skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You trust the stealership? I'd rather take my car to the worst independent mechanic than the average stealership here in Seattle, as all I've ever seen is botch jobs at the stealerships I've been to in the area. Botched seal replacement jobs (resulted in a wrecked engine), transmission fluid flushes needlessly (early failure of the transmission) along with a bevy of smaller botches have lead me to believe that the least trained are working at the stealership's around here. Its all about parting the customer from their money it seems!

A good mechanic will do a better job and usually be cheaper than what your local stealership will try and charge you for. Replacing a battery clamp will run you $60 at most Honda stealerships, versus a $5 part cost or $20 at the shop down the road.
Dead on.

There is also an environmental component in play. You'll find a lot more noise in the hiring pool when the tech field is booming.
> 12 of those were arrested

It's pretty weird to see the breach of an NDA in a corporate environment lead to an arrest rather than just a civil lawsuit between the two sides of a contract. Apple seems to be a bit eager here to play the fear card and I find it surprising that law enforcement would do more than take their statement and give them a copy of it. Breach of contract would be the worst that you could accuse a leaker of, which is not typically a criminal affair.

Is it normal to have people that break NDA's to be arrested?
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This is a question of perspective, you can in fact just take it as a regression over the continuous 0-1 interval with loss |y-o(Xw)| where o is the sigmoid and could report that loss (in fact a package such as Sklearn will usually return the parameter values that minimise that loss, possibly with a penalty). If you want to use it as a classifier then you threshold the predictions.
It's also my experience, upgrading iPhone 3G from iOS 3 to iOS 4. That thing was unusable afterwards.

I'm sure there are examples with newer devices and iOS versions, but I wouldn't tell, because I didn't get any other afterwards.
Your culture is so great that someone that has left your team is called a "dickass" on the Internet.
So, is your point that if someone can't do something that's "simple", then they're not "great"? I've seen Nobel Prize winning physicists make trivial math errors. I'm talking adding 8 + 9.

If you can't say that is true for all cases is it not worthless as a metric?
I wrote some great software for a major corporation, and saw my income triple. I went into a google interview and also failed, and was rejected. Mostly for missing edge cases on a few problems. What would you classify me as?
Go write a couple hundred lines of R (please don't actually do this R is atrocious imo) and then you'll understand why '=' is used instead of '<-' - because it's a pain in the ass, even with hotkeys
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Some languages made slightly better design choices, just not the ones that became super popular!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignment_(computer_science)#...
Counterfeiting has been a problem in China for years.

Companies like Walmart have in the past used Chinese companies fairly responsibly, e.g. forcing them to use new brands that are no one else's, or selling under Walmart's brands.

When Amazon moved to compete along the lines of ebay say, they didn't really care that much if it sold counterfeit goods. It's the brand's fault for not flagging Amazon's products.
"Joel's claim is basically that "great" developers won't have that many jobs compared to "bad" developers because companies will try to keep "great" developers. "

This is a not what Joel said. Joel said that great developers are not on the market very often. They don't need to go on the open market to find their next job.
But. You're in the weeds. They saying "we're news" and they're not. It's 90% editorial.

As for the actual content and their right to say it? It's their right. It's protected. But selling snake oil as a cure for cancer? That's the issue.
Not touching the legal bits, but the comparison between privnote and GMail's thing actually help me zero in what bugs me about GMail's.

From these screenshots, Google calls the note an email, integrates it with their email client, and removes some normal email controls for forwarding, etc. That violates people's expectations of email, in terms of recipients' control of their data and vendor neutrality. Those are things I don't want changed about email!

One approach is to decouple ephemeral messages from email or GMail like privnote, which avoids confusion or lock-in. You still should make precise promises, though; I think "disappearing message" is a bad way to say "we delete our copy." Seems 100% feasible but then it's just Google Privnote.

Another option is to keep it integrated but tweak it to try not to mess up email, by making the feature "expiration request" or something, and maybe many clients comply by default but don't force it, except possibly when account owner != user (work networks). That helps cooperating parties without being either vendor-specific or DRM-y. I can even imagine vendors working together on that, especially with handling of user data in focus right now. Senders can try to figure out if your recipient contacts/domains claim support for the feature so you don't try to use it when it's clearly meaningless.

A fear is that Google considers it a feature to mess with the email ecosystem by adding vendor-specific stuff, or that Google'll talk about security a lot and just happen to propose lots more solutions involving more Google lock-in. I'd like to see what comes out of Google I/O to get more of a sense.
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As far as I know, Diaspora still does not have events functionality.

Two other federated, free, and open social networking platforms that do have events functionality are Friendica and Hubzilla.

https://friendi.ca/

https://project.hubzilla.org/page/hubzilla/hubzilla-project

I have not looked too much into Hubzilla, but I set up a test Friendica account and was very impressed! My first thought was, "this is so much better than Diaspora. How did Diaspora get all the news coverage?"

They were both developed by Mike Macgirvin, a former Facebook employee who left in early 2010 because he was "...was increasingly concerned about the directions they were taking related to personal privacy." That quote is from a very interesting interview with him about federated social networking at:

https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-4528...

I discovered all this through the "Fediverse.party" website:

https://fediverse.party/

HN Discussion about Fediverse.party:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16667050

Edit: formatting, typos, clarity
For this, you could use uMatrix (by the same author).
Agreed, ORMs all suck because what they're trying to do is essentially sucky. But some are better at sucking than others by orders of magnitude!

https://www.sqlalchemy.org/
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That's the point of Steemit. There's no such thing as piracy. It was never your content. Try to make money through labour instead of licensing.
Is there any way for me, as a buyer, to see if a particular item is being commingled or not? (But still fulfilled by Amazon?)
In my opinion, the answer to this question is no. But that's the thing, that's the answer for me. For you who knows!
I totally would, since it no longer generates any royalties, but I don't own all of the rights to it.
Well, I'm very sorry to hear that because I'm genuinely baffled as to what your point is. As a woman who feels excluded and unable to get traction due to my gender, I was interested in what you were saying, but it fails to parse for me.
Likely touch disease or similar, Apple has had more than a few issues with bad solder joints in their products causing an untimely failure. The customer consistently gets blamed for these types of defects until it becomes a media issue for Apple.
I can't imagine the politicians themselves to be competent enough to even understand the problem and write the legislation. But maybe they employ people who can.

The technical details of the "encryption with backdoors" would be left to the companies that have enough presence in Australia that they need to conform to it.

The enforcement against criminals using encryption would be as simple as the police finding that they can't decrypt the contents of a wire tap because the app isn't backdoored.
Personally I miss Brutalist buildings. We build very cheaply and flimsy now, especially in the west, with 2x4 construction where you can hear everything happening in the building. Brutalist buildings made extensive use of concrete which we should use more of.
I don't really see how you separate tech from other entrepreneurs? Entrepreneurship is vast and mostly outside of tech and high-paying organic-vegan-glutenfree-catering tech-startups. If you run a hair salon your education level will most likely be much worse than most tech founders and your "seed money" is a high-interest rate from your local bank. Your margins are so slim that at the end of the month you are indeed an entrepreneur but paid under minimum wage on an hourly basis. To me tech founders seem to be in a much better position to start a company - all things equal - contrary to your description.
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Bulgarian living in USA here.

As other people have mentioned in the thread White Mountain yoghurt is the real deal (I have no connection to the company). Real Bulgarian yoghurt proudly made in Austin, Texas :)

Joking aside, their yoghurt is superb. I don't recall yoghurt like theirs even in Bulgaria. Unfortunately you can't order directly from them but you can find if it's available in a store near you from their website http://www.whitemountainfoods.com
I'll repost a comment I made a few moments ago [0] again here:

> Are media organizations like 9to5mac (mentioned in Apple's memo) paying Apple insiders for the information they provide?

> Personally, I wouldn't think that the leakers were getting paid. Even if they were, I imagine the amount that these particular online web sites are able to pay is very much -- especially when compared to the average Apple employee's salary.

Let's take the memo linked in TFA, for example. Just how much can we expect Bloomberg might pay for a copy of this memo? I can't imagine that it would be very much at all -- certainly not enough to make it worth the risk of being caught.

> This makes me think that money isn't the primary motivating factor, if it is a factor at all.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16834397
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Did they tell you it was going to be pair programming or was it a surprise? I find things like this are better to practice beforehand or if one knows beforehand one would prefer not to do it, to just reject it before it gets that far along in the process.
If you pay attention to software and tech news, at all, you'd know this, or at least try to google it.
This is an excellent question. I feel like the right to be deleted/forgotten is certainly not supported by the current implementation, and the relationship to a VC fund certainly could introduce an element of this being an attractive target. I don't know about the comment caching though, for example, I'm sure Twitter doesnt solve for this either, is this actually a requirement? Or are those caching Twitter comments simply in violation of the Twitter TOS?

I'd love to see someone with a legal background provide their thoughts here!
Hacker News is hosted in the United States, so it is not liable to GDPR, at least currently.

That said, it's an interesting thought experiment to understand what the implications would be if it was hosted in a GDPR country.
It wasn't that he screwed up a minor thing off the top of his head, he had fundamental misunderstandings on how to approach the problem. I doubt that's the case for your 8+9 example.
There's no way to stop someone from copying the message if they really want to. That doesn't mean a system that prevents the recipient from accidentally leaking the message has no use.

There are plenty of scenarios where the sender may be confident that the recipient will not intentionally betray their trust but may not want to leave long-term traces behind (say, forwarding confidential documents to a family member). Rather than reminding them not to forward the email and to delete it ASAP, you could just use this feature instead.

Just because something doesn't can't cover all scenarios doesn't mean it's useless. Firefox's Private Browsing can't hide your activity from a determined eavesdropper, for example, but there are still plenty of ways in which it's useful.
You’re basically describing Source{d}
https://www.sourced.tech
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My understanding was that GDPR requirements apply to all citizens of the EU regardless of where the company is located. Someone else can chime in if that's not accurate!
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I think GDPR should be based on Gltd's and ccGltd's. That way you know when you leave the comfort of a .nl or .eu and enter the .com you have been warned. Just like signing an agreement that says which state laws you agree the contract uses.
What are the challenges to provide a standard GC interface that all managed languages can leverage.
R has = as well which has been working equivalently for me so far. Any caveats?
All the content producers I follow have either a Patreon or a Tipeee page, which allows me to give them some money (probably much more than what they would earn if I watched the ads).
Yes, if he feels that changes to it would affect how his performance is ultimately perceived in some tangible way. I suspect he cares more about that than the spat with his Bezos because it affects his legacy (brand). The spat with Bezos is just an added bonus.
How is 'something I expect out of a sophomore or equivalent' for a Google developer interview an example of bias?
It's even more work than that-- check out caniuse for SVG fonts:

https://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-fonts

They had support in both Safari and Chrome, but never in FF or IE (nor Edge). Chrome eventually dropped the support.

So I'd say if you can't get all four to implement the feature then you might as well call that part of your spec a "living standard." Those features are going to get way fewer eyeballs, fewer bugfixes, fewer reviews, fewer pieces of documentation, etc.
> I don't think there's any reason it needs to stay that way

There is actually a very good reason, namely that acquiring knowledge, skills, wisdom, etc. is at odds with acquiring assessment signals. The only way to become a good entrepreneur is to basically become unemployable.
1. Be a boy scout - leave any code better than you found it.

2. Write functions, components, patterns (etc) that make other people's lives easier.

3. Earn trust over time in small ways like this, and you will be entrusted with bigger architectural refactoring decisions.

The only reason a refactor will ever get approved is if it can demonstrably lead to increased efficiencies in the near future. This is often true (when done well), but you have to be able to demonstrate why, beforehand - which is the hard part.
Who should I buy from instead?
The last time I touched on this with our legal team (and it was not related to GDPR, it was just related to data storage of EU Citizens) the storage location was a very relevant key point.

Having said that, what about CDN's? I'm certain that lots of comment data is located in CDN's across the EU, US, and Asia.
You can block abusive servers from federating with you.

Ideally we could also encrypt all our posts and whatnot so the server operators can't snoop as easily.

Because you don't have to join coolsocial.fake to view my social media posts, it's a lot less likely folks will concentrate on one platform and it will make ditching that platform a whole lot easier.

Making it easy for people to leave also forces server operators to avoid doing/not doing things that would cause people to leave.
Do we really need a fourth thread on this in three weeks?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661323

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16698937

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751656
Don't think so:

> In May of 2018, a major upgrade to Europe’s overarching data protection framework becomes enforceable. This will be followed by a companion piece of legislation pertaining to data in transit. The extraterritorial nature of these two frameworks — they protect the privacy rights of people in Europe regardless of where their data is collected — means that they will become the de facto standard for privacy around the world. [1]

[1] https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/02/gdpr-for-web-develo...
I suspect many buyers in the United States are not skilled at determining counterfeits. Sometimes this is obvious, but other times the symptoms are masked as something else.

When an electronic item is defective, when an item you buy reoccurringly degrades in quality over multiple purchases, or when something stops working before it should those are all warning signs of a counterfeit.

I highly suspect 0.5% of my Amazon packages have been counterfeit. I've had hundreds of orders over the last 3 years.
> https://danielegrattarola.github.io/metaverse/

These are really cool, did you come up with that function for the mandelbrot set? Do you have an explaination of how it works??
I think it's fair to have basic standards. Do you think you can have a great mechanic who asks 'what's a carburator'?
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Ha!

We have a swearword for vindictive people like you in Sweden. It's "miljöpartist". Prounonced "millowepartist".
I like the concept-- but I have no idea what it'll cost for my environments without signing up for an account yet.
> Is this[1] what you call "memory management"?

Strictly speaking, it's one option; no worse than C. That said, I'd probably just manage my own arenas and avoid dynamic allocation.

> Two can play at that game. You are completely wrong. If your best example of an environment where a GC might not be a good fit is game development, then you are in no position to use such absolute statements

No need to get combative. I was quite clear--there are many systems that are frequently described as "not-GC friendly" (like games) for which Go's GC is suitable. These are soft real time systems. There are other hard real time systems for which Go's GC is not suitable, like the automotive systems I worked on in my last job. Go can serve hard realtime systems too (just use it like you would use C), but it's often not the best tool for that job.

> Personally, I tend to add "I think" or "I believe" whenever I am making statements that are outside of my realm of expertise.

I was an embedded engineer for a critical hard real time system in a previous life. This _is_ my area of expertise.

> This prevents me from making a fool of myself

If you say so. ;)

> Good luck getting Go to run efficiently on a microcontroller without a ton of weird hacks.

Granted, but this has nothing to do with GC.

> ?

Picking at random is an alternative to choosing a language by comparing candidate languages.
It doesn't care about anyone's citizenship, but it can apply to US-based entities if they're sufficiently targeting Europe in offering goods or services.
If you want a standalone app, I would recommand youtube-viewer: https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer

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I don't think that's correct. My understanding was that GDPR applies to organizations that are used by EU citizens or residents. See:

> Under the GDPR, organizations may be in scope if (i) the organization is established in the EU, or (ii) the organization is not established in the EU but the data processing activities are with regard to EU individuals and relate to the offering of goods and services to them or the monitoring of their behavior.

- https://stripe.com/guides/general-data-protection-regulation...
>Please show me a source where Apple sued someone (either an individual or a third-party repair center) simply for repairing their own device or a user's device on behalf of that user. You won't find it because that's not what Apple's complaint is here.

That would be inefficient and a waste of their money in most cases.

>People are conflating Apple's refusal to provide manuals and replacement parts without cost (and outside of their certification program) with the idea that Apple is trying to prevent people from repairing their own devices.

Apple uses various methods - Updates that brick repaired phones, and copyright/patent law to block others from supplying parts. Here they can choke the repair shops much more easily. I don't want to be forced to go to Subaru to repair my car either. I prefer to have an option of which tires to buy, which oil to use, which stereo I use, etc. I also don't want the car to be welded together to the point where nobody can repair it. YMMV.

Sometimes the good guys win.

https://9to5mac.com/2017/02/25/iphone-warranty-third-party-s...

http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/06/technology/apple-australia-l...

>the idea that Apple is trying to prevent people from repairing their own devices.

People don't want to repair the phones themselves. They want to use services available in almost every other consumer industry to service their phones. Apple insists that they should be the sole arbiter of who is and isn't allowed to do that. People are trying to fight Apple on that. And thats what its all about.

Apple does produce some very high quality products and I have enjoyed many of them over the years. That doesn't make them a saint on all fronts. Fairs fair, Praise where praise is due, and criticism when they do something purely out of greed/control.
Yeah, I'm the WORST at returning things, especially if it involves shipping. Thankfully I've been lucky with TVs, etc. Or have low standards.
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IME it's hard to precisely rank average devs who are in the middle. There's a lot of clumping.

It's a lot less hard to identify overperformers or extreme underperformers. You mention the big possible range, but I've never had to dive that deeply into data to spot them - I've used the data to check my instincts, but have generally been right. And if you don't trust your instincts, just ask your team! They know whose code reviews they dread, who never offers helpful suggestions, who seems to do just the minimum. It's sometimes tricky (people often don't want to say bad things about their peers), but generally people already know.

I know what I'm looking for in my performance reviews, and so I know what I'm looking for in my candidates. A competent coding baseline, and skills in the non-coding areas (knowing what not to build, anticipating edge cases, ability to distill business logic, ability to explain complex things clearly...). But this list is quite different from the "standard" tech interview loop: algorithms after algorithms with a sprinkling of "design a URL shortener."
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This is one of the signals a large percentage of video game companies use. I'm not sure it's that great but here we are - at a lot of small shops this led to a Lord of the Flies mentality to mentions in the credits from what I was told.

I can remember working on a shipped product that had a lot of bugs, it was one guy's several hundred thousand line DOS program in one c file that I had to fix bugs and add features to - the guy quit before stooping to fix bugs/add features requested by the customers. Did get to practice a lot of refactoring on that one.