skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I passed, twice. I went through the whole process, was offered an enormous compensation package (7 figures). I went through it because the entire time I was telling myself if they came back with a big enough offer I'd do it. Turns out I was wrong, I couldn't do it even for what definitely qualifies as "gets paid".

This was several years ago, before any specific scandal I can think of. I have constantly questioned whether I made the right move ... it was a lot of money. Now, finally, I have my answer.

That said, of course my story is anecdotal and for the most part, I guarantee you that the great majority of folks would jump for a job at FB. At the time I was going through the process, the work environment was very much kool-aid, with kool-aid posters everywhere, "work hard" posters and such. It went past my sad filter straight to laughable. I was on campus a few months ago and that kind of thing is gone or mostly gone. I hear it's a pretty good working environment these days, actually.
add medical insurance, add stock options etc. even if it is 1/4 it still a very strange risk to take on.
Ha doy
I love the following technique:

Question: What was the name of your first cat?

A: cat

Q: what city were you born in

A: city

Q: what is your moms maiden name?

A: name

and the like.
I think that is mostly it.
Looks like it's the one from C-SPAN,
which also has a searchable transcript of the closed captions

https://www.c-span.org/video/?443543-1/facebook-ceo-mark-zuc...
I’m streaming it along side graphs of Facebook’s stock price here: https://twitch.tv/tareqak and I posted it on HN earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16803453 .
And yet people lent money anyway, they just used complex accounting maneuvers to obfuscate it.
That seems like such a tiny misdemeanor compared to something like deliberately prolonging the Vietnam War to win a Presidential election.
I think the more obvious answer is that if the market is well-regulated and above-board, there is no need for the shady unregulated black market where kidnapping and human trafficking are things that happen.
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I Alone Sit as Judge, Says The Lord.. From The Lord, Our God and Savior - The Word of The Lord Spoken to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear ..Thus says The Lord: Nothing coming from the mouth of those who scoff or shoot out the lip against The Lord’s anointed... Whether they be a friend or an enemy, a spouse or a relative, a neighbor or a stranger, a scholar or a teacher, or a pastor, self-appointed prophet or preacher... Shall be accounted as true. Neither shall any weight be given to their arguments; it is wind. trumpetcallofgod.com
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So your contention is that structural oligopolies (or markets with monopolistic competition) should not be regulated?

That's nowhere in my argument. I merely pointed that government grant monopolies pretty much automatically should be regulated since they are virtually extensions of government fiat already ("we" give Comcast etc a monopoly on placement on phone poles and similar stuff, we should get something for that) and that this situation isn't comparable to monopolistic competition.

If you're curious, I think actual private companies should be regulated when their actions involve negative externalities [1] in their production process - chemical companies should not be able to dump toxins into rivers, broadly greenhouse gases should be limited, etc.

One might argue that Facebook selling people's data to the highest bidder is another kind of negative externality. I would argue that a better outcome is consumer education, gradually people learn whatever they post online has a significant risk of being public. Similarly, it's better for people to learn not to be manipulated by simple schemes than to imagine a firewall against the manipulations of evil people. Just consider that a firewall against manipulations of evil people would let in the manipulation of "good people", right? Perhaps that's the whole idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
> Do you really want to have "I wrote an novel algorithm to track people" on your resume?

If the algorithm is truly novel then yes, absolutely.
> The cynic in me wonders if these employees are just responding to how others are starting to view their positions, more than ethical or moral quandaries.

Doesn't need to be cynical. "I never thought of it that way" is maybe one of the most important phrases you can say.

These people didn't see their jobs as unethical until someone really put a spotlight on what they do. It forced them to look at their roles in all of this and say "is this right?". To quote David Mitchell: "Are we the baddies?".
Live from the testimony, emphasis mine:

> MZ: "There will always be a version of Facebook that is free.

Coming soon, Facebook Pro(TM)! Literally putting a price on your privacy.
His argument about speech was, frankly, idiotic and demonstrated literally no self-awareness, or awareness of the outside world.

He claimed you can't talk about life extension startups. He talked about them, and nothing happened to him. VCs have funded them and nothing happened to them. A few people felt slightly weird to work on something unpopular, but there were literally ZERO negative repercussions.

He then claimed that you can discuss anything in China. When people discuss anything in China, they end up in jail or disappeared. Obviously this was fucking idiotic bullshit.

Free speech is important, but Sam Altman is just a thin-skinned, ego-centric, vengeful, and naive fascist asshole. Makes sense, because Thiel is cut of exactly the same weak cloth. They're both worthless people who mistake wealth gained through luck and connections for value. Fuck Sam Altman, and his dumb beliefs. And fuck you for sucking Sam's cock.
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We typically moderate far less when a comment is critical of YC, but this is such dross that we have to please ask you to post civilly and substantively, as the guidelines do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
BTW: anybody remembers Commodore CDTV? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_CDTV
A great article, and I am a big fan of algolia, Citus and Redshift. However this article ends up making an odd apples to oranges comparison.

They state that "However, achieving sub-second aggregation performances on very large datasets is prohibitively expensive with RedShift", this suggests that they want to do sub-second aggregations across raw event data. However, later in the article, the solution they build is to use rollup tables for sub-second responses.

You can also do rollup tables in Redshift, and I can assure you (if you enable the fast query acceleration option) you can get sub-second queries from the rolled up lower-cardinality tables. If you want even better response times, you can store the rollups in plain old Postgres and use something like dblink or postgres_fdw to perform the periodic aggregations on Redshift and insert into the local rollup tables (see [1]). In this model the solution ends up being very similar to their solution with Citus.... and I would predict that this is cheaper than Citus Cloud as Redshift really is a great price point for a hosted system.

So the question of performing sub-second aggregations across the raw data remains unanswered... however that really is the ideal end game as you can then offer way more flexibility in terms of filtering than any rollup based solution.

Right now, research suggests Clickhouse, Redshift or BigQuery are probably the fastest solutions for that. Not sure about Druid, I dont know it. GPU databasees appear to the be the future of this. I would be interested to see benchmarks of Citus under this use case. I should imagine that Citus is also way better if you have something like a mixed OLAP and OLTP workload (e.g. you need the analytics and the row data to match exactly at all times).

Aside: It would be great to see Citus benchmarked against the 1.1 billion taxi rides benchmark by Mark Litwintschik. Any chance of that?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/join-amazon-redshift-a...
[2] http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
So anybody with a job is a slave to economics? Isn't this just capitalism/free markets in general? Seems like you're saying women have more freedom by being told they cannot do something that elevates them economically.

Women are still free to have non-paid sex with whomever they want. But if they choose to make money doing it as well, I believe that is another form of empowerment.
This is him getting off easy. If the congresspeople really wanted to grill him, they would have put him under oath.
The whole article is one red flag after another. Judge developers individually, judge harshly, and fire quickly. Bad developers require endless management while great developers require minimal oversight.
Back breaking manual labor is not legal, or rather you can be forced to pay rather steep fines for doing it. (The definition of the words we use is key here)
Yeah you would definitely need to take a break from strength training to do an extended fast. Not everyone's goals however are to get huge muscles and for many health goals there is a lot of research showing that fasting has great benefits. It's probably one of the best ways to lower your risk of cancer.
So were the governments before World War I.
A good place to start is this document: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Backpage%20Report...

You don't have to believe anything in this document. You can follow the links this documents gives to the court cases, and the court cases contain what Backpage themselves were saying.
The Web Authentication Standard supersedes U2F: https://fidoalliance.org/fido2/
Sure! Will do. Honestly, I was just building it for myself, so no mailing list. But I'd be excited to see how you like it.

The problem I'm aiming to solve is nested route animations, and allowing for different animations to be applied depending upon the previous route in history.
Since anyone can participate in the stock market for $100, anyone can get a piece of that action.
Eh, React is 5 years old. I've been writing it professionally for 3. I'm not worried.

And honestly -- React doesn't have the same pain points jQuery/Backbone/Angular1 did where I couldn't wait to move on after 6 months. We'd have to see an absolutely massive paradigm shift before I'd regret writing my apps in React.
War is one of the "Great Levelers."
If you had cared enough to work down to the last paragraph of the parent comment, you would have seen this line:

> There are obviously a few counterexamples.
Use the small-claims court to get a refund on the broken item they refused to repair.
Surprised he didnt mention anything about alcohol.
At all related to Salsify the company? [1]

[1] https://www.salsify.com/
Someone feeding an addiction probably isn't making a free choice.
I think you have it backwards, here.

Instead of urging people to NOT reveal details about their life such as their first pet’s name, you should urge them to answer all password reset questions with at the very least irrelevant answers, or a password reset password.
I've always wondered how in the world an unemployed person could possibly afford COBRA...
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At the "forced into prostitution" part. Because prostitution itself being legal or not does not encourage the others. Outlawing it has not eliminated those other things; in fact, many say that it has made them worse.
Hey, sorry to hear that, i thought it was more of a CSS topic then React's and because of that i have not recorded lesson regarding animations. I don't know if it help you, but in most cases i use CSS transitions with classname manipulations and lifecycle methods if needed.
As with so many things in health and nutrition, there is a lot of contradictory advice out there. I can't tell you which one is right, but I have heard many people say never skip protein, because you need it every 2 hours, and others say:

https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/intermittent-fasting-ev...
Do you mean 1mg? I find that 250 micrograms is the right melatonin dose for me so I figure you must mean 1mg not 1 gram..
Wow. I didn't expect that he'd speak in favor of 'special features like facial recognition' by arguing that it's how we can be competitive with 'other regimes like China'. That seems like a comparison I'd avoid if I was facebook.
Pose [0] was posted on HN a few days ago. I haven't tried it, but its API looks super clean. HN Discussion [1]

[0] https://popmotion.io/pose/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16701756
This is made to sound like something is being taken from the other 99%, but that's probably not true.

First of all, most people down really own anything of value, if anything they owe.

In proportion to practically anything else, stocks have gone up like crazy and those 1% own a lot of it. They also are explicitly and implicitly the creditors of that debt. Stocks going up creates even more debt via the wealth effect.

The real redistribution from the bottom to the top will happen as follows: Stock market crashes, massive defaults on debt and massive dollar devaluation. Lots of IRAs will be fucked. Don't be left holding the bag!
Why articles about 1% keep getting illustrated with pictures of top 1% of billionaires? 1% are lawyers, Doctors, Senior Software Eng. etc. If we are talking about US top billionaires are in top 0.0000018%.
Now take a minute to think about the actual employees. Most of them did nothing wrong. Many relocated of left their previous jobs, their carriers are disturbed, their CVs tainted.
I have a feeling the wealth distribution in the years prior to WWII was pretty similar to where we are or are headed. I wonder if there were comparable data/studies done back then.
Prostitution trivializes sex by converting it to an activity fueled by capitalist incentives, forcing women to transfer control to her client rather than keeping it in her individual control.

It is definitely different in that consent is removed by economic force rather than physical force.
http://airbnb.io/lottie/ the perfect solution (works for React and React Native too).
> How does your comment fit with children being drugged and forced into prostitution?

That's already illegal. You've just made discovering it harder.

> And then adults being drugged and forced into prostitution?

Also already illegal. You've made discovering it harder.

> And then adults feeding a drug addiction?

That's actually none of your business.

> At which point of this ladder do you start to say "no, this is where we need to make it illegal"?

There's no need since you don't actually solve coerced prostitution by making it illegal.
Square Cash is passwordless. They move money around.
When he said not eating and not drinking helps you sleep, I thought he meant not drinking alcohol.
When the burner mania reached my country, I made so many lists of games to be compiled on a cd (to give to my nerd guru of the day in hope he would satisfy my wish).
Building remote teams is tough, agreed. But it can be achieved. Off-shore does not / should not mean cheap labor in some obscure part of the world. There are plenty of examples of companies thriving with remote teams, such as:

Buffer: https://buffer.com/about
Automattic (parent of WordPress): https://automattic.com/about/

By the way, I am in Pakistan, not India :)
Probably next big thing will be straight web components or UI libraries like react or angular converting to web components. So everything should be nicely interoperable in the future, it'd just be a matter of how your modeling your data.
The first two are obviously immoral. But the last one?

A lot of adults work jobs for a wage to feed their drug habit. Should we make that illegal too?
I suggest the book Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Almost all early religious entities, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, condemned the concept of using money to make money as immoral. The belief was that money was meant to exchange debt, not make people wealthy off that debt.

Today Islam still holds this as a majority view in many places (not universally). I'm simplifying it a lot, so I really recommend the book. There is a strong correlation between debt and guilt. In Christian doctrine, they're very interchangeable (forgive us our debts/sins as we forgive those who are indebted to/have sinned against us).

Guilt, Sin and debt are the same word in many ancient languages, including old English. Guilt and debt are still the same word in German.
If "a fuck for a buck" or "sex to survive" is their only option, it's not really "do what they please with their own bodies."
They sold a new type of blood test. Turns out the company was making false claims about their blood tests so the entire company ended up being one big sham.
No logging out. You're no longer authenticating "users", you're authenticating "devices". This is in a corporate setting, of course, where if there's a shared computer each user logs in to their own environment via LDAP/AD/whatever.
The lack of strong followup questions is the best indicator that there is very little about this hearing that is spontaneous and not defined in advance.

As I write this, Ms Cantwell starts her questioning and it is a markedly different style. Interesting
That still doesn't stop you stumbling across an older film that you've never watched before, and then finding that you like it more than your "favourite".
Clearly you haven't done customer support, if you think having to listen to a long string of characters is what's going break them :)
It doesn't matter if the person after your account is a skid, or is a government-backed entity, you lose all your data and online accounts either way.
Also it would be nice to know how it compares to things like https://github.com/adriank/ObjectPath which seem similar.
>How does your comment fit with children being drugged and forced into prostitution?

Kidnapping is already a serious crime.

>And then adults being drugged and forced into prostitution?

Say it with me, kidnapping is already a crime.

>And then adults feeding a drug addiction?

A legal and regulated sex industry will no longer provide the 'safe haven' for addicts that the illegal one does today. Note - I'm not claiming it will eliminate it.

>At which point of this ladder do you start to say "no, this is where we need to make it illegal"?

We need not start. By your logic, we should outlaw cars for all the deaths they cause.
It's not a choice if its the only option.

The real shit argument is exactly that it's just "more capitalism"

Morons be getting further if they advocated collectively for UBI + universal healthcare and not a bunch of customizations to the shit stew we're all eating.

Adding a little seasoning for the preferences of group_x isn't really improving much
Consent is removed by economic force rather than physical force. Performing sexual acts is much more than plain physical labor like lawn maintenance.
Back-breaking isn't generally used in the literal sense, but to describe something very difficult. Legality is regional, and often doesn't apply to contractors or, say, a farm owner.
In previous threads on Theranos numerous posters defended the practice of early-stage companies lying to investors about their capabilities in order to gin up capital, the rationalization being it was okay if the capital let you eventually actually build those capabilities.
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True. But spear phishing is also harder with this standard, since you can't just phish credentials; you need to actually compromise the user's authentication device. (Get root on the user's phone, physically steal their authentication token, etc.)
Are you implying 49% of the US population voted for Trump? It was closer to 19% of the population (63,000,000 / 326,000,000)
Users might own the content, but they grant FB a perpetual license to that content.
How about a secret society dedicated to calculating the de facto richest individual in the world every quarter, then judging them? The "winner" gets to live if they are judged to be a net benefit to humanity, and is assassinated if they are not. Previous winners are periodically re-checked to make sure they haven't fallen off the wagon.

First the monarchs start to disappear, then the corrupt heads of state, and then rich people start spending their money to either escape the judgment, or to improve their public image in case they can't spend their way down to #2.

If you try to tax it away, the rich will just hide their wealth and then buy off the tax inspectors that go looking for it.
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I gave up and spent some money on a pair of SCSI TEAC drives (reader and writer). My poor P2 could now burn audio cd on the fly.. no need for pre processing. So smooth.
> "my body, my choice" "consenting adults" -- all that goes out the window when it's sex for cash? it makes no sense.

This is true, only if individuals have a good education, job opportunities, a broad enough safety net, etc.

Otherwise, you are just pushing abused women or women with no resources to submit to sexual servitude.

When you have a high correlation between prostitution and poverty, you are just realizing that that choice was never there.

A good approach is to punish clients instead of prostitutes. This way you help to shift power balance and protect prostitutes that denounce abuse.

There is no freedom without a possibility of choice.
"One ring to rule them all" is a terrible password, but "the dark lord's unique jewelry" might be a good one.
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Washington Post is streaming this on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/washingtonpost
How to configure OS X to force usage of 1.1.1.1 on public wifi
There's more clicks in "those dirty moneybags are getting richer at our expense!" than in "we're getting richer at the developing world's expense!"
Wouldn't you seek advice and meticulously prepare before speaking to congress?
There's one point:deterrence. Half of a corporate lawyer's work is about deterrence, anyway.
It's a blood testing company that has been shady about its methodology and results. Does is really take an ELI5 to see how it could end being harmful to people.
On the other hand, people faced with economic hardships that are choosing prostitution do so at the expense of some other choice that, to them, is even more horrible - otherwise they wouldn't do it. It's hard to argue that prostitution is always a damaging choice that should always be forbidden like selling your organs, selling yourself into slavery, highly dangerous drugs etc.

This is why I think the economic constraints argument is specious here, it is still a form of imposing one's moral values onto others; unless you are willing to provide a living wage out of your own money to anybody opting to renounce prostitution, denying them that option means subjecting them to something even more horrible in their view, only because you think it's not.
A security question doesn't need to have a huge amount of entropy. It's probably not hashed in the first place, so computerized brute forcing isn't a worry. It just needs to stand up against a limited number of fake logins or password reset attempts.
The founders who were arrested are not being charged for trafficking at all.

I've heard they started auto-filtering words (teen, loli, etc.) but that could be interpreted with different intents. These aren't strict liability crimes, so intent will come in to play and need to be proven.
Once someone makes this that works properly with arbitrary C/C++ and threads/interrupts, I honestly believe it will be a revolution in productivity.

As mentioned below, others (esp. IDA) make it so glaringly obvious that how you were working before was way harder than it had to be.
the stuff of legend.

few days ago I saw a yamaha 24x writer in an electronic dump, it was a god of the second wave of improvements.. weird feeling, almost tempted to take it.