skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same fiduciary duty legal precedents still matter to private companies. Even private companies have shareholders (we don't have a model for companies that do not have shareholders), and the fiduciary duty of a private company is absolutely a factor in any "corporate breakup" when Founders come to disagreements, dissolve companies, et cetera.

I agree with your implication in using the word "myth" that fiduciary duty as a concern is overblown in the collective world of public corporations (the decision in Dodge v Ford was hugely problematic and its shadow haunts us all), but it's not a myth in that it doesn't exist.
The article goes out of its way to put this into the context of Parkland shootings and Democrat's following renewed push for firearm ownership restrictions, and imply heavily - without saying it explicitly, as it would be an obvious blatant lie - that somehow the two are connected, even though this is an absolute coincidence. Inserting this angle into this article is yet another act of journalistic malpractice.
How weird - I used to live in that same house that's featured in that article. 1908 Colony St. in Mountain View, CA. I remember the landlord made me sign an agreement that indemnifies them from legal responsibility in the event I get sick from drinking the water, or leaky vapors, or whatever. It basically read that if I get sick for any reason, I can't sue anyone for it. What a lovely and generous place SV is!
Knowing him no more than how he was described by the story, that is exactly what I would expect from him.
If the newer version of some library has some breaking changes, you can migrate bit by bit instead of doing it all in one go.
Google has slowly but surely started approaching the walled garden approach put forth by Apple.

It is totally within their right to do this. I understand why they're doing this. I'm not happy with it.
> The "easy-ness" diminishes the quality of interaction.

For you, maybe. For me and others, it makes it easier to organize events and coordinate meetings with friends. Why do you assume your experience is universal? It might be a problem in your circle, but that doesn’t mean it is in everyone else’s.
Previously covered:

2001, salon: https://www.salon.com/2001/07/30/almaden1/

2013, the atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/not-e...

2015, gizmodo: https://gizmodo.com/the-secret-history-of-silicon-valley-and...

2017, kqed: https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/388730

I've lived here off and on since 1999, but that Atlantic article was the first one to really get my attention.
> Most places are pretty good about sending unsubscribe links these days.

Yeah, but unfortunately companies are also really, really, really good at putting you on mailing lists/ADLs that you never, ever would have signed up for on your own.

I went to a coffee shop in Palo Alto, bought a coffee, paid by Square, found I was now on one of their Square Marketing ADLs. Never asked for it, never would have asked for it, would have said "Hell no" if I were asked. Flagged it as Spam. Seriously considering never visiting that coffee shop again, but have at the very least switched to paying by cash...

Seriously, cut the bullshit. I don't want to be signed up to your list just because I bought something. Ask me if you want me on your list - if it's something I care enough about, I'd actually be okay with it.
Theranos conducted medically invalid blood tests and sent the results of those test to patients.

Zenefits sidestepped some occupational licensing rules that only exist to protect the market of incumbents.
This does feel like the equivalent of Microsoft's old "pay way less per copy if you just pay us for every computer you ship instead of pay us for every computer that actually ship's with Microsoft". I was at microsoft when that was going (working as a dev with nothing to do with this). but that was really effective at getting companies to be less interested in shipping other OS'.
In this specific case

if (a) {
print(a)
}

and
if (a)
{
print(a)
}

Could just be
if (a) print (a)

Except in perl, where it's

print (a) if (a)

And if you want to add a second line you have to change it, thus I got into the habit of

if (a) { print(a) }

But I don't code for a living, any more than I run network cables for a living, or screw things into bays for a living. I code as a tool to get the job done, most recently that was writing some perl to parse the output of a tcpdump which was outputting rtp sequence number discontinuities to see where packet loss was occurring, what jitter was going on, etc. Fast, to the point, isolate the problem (crappy juniper srx), fix the problem (replace with mikrotik ccr), job done, drink beer.
I am not arguing that there was zero racial discrimination, we still have forms of racial discrimination built into the law today.

However, at the time women where not allowed to vote at all. Thus it was not pure racial discrimination.

Just for perspective North Carolina and New York did allow freed blacks to vote in 1790. And in 1860 two states still had property ownership requirements to vote I am saying deep cultural views are a more complex topic than you think.

PS: As one historian put it, economics pushed poor white farmers to abolitionism before the civil war. However, economics pushed those same farmers to discrimination after the civil war.
Really cool idea, and it works really well. Was able to do very precise positioning in my house, even within a single room if given multiple references.
Ultimately it drained the phone battery too much to be of actual use for me in my smarthome.
> At the same time, [recursive fib] is slow as hell, because recalculates the very same value multiple times...

That depends on the language and choice of evaluation strategy. For example, in Haskell this recursive form is both elegant and fast:

fibs = 1 : 1 : zipWith (+) fibs (tail fibs)
So far Facebook's paying customers, the advertisers, seem unworried?
Being frugal is for the rich
Thank you very much! It was definitely one of the most fun features to build.

I started working on this on March 15th, and the past few days was about testing everything, preparing the release and squashing bugs. The advantage of this type of functionality is that there are tons of high quality papers and articles already written on the subject, especially this one helped me a lot: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/understanding-and-applyi.... There were a lot of sleepless nights involved too.

I'm not sure about the VS Code and Atom teams, but I imagine that there are more constraints and there is more functionality to implement since they work with hundreds of potentially big files. I think those factors make it harder to implement this functionality than in the case of CodeSandbox.
I'm glad to see they left a door open for users of custom ROMs. While inconvenient, it will end up as just another item on the already complicated guides for installing custom ROMs. Let's just hope this option doesn't disappear one day
It's not an HN bug - it's a cool-down feature meant to defuse heated flamewar threads by reducing rate-of-fire.
A startup/lifestyle company I used to work for several years ago aggregates the GIS data of these superfund sites (and other environmental points of interest) and makes it available at [1].

The site is pretty old and some of the links need updating, but they still link to the monitoring profiles of these sites. For example, here[2] is the CA Water Board page for the Page Mill HP site.

[1]https://whatsdown.terradex.com/
[2]http://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/profile_report.asp?glob...
I agree with you. I think the diagnosis is a double edged sword. It gives people a crutch. Like you, I'm "on the spectrum" but I don't want to know what the technical diagnosis is. It would just let me use my "condition" as an excuse for things (or at least that's how I would use it, and how most other's I've had the occasion to observe do use it).

I find this is the case with most mental health diagnoses. They can be valuable from a treatment perspective, sometimes, but most of the time it just lets someone feel sorry for themselves or excuse poor behavior. You don't get to mope around just because you're depressed, and you don't get to be a dick just because you're on the spectrum.
The Mac lineup is just in sad shape right now -- except for the iMacs.

The MacBook Air is overpriced and has worse specs than a mid range Windows PC.

The MacBook is under-powered and only has one port.

The MacBook Pro line forces most people to have a hodge podge of dongles and has an unreliable keyboard.

The Mac Mini hasn't been updated in 4 years.

The Mac Pro is just sad.

The iMacs are great computers, and I will probably end up dropping $3K on a pretty beefy 27 inch iMac by the end of the year, but I understand an all-in-one isn't everyone's cup of tea.
Electrolux Launches Pure I9 Robotic Vacuum in the United States
GoCV – This One Goes to 0.11 – Computer Vision Using Go
"Superfund" seems to be what we call contaminated land from industrial waste?
I think I was hoping for an answer like "hey OP, there's this one effective way to date in the Bay you haven't tried..."

That hasn't happened. All data and most respondents with any actual experience in the Bay seem to confirm the conclusions from my own experience, that yes there's a big gender imbalance in the Bay, and yes it's a huge problem and the dating scene for heterosexual men is therefore far inferior to say most cities on the East Coast.

I may still decide to move back, seeing how important my career is and that the offer really is very attractive and may well be further sweetened should I initially refuse.

In that case it will just be a straight-up sacrifice of my romantic life for my career.
In the examples where Hoffman claims there is always an optimal survival function that is better than a reality-based survival function, it is not at all clear to me that the optimal function is not actually a more realistic function than the allegedly realistic one. At best, the author's case seems to be that a) all mental representations are inaccurate to some extent (they are all approximations, at least), and b) a representation that is good for survival need not be accurate in aspects that do not matter for survival. To go from there to say that there is no correspondence between mental representations and reality seems to be a huge and unjustified leap, and to go from there to there being no reality seems to be a second and even larger stretch.
Doesn't saving each password to it's own individual file make it more breakable than saving everything together in one file?
I presume they're all using the same secret at some level. There's no FAQ on their site.
"How can I help you?"
RANT: We need to end security questions
Honestly comes across as EU sour grapes. The "competition chief" should focus on the regulations that have resulted in low investment and slow innovation instead of trying to "regulate" American tech companies.
Ugh. nobody has made a coherent case for DNA storage yet. Yes, we know in theory it can store a ton of data. But we have other methods that work better now and will continue to scale more affordably for the foreseeable future.
It depends on FB engagement numbers. If they continue to rise, FB will rebound. If people really do stop using FB, hold on to your butts.my guess is that most people don't care though.
Respondent Robotics: Simulating Responses to Likert-Scale Survey Items
Announcing SneakyThrow
I came across this a while back as well, (UK also), somebody I worked with began a relationship with a girl from a higher caste and it caused all sorts of trouble.
The NBC article has a useful map: https://www.nbcbayarea.com/brchannel/Map-The-Chemical-Legacy...
Why would you sign that?
I'd love to understand more clearly the risks of these contaminated sites. Would just the mere presence of, say playing on a Superfund soccer field expose you to those chemicals? Or is it more around if you were to drink the water from these sites then you would be at risk? Same goes for any offices that happen to be sitting on Superfund sites.
Being Frugal is for the Rich
Thanks, I'm quite an experienced Linux user (>10 years). The problems I've had are way beyond this (bootloop, black screen, freezes, had to do a recover from a liveusb etc. etc.)
Maybe a Flutter port would make sense here?
Does the EU even have the authority to break up Google/Alphabet?
Corporate Emails Written in the Style of Dog Walking Texts
Large swathes of Mountain View are poisoned because of chemicals used at Moffett Field to clean the airplanes. They spread down into Mountain View such that some areas have higher cancer rates than others and was designated Superfund sites even 15 years ago when I lived in the area.
Are you being sarcastic, or are you not familiar with the leaked DNC e-mails where they discuss this?
Nothing like a little externalization to boost the bottom line.
Because I young, broke and desperately looking for a place to live that was convenient and affordable.
This is why I have trouble believing much will come of this, besides all the other petty corruption and dishonesty we've seen which has had essentially no effect. It's a real bummer.
There are a truckload of tools that pop up in past discussions; reveal.js serves as a good search anchor: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=reveal.js&type=comment&sort=by...

Many of the same discussions and others contain helpful advice for presentation content as well: Ask HN: How do I learn to use Powerpoint well? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13078654
Interviewee closely involved with the YouTube acquisition: “competitive advantage was python.”

Commenters I’m this thread: “nah it wasn’t python.”
When are you people going to understand that your first amendment right doesn't protect your right to post on the internet. It just stops the government from making laws that restrict your speech freedoms. Reddit and Youtube can sensor you all day and its perfectly constitutional
Holy shit, you built this in 10 days?!?!
This is going to get me downvoted, but it needs to be said.

As a marketer, I really wish people behaved logically. If they want to get emails, they opt-in, and they don't want to, they don't opt-in. That's the pervasive belief here based on the comments I've seen so far, and that's really clean right?

However, the truth in my experience is that people don't. This black-and-white segmentation IMHO ignores a middle segment of customers who don't care that much one way or another. They are the ones who don't even see the checkbox, whether it's checked or not, they're just trying to move through a form.

If you don't have opt-in, and when you email them later, some of them do convert. When you move to opt-in, you lose your connection to those customers and your overall re-capture rates go down. You throw the baby out with the bathwater. And the increased engagement from those that are left isn't nearly enough, especially if you have a hard limit on the number of purchases at a time like I did (online financial product).

This is what I know based on the data I've seen in one business. Now if I conjecture, I think opt-in works best for businesses email is your lifeline. Think knowledge-based businesses like I will Teach You to Be Rich - if that guy didn't have email, he'd be screwed. He needs to build trust and he does that through sending you relevant, useful content. So they use opt-in to really make sure their deliverability is top-notch.
Other companies have many channels of acquisition, and send so many emails, that if a few customers click spam, it sucks but it's OK.

So I don't have a great solution. I think the one that works OK is providing prominent unsubscribe options and making it really easy for customers who don't want to receive any more messages to do so. But it's not perfect - we still get spam complaints and people swearing they unsub'd 5 times and still get messages. I don't want to message people who don't want to hear from us, but you need a signal to do so.
> This reeks of whataboutism to me. Why are you trying to imply that we shouldn't be concerned about privacy?

I don't think I've seen a single person use the term "whataboutism" correctly since November 2016.

People in this chain are simply pointing out that if somebody is angry at Cambridge Analytica, but not Obama's 2008/2012 campaigns, they do not actually care about data privacy. They just don't like Donald Trump. You can bet that the next time a data privacy issue comes up, these people will be indifferent so long as the abusing party is aligned with their politics. They also will likely be supportive of people they agree with circumventing any privacy regulations that may arise from this particular scandal.

Asking these questions is a useful filter to help determine how many people actually care about the core privacy issue, and how many are just worried about "their team" having an advantage.
Correct. Which is why there are substantially different levels of punishment meted out. And I'd be happy if they were harsher in both cases.
it's not like the chats are in clear text, because they are not. They aren't encrypted e2e, but they are still encrypted.
Law enforcement arrested the head of the Carbanak gang that stole $1B from banks
I don't really find this argument convincing. When considering a small number of circumstances, indeed the fitness function won't necessarily converge on truth because short cuts are probably more efficient in cognitive resources.

But once you start enlarging the possible set of circumstances, a lot of them will overlap in ways that seem random unless you discern the actual causal relationships between them. Without this process, then you're devoting resources to recording a never-ending list of correlations, but this list is strictly bounded if you instead infer causality.

In some cases, list of correlations will still be more efficient, but not in general when considering a large and complex world.
That's a really stupid name (or maybe really smart if your a politician). Should be called Supertoxic.
This is really great! For those interested, another book on the way is: http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~noson/MCtext.html. I've read Noson's other book on Quantum Computing and it was really clear, with lot's of examples.
Pythonic Data Cleaning with NumPy and Pandas
I didn't mean that to sound as bitter as it probably did, but I'm glad I got the point across.

What's often left out of these amateur discussions we have is that education loans are non-collateralized debt. There's no asset of any value to repossess, and except for a few specialized programs where you owe a few years in the military or troubled school or free health clinic, not even a pledge of the very thing this loan is supposed to return value on, i.e. the person's own labor productivity. (And even in those cases, if the person reneges and suddenly becomes liable for the cost of their education again, they're still probably eligible for the same kind of forbearance and forgiveness programs being pushed for the more general student-loan indebted population.)

That's a (if not the) key reason this kind of debt isn't dischargeable.
Yes, Celera would have done what they did. Remember, they didn't need the preliminary research of the HGP, because instead of using a scaffolding method, they went straight to shotgun sequencing which saved them 5+ years.

Nobody's denying that the HGP and Celera were able to rest on a strong foundation, but the reality is that the HGP was running itself lazily because they had no competition. I worked in genomics at the time and it was really a sleepy corner of bioinformatics.
You absolutely do not need a food thermometer to safely cook food. Time and heat level is sufficient and is how most people (including restaurants, which are regulated) do it.
The Taliban seem to be holding their own, as did the Viet Cong before them, and if the US government is willing to nuke its own people we're beyond screwed.
I remember in my programming classes at school my teacher was always like: guys!there is space on the right! Use it!

PS: he coded at Hercules the graphic cards back in the day before he got into teaching.
Intel's Loihi, a Revolutionary Neuromorphic ‘Self-Learning’ Chip
The EU effectively has the authority to decide who can do business in Europe. So Google/Alphabet presumably could refuse an EU breakup order, but they'd have to more or less exit business in Europe, including all of their various offices there. Both a lot of profit and talent left on the table.

Someone much smarter than me would likely have to determine whether stockholders benefit more from a split up company that can do business in Europe, or a unified company that can't.
Not sure exactly what you're referring to there, but you nailed it with that last bit. We're after the non-fancy stuff because it scales. And there's more of it.

Bigger productions will hire a title designer to do the opening credits and the "mains on end." Then there's the scroll, which is where we come in. Some title houses sub that part out to Endcrawl because it's fiddly and not terribly creative work. (It is, however, surprisingly tricky to get a readable, smooth, and artifact-free scroll into a variety of deliverables.)
This is called regulatory capture if anyone wants to read up more on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
> It's worth noting they ALSO say Russia intervened against Trump

No, they don't.

> There's at least two anti-Trump rallies alleged to have been organized by Russia.

Be that as it may, the public assessment does not state as the ICs assessment that any part of the intervention had an anti-Trump purpose (a rally can be organized whose overt message supports a cause without the purpose being advancing that cause.)
That ain't irony, friend.
The "Superfund" is a set of regulations that allow EPA to force polluters to pay for long term chemical waste cleanups.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
You mean like VW being called out in the United States for the diesel scandal was US sour grapes?

Really, I'm all for symmetry with stuff like this if that is what it takes to get these giants to at least attempt to comply with the law.
Seth Abramson sure is someone to talk about poor journalism and analysis. Really: HN doesn't need to be the first to break out stories like this. If someone important has been found here, someone will cover it seriously outside of tweets. HN should start penalizing tweet stories.
https://www.techradar.com/news/the-best-free-windows-movie-m...
He discounts the importance of figuring out how modern election data shops work (and what tools they use/build) with regards to elections, which may be important for us to fight these firms down the road and build laws against unscrupulous data collection. The mechanical details definitely matter here, and that can be found by looking at source code.

I don't necessarily agree that gizmodo should have led with tying this open repository of code to AIQ/SCL/CA to Bannon/Trump/Russia. Finding the tools and explaining what they do was more important given this was found today.

It's not like they can't write follow-up articles which explain the larger issues.
> using a custom version of popular code repository Gitlab, located at the web address gitlab.aggregateiq.com. Entering the URL, Gitlab prompts the user to register to see the contents - a free process which simply requires supplying an email address. Once registered, contents of the dozens of separate code repositories operated on the AggregateIQ Gitlab subdomain are entirely downloadable.

Is this (anyone can register with an email address) the default mode for a self-hosted gitlab deployment?