skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They killed the cofounder of the military wing of Hamas. Hardly an innocent. Making a statement like “assasinated a person in a hotel” makes it sound like they killed some tourist rather than a man responsible for countless violence. If they assasinated Osama Bin Laden, would that be ok? As a “techie,” I would be proud to have helped take out someone like Bin Laden but I would of course, not be happy if that tech were used to intentionally kill innocent people. Ironically, the man killed had no problem himself directing the deaths of innocent civilians. It’s the difference between killing a wolf attacking kids on a playground versus shooting a family dog in someone’s living room. The two situations aren’t morally equivalent at all.

The end result of the Hamas assassination was that a violent and dangerous person who led the killing of countless civilians is dead. So yes, let’s not forget the end result — a wolf was shot before he could attack again.

I am not going to comment on intelligence services in general, but the example you provide is ironically, a counter argument for the point you seem to be attempting. You seem to be suggesting that techies generally would want to work to preserve life rather than take it and, with the Dubai operation, that’s exactly what happened: lives were saved by taking down a dangerous man with a history of leading the killing of innocent people.
As a potential employee, I am just not going to do this. Nor am I going to complete puzzles (and I LIKE puzzles) or dance around in front of a whiteboard.
What I would be willing to do is work as a well paid contractor for 1-3 months to make sure that we are a good fit for each other. I'm not sure how anything other than actually working together could suffice.
I am fortunate enough not be concerned about immediate benefits like medical due to my wife's employment--I recognize that this might not be a good option for everyone.
Here are a few screenshots: https://icosahedron.website/@halcy/99885260300506469
> A C&D could be sent to your hosting provider, your ISP and/or the registrar of your domain.

All of whom have a contract stating that they'll pass off all DMCA and Abuse messages to me, and I let my lawyer handle them directly.
These are unreasonable asks for just an interview. A read of their CV and a 30-minute phone screen, maybe two with different people, is all that is needed to determine if a candidate is worth bringing onsite, unless the interviewer and their company is utterly incompetent.
Your neighbours has two children, one of which is a girl.
What is the probability of the other child to be a girl?

This is oft-mentioned but with this wording it's ambiguous. Here are three possible interpretations:

1. Your neighbor has two children. We observed both and found that there was exactly one girl. What is the probability that both are girls? (Answer: 0)

2. Your neighbor has two children. We observed one and found that she was a girl. What is the probability that the other (unobserved) child is a girl? (Answer: 1/2)

3. Your neighbor has two children. We observed both and found that there was at least one girl. What is the probability that both are girls? (Answer: 1/3)

Interpretation #1 is kind of silly but it serves to illustrate the ambiguity of the plain English wording. Interpretation #2 is how most people interpret the problem, and it's bolstered by the use of the word "other" in your prompt. For there to be an "other" child, there must have been a specific girl observed originally, rather than a general observation that there was at least one girl. Interpretation #3 is how you intended the problem.
How easily you can fly a plane without any training on that plane isn't really relevant here, is it?
Using aljazeera a source of "news" for anything Israel is doing is a dubious as linking to bertibart as a reliable insider in the US democratic party.
Amazon charges 3P sellers for the shipping and my understanding is they're basically passing through their shipping costs.

For a typical $15 dollar product that's under a pound, Amazon currently charges $3.19 for shipping. Most of those can be shipped first class or even Amazon flex because it's close enough to the customer it can still get there in 2 days, and Amazon can easily pack and ship a light item for $3.

If it's over a pound that fee goes to $4.71 currently (in fact the exact cutoff is 12 oz for complicated reasons).

I very much doubt Amazon is losing money on any third party sales in general. The one thing they might be is when they provide Amazon funded discounts to customers, although the max they do is 8-9% and I've figured they're giving up referral fee profit rather than losing money.
Almost certainly just PR that is intended to divert from the current troubles.
Speaking of red... In Sweden we have a color called "Falu red" that's the icon red that long has been put on many cottages and houses. The pigment is based on the copper in the copper mines of Falun. The metal helps against fungal infestion and absorbs UV rays helping the paint last longer. There are some areas where it's the only color allowed to help preserve their heritage.

https://www.theawl.com/2017/12/falu-red-the-color-of-bucolic...

As a bonus or most famous sausage is called "Falukorv", it's also red.
Developers have a similar attitude, despite currently being one of the most privileged segments of the workforce save perhaps investment bankers. We have a straightforward professional path that does not require massive debt and burning half of our youth doing academic busywork and entry level drudgery - like it happens in almost any other professional field with similar compensation.

The industry requirement to prove that you can produce software is not unreasonable, coding is a craft and selecting developers is like selecting painters: ability to bullshit your way through an interview is orthogonal to the skill.
You missed the part about the blog comments. He would also need to implement a mechanism which allows users to delete their old comments.
Solution: gitlab, gitea and gogs exist.

Same advantages of self hosting, simple UI for inexperienced users, all the ability to control your own stuff.
Yann LeCun posted the ad for this yesterday on FB.

Maybe they are doing Oculus too, but it sounds a lot to me like they are doing custom A.I. related silicon.

There's a well proven path showing that custom silicon can save energy relatively easily on inference ML tasks. Competing with NVidia on training is harder of course, but maybe possible for specific tasks.
Ironically, that’s what makes it hard for me to take Hamas seriously — they feel like they can blow up a bus and yet if Israel responds, the “international” community has a conniption fit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Road_bus_bombings
There are plenty areas of metro Atlanta where the house prices are much lower than $335K for a nice size house. I purposefully chose the most affluent county in Atlanta (and one of the top 25 in the US) for comparison.

"Metro Atlanta" consists of either 5 counties or 10 depending on which definition you go by. There is so much sprawl in Atlanta and so much undeveloped land that builders will jump at the chance to build. This is still the South. The government doesn't make builders jump through as many hoops to build.
Are the people they're up against really all that morally superior?

I'm not making a whataboutist point, it's just that if you're picking a side you have to look at more than just one of them. So absolutely soldiers should be held accountable for their treatment of captives, and e.g. Israeli soldiers have been jailed for assaulting prisoners, but I don't see many Palestinians being jailed by their own administrative authority for killing Israeli civilians.

Neither side should be above criticism, but when it comes to actively supporting one side or the other you have to look at the record of both.
I'm curious, how do you interpret the above as the "right to go after whoever wherever?"
You don't really need aljazeera to know that Israel isn't such a nice country when it comes to mowing down human lives because their god told them that's their promised land
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I see two possible reasons:

(1) People don’t know who is affected by the GDPR and who is not.

(2) There is still enough time to send a consent e-mail before the GDPR becomes effective on May 25.
The way it is phrased I would suspect the poster would be inclined to claim that condition was lower taxes.

The argument that “naturally cheap” housing (also known as shitholes) is better than subsidized mixed income housing overlookes the entire point and contex of the concept in favor of focusing purely on economics.
option 1) you take the job. Bad things happen in the world with your help and you end up richer.

option 2) you take the high ground. Someone else takes the job. Bad things happen in the world and you don't end up richer.

What did we accomplish today?
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That was a joke, the ICO will continue post Brexit I have no problems from the UK.

The GDPR isn't perfect it's just none workable for companies that are not in the EU.
This article is entirely about security and Google's attempts to make sure user data never leaks outside the company.

While you can't have privacy without security, security by itself does not equal privacy. Not once does this article talk about how Google tracks and records user behaviour on an industrial scale.

When you create a Google account, you're asked to provide your name, your
gender, your date of birth, your location and your mobile phone number.
Some of your most personal and private details, all of which will now be tied to your online behaviour.

That data capture starts right from school, where millions of students use
a cloud-based OS called ChromeOS that records everything they do. It's
quite horrible that this is happening - the kids don't even get a say,
it's the adults who've decided this.

The G Suite for Education Privacy Notice [1] clearly states that Google collects device information, unique device identifiers, mobile network
information (including phone number of the user). Also logged are IP
addresses, location information, and app usage using unique application numbers.

Even if this information is detached from individual accounts and
aggregated, it equals a phenomenal amount of data captured by Google on millions of students in the US.

And we've seen from Spotify and Netflix how even aggregated data can
reveal very private and personal user behaviour.

It's baffling how little scrutiny the company faces, least of all from the tech community who, more often than not, rush to it's defence.

[1] https://gsuite.google.com/terms/education_privacy.html
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In general, error correction requires alignment, so the correct comparison is error correction using Darwin for alignment vs. error correction using whatever long-read aligner you consider state-of-the-art.
It would seem to be a pretty good proxy for 'easier'.
> because their god told them that's their promised land

A substantial portion of the earliest Zionist settlers were atheists and a substantial portion of hawkish Israelis today are. The insistence on founding and maintaining a Jewish state in Israel is not overall theologically motivated.
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1) You did a bad thing.
2) You didn't do a bad thing.
Good point, yes, that makes a huge difference.
Despite some of the comments here, I'm actually a fan of the 'homework' format. I'm not always great at hiring, but I know how to gauge the 'homework' interviews, and I've usually been right about the interviewee's abilities afterwards, WAY moreso than whiteboarding or riddles or any of the other alternatives.

That being said, I would add some constraints:

1. The 'task' shouldn't take more than 30 min to understand, and no more than 1-2 hours to do. If it takes more than that, you should make some obfuscated dummy-code endpoints that do everything you're not directly evaluating on.

2. You should let the interviewee know that it should only take 2 hours as well. If it takes more, then there was either a misunderstanding in the task, or the interviewee doesn't have the right knowledge/experience/qualifications etc.

3. You should do your homework as well, meaning you've thoroughly reviewed the code submitted and have detailed questions ready to go for the interviewee. This should also be the 'control' to make sure the interviewee really did write the code (you'll know really quickly if they didn't)

4. No other coding tasks in the interview process. You can have them review code or suggest approaches to solve problems (things that people do on the job with others)

5. The interview should be shorter than if they were asked to do whiteboarding or live coding or anything like that.

Most employers have (on paper) "trial periods" of around 3 months. A 1-2 hour coding assignment followed by 1 hour of well-crafted questions about the assignment (plus the usual interview stuff) should be enough to know whether or not you want to give the employee a chance for 3 months.

(I realize most employers don't use the evaluation period for evaluative tasks, they just have the person start and hope for the best, but if done right, it's actually a pretty good system)
Sarcasm never works with a substantial number of people. And on the internet it escapes even more people, even if using emojis ;-P
Australia says it’s not dying tho, and “is healthy”: https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-12-great-bar...
So the first task tests your endurance and patience...

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How come "democracy is broken", only when people get voted into power, that you don't like? Well, that's democracy. I believe an every increasing government is broken, how about we start with that? Democracy doesn't help anybody, if government is broken.
Good for you. Thankfully we have marginal abatement cost curves and EVs are pretty far down the list of priorities at this stage.
trees still produce air impurities beyond just pollen :)
Why do you think that I'm not? Lol
God and having actually lived there for 3,000 years.
People use DDG to avoid being tracked by Google.

Many don’t realise they are still getting tracked as long as they use Chrome (with default settings).
Leibowitz was correct, wolves don't shoot wolves, they use them as fig leaves. Fuck them, and fuck you.
Exactly what I thought, too. I guess you find an interpreter and see what happens.
You use the legislation to guide your internal processes, systems and employee/user education. You ask your legal counsel for advise. Other than what you'd normally do anyway, you'd provide evidence of disclosure only to the DPA that asks. The DPA doesn't care about your local laws - seek local legal counsel instead.

To a developer used to systems thinking this should not be rocket science. Most of it is just good practice. Kim Cameron came up with the laws of identity many years ago, which the GDPR is surprisingly similar to.
For Apache can't you just change LogFormat to exclude IPs and delete the old logs?
> DDG does use Google search for a lot of things.

Source? They use Yahoo/Bing in the backend, but Google?
Snarky comments are often amusing and are always self-satisfying, but they degrade the conversation. (When I make comments like this on HN, they always get downvoted. I'm trying to do better.)
If you're Israeli, you probably have a different perspective on this. And they are probably after Israelis as potential recruits, right?

Wouldn't surprise me if there are some cultural shibboleths in the challenge as well.
It's a hypothetical point; a small reduction in money supply will affect prices far less than the uncertainty or random fluctuation in the measurement of prices.
Oh you're right, it's only a colonialist and racist motivation, god doesn't come into play
I don't agree that because the primary supplier is a monopoly is justification for doing something as distracting and risky as designing your own chips.

So they need a second supplier? Do what the government do, and demand that there be a second source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_source or you won't buy their product, or give money to some other company or companies for whom that is a core competency.

>> so it's critically important that one or both of them break the monopoly by becoming a fabless chip designer

You say this with great certainty, that almost got me on board, but saying something with certainty does not make it right. It's not critically important - what's the worst that can happen in the short term - they pay a bit more because of the monopoly? You make it sound like if the chip monopoly isn't broken then doom will befall them all. Piffle. If there is such great demand for these chips then there are plenty of other silicon companies who can be attracted by the smell of demand.

What would make sense is for Facebook to claim to be making their own to strengthen their negotiating position with the supplier, but with no real plan to design their own chip.
Well, he is not a company. So he doesn't need to do anything. If it's a personal website GDPR does not apply.

If it is a company. Yes, it will require more work. That is the nature of regulation, but the demands placed on companies are not unreasonable in any way. I would place it on the same level as stores being required to provide receipts, or restaurants being required to clean the kitchen. It certainly was easier when they didn't need to do that, but don't we agree it's an reasonable burden to place on businesses to guarantee an acceptable level of service?
Marx founded communism not socialism which already existed, they are not the same thing. Many western European countries have had real socialist governments for much of the post-war period, including the UK.
Look at Apple as another example. They disclose the number of iPhones, iPads and Macs they sell, but they don't disclose:

- how much they make from Beats even though it was their largest acquisition.

- the number of watches or AppleTVs they sell. They are both assumed to be 1 billion dollar businesses.

- they say they have over 38 million subscribers to Apple Music but never give an exact number. Even though Apple Music is a $4 billion+ a year business.

Etc.
IP by itself is not considered private. It's only when you attach it to other identifying data. Anonymous comments are not covered with GDPR.
we have applied before deadline but still did not get any response. do they send answer to all project team ?
When we started saving layers and gained nonlinear functions, it gained the ability to approximate any function, given enough time and data. These are big caveats.

RL can function with a lot less data. SVMs can run with a lot less time and space. Partial function application and expert modelling reduce data needed - and some of the best results are from ensemble suites. It's not obsoleting, it's another tool in the box.
I have no pretention of saying that Israel is 'good' or 'bad' wether mossad is 'right' or 'wrong'. All I am saying is that if you want to convey facts to prove your point, please provide actual information as much as possible by avoiding clearly biased "news" site.
“Don't use feature branches: work on master all the time”
There were actually laws, in many different times and places, know generally as "sumptuary laws". Wikipedia has what looks like a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law

It doesn't seem to say much about actual enforcement, other than the lack of it for Louis XIII's decrees, and the repeated (and apparently ineffective) calls for stricter enforcement of the English laws.
Counter steering is a property only while it is rolling forward. You’ll have to be moving reasonably fast to notice it easily.

In context this was clear but I should have been more explicit.
I'm just one opinion but mine is that neither behaviour is better than the other.
> because their god told them that's their promised land

Can you please stop spewing antisemitic bullshit, especially on the 70th anniversary of Israel?

Israel was founded after thousands of years of antisemitism ranging from verbal abuse over pogroms up to the Holocaust so that Jews would have a safe haven from antisemitism.
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This is a nice summary, but it is a little fuzzy on one key point, as I understand it:

Facebook is still going to legally operate out of Ireland to dodge taxes.
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1.3M worldwide, 30-40K US.
I'm not saying you don't have a point, morally speaking.

But legally speaking do you agree that's probably not legal? And if so, then would you say it's OK to bypass the law with it's convenient for you?
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Although I agree online voting should be obvious over the globe in 2018, what intrigues me more is why we're still using a system where the elected have zero responsibility with their campaign. Nothing happens if a politicians promises X and delivers Y or even worse, delivers the opposite of X.

In a civilization that has shown time and time again politicians are most often in bed with corporations and not with their electorate, why are we not using smart contracts for that? Why is it we are not using machine learning to find out when judges apply different sentences for the same crime depending on whether the accused is black or white, something pretty common in my country?

Since I first understood how deep learning works, I've been puzzled by the lack of verification we could be doing in order to mathematically detect corruption, injustice, prejudice, racism, hatred. All the tools are there, yet our laws and elections conveniently ignore those technologies and we're stuck in a system where we have to trust trust. What is so inherently good with the current system that we ditch mathematics, our most basic objective language and keep on using a system based on lies, promises that never come to happen and lobbying? There's something clearly rotten with the current concept of "democracy" being used in this planet yet the only tools which can fix it are ignored.