skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the number of stories I have heard about people hooking up with their high school sweethearts via FB, it seemed to already be a dating app.
Can State Power Make a Better Region of the Bay Area?(2016)
>I know a smart* technical colleague who wrote at least 2 PhD dissertations for former romantic partners

This is very hard to believe. From my experience this just couldn't work without near full time commitment by the ghost writer. The cheater would also have to be very familiar with the dissertation--to the point where they could have just written it themselves.

Pulling this off twice (or more since you said at least twice) is basically beyond belief (unless we're talking about a very disreputable university).

A PhD dissertation isn't something you can just turn in and you're done. And it's generally the result of years of work.
Could that just be a game design problem?

When iPhone came out, the games were gimmicky.

Same for Facebook platform.

And then there was Farmville. And then there was Angry Birds. And then there was Pokemon Go.

Games which were designed AROUND the limitations of the platform, rather than being a crappy stripped down version of previous fully realized gaming experiences.
Snaps as self-contained, auto-updating, universal software packages
We run many, many stateful apps on kubernetes. Not without challenges certainly, but I am not sure any of them are really kubernetes specific.

They just don't act like other services, and require more care. That's about it. I think that's what Kelsey is referring to, you can't just treat them the same as other pods.
MoneroV hard fork of Monero
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Again, we're hiring multiple people; you don't need to excel in every technology and area.

I'm the Head of Security here at DoorDash (former head of Matasano Security's south bay office).

Our hiring process is three steps:

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Who Is Lucy Peng, Lazada’s New CEO?
> is it necessary for web search to be profitable?

Well, then you got two choices: run by a non-profit or run by the government.

The first one is unsustainable and the second one ... well, that would turn into even worse politics. Can you say "Welcome to TrumpSearch" or "Welcome to SearchHill"?

Every four/eight years the search database would be completely upended/suppressed/repressed/uplifted to reflect current political thinking, favoritism, lobbying, fears, hopes, hatred, etc.

It would make gerrymandering look paltry.

Even worse because you couldn't guarantee that the politicians in charge would be competent to understand a spreadsheet, much less a search engine.
Awesome, thanks for the advice!
If you don’t know who they are, how do you know they had a viable product?
EL has actually been deploying updates to GNOME and other desktop software. See e.g. https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
I don't understand why Google or Amazon are to blame here. It's like using an unofficial API and then complaining when it's taken down. Yes, it sucks that Signal can't hide behind them to bypass censorship, but as far as I understanding, it's not a good practice for these big sites to support Domain fronting in the first place.
The sheer volume of news that comes across the wire every minute of every day is out of control.

I was working in online media 5 years ago and the number of sites using bots to compile half-baked articles that a junior editor could quickly tweak to meet his 10+ article a day quota was disheartening. Again, that was 5 years ago. Now we have today's news automation capabilities + political drama + Facebook/Twitter/Slack/et al, and you've magnetized millions of consumers with a reality TV soap opera that has infected everything.

Google is at the center, and so is Facebook and Twitter as distributors. They've all built information vacuums which tailor news & content based on your profiles, search intent, visit history, purchasing habits, and predictive attributes to target you. However, no matter how sophisticated the AI/ML becomes – the underlying program is still written by a human and expressed biases are engrained the day we're born. And, they will never go away.

In a company and environment like today, I'm not sure how one can begin to escape the discussions around society and politics while operating an organization that has a larger GDP than Switzerland coupled with uncontested scale that touches nearly every person worldwide...
How a hacker builds a mining rig
In case anyone is wondering very similar cabinets are also used for telecom in major cities. Shaw has sidewalk mounted cabinets throughout Vancouver for part of their fiber and cable TV network, and there's Telus pedestal/junction cabinets as well.

https://www.google.com/search?q=telecom+cabinet+outdoor&num=...

I have seen models very similar to traffic control system cabinets used for patch panels for fiber + 1RU sized routers and switches, medium sized UPS, etc.
The major differences from Cardboard:

- OS and hardware are hand tuned to allow head tracking latency in the low double digit ms

- low persistence display (pixels only flash briefly, so less smudging)

- far superior optics, so that you get a more correct projection of space into your eye

- generally higher quality software. Experiences will vary but there are some very high quality ones
Common expectations were that it was a sales dud, which clearly was not the case.
I emailed them about it. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Just keep a tab or bookmark. :)
Pretty much never. I've edited spelling errors though. Comments get up and down voted pretty much randomly here, but who cares? They're fake internet points!
Hitting the ground was exactly what I was trying to get across. Otherwise, discounting pesky atmospheric drag, your vector doesn't matter.
It sounds like you may have missed one of the GP's points when you're blaming renters for not voting. I'll reiterate it with a specific example, although I am on the east coast.

Lots of people want to live in Cambridge, MA. Cambridge is lovely, walkable, and bursting with jobs. But not everyone who wants to can live in Cambridge, because Cambridge has large areas of inappropriately low density that homeowners fight to preserve.

Many people who work in Cambridge live in Everett. Everett is kinda shitty. It doesn't even have good transit to and from Cambridge.

People who live in Everett and want to live in Cambridge can't vote on Cambridge housing policy. They can only vote in Everett.

Local control of zoning sounds so democratic, but it's a tool of rent-seeking, exclusion, and discrimination.
Yes every market is different and needs to be conquered on its own. I'm living in Austria and FB Marketplace is being used but it's not as big (or good) as the existing willhaben.at or shpock.
Yea--I was just beginning to forget how I despised the company.
Direct link to the paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0028-z
Here's another take: someone was going to control the advertising space. Would you prefer it be a place like Google where there's vigorous debate about right and wrong, or someplace that isn't investing in that debate?
More detail in the MetaFilter discussion "RIDE! ALL! THE! BUSES!" where I found the original link [0], including the fact this is a repeat of a stunt done by "two recent graduates of U.C. Berkeley" in 1980.

[0] https://www.metafilter.com/173877/RIDE-ALL-THE-BUSES
Profits drive competition and competition discourages stasis. So it is necessary? Probably not. But we probably get a better result with it being outside of academia.
Would Facebook's dating service conceivably match me with someone who shares my moral objections to Facebook Inc's behaviour?

This seems like a joke question, of course. But consider: Ten years or fifteen years from now, supposing nearly everyone is using Facebook's dating service, could Facebook Inc adjust their matching algorithm to give shittier / less promising results to those people for whom it identifies as having a dislike for Facebook Inc's behaviour? Conceivably, what about matching them with someone who is likely to be sterile?

Could those who express objections to Facebook Inc's behaviour be gradually phased out of the population (not completely, obviously), by a motivated director, over a few generations?

Possessing objections to domineering corporate behaviour does not have to be genetic, nor does it even have to be overwhelmingly heritable -just mostly so- for Facebook Inc's incentives and capacities to align towards considering this sort of dystopian strategy.

I don't raise this because I imagine it to be true at all; I raise it because we are reluctant to spend time actually considering these kind of hypotheticals for how massively-dominent social platforms might affect our society and way of life, and often as a society we only consider them in retrospect. For example, Cambridge Analytica's unethical actions are a fairly predictable outcome of Facebook's business model and have (already) now lead to significant negative effects on a worldwide scale.
probably sized to house standard rack-mount gear.
What's a libritarial?? Oh wait, edited parent, um now that I read the original, "libertarian" still looks odd to me, although it's spelled correctly.
The Postal Service continues delivering me magazines and solicitations for donations from politicians and interest groups opposed to the party in power.
The District Docklands – Shopping Around Docklands
PostgreSQL's fsync surprise
The salary range in Indian Rupees varies a lot across experience, roles and requirements. But let me try and get a rough range. Thanks for bringing it out.
> Smart watch market seems not to be a billions-unit market.

How many billions unit markets are there out there?
The other thing that seems to be largely true is that these "loud opinionated Googlers" are the ones in the Bay Area. You don't hear about things like this from other offices, even the other large offices in the US (Cambridge, NYC, Seattle/Kirkland).
You apparently can change the font in config.lua:

https://itch.io/t/58932/configure-system-font-and-palette-in...
The court documents explain this.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/uploads/prod/sites/5/2018/04/FIN...

> McGloin also testified about “certificate[s] of authenticity” (DE:145:45). A certificate of authenticity, or a “COA,” is a paper-based label that “contains security features, much like a bank note or [a] passport that is adhered to [stuck to] a device” (DE:145:45). During the conspiracy period, COAs typically contained a “product
key” that could be used to activate the Microsoft OS software and verify the authenticity of the software license (DE:145:47). Importantly, however, an end user who purchased a computer with pre-loaded Microsoft OS software would not need the product key to activate the software (DE:145:47-48). This is because Microsoft allows devices sold by large OEMs like Dell to “bypass activation,”which means that an end user can start operating the computer without having to enter a product key (DE:145:48 (“COURT: So, if somebody bought a Dell laptop, and got it home, they plug it in and operate it? McGLOIN: Yes. COURT: And the end user does nothing else?McGLOIN: Correct. It gives the end user a nice experience, it works. THE COURT: It works.”)).

> What this creates, McGloin noted, is something called an “unconsumed” product key—i.e., a product key that goes unused, so to speak, because an end user never has had to enter it into the system, and hence Microsoft has not registered the use of that key as an “activation event” (DE:145:50-54). This “unconsumed” product key exists in “around 98 percent” of cases, McGloin testified, where the software was pre-installed by the OEM; there has not been a hardware failure; the end-user has not had to enter the product key; and Microsoft has not registered the use of that product key as an activation event (DE:145:50-54). In light of the vast number of unconsumed product keys,it is “very common,”McGloin explained, for computer refurbishers unlawfully to remove COAs with unconsumed product keys from one device and stick them on another device as away to grant a Microsoft software license impermissibly to an otherwise unlicensed device (DE:145:51). Indeed, there “is quite a large market for obtaining product keys from other devices and reselling them through a particular market, on Ebay or other means,” because they “[can] be used . . . in the refurbished market as a genuine license” (DE:145:81-82). And, as relevant here, these unconsumed product keys canbe used unlawfully to activate and use pirated versions of Microsoft OS Software like the Microsoft OS software contained on Lundgren’s counterfeit Reinstallation Disc
Since when do we send snake-oil salesmen to prison? There must be more to this story.
It is extremely relevant; the original article is literally titled "Google vs. Google: How Nonstop Political Arguments Rule Its Workplace". The thread started with an observation that deciding what is right and wrong is fundamentally a question of "ethics, politics and public policy".

If Google is going to be seen as a politically active entity, aligned with the left, then that is a problem. Particularly because aligning with one wing, with high probability, means that Google isn't going to be focused on the good deeds part of politics but on the political campaigning part of politics. That should honestly be a worry to everyone, but particularly the political right.

Also 40/30/30 isn't even close to a figure like 61-1. Even if Google were leaning 40/40/20 it would still be markedly biased. I'm from Australia where voting is compulsory, and the undecided 40% usually splits about 20%-20% both ways when made to decide.

EDIT I looked it up for your interest ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_federal_ele... ) - our most decisive federal-level election was 41.5% to 58.5% on a rough left-right split, aka 2-party-preferred, back in 1931. 55% to 45% would be a landslide in a modern election. America will be different, but realistically I doubt the split would be as bad as 65-35. Probably more like 55-45.
ISPC seems really interesting. Can anyone name (or anonymously recall) successful or unsuccessful applications of it?

edit: the project seems to be currently alive - hence the question. there are also 11 more blog posts in the series.
Good point, in it's current form it's a little weak.
I'm hoping they get rid of that list eventually.
This used to be possible, but IIRC Google locked things down and the cast receiver apps for Android stopped working.
I’m getting a new “we have updated terms of services” mail every day these days. Half of them don’t mention at all that they need to do this due to GDPR. It’s just because they want to give people more options and control /s
> Morton would not divulge the composition of the gas, which he called Letheon, because he had applied for a patent. But Bigelow reported that he smelled ether in it (ether was used as an ingredient in certain medical preparations), and that seems to have been enough. The idea spread like a contagion, travelling through letters, meetings, and periodicals.

Interesting. I wonder what would have happened if Bigelow didn't say a thing. The way this is put, it looks like yet another case where disregarding "intellectual property" is a net positive for the world.
PICO-8 may be commercial software for creators, but players can play PICO-8 games published via the web app for free.

The author, "zep" (of lexaloffle games), is also a wonderful human being that goes out of their way to support people who buy it / play PICO-8 games and deserves every penny for it.

While I hope they some day consider open sourcing PICO-8 so it may live on, for now, it provides them with meaningful income and lets them actively develop it, which I wholeheartedly support.
It might be about to!

The USA has never had housing priced at such a high number of hours of work before.
"X isn't an unethical way of doing business because the only successful people in the industry are doing it in X way" is a very bad principle. It can trivially be used to defent slavery, child labor, bribery and corruption, fraud, market manipulation, organized crime, etc.

The question is, if X were prohibited by law / social pressure, a) would anyone else show up in the market who's currently being crushed and b) if not, is the benefit to society of avoiding X practice worth not having anyone in this industry?

I'd bet that (a) is true in this case, especially considering that Google did come out of academia originally.
Chromecast basically just uses Chrome under the hood. I imagine this tool is just creating a video tag.
Could it be connections to other nearby signals for synchronizing the lights?
Only if you never listen to new music. CDs cost around $10, which is your Spotify sub cost per month. Imagine only listening to one new album every month.
>Hardly unethical. If academia could produce a search engine of equal quality but without ads, people would use it.

Specious reasoning. Quality has no implied positive correlation with with ethics.

On the contrary, you can easily become very competitive by giving up on ethics (see Volkswagen diesels for example). So the best search product might belong to Google but that hardly implies its an ethical company.
Somehow I don't think they would do this without their architecture being based on a pre-existing lower-resolution backup layer to maintain information and support. It's not like the model needs every piece of information coming out of Facebook users - they only need the important stuff and could conceivably delete unnecessary information and not lose anything. Given the massive redundancy coming out of thousands or millions of similar people, the global patterns won't change when some subset of users deletes their information. Even local patterns should be filled in by a fresh influx of data fairly quickly.

The unique views problem is interesting from a marketing perspective though. I doubt it will change much but for larger companies it might require adjustment.

Also interesting that they are allowing a theoretical cap on the information they collect. I imagine they'll be moving more into services to avoid future data privacy issues. That means B2B too, FYI...
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good
of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live
under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may
at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end for they do so with the approval
of their own conscience." -CS Lewis

Politics/religion and business don't mix, you will alienate half your potential audience and piss off your employees. When was the last time your car insurance company imposed a political opinion on you?

With the power that Google has as a conduit for information, having any sort of political bias in presenting information is frighteningly Orwellian. Their recent egregious transgressions has caused me to avoid their products wherever possible. The most ironic thing IMO is their willingness to neuter one of the most amazing free speech platforms that has ever been created, YouTube. I've switched off their search engine and now primarily use duckduckgo and bing. I'm also using the brave browser. I am distancing myself from that company as fast as alternatives present themselves.
Due to some unfortunate complications of somewhat recent changes:

> The worst part of this (one device entropy sample being enough to move to crng_init==1) was AFAICS introduced in commit ee7998c50c26 ("random: do not ignore early device randomness"), first in v4.14.

confirmed by the fix for that bit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Acer Chromebook 14.

Bought one for $100 on craigslist. Aluminum construction, 1080P 14' screen, 4GB of Ram 32GB Drive.

Runs Gallium great, even Xubuntu 18 LTS with about 5 minutes of setup.
This really drives home for me how powerful the web is in terms of graceful degradation.
>Profits drive competition and competition discourages stasis.

In industry, yes. Academia, no.
Why did they pick an S-curve? Why not log or linear? I couldn't really tell from the article.
If you're not attending to your personal fitness then the situation you're in is dysfunctional, regardless of whether or not it's a family, a childless relationship, or single life. So it's not possible to sacrifice personal fitness for family function because that is a core part of it.

If you're taking care of others to the exclusion of yourself, you're going to end up in a downward spiral of resentment. Nothing good will come of that.
There is. https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/27/the-fac...
What the parent means is that when cheating isn't accorded a serious enough response, the signaling value of a degree is watered down, so parent must rely more heavily on the interview, which is unfair to those who perform poorly in interview enviornments but are otherwise good at their job.
>and focused on generating much more search value.

That's just a competitive strategy any company takes to displace incumbents. Hardly a moral high ground.
H-1B abuse: Bay Area tech workers from India paid a pittance, feds say
“We are sorry ...

... but we have temporarily restricted your access to the Digital Library. Your activity appears to be coming from some type of automated process. To ensure the availability of the Digital Library we can not allow these types of requests to continue. The restriction will be removed automatically once this activity stops.

We apologize for this inconvenience.”

Anyone else getting this?

If so, have a Wayback Machine link: http://web.archive.org/web/20180219210654/https://queue.acm....
Google's PR machine strikes again, robbing Tencent of their due.
Nurx Is Hiring – Lead Front-End Engineer
How Augmented Reality Is Impacting Online Shopping
Yes, retargeting campaigns are typically amongst the most effective. Hitting people with ads after they have visited your website
I find it plausible in a narrow sense of “write” that doesn't mean performing the substantive work, but merely assembling the formal written presentation of that work.
Technically, at least for EU users, whether they do this or not should now be a switch on the GDPR panel.
> I got in the way of their agenda," Lundgren said, "this profit model that's way more profitable than I could ever be.

Yeah, Microsoft "changed so much for the better".
Private companies are not entirely free to do as they please in free countries. There's always some degree of non-free-ness. It's not at all unreasonable, and it would be at all surprising, to find free states forbidding cooperation with non-free states' oppression. Indeed, it happens all the time in some way or another.