skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes it could be a "you will take this hush money or else" (that would be bullying in my books). But this case is classic bribery. There was no threat, unless of course it came in a previous/later mail that wasn't disclosed.
The Model-T is a great comparison. It was a commercially successful product, not a prototype under NDA. It also tells you a lot about the state of the industry.

Ford Motor Company was founded with an investment of $28,000 in 1903, the equivalent of 34 Model-T cars - say around $2 million now (for a very expensive $50,000 car).

It was profitable in very short order, selling several models of cars. The Model-T itself was available for sale in just over 5 years after the company was founded. Ford innovated in production and product design, and made ground breaking products available for the masses.

Magic Leap raised $2.3 billion (the equivalent of 46,000 cars) 8 years ago. Total publicly available output: a few promotional videos.
I agree. And given it is always introduced in an standard CS course I don’t see why they couldn’t have gone ahead with membership notation.
The CIA has also had a lot of high profile failures and appear to be a hotbed if groupthink derived from their current political masters.

They are a great example of an organization hiring the best and brightest, only to be dimmed by org and political structures.

This is not a recent thing. I believe they blew up a Russian refinery with a sweet exploit in he 80s. But other than that, I’m not sure why anyone would see them other than a bumbling comedy of politics.
You bring a up a good point. A poorly designed game might qualify as a gamble. However, there are ways to build games that have well grounded revenue predictions. Though those are hardly built by indies because they are not very innovative.
I find JIRA also pretty “brutalist” in the style of Craigslist.
Sure. I put "model" in the title because that's the word the article uses for this.
Then we don't have a democracy and therefore shouldn't even bother voting.
Sadly it's not just about the brand name. This blender was a near perefect replica of the official NutriBullet product. It took me buying it from a retail store to compare them side by side when I noticed the imperfections. But I couldn't tell without having one to compare with. Worst part is I paid MORE on the fake, so it's not even about price.

I used to have this problem buying brand razor blades from eBay a few years back. They were counterfeit because they actually hurt to shave with, yet the supermarket version (same brand), were perfect.

Long story short, when it comes spare power adapters (e.g. Macbook), I only buy from Apple direct. I do fear getting a knockoff which is unsafe.
The problem is growing, so past purchases arenot really indicative of the current experience. I’m now getting fakes sold and shipped by Amazon.com, any small electronics and accessories are a big crap shoot now.
Given the scale/size/financial scope of Apple I would be entirely unsurprised if they had an entire TSCM group recruited from ex-three-letter-agency people and a group of HUMINT experts functionally equivalent to CI, but with a different name.
Not everyone is great at interviews. One of the best engineers I worked with was very bad at interviewing (even I wasn't initially sure whether we should hire him).
The problem is that most of the interviews are very different from actual day to day work. Candidates do not perform same tasks in the same way as they would while working. Same goes for evaluation of results - very rarely is candidate rated using same criteria as it would in his performance review.

Would you mind sharing more details how you measured performance of your team? Thanks
It is interesting how other messaging services including also end-to-end encrypted WhatsApp manages to be still not banned in the Russia.
I disagree. If you are saying 'the solution's is -2, you have to be clear what the problem is. This becomes clearer when you have a problem with multiple variables. Then saying 'x=-2, y=3', makes clear the value each variable is taking in the solution.
If any manufacturer of phones has planned obsolescence built in, it’s Android manufacturers. iOS devices receive updates for over 3 years, while you’re lucky to get updates to your Android phone after a year.
What do you of America? No net neutrality, media monopolization, telecom-monopolization, rising economic oligarchy, active collusion by heads of the executive branch, unsubstantiated attacks on quiet well-justified investigations, war mongering around the globe... to start with.

I'm curious what kind of language you'd use to describe America after throwing that hyperbole at Europe.
Private Manning did not, at least as far as I know. Their motives were not necessarily pure, but let’s leave the FUD to FB and the feds.
Quantum Computing with High-Level Programming Languages
Hmmm so how do you scale this business of reviewing code?

At the beginning, maybe you sign up some super high-end 10X developers to do reviews. Also run some tools like SpotBugs or Coverity or something.

Then when the ammount of reviews goes up by 10X, what are you going to do? You can't possibly find many 10X developers that are willing to review random crap code.

So you end up reselling cloud-based Coverity licenses (SpotBugs is free).

Also, this only works if the company is willing to share its code with a random startup. Which is kind of a no-go for large shops. So who do you sell to? Large shops won't allow access to their code. Startups would, but they either won't pay in principle (hey we can use SpotBugs or Coverity) or won't pay much.

Can you make a business of it? I don't know, but there are some investments being made, so I guess there is a better story than the one I see.
"Pair programming" in an interview wasn't something I'd seen before, so I didn't prejudge it. I'm still not sure what to think of the exercise - because it may or may not resemble what is actually done on the job.

From a previous HN thread on pair programming[1]:

"Both partners must be fairly versed in the language and methodology of the programming."

I got into the weeds with the minutiae of the editor pretty quickly. Figuring that out and the language and the program in a few minutes while maintaining a conversation about all of the above is far beyond my limit of simultaneous tasks. It's not about the difficulty of any of them, it's about the contention for locks, if you will.

Also from the article it links to:
"Navigator knows the system well while the driver does not" is described as a fairly good situation. This jumps out at me because (presuming I was the driver and interviewers were navigating) in actual driving situations, I really don't function well with someone telling me what to do and carrying on a conversation at the same time as I the driver am trying to exercise higher brain functions.

It may be there is a segment of the programming population that uses mathematical processing brainpower for programming, and another segment that uses verbal processing power, and the disconnect here is that I am in the latter category. Thus, while talking is very helpful to me to work out a problem, I can't talk about one thing while doing another because they both require my verbal faculties. Maybe people who multitask better are using different parts of the brain that are inherently more independent.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=714362
As someone who has never used an iPhone and has always stayed within the Android ecosystem, I doubt any device on the Android market can compete with what Apple has in terms of security and privacy at the moment.
> Typically we write that the solution is "x = –2". This to me is the most abusive form of usage for "=" in mathematics. The solution to the equation is –2.

I disagree, though I think it's fine to think of a bare “-2” as a solution when you have a single variable, when you deal with equations or systems of multiple variables it breaks down. Sure, you can think of the solution in terms of untagged tuples when the variables have conventional orderings, but that just highlights that the lack of tagging the variable with the value is a shorthand, not the “true” form of the solution. And it's as much a shorthand in the one-variable case.
> The best way is, as you say, to have knowledge and skill to create a useful product.

Sure. Once you've actually created a product that's useful, or at least impressive from a technical and/or design perspective, then you're easily employable at that point. But for most people there is still going to be a several year gap between when they start focusing on acquiring those skills and when they've actually built something impressive enough to function as its own signal.
The cookie regs seem largely a moot effort given the pervasiveness of cookie usage, GDPR though I think is actually a generally good idea. The "nightmare scenario" that certain articles have detailed might be overburdening for companies, but in general having the right to be forgotten and know how your data is being distributed are large advancements in personal data rights.

This new reg to me is just bewildering however - not even allowing media sources to opt out of it? That just makes no sense to me and comes off as an attempt to destroy smaller / independent outlets. Hopefully it dies on the vine.
Synchronous Audio Router: low latency audio router for Windows
There’s no distinction between storage and backup. Most large backup companies are developing fixes for removing data in backups.
No license plates? How did he get away with this? Sounds interesting, got a source for further reading?
They have no problem selling counterfeits widely, until the stock takes a beating for it they won’t make it a priority.
Some Brief Notes on WebKit Heap Hardening
And steal their tech!
Its success will depend on whether it sucks or not. At this point all evidence suggests it sucks and ML's secrecy and doctored demos do little to refute that.
I think the analogue would be that the library would have to remove it from the catalog and censor the librarians but still keep it on shelves because the original content isn't directly affected as the action is one step removed.
Just as a thought experiment: Why don't we put cameras in public bathrooms? It wouldn't harm anyone, and it would stop some crimes.
I assume theyd be sad they lost a source of income. Some people are good at surpressing their conscience.
And by participating in that system under those terms you are only encouraging it. Change begins when someone decides to do something different, and it's usually a risk, but if no one takes it everything stays the same.

You have no one to blame but yourself if you refuse to even try.
Truth is, the list is very personal.

For me (formerly well-paid executive at IT companies in the US, originally from Italy), #2 (plus, some reserve money) was absolutely necessary to convince myself to leave my last job and start a company, last year.
If you don't mind answering, what book did you write? I love reading things by HN users.
A number of counterfeit goods have been showing up in the "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com" category - so they are both the warehouse and the vendor. Not the pages where they're reselling stuff from random companies like Bob's Gadgets LLC.
you do realize that trade secrets are a thing, right?
What they really need is for sites to stop ripping off their stories. How often do you see an article that is essentially a reprint of a story written somewhere else. It's not really a reprint, it's written as an alleged summary of the other story but contains all the details and some irrelevant banter by the author. This stuff is all over the internet and prevents readers from needing to read the original source.
Off topic: is it possible to build a JIT compiler for Go or does the runtime prevent that?
When you run out of rent money, your landlord kicks you out, and you move in with your parents, or couch-surf until you get your shit in order, or become homeless. The net hit to your finances is maybe a thousand dollars, or however much a moving truck or a plane ticket costs.

When you run out of mortgage money, your home is seized and sold, you will piss away tens of thousands of dollars of equity in foreclosure, realtor, and legal fees. Hundreds of thousands of dollars if you're in a down market, and you go underwater. You'll get to enjoy a ruined credit score... And, on top of that, all the other problems that you face when you can't pay rent.

I'd much rather be locked into a $1000/month rent for 30 years, then a $1000/month interest-mortgage for 30 years.
>It's not clear to me why it's not troubling to European citizens for their government to be in charge of what information is and isn't relevant to the public. Whenever I ask people about this, I get the response "well, that's why we have courts." I dunno, Europeans must trust their courts a lot more than I trust mine.

I trust the European courts more than I trust American advertisers.
You could AirPlay it to the HomePod. It also supports FLAC.
This is impossible. If the model is incorrectly specified (does not include all and only the relevant parameters and interactions), it doesn't matter much what games are played with the math. Changing the model will change the estimates...

Edit:
For example, see here where making arbitrary choices of how to code categorical variables will change the estimates:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719754

If you change the model the meaning of all the coefficients changes.
As I understand it, Google only blocks this stuff for searches from the EU. So all you need is a VPN with a non-EU IP address, and you can find whatever. Right?
article aside, for the most part, this title is a tautology right?
Yes (I work for Uber)
Can’t think of many relevant product leaks from Apple ... maybe stuff about their chip and display manufacturing? Their consumer products are pretty straightforward and all the leaks come from China anyway.
I took a look at his site, and at first was inclined to agree, but a few things have convinced me that you’re incorrect. First, he’s been on ML’s case a lot lately, but his site goes into a ton of different companies and products. Even more than that, he’s harsh on any marketing bullshit regardless of the source (loved his treatment of wristwatch projectors), so maybe the issue is that ML has an unusually high noise:signal ratio. He seems to pull no punches, but going back years he also seems to really know his stuff, and is proven right, over and over. He’s covered tons of devices and companies too, so there’s nothing singular there.

Given that I’d wonder how much of his site you looked over before you came to your conclusion about a “singular” focus, which is demonstrably untrue. I’d also like to know which ML competitor he supposedly works for, since I couldn’t find a hint of that.
How much does an outsourced background check? Running an interview pool on someone using a bunch of skilled employees costs probably $4K or so. Figure 7 interviews, 3 hrs each (prep, interview, feedback, hiring meeting) plus someone to arrange the onsite. If those are $150K employees, the fully-loaded cost of 20 hrs of work is going to be over $4K.
There were a whole bunch of such buildings on the UC Berkeley campus, and one was allowed to be covered with vines like that - absolutely gorgeous.
I would say it’s becoming their core product.
> I don't get the feeling that you and the parent are taking my comment in good faith.

I'm only playing by the rules you yourself set out. People in this thread were discussing how measuring "greatness" is subtle and very difficult, and then you came in asserting you could solve it with a snappy 2.5-word manta. If you're now claiming that additional clarification is needed, well, yeah, that's what everyone was saying to begin with.
It could very well be that you're right, in which case we can chalk democracy up as just another failed model of governance. Way I see it, there are two options: continue to perpetuate the escalating arms race of irrationality, or try to change it.

One way might end badly, but the other certainly will.
God three letter agencies are terrifying.
> I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper

Probably copyright - I honestly think all of this is about "advertiser friendliness," that YouTube is pushing this demonetization scheme ever harder because they're increasingly more desperate to make a profit from the site.

>I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate

How many of those left-leaning channels do you follow? If there were mass demonetization of left-wing content as well, how would you know? Is there objective evidence for a disproportional effect based on political bias?

It took me a second of Googling to find a thread on /r/socialism claiming that Youtube demonetizes left-wing content due to it's right-wing bias[0], so it seems both ends of the political spectrum feel attacked. Maybe it's just a case of extremist politics not being advertiser friendly?

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7somky/where_are...
"Twitter for racists" - the common mindset in this echo chamber is a lot easier to tell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)
It was not an official US Navy blog. Here's the link: http://blog.usni.org/2011/03/19/send-the-enterprise/
> The loans you buy are already sold and it's fixed rate

Let's say you buy 100 $100 loans at 7%. You expect to earn back your $10,000 of principal plus $700 of interest. If 10% of your bonds default, you get back $9,000 of principal and $630 of interest. That's a 4% loss on principal.

TWINO advertises it will buy back defaulting loans at face value; if they pay out, you earn $10,700 irrespectively. (I'll ignore that their Terms of Use appear to explicitly refute this guarantee [1].)

But what if they don't pay? Do they have cash on hand to pay if 10% of loans issued through their platform default? What about 50%? (This happened in the financial crisis. People thought they had "no risk about performance" because someone guaranteed their bets.)

This is why understanding the background default rate, whether the credit quality of new borrowers is worse than old borrowers, and TWINO's cash position are important. If the whole company defaults and borrowers default enough, you will underperform (a) expectations, (b) a risk-free security like a U.S. Treasury and (c) even straight cash.

TL; DR TWINO is risky. Why do you think they're selling the loans to you, instead of banks or hedge funds or sophisticated investors?

> You are calling the risk of the whole company defaulting "performance" and that's what I disagree with

See the above. If the company defaults your guarantor vanishes. Now you're directly exposed to the credit of your borrowers. (You'll also have to enforce your claims under Latvian law. Be ready to find and pay a Latvian lawyer.)

[1] https://www.twino.eu/ws/public/user-agreement-stream?lang=en
I was actually thinking that plain old bolts, also available at the hardware store, imagine if Ford could ban all 8mm bolt import and sales just because they had one in one of their cars
Oh man I miss matzoh ball soup. My wife (who is chinese) tells me that they have a similar food that looks like matzo balls, but the taste is nowhere close to the same.
I would guess that those who are arrested are the ones along the supply chain involved in leaks to countries who are economic rivals to the US (China, in particular).

But I wouldn't put it past Apple to try to prosecute anyone and everyone who leaks.
in a reform between 1921 and 1923

Wait, really? Was this some zany БЗНС/Стамболийски thing?
How is Switzerland by the way? I wonder whether moving is an option, plus my city is getting pretty unsafe with all the arabics (just seen a beat-up of an elderly this afternoon, Lyon, France) and I’m looking for a place with a safer government.
Why not just use regression trees, eg xgboost? The parameters aren't going to mean anything anyway.
California's constitution alone is over 100 pages, never mind thousands of pages of other legal code as well as precedents. It's not that the laws are so complex, it's that they have to cover so much it's never going to be feasible for someone not doing it professionally to be an expert on it.

Folks say "you should consult with a lawyer" when the topic is something that's too obscure or marginal to be obvious to a non-lawyer... that doesn't mean the laws are overly complex, just that there are always going to be marginal situations.
I'm not sure the intent of your comment; failure to track what browsers actually do is exactly the problem with the WHATWG "living standard" – it's very much a forward-looking spec at best, and too often a wishlist.
There is also the matter of the fact that most of these stuff only use a small amount of memory in the background though.
The article mentions Spain, but Germany had a similar initiative, sometimes called the "Google tax": Allow newspapers to charge for snippets. Newspapers did because after lots of lobbying it would look bad if they didn't. Google News delisted all that charged money. Shortly after the large newspapers allowed Google to use snippets without payment. So small websites (search engines) lost while those delivering substantial traffic (monopolies like Google) still strive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...
> They must be having some sort of decent traction to close these rounds, so that means that they have a strong use case.

Hard to tell. Closing rounds is not a guarantee of anything. VC model is to throw shit against the wall and see what sticks. The model is sound. So, say, Juicero took $150M and did not stick. But Dropbox did stick. It will hopefully pay for all Juiceros and other failed investments, and then some.
I am still not at all following why revenue is a key indicator of whether or not something is right
Upload filtering would be required for code sharing sites like Github? WTF?
Web vs Native is a non sequitur. It's really about distribution, control, and accountability. The question should be do we still need closed platforms?
If Kryder's Law holds, then by 2030 local hard drives will store petabytes (4x library of congress or 500 mp4 years). 32 terabyte thumb drives will cost $10. Routes around ISP's will be plentiful. How can copyright survive?
Cars had been equipped with seat belts before it was required by law.
Who is “they”? You mean the New York Times, right?

But in all seriousness, freedom of the press doesn’t imply it has to be purely factual or completely objective. The press is free to analyze, opine, ridicule, and rile their audience however they decide to. And they can even call it “fair and balanced” or tell me it’s “fit to print” if they want to, because these are subjective terms describing their opinion in a field expressly exempt from regulation.

In other words, about as far from selling a fake cure to cancer as you can get.
> Didn't Manning leak classified information that threatened the lives of foreign operatives?

No. Foreign agents or sources working with US intelligence (which are not the same as operatives) maybe.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/20/chelsea-mann...