skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google just removed 'don't be evil' from their Code of Conduct. The timing around the drone news is interesting. I wonder if this was a deliberate PR move (seems odd) or if this was an unauthorized protest action from an insider who disagrees with developing weapon system.

https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
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You had a paid API, and people wanted the information for free....

Not unexpected I guess.
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The author doesn't actually think this is the worst mistake evolution made. The articles in this series elaborate on ideas that didn't make it into a final book. The author has some gripes with external testicles, but didn't find them important enough or interesting enough to fit the discussion about them into his book, Human Errors.
Ask HN: Suggestions on helping socially awkward developer get a job?
Hi All,

I currently volunteer at a software engineering apprentice program where we take folks who have recently graduated from college, coding bootcamps, and even self taugh folks to give them real world experiences by both giving them a real project for a real client and teaching them software engineering principles. We've been around for about 2 years now and have a 90% job placement rate. Our developers that do get jobs, usually get it within 6-12 months into the apprenticeship program.

However, I have one developer who's been with us for the entire two years and he still has not received a job offer yet. He is hands down one of our most talented and productive developers. He's even lead a few projects. Whenever he goes to interviews, he crushes the technical challenges, questions, and brain teasers. When it comes to the "behavioral round", every single recruiter will tell him he's not a right fit for the team. He is definitely an awkward person, but not any more awkward than any other weird developers I've worked with in the past. Most of his personality quirks revolve around taking some things too literal and going off on tangents from certain conversation points. I can totally see this being an annoying quirk to deal with, but I feel his talent way outway his weirdness.

Is there anything you would suggest he should start trying? I would really like to see him progress with his career and have a job that he deserves.
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

Google is allowing their employees to be evil now
Can employees become rich by stealing secrets and IP?
It seems employees can simply steal IP/secrets and start an LLC, sell at a heavy discount, live like a king and simply declare bankruptcy at the end and start over?

Most likely, the affected parties will sue this company. During the operation (let's assume it lasts 12 months before affected parties realize and start filing suit). During the operation, he lives like a king, spends lavishly.

What will happen at the end? When lawsuit arrives, he can simply declare bankruptcy and start again.

The smart employee used a Limited Liability Company, his personal assets are not at risk. Whatever salary he drew is his own along with the dividends. Not to mention the benefits offered by his company like chartered jets, business travels etc... These can't be taken away from him.

Why are most employees not doing this? Or are there other mechanisms to prevent this from happening?

If you can retire by doing such thing one time, isn't it better than working your ass off for the rest of the life for some evil corp?
I think there was talk of the scripts actually running exploits, so they were more than a bit sleazy; that being said I believe they came with the new ads so it wasn't a conscious addition by the new owner as much as shitty ad companies

Overall though I believe most of the money comes from the 4chan pass system over whatever ads end up getting run
How mobile gaming companies are dealing with GDPR
I remember reading some posts early on, either on Reddit or in the mailing list, where people asked about its suitability for web frameworks and servers. The idea was that what it let you abstract away, and what it made easy to do at a low level would work well in that problem space, too.

However, it was pretty actively discouraged. I suspect they didn't want a lot of voices influencing the direction of the language while it was still being formed. A lot of what make R a poor general purpose language help make it effective in its specific domain for its specific users.

It might be worth people taking another look at it after 1.0 is released, as long as they have low expectations about influencing the direction of the language's development.
Considering GDP growth is the normal metric for economic health, growth is the economy. And while you can't assign a number for each policy the EU has, the Q1 differences between America and the EU can paint the picture
Technically, there kinda is an EA foundation: https://ea-foundation.org/

Tho for me it's mostly an umbrella org, that allows to easily donate to orgs following the EA movement (since many of them are not registered in Europe, I wouldn't be able to get tax deductions otherwise).
That's a feature, not a bug. The system grants more weight to the voices of those who are thoughtful and contemplative in their selection than it does to lemmings. PewDiePie may have eleventy billion constituents, but he still only gets one vote.
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Is Ethereum’s Casper Proof-Of-Stake Decentralized?
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Am I the only one not comfortable using DNS servers running by random volunteers? Is there any "vouching" of the operators or regular checks on common domain on those OpenNIC servers?
Crystal Fire: the Invention of the Transistor and the Birth of the Information Age by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson is a good history of the transistor, mostly focusing on Bardeen, Shockley, and Brittain.
Ha! Self-gloating. I cancelled my Visa just yesterday. Part of my self-imposed program to return to a simpler life. But it's some sort of weird Schadenfreude justification that it hasn't happened to me directly.

I'm rolling my life back to the 1980's. :D
The web is not becoming closed off from users. It's becoming hostile to bots. Not the same.
I don't think likes are meaningless — they tap into a very primal need for social status and peer approval. It's a stupid game, but like many other stupid games, it's effective!
Wouldn't the result be the human male that is the most adept at warfare?
I'm always puzzled why similar topics always end up as a fight between so-called scientists who advocate evolution; and religious folk who believe in an "intelligent designer." The thing is, the "intelligent designer" doesn't have to be the creator of everything, that is, "The God." No. Consider a modern Airbus. It was definitely created by some "intelligent designers." But not necessarily God. If future archeologists find "fossils" of planes from the remains of Wright Brothers' planes up to the modern Airbus, the evolutionists of the time would claim that "planes evolved from bicycles." Implying that no intelligent agents were involved. It all happened on its own. Religious folks, on the other hand, would argue that there is intelligent design therefore planes must be created by an all-powerful God! But the truth is that some intermediary, earthly, intelligent agents, called humans, developed the planes. The same is true for human body. We should be asking who are those creators?
GiveWell actually uses this in their rankings; the charity needs to have the ability to scale up with more money.
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Mr Dalio wrote the book because he is interested in optimizing business results, and learning how people work together best and why.

If you’ve started a business, or manage people in a business, this book is worth more than many MBA courses.

The fact that a person with his exceptional track record decided to share much of the Bridgewater “secret sauce” is rare, and a real treat.
You can't justify an auto repair shop with just one customer with just one car either. The way it works isn't that the first customer pays all the fixed costs and every subsequent customer pays only the incremental costs, it's that the fixed costs are amortized over the projected number of customers.

What obviously doesn't work is to try to say that the auto repair shop pays all the costs and never charges anything to anyone who wants to have their car repaired, because then they go out of business.
It's really all about posture. The fancy desks and chairs and screens and lifts are all there to help you to have good posture and positioning but it's absolutely possible with just about anything.

Make sure you use a chair that helps you to sit up. I tend to lay back on a couch or a bed and that messes with your spine. A high back hard chair works great. If the Air BnB you stay in doesn't have one, you can pick one up at a local thrift shop and then donate it again when you're done.

A table. Again, a laptop fits so nicely on a lap but this puts you in the wrong position. Get a table. If it's not at the right ergonomic height, put blocks under the feet.

Place your laptop on a set of books or boxes to the screen is at the right ergonomic height. This will help a ton!

Get an external keyboard and mouse. I would travel with these and carry them with you.
Can't we just make pigeons and crows kill each other somehow?
What does Blockchain Engineer do? Like implementing blockchain from scratch, or working on existing implementations? (Bitcoin, Ethereum) doing what? Fixing bugs mentioned in their issue tracker? Please elaborate what's the work day looks for such developer.
Think different. Try bing, it has an API.

I think bing is close to Google in quality. Some people might even like it better. On the other hand I think DDG is the Sprint of search engines.

Google used to have a search API and they discontinued it because they said most of the people who used it were SEO people.

People who do pay-per-click are into A/B testing and other quantitative testing. Google is all for you doing that if you pay for advertising. Their mainstay of anti-SEO is doing arbitrary and random things to make it impossible for SEOs to go at it quantitatively. (They have patents on this!)

One reason so many sites go to a harvesting business model is that once a site is established you can make the slightest change and then your search rankings plummet. If you depend on search engine traffic it is a huge risk that you can't do anything about unless you are about.com (bought a 'competitive' search engine and just might be able to make an antitrust case against Google.)
When I was there a few weeks back, it looked like about 50-50 streets/sidewalks to me.
Yes, I was about to cite GenZe too https://www.genze.com/e-scooters/ . That BMW scooter looks good, but:

> £12,350*

Uh, no.
This does not really mean Qt (and/or QML) is certified. It means there is support in QtCreator for exporting certain graphics (tell tales) so that they can be rendered by Qt Safe Renderer and if that happens on a certified RTOS the system could be certified.

So the Qt libraries or QML renderer are still not certifiable.
I first heard of this movement in the book Strangers Drowning. The book is structured as a varied series of accounts of extreme altruism along with some philosophical discussion of cultural attitudes towards it. This movement appears in one chapter about members of Giving What We Can, an organization of individuals donating at least 10% of their income to charity. The chapter follows one woman who gives away almost all of her six-figure salary every year.

I'd highly recommend Strangers Drowning if this sort of thing interests you. It's a fairly short read and made me reconsider how I regard altruism by looking at the most extreme examples of this human impulse. One of the best points the book makes is the surprisingly cynical views towards altruism which prevail in the US.
Recently moved to the Bay from Austin. Got a lot of flak for going in the opposite direction, but I've been super happy with my decision. People talk of the quality of living difference, but if you don't have a family, that is complete bullshit. My compensation immediately doubled and even after paying higher taxes, paying higher rent and so on, I'm still saving substantially more, all the while when working with smarter people and learning a lot everyday. And if anything were to happen to my current job, there are SO MANY Opportunities that it wouldn't be hard to quickly find another job.

Other benefits: your high comp lets you live close to work. Walking to work has been an amazing quality of life improvement in itself. Not worrying about traffic/train schedules relieves your brain of that added calculus (but it might just be that I worry too much). Perks are also better at SF based companies (catered lunch, better health plans, fresh coffee in the office etc.). SF food is comparable to Austin (although a lot more Michelin Starred restaurants, I'm not fancy enough to go to them regularly). And lastly the much touted Amazing weather. Its 100 in Austin right now but a cool 60 in SF.
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Then shouldn't you be morally opposed to using the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency network? Or the Global Positioning System where the primary purpose is to position nuclear and conventional weapons globally on Chinese and Russian forces? Not to mention abhorring the use of semi-conductors that were created solely for the purposes of the US Department of Defense?

Be consistent!
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A long list but all channels I watch most every video that comes out.

3Blue1Brown

CGP Grey

Channel Super Fun

Cody's Lab

Computerphile

ElectroBOOM

GTLive

Half as Interesting

Jaiden Animations

Like Tesla

Linus Tech Tips

LiveOverflow

MKBHD

MinutePhysics

Numberphile

Real Engineering

Scott Manley

Smarter Every Day

The Credit Shifu

The Game/Film Theorist

The Science ELf

TheOdd1sOut

Tom Scott

Vsauce
Ideas:
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You also get encryption while your traffic looks just the same as everybody else’s. You don’t stand out like when you’re using Tor.
> Clustering images by features seems to be pretty fundamental, and if it runs afoul of this law, then the law needs to be changed.

Fundamental to what, though? This court case is not about somehow criminalizing the existence or the use of this particular tech.

> I upload photos to Google Photos because I want them to be grouped and categorized so I can easily find them. That is, if I click on a picture of my daughter, or my wife, I want to see ALL pictures of I took of them grouped together.

Facebook is not Google Photos. The former is a social network, the latter is a service for storing, organizing and sharing photos. In my opinion, even Google Photos should implement a setting that disables this.

> Does this mean if my service measures the distance between the eyes, and the width of the mouth, and clusters photos by that, or by eye or hair color by using say, segmentation or histogram clustering, all of a sudden it's illegal? That would seem to be a fairly absurd and broad definition of biometric security information.

Come on, if you made the effort to read that part of the law, why did you stop there? No, it's not "suddenly illegal" to measure and gather that information. It's illegal to do without following certain rules about retention, destruction and usage of that information. It's in the very next section, here's an excerpt:

"(740 ILCS 14/15) Sec. 15. Retention; collection; disclosure; destruction.

(a) A private entity in possession of biometric identifiers or biometric information must develop a written policy, made available to the public, establishing a retention schedule and guidelines for permanently destroying biometric identifiers and biometric information when the initial purpose for collecting or obtaining such identifiers or information has been satisfied or within 3 years of the individual's last interaction with the private entity, whichever occurs first. Absent a valid warrant or subpoena issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, a private entity in possession of biometric identifiers or biometric information must comply with its established retention schedule and destruction guidelines."
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Theranos investors cannot pursue class action: U.S. judge
Usually its "idiot guy" not "foolish guy"
I have had web crawlers from China crawl my site multiple times a day but never send me traffic. Same with Yandex. I like the bing search engine but often it does not like my site. If it doesn't send any traffic, why let them run up my AWS bill?
It's $2 for the first 30 minutes and then charged at a per minute rate (varies per city) after that. $0.07 per min in SF.

The Ford GoBike which I think it the same program as the CitiBike is rolling out electric assist bikes now too which I believe is $3 for a 30 min ride for the electric. $2 for normal
An article about self driving cars and comparing different companies without mentioning GM/Cruise Automation? Hmm..

I'm sure softbanks $2.2 billion investment recently is worth a confidence boost in their technology.