skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't have to be a nice article. A request for comment can either be responded to, where you have a chance for your words on record, or you get "<companyname> has not responded to requests for comment as of publishing." which is worse than whatever spin you could have concocted.
Until you need to do something hard. Then Excel and Word are easily the best tools.

I'd like to see multi-version financial forecasting models done in Google Docs. Or a complex mail-merge from Google Docs from a on-prem data store.

There's a difference between online tools that you can use in a pinch to enterprise productivity tools.
DNS isn't (yet) encrypted. It happens before HTTPS is negotiated.
Who you know is very important for academics. The professors I know are always on the lookout for good collaborations and to discuss new problems. You can only be successful in academia if you have good ideas, can articulate them clearly, and know what other people care about.

Being smart and knowing your areas are only some of the requirements for being a professor. Having just those two is insufficient.
I'm a Swede still living in Sweden, and I take issue with some of what you say.

We are nowhere close to collapsing, first of all. I don't know if you've been back recently or if you get your information from social media only, but really things are fine.

Secondly this was hardly the first major influx of immigrants ever. We saw a major influx during the conflicts in former Yugoslavia during the 90s, lots of people came here after the US started wars against Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 00s. And back in the 60s there was a huge amount of workforce immigration, so much so that Finnish people are still the largest non-Swedish group in the country.

Fun fact: the second largest group of people to come to Sweden in 2016 were repatriating swedes.
If you're going onto someone's personal property, they are free to check your bags without probably cause, they are free to eject you if you say something you do not like, they are free (for the most part) to deny you your right to carry a firearm, to enforce any fine or penalty not otherwise prohibited by law, etc.

Government is prohibited from doing a lot of things that WalMart is free to do all day long, and not just because WalMart has good lobbyists (though that certainly helps).
Yep. Seems to be global too.
> How do you avoid being in a bubble?

Simple. By exposing yourself to a variety of ideas, opinions, viewpoints.

>Whether it is curating the subreddits you see, or selecting the news sites you visit, you are only ever going to see a tiny fraction of what's going on in the world.

Hence why I never subscribed to a subreddit...
This reminds of an article I read many years ago about the Facebook's and Google's approaches to organizing information. The article argued that Facebook seeks to organize data in the context of human relationships. I wonder if the future of online reviewing will be one where people on trust reviews left by people they know. Facebook supports leaving reviews on company pages (AFAIK) but overall it seems like they haven't put much effort behind making a robust reviewing system. I can easily see them coming to dominate this market though.
Thanks for the kind words! Infertility is not federally reimbursed and if a company happens to cover infertility as a benefit, women have to wait until they are having issues (and "try" for 9-12 months) before these types of tests are covered. We started Modern Fertility to bring these tests to women earlier in life at a much more accessible price point. Some HSA/FSA plans cover Modern Fertility.
There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.
Wow, it's not every day that I agree with Disney, but here I am.

As an avid Pirate, I don't care if Disney made digital copies of Michael Jackson's music for use in a commercially successful documentary about Michael Jackson's life.
I've had numerous VM's with Linode for several years. I am also on DO and Vultr. The only reboots I get are for hardware failures and the recent Spectre patches. I would say on average, 1 reboot every 2 years. I could be lucky though.
Are the cloud hosting services profitable at these very low prices or are they reducing the prices just to gain market share? If it is the latter, sooner or later they have to increase prices, no?
Congrats on the launch! I'm a big fan of the candid and fair discussion of fertility literature on your site. More healthcare startups should be doing exactly that.
All we need is a web of trust that is easy to use and so many of these problems go away.
yep same, guess I'll need to put a backup dns back in my settings.
You have to do better than not killing anyone. Every single accident, including ones not your fault, will be used against you to argue that your systems are death traps. You can't injure people, or cause property damage, or even be rear ended.
You have to produce cars that are able to drive so defensively, that insurance is no longer necessary
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Yeah, I already covered that point re writable directories in PATH (though maybe I wasn't all that clear?). But in your specific case you need the additional process of getting the privileged user to change to that directory as well and for there to be no executables with the same name in another directory in PATH with a higher precidence. By which point it's easier to just getting said administrator to just run an executable via its absolute path rather than social engineering it into PATH
Confirmed from LA, dig times out...
I finally got one of the papers I'm proud of published! It was in review at a major journal for over a year, and then was soft-rejected for being too specialized (nice comments from referees though). Then it went to another journal, and was most of the way through the review process when the entire board quit to start an open-access journal. So we withdrew the paper and submitted to the open-access journal. They finally accepted with revisions last fall, and so I think it'll get published soon. Only three years from start to finish, where "start" refers to posting the finished paper to the arXiv!

Every job application process has its own kinds of luck and failure modes. The time scales of academia lead to very different distortions than those in software engineering.
Ads are Google's business model, but they make their major money from a few different leading products : Search, ad platform(both internal and external), YouTube, Android.
Your solution didn't work for users. It was a market failure that produced huge negative externalities borne by users, for which there was no practical means of redress.

Because users were faced with a raw deal, now we have regulation.
I read Code by Charles Petzold so I think I have at least some concept of how the operating system and hardware communicate. So now I guess I need a better understanding of how applications communicate with the operating system, as recommended by another reply, more for the sake of knowing rather than any practical reason.
The reality is that more than 4 million businesses use G Suite - including "mega corps".
It's amazing what windows users put up with. Why don't they switch to mac? It's even easier to use than windows.
I might agree with regards to Google docs, but I would jump back to excel/PowerPoint the second my company makes it freely available to me.

Google offerings are good, but I frequently find myself wishing they could do more. I use docs/slides and sheets a lot more than Microsoft's offerings. But, that is because I am on Linux and a grad student. Also, a programmers job involves only rudimentary use of all 3 services.

But, when using those tools day in and day out, the small differences make quite a difference . It is similar to using blender instead of Photoshop. Sure, it does the job, but I would use Photoshop if my job depended on it.
Exactly this. Canon had significant performance advantages in the mid 2000s thanks to their bet on CMOS technology when almost everyone else believed CCD had superior image quality. This really showed in the clean high ISO performance one got in their DSLRs vs the competition at that time, and it took a long while for competition to really catch up.

This reminds me when the first “affordable” DSLRs from canon and Nikon arrived - both 6 megapixel models (the Canon 300D/Digital Rebel and the Nikon D70). The D70 was the better camera in a great many ways, but many buyers still chose the 300D to get access to the incredibly good for the time low noise CMOS sensor. I can’t count the number of discussions I had with friends looking to get a first DSLR debating the relative merits of those two landmark cameras. A later firmware hack for the 300D that gave it almost all the features of the more expensive 10D made this debate very interesting as well.

The past 5 years are less impressive though, for sure, with the great sensor hardware from Sony etc.
I recommend reading the follow-up at https://blog.plover.com/Unix/stdio-buffering-2.html too.
Voice overs samples
Lex Friedman's team at MIT seem to think that fully autonomous driving is a long way off: there are just too many edge cases to deal with.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06976

From the abstract: "Until these problems are solved,
human beings will remain an integral part of the driving task, monitoring the AI system as it performs anywhere from just over 0% to just under 100% of the driving".

Now there's room to be optimistic or pessimistic about how much an AI can help, but the academic consensus is that level five will need many more research breakthroughs. There are some good video lectures that give an overview of the field (but not that much depth) here:

https://selfdrivingcars.mit.edu/
Without writing a novel and acknowledging the difficulty it is to measure intelligence...

People who: /what VT is missing is:

- Can process what one is saying in real time and propose alternative view points or point out flaws in one's logic in seconds.

- Are capable of thinking outside of the box. Some puzzle pieces will never be found because they need to be created first.

- Have drive and ambition to do things other than watch TV/go to the beach/get high or drink after work.

- Interest in furthering their education/knowledge/life goals. Complacency is very common.

- People who are unafraid of their viewpoints being challenged/analyzed; unafraid to rationalize their beliefs.

- Self awareness/presence.

In saying all of this, I do not look down on people for their life choices. They just live a simpler life than I can be comfortable with.
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Gnome has moved to GitLab
I totally accept the argument that it's not the same thing to run a country of 10 milion versus 325 million, but why does demographics matter so much?

A lot of the differences between Sweden and the US comes down to things like whether health care should be a human right etc. Do you think people are less inclined to want "free" health care if they live in a community that's ethnically mixed? I don't buy it.
California is also the economic engine of a larger region, where UK is a whole country. If you compare per capita GDP of London it is probably higher than California. But the truth is my native state is an economic and cultural miracle. Yay.
Ask HN: How should you go about securing your browser’s privacy?
I had a rather disheartening moment yesterday when I was doing some spring cleaning of my computer and realized that Safari had stacked up some four thousand cookies, many to websites I barely recognized or had not ever visited. Safari doesn’t seem to have any reasonable cookie management options except for “delete all.” So I did.

Within a few minutes I once again had cookies from ad agency URLs and facebook despite having been to neither.

How do I ensure my privacy here? I currently use Better, Ghostery, and uBlock—any other suggestions for extensions? And are there ways of running a browser that don’t kill js or your battery while anonymizing oneself?
The latter. It’s like the recursive junk you collect by installing a single npm package.
Are you willing to give up Google, StackOverflow, and almost every website on the Internet?

What about Android itself? The entire reason for Android's existence is for Google to make money on advertising.
i dunno. i've had reasonably good luck on StackOverflow for android related questions. given Google's sometimes inconsistent/irregular APIs and documentation, and a certain amount of bugginess, Android devs would have a lot harder time without SO.

but, your comment highlights a kind of surprising reality about ad dollars and Google. i mean, StackOverflow captures a significant quantity of ad money from Android related content because, in the early days of Android development, Google itself directed Android developers to StackOverflow.
This possibility is interesting to consider from an economic perspective.

Let's posit that DL does just that, bring in the same value (as a whole system) as non-DL.

Inside such a system, there is a business advantage to implementation of DL, and there is a concentration of value around those with the largest dataset.

This means that DL systems will still be very valuable in that they are a competitive advantage, but only so much as they are difficult to implement independently.

The value differentiator then becomes the data itself. I think this points to a value proposition for data providers. GDPR and such seem to be quite correctly identifying and correcting for this risk.
Denver/Comcast Business Cable currently (fyi)
The education market is a lot.more important than that .

Companies like Matlab, Autodesk prioritize getting young engineering students familiar with their products, so that the industry ends up adopting their products more willingly.
Well, said miracle workers used to work at the manufacturing plant, and were the ones who ensured the manufacturing equipment didn't get scrapped. That was point of their whole initial campaign!

But yes, they deserve a lot of respect for what they achieved :)
Deep RL in a Handful of Trials Using Probabilistic Dynamics Models
Thank you for the suggestion :) finalized this!
Thank you so much for the suggestion :)
You could do paid technical support. I’m working on a platform for doing paid support for your code: https://otechie.com
Just had to change my DNS forwarders, it was stupid of me to use 2 from the same provider.
New Jersey on Fios, same here. Secondary DNS set to 8.8.8.8 which probably makes more sense as a backup anyway.
And those are the same people who will download "VPN ad blocking software" that records all of their private information and sell it.....

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7jhr53/a_vpn_based_a...
Not to mention, moving all the stuff in my house in 2015 cost a little over $30K. $10K is a nice gesture, but it wouldn't cover a whole household... 1-2 bedroom apartment maybe. That said, it's a beautiful state and if you want to work remotely and do a lot of skiing/hiking/etc then it could be a nice offset.
Yes, a time-consuming disaster, the tech interview has become. Same thing just happened to me yesterday. I'd be willing to challenge the interviewer to an impartial programming competition.
> human beings will remain an integral part of the driving task

And not just any humans, for that matter: humans over a certain age who are trained and licensed.

A seven-year-old human is smarter than any AI and has better knowledge about the world, yet we don't let them drive.
Those did have the significant difference of not being aired on primetime TV for profit, though.
The Latimes article is blocked for EU; the NYT article works though without opt-out, and clicking "X" is same as "I Agree" (hello dark pattern).
The value of this 'review' economy is fiction to begin with.
> It is like Milo Yiannopoulos; it looks like communication but it is better to think about it as noise, static, or nerve gas.

You surely don't have an agenda. /s

So much HN comments are also just noise, static or nerve gas as well. And I highly doubt you have a wife.
> “The bottom line is that in the post 9/11 world, do we really need another watch list — particularly one from the T.S.A., which is not an intelligence agency?”

You can never have too many watch lists. For your safety.

We now need a watch list of people who do not like watch lists.

For people who do not like being put on watch lists.

For people outside TSA who create watch lists of watch lists.

A watch list for journalists who write about watch lists.

Basically, there is no problem so great it cannot be solved by creating another watch list.
It's very much possible to get a coding interview without either of these things.
Two large changes for better in Microsoft:

1. 2006 Bill Gates stepped down as a Chief Software Architect

2. 2014 Satya Nadella became CEO after Ballmer.

Gates was good CEO but he was not a good Chief Architect. He had the knowledge, the intelligence and skills, but he had no ability to do good high-level choices. Chief Architect needs to know when to sacrifice in details to get the whole slightly better.

Microsoft is not known for innovation,but they should have been able to do gradual refinement better under Gates. Microsoft was really starting to crumble under the completely unprincipled approach to large scale architecture.
They're intending it as an "atari home console" more than a PC alternative. It happens to work with steam games but it's clear from their marketing that they want the Virtual Console Service to shine.
Confirmed from Austin, TX
Are CLoudflare's DNSs down?
Domain resolution doesn't work for 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 or is it just me?
Yeah - Europe side too. Thought my raspberry pi hole setup was broken...nope.

Maybe related to the recent attack on that DNS server?
> Prospects often think this is for their benefit, all this interaction and courting.

I am sorry, but I fail to see how taking many hours out of my productivity does benefit me.

Yes, I do want to know if this is the right purchase decision. So I request a trial and a live session with an engineer who can answer my questions as we go over the product in real time. I get to ask questions related to our workflows and discuss solutions and even workarounds.

This helps me build understanding for their product the way my brain works and not the way their demo is designed.

Demos are designed to impress, to highlight the strengths and hide the weaknesses of a product. They do not mention the corner cases, and often are oblivious of our workflow so do not cover our needs.

The process I described is ultra efficient for both parties.

Wooing me, playing games, mentioning my name every 90 seconds, qualifying every question I ask as "great"... all of these quickly and drastically decrease my trust in the company and the product.
Down in London, both 1.1.1.1 and 0.0.0.0
The headline excerpt "Elon Musk's Twitter Mob" doesn't make it clear that the nasty people comprising this "Twitter Mob" aren't employed, directed, or controlled by Elon Musk. That's the hamfistedness. The Daily Beast is aware of and exploits the fact that this headline can then be used to cast Elon Musk as a hateful public figure, which is not commensurate with how this discussion about journalistic integrity started or should continue going forth. The rhetoric has essentially been poisoned.

Expect The Daily Beast to frame Elon Musk as some boogeyman Trumpian champion of "young white males" who is working for the forces of misogyny, according to their twisted logic.

With this precedent, now any white males who wish to defend Elon from identity politik hit-pieces are silenced with a simple #MuskBros hashtag, as is The Daily Beast's modus operandi.[0]

Threats do matter, but channeling public blame for these onto one person is unwise if that person isn't directly linked to them.

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=thedailybeast.com%3A+young+w...
yea, I set the secondary dns to 8.8.8.8 due to that
Sounds like FUD. You can say this about any web server. Also, "tracking" doesn't imply actual harm or abuse.
These guys are great. I don’t think I would have negotiated to go permanent without Michael and his team.

I really like where I work but because I infrequently change jobs I don’t have much experience negotiating my compensation. This makes the negotiations between me and my employer feel quite asymmetric.

Having Michael provide advice helped me consider and ask for all of the things that will make my relationship with my employer as mutually beneficial as possible.
> This is a great solution for hacker news types

How is it a great solution when hacker news has ads that most ad blockers can't block?
> I don't think this is the case at all. Essentially all personal data is sensitive.

Noooooo, not according to this or any other privacy law. Under the GDPR, it's "data consisting of racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person's sex life or sexual orientation."

> Are there likely scenarios in which data is collected and processed in a responsible manner, but technical GDPR compliance is a huge burden?

Yes. My company, and most companies of other privacy professionals I've talked to.

> Why would this be the case? Most of the administrative requirements appear to be entirely justified methods to ensure that you have understood and evaluated the methods of compliance.

If you think that any cost is justified to ensure that something that ought to be done is actually being done, sure. By any analysis of costs and benefits, I think you might come to a different conclusion, but that would require some kind of real analysis of costs and benefits. I haven't seen that from anyone who is both (a) a supporter of the law and (b) has actually spent time implementing it in a real, involved business that deals with personal data (and I mean actually implementing it, and not the absurdly simple version many HN commenters seem to be doing that doesn't include massive amounts of documentation).
I use a VPN service that happens to include an ad blocking feature. I wonder if that will be blocked too? It's PIA, which is very popular.

Of course the feature goes unused; I simply refuse to install an application that includes advertising code. Instead, if available, I pay for the ad-free version of the app. Bonus points if that's the only option. The play store helpfully points out most advertising built into apps, so this is pretty easy to do. Combined with Firefox for Android which lets me run uBlock Origin, I have a completely ad-free mobile experience.
>Cloudflare didn't establish a precedent.

Cloudflare did reserve the right to do so in their ToS; but they had a precedent of not using that right to police speach (and activly argued that it was not their place to do so). While they did not establish any legal precedent here, they still established a social precedent.

>They didn't upset applecart of free speech by doing so.

Yes they did. Just because private companies are not subject to the first amendment does not mean that they are not arbiters of free speech.

>As a society, we believe that government should be limited in scope to only those powers explicitly granted to it by the people.

And we have already decided that one of those powers is to prevent private companies from discriminating. See the Civil Rights, which defined the notion of public accommodations. Despite being (potentially) privately owned, these public accommodations are not allowed to discriminate based on protected classes.

I would also like to point out that, in the course of this thread, we have gone from 'Andre_Wanglin should not be listened to because his defense of Cloudflare demonstrates that he is an impassioned Nazi sympathizer' to 'reasonable people can disagree, but Cloudflare's behavior did not violate the constitution or break any law'.