skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yes. This. This. This.

BTW. No spoilers please - I'm re-reading in chronological order.
This is propaganda from intelligence agencies. The "RUSSIAN TROLLING" is an organic movement of right-wring nationalism that is building in America.

Russians may have tried to stoke the flames of the divide in America, but its real, and its here.
It adds an extra hurdle to developing dapps as well.

So many users in gitter channels I frequent run into problems with gas.

But one thing is amazing is that once your dapp is deployed your backend is fully permanent and replicated 19,000 times [0] (which is both super good and super bad at the same time - no bug fixes in prod).

[0] https://www.ethernodes.org/network/1/nodes
During the primaries, yes. Once Sanders was out, r/politics just looked like the internet wing of the Democratic Party.
Is blocking it more because you don't want to think about him looking at it, or because you actually think he will be damaged by looking at it? I'm sure I found porn at age 12 (now 30). Did you not?
Good question: I use RStudio but that might be a good project for someone.
I respect your point of view. I like the project as i like Golem. They are trying to build decentralized cloud services on top of an existing blockchain.
Hacker news is not read by idiots, so please don't accuse me of trying to deceive readers. The average reader here is quite smart, they don't need your defense.
The risks of scaling too fast, too soon
China Adds Flesh to Bones of Plan for Big Bang Financial Opening
jQuery is still great for web applications.

The site suggests you try not to make it a dependency if you're writing a JavaScript library. I also suggest vanilla JavaScript for simple pages that need just a smattering of interactivity.
Hey, this is my first blog post--I got motivated to write one because of all the cool stuff I find on HN.

I wanted to write a single blog post on bass boost (as mentioned at the end), but I wanted some early feedback on my writing so I split the original blog idea into two.

Obvious points for improvement are the code (playing more than N seconds, etc) and writing some CSS for it, but I'm looking for some readability issues in writing if there are any.

Thanks for reading!
This is wrong info. 23andMe has reinstated the Alzheimer’s report as of last year.
We use a gnarly WordPress install with a user permissions plugin.

I hate it, but it is the only thing we've found that meets all of our needs, isn't $500/mo+, and gives our mid level managers control.

We use it for everything from on-boarding, to training, to system documentation, to competitive intelligence documentation.

Sure we could build something custom, but overall it works and it's given the team leaders control over their "domain."
In short, under GDPR a company isn't obligated to offer you services if you refuse to allow them access to information they require.

GDPR defers to data retention laws for all other purposes.
Looking through some of them, I would be interested to see a bit more detail into how they identified these accounts.

Because, for example, this account[1] never seemed to post anything political at all, but is included in the list.

1: https://www.reddit.com/user/reggaebull
Differentiable Plasticity: A New Machine Learning Method for Learning to Learn
Draconian is defined as a law that is "overly harsh or sever". It comes from a Greek legal scribe to tied severe punishments to minor offenses.

No. That is not what those laws are. Mostly because you can "home school" a kid in the U.S. as a way around the mandatory schooling (there's just mandatory testing...which is what you want, a way to test out of the system)
Thanks for the link! It’s similar but the one I was referring to was just a blip about Glass, and more about artists (of all kinds). Even writers I believe. Gets the point across though.
DeepMind welcoming Lila Ibrahim as First Chief Operating Officer
Anyone else a programmer/tech person that thinks blockchain is awful for storing information?

Centralized servers are extremely good at what they do. I feel like most of the time blockchain isnt needed unless things need to be decentrally verified.

I was considering doing my own 'cryptocurrency', but I decided a centralized server was better for doing the job at hand.
Not exactly what you are looking for, but in the movie Cube (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/) a giant machine is built to kill people. IIRC, there was no real purpose behind the machine, it was kind of just built by bureaucratic accident.
Unless you are involved in neo-nazi organizations or narcotics distribution, i do not see it either.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-s...
He said it was terrible.
> Julia is regularly 1.2x C and sometimes faster than c when leveraging builtin libraries.

It is very difficult to say a language is faster than another, and only slightly easier to say an implementation is faster.

http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html

describes a number of benchmarks for an interesting data problem. kdb+ is the
third fastest performer and the fastest CPU performer. kdb+ is 1000x faster than another database written in C (kdb+ is written in k); but only about 100x faster than other C-based databases. The next closest looks like Yandex Clickhouse which is written in C++ and still less than half the speed of kdb+.

How much work is spent getting C++ to approach half the speed of an interpreted language?

> How can you be "a lot faster" than Julia?

That is an incredibly loaded question, but a big part of "how" is because of the notation: Because it's written in a language that is very dense, and puts parts of the solution near eachother, it is very easy to be correct, and to find repetitive parts of the program that can be coalesced and merged.

> What's mmu?

http://code.kx.com/q/ref/matrixes/#mmu

> Im sorry, but when i see apl, I just see a lot of symbols I can't bother to look up to understand.

It never ceases to amaze me when a programmer thinks that just because they can't do something, that somehow that follows that nobody else should either.

I mean, seriously!

> Code reviews would be a nightmare.

Why would you do code reviews in a language you don't understand?

The dense and carefully chosen symbols and meanings in an APLish language is its value. Not that it's fast (although it is), but specifically that it's easy to understand. Heck, the article we're commenting about mentions several algorithms that are so much easier to understand in an array language than anything else.
visit the real data of dapps
http://dappinsight.com
Isn't it integral to the way these dapps work however? Is there an other way to achieve the same results? After all eventually somebody has to pay the bill for there computations.

It seems to me that the big problem of dapps is not so much the fact that you need to pay to deploy them but that you have to pay so much to do anything meaningful. The system is extremely expensive compared to regular "not-trustless" distributed/cloud computing offerings out there.

For instance while browsing through the blockstack website I saw that the first such application was a "docs suite" (à la office/google docs) called "graphite": https://www.graphitedocs.com

That seemed interesting but my first thought was "man, if they store the files in the blockchain that must be absurdly expensive to use". They probably thought the same so, according to the FAQ at https://www.graphitedocs.com/faq :

>By default, your data is stored in a dedicated Microsoft Azure Blob. But you can and should connect your Blockstack Browser to your own cloud storage solutions (preferably multiple).

Oh. So that makes sense but doesn't that destroy the whole point of it? What if I decide to, say, use OpenOffice on my computer, encrypt the files using GnuPG and then upload them to dropbox, spideroak and some AWS bucket, wouldn't that effectively grant me the same privacy and control over my data?

I'm going to sound like a naysayer but it just looks like yet an other example of using blockchain for the sake of saying that you use the blockchain.

But of course it's just one dapp out of many. Let's see the next one, "stealthy": https://www.stealthy.im/

It's a "A secure decentralized communication platform". Now storing small text messages in the blockchain would still be very expensive but it might be acceptable, especially if you worry a lot about censorship or your message remaining available "forever".

>By default, your data is stored in a dedicated Microsoft Azure Blob. But you can and should connect your Blockstack Browser to your own cloud storage solutions (preferably multiple).

Oh. Nevermind then.
know the real data of dapps
https://dappinsight.com
How the Own-Premise Model Is Rewriting the Beer Industry’s Future
This is completely typical in consumer protection laws. You can't legally sign away your right to warranty for example, and I believe that in some jurisdictions you can't sign away your right to sue (like you would if you agree to binding arbitration).

I'd really like to see a more thorough argument than the linked blog on whether or not the proposed section is really a huge problem, and/or does nothing to protect legitimate rights holders who are in an asymmetric relationship with google that is maybe not to dissimilar to the consumer situation.
yes -- that's what I'm saying.

They could disable the VPN, it's not a bulletproof solution, but good enough, for now.

I agree it wouldn't work for all children in all situations, but it works for us for now.

I'm not trying to 100% block access, I'm just trying to make things a little more difficult.

Kind of like when people put a tiny padlock on their suitcase. It's not going to stop a determined person with wire/bolt cutters, but it's going to stop the curious person who might just take a look and grab something.

Sure, he could go to a friends house and use their computer. I can't stop everything, but I can at least reduce the influence, possibly prevent a pop-up or something from giving that little nudge towards temptation.

An open pile of cash on the ground is far more tempting than a safe full of cash on the ground.
The Google AMP component is for publishers (website owners) to get consent from visitors to their site to collect information about them.

IANAL, but my understanding is that if you publish your CV on the internet you are giving your consent to have that information collected. The consent is assumed to have been obtained from the website owner. Under GDPR, all sites that collect any personally identifiable information (PII) will have to obtain consent from the user in most cases before they can collect.
Well, MySQL still doesn't implement the SQL standard from 1999 (20 years ago), because it's missing common table expressions. Although the next release will support them, thankfully. Sorry, I just had that axe to grind.
I believe the general field of how you structure information is called "Information Architecture" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture should provide some starting point, as will searching Amazon for books on the subject.

There are other strands of thought that may also be relevant. E.g. I think HR people often think about "workspace learning" or "training and development" (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Talent_Develop...).

And in the world of management there's the concept of a "learning organization": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_organization

(You will get a lot of answers involving tools. Tools are the last thing to think about.)
The Foundation could use modernization. The "big ideas" are still interesting, but the nuts and bolts of putting characters in a world to act out a story has them inadvertently soaked in late 1940's United States culture.

I have failed to interest young people in the book, they seem to be put off by virtually all of the characters being cigar or pipe smoking men with females relegated to the secretarial positions where they are summoned by the very modern push button on a desk. I think there is also the very modern push button on the floor of the office which closes the door.

As a story it now suffers from what to modern readers are inadvertent anachronisms. Asimov seems to have meant to write "Here we are, maybe 15 minutes in the future and off we go into the stars and centuries beyond!", instead we've got "Once society regresses to a state which oppresses half the population and is reduced to primitive pre-electronic technology we can finally get on with a grand future!"

A TV series which starts 15 minutes in our future and presents the same ideas could be a fine framework to fill with characters people care about, but something other than world war two era United States industrialists please.
I think it is possible for the fed to make a crypto for a couple reasons. 1) hyperinflation in the regular dollar and they need a method of escape 2) to combat cryptos if they really take off, they would make bitcoin illegal and provide their alternative
I actually see the cookies remark as a mis-step -- the politically correct answer was "my team will get back to you" but the engineer in him couldn't resist trying to "correct" the senator who was trying to portray Zuck as technically ignorant.
> We don't need a formalized study to see what access to porn can do to a person. It's been documented many times.

That's extremely dubious. Teenagers aren't being harmed by seing people having sex, they're mostly being harmed from being sheltered from it.
Why should it be free?
Ignore the Greenpeace rubbish. There's a picture in the video of what was actually extracted from the whale.
As far as I'm aware the majority of failing biotech companies have very broadly targeted Amyloid beta (apparently because they thought it was a good risk tradeoff). A narrow focus on APOE4 could be a wiser strategy. I could even see gene therapy playing a role.
And distributed should mean distributed, not 'using a blockchain'.
It’s great when this model takes over; no one will own anything anymore. Simply rent. The concept of equity is a thing of the past. Good luck retiring cheaply/at an appropriate age.
I just attempted to try GitKraken, and while it looks quite good on paper, I find it perplexing (and a deal breaker) that it asks me to login (with Github or Gitkraken) before using the open source and free desktop client.
300 tc is pretty standard for FAANG and the big unicorns. I pull down 330k w 5 years experience at a Uber. 180 cash, 150k equity. I’m incredibly average, 5 years exp.
I've found that the tool doesn't matter as much as the company culture. You need to foster a culture of documentation for EVERYTHING. It doesn't matter if you have the best tools in the world if nobody uses them.

Too often this falls by the wayside because documentation of processes and preserving institutional knowledge, while extremely important, isn't the type of work that gets recognized or rewarded.

If anyone can recommend a good way to align incentives here, I'd be very interested.
So you're saying after Bitcoin has gone up 300% and crashed equally 15 times, exactly
now this won't happen anymore?
I'm sure anyone who is a content creator would disagree with you. The only reason to abolish copyright would be to freely copy, steal, and use other people's works without compensation or even attribution. It can easily take more than two years to even write a thorough and well-researched article or book. Would you spend two years of your life creating something with the knowledge that it can be freely stolen and resold by other people the day you release it?
Maybe if there was a professional organization of software engineers, it could settle these disputes and decide who is to blame for the wrong implementation.
How else would we elect the biggest asshole?
I don't know. Some of those photos of puppies are highly suspect.
Right. It only "got worse" while people tried to figure out the new medium. Once we have a set of options that work well, I'd expect this to become a basic meta game. People will recognize the current pattern and begin to associate it with "old". Just like fashion. Probably a bit circular, aka old trends will at some point re-emerge. This assumes YT will be around for long enough, of cause.
>You can't "there fixed it" for the infinite number of projects that exist in the field that this breaks

Of course you can. Python files are plaintext.

$ find ./some/module -name "*.py" -exec sed -e 's:#!/usr/bin/python:#!/usr/bin/env python2:g' -i {} ;
I always wonder who is saying things like "reasonable regulations"

Do you run your own company and find the regulations dont require you to hire a multi-thousand dollar legal team at every turn?

Are you an internet user that thinks that what the government says wont be exploited?

I worry that my kids will be unable to start businesses due to regulations, or rather their friends wont be able to start businesses. I am a top 4%er and I'll simply pay for the legal teams needed. I know my competition making 40k/yr cannot.
IANAL, so can someone explain how we get from "inalienable right to obtain an [sic] fair and proportionate remuneration for such uses" to "required to charge a fee"?

Can one just say the fee is zero?
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Why you should start a side project
It’s definitely not standard. Esp at say amazon.
Okey, yeah that makes sense I guess I was reading the answer to this[0] post on Quora and I'm reading it as not agreeing with that sentiment.

Maybe the CV was a bad example but it could easily be modified to that I have published another persons CV on that site.

[0]https://www.quora.com/What-impact-will-the-GDPR-have-on-a-we...
"The other gain was that I learned to work in small, focused commits"

This!
... Said the COBOL developers.

To some degree, you may be correct, that there will be companies that refuse to upgrade for many years. By and large, I think most people will start to switch:

* Small orgs will begin to see costs of maintaining legacy code skyrocket as it becomes harder and harder to get 2.7 interpreter support for newer kernels. Those that aren't already transitioning now will eventually bite the bullet.

* Medium orgs will probably be the laggards. They have enough funds to pay someone else to make compatible interpreters for them. Your observation about manager authorization very likely applies here so many probably won't bother to upgrade without an internal skunkworks-style initiative.

* Large orgs will upgrade. Their infosec departments will freak out that an old, "potentially insecure" language is being used, regardless of third party vendor support. I see this a fair bit now in the PHP space; where RHEL supports and backports patches for old, insecure versions of PHP, but the infosec people still can't stand it. These days, infosec is getting more and more pull in every huge organization, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to see them start to treat 2.7—or the old, un-updated packages that are locking someone to 2.7—as a possible attack vector and force a change.

All that said, you are right about jobs. If someone knows 2.7 inside and out, they will start to see higher and higher paying contract gigs over the next 15-20 years. Just like the COBOL programmers saw.
I've been at two major companies and both used some form of Wiki or collaborative site. If any company had a good idea how to do this, everyone would be doing it that way by now. There are definitely still improvements that need to be made to existing platforms. For example, neither site had a great search engine.
Amazon comp is below 300 until probably principal level. Maybe a few seniors have it.
Also, not to hijack your question, but is it true that data scientists at FAANG companies earn significantly less in stock than software engineers?
Is there a cheaper biodegradable alternative to plastic?
Shouldn’t there be a distinction made between public and private company equity?

150k of Facebook stock seems much more desirable vs 150k of Uber stock because at least with Facebook stock you could liquidate it on the public market?

Or am I missing something?

Paysa puts Uber at #1 for compensation, but their stock isn't liquidatable like a public company. Doesn't make sense.

https://www.paysa.com/company-rank
Sprint and T-Mobile restart merger talks
Isn’t most of this coming from China and if so how much impact can European laws really have on the problem?
It's not utterly destabilized, this isn't black and white. We know for a fact that a foreign adversary is _attempting_ this, which is a hostile.action. How successful they have been is incredibly difficult to measure, but that doesn't mean it's not a problem.
So they're close to launching or just launched. Any evidence suggesting they're not going to crash and burn in the short term?
Not at all, this is the reason I posted this question. Some of us would like a peek into our career prospects :)
Easy to say without seeing the proposals.

Regulation can be awful or insignificant.

My state requires strippers to fill out a license and pay 50$. Changed nothing.

However, my state also requires you to put down 1M to start a bank. Thats definitely regulatory capture.

Its too soon to know whats going to be required of data. Databases might become significantly worse to program and require teams to maintain at government standards.
Except the current proposal goes against a very widespread and desirable use of copyright, which is to share freely while retaining attribution and control over reuse. And there are no human rights violations involved. As a result, the proposal in hand seems draconian - and since it basically deals with money, not at all similar to moral rights.
> I would like to have copyright end once your earnings from a certain work exceed some multiple of the expenses that went into making it by a certain factor...

One of the reasons is that it would have a chilling effect for speculative investment in creating works. What if I'm a movie producer getting an average of one hit for nine flops? I need the profit from the hit to subsidize the flops.
Uber stock has more promise of growth. Also there are private markets (idk to what extent one can participate tho).
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There are some political posts in its history but I agree with your sentiment. I posed a similar question in the announcement thread (not asking for specifics because they'd never share that) but received no answer.

Elsewhere in the thread however I did see that they worked with some other companies like Twitter to share data of suspected Russian trolls and issued bans based off of that.
What is a FAANG?

Edit: so many responses at once!
Yes, but some Algo and AI researchers earn way way more.