skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google and people deep in Silicon Valley do not have the capability to judge whether they are seen as evil because evilness is a matter of taste and ideology. Of course no one sees themselves as evil - that is never the question. The question is, "do others see us as evil?"

One perspective is that monopolies are not inherently evil, because 1) It's a matter of perspective - what is Google a Monopoly in - advertising? Or web search? They may be completely dominant in web search, but they are a tiny player in web advertising in the grand scheme of things, which is interesting because that is their main business. 2) Monopolies are regularly supplanted by new monopolies, and provide stable financial ground upon which other "hard innovation," can happen, as with AT&T in the 50s and IBM in the 70s.

Of course, if you are someone like Theodore Rosevelt, then you would say, "trusts, a form of monopoly, are horrible, and more competition increases the amount of innovation, so therefore Google must be broken up." However if you are a Peter Thiel type ideological person, then you might say, "Yeah well, times change and monopolies will provide a huge amount of value for the time that they exist, and then they will inevitably die out, like Sears."

So, the conversation people are having around the world today, regardless of what is being talked about in Silicon Valley...is - has Silicon Valley (as a construct, rather than a physical place) created a feudalistic system, and should we create legislation to take that power and money away from them? Silicon Valley, similar to Wall Street (also a construct, not a physical place), will either innovate a way to maintain that power and convince the rest of the world that they are "not evil," or change the conversation in some way, or politics will keep moving in the direction where they eventually break up all the huge tech companies.

You can scream and say, "hey, we're not evil!" all you want - I'm not sure whether that communication strategy will work or not. Post 2008 folks on Wall Street seemed to have embraced the fact that they were perceived as evil and that they monopolize banking, and it seems that their power has been curtailed very little. I could see Mark Zuckerberg and all the tech execs coming out with a unified message saying, "yeah, online data isn't about us, it's about supporting millions of other small businesses, so an attack on cookies and pixels is an attack on freedom," - a similar tack that Wallstreet takes, and I could see people going forward in believing in that. Regardless of whether spying on people is actually evil, they could create some argument that it's a necessary evil, and therefore is not evil, and get anyone who might oppose them politically on their side, and hence we will continue forward in the United States having a completely separate legislative philosophy around data than Europe.
Theoretically, I think it makes sense that the less resources people use, including space, the better it is for the natural landscape.
Yep, and that is exactly what I addressed in my first comment - that head tracking mechanism was already used in mainstream technology piece.
Yeah, but in context, is the claim of being less corrupt being made about pan-EU institutions, or does it extend to the countries making up the union? The relevancy of individual country statistic depends of that distinction.
Roman Catholicism and Papistry perhaps resembles Islam somewhat, but that's in contradiction to the New Testament.

Half of all Christians are Roman Catholic. There are still a couple of Anglican, Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox state churches today. Dominion theology is well alive within evangelical circles.

Sure, it's possible to make a case for secularism within a Christian context (render unto Caesar, my kingdom is not of this world, ...), but that's not the only case you can make: The God of Christianity is also the God of the Old Testament, and that guy was not a fan of the separation of church and state...
Neither could I, but some are pretty pink! That's neat on a nicely set table. However, Trader Joes have some seriously flavoured and natural salts which are so "unpure" if you will, that they actually taste a little different.
Most existing services that I am aware of provide nice visualization of existing publicly available datasets (GFS, NAM, HRRR, etc.). Cloudrun allows the user to create their own forecast product/dataset, so it is mainly a power tool and less a graphics/visualization service.
In some US states you have to pay child support, even if you're unemployed. If you don't pay you go to jail. And while you're in jail the costs keep coming. If that's a free market, then I'm not sure what freedom is.
The problem is defining a notion of "organic" which is meaningful, consistent and acceptable to / understandable by the public. Many people are shocked by the idea that radiation-induced genetic changes count as both non-GMO and organic. I was, when I learned about it. It seems absurd that food produced this way should fall into a category that gets pushed as "better for you and the planet", when it's a process that's almost as artificial and surely less controllable than GM.
Do you mean large subsidies to US farmers? Wholesale food markets dominated by few huge buyers, Walmart-style?
You're right, that's the whole point - the commonly accepted (pre-GDPR) practice conflates these two things; and GDPR now requires them to be separated, which is a major change both in practice and in attitude.

You can have "take it or leave it" agreements, and you can have consent, but these are two separate things; it's not possible to obtain consent by putting some words in a "take it or leave it" standard agreement.
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Interesting the authors cite unionization as an effective protection against this in the past but do not recommend it as a remedy for the future. The problem with simply passing laws as they suggest is that those laws once in place will be opposed by everyone with power simultaneously and forever, with no powerful organized collective force to defend them it is just a matter of time until corporate power grinds them into dust.

Unions give actual power to workers (and are great at motivating them to vote according to their interests!) instead of just passing laws out of the goodness of our heart to protect them and hoping they last through billions of dollars in corporate bribes.
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yeah that's what unions are really about - to think about the employees for the employees good, where HR thinks about them for the good of the company. implementations of that idea are of varying quality which unfortunately gives them a bad rep.
I scorn this good/evil narrative. It's all economics and politics. Companies are not out there to "be good", whatever their marketing and PR tells you. Companies make money and these companies finally found a way to make money from our attention and personal data.

Until they are regulated, they will proceed doing so with little regard to our privacy and mental health. GDPR is looking good.
Did musk really come up with all these ideas? He's the paypal guy, its rocket engineers doing all the rest.
Disclaimer: There are truly some madmen in the world.

Thought: I LOVE THIS! I would love to see a few more even more complicated examples .. wouldn't it be neat if it turns out that its easier to write apps in Assembly than Swift/ObjC, lol ..
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An iPhone burned down our home and put us out of business
Having worked with Amadeus IT products for airlines, I can tell you this - they are the most regressive "IT" products available in the world.
What is it, in particular, about contracting that allows businesses to pay the same people less? What can they do with the contracting that they couldn't do without it?

I think this:

>“By shifting tasks to contractors, companies pay a price for a service rather than wages for work. That means they don’t have to think about training, career advancement or benefit provision.”

was an attempt at explanation. But I don't see how it leads to lower wages.
Interestingly, unionization in Canada is still as strong as the strongest years in the US. Despite that, wages are every bit as stagnant as the US and, looking at income data, there is a lot of mirroring between the two countries. The substantial decline of unionization in the US is one thing, but what is Canada doing wrong?
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What if, instead of normal Lego bricks, someone designs a "smart" brick and a "smart" Lego Board, so that while you add bricks of different colors, and put on different columns, it creates a digital twin on a server, that is nicely displayed on a dashboard of your choice?

Same fun, right?
All that does is lie to the guest over firmware (device tree, ACPI, etc.). All of the memory accesses are still uniform as far as CPU emulation is concerned.
While there's nothing wrong with opining that state interventionism is a form of corruption, be warned that people will not infer your custom definition if you drop the word "corruption" in a conversation. I'm in favor of sticking to popular word definitions for the sake of clarity.
More like you are doing a favor to them, and that should be compensated accordingly. The actual amount should reflect how much the company values this. But the ban shouldn't be anything less than what you could earn elsewhere. So there should be an obligation to match the payout to the highest job offer you are able to get.

Also, companies are still free to strive to keep their knowledgeable workers happy, with an attractive total comp and good work environment.
GF potential customer here in Atlanta, I will say 5 years in it has been nothing but a series of disappointments. I was in one of the first neighborhoods to get GF actually laid down. I have been promised "any day now" for 2 years. But what it looks like is if your house is not on a direct fiber line, it will never be coming. GF had promised it would get ATT to complete the 1 block connection between their fiber and my house for 2 years.

However I did get fiber from ATT for 100 meg symmetrical for 50 bucks a month. And unlike comcast it really delivers 100 megabits per second. I could have gotten the full gig fiber for 70 a month. But it did not seem worth it.
More like "widely available outdated data." Better (real time) access to data would help the situation, but the wording there makes it sound like you mean to say the opposite.

The affect of bad data on the labor market almost looks like the affect of fake news in politics doesn't it?
I think he might be referring to the fact that Organic Standards don't allow for transgenic modification of varieties, or what is commonly know as GMOs, due to safety concerns

On the other hand, they allow for varieties made by using radiation induced mutations, which is way less precise and much less tested.

Basically its an ideological position and not based on the scientific consensus.
What of Linux?
I think in the context of courses and books, it's more common that they are paid unless noted otherwise.

So in this case, if it happened to be a free course, I would have expected the parent comment to specifically mention that it's free, otherwise it's implied to cost money.

I'm kind of curious now, how exactly would you have written the parent comment's message?
If you apply your mind doing something evil you're evil and no amount of brilliance can justify it. The visceral example I like to use is: I admire efficiency and leaders, hitler was efficient and a leader, yet I don't admire hitler.
Would you also sell "all natural, carefully enriched uranium based from responsible climate compansating sources" face cream?
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You act like you always know what will become debt and even then what will become important debt.
The human element can serve to add trust in the place of verification, but shouldn't take its place.

People lie. Industry "standards" change commonly accepted definitions. People buy what's cheap, and effective even if it may not exactly be what's on the tin (e.g. farmer buys an 'organic' fertilizer which isn't, thus 'contaminating' the organic nature of the goods going to your table).

That said, I don't see why higher yield with lower nutrition goods are bad in general. It seems malnutrition is from people not eating enough, not from being stuffed with poorly nourishing food.
One recent example in the USA: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq4gm/google-gun...
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amazingly california bans non-competes. another reason for silicon valley irreplicability.
>you just end up with a stateful solution again

It checks the "stateful" box in a nominal way, but it does not have the drawback of stateful session cookies that "stateless" defines itself in comparison to: in the backend, the session is still not in-memory or in-db on a single machine.

So you don't really go back to "stateful" except nominally; a very large part of the scaling benefit remains.
There's also a psychological factor at work too. Contractors aren't part of the business "family" but a cost center. So the dynamic changes; instead of a longterm commitment to a person, it's more of a direct business relationship with the outsourcing company.
It doesn't. The real reason is due to reduced demand for labor, partly due to increased efficiency from technology, partly due to reduced spending, etc.

At the end of the day, it's always supply and demand. The contracting just helps with creating a third party to deal with employment laws and all that hassle.

I recently stayed at a hotel and didn't even need to talk to anyone. Bought the room on via the hotel's app, the digital key in the app opened the door using the phone's NFC, the receipt was received via email.
>Completely valid but how many small businesses without a security expert on board, have these in place?

Sorry to say this, but none of your examples require a security expert to implement. And frankly, they are both what I would consider low hanging security fruit. If you balk at implementing these, I question whether your product is ready for the enterprise.

>And why would it be beneficial to tell a customer about this?

This is risk management and honestly, if you don't understand risk management, you'll have a lot of trouble serving enterprise customers.

It's beneficial because in the company's mind, a legal action is a big enough risk that they want to invest resources in showing they were diligent before picking a partner.

>How could a small business deny completing this questionnaire but still get the customer on board?

There is almost no chance unless you have strong political ties to a major decision maker at that company. And, even if you do have that kind of connection, this form isn't asking for the keys to the castle.

Can your company provide a decent level of data security? How do you know?

If the answer to question #1 is not a resounding yes, you have no business trying to serve an enterprise.
Sounds like a good project for https://dynamicland.org/
Second this question. Most conclusions I heard so far were "Organic is not healthier", which is contrary to what the author states.
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Those can be fertilized, but that is only going to happen if they are limiting plant growth.

Fertilizing for calcium and magnesium availability is pretty common.
I some jurisdictions, putting overtly one-sided constraints in an employment contract (or any contract, where there is an asymmetry in power between the parties) may render it un-enforceable. For example, a non-compete, for no good reason, and with no compensation attached to it. But you'd still have to take your chances in court though.
> implementations of that idea are of varying quality which unfortunately gives them a bad rep.

Also giving them a bad rep: propaganda efforts by big employers. Back when I worked for them, Walmart showed new hires a training video that could be summed up as "just say no to card checks; union organizers are trying to trick you into giving up your rights, and you don't need a union anyway because we value our associates so much".
We have a schizoid relationship with gender tropes. On the one hand, "girl power". On the other, "save the women and children".

Schools are a whole other pit of insanity. Most public schools can't enforce behavior norms, which are 90% a result of clueless parents. Their recourse is medicalizing the problem and addressing bad behavior with drugs. With my children we ended up opting to private school because you simply don't have that problem -- they address behavior issues and if it turns out to be a problem that isn't being fixed, the kid doesn't come back.
If you are asking to figure where job demand will go its security. All of the emerging fields will create a tremendous need for security expertise, be it in AI, IoT, blockchain, bioengineering etc.
Dropbox Team up with Google
Yup, there are apps on f-droid but they (Red Moon) suck because they're just an overlay that kills all blacks.
For a long time, the set of collection classes, which had more variety, and parallel programming support.

Now .NET also has TPL, immutable collections.

Also regardless of what one might think of Swing or JavaFX, at least they are there.

On .NET side, there isn't yet a GUI framework that will work without changes across all implementations, Xamarin might eventually be it, but only after 3.0 release.
If I am implementing just a backend API, what security strategy should I follow?
I think it's very similar to now. A lot of good stuff is happening but way too many companies copying each other fueled by an excess of investment money.
What's about to happen in Ethiopia, South Africa and other countries in Africa?
Corporate America has trained the plebs well.

Every time a discussion on unions or any sort of organization to "push back" against the big companies in just our own industry is met with a good 50% of HN readers dismissing the idea outright.

And even talking about cutting off the supply of H1Bs - or at least the body shops that probably aren't as prolific at the top companies which are overrepresented here - is flagged and downvoted in minutes.

It doesn't surprise me, given the age of the average HN reader. Once you have a family, house, and have experienced age discrimination at 40, you'll have different views, I'm guessing. Maybe even sooner for many here if the blatant discrimination of white and asian males gets more traction.

I guess the thing that is so disappointing to me about this industry is that we're supposed to be smarter than the rest. But we have completely ignored the history of this country and the battles that our predecessors fought.
my good sir, the only thing that's "good for capitalism" is to throw it in the trash where it belongs
Background: we are 20 people all remote, 2 years old startup, with employees across US and Europe.

The key is a great communication. You need to show you can easily communicate via emails, slack, video. And I mean: being quick to reply, never keep unanswered questions, be proactive and be able to write and say your thoughts and difficult concepts is simple language.

Example: after the interview, send a follow up email to the interviewer. Send me daily updates on the status of the project even if I did not ask.
Just two, off the top of my head, but there are more:

1. Recently reported white-out on "gun purchase" related searches. Gun laws (and enforcement) certainly need to be improved, but Google is not the elected body to decide what is good and bad for the society.

2. Banning (or preventing from making money) conservative channels/pundits on YouTube. It does not matter if some of them are lunatics, they are no better or worse than someone pushing "herbal remedies" or some such.
Not true actually. There are many different forms of Islam. The Islam most people are familiar with today is the crappy one Saudi Arabia has been pushing. With Western oil money ironically.
The Google search algorithm is highly proprietary and varies greatly per filter bubble, so it's difficult for anyone to prove that they're changing anything. But there is plenty of smoke here. The recent censoring of any shopping results with "gun" in the name, with amusing results [1], shows that they will change search algorithms in response to political pressure. There have also been accusations of censoring socialist websites [2], tweaking autocomplete to favor Clinton over Trump in the election [3], and down-ranking pro-life groups [4]. What's most insidious is nobody knows for sure what they're doing. Is it an accident? Deliberate? Just getting "fake news" [5, 6] or "hate speech" [7, 8] out of search results? These accusations don't even cover continual controversies over bias in YouTube demonetization.

Many of these are mere accusations, but nobody has any idea what's going on. Just a little tweak here and there can radically alter traffic patterns, search results, and knowledge discovery.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-shopping-bans-gun-sear...

[2] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/27/goog-j27.html

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-google-suggesti...

[4] https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2017/july/is-google-censorin...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/technology/google-search-...

[6] http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/09/googles-new-fact-check-fea...

[7] https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/google-changes-search-r...

[8] https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0223/Can-Google-AI...
Well, it has no effect on the factual validity of what I said because I didn't specify whether its past or present tense, nor did GP ask for an ongoing example.

Nor does it have any effect on the argument here. Google did it in the recent past in China, they do the same thing in the US for politically undesirable content today, and Baidu continues doing it in China. The fact is that we live in an information age, and access to information is gated by the major players. This in turn literally determines what people can learn and what ideas are seen as socially acceptable or not. This amount of propaganda and censorship power is unprecedented.

Google is currently censoring gun purchase related searches in the US, and there's no law requiring them to do it. That should make it quite clear that they have both the capacity and the desire to manipulate public opinion through censorship.
I'm referring to subsidies to US farmers and underpriced water also. I'm not familiar with other countries, but the domination by Cargill and Monsanto and John Deere also probably detract from a free market.
This is a fantastic comment. To provide some anecdotal evidence (which I realize isn't much) I can compare where I grew up (Urban India) vs where I went to University (Urban North America) and can see some Stark differences.

There is a much more safety and risk averse culture here for kids growing up and there is an epidemic of over policing of children. Back home, I could run around and play in the streets without much parental oversight as early as the age of six. All I had to do was get back before dark and my parents made it very clear if I didn't there would be significant consequences (I was never beaten so you can make children understand it without the threat of corporeal punishment). However here, CPS can be called if you leave your child unattended in your backyard.

My theory is that since boys hitting puberty are driven towards riskier behaviour thanks to testosterone (they just have more physical energy than girls that needs to be expended and mundane activities rarely suffice), this policing culture that no longer fits that style of exploration takes it upon themselves to neuter young boys. It's a sorry state of affairs, but unfortunately I don't see a way to fix it without getting mired down in identity politics