skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt this had anything to do with CA, outside of some PR timing... third party data is stale and expensive and advertisers were already complaining of costs on FB... this will make it cheaper for mom and pop advertisers and scare away the affiliate marketers mostly.. facebooks owm data and first party audience data is still open season and where the ad dollar shift has been happening anyways...

This was a smart biz decision and CA was just a convenient opportunity to roll out without too much backlash IMHO.
> Backend: Go (exposes json api endpoints for frontend)

Do you use Swagger or sth. like that to auto-generate the boilerplate from an API spec?
I struggled to find out why I couldn't see this on my corporate machine (running W7, and latest Chrome).

Being long in the tooth, few bugs surprise me anymore, but after a bit of googling around, the simplest workaround to this is placing a file on your desktop with a unicode filename [1]. Amazing!

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=42984
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So far we have made a mess of the climate without trying to. Is it really a good idea to start messing with these systems?
> It's not the company's fault

On the contrary, I think Jane Street's entire modus operandi is doing things in a novel way, to attract/keep talent (and this is self perpetuating). There are many firms as successful as Jane Street, or more so, that use completely boring, but functional tools: Java, C++, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and so on. But Jane Street PR is through the roof - everyone knows it, everyone wants to work there, whether any of it is practical or not. It's a counter-example to the mantra of "choose boring tools".
I'm not sure what that means. It was obvious this would be used for fingerprinting and leaks. The explained reasons for proceeding was that permission prompts for data channels would hurt usage, despite not having clear cases where we need P2P without letting users know.

And none of this excuses overriding the user's expressed network connectivity.

When this was brought up, they immediately jumped to the excuses that fingerprinting can't be helped. And many jumped to saying hey you should use Tor Browser anyway. Total capitulation.

Maybe someone cared, but it's not the official stance from webrtc groups or browsers.
> Am I really alone in thinking FB was cancer from the get go?

Definitely not, but it also wasn't a mainstream view. Of my whole family I'm the only person without a Facebook account. And their way of interpreting that is that I'm anti-social, because after all it is 'social media'.
I think the problem is that she falls in the same error as the companies she's criticizing - she conflates passion with external signals like "spending a lot of time on personal projects". At first she uses quotes around "passionate", which seems to distinguish the two, but then she fully conflates them. Inevitably, she will rile up those of us who were passioned about tech despite not having the means to dedicate ourselves to it.

Which is a shame, because her point that filtering candidates based on their dedication of personal time to tech is discriminatory is valid.
Thanks for writing your article, it was good, and I sympathize with your experience!

I think we are brought up to believe we can pursue whatever we want to pursue, and of course this is true, but there is a cost. If that pursuit falls out of alignment with the community of which you are a part, life can lose it's joy. This isn't fair, it just is. We need to feel in a relationship of give and take with our community.

My own thought here is that the research itself is a good thing, and the act of pursuit deepens your character and experience in a way that makes you more valuable to your community. But people don't like the stories they hear about "patented" crops, about DRM in farmers fields. It's not the research that's a problem, it's the use to which it's put (at least in the eye of the public). GMOs seem to become a lever corporations use to monetize activities that we aren't sure should be monetized.

[I recognize that my "story" above is likely tainted with outrageous misconceptions. I don't disagree! I'm just playing back the image in my head around GMOs, mostly built by passive listening to the conversation in our culture over some years. You can argue with that story, but it's exhausting.]

I think you are caught in the gears of the working out of this vast cultural argument.
THIS! Plus, the pixels ability to learn and adapt and custom audiences... tells them much more than some stale expensive data can.
Here is the thread on HN when the article originally appeared:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325231
That sounds kind of shortsighted reasoning.
I know that in Scotland most of the weather comes from the West, hits the mountains and falls as rain. Its dryer on the east coast (though it still rains plenty).
I agree, that's pretty much SVN shoehorned onto a git workflow. With git there is no need to save branches into folders. At most, push feature branches to a remote repository and check them out when needed.
Looks like the killer feature here wasn't doing everything from a single window. It was dedicating a sandbox per branch, saving everything, including uncommitted work and build artefacts.

This is the first time I hear of this functionality. And it would be great to do that even in a disintegrated way, like, from the command line.
Improves the bokeh as well ;)
There is a reason most big car makers have not been selling electric cars yet, it is not very profitable, they believe that around 2020 batteries are becoming cheap enough to sell them. And if those companies can produce more and cheaper cars than Tesla they are going to have a problem.
I use a basic LAMP stack (CentOS, Apache, MariaDB, PHP 7). No frameworks. Some of my projects are quite large (tables with billions of rows, and over a million users). It might not be fashionable, but it works, it's fast (for development, and for end-users), it's well documented, and it's been tested for decades. I have no plans to change, and my new projects in development are using the same.
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I think they meant improving interviews by testing for this instead of algorithmic brain teasers on a whiteboard.
Really as I though such an achievement would have gathered a lot of press attention. It could literally "save the planet". All I saw in the news was Kardashians.
No, fusion wont make energy nearly free.

Let's pretend a fusion plant is completely free to build, maintain, operate, and decommission.

50% of the cost of electricity is from transmission and distribution. Those costs aren't going anywhere.

So at most, you'll get a 50% savings. But you're not getting that either, because that fusion plant definitely wont be free.
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The big thing in this one is the LLVM upgrade, which has been a long time coming. :) We actually skipped LLVM 5 entirely due to some issues with emscripten. It'll be great to finally be able to experiment with LLD.

Looking forward, the next two releases, 1.26 and 1.27, are going to have some major features that we've been working on for a long, long time, such as "impl trait" (which should allow for improved performance, simpler syntax for the typical use of generics, and greatly improve error messages for extensive use of generics), more ergonomic matching when dealing with references, 128-bit integers, stable SIMD library support, and others. This whole year is going to see the continued stabilization of the ergonomics intiatives from last year, so stay tuned for lots of welcome tweaks to make Rust easier to write and read. :)

(I should also mention that this release happened live from the Rust All-Hands happening in Berlin, which has been a massively productive time so far; keep an eye out for the eventual workweek recap which will hopefully enumerate the tons of improvements (e.g. reducing Rust binary sizes by 10%) and future initiatives (e.g. forming an official Verification Team) that have happened this week.)
- what do you like doing?

- how are you as a person, a coworker

- are you able to ask for help?

- can you hold a conversation?

- how do you learn?

- describe a failure in your career and how it went from there

all this is for the interviewer and the interviewee to get to know each other each other and see if the candidate is a good fit for the company culture and values. If the recruitment lets in a narcissist or toxic person it will poison the well.
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I wanted to give app.net my money but they didn't want it. We Germans aren't big fans of paying by card. I asked them if the offer other payment methods. A year later they offered BitCoin. No, thank you.
There doesn't seem to be anything about those features that makes them require a GUI.

e.g. I'm using ZSH specifically for it's command line autocomplete stuff. Emacs has helm for context narrowing and really good support for context menus. Vim will let you collapse/expand blocks of text including in XML using a mouse in a terminal window.

For spelling errors Vim will give you an straight red underline in the terminal and squiggly underline in its "GUI" versions. I assume that Emacs is the same.

I'm not suggesting you leave VS by the way. I'm just saying that your GUI only examples aren't GUI only.
Maybe we should organize and withhold tech support, a la Lysistrata.
Since we're all throwing around anecdotes, I k ow both PhDs and long-time industry experts - gun to my head, one of them has to solve a problem or I die, I'm gonna choose the industry expert even if it's in the PhD guys field. Academic honours are very over-rated
No, HTML is limited in the same way as terminal emulation: it's not the right tool to describe UIs and interactions.

I'd like to see more progress made in real desktop interfaces.
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VS lets you save a sandbox per branch? May I ask since when? (The most recent version I have used was 2012).
One possible conspiracy... Facebook stock has dropped a bunch, site usage is down 24% and advertisers are leaving left and right... anounce these audience segments will be gone in 6 months but advertisers can A, reach them now and B, build first party audiences off this data by advertising to specific segments just to cookie folks... and the next two earnings calls show a big increase in ad spend!
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I mean it makes me feel less bad about my $5k loss on xrp.
I always chuckle at seeing the "The damn page hijacked my back button/spacebar/Tab/cursor keys!" comments because even though they are technically right, they usually exaggerate the inconvenience. But goddamn this has to be one of the most frustrating websites from a huge company/vendor I've ever used, despite the very cool offering.

It actually was pretty straightforward on iOS Chrome mobile. On Desktop though -- WTF, users are supposed to eventually figure out how to activate the hidden menubar at the top? My first thought after mousewheeling to the giant IBM logo was that Chrome had crashed, because motion/interactivity had seemingly stopped so suddenly. Not since the Flash days have I seen a bespoke interactive web experience with such prominent navigation/UX confusion.

That said, when I figured out how to navigate, I enjoyed reading the narrative text, and I definitely plan on trying the font out in my next project.
Netflix have said they'll roll it out once it's below 5x slower.

But they can start with only the most popular videos to get the most bang per buck, they'll also likely target geographic areas with low bandwidth but decent spec desktops, which means they're getting a return on investment by increasing reach, not just saving bandwidth.

So basically, there's plenty of niches where it makes sense almost as soon as the spec is frozen and they can expand the roll out as it proves itself and speeds up.
They guy who figured out how to land a rocket on a barge is a spacex employee who is an expert in control theory, who was probably hired by another employee of Elon Musk. So I’m not really sure what you comparison means.
Public schools also run fundraisers, and most families seem to understand that these funds give their children a competitive edge that other schools may not be able to offer (after school programs, supplies, teaching assistants for lower grade levels, etc.).
By creating one
http://djangoframework.com is overall one of the best documented + most stable web frameworks out there.

Besides the actual functionality, that you can also get from smaller libraries, you want a framework because it gives you standard go-to solutions for many common questions you encounter when making a basic, relational database backed application (database access, database migrations, templating, forms, validation, caching, translation, etc.)
Very interesting. Can I ask from which background you came to be interested in systems (e.g. biology or electrical engineering)?
Yes, we know where the Republicans want to point the firehose of money.
It seems TM2 compilation was very slow and was producing faster but also bigger programs than TP. This looks like the main complaints about scala ;-).

At that time, memory was very tight (I was fighting to have all my code compile in less than 64kb) and compilation time was significant.
I must admit, while I was always aware of the data collection, the scale is still pretty staggering. The use in manipulating governments was also not how I thought it would go down. I figured it was just about commerce and selling people stuff until the day it was compromised by the government, then it would be about coercing persons of interest. This was an interesting spin.
Don't worry, the hubbub will calm down quickly when the 'next big news story' happens and mainstream media concentrates on that. The general public will have completely forgotten this incident in a month or two.
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Thous things are pretty much things to avoid in my opinion. I used to have NERDTree in Vim and all kind of other useless nonsense. After I learned how to use fuzzy searching to jump between files and definitions all tree view does is take up space.

Even with Atom finding files is way faster than clicking through the tree viewer.
You might want to check out a very interesting non-linear spinor theory[1] which contains a chapter on dark matter and dark energy analytically explaining the formation and inner structure, as well as the ratio of dark matter and dark energy throughout the development phase of the universe.

[1] http://norbert-winter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2017-03...
If you are applying for a job remember that frequently the job description will have been "improved" by a HR drone with little else to do who adds words and phrases she doesn't understand but thinks should be in a job advertisement.

I had this happen last year when I needed a junior team member (electronics/IT). I wrote a job description saying no experience needed but you must be able to demonstrate an interest in the field so hobby/side project whatever. Without asking me HR "improved" this by saying 3 years experience was needed but the salary remained at entry level so we had very few applicants.

Thankfully HR aren't involved in the choosing who to interview stage so I can choose using my original criteria. When it came to the interview day someone from HR is there but they are usually pretty clueless and if they are given some busy work to do we can choose who we want.

So be aware this happens and if you want an entry level job just go for it.
Very interesting. I've heard stories of the GMO spreading to another farmers field, causing some problems. But that field is mostly devoid of insects, so it's easy for the GMO to live there.

I still think that a fear of "irreversible system-wide effects with unknown downsides" will persist, despite the good sense of your argument.

Also, as a technologist, I know that we move from solving easier problems to more complex ones. Who is to say that GMO tech isn't just beginning in farmers' fields, and that flush with success in that space, all those engineers, technology and know-how will happily move on to the Next Big Problem. This might be in wild-plant space.
The tough truth is that you need to be able to do both, or your skillset will never be complete. If you specialise in algorithms, you might never be able to put a bunch of them together to build a system that works and does something interesting. If you focus on architecture but never understand how to read and implement algorithms and how to evaluate them, you will always be limited in what your systems can achieve and how well they work.

Additionally, most of us are limited in what we can learn in a lifetime. Talent is far from the primary limitation (most people will be average in terms of innate ability; my guess). Far more important is the time available to study and learn new skills and the motivation to do it. Then there are issues of personal preference: if you just love algorithms, you will tend to focus on them, if you love building systems, etc.
How does this algorithm ensure that wide bridges are built (lets say more than 10 body lengths wide)? Even if the final bridge would be stable the intermediate steps imply a much higher torque.
If I apply, do I need go through israeli cutoms/police/checkpoints?

I might have problems or be expelled
Well they also say

“Avoid wearing outward signs of support for Palestinians (kaffiyah, slogan t-shirts, etc.) and/or Islam in Settler-controlled areas in the West Bank”

Takes 2 to tango right?
Frustratingly AIM is actually really good these days, but that doesn't help if none of your friends are on it.
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It will go away in few months. The only reason media are attacking Facebook now is that it's claimed that Facebook "made Trump win", just like it was a year ago with the "fake news" outrage. I guess the Russian collusion narrative was dying so liberals needed another excuse for their failed platforms.
And, is-even, which depends on the is-odd library.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even
Thermal solar does work at night.
That's my point. Domestic violence shouldn't be equaled with Facebook's abuses. Causes, consequences, objectives and methods of entrapment are too much different.

I have experienced domestic violence first-hand and I cringed when I read the word "choose" when describing the situation.
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Never thought about it that way. :)
> Should there be a stronger barrier

The job board should say something like "to apply for this job, please show up at our next hiring event on XYZ date".

Thoughts?
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That is not nearly accurate analogy. Note that doctors in hospital do more then just looking smart.

And know multiple people who are like he described: generally keep aura of looking smart are are good in few selected areas and generally don't really do much work. And they always get absurd amount of benefit of doubt the same way you do here. Meanwhile anyone who criticize them is assumed to be stupid hospital janitor who don't get that they are the ones who do real work.

And know, they do not do "valuable complex things" nobody else cant grasps on the project. They talk about complex things around water cooler to impress people.

And yes I do know people who do complex things too.
What a victim complex she has over there...
It's not a "mile"; it's literally just across I-280 from the Spaceship, a few hundred feet at most.
Every browser should have settings to disable WebRTC and it should arguably be disabled by default.

It can be very useful, but can also cause a lot of problems.
GitHub Censored My Repositiories
Recently I got the following message from github:
<i>Your repositories were set to require a login to view following
multiple reports from users concerned about their contents. This was done as an
alternative to hiding or disabling the content entirely.
Thanks,
GitHub Support</i>
-- https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/censorship/github.com-banned-due-to-reports-from-linux-users2.png

That was due to me publishing several articles exposing Linux community: https://github.com/saniv/free-game-art/blob/master/foss-copyright-infringement-records.md and Russian Wikipedia https://github.com/saniv/text/blob/master/wikipedia-corruption.md
>It would also be interesting to see why you're so motivated to find excuses for Facebook and to whitewash the damning facts. Facebook employee? Family financial interests in the ad industry? Concerned citizen? Bored?

None of the above. It’s because the hypocrisy of this whole thing is wrong and represents everything that’s wrong with the press today. There was a Facebook data abuse scandal where elections were involved, it just didn’t occur in 2016. It was committed by the Obama campaign in both 2008 and 2012. But the articles portraying that were downright celebratory. Now the “wrong” guy wins and all of a sudden it’s a big problem? There’s a word for that. It’s hypocrisy.

>this scandal (without scare quotes) is an issue because many people have finally realised that Facebook has a ton of information about them and they can't be trusted to handle that information properly.

I agree with you that Facebook gave away too much data pre-2014, but this isn’t the incident that proved they couldn’t be trusted with people’s data. It was the Obama campaign incidents, which involved 4x as many records, that proved it. Most of the holes have been closed today.

>it's not just about ad targeting, it's about all the possible ways information can be misused too: stalking, blackmail, fraud, trolling, circumventing various constitutional protections, identity theft etc, etc.

Are you saying that you believe that Donald Trump is using this data to stalk you? Because this “scandal” cannot be executed again. These capabilities were removed in 2014.

>your assertion that it's impossible to to influence specific outcomes because of the impossibility to accurately target is... wrong. There were many account included in the CA data set, there were and are other data sets and even if they can't target those people with ads, they can probably send them an e-mail, give them a call or send someone to their house.

While it’s true that there are other bands of communication available, the articles surrounding this subject have mostly focused on Facebook advertising, where this is no longer possible and hasn’t been for several years. Read my comment.

>people do have responsibility for what they post, but when their information is stored forever and combined with massive quantities of other collected and bought information the entity doing the above has a lot of power and a lot of responsibility too.

This is a ridiculous statement. If you voluntarily post things publicly, you should expect that they will be stored and crawled. That’s like saying ”I walked down the street naked, and now I can’t believe that my neighbors won’t delete their pictures of it!” If you don’t want it out, don’t put it out in public.
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Isn't this just useless management trying to be cheap?

In a company I worked for, I saw a LinkedIn ad for an intern with experience in a lot of specific tech that would have been more intermediate to senior level. For around a tenth of what I was being paid. I know in that case it was the company owners trying to be cheap and not having much clue about IT.
> The author of NESticle sure had a weird sense of humor

The name of the emulator is a good indication of that.
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