skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to sign a non-disparagement agreement (also with unlimited time frame) when I left my latest company. I was lead developer there, not sure if the position matters.

I signed because I really don't have anything negative to say about that company. Your situation maybe is different.
"what we need, is a computer network, because this kind of over-the-counter social engineering attack would never work online"

oh. hang on...
> Identity politics flying the flag of "free thought, only so long as you reject the mainstream and the left" still seems to me to be identity politics.

The rebuke here is aimed at the left's hostility to dissenting political opinions, not against the left's political opinions as such. That's the distinction.
Common or not, it is ridiculous to allow a company to insulate themselves against disparagement for unknown future conduct. It would be one thing to rule out disparaging them if it were backward-looking. You could think about what they had done and say "yep, they haven't done anything all that bad." However, they could do literally anything in the future so it really shouldn't be acceptable at all to give them carte blanche for arbitrary behavior. Of course, at the end of the day it's your choice if you want to sell some of your basic rights for this job, of course (in my opinion, though, it shouldn't be: this should be very illegal).
There are AI jobs open to BS that are filled with BS CS grads. These BS AI grads are just more targeted towards these positions.
Not that I'm aware of - a const std::string& parameter needs to be a reference to a std::string object, and there's no guarantee that a given string_view object is pointing to a std::string.
> Trivial things becomes real challenges - like finding the button for screen-sharing

Tell me about it! The dialpad button is now hidden 2 levels deep in the interface. 2 levels!

My primary use for Skype was making calls to landlines from my computer and when they redid the interface I spent about 5-10 minutes searching for the dialpad (it used to be a top level icon).

It still takes me some mental effort every time I load skype to find it because it's behind non-obvious icons.
AWS has long had AZs that were not exposed via EC2, as somebody else pointed out, the S3 FAQ gives the game away that some regions have a 'hidden' AZ.

They are slowly adding a 3rd AZ to regions that didn't have one already.

E.g.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-open-third-aws-availabi...
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/03/aws-govcl...
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/colo-cloud/...
You're of course correct, but right now on a great many sites that non-adblock users are subsidizing the content for adblock users. If everyone (or even just a critical mass) of people run adblockers then many sites will either need to put up paywalls or go out of business.
I haven't tested but I don't think that will happen on the default settings for postgres. I know for a fact that it won't on higher isolation levels.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/transaction-iso.h...

> If the first updater commits, the second updater will ignore the row if the first updater deleted it, otherwise it will attempt to apply its operation to the updated version of the row.

My understanding is that the update from S2 would be rerun applied.

Specifically postgres calls out:

> The search condition of the command (the WHERE clause) is re-evaluated to see if the updated version of the row still matches the search condition.
Like Season 3 already was?
Why Don Knuth Doesn't Use Email (2015)
Of course it was. Accredited by the British Computer Society and the UK system. It is a Computer Science degree with an AI concentration. AI is a big enough subject for that. Why would it not be?
Also the probable carcinogen lists contains hot beverages(Tea and Coffee), red meat, shift work, and frying food as probable carcinogens to give some context of what is on the list.
This is definitely one of those things that's worth repeating, though. I got to be one of today's Lucky 10,000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/) with regards to this old news.
I'm sure Microsoft would also love to work with Nintendo to bring Mario and Zelda to Windows as well.
Lots of REIT funds available, the problem of course is that 401k regulations are woefully inadequate for ensuring you’re provided choice and low expense ratios.

I do not suggest investing in a REIT in a rising interest rate environment, but if you decided to, I’d invest through a traditional or Roth IRA and balance the remainder of your portfolio through your 401k and taxable accounts (ensure the funds you buy in your taxable account are tax efficient!).

Alternatively, you might try to see if your 401k provider supports in service distributions (exporting funds to your IRAs without you separating from the company). You could then invest in the funds you’d like, not limited to your 401k selection.
What tool did he use? Bump keys? A raker?
I'm not 100% familiar with the system, but depending on the transaction levels available you could do wrap it in like... a serializable transaction, then select the rows (just to lock them), then do the update, then do the insert, then commit the transaction

Maybe... I'm used to systems with upsert/merge.
Exploit allows hackers to spoof 2FA by sending a user to a fake login page
I've never been asked to sign a non-disparagement clause, in a couple large companies and a few startups. I've seen a few, which were time-limited.

In a merger situation (or any other where you're already employed), passive chicken is sometimes effective. Like, say that:

1. You love the company and can't imagine ever "disparaging" it, in the common English sense of the word;

2. but you're not sure what their clause actually means legally, since you're not a lawyer, and you are always very careful to abide by the contracts you sign;

3. so it really would be simpler to remove that language.

Then just keep delaying, and see what happens. They'll either revise the contract, or forget about it entirely, or start talking about a termination date.
Stripe is probably the only company i am desperately waiting for them to open up a palo alto office. No brainer to work for them, except i dont like city/commute.

Great work, great company.
Not just that but it also can block all sorts of telemetry for devices on your network beyond PCs.

For example, mine blocks Samsung telemetry from my TV, so I can still use the TV apps without having my info sent to Samsung.
> Even navy admirals have their hands tied in many ways, and they're just trying to do the best they can do with a bad hand.

Trying, but still failing in this case. Playing a bad hand means you have to put more emphasis on the basics, not less. After all, ultimately military units are for fighting wars, and any war is going to be full of bad hands that you still have to play. A military that can't succeed in that kind of environment is not a military worth having.
Does Amazon release the source for these features? Would love to see these ported to other flavors of mySQL.
You can try editing it and adding a year after the employment period ends. Lawyers always ask for everything, a 1 year period usually is enough.
> I’d really like to know what’s in our food.

Why? Don't you trust the free market?

/s
I’ve built two POS systems over the last 5 years, feel free to reach out, my email is in my profile :)
Careful, your public implication that this is unreasonable may constitute disparagement and be grounds for termination!

What happens if you don't sign? Termination? That probably makes the contract signed under duress and invalid.

In practical terms, what are they gonna do if you "disparage" them after you've left? Sue? Do they have to prove damages, or is there an enforced liquidated damages clause (set amount you agree to pay)?

I would fight it gently using the method tripletao describes, but if push comes to shove it's probably not worth taking too seriously.

IANAL
No. Tu quoque is an appeal to hypocrisy. Pointing out that other concerns with big industry have been misleading, as with Seralini's apparently fraudulent glyphosate study, is an appeal to credibility.
Thanks. Will try.Previously I have used ImageJ for counting cells.
I disagree with you :

1) Unlike AdNauseam, Google can't do much to get in the way of Pi-Hole. This isn't within its ecosystem.

2) Actually, while it's not great for publishers, it's not that disruptive (at that scale) because it doesn't impact the advertiser's ad spend. No request > No charge.

Now if you wanted to create something that would be quite disruptive, you'd need to combine the 2, with a twist :

You could have a headless browser in a VM (for safety) that makes some of those calls and mimic a click + follow the redirect + stay on the landing page and browse another N pages.

Not every single ad obviously because that'd be easy to detect but at random, in an erratic way. That'd be like simulating an actual user.

Throw in there some cookie dropping / reset to mess with tracking and it could have some pretty interesting effects.

The reason why it'd more dangerous? Because it'd throw off performance of those ads and ML optimizations done by various vendors.
Usually you expect a click-through rate (CTR) of 0.X % to maybe 2-3% and similarly an actual conversion rate in the single digits.

On a large scale, you'd see a a CTR that either go up or stay on par, but a conversion rate that is free falling and that would have some serious consequences for both the advertiser's marketing team and the publisher / ad network.

Take it one step further and have a TOR like network of those pi-holes taking care of that both to prevent device finger-printing and maybe coordinating a specific publisher / ad network / advertisers and you could see that advertiser looking at reducing its ad spend quite drastically when performance goes down the drain. And an ad network / publisher having to do some explaining.

Some kind of "activist" bot network to force specific advertisers to reduce ad spending or simply occur costs.
Yes, I agree that evidence to date does not show glyphosate is a carcinogen. But this:

There are no credible studies indicating that glyphosate is a carcinogen, and it would be a little bit surprising it if was, since it targets a metabolic pathway not present in animals.

is not a very strong argument. Harmful "off-target effects" are a very common cause of drug development program failures. Most chemicals that are probable human carcinogens weren't developed with the intention to target metabolic pathways in any living thing.
I don't think it's a secret that the majority of readers on HN are left wing. It does make me curious what a 'based HN' would look like.
Remember the good old days when we started the conversation with "Can you hear me?"
No, once again, the glossary of logical fallacies you're working from isn't serving you well. I would be arguing relative privation if I was saying "things are so bad elsewhere it doesn't matter if the bees were dying", or "the bees are dying and that's all that really matters".

In fact, what I'm saying is that the bees are pretty much fine, and not an issue at all.
>I really don't have anything negative to say about that company

Ah, but you would say that, wouldn't you?
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No, you don't need the degree.

Denny Britz, He drops school (his phd) to go into industries.

Christopher Olah: Same story, at least he doesn’t communicate about his education (http://colah.github.io/cv.pdf).

Both are well-known for their expertise, and followed by a large amount of people in the deep learning community.

You can def become an great machine learning engineer who used deep learning technique, without going to any university.

---
Ian Goodfellow:

"One of my biggest heroes is Geoffrey Hinton. His PhD was in experimental psychology ( . Biographical Sketch ).

In mechanical engineering, I think you learn quite a lot of the mathematical tools that are used in machine learning, so you won’t be starting from scratch.

In general, we often find that revolutions in one field happen when someone from another field arrives with fresh ideas that developed elsewhere."

(https://www.quora.com/Would-you-encourage-people-from-anothe...)

How can someone with almost no technical knowledge learn ML?

Ian Goodfellow::"It’s important to master some of the basics, like linear algebra, probability, and python programming.

But you don’t need to know all of linear algebra (I don’t think I’ve ever used a QR decomposition outside the classroom), all of probability (we don’t usually do much involving combinatorics / re-ordering of sequences in deep learning), or all of python programming (a lot of the more obscure language features are actually forbidden at some companies).

I’d say maybe start by learning enough linear algebra, probability, and python programming that you can implement logistic regression yourself, using only python and numpy..."

(https://www.quora.com/How-can-someone-with-almost-no-technic...)

As a college sophomore, how can I prepare myself for artificial intelligence?

Ian Goodfellow:

"Take classes on linear algebra and probability

Take classes on how to write fast code that is friendly to the hardware you’re working with.

Take classes on how to write good high performance, realtime multithreaded code.

Read Deep Learning.

Pick a simple machine learning project that interests you.

Work through this project, and when you have questions about the material you read about machine learning, trying to answer your own questions by running experiments in your project codebase.

If your university has them, take classes on machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, robotics, etc."

(https://www.quora.com/As-a-college-sophomore-how-can-I-prepa...)

*You can find all the courses online.
I have no idea. Why does that matter?
It's interesting to me that they chose to limit the polygenic risk score to the SNPs at the top 292 loci, rather than using all available SNPs, which has become more common. I would guess that they chose to limit their power in favor of ease of interpretation, but it would be interesting to understand why they actually made their choice.

It's also a bit surprising that being a morning person was associated with earlier age at last childbirth in women. I would have expected being a morning person to correlate with education attainment (which I don't believe they discussed) and therefore with later age at last childbirth (since education generally delays the age at which people start having children).
Phishing != cracking

Edit: the title previously had the word "crack" in it
>Yes, I understand the value of clear, fair, equal treatment under law.

>No, I can't be moved to care about this particular issue, because the people affected are too close to the legal limit to not be a danger to others.

That's the problem. You don't really understand the value of equal treatment under the law. If you only care about equal treatment when you personally think the person deserves it, you don't really care about it.
Happy to:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/call-...

That's the Washington Post noting bee colonies at a 20 year high (a timespan that includes the tail end of the original Varroa epidemic!) in late 2015.

Then, go look up pollination service prices since 2015 --- a trivial Google search! --- and compare them with inflation.
I guess that's why HN has limited success.
The evidence seems to suggest that glyphosate is basically inert in humans, doesn't it?
How could you possibly know this?
Unless you mean some sort of differential topology, those are rigorously covered in and respectable math undergraduate.
> Still, their research and report are quite helpful in understanding the risk of arsenic exposure in rice, so consumers can now make informed decisions in regards to their own rice consumption. I hope the FDA will do something like that for glyphosate in food.

My cynical side thinks that is far too nuanced a finding for consumers to be able to make informed decision. People tend to like black and white answers like "no carbs", "no gluten", or my personal favorite "no chemicals".
If a site I cared about was teetering on the edge in the internet stone age, they'd put up a Paypal donation button and you chip in.

Now, sites with value have either figured their strategy out or have something like Patreon, which I'm a big fan of. I'll donate to the Guardian if they flash that yellow banner, you know?

So no big loss for the other 99% of the web that feels slighted by ad-blockers and complains or shills for the ad network industry to save their bacon. If they fold, it's no loss.
Reminds me of trying to make a Python foot like page transition as part of my learn js efforts. You have to click the 'click me' by the title and it may or may not work https://tim333.github.io/
Complete outsider to this: any chance that is due to external factors, such as increase in number of competitors (perhaps foreign), or reduced demand (e.g. new alternatives)?
When I was young I “hacked” the USPS to send free mail by putting the return address as the address I wanted to send to and leaving the actual address blank or as some invalid address. Then I would deposit the letter somewhere without a stamp and it would be sent across the country for free (but very slowly).

Was this actually a felony?
> investigators who seem to genuinely be committed to enforcing those laws and chasing the penalties.

There are some pretty incredible stories about the USPIS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Inspectio...
Having been in a few large tech companies that have merged or split over the course of time, creating the need to sign new employment agreements, I haven't seen this at all. I have no idea how common this is and in what kinds of companies.

But one thing I'd advice anyone is never to disparage a past employer in public (exceptions are harassment, which is illegal in most places anyway, and other illegal practices that one could fight in a court of law). The tech world is quite small because of people moving around and because of networking among people. So it's ill advised to burn bridges while or after leaving a company, however bad they may have treated one on assigning work or on career growth or anything else.

If you don't have serious issues with how you see the company may be going, sign the agreement. If you have serious issues, find another job right away. In either case, not disparaging the company is always a good idea. There are certain things in life that one ought to just let go of and not bother about. This is one of them, according to me.
I do a bit of lockpicking as a hobby and often carry lockpicks because they've come in handy several times when people lost keys, etc....

Most door locks and deadbolts in the US will fall to rakes in a minute or less. I've found the Southord L-rake and Pagoda to be pretty effective. These can be had in basic versions without much of a handle from southord.com for $1.65. (A tension tool is also required; it's pretty much just a bent piece of steel).
The legal world is not designed for security or to be efficient

it is designed to be as convoluted as possible to

a) increase billable hours

b) create loops hole big enough to drive a truck through that the $$$$$ lawyers can exploit for their clients
I don’t think you have an understanding of the complexity behind Netflix. Their tech blog is a great resource that provides insight into some of their engineering challenges. I’d highly recommend.

Edit: just realized I duplicated scarface74’s comment. My bad!
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Yes, and a federal one.
> Leave it in my mailbox?

I used to do that until the mailman decided I didn't live here anymore...twice.

Now I apparently don't have a mailing address though the only bill I could never successfully get converted to all electronic (not from lack of trying) is the power company which messes them up every so often getting their bills returned every month.
Stereotypes aren't backed by anything. They're just things people beleive for no good reason.
> It sounds like a CS degree where the electives are predetermined. Why couldn't they just make this a concentration when it's so intimately intertwined with CS

Unless they really mean "CS-degree with surface level knowledge of stats" this should really be an offshoot of the math/applied math department, not CS
Yes, that's quite obviously fraud.
Apple using Electron is extremely unlikely. They’re more likely to port iMessage to Windows with the Windows port of the Objective-C runtime + Cocoa + Foundation (a sort of modernized YellowBox[1]) they used to port iTunes and previously Safari to Windows.

The browser used in the Windows version of iTunes is WebKit, not Chromium.

1: http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/apple/os_pictures/ybn...
I think what is meant (from the post in question, not necessarily your summary): cui bono arguments are particularly ineffective for those claiming vaccines are harmful, because doctors, who generally consider vaccines to be very effective and mostly harmless, are not particularly financially vested in the continued use of vaccines (unlike the manufacturers, presumably.) If the use of vaccines was curtailed, doctors would arguably have more work.
The "vested interests" have the sole purpose of making money for their shareholders. They are corporations, and that is the definition of capitalism.

The purpose of environmental groups is to protect the environment.

Who would be the most likely to act benevolently?

Are the environmentalists perfect? No. They are human. They make mistakes. Sometimes they do things that are counterproductive or totally ineffective. But their goal is to protect the environment. I'd call that benevolence.

On the whole, it's also far more likely for the environmentalists to get hurt or killed than the other way around. In 2017, four environmentalists were killed every week by the "vested interests". Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/02/almost-f...

To summarize, your argument seems to be something like "Hey, look, the environmentalists are not perfect, we can't trust anyone, so we must stop attacking the polluters, they must be totally innocent!".

And that's just FUD.
Microsoft has literally tens of thousands of engineers capable of building the client for Windows if Apple will let them. I am certain that no one on this integration project cares whether Apple actually does the work, only whether they allow it.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but nowhere near this group.
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"there's no way I'll ever be able to afford a home".

That's how I felt in 2007 but in 2012 many of those homes were then selling for 30cents on the dollar.

I am not saying that 2018 feels like 2007 (or maybe...), but your are only 27 so there are likely a few 2007s that will occur in your lifetime.
Data can easily be embedded either as inline data URI or as JS arrays. You can have static pages containing many MB of embedded data. If the adds used SVG they might not even be very large, bandwidth wise.
The headline is, by definition, true for all businesses with shareholders. There is no such thing as enough money. $N+1 in earnings is always better than $N, therefore there does not exist a business in the world that "makes enough money".
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The more successful forums where members delight in having their discussions degenerate into paranoid conspiracy mongering are eagerly awaiting your arrival.
I once sent a friend a temp Gmail account login to read a doc. Next thing I know most Google apps on their phone is using that login. Search/video search/location history all available without their knowledge.