skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That dude is also shorting Tesla, of course, he's going to try to influence public opinion in this way. He'll make a shit ton of cash if Tesla goes southwards.
They already pulled that trick with Solar City for which there were at least some plausible reasons. I see no such plausibility for any SpaceX / Tesla merger.

If Tesla can't make it SpaceX will not come to the rescue.
> Bitcoin is extremely secure, and also open to all.

And it has zero privacy: everybody can see everybody's transactions.
They have a lot fewer crayons in their box than they like to project.
This is much more informative than the submitted article.
Flashily promising to give money away should not be treated the same as _actually_ giving money away.
You are moving the goalposts. We aren't talking about Pravda, we are talking about Russia Today, and we aren't talking about how bad the propaganda is, but whether it is propaganda at all.

Also, you are misunderstanding how propaganda works in the US if you think the outlet needs to be state owned. I suggest the following article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism#Compa...
Keep in mind that each Galaxy must have its own curve-fit distribution of dark matter whereas alternative gravity theories fit all galaxies using a single free parameter, which makes it en face a more appealing model.
1) Can mods change the title to something not-clickbait, maybe even related to the content of the article? The author acknowledges it's trash and does it anyways, but we don't have to. Perhaps "The Webflow Tech Lead Guide"

2) Does anyone know of any data to support the 10x/100x idea? I hear it thrown around so much, but it's always struck me as an echo chamber kind of self affirmation to support questionable hiring practices and cop-outs.
If you assume 1 MOD account means one person 30% of the world's population uses Facebook. At one point 23% of the world's population belonged to the British empire [0]. Facebook falling would be similar to the British empire decline.

[0] http://theunbrokenwindow.com/Development/MADDISON%20The%20Wo... (page 97)
Why am I not surprised. As a engineering-physics major who works in software, I always correct people when they ask me "what do you think dark matter is?" I think the more appropriate question is, and always has been: Does dark matter even exist? Thank you for casting light on MOND. My money has always been on modified gravity. I think we missed a few terms in the equation.
I dont know much about it, but that may not necessarily be the case. Lets assume dark matter does not exist and the people talking about it believe it does. It could be that the people describing it are only describing it through the lens of what they already believe.

As in, I believe there are invisible blobs that keep cars close together. I observe some cars far apart and i say "hey look at all that missing blobs"
Google Talk appearing inside Gmail, and Facebook opening up to more than just .edu addresses both happened in 2006. Keep in mind, Gmail was still invite-only until 2007.

In 2008 Facebook introduced Facebook Chat, and ever since then Google has acted [1] to try to challenge Facebook for social networking -- and this caused Google's communication offerings to alternatingly be neglected or leveraged for that cause [2]. Google didn't win.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16351254 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13465483
Professional exams oftentimes cover subjects like ethics, which would undoubtedly help the industry
> Doing it manually as you suggest is likely hopeless and more politically fraught.

Yes, but, sadly, necessary.
well the demo then is broken indeed it shows still an "a" inside the multiset. Having say that I would never use a cuckoo in a multiset, indeed it becomes a bounded multiset. Also about the K-hashing for a bloom filter is not exact. You just need need a K-bit hashing function. If the goal is to support deletion then I would go for a Counting
Bloom filter
You would need a professional organisation to lobby for laws, but I don't see engineers in the industry coming together and forming one.

Professional organisations were a way to keep people out of a field by requiring them to have the connections or the money to afford the study materials and exam fees. And don't forget continuing education costs as well. This concept would turn away many of the anti-establishment types in the industry.

That said, we are seeing signs of standardisation in the hiring process. TripleByte is gaining traction and maybe in a few years applicants will need to be "TripleByte Certified™" before they're even considered for an interview at larger company.

However there will always be scrappy startups that eschew this and just hire whoever can code and think.

Personally, I don't have too many complaints with hiring in our industry. It's been criticised lately, but it's still more democratic than law, or finance. The sheer number of first-generation immigrants that are in Silicon Valley and NY working in the field are a testament to this.
Mission critical software is created by processes, not individuals - unlike, say, surgery or legal counsel, that are delivered in person.

A single programmer shouldn't be able to kill using his keyboard, and if he can, something is very wrong with the way that mission critical software is produced.

To maintain the analogy, if a law firm is using the services of paralegals that haven't passed the bar exam or have no formal training, I will not be concerned even if they handle most of the legwork in my case, because I assume they are part of a team and their work is well scrutinized.
That's because privacy was not a goal of that particular system. Pseudo-anonymity was the goal. (That's unrelated to my point about security and openness though.)
Excellently done, and remarkable this is MIT licensed! Incredible work, thank you for this awesome contribution to Open Source!
The solution to that is submit, upvote, and comment substantially on better articles and flag those you think are inappropriate. On balance, things should work out and improve. Help make HN the place you want it to be :)
Look at it from the perspective of a "career in this organization", not "career of this person".

It is an entry level job - it's the lowest tier in their ranking, it's the starting place, it's literally the level where new people enter the organization; it's the lowest paid and least respected position they have, filled with the least experienced and least tenured people in the whole company. It's just that they (want to) start with people who have worked (somewhere else) for a few years already; but that does not and can not make it a mid-tier job, that would require them to have other, even lower jobs.

Furthermore, saying that 3 years might be a senior level position is stretching definitions - assuming an average lifetime career of 30 years, someone with 3 years experience has less "seniority" than 90% of the workforce.
how many comments list their own name? Very very few.

Other comments may refer to you but you have no gdpr privacy rights over that.
http://gistofthegemini.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-gdpr-potenti...

There's your requested blog post. It's been slightly edited from the original (plus a few paragraphs tacked on to the end of it), so you can enjoy reading it a second time to look for the small differences between the blog post and what you remember of the comment.

(I have fixed multiple typos in the past few minutes. If you refresh, it might stop being gibberish.)
If you search for girls online are you typically looking for clothed ones? That's a rational assumption but many searching for girls are not looking for the same thing as you might want.
Do you really expect individual dissenting developers, who in many cases are more replaceable than ever, to be able to effectively resist the decisions of design leads and business managers?
I dont really understand what the problem is. If a job says 3 year experience "required", it just means they want people that know what they're doing. If you worked a few summers and are good at something you're qualified to apply.
This is really not true. Moving files around is trivial in anything with a decent type system and IDE.
No, Google does not try to mirror content. It tries to provide the best results for users. Results the user wants to click on and are relevant. Searching for "professor style", nobody wants it to return a minority professor style. Even she doesn't, at scale. If she and others did, they'd be Googling "professor style", not clicking, then Googling "professor style for black women" and results would improve/personalize.

Ditto for "black girls": either your looking for porn or for stock photos. What other intentions do you have with such a query? (Besides making a point?)

Google changing results for Holocaust "denial" is likewise wrong. Someone searching for such things probably wants to find all such sites and not just a PC version of history repeating what they've already heard. Otherwise they wouldn't need to be searching in the first place. Same for someone searching "Is the moon real" or "is the earth flat".

In a great market, Google might start "cleaning" up their results to the point of annoying people, who would then switch. Unfortunately no one comes close to Google search, let alone overall lock-in. So we're stuck with whatever Google decides reflects their brand, including fixing up well-publicized queries for people that want to be offended and complain about stuff.

Edit: I search for "best basketball player" and all I see are black guys -- way over-represented. Why doesn't Google bump up Larry Bird to 4th place so there's some more diversity and fight the stereotype? Even worse, Yao Ming is nowhere to be found, what's that say?
Lots of jank on an old Nexus 6P. Granted it's not buttery smooth anymore, but that was pretty crazy.

Does it load jank free on anyone's mobile device? Curious to know if there are devices out there with no jank on this site.
The fact that people need a source of income to live, and that they have very little influence on the price of their labor without collective bargaining.
The Facebook API is, now at least, a capabilities based system where you ask the user for permission to access various bits of information. The major problem these days is that people don’t read through the authorization dialogs because they want to see which Star Wars character they are.
Yep, and not his first rodeo either. Remember the "Internet.org", a for-profit initiative that is part of Facebook? Putting ".org" in something for-profit that tries to achieve monopoly is as dishonest as it gets...
That's because oftentimes the people writing the help wanted ads aren't the same people doing the hiring for whatever team.
That's missing the point entirely, which is that under theories like MOND, you would not expect to see any galaxies that behave like galaxies with no dark matter, as it posits that dark matter does not exist.
It could raise my wages.

Being a doctor was a rather modest middle income wage until the AMA came along to raise barriers to entry.
> It serves its purpose well.

It’s purpose being?

Maybe it’s the use I make of it, but it doesn’t add much to my life. It could go away and I could replace any of its function with something else, or not miss the function at all.

Cambridge Analytica/Obama campaign data fiascos aside, many are arguing more and more that Facebook is doing more damage than good to society.

Granted, this is hard to measure, but it’s a valid concern.
Nice demo!
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Thanks, Dan. I can appreciate the value that Flow adds. But in my opinion, when it's default in the code examples of a top shelf library, it creates an implicit dependency to learning from the blog post, no matter how small or obvious it may be.
Dark matter is easily the most popular theory for this observed phenomena, so clearly most people do NOT think having "something that interacts with fewer forces than normal matter is more complicated than Jerry rigging a change to the elegant general relativity."

I'm not sure if you are saying that I think one is more complicated than the other because I do not. I'm simply wondering about ideas and asking questions. Surely we should still ask questions, right?
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Just try to dedicate some of your time with the basics. It really just takes you putting some time out of your day to understand.

Also feeling dumb is part of the process .
Should be ^W, no?
Our app which has only `email` permissions is still allowing new users to sign up.
Let me answer your question with another question.

What prevents a bar exam for reading and writing?

Would it be a good idea for such a thing to exist for the act of reading or writing books, news, or anything else involving language?

Why should this be treated any differently for speaking to a computer?
Was just about to post this. At least in my experience I think that it's rare for a hiring manager or someone in HR to use an original job description when posting a job. They all Google job postings, find one that fits the title modify the technology parts of it and just post it.
I've said the same thing myself about bringing back the apprenticeship system. That system required a contract of typically 7 years though and that is why masters would take on apprentices. 7 years is a long time but if there is a way to have your investment not just walk out the door after you spent a bunch of resources getting them up to speed that would make it much more feasible. Perhaps a forgivable loan upon completion of the apprenticeship?
Yeah, the problem is those humans have nowhere to grow. Would you be happy with the same salary, job title, etc for a decade?
There is no concrete evidence made publicly available whatsoever in the Russia hysteria that has been going on for 18 months. Bernie Sanders, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Jill Stein, Glenn Greenwald, and anyone who criticizes the left at all, even if they are leftist themselves, get called Russian stooges at this point.

It's too much:

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/yet-another-major-russia...
Thanks for googling for me. :)
I imagine Android Studio will switch to Bazel sometime in the near future. Every other non-Android Java shop seems to be rewriting their Gradle build files as Bazel configs nowadays. Gradle and Apache Groovy just don't scale.
Yes that's exactly what I see. This seems to me to be a non-issue but perhaps other configurations and VPNs behave differently? I was using my phone into my home router with OpenVPN and it showed my VPN assigned NAT address 10.x.x.x ...
I haven't been following this stuff super closely, but hasn't there been ongoing counternarrative of how CA data analysis and its 50 million profiles may not have been very useful, period? Because there's a concurrent (and legitimate) narrative of Facebook's questionable data practices, I've been wondering whether CA has been an overhyped antagonist in our media's rush to find the true villains.

Yesterday Drudge Report (still one of our biggest news drivers) had a headline [A] that almost made my eyes roll through the back of my head. It was "WHISTLEBLOWER: FACEBOOK CAN HEAR YOU!" But the linked story [B] contained nothing more than Wylie speculating how it was physically possible for Facebook (and other apps) to do this, but they probably weren't, but if they were, it could lead into some bad shit or something.

Yeah, Wylie can't control what linkbaiters write about him. Or what politicians ask him in a public hearing. But because he was a whistleblower about CA's abuse of FB's data, he's been considered an expert/whistleblower in domains far beyond what he actually has experience in. Being a good data analyst and having a bunch of FB scraped data is still not enough to remotely guarantee success in the startup scene.

In terms of the election, what's the most substantive discussion/proof that CA and its magic data was any more a game changer than, say, Brad Pascale [0]? And I also haven't read out CA's insights were a gamechanger in boosting the Russians' alleged propaganda and fake news bots schemes. I haven't yet read a better reporter on this angle than the New Yorker's Adrian Chen, and his relative reluctance to blame big data/bot schemes has perhaps made me too skeptical every time I read media stories about CA's magical mind-bending dataset [1].

[A] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DZVzHctU8AAZBxa.jpg:large

[B] http://web.archive.org/web/20180328111429/https://pjmedia.co...

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/27/t...

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/a-so-called-experts-...
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I definitely consider Russia Today as a propaganda mouthpiece of the Russian State. I have no illusions about being able to operate something like Russia Today without permission from the state.

As for the state of affairs in the USA: I believe the USA is fundamentally broken in many ways. Born from violence and with an extreme focus on money in all aspects of life it has some pretty bad elements that amount to legalized corruption. The MIC, the number of people imprisoned, the two party system, the evangelical element, American exceptionalism, the fun fetish, the power of lobbyists, the power of money in elections all amount to flaws that each individually could be fatal, and that collectively are a ticking time bomb under the most powerful country in the world.

Which way that will go is anybody's guess, I personally am horrified that someone like Trump could make it to the position of president of the USA, but then again, if Ronald Reagan could then why not someone even less qualified?

Time will tell where it is all headed, but - in spite of you r links - I refuse to believe that all American media are complicit in this, even though I do believe that they could do a much better job at keeping the politicians sharp.
Apple got this right from the beginning despite years of criticism about the "walled garden". They took arrows for years: all the "open always wins" from the FOSS types, all the press coverage of some app developer crying about App Store rejections or onerous rules.

They didn't get it wrong because they know who butters their bread: customers. Developers are rightly prioritized last.

Fun to give this Paul Graham essay a read again [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html
Can you guys do this for Firefly too? i'm going to that one and would love to use it!
My extended family is all over the world. I want to see their kids grow up, their vacation photos, etc.
That is a small subset of software.

The vast majority of software written today has precisely 0 ability to kill anyone.

Even IF you are working at a company doing one of those things, only a subset of engineers that are working there are going to working on the "core" part of the software. Those companies have lots of web developers making code that isn't dangerous as well.

To put it another way, reading and writing can kill as well. If the person writing the airplane manual screws up, it could kill someone. But does that mean we need a bar exam of writing English?
If you read higher up in that wiki it lists all of the money the initiative has given away so far. I'm not sure why people think that the LLC doesn't give away money.
If you're a software engineer then you are most likely in the top 1% of earners globally so why do you want to spite others trying to start their career, just so you can earn even more?
The comment that you are responding to says that this weakens the case for MOND.
> Probably because of the enormous wave of downvotes that follows me everywhere.

But look on the bright side: you have way more karma than me, and only one of my comments has been in the grey, ever.
this is really cool....just went to Iceland and was looking for something that solves what you're talking about
Credentialism always, always, always exists to serve entrenched interests. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702652
It seems pretty related in this case, since the kind of security that is being discussed here is around access to private data (and I'd note that it was you that used the word security here, not the OP who made the more correct contrast between openness and powerfulness).

One could equally make the point that Facebook is secure because no one has hacked their servers, and that it is open because it is free to join. That's a pointless thing to say though.

But in any case: yes, there is an inherent tension between privacy and openness.
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Don't most captcha have audio fallbacks for the visually impaired?

Also, as far as I know, Google just uses a checkbox now.
AIM was available as an app on iOS App Store's launch day on July 11, 2008. But push notifications for the iOS Platform didn't arrive until June 2009, so it was cumbersome -- daresay awful: messages only arrived when it was in the foreground [1].

Within a few months of push notifications first being available, WhatsApp was released for iOS, in November 2009.

[1] https://www.macworld.com/article/1135141/aim_review.html
It should affect buying decisions. What would a Tesla owner do if their car broke down and the company did not exist anymore? It's not like you can just go to an auto parts store or an ordinary mechanic.
Even that doesn't guarantee your previous data is gone; nothing is preventing them from maintaining a history of changes, meaning they would have both your new, munged, data AND your older data, pre-munge.

Not sure what you are gaining with this.
Well, I'd like some search service that shows me what's accurately out there. If there's content out there about somebody being a "miserable failure" or Holocaust denial, I want to see it. I mean, what good is a search service that doesn't show what's there?

If I don't want to see whatever results are useless or offensive, I'll do my own filtering.

But then, I grew up on searching the scientific literature using Science Citation Index. And other stuff in LexisNexis. You don't expect stuff to be missing because it isn't cited much, hasn't been replicated, or whatever. You can filter by how well stuff has been cited, of course.
It’s not jobs, it’s job postings.

You need to demonstrate that no candidates with skills are available to get a visa waiver. It’s called compliance advertising. There’s a whole industry of body shops that do this stuff and collude on rates. The folks they hire are the foot soldiers of banks and government.
Disclaimer: I use no data, only going off of personal experience and friend circle anecdotes to create a theory.

The balance is that in some ways, we have economy-wide collusion-by-default to keep wages artificially low. I know this sounds ridiculous, but I think we've hit the point of increasing returns on job growth depression.

When one looks at the rate of underemployment and the employment rate writ large, it seems like the number of jobs is just few enough that the pay doesn't have to go up, regardless.

Furthermore, many industries don't seem to really pay attention to using wage as a lever. Often, this is because individual companies have difficulty justifying hiring someone at 20-30% more than their counterparts, and their counterparts haven't received a significant wage increase in years, often decades.

When combined with the rate of inflation not being matched by wage growth, it begins to look "normal" to many employers that wages should be particularly low.
In this case, the theory also predicts that airplanes will need extra thrust when they fly over roads, to pull away from the blobs. The new discovery is a road where that doesn't happen, but the cars still stick together as expected.