skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI I identify and vote as a liberal. Tilting at windmills like facebook/CA feels great for the ego but I'm trying to explain that it has nothing to do with why people vote a certain way. This is all a big sideshow to assuage the tender injury democrats are suffering from a Trump whitehouse.

So if you wish then let the sideshow be spectacular. Let facebook be the scapegoat and social media be regulated. When all of that and a smug attitude does nothing to stop global warming or another conservative president in the future don't be surprised.
I've had non-compete agreements provided to me to sign in the past, usually as part of a packet of things to sign. In each case I just pocketed them without signing them. I've never had a company come back later and demand that I sign the thing. If they don't do their diligence, I don't see why I should do it for them.

In other words, just because someone puts something in front of you to sign doesn't mean you have to sign it, or even comment or push back on it. You can just ignore it.
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The technical stack matters very little: you can do the necessary things with almost any webdev stack.

IMHO, federation is important if you want to replace Facebook and not just build a small-scale hub (which is a totally valuable thing to do too!), and for that you're going to need common protocols. Mastodon gets a lot of it right for making a Twitter-like, but there is no reason you couldn't build a Facebook-like on the same protocols (ActivityPub) too.
How much reading are you willing to make time for? I've collected a very large number of links to source, research, & analysis material on Russia's ongoing active measures campaign over the last 14 months (though ironically, I still haven't gotten around to reading the recent indictment). This is a complex issue, and my perception is that a full proof of all the claims alleged about Russia's operation will require much more detail and logical inferences than most people who keep harping about "where's the proof? where's the smoking gun?" really expect. But if you want to keep the scope limited to just your a) and b), then I can probably dig up some compelling and hopefully verifiable public evidence in support of them (at least in support of your point a - for b, the only people who have metrics & data on how effective and impactful this operation has been on our country are probably the IRA, Russian intelligence services, and Cambridge Analytica. So point b is tougher for me, but I could at least point you to proof of the dark seriousness of their intent and goals). It might still be a lot of material to go over, though. Fair warning.
The waste heat from the gigawatt of energy can be used to keep us warm in line while waitng for the bread.
I'd like to hear a proposal for how print, radio or tv could have
successfully served such an end.

I.e. where enough people watched the content, where the proposal was realistically achievable, and would have been financially viable.

Not saying such a thing is impossible but it sure isn't easy.
I'm working as a manager in Shenzhen. I have a guy on my team who's studying to do his IELTS so that he can get accepted into a foreign university to do his masters in computer science. He says that he can't get into Tsinghua (or any Chinese university at that tier) because the competition's too fierce, and all the universities a step below are not well enough respected. Hence studying for IELTS. He's targeting University of Toronto or something at that level. For what it's worth, it's only one anecdote from one Chinese guy.
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I'm looking at publishers who do release Linux games using internal engines. Most of them use binary or source wrapping. Only a minority are implementing proper native rendering in those engines. And I bet it's based on cost considerations like I said above. How would you explain it otherwise?

And I'm sure that cost plays a role when small market is evaluated. The higher is the cost, the less likely such publisher is to care, because prospects of profits are also reduced. So it goes back to my point. Lock-in proponents like MS and Co. benefit from lock-in in slowing down competition growth.
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Facebook Is Why We Need a Digital Protection Agency
Would guess that it is at MIT/Stanford. A key thing to remember is that the top minds of the world aren't really emigrating to go to China to study or bring their family and that isn't going to change anytime soon. All roads still do not lead to China, and for good reason. Another important thing to take into consideration is having your trig identities memorized slightly better doesn't equivocate even remotely to higher intellectual output.
Sure. Okay then.

That doesn't bother me. I still go to the pub after work with friends and have a good time.
It's not to force open source, but to ensure that free software stays free.

Freedom is good, right? The GPL is based on the belief that everlasting nearly-total freedom is better than transient total freedom.

Restrict exactly one freedom now, the ability to release without source, and you guarantee all the remaining freedoms (all of them!) to all future end users.

Allow that one last freedom to developers, and you potentially deprive freedom from later users.

The GPL doesn't stop people from using software in ways I don't approve. It only prevents further restrictions on freedom.
I've run into this problem when keeping a single large (100000+) list sorted. In my case it was very important not to change the sort value on rows that didn't need to.

I had considered most of the solutions listed in the article except for the true fraction method. I believe that solution was explored by the author as they thought floating points were somehow solving a problem that couldn't be solved by integers. I settled on an approach that is essentially Solution 2 but using integers instead, each time bisecting the other two integers. The important aspect is that when inserting at the head or tail of the list, you bisect between MININT (-2^63) or MAXINT (2^63-1) respectively.
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Characterizing it as wrong is missing the nuance with respect to rights.

The whole “origin myth” of why Stallman did what he did was based on being unable to use a printer. As computing moves to this model where your computer is more of a TV, that problem moves and as an individual you lose sovereignty over your data.

That has many other implications — there are many discussions here of what third party doctrine means in a legal sense. I don’t know that software licensing is the solution is the best answer, but it’s an honest attempt to address a serious problem.
In a similar light, there are many places that ask you fill out your social security number among other items on paperwork. 9/10 times they will never ask you to fill in the blanks you left out...
I mean, I get that approach, but tbh I would rather hash that out with a company before I get hired rather than 4 months down the road when some HR person notices the paperwork is incomplete.
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The damage is much worse - people are starting to associate Facebook's blunders with "everything wrong with Silicon Valley today." Take these issues from FB and combine them with all the other social issues SV is experiencing - racism, sexism, ageism - and the fallout could be very significant. Not helping is the products and services coming out of SV are increasingly being viewed with suspicion and disdain, as creating more problems than they're solving. SV can't stay on this path much longer. Instead of focusing so much on changing the world they'd better start looking at the man in the mirror and begin by changing themselves.
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New linguistic analysis finds Dravidian language family is 4,500 years
At my last gig, another ba Fortune 500 company, we had multiple on-premise data integration tools including Informatica, DataStage, SSIS and an open source ETL tool. Yes, the idiocracy runs deep with this company as well.
> But this is a problem outside the game industry too

There is definitely a parallel in film and animation as well.
Underpaid, worn out talented people are legion in production and post-production.

> “You’d get a lot of people coming right out of school, going, ‘Oh I really want to prove myself, and I really want to make sure that they see that I’m contributing,’(...) They either worked themselves out and would get sick or would become bitter.”

Part of this happens because management does its job well in the first place, that is stretching resources to the max. But let's not forget it happens with the tacit consent of the burned out crew.
Unrealistic optimism, the excitement of being part of something big, the belief that this "crunch" is only temporary are also to blame. All that is understandable and unfortunately, these seem to be a part of the creative process.

> “[People who] take a lot of pride in this product are the people who are going to kill themselves. And those are the people you really don’t want killing themselves because they have the most value in the company.”

Perhaps more transparency is needed on the part of the crew or communication/education with their peers—especially with freshly graduated ones. One of the issues is that everybody knows this is toxic yet tends to accept the situation assuming this must be how production works.
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That's a bit of a lame argument, along the same lines as the 'trickle down' effect.

It probably depends on whether your economy is limited by consumer demand or by insufficient investments. For most developed nations it is clearly limited by consumer demand. Giving rich people more money aka 'trickle down' won't get the rich people to invest, because there is no demand (normal people already spend more than 100% of their income)

In this situation giving away money helicopter style makes sense.
>I bet...

>stick to facts

okay.

FACT: You bet Manafort isn't a traitor.

Bob Mueller would appear to have a different opinion.

https://www.justice.gov/file/1038391/download

Guess who my money is on.
I think the more nefarious purpose is to identify these people as part of a voter supression campaign.

So, it isn't to motivate somebody to vote for a particular candidate, but to not vote, or prevent the possibility of voting.

Target the opposition, if you will.
> more terrifying than some trained and experience arbitrator with respectable work history, to me.

Roy Moore was a judge. Think of that.
Ousted from the bench, twice, for defying court orders, ignoring the law, and displaying a lack of impartiality. This guys thinking was basically "I don't have to follow the rules, because God tells me what's right." And he was a judge for a number of years.

Now look at this video of a recent trump judicial nominee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-zvNnFjk3Q

He couldn't even answer basic legal questions, and admits to have never tried a case in court. I believe he dropped out of the process. But others have gone on to be judges, with only slightly better credentials.

So having a judge decide is no guarantee of a fair outcome. Juries exist for a reason. They aren't perfect, and nothing ever will be.
What does that even mean?

That is like me saying something like this: they may be 1.4 billion strong, but most me are considered unhappy and sexually frustrated by policy design.

>China has many millions more men than women, a hangover of the country's one-child policy, which was overturned in 2015, though its effects will last decades more. The gender imbalance is making it hard for many men to find a partner – and the gap is likely to widen.

>By 2020, it’s estimated there will be 30 million more men than women looking for a partner. In his book, The Demographic Future, American political economist Nicholas Eberstadt cites projections that by 2030, more than a quarter of Chinese men in their 30s will not have married.

(http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170213-why-millions-of-ch...)
You do not have to offer the source code using the source code or through the service it provides. If you just throw it up on GitHub or whatever it still counts.
As one of the investors I think it is strong language when you say "dumped", and not really true in my opinion.

You have to remember that there are still many people who want to back this as a project. One of the big issues is that it is a really hard problem technically to solve with many "unknown" "unknowns".

And yes, I agree that many ideas will flood in because of this, and Chris Granger and Rob Attori and co have already influenced many other people and projects, they are in my opinion the thought leaders in this new programming space, and as a consequence have already influenced the entire industry with their ideas.

In any case, they influenced me, and if they influenced just one person, that is enough for me :)
So recently I came across an Invention Disclosure agreement that a company wanted me to sign. The phrasing of this kind of threw me off:

"I will promptly communicate to the Company each and every invention, discovery or item of intellectual property made or conceived by me, either as an individual or jointly with others, during my period of employment, and I agree that any such invention, discovery or item of intellectual property which I may disclose to anyone within one (1) year after the termination of my employment shall be presumed to have been made during my period of employment hereunder and shall become the sole property of the Company."

At first glance it looks like a typical "I assign everything I invent while employed" deal, but the 1 year post-employment clause sure looks like a non-complete to me.

What do you think?
Firstly, UK political advertising is highly regulated. There are spending limits, spending reporting requirements, and a general ban on TV advertising outside of the regulated slots: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22238582 Most people are comfortable with this especially if the alternative is lie-filled attack ads as in the American system.

Secondly, the context of this is the "fake news" enquiry. It seems that the Facebook advertising and targeting has been used to identify people who are already susceptible to lies (conspiracy theorists, woo believers, anti-vaxers etc) or racism and then feed links to "fake news" stories that were guaranteed to make them angry while encouraging them to share.

It doesn't matter if an algorithm deems that my neighbour finds "relevant" an article on "here's why we should deport all the Poles", it's not an acceptable thing for Facebook to be showing people and they need to take responsibility for it.
Its purely Trump hatred driving this. Because Obama doing this in 2012 = Genius. Trump doing this in 2016 = Scandal. I'm a libertarian and yes I threw my vote away on Gary Johnson, but looking at the media landscape, there truly is a backlash against conservatives going on in social media, and this is just part of that. Donald Trump won because fake news... no wait, it was Russia and their abysmal social media spending... no wait, its because he gamed facebook! They want to put more pressure on facebook to "do something about this" now that the coin has flipped. I have a feeling though this is going to get out of hand and drag facebook into the gutter.
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All of our arms are being twisted by that standard. And all candidates were using ads.

I'm saying that the people voted how they voted without the use of anything that seems outside of the norm.

We should investigate these data-driven ad campaigns if they do have that much influence over our democracy.

And we should investigate Russian meddling because it looks like there was a divisive propaganda campaign and a bunch of shady business deals.

And we should investigate the Trump campaign because it looks like there were a bunch of shady business deals with questionable ties.

My real point was that the fact that these things involve Trump shouldn't impact their seriousness. We know there are people trying to find dirt on Trump but that doesn't mean all of the angles they're looking at are purely about Trump.
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By that point, the paperwork is complete. The hiring completes the transaction as being satisfactory to both sides.
The restrictive licenses bring nothing to the table. It is an outdated dogma. We ought to choose licences that actually enable software to be written, without needless hurdles.

Apple, MS and Google understood this, and they release swathes of stuff under _useful_ licences. If you make something open-source, you probably want it to be legally usable.
Now if only I could do that with software-enforced EULAs.

You know, the things that nobody reads but generally sign away all your rights.
MachineLabs goes open source
I suppose cockroaches are under enough selective pressure, in terms of the ratio of individuals born to those who become parents, that they can maintain a large genome despite presumably high mutation rates.
While I agree that I think the Obama campaign has largely gotten a pass for similar data collection and voter profiling activities, I think that part of the reason its getting such attention now is some of the accompanying scandalous tactics of CA being revealed along with their data efforts. Some of the undercover videos being released, particularly the one regarding the Sri Lankan election, look pretty bad.
You mean everyone assumes he doesn't abuse the data. That's different than knowing. It's just the lazy and thoughtless stance to take. "Why would they be allowed to have the cameras if they were up to no good"? Businesses are assumed to do no wrong and meet some high moral standard because it's easy to.
As soon as software engineering is a profession that requires professional certification, and as soon as Bash is something that's commissioned by some kind of entity that requires it to adhere to certain safety/quality standards, your bridge example will apply here. Until then, it is 100% irrelevant.
It drastically decreases mental/physical overhead of typing the dang code out without in any way affecting typing.

C# is a huge breath of fresh air compared to java largely because of useful type inference. It's easy to make compilers do more work now.

Rust is doing type inference with drastically stronger types, for example.
It's worse; it's a specific subset of perjury. It's lying under oath by someone in authority, who presumes greater moral weight during testifying. And that testimony is often used to get people to plea bargain when they are innocent.

It should have an outsized punishment.
Sounds very very cool. Possibly the simplest way for us geeks to support democracy.
I with there was a FAQ though because I have questions:

-Can I restrict the traffic? (e.g. I don't want illegal downloads coming from my IP)

-How do people discover your VPN? Is there a central repo which lists all Outline VPNs?
I think it makes total sense to have the language evolving on a scheduled basis rather than stagnate.

If your company is only discussing moving to JDK9 now, what difference does it make that JDK10 is out? If you are using the free version, there is no real support. If you are a paying customer, Oracle will support you to the end of time while wringing every last cent out of your company.

What difference does it make if the language keeps evolving? Do you expect the entire world to revolve around you and your company?
Anecdotal but definitely illustrative: a close friend of my mother had serious trouble managing her bipolar states, she would start manic and it got out of control within hours or sometimes minutes. Bye bye meds, and on more than one occasion, she would spend thousands of dollars in days, vacation scams, grocery shopping for things unneeded that sat and spoiled, you name it. She made comprehensive arrangements with friends and the companies she dealt with repeatedly so she couldn't get more than a few dollars pocket money when off cycle. In this regard, my mom was an angel, saved this friend multiple bankruptcies.

Anyone not so fortunate could be so easily scammed its scary. And heart wrenching.
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I agree, but it's also worth noting that it's often quite hard to find someone prepared to take over maintainership.
Addictions generally cost money. If he has the money to waste, its still beats other addictions that can kill you. I used to work with someone whose brother-in-law bet and often lost $10,000 a day in Macau on baccarat when on vacation.
"government behavior going unchecked" by who?
It is a request. There's no sanction associated with not turning up, but that means Facebook doesn't get a say in what the legislative response to this is. For example, maybe a ban on political advertising on Facebook.
Run away. No client/employer is worth that kind of baggage.

It's even worse than a non-compete: instead of you simply being prohibited from competing with them, they automatically own your creations.
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I'm an ACM member. Magazine every month and lots of links in my inbox. It's pretty good.
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Facebook data practices were letting down users years before Cambridge Analytica
You make good points and are certainly using one valid definition of "software freedom". It focuses on the people who write code.

The idea of such "copyleft" licenses is to go further and use copyright law as a tool in what is seen as a broader fight for freedom. This fight (see the Free Software Foundation for more) focuses on the people who run the code --- not the people who write it.

The premise is that my fundamental rights and freedoms are infringed when I run non-free code. Therefore, the argument goes, we should use copyright law to ensure that our code cannot be used in such ways to exploit or hurt people, by requiring that anyone who uses our code makes the source available to the people running it.
Exactly. Horses met their mechancial limits in competition with technology just as humans will meet their intellectual limits.
Recursion could be considered a form of looping. Eve does not have recursion either, see my above comment[0] on how Eve managed to apply computation to a bunch of values without loops.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16631600
Dagobert Duck can answer this best.
It's not just a non-compete, it's a non-work. (Or more realistically, non-enforceable.) It's basically saying that everything you make in the first year at your new job after leaving belongs to the company. Uh... no.
We intend to only switch to LTS versions. 8 is LTS, as will be 11. We'll switch a little while after 11 comes out once we believe any release bugs are ironed out (7's release worried me).
I think people have become acutely aware that there are lots of people being manipulated through online disinformation and propaganda campaigns. But I also think just about everyone assumes that its others who are being manipulated and not themselves. By definition, you can't be manipulated if you know you are being manipulated.
Seems like it’s more of a story about savvy government policy leading to the rise of a robust domestic industry.
Not always and not quite. Here's an example of some type-foo with generics that works on Java 7 and not on Java 8

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34659055/java-8-incompat...