skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it legal to publicly share a job contract/agreement ?

It could be nice to have a website that list all the companies and link all the known contracts for these companies.

We could even have a summary of the weird clauses.

Or some checkmarks. IE:

[X] You own your IP after work hours produced on your own computer

This way, someone would know when he receives an agreement to sign from a company, what clauses he needs to be careful about. Or what clauses people are usually able to negotiate / modify.
Linux Mint 19 Tara is coming
BTW isn't it a she?
Facebook gave preferential access to data, breaching their own ToS, to a political party they supported.
Ha! Former Wyomingite here. The key person mentioned in this article--State Superintendent Jillian Balow--was my junior high English teacher. I can safely, and, sadly, assure you these folks have no idea what they're doing. In recent years, Wyoming has made a habit of cargo-culting tech trends and this is just the latest. It will invariably be a boondoggle like all the rest.
Why bother? They're gonna just share your info with everyone anyway ;)
And Apple Music is not available on all devices YouTube Red is.
Not if you're the actual monopoly because of network effects.

I'd have thought network effects are exactly why companies on the internet can't mess around with their users. If a few people start using another site and share it with their friends, the rest could all follow very quickly.
Because a rooted Android device with a Google-free AOSP distribution is (mostly - radio firmware being the exception) 'my phone' while an 'iPhone' is not. On the Android I get to decide what software gets installed, what services to run and which to shun, which programs to allow network access with fine-grained control, both in- and outgoing traffic, which versions of the software to run, etcetera. With the iPhone the choice is rather limited and the controls are mostly in the hands of Apple. While some seem to consider Apple to be a benevolent dictator I'd rather avoid dictators altogether, apart from my doubts about their benevolence.
the hypothetical tyrant just wins over the gun nuts who shoot up the regular folks. tidy.
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"Should we all just leave Facebook? That may sound attractive but it is not a viable solution. In many countries, Facebook and its products simply are the internet. Some employers and landlords demand to see Facebook profiles, and there are increasingly vast swaths of public and civic life — from volunteer groups to political campaigns to marches and protests — that are accessible or organized only via Facebook."

I have a Facebook account so that I can participate in groups used by clubs I belong to and so that I can follow musical artists. My account has no friends and I have entered no information about myself.

Problem solved?
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks
In India itself, Hyderabad is like @dragonwriter described Indonesia - the traffic keeps flowing and pedestrians walk across anywhere - the vehicles will just weave around you. Bangalore is like Malaysia is described - if a driver sees you attempt to cross, he or she will actively speed up.
ok thanks yeah i get the vibe
Show HN: Alexa Skill Certification Times - Track skill certifications duration
> better protect the public against sex trafficking and countries that try to hack our political system

Now that's an odd topic association. No idea what to think of this, but this sounds odd. Are they using the sex traffickng angle to push a second agenda?
Out of interest-- can you take a pic while the lighting outside is similar (assuming weather hasn't changed dramatically?) and maybe adjust exposure to what your eyes see? Or take a camera phone pic for comparison?
Sorry for lack of input or varied discussion but I just had to stop and say how goddamn friggin cool it would be to have bolometers hooked up to a smart HUD that didn't interfere with your vision of the road. Something really translucent that smartly blended it's color scheme as to not interfere with the coloration of signs and details beyond your view on the road / around the road.

But you are right, though. I think augmenting drivers sounds like a great idea in the sense you talk about. The kind of augmenting drivers I don't want are those stupid headbands you'd wear that beep like crazy if your head starts tilting in a way that resembles falling asleep. If you are in danger of falling asleep at the wheel and need a device like that I think it's pretty obvious one should take a nap on the side of the road or in a free parking lot, haha. Hopefully if we do wind up headed in that direction the people inventing will have a similar way of thinking and inventing.
If you wan't to compare against human "sample rate", it'd be equivalent to at least ~200 FPS (in order to get the same accuracy with a camera). Sure, the signal takes a moment to plumb its way through, but that's irrelevant to spotting objects.

If they're actually feeding data at 15 FPS into their ML model, then what the fuck were they expecting? Correlating movements at those framerates would be nigh-impossible.

Relying on ML for this is already comically irresponsible, but that'd just be ridiculous.
This isn't like organizing roles at a startup company. We're talking about an individual's right to defend themselves against someone bigger and stronger, someone with a weapon who wants to take your shit or fuck you or just fuck you up.

You put much faith in the Government, and I put it in the individual.

What happens when your police force is turned against you, becomes incompetent, gets lazy, or just doesn't show up?

It's idealistic. Life is a struggle for the individual, no matter how much we'd like to forget it or offload our worries.
what if half the military and all the gun nuts decide this country is for whites only? the people can fight for tyrrant as well as against it.
I personally stopped using Facebook as an experiment in September of last year. The idea was to go 1 month without the social network. After the month was over, I never went back.

This wasn't about the data sharing. I was aware of this all along. I also didn't delete my account. All data 'breached' has been sucked out long ago. It was just that I realized Facebook made me feel worse. I was constantly engaged with championing causes I feel passionate about. However, I did realize that for all my activity I achieved fairly little, and that the daily 'triggers' and 'write-offs' didn't function as a relieve, but rather as a self-reinforcing of a feeling of perpetual anger and discomfort.

I do miss some of the social interactions with friends and acquaintances with whom FB was the only link left. I kept Messenger and occasionally use that still to communicate more directly.

I don't think I will go back to FB (or similar social networks), even if they would solve the 'privacy' issues. I currently feel this type of 'long distance/low threshold' social paradigm is more harmful than beneficial to our psychological makeup.
> a Communist invention instituted by Jaruzelski during martial law to protect Communists

"W okresie PRL ustanowienie sądu konstytucyjnego stało się postulatem formułowanym przez wiele środowisk w okresie przełomu politycznego lat 1980–1981[2]. Powołania TK domagała się m.in. adwokatura oraz Niezależny Samorządny Związek Zawodowy „Solidarność”. "

Yes, someone does not have the idea what they are talking about, the Tribunal was established because Solidarity movement wanted it. A lot of the information you posted is at least inaccurate to high degree and can be verified easily.

> The current judiciary is full of law-breaking and less than savory people with ties to the old Communist establishment.

Can you name at least a few high profile members of judicary that would fit this description? I can name a few in PIS Kryże, Piotrowicz (you know the communist era prosecutor that now reforms law in Poland... oh the irony) - even people like Cenckiewicz the historian clearly state that they should not be there.

> And even if it were the case that the rule of law was being violated for "the good of society", then perhaps there's a problem with the system if it needs to be violated to make necessary changes.

I agree, can you point me to the parts of the laws that will improve the system for the citizens instead of currently ruling party?
Not living in Paris, but in Poland we have similar living style. I don't understand a problem. Noise isolation is usually very good in modern apartments. I can organize a party, have 15 drunk people in my apartment talking loudly and after I go out and close the door I can't hear anything. We consider "noisy" a major quality flaw for the building.
Youtube does have a big advantage of video being too large to move around quickly. It would take quite some time to bootstrap a new video service with even a remotely comparable catalog.
"They actually believe I'm going to give away my fortune like Warren Buffet. Dumb fucks!"

-- Mark Zuckerberg, probably
Hi HN,
I made this website to keep track of the average Alexa Skill certification times.

As Alexa Developers know, the duration of that process can vary greatly and it does not seem to be always under the 5 business days Amazon says.
For this, I tried to track this information but I need other developers help since Amazon will not share with me any internal information (of course).

I would love to receive feedback from you to make the project evolve and make it better overtime!
Thanks
This is also how my high school did it. It didn't work out well, although as far as I know they're still teaching. These weren't bad math teachers: they were probably some of the best in the school; it's just that the couple months or a year of training they must have received was clearly not enough for them to handle those classes at all.
It takes more than a whim to change it.
Users leaving the platform is definitely a dent in Facebook's image.

However, I'm pretty sure that at the end of the day if companies start withdrawing their funding for Facebook ads, the platform's shine will drop sharply.

So far apart from Mozilla, there really hasn't been any comment from the corporate side. I suppose it's a bit of the chicken and the egg problem - Fb has a lot of data so companies want targeted advertising and companies paying for it leads Fb to collect data.
I'm excited for WebAuthentication. That's probably the only thing that will push me to implement something new and significantly valuable for my apps this year based on web platform improvements.
why not defend yourself with something less likly to accidentally kill some random people?
> Almost a decade of average zero growth (...)
> It is sad to see the state of destruction the country was left in after Christina left.

And the state of the country when she arrived?
Let's not forget what happened between 1998-2002.

From your last article:
>Many of Argentina’s problems are familiar. Inflation has plagued Argentina for much of the past decade; it still grew by an average of 5.6% from 2005-2013.

Not a fan from Christina, but the situation is way more complex than just one (or 2 with Nestor) president.
Seems like Uber is using pretty bad radars, software and drivers.
Nope, this doesn't work. You get teachers who can basically teach students to memorize a bunch of computer science topics, but not those that can help at all in helping students when their code inevitably doesn't work.
A typical Parisian apartment building has 8 floors. Not a sky scrapper by any mean but still a lot denser than most other European cities. In London a typical residential building has 2 or 3 floors.
It could have been anything readable. I got the feeling it was either a Kindle or something like that or maybe even a hardcopy of something printed or written on paper. This was just a hunch but I think it's being validated in my mind by the fact that there was no light seeming to shine on the driver's face but that's probably due to the night vision camera not picking up that type of light? I don't really know. My mind is filling in a lot of gaps here, I realize.

EDIT: Upon re-watching the video a third time and really paying attention to this I don't think there is any real way for us to know without confirmation from the driver them self or an official report on the incident. My mind was definitely deciding things that just aren't discover-able from the video itself.
How do we know that this footage hasn't been artificially darkened by Uber before they gave it to police?
I've always loved Firefox. Had to switch to Chrome for stability and resource consumption, but I did not enjoy being all Google and I did miss numerous awesome features of Firefox. The awesomebar and dev tools to just name a few.

Went back to Firefox Quantum for a few months. Now I'm back on Chrome for exactly the same reasons. After hours of active use, Firefox is eating a ton of RAM and consuming way too much CPU, while also struggling to open any pages (let alone more complex apps) or downright crashing the apps that were already running.

Plus, it does not seem to support web calls at all (Google Meet, BlueJeans, GoToMeeting you name it).

I hate being on Chrome again, and I miss those Firefox features. But I have work to do, and I just can't have my tools grind to a halt all the time.
I am someone who has been 'programming since they were 12' and I worry about perhaps not being as well-rounded as you describe yourself. What kind of experiences that taught you the soft skills you mentioned would you recommend to someone like myself to become a more attractive engineer?
The other category is producing an operating loss.

Just as a stray example, for 3Q17 Alphabet generated $7.8 billion in operating income.

Google, the subsidiary, generated $8.7 billion in operating income for that quarter.

With continued solid growth of Google's cloud business, and the pull back on burning red ink on Google Fiber, maybe they'll push that other category to break-even soon. Regardless, Google is generating all of their profit. Google is a cash production marvel, nearly on par with the iPhone at this point. They should be able to hit around $40 billion in operating income in that subsidiary this year.
Linux doesn't include a desktop or browser by default.

Firefox will make these requests as does Google Chrome and Chromium. NetworkManager will do them too and various GUI tools for network configuration will try it.

Otherwise Captive Portals would simply break your internet without notice.
The thing is, MySpace died because it was replaced by Facebook.

What will Facebook's successor look like, and what makes you think it'll be any more human-friendly?
This 100%. When I drive, I watch the road. I don't watch my mobile phone, I don't watch the kids behind, I don't watch my wife. I don't watch the sky. I don't watch the GPS.

I just watch the road in front of me.

My idea is that the car has been behaving well for a long time and consequently the driver lowered is vigilance. Big mistake.
That’s generally a bad signal, whenever in-industry VCs stay out of a business and outside-industry VCs go in. Bad signal
Given how neutral Firefox is I wish they didn't create new stuff when good open community developed alternatives are available. I'm referring to lockbox. It would be better id this was an extension to keepass or a fork that read the same file format
I can't wait for webcomponents to land in stable.
It's sad that browser UI improvements came to an end.

A number of innovative browsers never gained traction, and when mainstream ones try to improve UI it gets considerably worse.

Every new browser has a short runway of new awesome ideas and then it's stagnant for decades.
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I have the very strong suspicion that the driver has turned autonomous drive mode off, perhaps to be able to watch tv or something. She seems extremely distracted by the dashboard and there is no way that sensors could not alert her of that presence. Also, apparently the car was driving at 38mph in an area where the speed limit was 35mph. Would the autonomous mode allow that?
I give all these fb junkies (yes that's what they are, they just don't know it, just like smokers used to) about 5 days. Then the withdrawal symptoms will kick in and they 'll give in. Facebook knows what it is doing.
IoT with the AI: Why do we need this?
Ask HN: Why VS Code is free?
Which monetization model stay behind it?
>Religions condition people to believe fiction as fact.

I would say "set up the minds of people to accept fiction as fact more smoothly". Or something like that, less categorical.
2 and 2 = 4, er, 4.1, no, 4.3 Nvidia's Titan V GPUs spit out 'wrong answers'
May I ask, why not both? I‘m pretty sure you will not buy 20mio songs, rather a couple thousand. With Match you get your own collection online and available everywhere, and augment it with the Music subscription. I’ve done it like this but only rarely need the Match fallback now, because most of my library is available on Music or Spotify.
My one issue with Firefox right now is CPU use. On my iMac or on desktop it doesn't truly matter. But on a MBP no matter how many tabs I have or what I'm doing the fans never turn on with Chrome. On Firefox they turn on regularly.

I've tested while looking at the activity monitor a bit. Loading random sites like HN show Firefox spiking to 80-90% CPU while Chrome spikes to 20-30%.
How to build a robot that “sees” with TensorFlow
That's their only purpose. Nobody in their right mind could expect human observers to stay as alert as an actual driver when cruising for days with an AI that is good enough to not require interventions all the time. Passengers add nothing to safety, and an almost reliable AI will make anyone a passenger after a short while.
Sled: Bw-Tree Key Value Store in Rust
Had the same experience. Give Opera a shot, I'm very satisfied with it since switching from ff a month ago.
It is supposed to provide increased security for users that don't know what they are doing. But because it's not feasible to have humans review every single change made to every single add-on in a reasonable time they've automated the system. So now instead of providing security all it does is make a walled garden where everything has to be approved by mozilla but no one actually checks what they're approving.

So it both provides a false sense of security and prevents users from being able to control the software they run on their own machines.
This is great, the examples in the README are very interesting.
Or he lacks the social awareness, introspectiveness to see how his product has a negative impact.
It essentially is. Even with that crappy autoexposure, she would probably be visible if the resolution and framerate wasn't terrible, and the compression hadn't taken out whatever detail remained.
He's in damage control mode / managing expectations.

Come on, when your data is the product, who do you think will buy it and what can/will they do with it other than bad things. I can't think of a legitimate use for such detailed profiling of people.
> QUIC (aka HTTP/3)

Why focus on QUIC when the JS APIs to use it aren't available? Numerous of the features of HTTP/2 aren't usable (i.e. trailers, flow control, security sensitive headers, priority, etc.).

I don't understand how the web is supposed to flourish without giving web developers some kind of access to these tools. Meanwhile, app developers are showered with such goodies.
Which coubtry/state are those for people trying to find out food places to live?
Don't think about the downvotes that much. They are sometimes just about timing. Around this time Europe is getting up so your post will be flooded with positive upvotes in no time.
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GMO is illegal in france. If anything it is the lack of GMO causing the problem. No GMO crops means you must use incesticides in large quantities, with GMO crops you don’t need to use incesticides and therefore insects and the environment are less effected.

A good way fir France to tackle this problem would be to allow GMO crops. Alas, hysteria and superstition are against sensible solutions.
They stopped being religious while making contributions to humanity. As if they burned through their stash.

Also, this is exaggerated. Greeks and Romans did awesome things that nobody could reproduce until XX century while being "pagans". Christianity just stole those results, tried to pass as their own.
I agree, YouTube search is very poor, I don’t understand why Google video search is so much better.
This is OK on iPad since it’s easy to open videos from a browser into the app, but this shortcoming is a real pain on Apple TV, which i use the most for watching video, relaxing in the evening bug screen and glass of red wine (or two).
Politicians fear that being generous to homeless people will attract more homeless people from other cities, causing a net increase in homeless people in their city.

I mean, if in City A the cops hassle homeless people and the only support offered is bus tickets to other cities, while City B offers good support and humane policing, I'd take the bus ticket from A to B - who wouldn't?
Initiatives like this is what really makes the big tech giants change. Google and Facebook sees you as the product, when you switch services it's not really the end of the world. Keeping you on their platform is a cost.

To cover this cost and profit off of you, they need advertising dollars. Those entities are the real customers and Facebook and Google must keep them on. And this relationship is one of the reasons I think Google and Facebook are overvalued because Wall Street doesn't see the parallel with other industries and how their brand has suffered from lack oversight.

When H&M was found to be using child labor in Pakistan we didn't allow them to get away with excuses about "oh, we produce so much clothes, we can't just switch" they had to promptly tell us what their exit strategy was from that textile provider. Imagine Wells Fargo is found to have bought adds from Google that was featured on an site for Holocaust denial or ISIS recruitment, really bad stuff. Imagine the reporter asking if Wells Fargo supports ISIS and they would answer "of course not, we have no idea where Google will feature our ads, we only know what target demographic we bought" to which the reporter could reply "so, will you make Google guarantee you won't be funding Islamic extremism? Or will you be moving off of Google soon and start buying ads from local newspapers where you know for a fact they won't publish ISIS recruitment or Holocaust denial pieces?".

When it starts sinking in for the Fortune 500s what they're really buying Google and Facebook will find that quality control is a lot more important and expensive than they previously thought.
+1 for Firefox eating CPU. For some reason they can't track down the issue. If there's anyone from Mozilla reading, I'm on a Late 2013 13" rMBP fully loaded. I've made all the recommended changes to improve performance (and undone all of them as well to ensure they weren't the problem.) Firefox consumes most of my CPU and causes my fans to run at the full 6200 RPM while they try to cool my CPU which consistently reaches beyond 80C on any page running any Javascript.