skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I've had an awful day. Nothing to compare with your story, but bad enough to start shooting cvs like a machine gun. After coming home and a nice cold beer, I feel fine.

My reasoning is that in a couple of months max I'll have another job. A better paid job, with a sensible schedule (not this ridiculous 2 hour lunch stop), with a sensible dress code and standard ways to do things. While the people that made me feel bad today will be, no doubt, in exactly the same trouble that they're today because they don't know any better and they don't listen.

Don't leave the US for that bad experience. Do leave if you feel that you'll be better off in your country for other reasons, but not because of an awful person. Do you want to feel all your life that a single idiot ruined your life plans?

How much time do you need to stay in that company to keep your visa? From your story it seems that you've been there for four years. If it isn't much more than a year more, resist. Pretend indifference or, even better, feel it. Make plans for what you'll do when you can change jobs. Get support from your wife and family. And trust yourself.
Here is Ars Technica's discussion of why they aren't covering this paper, with a good critical discussion of how to look at these results.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/a-critical-analysis-...
I've been using private trackers since OiNK was small. I still tend my HDBits account, which is over 10 years old at this point.

Private torrents are even more susceptible to these problems than public torrents, for several reasons.

a) They have the private flag set instructing the client not to use DHT to find peers.

b) They have the user's token embedded directly in the torrent, making it unsafe to share the file. Stripping the token will make it safe to share the file, but can't actually use it, since private trackers won't serve peers to a client without a token.

c) The torrents rely on a single tracker. Public torrents can throw on a handful of trackers that accept all comers, granting extra redundancy when outages occur.

d) Private trackers are the only search engines that index that specific corpus of data, and they typically have rules preventing users from sharing "internal" or "exclusive" content.

You're right that I'm no longer really "involved in the private tracker community" because I find the invite swapping tedious and mostly just stopped caring (didn't do anything to track down and get an account at "the next What.CD", for example), but private trackers only emphasize BitTorrent's dependencies on centralized brokers.
My first (and only) programming job I got it with a plain text resume appended to my application e-mail. All I had to list was a couple links to my github and my blog. Was a uni drop-out (from a history course...).

I wouldn't advice you do that, I myself am maintaining a resume that I write with Org-mode and some TeX, not because that's how it should be done but because I make most of my documents that way, but still, a resume is about content, above all. A nice and short bio, and then some lists. Due care to details like nice typography and accurate ortography. And no needless ornaments or details that make it too complicated or long to read.

I wouldn't think too much about what recruiters specifically look at really. They probably behave like everybody anyways: skim a document to see if worth reading, check the abstract if available, then read if looks like worth reading.
Looking through my email archives, I see I had to contact Spotify support via email and ask them to delete the Spotify account I'd created via FB, so that I could signup again via an email login.

However! Spotify support were great, they offered to migrate all my playlists from the old account over to the new account. No guarantees they could do that now with everyone deleting their FB accounts at once, but I was really impressed with the friendliness of their service. They pretty much created a customer for life out of me from that support experience.
Moving in that direction: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/
That article was pulled from book "The Secret History of Mac Gaming" which is full of same quality of research from same author.

You can get the digital version here - https://unbound.com/books/macgaming/

Or looks like you can buy on Author's site via Amazon here -

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Mac-Gaming/dp/17835248...

I was an original backer of the project, no other affiliation very cool to see it on HN and highly recommended the book is a beautiful piece!
Well you certainly get a lot more press for dissing Facebook right now than back then. It's the scapegoat of the moment, may as well take advantage and get on board if it suits you.
I think these are all separate cases. Yes, opsec is hard in general. There's a scale of how hard some problems are to prevent - what you listed is in various places on it. The specific case I responded to with laptop in the park while you're trying to mess with foreign governments would be at one extreme of that scale.
> - compilers already do that ( yeah, it's one of those RTFM things. See for example GCC's undefined behavior sanitizer)

well, no they don't. UBSan is at run-time because most UB is impossible to catch at compile-time.
You will need to call Spotify. I was not able to cancel my Spotify subscription anymore after I deleted Facebook. So I had to call and they had to manually transfer all my playlists to a new account
Your behavior is too small a sample size to have any bearing on the behavior of 20 year olds on average.

It's entirely possible that you're a much better person than Mark Zuckerberg. That doesn't make him a bad person.

I also remember being 20 and I said much worse things than calling a bunch of people dumb fucks in private conversation.
Yikes! It seems obvious that a "preemptive" (i.e. unprovoked and illegal) attack on North Korean facilities could lead quickly to either immediate action against South Korea or to the North Koreans launching a missile at the U.S. or an ally like Japan.

A preemptive strike is supposed to be a risk reduction measure, but it seems like it only increases the risks to the U.S.!
Except for Mendelian diseases, not really. The sad fact is that for the so-called "complex diseases", we have very little idea what is going on inside the black box. I won't presume to guess whether we know less about them or about behavior, but the ignorance level is very high in both cases. They are called "complex" because we don't understand them, and because they seem to have many causes, both individual genetic loci and environmental variables, each contributing a little bit rather than something like sickle-cell anemia which has one big cause.

However, I think our techniques are quite sufficient right now to say X% of the variance in phenotype P is attributable to genetics (i.e., genetics partially cause P). That is a totally different thing from explaining how the genotype causes the phenotype.
Systemwide crop failures weren't exactly rare in the medieval era, but the chances of something going wrong with family-sized farms were higher still.
Oh dear, a bug! I wonder if it's a bug like the one that raided your linked contacts and wiped out people's email addresses and replaced them with a @facebook.com email. Or the multiple 'glitches' that would reset your privacy settings to more public.
Many people care deeply and have integrity. Why aren't they successful?
Thanks. Is this an accurate summary of what you'd like?

- Completely open hardware.

- Completely open software.

- Freedom to load any software you'd like on your device.

- Control over the data that's being sent by your device.
> Signal disadvantage: It wont work with limited permissions on your phone according to some people on HN.

I'm curious as to what those limited permissions are? I assume this refers to iOS, because in my experience, Android is not as restrictive of apps.
if something is hard to do in Rust it's
probably an anti-pattern with respect
to memory performance or safety.

Oh? Tell me, how many lines of Rust does this take you?

struct Task {
struct Task *next;
struct Task *prev;
struct TaskRegs regs;
//other shit here
}

Or are doubly-linked lists antipatterns now?
What a waste of tuition money.
It's a killer process for churning out mediocre cogs.
He "trespassed" to cover the actions of the actual trespassers. If he had been reporting negatively about the trespassers and informing on them I'm sure he wouldn't have been charged.
Funny that you mention privilege. Most people in the US don't have a degree [1]. Are you saying none of those people have decent jobs? Never mind the people on this very website that work in tech without a degree, there are plenty of other jobs that require no degrees and are compensated quite well. [2] is a good read, despite the fact that it's a little out of date.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_attainment_in_the_...

[2] http://www.er-doctor.com/doctor_income.html
Wouldn't the "Berlin Wall episode" pertain more to the former East Germany, whose GDP per capita today is several times that of Russia's?

All in all, reunification and the fall of Communism has been very good for East Germans:

http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-second-economic-miracle/a-1797...
You really should be able to control apps/cloud providers retention of your data plus be able to delete it.

for each of the types of data( location, images, click history, etc):

1. none

2. prompt

3. 1 day

4. 30 days

5. until deleted

or something similar

and maybe some of the service need to go to a pay model.

you were charged $XX for service

you were credit $XYZ for sharing personal data for XYZ time frame

you were credited $ABC for ordering ABC products and services.
This is absolutely, 100%, certifiably wrong.

> odd bugs which come about because your objects get clipped to the size of the smallest possible (the base class).

This only EVER happens if you do something you're never supposed to do. If you have a base pointer, it only knows about... base pointer fields!

>So what you usually do here is have a pointer and a VTable and all that jazz.

"Making a VTable" in C++ sounds like you have zero understanding of the language.
Seit printer nix gut.
We shouldn't have to give an answer as to how freedom of speech and freedom of association will affect things negatively.
Yep, it will cost money, but the big companies will have compliance automated, and will continue business as usual.

Now about the small companies, the ones that can will shut down European operations and continue elsewhere; the ones that can't, in particular European startups and small tech companies, will have to close shop or face severe penalties every year.

In the end, most of the damage will be done to small and medium European tech companies.
Exactly! This is an example of the systemic racism still present in Canada. This is clearly politically motivated. They don't want people to empathise with the indigenous, they want us to care about corporate profits.

We called them savages for living in harmony with the land. We are now starting to see what happens when you don't. Who is the savage, now?
You can say the same about most things that happen currently. historically, civilizations that survived did not use computers, for instance. Thus, if you want to avoid socital collapse, you should enforce that nobody uses computers.
What I get out of this is that you like to play with languages rather than make actual things with them.
I stand by "anything"—your post didn't make any exceptions. I should have been clearer that I was referring to an attitude your comment implied rather than an attitude you have, though, and for that I apologize.
I made something similar to this for iOS: http://sweetervibes.com/

However, because of Apple's new strict rules on what it considers user aggregated content, privacy, and etc. It's been stuck on beta for a while. I originally wanted to create a YouTube aggregator (like yours) however, I'm almost certain Apple will reject it.
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Another one: DNA is conductive. Damage to DNA disrupts this. There is some serious speculation that part of the mechanism the cell uses to detect DNA damage is to look for changes in the conductivity.

If an outside electromagnetic field could induce a current in a damaged piece of DNA, it might interfere with the damage detection mechanism finding that damage. That would not be able to cause cancer, but it could prevent the cell from stopping a cancer from some other cause that it would have otherwise been able to stop.

Can electromagnetic radiation at the frequencies we commonly use induce currents in DNA? At first is would seem unlikely. Cell phones and Wi-Fi are using wavelengths in the ballpark of 20 cm or longer. You'd expect to need an antenna of at least around 5 cm long to be effective (about 1/4 of a wavelength).

DNA is actually about 100 cm long, but it is tightly coiled up so that it fits in the cell. I've not been able to find anything definitive on what the means as far as acting as an antenna goes. There are antenna designs that take a long antenna and fold them into smaller spaces, but it is way beyond me to figure out if DNA can work that way.
Just objectively and briefly describe yourself. Don't try to "market" yourself, or talk too much about your personality and other abstract stuff. An example would be: saying "I'm a CS grad, looking to do ..." and then listing in your education details that you've graduated from MIT vs. saying upfront "I've completed a CS course in MIT, one of the best universities worldwide in this area; and I strive to change the world..."
Having worked with Pivots in their SF office and in smaller satellite offices, the Kool-aid isn't nearly as strong away from their main offices.

But, I do really like a lot of their processes. Pair programming isn't for everyone, but I think it's a better way of building software. Now that I'm not doing it full time, I constantly miss the benefits of it.

Their strict schedule is kinda nice for work life balance, but it also means working with them was a little strange. Our whole team would go out for happy hour at 5, but they would stay until 6, even with almost nobody else in the office.
How the Internet of Things Could Fracture Wi-Fi
Where do I begin if I want to set something like this up?

As an experiment - my neighborhood in India has a problem with loud motorbikes that are illegally modified. Hypothetically if I wanted to use this approach (there are probably simpler ones in this specific case), where do I start?

Do I just start recording gigabytes of audio data every day and start doing some kind of FFT on the data and manually tagging cases of loud bikes?

After that I suspect I can use one of those ML cheat sheets to figure out what is the best model for this kind of thing and then I just send it data via the TensorFlow library?

On the surface of it it feels like I'd be spending hours of processing time converting the audio data and hours of manual tagging before I get anywhere close to a solution. Is there a quicker or smarter way to go about this?
While Dropbox rose, Box shares fell 8% today even though their annual report released yesterday states YoY growth, delivering their first full year of positive free cash flow. They only mention Dropbox as a competitor "to a lesser extent"[1] in comparison to Microsoft and Google

[1] https://www.last10k.com/sec-filings/1372612/0001564590-18-00...
To be pithy - humans are big absorptive sacks of water, radar sees us poorly.
That would be the boat of early adopter people who are willing to pay top dollar for a car that, apart from Superchargers and a large screen is not on par with BMW and the like in things that actually matter to luxury car buyers, like build quality and comfort and handling? Actually, on build quality Tesla doesn't really compete with cars that are half the price.

Does not seem to be a huge boat to me. Not that BMW couldn't screw it up before then, but they will need to try really hard to screw up.
A Look at the Relative Spectre/Meltdown Mitigation Costs on Windows vs. Linux
Pinker's argument is compatible with the average being a position that is not acceptable. The assertion is that the average is progressing in what we view as progress to more acceptable positions. Pretty sure he even has quite a few sections discussing exactly this.

I confess this is mainly compatible with my world view, so I am likely giving it more leeway than I realize. I fully expect that 200 years from now, someone will easily be able to discern ridiculously backwards views that I maintain with a clear mind today. I don't think you'll have to wait that long, honestly. My children will be far more progressive than I am. That is progress.
Drew and Brandon, together again!
The Nature paper is open access, looking into it. It seems just adding another layer of activation function. Input to hidden layer 1 is called synaptic and Hidden layer 1 to output is called dendritic. Can someone explain what how the update rules, are different from backprop?
Good read for all founders
> Well, you obviously don't have to be a competent chemist to buy healthy food in the same way that you don't have to be a journalist or experienced intelligence agent to conclude that Hillary Clinton probably doesn't run a child pornography organization from the basement of a pizza joint.

Well, or do you? If there was no regulation ensuring at least a certain baseline of both food safety and correctness of the labeling, how far would you actually get without being a competent chemist? And, well, yeah, it seems obvious to you, but the thing is, to a lot of people, it is actually an intellectual struggle to understand that that is bullshit, because they are constantly fed information that supports their world view and makes it seem coherent to them.

> There's a baseline of minimum media literacy, or food buying skills, you're expected to exhibit and proper education helps to meet and exceed that threshold.

Well, yes, but the question is not whether it is expected, but whether it should be expected. And whether the amount of media literacy is actually comparable to the expected food buying skills. I mean, just think about how hard it actually is to buy outright toxic food. Really, you can go into any restaurant or grocery store and buy anything they offer, and it just won't be toxic, it will almost all be perfectly fine for human consumption. Maybe not extremely healthy, but nothing that will make you ill in the short term, except for rare exceptions. Now compare that to well-known news outlets. It's completely trivial to get your news from a "news source" that is largely fabricated bullshit, it is just everywhere.

> Additionally and in contrast to toxic ingredients, thruthful journalismus often isn't a clear, binary conclusion

I don't think toxic ingredients are that much clearer than any other field of investigation. Yeah, there is stuff that will kill you instantly, that's easy, but what increase of cancer rates makes ingredients obviously toxic?
Sustainable City Guide: Brooklyn
Are self-driving cars 33 times more deadly than regular cars?
I think that the message ModernMech is trying to convey is the following:

-if you want to read the news for Tesla, go to their website
-you don't need to be spied on 24/7 and having that "intelligence" coming back to bite you
-you don't need a constant spy to follow you around to any page with a "like" button
-you don't need to waste 60mins in cat videos and party photos on a party you were not invited, if your actual need to see the news about the new Tesla XYZ car
>What does this have to do with the discussion at hand?

Someone said they heard legalization made conditions worse.

I was merely offering up an opinion of why that might be, if true.

Where are "closet" rude and mean people more likely to make degrading and derogatory comments? In public in front of others where their socially unacceptable behavior (food service employees) would be exposed? Or behind closed doors with a single individual where they can freely say shit making the other feel small and themselves feel big?

Sorry, I forgot anecdotes, metaphors, and hypotheses are not allowed on HN.

I'm truly sorry I wasn't able to effectively and clearly communicate how the dots connect.
> How is 'genetic characteristics common to humans with a shared geographic origin' a concept

It is a concept (pretty much anything that you can refer to in language is a concept), but more to the point it's not the basis of actual racial categories in the real world.

> Maybe you have another definition of race that might be a social construct

Yes, the categories socially ascribed (including legally assigned) and self-identified (which are usually similar, but not always aligned), largely based on trivially observable lphenotype, into which people are sorted as “races”. Which, demonstrably, have a drifting relationship over time and space, driven by social factors, to any genetic-based assignment system you might care to establish, though they obviously have a correlation to genetics (both because geneticd play a role in determining phenotype and because those social categories are often socially enforced, or at least incentivized, boundaries on acceptable mate selection, making them semi-isolated breeding pools.)
An early Twitter user suggested using hashtags, think he's generally credited with it:

http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-...
This part:

> That was strange.. This is not how it worked for me in sqlite3. It was more this way:

> [diagram]

The author needs to visit the grammar for SELECT[1] and specifically expand the `join-operator` grammar; he will see that the diagram that he drew the red arrow on is, in fact, going through the grammar diagram as it is listed. (The join operator here is the "," used to separate the tables.)

Also, I feel like we keep using "with-clause" to mean "where clause".

Now, what the semantic meaning of this grammar is, and whether that was a bug … not sure. Syntactically, it seems ok, but I agree with the "semi explicit join" pondering of the author. PostgreSQL's docs, for example, indicate that this is not syntactically valid.

[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/lang_select.html
My FB events appear in my iCal just fine via CalDav. Not sure why you think you can't grab your data.
That's probably a good summary, though I do reserve some wiggle room in case I'm forgetting something

FYI, this thread is getting a bit out of hand, so if you'd like to continue this conversation, I don't mind, but LMK how I can contact you because I'm not likely to keep checking for responses |;)
Ask HN: What's the modern state of meetings science?
Meetings are good/bad? How long should they take? Optimal frequency? in 2014 I read Eric Schmidt's "how google works" and it had very clear recommendations for meetings. Did anything change since then?
You can just list them as a list of keywords somewhere.
one example might be financial services which may get regulated to be multi-cloud.

Also DR.
It's a life lesson. You won't make that mistake again.
No contract? No recourse really

If it's more than 100 hours work you might think about legal action. Less than 100 hours perhaps pull a face when other people mention the company and tell the story off the record, definitely not recorded. The company's reputation will come back to affect them
Isn't that what a cover letter is for?
Thank you! I should have thought about the system reqs to see hints as to how it was built