skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Simple, there aren't any. Never, EVER, assume anonymity on the internet.

Please read my question again: "Please point to a single alternative that offers the same low-latency anonymity as Tor if you're serious."

> You want anonymity? Keep a low profile and try to hide in plain sight,

Your IP will be linked to all of your traffic, nice solution!

> maybe check out some add-ons recommended on privacytools.io

No amount of addons there will protect you against traffic analysis.

Heh... FWIW privacytools.io recommends the Tor Browser, OnionShare, Tails, Qubes+Whonix ... from the Tor ecosystem, maybe you may want to check out those since you're so interested in their recommendations :)
To support any discussion on this post, here is an earlier HN post of the same content but from a different source:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498551

> The MIT CEEPR Research: http://ceepr.mit.edu/files/papers/2018-005-Brief.pdf
i recommend Air because i actually use their service

that said, i don't disagree with your comment and so when i update the article again, i will state that they are affil links in the interest of transparency
For those looking for another alternative to the heavy weight Slack client:

https://github.com/bkanber/Slackadaisical

Been using it, works fine as well. Good job OP though, diversity of offering is always good!
'If drivers are fully able to capitalize on these losses for tax purposes, 73.5% of an estimated U.S. market $4.8B in annual ride-hailing driver profit is untaxed," they add.'

So they might be making money, but only by avoiding taxes. Great. /s
Well I'm talking totally theoretically, just to show that it's possible to discriminate in order to achieve a better end result for the business.

But theoretically, if a large employer were to collect the statistics to calculate the correlation between GPA and job performance, and then were to discover that an equivalent GPA between, say, men and women lead to higher job performance in women, then faced with two candidates with the same GPA, you'd prefer the woman. This is not vague and has nothing to do with the underlying mechanics - you as the employer theoretically don't care, all you care is that same GPA woman leads to a better job performance as same GPA man.

An employer like Google could discover things like this, if they exist, and might want to, for purely business reasons, do this.

(No idea on the legality of any of this, seems to me like it's illegal but I have no idea).
The change to UUIDs was part of a larger effort to make sure everything that generated entities could do it without synchronization across datacenters. (And sure, there are other approaches, I'm just adding some context :) )
The free food & other perks will keep their "cool" image going for a while. But it's certainly dipping.
It is interesting that in nearly all articles on this (by now fairly well established) correlation, it is phrased as "higher than normal disgust sensitivity by people with right-of-center beliefs", not "lower than normal disgust sensitivity by people with left-of-center beliefs". It's like academia regards right of center political beliefs as a disease that needs curing...
Some time ago real Banksy prints were sold for $60 at a street stall in NY. They didn't sell much but people who bought one later discovered they are worth around $20,000.

A week later some guys (Dave Cicirelli and Lance Pilgrim) sold fake Banksy's with a certificate saying they were real fakes. They sold out in an hour.

This was a great way to show the real value of art.

Edit: found an article about it: https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/22/4864592/fake-banksy-stal...
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Well with Go, you don't need them if all you want is to run the project. Go produces binaries, so you just download the binary from somewhere - No Go needed. In this case, iirc he was releasing binaries on the GitHub page.

You only need Go if you're wanting to develop on the project, or if the developer never released binaries.
The one thing I'd like configurable in FF Quantum is the amount of processes it spawns. I run Selenium tests and if I choose to run five or six instances I end up with two dozen processes. Fucking hell.
I suspect that since this policy has been deliberately relaxed (now a 2-child policy) the government likely has some model for a changing demographic
Isn't this allegation an exact counterpoint to what you are saying? Throwing out the resumes of everyone who isn't hispanic, black, or female seems to be creating an advantage.
Even as an existing patient, I’ve been quoted wait times of more than three weeks to see my PCP.
Isn't that just adding different biases?
That's why we're in huge student loan crisis, and why we just left the housing crisis. SNAKES!
Yes. Specifically https://www.vimbly.com/careers will have more information about the above positions.
I even threw in "free [as in choice not cost] healthcare", but I guess that's Poe's law for you.
My first job out of college in the 80's was developing software that drove a big(ish) HP plotter for drawing maps for a mapping company.
I tend to treat listings that say "this isn't a Chromecast" as cheap knock-offs, not counterfeits. The logo may be a trademark infringement, but I'm iffy on calling it counterfeit.
I expect most of the laws were put in place to deal with problems in the system, just blindly removing them all on an ideological basis probably isn't a good idea.
Or use GAE to do the same for ∞ less.
That listing explicitly states "this isn't a Chromecast".
Johns Hopkins study suggests medical errors are third-leading cause of death in U.S.

https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/03/medical-errors-third-leading-...
Command-line autocomplete for Go documentation
It depends on what software world you come from. In many places "stringly typed" code is frowned upon: http://wiki.c2.com/?StringlyTyped

Yes, it's convenient, but using data types can help with many things, from implicit documentation, to optimizations to enforcing a code contract/interface.
Tor is a US Navy invention.
Both leftists and rightists have their strong shares of adorable and of disgusting stuff. I'd rather be a republican if not all the religious, nazi and false-moralist BS they use to promote. I'd rather be a democrat if not all the extra regulation, taxation, bureaucracy, hypocrisy/hyper-polite-correctness etc.
While a good step, this only makes up for a portion of what the settlement would have allowed. (Most obviously, it appears this only covers books from a 20 year period and it takes more work to ascertain that the books are not being sold.)

Moreover, this does not contradict the idea that the Authors Guild settlement could have complemented public domain efforts. Even today some of the books saved on the Internet Archive were retrieved via Google Books: https://archive.org/details/googlebooks&tab=about
Rust doesn't have C++ constructor/destructor semantics. It doesn't require manual tracking of object ownership. You just have to say when you're passing ownership and when you aren't, and the compiler takes care of the rest.

It's automatic memory management without runtime accounting or a garbage collector, which means Rust doesn't need a runtime at all.
Cheap workforce with little consideration of the freedoms of the workers making the products. Like with C02, we've never wanted to confront the reality that we have negative externalities that aren't being priced into the product.
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> Which group of people does the "76.9% of US population - White alone" statistic refer to?

This is defined in the footing - hispanic is not a race

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217#qf...

> Does this mean that the vast majority of Hispanics in the county are also in the "white alone" category?

Yes

> San Mateo County is small enough to be distorted by the effects of the very kind of discriminatory hiring the article is about.

Possible, but you'd need more evidence to make this claim. SF and Santa Clara have similar demographics; that's nearly 4M people across these 3 counties.
I never made a hiring decision.
How to Succeed as an ECommerce Brand in an Era of Dominant Retailers?
That’s really unprofessional and disrespectful for a company like google.
The market rewards innovation, among a few other things.
Friend - Get out.

Many of us have been there, and it is not worth that feeling in your stomach every morning, because it drains the life out of you, can cause all kinds of physical and emotional problems.

Go take a job somewhere else, where you might earn less - but will be less miserable - or maybe even happy.

Get out.
Even in Enterprise environments, having boxes which haven't gotten security patches from 2 years ago is just careless.
That's an ideal to strive for, but if society as a whole seems hellbent to keep punishing people who have neither themselves nor had their grandparents do anything wrong, then shifting it to people whose grandparents did can be a better solution than doing nothing.
Currently returning a 500 error at 14.49 UTC.

Affecting hosted JIRA and Confluence.

Status page: https://status.atlassian.com/
These kind of posts (and the amount of anti-Google articles here) make me think that Google is currently targeted by paid trolling/smear campaign.
>If more women are getting screened more frequently then their cancers will be detected earlier and improve survival rate.

Yes, but the article argues directly against this point.
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> but it continually tries to push coal

Let's clarify that China, Germany and Japan are consuming more coal per dollar of GDP than the US is. Those are the #2, #3, and #4 economies. Coal dominates both German and Chinese energy. The US coal industry has been contracting rapidly, falling back to 1985 levels, losing about 1/3 of output. China on the other hand, is still consuming as much coal as the rest of the world combined and four times that of the US.

Japan for its part, plans to open four dozen new coal plants in the next decade.

> The US could have been at the forefront of solar and wind power

The US invented modern solar and is at the forefront. As of early 2017, the US was still getting more of its energy from solar than China (not growing nearly as fast however). The US is adding dramatically more solar capacity than anybody else not named China. Capacity equivalent to four or five nuclear power plants, every year. In 2016 the US added 10 times as much solar capacity as what Germany did (an early leader), and nearly twice that of Japan.

The US is #2 in wind power globally and will remain there indefinitely. It's also at the forefront there. It's adding the equivalent of two or three nuclear power plants worth of wind energy capacity per year, while US energy consumption is flat.

The US has 30 times the installed wind energy generation capacity vs Japan for example.

Currently there are only three major players in wind energy. China, the US, Germany. Germany is starting to fall far behind the US just due to economic size variance.
that would be anarchy

Yet it's exactly what we can do in the UK, I remember needing to see a doctor whilst on Holiday in Scotland, I just phoned the local GP and got an appointment the next day.
Cruel and Unusual: The Story of Leandro Andrade (2003) [pdf]
i meant no offense - i used the term "freaks" because a lot of people who don't give a crap about privacy may consider us 'privacy freaks' - sine the article is about privacy however, i think it's obvious that it's just a poke in the ribs, if you will
"we already don't know how to deal with"

Yes we do. We store it, until we can use it. And even if we can never use it, which is very unlikely, in the core of the earth is already much, much more radioactive material, so adding a tiny bit to that, is not a big problem "as people think".

And as far as I know, there is a great deal of work to be done to upgrade the power grid, for 100% wind/solar.
And much more needed storage capacity, than we currently have.
And storing electricity is expensive, no matter how we do it. And unless there is really abundance of solar energy from the deserts for example, this is a real problem, since we still live in a money based economy, last time I checked.

And even if we have abundance of solar desert power ... that makes you also very dependent on it, and vulnerable to a attack on those lines for example, which is why I see small nuclear reactors even in that scenario helpful, for emergency backup.
Are you sure about that? I know plenty of people with Windows 7 that just get updates through the normal channels.
But if had 90% acid and 10% base in your storage, would you throw away most of the acid to get a neutral solution?
It wasn't sales who decided not to have a SME on the project. They already got paid; why would they worry about personnel? That is a classic middle management decision.
It's also publicly available information that tor doesn't even attempt to protect against deanonymization (e.g. timing) attacks from nation-state adversaries that control entry and exit nodes. It's not exactly well advertised though.

It's not like it would be impossible to put in protections either - it could be done at the expense of latency and bandwidth.

The idea that it is being run as a honeypot is not exactly far fetched given the security model and funding sources.
Better to be dishonest and retain the appearance of legitimacy.
Certain types of artists, yes, but it's still their own choice whether to sell out or not. It's the same thing as with the majority of modern music, literature, etc. Just look at how the music industry works...
Me too, but it seems like there's a hierarchy depending on what your complaint is. When I needed to schedule a follow-up post-hospital discharge they had no problem getting me in, but when I had other complaints it was see an NP or wait months.
The cognoscenti already know this, but word vectors are a game changer in the multi-class text classification game. Finding the correct representation of text makes the classification task so much easier.

For my problem (1000+ total classes, 1 class per input), I experimented with Naive Bayes + TFIDF (~50% accuracy, < 1 sec training), then Word2vec + CNN model on GPU (~70% accuracy, 6 hrs training), and finally FastText (99% accuracy, 10 minutes training).

FastText [0] in particular is quite impressive. It is essentially a variant of Word2Vec that also supports n-grams, and there is a default implementation in C++ with a built-in classifier that runs on the command-line (no need to setup Tensorflow or anything like that).

Despite it only running on plain CPUs and only supporting a linear classifier, it seems to beat GPU-trained Word2Vec CNN models in both accuracy and speed in my use cases. I later discovered this paper from the authors comparing CNNs (and other algorithms) to FastText, and their results track my experiences [1].

This goes to show that while GPU-accelerated models are cool, sometimes using a simpler, more suitable model can have a significantly better pay-off.

[0] https://fasttext.cc/docs/en/supervised-tutorial.html

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.01759
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Sounds about right.
Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, thesis http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

It’s very readable.
Few years ago I talked on people on omegle. Chinese girl pops up. We talk, like many many Chinese, she asks quickly what I think about China.

I grew up fond of Asia: Martial Arts, Bruce Lee, asian food, spiritual ideas, that simplicity in art, architecture, clothing; Japanese culture too.. anyway I was very very positive about her culture.

She responded right away: cool but well you know.. it's not all rose here; with a few mild comments about economy and politics. Then a long silence, followed by panick-ish excuses around the fact that she shouldn't have said this and she disconnected.

Note that this was about the big firewall thing. Surely it didn't help for paranoia. Still it was the first time I ever talked to someone scared about her country as a whole.

----

Recently with the growth of international chinese tech brands, some news about raising wages, using robots instead of armies of exploited people .. I thought China would get a stable and peaceful rise. I did not envision this.
I think the point they're trying to make is that the risk is close to zero for this for a straight male approaching other men, and that what you call "unlikely" is still likely enough with such a severe degree that the positive upside on such interactions is dwindling.
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We're having problems pushing to repositories (git over ssh). Currently blocking after the following

Counting objects: 24, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (22/22), done.
Writing objects: 100% (24/24), 2.87 KiB | 2.87 MiB/s, done.
Total 24 (delta 16), reused 0 (delta 0)

Status page shows no issues. How reliable...
An interpreter in a compiled language, though, has obvious run time benefits. Though this is just a parser.
Interesting. What's the expected overhead of a typical transaction? If its significant fraction goes to shipping/other fees, might as well send the money directly, avoid middle men and allow the creator to get something they would want. Is there a way to indicate a preference "this beer is what I (don't) want"?
Well of course the gallery will take 50%. They're the ones doing all the work. I don't know if you've ever met an artist, but most of them are quite unsocial and naive people. They don't know shit when it comes to selling, and I'm telling you this from the perspective of a computer geek, and they don't even care to learn. The gallery not only finds the people to buy the paintings but they also do constant PR work for the artists they represent, past well any exhibition, they talk with museums and collectors trying to promote the works, they provide legal and financial advice and so many other things.
Perhaps, but that user has been on HN since 2011 - not many posts though
Really interesting, thx !
I just looked at reviews from candidates in glassdoor. I got to say that it looks very discouraging.
Oh I forgot about that! I actually have some notes: https://github.com/daryllxd/lifelong-learning/blob/master/pr...
Maybe there are actual people that feel this way? Crazy, I know.

Oh who am I kidding, it must be Russians.
> Is a middle-class black woman less privileged than a white working-class man?

Yes, on average, significantly. I'd be interested in your definition of "privilege" though.
> Odds of getting hired under those criteria: 0.25% Asians, 0.02% Hispanics, 0.01% Black, 0.13% White

> about 2% of employees would be black, 5% Hispanic, 30% white and 63% Asian.

These two comments say the same thing. Mine is standardized.

Your take away from all this is a little strange. The Google numbers say that Asians are 25 times more likely to be hired than blacks. That has happened in real life. No one complains about that. I have read that Google is too Asian though.

People harp about less-talented people not deserving to be there, but that is already the case. From a statistical point of view, Whites are over represented at the expense of Hispanics and Asians with a higher IQ. Real life is messy, but you get the idea.

This battle has been fought already and enough people at Google were convinced that there was a bias in their hiring practices. So, now they are in the process of correcting.
If you really think you will end up on a watchlist for downloading Tor it sounds like a good reason to download Tor. The more the better.
There are many people who’ve read it and reached the same conclusion about his claims. Simply accusing people of not having read it – or the other standard talking point of claiming that the citations somehow completely change the meaning – is a dishonest way to avoid engaging with those criticisms. If they’re wrong, it should be easy to demonstrate that or find a statement by Damore that he didn’t intend his words to be read that way.
Also infrastructure and supply lines are important. It is difficult to replace China because their value proposition isn’t just cheap labor.
> But only one of those camps is actually correct.

Yes, currently. I spoke about long term effects of using discrimination to fight discrimination.
I love how turning the entirety of the asteroid belt, and maybe Mercury, into livable space stations "is a much more modest scope". :-D

Not that I disagree! We also have the Hilda, Trojan, and Greek asteroids (in Jupiter's Lagrange points) to work with. The Jovian and Saturnian moons too. It'll be a long, long time before we need to worry about dismantling the gas giants themselves.

On our path towards maximizing the livable land area in the Solar System, I wonder what we will run out of first. It looks like water, iron, carbon, etc. are all pretty abundant. We'll run out of* some rarer element (like Phosphorous or something) before we ever approach maximum constructed land area.

*And by "run out of", I mean even with perfect recycling, the spot market demand for the material maintains a price level where it's uneconomical to develop further, barring discovery of new supplies or more efficient usage.
If the UUIDs are actually being picked uniformly, the fear is entirely irrational, I agree. However, fear that the distribution isn't actually uniform in real implementations is much less crazy.
This definitely changes the tone of things. That's pure discrimination. It would be one thing to set quotas that favor a group, it's another to exclude any group at all.

Sounds like someone above the manager is responsible for this and the manager is carrying out orders. You don't get a historic paper trail like that by not being told to continue on.
Then why do other OECD countries whose systems are much further from a free market not have the same problem but worse?
If someone who worked for Walmart became a murderer, would you condemn all of Walmart as murderers? Promoting a culture of murder?

If that's too far removed from the actual job for you, how about if someone at Walmart acted in a sexist way in an interview. Would you condemn all of Walmart? Would you automatically assume there is a culture of sexism? Or would you at least entertain the possibility that Walmart employs thousands of managers, so it's not crazy to imagine that some of them might sometimes act in sexist ways, even without such a corporate culture?

You need more than a few instances to prove a claim of "this must be a cultural thing", IMO.
I feel like the "middle" sentence is not intuitively what you'd normally think of something in between. Even for sentences that are quite close. "Eve walked home slowly" -> "Eve walked home quickly" gives a middle result of "As white hand smiled."
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While that may be true, that doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't have the option of using certificate based authentication.
I feel the exact opposite. I love going to work everyday at Google. I get the way you describe at previous companies. Not at Google.
Have you heard of the high-complexity drug testing scam? It works like this: at the intake visit the physician has the patient piss in a cup and it gets sent off to a drug testing company somewhere. They run a GC/MS, and then a very substantial bill (~5 kUSD) shows up a few weeks later. It's a stroke of genius, no one is responsible. The physician says "you peed in the cup", the drug testing company says "services were rendered", and the insurance says "out of network".

How is such behaviour encouraged by laws and regulations? It's encouraged by the absence of laws and ethics.

I said to all three "send it to collection, so I can dispute the debt, I'm not going to pay"; eventually the insurance paid at their negotiated rate (~USD 250), which is closer to the cost it takes to provide the unneeded service. It took several hours on the phone to put that matter to sleep.

There need to be some laws, but in the present situation neither the Medical Board nor the Attorney General is interested, consequently it continues.