skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is unnecessarily aggressive. Also, besides the snarkyness, it is a bad argument. What you write seems to be an appeal to hypocrisy. To see that, the following analogon might be helpful: One doesn't need to personally comprehend every decision in a democracy to have more trust in it than in a dictatorship, and one can say that without living in a democracy.
That's because the Web is not secure in precisely that way.

But how would you know an app developer wasn't compromised and signed the next version with a backdoor also?
Do you have any stance on quasi-religious treatment programs with suspect outcomes like Alcoholics Anonymous, or the Scientology front Narcanon?
Just use postgres.

Read this (covers performance and internals): https://use-the-index-luke.com

And this (covers "advanced" SQL, more than the usual functions): http://www.windowfunctions.com
I'm personally using old laptop fan and hard drive motors to build my own version of Tesla's Roadster.
We tried those flags in the beginning since it was introduced in docker openjdk image[1].

When we dug in further, we find its just not trouble free (i.e. experimental). The default is to use 1/4th of RAM which is entirely inefficient [2]. The "MaxRAMFraction" parameter allows to specify 1/n fraction and not possible to efficiently use 65% or 75% of memory. The only place to start is to set MaxRAMFraction=2 and that already means only 50% of memory is used for heap. That produces a lot of wastage. A lot of resource efficiency is gained by starting with 65% or 80%.

OpenJDK 10 is introducing a new option "MaxRAMPercentage" [3] and that goes closer to making a script unnecessary.

TL;DR - The default flags are still experimental in JDK 8/9, and deemed to be better on Java 10. A script is just better for consistency.

1: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/pull/900

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16636544

3: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8186248
How many of those daily active users are bots, spammers, cloned accounts, webscrapers, or people logging on for two seconds because they sent or received one message, or want to do one thing? Do they count people using them to login to other sites as active daily users? How many are generating content or participating in a way that drives the platform?

How much of the daily traffic from a small percentage of people drives a large portion of the rest of the platform? How much of that 1.5% can Facebook afford to lose before it creates a trend they can’t escape?
I think the more nuanced point would be "If _our_ government directly does it, it's not called terrorism."

The US government's support for anti-government organizations in the Middle East (e.g. in Syria, Libya, Sudan, etc) is characterized as terrorism by the Iranian government, and many others (Russia, etc).

(I'm not passing any judgement on the moral equivalency of these positions, just pointing out the fuzziness of the linguistics).
Good. If you have to say something work-inapproriate, don't use your work communication tools.
Depends on the scale. Lots of cities and towns have areas planned by developers. They work well enough, though they don't have as much character as more organically grown neighborhoods.
Child abuse and neglect laws started in the 1940s after a series of articles were published by a doctor with accounts of children with injuries clearly caused by adults and by the 1970s most states had passed them. They were well meaning and only intended to protect children from real harm.

The problem is they are (somewhat necessarily) vague. They didn't think the laws would be used for trivial things but words like "endangerment" can easily be applied to letting your kid walk home alone.

This is the first real attempt that I know of to scale back some of it and I suspect we'll see more of this in other states as society realizes some of this has gone to far.

It should also be said that this is just codifying what was basically already the case. Utah's Child Protective Services supported this law and already considered the behaviors the law protects to be perfectly fine but they were obligated to open investigations anyway. Now they don't have to. It also prevents Utah's CPS in the future from doing some of the ridiculous actions that have occurred in other states if the attitude of the workers/leadership at Utah's CPS shifted.
What are their emails? Write it in an antispam way, we'd be interested also
There's a 3rd. Mention that you are doing something with Bitcoin / "BlockChain" and watch your stock soar![1]. Several companies including Kodak, Overstock, RIOT have used this strategy recently to very positive effects ( 50% or more in stock price increase in like a couple of days after mentioning blockchain or adding it to their name like RIOT Blockchain did)

[1] Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-27/what-s-in...
When the public sector cannot solve the housing problem

s/cannot solve/actively created/

Developers would build 100,000 housing units this year in the Bay Area, that would sell for double the national median housing price, if it were legal for them to do so.

Zoning and land use restrictions are the cause of high housing prices in the priciest cities. Those are legal, not market or technological, restrictions.
> It seems no effort was put into securing the project's continuity in the long term.

But it's no small challenge, right? I'd suppose that regression testing these features against a bunch of devices requires lots of human interaction or complex test scenario descriptions.
It's a relatively flat and level surface. An AWD car is just fine.

Yes, SV lives in it's own bubble in many ways but you don't need an SUV to commute on paved roads. I too live in New England.

Also, MA isn't northern New England.
Wish this had come out a few months back when we rolled out Okta to the entire org and moved away from Google being the main identity provider.

Wonder if it's worth now to roll that back and have Google be the point of entry?

One of the things that I appreciate about Okta is that it sends pretty clear onboarding and 2FA enabling instructions, which I believe G Suite left up to you. Signup into a 2FA-mandated G Suite account was always tricky, having to use recovery codes to get in for the first time. It was terrifying to non-technical users.

The one advantage I can think of, of Google vs Okta/auth0 etc is that most SaaS products seem to give you Google SSO for free, but charge the full enterprise pricing for SAML. e.g. Asana and Slack will not let you SAML from Okta unless you upgrade to their most expensive tier, but Google SSO is always free.
Unreal Engine and $150,000 GPU = Amazing, Real-Time Raytraced Star Wars
There has been a lot of science coming out recently about how in an evolutionary context cooperation is more beneficial in some situations than any idea of individual survival of the fittest.

Based on your reaction though with "red in tooth and nail[sic (claw)]" you seem more interested in your own preconceived biases than any good faith argument from science or otherwise.
I use Cockpit or FeathersJS.. sometimes even Wordpress WP-JSON :-/ I'm looking for something better, but not really into using a SaaS.

https://getcockpit.com
Agree! I've just added that for 1 custom domain it's for $5 /mon and for unlimited domains $10 / mon
It is becoming more and more difficult to trust companies that have their fingers in too many pies.
Wow. I just wanted the news outlets to be more objective.

That is just some minor human bias which can be corrected. Let's not go into the unendable argument of accurate human language meaning.
Fixed. Please try now
It seems that some people really really love syntacticfull languages rather than uniform symbolic/functional notation.
EU court of human rights disagrees with you.

https://www.echr.coe.int/Documents/Press_Q_A_Barbulescu_ENG....
It's kind of amazing it took so long for it to kill them.
If they harassed them in toilet would you install cameras there? =P

Sorry, but that's the same kind of argument for invading someone's privacy and justifying surveillance.

I doubt that anyone would agree even if you said you'll watch the videos only when necessary.
>>Is first-world Europe now a "foreign mission," in the way that third-world countries were in the previous centuries?

Yes! As a Lutheran, I know Lutheran missionaries from Shenzhen China and Ethiopia who are here in the US.

China is (unoficially) close to being the largest Christian country in the world, and there's more Lutherans in Ethiopia than in the United States.
You might argue that, but you'd lose in a US court (and afaik most other western countries).
No need for PGP. Using any other messenger that won't give private information out for no reason would be enough.
Maybe leave the kids alone?
Guessing you’re young / missed the beginning of the net, because that’s when yahoo was king.
Omidyar Network Spins Out New $100M Venture Fund Called Spero Ventures
In the late 2000s I worked at a gamepublisher in Europe and was friends with the monetization guy. It was a really shitty asian mmorpg badly supported, bad gameplay it was ass. Still there were hundreds of whales spending over 20k a month. The whole micro transaction business is way older and way meaner than everyone thinks.
> Isn't the reverse better?

No. Being a kid is comically safe these days, there is room to move in the other direction. It's also a matter of setting cultural norms. When CPS issues a civil citation for reporting someone for having stuffed animals in the crib, that tells people that worrying about such frivolities is not okay.
To at least satisfy all of the "fire" comments, what if you designed a Powerwall with many interchangeable batteries? Like a street light, instead of having a massive bulb that is expensive to repair/replace, hundreds of tiny little lights that are cheap and the repair/replace of a single failed unit is not as detrimental.

Could the home battery then be formed in a similar manner to this article, without the scary "fire" danger?
haha, thanks :) Maybe if you are "true" startup you can't be simple and clear? :)
Have you seen docs about their batteries ?
> which apparently contradicts some guidance

This isn’t just “some guidance”. Its the American Academy of Pediatrics guidance which shows stuffed animals, pillows, and blankets increase the risk factor for SIDS.
Dont forget to use the wifi adapter to ward off evil spirits
I could say the same about Facebook today.
Irish High Court rules on Facebook surveillance case: “well founded concerns” [pdf]
By private channel, I assume you mean a completely separate system that is not slack, and not a private slack channel (which, prior to this, was private from slack workspace admins, with hilarious results).
I find it very interesting that it took Google such a long time to introduce this service. They had to have a SSO implementation in place for years and with such lucrative prices in the identity market(all products are around $4/user a month) it is low-hanging fruit for Google and seems like obvious step. In addition, many companies are already tight to GSuite and GMail, so I assume another Google Service will be easy to adopt. Would be interesting to see how this will affect Okta and other direct competitors such as Ping Identity, Janrain and Centrify in the long term. I really like their "Google-grade Security" marketing!

Edit: Spelling
I'd sign up for "Spotify for newspapers".
Vint Cerf – Desirable properties of an IoT ecosystem [video]
That page has a giant red FALSE on it and a point-by-point breakdown of why the story is bullshit.

No, the Clintons did not sell Uranium to Russia.
If you are from Europe then you don't get it. This is mostly an American thing and it has been going on for years. I recall a story from about 10-15 years ago where a couple from Europe (I think they were Dutch but I'm not 100% sure) was arrested in New York City for leaving their child outside on the sidewalk while they entered a cafe for a few minutes and ordered coffee. They could see their child through the cafe windows the entire time. They expressed shock upon being arrested because such behavior was normal and commonplace in their country.
Partner was glued to yahoo as a landing page for years. I never understood why, suspect it was the familiarity of it.
>>A study conducted by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam suggests that diversity hurts civic life and that differences can actually translate into distrust
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128026...

Seems logical but social isolation is also increasing in Japan with their ethnic homogeneity. I think its all related to the collapse of large families. People have few children and when the kids grow up they're likely to move away.
If you're asking if it's typical of the area, no. It appears that job board only has two companies posting to it. Indeed or LinkedIn are better indicators of the market.
In California, it is flat out illegal for an employer to claim stuff you've created using your own equipment on your own time. As it should be.

Many believe this is one of the reasons Silicon Valley became what it is.
Lifestyle marketing isn't a new idea. It's part of what made tabacoo successful. But they were making educated guesses on what might work, i.e. the cowboy smoking.

The difference I see is that there is feedback on the ads other than sales and it seems like you could closely tailor ads to specific demographics.
The exact opposite approach of good (e.g. network) security. Coincidence? I think not.
People aren't making hacked versions of Tesla's powerwall. Tesla is making cooperate versions of preexisting diy power storage solutions.
Understanding Spectre and Meltdown – Part 2
IMHO I don't think this is a fair title change. What is important here is the fact that access to DMs have changed. Not that the general import/export tools have changed.

If Google changed their TOS to suddenly make everyone's search history public, would the title read "Google changes TOS"?
I just got one of those periodic "wow, those are the same person?" Internet moments; I've both used AFL a fair bit, and read Tangled Web, but never connected the two.

Impressive fellow.
This is not a tool to for service providers to manage users for an SaaS offering, it's a tool for organizations to manage users for (ideally) the entire suite of SaaS offerings plus devices (including BYOD) used by the organization, across vendors, including internal apps.
Thank you! Even as a Keynesian, I have to laugh when I read him talk about the leisure society.
The headline for this article is extremely misleading. Genome size has almost nothing to do with the environmental adaptations -- the American cockroach has about the same number of protein coding genes as the German cockroach and termites. The extra DNA is in the introns.

The American cockroach does have additional odorant and taste receptors, but those additional genes have very little effect on the genome size, because only a small fraction of the genome (<2%) codes for protein.
Saying 2 billion people use Facebook means around 2/3 of everyone on the internet uses Facebook. When you look around your social circle and see useage closer to 2% it's reasonable to suspect their numbers are fake.

Sure, I know plenty of people that used Facebook several years ago, but it's become a ghost town. My friends, family, and coworkers might be unusual, but not that unusual.
The problem is how do you convince a tech guy to work 50-60 or more hours a week with out extra compensation to slave away at building your gizmo without promising something. like a promotion or more money. Also, they're pretty smart so they see through a lot of bullshit. So, when you give his promotion to the liberal arts MBA good luck with keeping your system running.

Cause the MBA ain't fixing it.
If I own the hardware, it takes ~ 20 minutes of human time spread over 2 hours.

With restrictions from an employer, usually 4-8 hours.
From that article:

> In an 11 to 6 ruling, [the ECHR] found that Mr. Barbulescu’s privacy rights had been violated [after he had been fired for sending personal messages using his corporate account].

and

> Furthermore, the chamber found, Romanian courts did not sufficiently examine the company’s need to read the entirety of Mr. Barbulescu’s messages, or the seriousness of the consequences of the monitoring, which resulted in dismissal.

and

> The chamber ruled that countries should ensure that companies’ efforts to monitor employees’ communications are “accompanied by adequate and sufficient safeguards against abuse.”

So at least it's a more nuanced view than "I can go into anyone's messages immediately if need-be".
Thank you for LineageOS! I'm using lineageos.microg.org to avoid Google services but have the unifiednlp stuff. I understand this isn't your release, but I appreciate the work you've done behind it that I benefit from.

I have noticed a bunch of relatively minor bugs. I believe they affect LineageOS directly as well, as I've also seen some of them on an old device that was using LineageOS directly.

How should I go about reporting these bugs? Do you want the reports?

These are things like "Changing the default SMS SIM card to SIM card 2 does not survive a reboot", "Adding an all-day calendar entry for multiple days loses the last day upon save if the timezone is London (GMT) and not in daylight saving", "Messaging app deletes all messages when the phone boots believing it's 1970 because the clock isn't set yet" and "Setting the year to 2018 after the phone boots up believing its 1970 is really difficult because the year box doesn't scroll far enough".
Good reminder that not all laws are restrictive, or more specifically, some of the best laws restrict the state not the individual.
It's all relative. A compass is still a compass.
> And democracy means majority rules. As simple as that.

Popular vote totals:

62,984,825: Trump
65,853,516: Clinton

Vote weights, per state, due to the electoral college: https://theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-in-t...

Also of course there are things like gerrymandering and voter suppression to consider. Democracy is a pretty complicated mess.
In California, judges do laugh at them, because the vast majority of US non-compete agreements would be unenforceable in California. Employees can be prohibited from using trade secrets from the job after their employment is ended as you say, but the "non-compete" itself as generally described can only be enforced in the case of a business owner who sells his business, and "its good-will" (edit: and the good will is revokable and must be spelled out and compensated.)

The assumption underlying the exception being, last I heard at least, that if a business owner sells their business to you, there is an expectation that they are doing it in good faith, and they will not intentionally undermine the success of the business that you bought. It would be "in bad faith" or faithless for that former business owner to go out and round up all of the customers of your business, and start marketing at them new contracts with a new competing company that does just what the company you purchased does.

This is, to my knowledge, only really the law in California (non-competes are mostly enforceable in other states), but my understanding is that if a person from another state has some other kind of non-compete agreement that they wish to escape, they can also do it safely by moving to California and going to work for a CA employer.

My ailing memory tells me there was a third different condition in which non-competes were able to be enforced in CA, but that it was also very narrow and unlikely to cover a regular former employee, or ever prevent them from working for a competitor... if anyone knows the law better than I do, feel free to chime in with whatever I'm missing.

I think I remember that the "good-will" clause needs to be spelled out explicitly, in terms of a period of time and a specific compensation that it is tied with... that might be what I had forgotten.

The good-will is revokable and the penalty for revoking it can be no more than the specific compensation associated. I seem to remember actually, that the good-will compensation must be structured as a series of payments, because the penalty for revoking your good-will is actually just the discontinuation of those payments, not a statutory damage or requirement of returning any of that money that was already paid.

IOW California judges will usually just laugh at non-competes. I think I also remember that there is a statutory damage amount that employers must pay, if they write and attempt to pass any overly broad or non-enforceable non-competes as a condition of employment.

IANAL though, of course ask your lawyer if you really needed to know...
Or you could just hire an electrician and buy new batteries so you don't have to worry about burning your house down. Lithium battery packs are perfectly safe to keep in your home when used and maintained properly.

It's not even so much the DIY aspect of this that's an issue, as much as it is people thinking it's OK to use old batteries. It's not. These are not deep cycle lead acid batteries. LiPo cells have a very definite cycle lifetime, beyond which their internal resistance grows to dangerous levels. Using them beyond that is just reckless and irresponsible.
Not as ironic as the OpenBSD Foundation asking for donations via an http site
of course if you are in group chat on slack. One on One messages with friends with in the company, except your managers etc, cant be a cafeteria conversation?
Instant messaging is used to express instant thoughts. Instant thoughts can be used against you if accessible by the employer. So why using instant messages over email if you anyway need to think through your instant messages in Slack like you do with emails? Let's use emails then.

I think most people will only learn the importance of privacy after having been affected personally.
Designing Digital Circuits: A Modern Approach [pdf]
TBH I see a plenty of the arguments on the other side too, whenever a company does something people disagree with, there are calls for regulation. Even further, there are lots of people here who get annoyed when they see someone just skirting the rules without literally breaking them and always argue for the most expansive interpretation.

I think some people just naturally like rules and would prefer to live in a more orderly, rule based society, and some people don't like the idea of being constrained. Both groups act quite sanctimoniously though, as if their personal preference is somehow the holy truth.
The amount of current a battery can deliver also varies. Flashlight forums where people sometimes want the maximum power output will point you to a couple of specific 18650 parts and a similarly small number of sources where you can be reasonably sure they aren't counterfeits.

(Some) manufacturers provide specs for their batteries, but most of them are coming from no-name factories in China with no reputation at stake, so there's either nothing published or it's exaggerated.
Willing (YC S15) Is Hiring a Head of Paid Growth and Marketing
"I don't think he'd enforce the clause to actually steal other people's outside projects"

There is zero reason for him to have that clause unless he wanted to do just that.
> because the original premise was that you had ALL rights

Where does the ninth amendment fit into that?
Agreed. This comes down to a battle between homeowners and renters + new arrivals. Facebook/Google are moving to deal with the complaints they're hearing from their workforce that the municipalities have consistently ignored for years. I don't think people care if company towns are the result, as long as they get manageable rents/commutes. This all strikes me as a lot less "black mirror" than general selfishness and tragedy of the commons.