in the real world. Wake me up when a first responder refuses to help someone because they are LGBTQ
You might have already known this but Spotify had the same $5/mo student discount but they may be more diligent about checking your enrollment. Def loved the 5 dollar plan :)
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It would be really hard to keep everyone's browsers/operating systems updated with a list of certificates as they're generated and renewed.

You pretty much have to concentrate it down to a small subset of trusted certificate authorities to sign your certificate.

Also, it should be a way to verify that random people aren't able to get certificates on behalf of a domain they don't own (there's nothing stopping me from generating a cert for google.com - but it should be impossible for me to get it trusted by your browser).
We worked with ST micro in Malta, they had a bunch of good MEMS engineers there, weird place for that.
Also, spotify makes money by offering you a service, instead of data mining your information and making money that way.

Spotify is also insanely cheap in terms of getting basically all the music you would want in the world for around 10 euro's. It's a solid product with a good reason to exist, which fills a niche for many people.
That is, unless the folks who maintain and champion make want me to use make. It's on them to court me, the cross-platform developer, not the other way around.
I used to think I had a strong sense of smell, but then I met my wife. She can smell a fart on the top floor of a 3 story house when I am on the bottom floor! I have learned that my view of clean (which was beat into my head in the military) is down right smelling and dirty vs. how she thinks!

The most interesting thing about smell is that it is so much an overriding factor in how we perceive taste. Everyone thinks it is the taste buds in the mouth, but no. Smell is so much more of it.

Another interesting thing about having such a strong sense of smell is what you do not like. For example my wife hates beer. It's the smell and the taste is so over whelming vs what I smell and taste in it. I read it is common with people that are "super smellers"
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you could mount the database as a filesystem
Many countries are using these pre-crime estimators. What we need to see are the false positive and false negative rates.

Anybody got measures of those?
What do you trade and how? No need for reproducible details, but useful to know something.

I have been writing options scripts (short puts) for a couple years and have had a lot of fun solving puzzles there.
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With higher fractions of reserve the bank is also a more stable institution. So it may be just a symptom, not the source.
A variant of that I've seen in many small 1990s C apps is create a huge struct with all the program data in it, with fixed size arrays of things big enough so that's all you ever need, and just declare one global struct.

It was one struct instead of separate globals because of some coding style guide at the time.

"But what if we want to use this in a library?"
"Here's all the data in one container, malloc it and use that."

I don't think many of those programs ever did end up in libraries.
More technically information on the math behind the failure. http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
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I'm taking the over: 18 months before Google kills it, replaces with another messaging application.
A staggering number of FLOSS projects have a very low bus factor (1-2). My recommendation is to find some project that interests you, fits the scale of what you know, and provides a means to learn new things. Once you've identified some options try contributing to a few and stick around the one that's a good fit.
We’re on our way there too in the US:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/27/17054740/palantir-predict...
I'm failing to find anything that says the requirement was "System shall be operational for at most X hours before a reboot". It's more likely that there was a key performance paramater (KPP) saying that it should be functional for at least some period of time. And that was what was tested.

Generally KPPs (which aren't requirements themselves, but influence the requirements for systems) are set at lower bounds, not upper bounds, for somethnig like this. You wouldn't set a KPP: Should only work for 4 hours. You'd use: Should work for at least 3 hours, 4 hours desirable (or some similar language). If it works for longer, that's great. But longer won't be tested since it's not a requirement or goal for the system, which also means failure modes for longer runtimes won't be encountered because they're outside the bounds of the system requirements and specs.
Good question, @edanm.

The differentiator b/w Patreon is more than the one-time donation factor. For one, BuyMeACoffee is geared towards creators of all sizes while Patreon works best for large creators. For one, creators require a Stripe account to use Patreon, which already limits it to the only 25 stripe-supported countries.

Secondly, small creators with a passive audience find it hard to get monthly pledges from their supporters. BuyMeACoffee converts best in this case as it's quick, straightforward and requires no sign-up to support a creator.

We like to think of BMC as complementary to Patreon than an alternative. We often see creators using BuyMeACoffee alongside Patreon to fulfill the quick one-time donation needs.

Hope this clarifies :)
I read code to learn all the time. And I don’t get paid to program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
> I would chalk it up to being unfamiliar with the Azure environment, but I'm working with a couple of Azure devs and even they were confused by the limitations of each version of AD and when you could use them. Honestly, if business units within a company could sue for copyright infringement resulting in market confusion I would highly recommend the Active Directory team send a cease-and-desist to the rest of the company.

Sometimes what happens is that a certain brand name becomes popular, and other people (or departments) want to piggyback off the popular name. For example: Watson is literally a household name, thanks to Jeopardy, so IBM now uses the Watson brand pretty generously, even applying it to things that are only vaguely related to the project that created a computer which beat Ken Jennings.

I could believe that that's what's happening with Microsoft - Active Directory is a known entity to corporate IT departments, so tacking "AD" onto something makes it seem less threatening and more familiar.

But I don't think that's what's going on here with Google. Hangouts was never that popular a name with users[0]. And it doesn't even look like they're piggybacking, from the trail of names we see. It just looks like a chaotic mess. I'm really perplexed as to what's happening internally to cause this sort of confused word salad of branding. I can't figure it out.

[0] Amusingly, people still refer to it colloquially as "GChat", which was never one of the official names of the product! It was always "Talk" not "Chat" - look at the logo if you don't believe it - even though the records were stored in the "Chats" section on GMail.
If the standup was part of a scrumesque process, this is a case where a scrum master could have really come to the rescue.
I use Automake and Autoconf (which generates the Makefile) for GNU ease.js:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/easejs.git/tree/Makefile.a...
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/easejs.git/tree/configure....

The nice thing with using Automake is that it gives all the standard build targets with little additional effort (for example, `make dist` for producing the distribution tarball, and `make distcheck` for verifying that it's good).

I use a much simpler one for a project at work:

https://gitlab.com/lovullo/liza/blob/master/Makefile.am
https://gitlab.com/lovullo/liza/blob/master/configure.ac
I had an N9. It was snappier than your average Android phone.
The STEEM blockchain is not centralized, and the governance is done through voting witnesses (people running the steem source code). There are hundreds of people running it => https://steemit.com/~witnesses

Also the supply is not set to double every year, this source is completly outdated. This model was changed more than a year ago. Current inflation rate is 9.5% per year, reducing by 0.5% per year until it reaches 1% per year (I believe)

The coin isn't worthless at all... It's publicly traded at around 3$ today on many exchanges.

Lastly the quote about IPFS is mine, and I actually believe we will be able to make people seed the video they are currently watching through our embed player soon, thanks to the progress of js-ipfs.
What would that even look like? I think it would be very hard to transition a Facebook-only audience to some other platform.

Collect everyone's email address along the way? Then you might as well be an email newsletter business.
And dozens of "I left google" : https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22I%20left%20google%22&sort=b...
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I liked the above comment and wanted to tack on my reply to jonwachob91 here.

There are some cases where affirmative rights granted to the federal government also limits the power of the states.

For example, the Supreme Court found in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) that not only does Congress have the right to regulate interstate commerce, but only Congress does, and that States can't create their own rules for commerce between each other.

(The FCC can claim they don't have the right to enforce Title 2, but that's really for the Supreme Court to decide.)

I think it's worth noting that Title 2 classification is not Net Neutrality, and that the Title 2 classification was based off of an idea of 'forbearance', that the government has granted itself broad sweeping regulatory powers over telecoms but promises not to use a lot of them (rate setting, etc).

Title 2 classification had a lot of problems, and real Net Neutrality legislation is preferable.
The NHL at least takes into account not only the person who passed to the player who scored, but sometimes also the person to passed to that person as well.
Just to clarify, which device did you have?

I had a N9, and I completely agree with the person above. The funniest thing is that when I got the phone and showed it to a friend who had just received the most recent Nexus at the time, the first thing he did was just scrolling, switching between apps and admiring how smooth everything was. The illusion faded quickly when you tried to open a web page with any javascript.

As far as I know, the code behind the scenes and especially the app store were a mess, but it didn't show to the user. And of course every app could access everything.
Sure but

> I'd have loved to be a fly ...

loving anything about that sad scenario seems impossible.
If you ever get tired of Discover Weekly give JQBX[1] a try. I built it so that I could bust out of the same old genres Spotify tends to re-suggest every week.

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AFAIK when most recruiters talk about placement rate, they're not talking about "engineers who we worked with who happened to get jobs," they're talking about "engineers who we placed and received payment for the placement." While Triplebyte hasn't explicitly stated that distinction here, I think a good faith reading of that phrase would suggest that the 40% is actually people who are getting jobs through Triplebyte.
I don't know that it is so much that the Google hiring process has selected for adept internal politicians as it is that Google hasn't paid as much attention to human factors as it should.

A lot of Google's philosophy is about automating things a person normal would use their judgment on and just choosing not to perform some human-centric functions at all (e.g. customer support).

It's hard to get internal culture right in the best of circumstances. When you treat like an algorithm and you don't get that algorithm right, it encourages all sorts of maladaptive behavior, politicking, etc.

To be fair Google's promotion board is not as flawed as say, Microsoft's old stack ranking system. But it does set up incentives in such a way that to advance people may optimize their work in a way that doesn't benefit the company.
Thank you for the kind words, @fabianlindfors.

Stripity looks like a great product. Good luck!
D&D and similar have a really negative reputation in some circles, including religious groups.

I was a gamer in my teens. One younger member of the group was probably being given a hard time by his religious family for being a gamer. He was often absent from gaming sessions.

The weekends he was absent consistently included stories like a drunken car wreck, and now he has a broken leg, or a wild party where some gal says he is the daddy and he has no idea if he even slept with her.

I never could fathom why his family didn't just tell him to go gaming every weekend. We fed him free food, used no drugs or alcohol and drove him home safe.

But we were Satan worshippers, I guess, because we gamed. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Amazing that something like this is possible.

When I was a SWE at Google, I thought about switching to the PM role. A PM told me that PMs are the secret emperors of Google. Sounded good then but now I think I finally got it: they are the only ones acting in a meaningful way.

As there is no overarching strategy to be followed, it seems like they can launch whatever they want if it "sgtm" to someone above. Launch done, promotion package complete for quite a few people, everyone happy.
Has it had an effect on crime rates? If so, this is interesting. It means crime is predictable based on the inputs the system is measuring. It also means the Chinese AI effort is more fruitful than I expected it to be. If this is reducing crime, then we have a discussion of trade-offs. That is interesting, and potentially nuanced.

If it's the latter, however, this is not interesting and there is no reasonable discussion to be had.
So I just checked out leetcode... it's supposed to be for juniors or undergrads, I assume? The hardest problems on there seem pretty trivial, especially when compared to the problems on projecteuler.
Switching companies is how you earn yourself a raise.
I've heard more than one publisher say an increase in traffic from Google AMP is making up for most of the decline in traffic from Facebook
Classic.

Missing (1995) on the title, and perhaps a [Usenet] tag?
Allowing? People will literally pay for it to happen. Witness smartphones, social media, smart homes, ...
There are still lots of QOL improvements to be made above, say, $150k. It may depend a lot on if you have kids and where you live. This is especially true when compounded with typical retirement savings and kid expenses.

For example:

- Housekeepers who come often

- Paying someone to manage the yard

- Private school and college funds for kids

- International vacations for the whole family

- Paying for family to visit you if you are working adults
I've seen it suggested elsewhere that there is no saturation point, it's just that the relationship is logarithmic, and truncated logarithmic datasets look asymptotic.
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Slips of paper, write 1-20 (or whatever the die faces are) on them, shuffle them up, have people pick one. There's your randomness.

You could even insure an even distribution and have like 1-6 in there 4 or 5 times (if it's a d6), and don't return the slips back to the pile until the pile is depleted.

Or you can do what I've done for testing pen and paper game designs where a die wasn't handy, and do the above and write the series of results down in a list on a separate paper, and then refer to the next number in the list when you're playing.

I even did it where I put the numbers into several 4 by 4 square grids, and would simulate different games by picking the next number by from the grid but going from different directions (left, right, up, down, etc).
Same. I’m probably going to get a Nokia 6 2018. Built like a tank and it’s quite competitive performance wise.
The irony is that Google actually has a separate eng job ladder (Software Engineer, Tools and Infrastructure) which is designed to reward that kind of work specifically. If he had ladder-transferred (a fairly easy process) and gone up before a SETI committee with that same data (peer feedback on stuff like saved development time carries weight that metrics may miss), it probably would have turned out very differently.
Really, their big source of money is licensing, both software and patents on DVR technology. Well, now that Rovi bought them (and took the name) it's also selling guide data.
I don't know if they mean evidence in a specific sense. I think they mean misplaced faith in data in a meta sense, giving it more power to affect decisions than it should. The idea that everything can be solved by commissioning a study, acquiring data, and analyzing it. Or that "the data" becomes an unquestioning authority that you invoke.

edit: the word "Scientism" is probably closer to the meaning here; science and rationality as a belief system in itself, as opposed to tools that help us understand physical processes. Faith in these tools to supply meaning and create a better society, often to absurd levels.
Have you ever dealt with clients? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say no.
For a semester, I taught in a state prison for a prisoner educational program. Every time I went in, I was struck by how punitively petty so many of the rules and corrections officers were. The environment is carefully crafted to suck out all joy and hope from the inmates. Azkaban with its dementor guards is a pretty good illustration of an American prison.

Guards are as likely to confiscate gaming materials (and punish inmates) for breaking the rules as they are to do the same because they stubbed their toe or someone looked at them funny.

Thankfully we do have some more progressive correctional programs making a little headway like the one I taught for, but nothing about this article surprised me.

edit: I accidentally a word.
Where do you see this 30% fee that Spotify has to pay to Apple? The app itself is free.
Ask HN: Do startups often fake KPI results in order to further drive employees?
the easiest way to get a big, shiny product is to just re-launch the same projects over, and over, and over

Replace Google with Nintendo.

And before you get angry at me (and I would maybe say justifiably because I grew up with Nintendo as well), I recommend you sit through a few episodes of Zero Punctuation! covering any of the following titles: Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid or Smash Brothers and tell me if you detect a theme that that curmudgeon Croshaw is trying to get across.

(Spoiler alert: Outside of their hardware division, Nintendo seems depressingly want for original ideas and IPs as far as gaming franchises go, which is probably a good thing to see Nintendo getting into the 'maker'verse with the switch cardboard stuff)
Would it surprise you to learn that they resist being exploited by the very systems they promote?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/fcc-chairman-browsing-history-f...
> I would pay cash money to read an interview with a higher-up about what the fuck is happening at google with all these chat apps.

I suspect there are two main reasons:

(1) Google will often put two products in the same market where one is relatively low-risk and designed to fit perceived current needs, and the other is aimed where Google thinks the market will be going longer term (and often is part of the strategy to draw the market in that direction.)

(2) Google doesn't see “chat app” as a single coherent market that (at least in the short window) has a single solution, but several overlapping markets, and has multiple chat apps for the same reason GM has multiple automobiles.